Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Today's reading landed us about 400 years post-blood and we met a man named Job.

Initially, he sounds a lot like Noah, he's blameless and upright and fears God.

In Noah's story, things got really dark and then there was some relief at the end.

And we'll see the same type of thing played out in Job's story.

Based on our conversation from day two, you might have noticed in today's reading that Job 1-6 referred to angels as the sons of God, including Satan who in his created form is an angel.

In Job 1-8, God initiates a conversation about Job with Satan.

One thing of note here, the word Satan means adversary, one who resist, accuser.

There's some debate about this, but many people believe that Satan is not necessarily

a proper name that refers to one being, but that it's a general term referring to God's

adversary. In this instance a fallen angel who opposes God's reign. Later in

scripture, we'll have references to a specific fallen angel named Lucifer,

but there's reason to believe that the word Satan doesn't always refer specifically to Lucifer.

There are many fallen angels who are God's adversaries.

In fact, a lot of people believe that Revelation 12 indicates

that one-third of all the angels God created ended up rebelling against him

and were cast from heaven. So there are a lot of Satan's. And in fact if I were to pronounce the word

correctly I would be pronouncing it satan but I'm not going to try to get too weird here.

After God initiates the conversation about Job with one of his enemies, that enemy can

cocks a plan to test Job, and we see God allowing it.

Here's what's noteworthy to me in this section.

God didn't create the plan for testing Job, but he allowed it.

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