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PERFECT is God Almighty! He is Love and Justice!  Give the LORD the honour of perfection and you begin to see Him and His wonderful Work as clear as daylight.

Think of the Almighty at all times as perfect in His Actions, and you begin to see that the Bible is primarily a spiritual book and the writings are pictorial. These writings presupposed that the spirit sees in pictures. It’s for us human beings to dig into these pictures and draw lessons from them. Alas! we’ve strayed too far from the “normal” in our spiritual development. We have brought these wisdom laden pictures down unto intellectual interpretations.

Thus it is with Job’s experience vividly described in the Old Testament.

“Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

And the LORD said onto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said.  From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.     

And the Lord said unto Satan. Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? Thou hast blessed the works of his hands, and his substance in increased in the land. .But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. .And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power, only upon himself out not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.”                   Job  1: 6-12.  (King James Version)

Anyone with a minute sense of the Sublimity and Greatness of the Almighty cannot but see that He, Who is Love and Justice cannot sit in conference with the darkness, discussing and bargaining over the life of one of His creatures. It’s absolutely impossible.

What therefore were we being given in this account?

This was clearly the experience of a man struggling to come to term with his conviction in the Almighty in the midst of his vast wealth. It’s an account of a tussle between his intellect and his intuition, a tussle between that which is rooted in the material; the intellect and that which is rooted in the spiritual, the intuition. It’s a tussle between that which is most often control by the darkness and that which is closely linked with the spiritual home and thus more in tune with man’s nature.   

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Like all human beings, Job was equipped with the intellect, given to steer us through material creation. He was also equipped with the intuitive perception through which the spirit, that which is man himself communicates.

Outwardly, Job appeared steadfast in his belief.  In the material sense, he was described as wealthy.  

At the beginning of this experience, Job’s strongly active  intellect was beclouding his intuition. It was taking the lead. Thus it could declare that Job’s belief in the Almighty was solely because of his material wealth and comfort.   

To understand what we’re been given here, one must understand that the tempter’s key issue was that Job’s steadfastness was precipitated by and rooted in, his abundant wealth.  This was clearly the intellect speaking, sowing doubts and behind it, Satan.

But then the one which is more in tune with Job’s nature, the intuitive perception spoke in defense; if everything was taken from him but his breath, he would still hold a firm conviction in the Almighty. It was a faint, soft voice but it immediately silenced and pushed the intellect into the background, as it should be.

..And of course the intuition can never be wrong.  As soon as this becomes a living conviction in Job, he began the slow journey of learning to permanently place the intuition in the forefront, leading the intellect in his activities; a difficult task indeed for man on earth.  

This cannot but be reflected on his condition, materially.

As he struggles to learn how to put the intellect in his rightful place, he could not but fail to control that which are the product of the intellectual activities; his material wealth. Thus he was reported to have lost all his wealth in the account. But when he eventually learned to use the intellect aright and subjected it to the guidance of the intuition, he was blessed materially in multiples of what he had before.

So the key to an understanding always lie in the account itself.  

It‘s only on a man on earth that the tools which links a creature to his spiritual home and that which connects him to the material co-exist. Thus this account can not  but be an account of the inner struggles of a man in flesh here on earth.

Heaven will turn to earth, human beings will walk on their heads before the Sons of God and Satan can literarily come together and have a discuss with the Almighty Father of All.                                                         

                                                                                               Leo