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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Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
Satan's Eden
65-0829 §54
...now live in---a church world's Eden. They're all uniting together, now, at the great Ecumenical Council, and going to have the world church, all coming under one head where Satan will be throned, just exactly. And the last call's going out to catch the bride before she gets into that. For once in that, she's took the mark of the beast, and doomed. She'll never come out of it. That's the reason I say, "Come out from among them, My people, before it goes into him, see. Come out from among them, and be ye separated."
I have heard but now I see
65-1127E §23
And now, this man being a prophet, he had had access to God's grace, but Job didn't have a Bible to read. He ... the Bible wasn't wrote then, but he had access to God by revelation and by vision. That was before the Bible was written. Now, we find out, and take some of his life, when God blessed him and made him a great man. Why, even everybody respected him, even to... His wisdom had become so great, his inspiration from God had vindicated him to be God's servant so plainly, until the people come from everywhere t...
Jehovah-Jireh, part 2
64-0403 §59
Notice, the same is testified here (I was noticing this afternoon while I was studying), in Job. Job---He's called Elohim. And Job was ridiculed, made fun of. How ... what a picture of today. But Job was resting in Elohim's promise: "Though after the skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, whom I shall see for myself." Resting in Elohim, no matter what comes. His wife comes, and said, "You look miserable, Job." And here come his comforters around. "Ah-a-ah, you see what happened to you, old b...
The conflict between God and Satan
62-0531 §38
Now if we kind of slack up and say ... Satan say, "Come right over on this side. I'll reason that out with you." Oh, oh, you got from behind Father then, see. Don't you do that. You stay right where Father stands---right where it's saying ... says, "Thus saith Father," see, "thus saith my Father, thus saith my Father." It's going to defeat him as sure as the world. It's got to. All right. But when you get out from behind that, like Eve did, the battle's lost. Now, poor Eve, she listened, she lost her place. All rig...
The conflict between God and Satan
62-0531 §27
So, how Satan makes it look so real, it's appealing to them. But if they would've just stayed fortified with the Word, let the Word be their fortress, then see, they'd have been fortified. They'd have been behind the Word. The Word would've been in front of them always: "Thus saith the Lord, thus saith the Lord, thus saith the Lord," right or left, "thus saith the Lord." Like those angels down there that day when Isaiah ... met in the temple, he thought he was getting along pretty good. A fairly good preacher, the...