Isn't It Interesting? God, the Devil, and the Whole Job Matter

Isn’t It Interesting? God, the Devil, and the Whole Job Matter

Isn’t it interesting that the devil was thrown out of heaven — God’s own heaven, with angels and all — and God was basically like, “Well, heaven ain’t his home anymore. Throw him into earth, let man deal with him.”

So the devil landed on middle earth here and stumbled upon Job. But this same devil somehow used his knowledge of advocacy to step back into God’s presence. Like, how can someone chased out of heaven still stroll into God’s presence as if nothing happened? This story no clear.

Maybe the thing is, he didn’t go in as Lucifer the rebel who convinced a third of the angels to crown him some deity equal to God. No. He accessed God’s presence as a judge, an authority figure. And God must have recognized that office rather than the fallen being behind it. The wild part? That position originally belonged to man. It was man’s jurisdictional seat.

So there they were — God discussing Job, calling him upright and blameless. Then satan said Job was only faithful because he was protected, and that kicked off the trials of Job that eventually ended with Job receiving double of what he had before.

Then Moses came much later and broke it down more clearly. Since Moses lived after Job, he explained why the devil could still access God’s presence. Man was the official authority on earth, and since earth was part of God’s full creation, whoever held earth’s authority had a seat in God’s courtroom — like members of a jury discussing matters before a judge.

And since the devil “knew things,” he could easily convince Eve, and by extension Adam. He promised immortality and other mysteries man had never heard of. He knew these realities because he had experienced them. But his real goal was to hijack man’s authority — and with deception as his weapon, he got it.

From that moment, the devil became another created being pursuing his own interests with man’s access in hand. He even tried again with Jesus the Christ, but Jesus — with a superior knowledge to Adam and Eve — didn’t hand over His authority.

Knowing all this, man is expected to look to his own interests and trust the One who truly has his best interests at heart. But still… if God threw the devil out, only for the devil to land in man’s territory, is that wickedness? Or is it God showing confidence in His creation to conquer the very challenge thrown at them?

It’s like an apex boss handing his toughest assignment to the newest intern. Ain’t that crazy?

All I can deduce is this: may person just fear God, because at the end of the day, the same God who allowed the challenge is the same One who delivers from it. All-sovereign in action and ability.