Job’s Open Door For Attack From Satan

Proverbs 26:2Proverbs 26:2
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
2 As the bird by wan­der­ing, as the swal­low by fly­ing, so the curse cause­less shall not come.  

WP-Bible plu­gin “… A Curse Cause­less Can­not Come…”

Job was said to be “per­fect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.” (Job 1:1Job 1:1
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
The Book of Job ^{1 1} There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was per­fect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.  

WP-Bible plu­gin) “Per­fect” doesn’t mean he never sinned, but it means one who holds noth­ing back from God.

He was totally sin­cere and ded­i­cated to God. “Upright” refers to his char­ac­ter. He lived in such an hon­est way that every­one who knew him respected him.

Satan’s Legal Right Inflict Job

As you can see from the scrip­ture above (Proverbs 26:2Proverbs 26:2
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
2 As the bird by wan­der­ing, as the swal­low by fly­ing, so the curse cause­less shall not come.  

WP-Bible plu­gin) — that means a curse can­not come on you unless you have an open door — sin and Job’s sin was a spirit of fear.  What was Job’s open door for the enemy to have legal right?

A Curse Cause­less Can­not Come

Heb “cause­less curse” (KJV sim­i­lar) describes an unde­served curse (cf. NIV, NRSV). The Hebrew word trans­lated “cause­less” means (khanan); it means “with­out cause; gra­tu­itous.”  Read Deut. 28 Bless­ings and Curses.

His chil­dren (all 10) did not serve the Lord.  Did he have a spirit of fear of man and did not dis­ci­pline them? He had fear for his chil­dren.  Fear is the oppo­site of faith and his fear was a form of worry which is not from God.

Job Feared Came Upon Him

Let us note the words of Job: “For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, and that which I am afraid of cometh unto me” (3:25). What this verse reveals to us is of tremen­dous sig­nif­i­cance. Before these ter­ri­ble things hap­pened to him, Job already had had fear for his  chil­dren.  They were not right­eous like him but were sin­ners.  Instead of Trust­ing the Lord for his Chil­dren, he sac­ri­ficed for their sins.

To think that God would allow Satan to attack us with­out a cause is absurbed.  What kind of God would do this?  We don’t see any­where else in scrip­ture of God’s attack except when there is sin of some type — unfaith­ful­ness, doubt, unbe­lief, etc.

Objec­tive — Why Job Was Tested:

God did not afflict Job, Satan did.  God gave Satan per­mis­sion. Answer: Isn’t it com­fort­ing to know Satan can do noth­ing with­out God’s knowl­edge and per­mis­sion!   If Satan is attack­ing us, God allowed it because of open door.Job’s open door which is fear.

The suf­fer­ings of Christ point to the same prob­lem: Why? We can dimly per­ceive how he was “made per­fect through suf­fer­ing,” and how his per­fect sub­mis­sion to that suf­fer­ing laid the eter­nal foun­da­tion for the world’s redemp­tion from all suffering. 

All Man Sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion Process — Dying to Self

Sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion is a process of tri­als to get what is not of God out of us or to purify us.  Is there any man on earth or ever on earth who was per­fect and with­out sin?  No not at all.  Suf­fer­ing is a part of test­ing but really it is a sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion process. Job’s test­ing to see if he would turn against God.  He even had three (3) best friends who accused him. 

Paul writes, “…There is no one right­eous, not even one; there is no one who under­stands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worth­less; there is not one who does good, not even one” (Romans 3:10–12Romans 3:10–12
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
10 As it is writ­ten, There is none right­eous, no, not one: ¹¹ There is none that under­standeth, there is none that seeketh after God. ¹² They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprof­itable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.  

WP-Bible plu­gin). The Bible says Job was the best man in all the East. That doesn’t mean that he was right­eous and good in God’s sight. He was sim­ply the best man from a human per­spec­tive, but even the best man is a sin­ner in God’s sight, and that includes Job. A sin­ner has no right-standing or rights with God.

Go to Part 2 — Why Job Was Tested — Tri­als and Tribu­la­tions / Sanctification