Ryan Pitterson

that God was specifically, I'm gonna take this down.

And so I think there's a lot of credibility to Job being someone who the enemy would specifically target because of his influence and his devotion to Yahweh.

Yeah, absolutely.

So I think what the story is, because again, you know, obviously Job is so unique because we're given this heavenly conversation between God and Satan.

And this goes back to, in our earlier episode, what I call the cosmic trial.

And I think what Satan is saying in this instance is, here's the perfect example.

I'm going to demonstrate to you, and when I say the cosmic trial for the audience at home, I'm speaking of my position that what is playing out in human history is God and the devil making competing arguments for the angelic realm as to whose way is correct.

God's law, the law of love.

Satan's law is really the law of compulsion, right?

Because that's really what the law of the Antichrist is.

Obey me under threat of death, immediate death.

So, and they're testing it out and Satan is trying to prove that God's word is going to fail time and time again.

This is what he's actually doing real time in heaven, right?

And in fact, we talked about him being the accuser of their brethren and Revelation says he accuses the brethren day and night.

So he's relentlessly trying to prosecute Christians, believers.

And so I think when Job, what he's basically saying is to the angelic jury,

Here's someone who was just like me.

He was given this position of power.

He was given all this special privileges and blessings from God.

He had all this wealth and commerce.