Satan is “The Accuser of the Brethren” trying to turn the followers of Jesus against each other and/ or to insert himself between Jesus and His people.
Job 1:6, “Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.” The story of Job’s suffering starts in heaven when the sons of God appeared before God including Satan, known as the Accuser.
Does God boast? Perhaps a little as God pointed out to Satan “the uprightness of His servant Job.” The accuser Satan inferred that the only reason Job feared God was that He had been so good to him by putting a protective hedge around Job. Without this hedge, Satan insisted, Job would have cursed his God to His face.
Although Job continued to be an upright servant of God, his three “friends” also implied that he had sinned in some way. God restored all to Job but not before giving him a lesson in creation, Job 38:4, “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.”
Revelation 12:10, “And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.”
Good news for those in Heaven but not for the inhibitors of the earth.
Revelation 12:12, “Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhibiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.”
Satan, now on earth, pursuits the woman (Israel) after the man child (Jesus) is caught up onto God. This is the start of Jacob’s Troubles, suggestive of a mid-tribulation rapture?
Revelation 12:17, “And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”
“Furious over this humiliation, he seeks to wreak vengeance on Jews who had remained in the land—Jews who show the reality of their faith by keeping the commandments of God and by bearing testimony to Jesus.”
[Believer’s Bible Commentary]
As for me, during the summer I live in a remote area in northeastern Arizona where my neighbors are not within hearing distance. There are times I feel a slight atmosphere of something not quite right. In case it is anything to do with Satan or his minions I speak works such as, “I repudiate anything that is not of God in the name of Jesus. I’m covered by the blood of Jesus so leave."
So much for Satan being The Accuser of the Brethren including me.
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