In Job, chapter one, verse eleven, the primary questions from verses six until now of the book come to fruition. Is it possible to love and serve Him because of who He is and not just for His gifts? Can the righteous maintain their faith in and love for God amid unexplainable tragedy and undeserved suffering?
Satan suggests Job will openly curse God and renounce his worship if he is stripped of his possessions even though back in verse five, his heart was on his children, not his wealth. No doubt Satan attempted to challenge God with his servant Job that he would fail and act differently than he perfectly does if this stripping were to happen. God believed and already knew the outcome, but to demonstrate to others that all is possible with God. Remember how this situation came about. Satan is the one who plans the evil, not God.
Many people in the Bible will undergo suffering in different areas of life because everybody’s situation is different from the next person’s. For example, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden had everything well with God and knew no sin. All they had to do was to overcome deception and the temptation to continue enjoying the blessing of God sin-free. However, Satan was watching and looking to stop what was going on because he knew what was going on, being out of heaven along with his fallen angels. Revelation twelve, verses seven through twelve, gives the details.
“And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 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. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters 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.”