IMITATE THEIR FAITH/JOB - What Job Did Not Know - Conclusion

 Job could not know it, but Jehovah had entrusted him with a great privilege: Prove Satan wrong.  Satan was allowed to rob Job of all that he had. Only the man himself he was not to touch.  So Satan eagerly set about his sadistic work.  In a single day, a series of terrible blows rained down on Job.  He learned that his livestock-first his cattle and donkeys, then is sheep, and then his camels-were suddenly wiped out. Worse, the servants who tended them were killed.  In the case of one group, the cause was reported to Job as "fire from God" - possibly lightning.  Before Job could even contemplate the loss of human lives or the poverty he now faced, hte heaviest blow landed. His ten children were gathered together in the home of the oldest when a sudden windstorm struck the house, destroying it and killing them all! - JOB 1:12-19.

It is hard, perhaps impossible, imagine how Job felt.  He ripped apart his clothes, cut off his hair, and collapsed on the ground.  Job concluded that God had given to him and God had takeb away from him.  Indeed, Satan had cleverly made it look as if God had sent those disasters.  Nonetheless, Job did not curse his God as Satan had predicted. Rather, Job had said:  "Let the  name of Jehovah continue to be praised."- JOB 1:20-22.

Next time: IMITATE THEIR FAITH/JOB - "He Will Surely Curse You"

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