Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

Job 1:3 lists the portfolio of his estate: • Seven thousand sheep • Three thousand camels

• Five hundred yoke of oxen • Five hundred female donkeys • A very large household

Like a flash of lightning suddenly striking a home and burning it to the ground, Job experienced a series of multiple events that brought destruction, loss, and grief to him. A group of wild nomads, Chaldeans and Sabeans, invaded his estate, rounding up his camels, oxen, and donkeys for themselves and forcing the livestock to stampede away from Job to their own lands (Job 1:14–15, 17). Fire from heaven (perhaps a storm of lightning) struck the farm and burned seven thousand sheep (v. 16). As this thievery and natural disaster were occurring, a wind from the wilderness struck the home where his ten children were celebrating with their oldest brother, crashing the dwelling down upon the entire clan and claiming the lives of Job’s three daughters and seven sons (vv. 18–19). In a matter of hours the wealthiest man in the East had become the poorest man in the East. As if this were not enough, he was later stricken with boils that covered his skin (Job 2:7). As soon as Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard of his