Job 1:16 KJB
A servant of Job reported to him that God sent a fire from Heaven and burned all of his sheep and killed all of his shepherds. But this servant only assumed that the fire came from God. Job 1:16 (KJB). Probably, lightning started the fire in a closed space, such as a canyon with a narrow entrance, and killed all the sheep and shepherds because they were trapped. This fire had to have come from the Devil because God had already given Satan complete control over the life of Job except that God would not allow the Devil to take Job's life. Job 1:9-12 (KJB). In our day, certain scientists have invented an intricate machine called HAARP. Supposedly, this machine can send powerful waves of energy into the upper atmosphere and cause terrible weather in other parts of the world. It is a weapon that can be used in war to cause continuous rain or snowfall that would greatly hamper an enemy's war effort. If humans can gain a certain amount of power over the weather, then Satan, who is much more intelligent than any human, could do the same. All hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and all other weather disasters, could be caused by the Devil who knows how to exert some kind of force into the atmosphere.
Satan has his own, evil kingdom in the world, and when he came to talk with God be bragged that he could go anywhere in the world and do whatever he pleased to do. Job 1:6-7 (KJB). God indicated to Satan that He had a perfect servant named Job. God did not mean that Job was absolutely perfect, but that Job adhered to the good nature that God put into him better than any other human. Genesis 1:31 (KJB). God let Satan know that he did not have absolute power in the world. Job 1:6-8 (KJB). Satan claimed that Job did not serve God because he loved God, but he only served God because God gave him everything that he needed. Satan claimed that if God took away all of Job's possessions, then Job would curse God. Job 1:9-11 (KJB). In other words, Satan believed that Job's good nature that God had created could be made to so hate God that Job would become totally evil and lost from God's Love forever. Job 2:5; Job 2:9 (KJB). Satan believes that the powers of evil will eventually prove to be much stronger than the Love of God. The Devil believed that if he could ever prove that and if he ever got the chance, he would be able to murder God and take His place, but Jesus rose from the dead. Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB).
Satan's encounter with God in the book of Job reveals his intention toward the entire human race. God allowed the Devil to do his worst to Job, and God allows the Devil to do his worst to the entire human race to prove that the power of evil, as strong as it is, can never utterly destroy the good and living nature that God puts into every human that He ever creates. Satan injects spiritual death into every human because all humans' sin. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15; Romans 3:23 (KJB). But Christ judged the Devil on the cross when He suffered and died to take away all of the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of all of His living humans to prove that His Love is much more powerful than the Devil and all of the forces of evil. Genesis 3:15; John 12:31-32; II Timothy 1:10; I John 2:2; John 5:28-29; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). Job's faith in God never failed because God made Job realize that he had a Redeemer. Job 19:25-27 (KJB). Just as God would not allow the Devil to take Job's life, God will never allow the Devil to utterly destroy even one of His good and living humans because He sacrificed Himself to save them all. Colossians 1:15-23; Revelation 21:5 (KJB). God knew how to keep Job's faith alive, and God knows exactly how to return every living human that He ever creates to faith in Him as their Redeemer so that He can save them alive. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). God will save all living humans by His grace who come to believe that He shed His blood to save them, and God will save the rest of humanity because He will cause them all to believe that He can save them by His use of His fiery wrath against evil. Matthew 26:28; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Luke 3:16-17; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).
