Job 1:6, How Did Satan Come Among Them?
1) Direct Answer
Satan came among them by permission, as the accuser, when God convened His court. He did not break in; he appeared because the Lord allowed him to present himself, coming “from going to and fro in the earth.”
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Job 1:6–7; 2:1–2: The sons of God present themselves before the LORD, and Satan comes also. When asked, he says he came “from going to and fro in the earth,” showing he is not omnipresent and operates under limits.
- Job 1:12; 2:6: He can do nothing without God’s permission and boundaries.
- Zechariah 3:1–2: Satan stands to resist Joshua, and the LORD rebukes him—again a courtroom scene with Satan as accuser.
- Revelation 12:10: He is “the accuser of our brethren… which accused them before our God day and night.”
- Luke 22:31: “Satan hath desired to have you,” showing he must ask; access is by permission, not by right.
- 1 Peter 5:8: He roams, seeking whom he may devour—exactly what he said in Job.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- This was not fellowship with God; it was a legal appearance before the Judge. Sin cannot have communion with God, yet God can summon and judge any creature.
- “Came among them” means he stood in the assembly of heavenly beings to accuse. He was there as the adversary, not as a son.
- He is restricted: he must report, he must ask, and he can only touch what God allows. He is never equal to God, never unlimited, and never beyond the Blood.
4) Reinforcing Statement
Now notice: the same accuser still seeks permission, but Christ intercedes for the believer. Stay under the Blood, resist him steadfast, and remember—he can come to the bar of God to accuse, but he cannot cross the line God sets.
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As I thought on my ways
59-0610 §27
And Job come by the way of the blood, the shedding of blood. That's the only grounds that God ever fellowshipped with man, is on the basis of the shed blood. There's no other way that God will fellowship with people, only through the shed blood. In the Old Testament, Israel had to come to one place of worship. That was under the shed blood. And then when trouble struck Job, he could scream out, "I know my Redeemer liveth, and at the last days He will stand on the earth. Though after the skin-worms has destroyed thi...
The uncertain sound
62-0714 §95
...ays that it shall be so, that the Gentiles at the end-time will receive the same sign that they did at Sodom, before its burning. Now look on this West Coast, where sin has come in waves. It comes in like this. It's coming from the east always. When the Indian lived here... Somebody... Was talking to a missionary out here, a while ago, or somewhere. I thought I'd see him again---was talking to him, a missionary to the Indians. When they lived here it was peaceful. Only thing they had was a little tribal war. No imm...
Fellowship through the reconciliation of the blood
55-0605 §43
Job, being a prophet, he got in the Spirit. That's the only way you going to get anything anyhow is when you get in the Spirit. Got in the Spirit. The power of God come on him. He foresaw the coming of the Lord. He raised on his feet; he shook himself. The thunders roared, the lightnings flashed. Job said, "I know my Redeemer liveth, and at the last days He will stand on the earth. Though the skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, mine eyes shall behold, and not...
Show us the Father and it will suffice us
50-0819 §24
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I have heard but now I see
65-1127E §21
Now, if you've got the book of Job, the forty-second verse ... or, forty-second chapter, and the first six verses of the forty-second chapter of Job, very strange. Brother Ted Dudley, if you are listening in tonight over in Phoenix, you remember you and I talking one time, about a week or two ago, and we referred to this? I told you, "Someday that would become a text to me." And I want to use it tonight: Then Job answered the Lord, and said, [Listen close to this reading, now.] I know that thou canst do every thing...