Demonic Discouragement
Image via Wikipedia "Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?" ( Job 4:18-19 ) This was the strange message delivered to Eliphaz , the first of the three friends who proved such "miserable comforters" to Job in his sufferings, by "a spirit" that "stood still, . . . an image . . . before mine eyes" ( vv. 15-16 ). This "thing was secretly |literally 'stealthily'| brought to me," said Eliphaz ( v. 12 ), and there is little doubt that its original source was Satan himself, in his efforts to discredit and destroy Job. The "spirit" who instructed Eliphaz was not sent from God , as he may have thought, but was one of those angelic servants who had been "charged with folly," when they followed Lucifer in his primeval rebellion. Still smarting with wo