What about Job?

Be sure to read the section: The two contracts. We don’t know exactly what contract (covenant) Job lived under with God. Many people believe that Job was one of the earliest books written in the Bible. But one thing we know for sure, Job did not live under the New Contract that we are living under today.

God loved His creation of man, and here was Job, a man believed to love and serve God no matter what. God was proud of Job and pleased with him, and he was upright in his standing with God. But we do know that Job operated in a very high level of fear which he confessed himself, “That which I have feared the most has come upon me.”

Job ended up being the focal point of a showdown between God and Satan as to whether a man would actually love and serve God to the end. Satan asked for, and appeared to receive, permission to afflict Job. It was a showdown in which the man and God came out on top. Satan had to have been humiliated because now, it had been proven, that a man will love God so much he will stick with God no matter what!

Some people say that because Job lived in fear that his hedge of protection was already down and Satan didn’t know about it. Because of that hedge already being down, God replies to Satan, “Behold, all he has is in your hands.” Meaning, Satan didn’t have to ask permission to afflict Job because there was an open door for attack due to the fear. However you choose to interpret it, there is one fact that doesn’t change; Job was not operating under the New Contract. He didn’t have the promises or the authority that we have today under the New Contract.

This showdown, for whatever reason it happened, did not occur under the New Contract. You will never be the focal point of a showdown like Job was. Why? Because the situation of Job can never happen again. Why? Because under the New Contract, we, mankind, now have authority over the works of Satan. Job didn’t have authority over Satan like we have today under the New Contract.