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Can you think of a time in your life when you suffered and responded like Job did—blaming God for your pain?
What misconceptions have you had about the Book of Job prior to hearing the sermon?
Can you identify specific passages found in the Gospel in which Jesus refutes Satan's theology through spiritual warfare
against the demonic?
Are there people in your life that have experienced suffering and believed either they were being punished or God was
not good? What affects did this have on their image of God?
In Chapter 38-41, what words of God about creation or spiritual warfare are particularly powerful for you and why?
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• Now, of course, the Hebrew Scriptures tell of a character called The Satan. Every time the term is
used in the Hebrew Scriptures, it reads, HaSaTaN, which means THE Satan. When the definite
article, 'the,' is in front of a word it indicates a title, like 'the rabbi,' or 'the reverend.' So, in the
Bible, the term 'HaSatan,' which means, 'The Satan,' is a title. The one with that title has a specific
job, the same way it is used in speaking of 'the rabbi,' or of 'the reverend.'
• The concept of The Satan, or the job description, is radically different from that of the devil. For
Christians, who erroneously use the two terms as if they are synonymous, the devil has power and
authority in and of himself. However, in the Bible, The Satan only has power granted by Gd, and has
no authority in and of himself. For the devil to have power and authority is to have more than one
Gd, as we saw above concerning the Greeks and the Romans.
• The Satan is described in only a few places in the Hebrew Scriptures. In every instance, he is an
angel who works FOR Gd, not against Gd, and must get permission from Gd for everything that he
does. Chronicles, Job, Psalms, and Zechariah are the only places where The Satan is mentioned. In
each instance, the job description of The Satan is to act like what we now call a Prosecuting
Attorney, or District Attorney, and accuse and show evidence against the defendant. Furthermore,
like a D.A., The Satan must obtain permission from Gd, the Judge, to begin a sting operation.

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For Gd, the Bible, and for Judaism, to have an entity that competes with Gd, that has
power and authority of his own in opposition to Gd, is to violate the basic biblical
idea of monotheism. Gd is One.