Job’s story demolishes the notion that we can avoid Satan’s attacks if we’re sufficiently strong, or skilled enough, or trained in how to wage war against Satan. No one was more spiritually fit than Job. Yet God allowed Satan to ravage him anyway – and there was nothing Job could do about it. Job finally prevailed in the face of Satan’s merciless assault, not because he found some secret way to beat the devil, not because he rebuked him or ordered him to desist, but because God was in control all along. He knew how much Job could bear. And He would not permit Satan to cross that boundary (1 Cor. 10:13). When Satan reached that limit God stopped him and his attacks ended.
John MacArthur

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JOSEPH – DISCIPLE OF JESUS

MAT 27:57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus’ disciple:

MAT 27:58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.

MAT 27:59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

MAT 27:60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.

MAR 15:42 And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,

MAR 15:43 Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.

MAR 15:44 And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.

MAR 15:45 And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.

MAR 15:46 And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.

MAR 15:47 And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.

LUK 23:50 And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just:

LUK 23:51 (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.

LUK 23:52 This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.

LUK 23:53 And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.

LUK 23:54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.

LUK 23:55 And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.

LUK 23:56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.

JOH 19:38 And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.

JOH 19:39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.

JOH 19:40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

JOH 19:41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.

JOH 19:42 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews’ preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.

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