Is there a link between Genesis 3:14 & Job 1:7?

[Tranquil Bondservant]

I've tried looking online but I'm unable to find anything. In Genesis 3:14 you have God cursing the serpent to crawl on the earth and in Job 1:7 you have God asking the Satan "From where have you come?" and then Satan responding "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it."

If there's no link then that's fine but I was just curious and was wondering if there's a congruence here. We know that the terminology of referring to the spiritual creature Satan as the serpent is ok or rather that the identity of the cursed serpent in the Genesis 3 & more specifically Genesis 3:15 is that spiritual creature, as it's used in Revelation 20:2 & Romans 16:20.

God bless .

 

[Andrewn]

In Genesis 3:14 you have God cursing the serpent to crawl on the earth and in Job 1:7 you have God asking the Satan "From where have you come?" and then Satan responding "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it."

It sounds like a link between these would make sense.

 

[Tolworth John]

In Genesis 3:14 you have God cursing the serpent to crawl on the earth and in Job 1:7 you have God asking the Satan "From where have you come?" and then Satan responding "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it."

Justice has to be seen to be done, so the snake as the devils tool was punished.
In job the devil, a spirit being says he was going to and fro on the earth. unlike God the devil is not omni present, he has to go and see what is happening.

 

[BobRyan]

I've tried looking online but I'm unable to find anything. In Genesis 3:14 you have God cursing the serpent to crawl on the earth and in Job 1:7 you have God asking the Satan "From where have you come?" and then Satan responding "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it."

Rev 12 says Satan is the "serpent of old" -- so then the serpent in Gen 3 is either Satan taking on that form or using a serpent as a medium.


The link - in Job 1:7 is related to Rev 12 Satan was cast down to Earth and 2 Cor 4:4 Satan is the "God of this world'. In Matt 4 where Satan tempts Christ (also in Luke 4 as I recall) Satan says this World was given to him... and of course that happens when Adam chooses Satan over God.

 

[Llleopard]

As i understand it, in Job, the word 'satan' in the original is not a proper name, but a role 'the adversary'. They are not acting like a bad guy either, just reporting back about things, which seems to be their job description. And a Job Description too In Genesis the being is not named or given a title, and therefore isn't necessarily the same person. But i like your idea of a dust/earth link. That's interesting.

 

[Tranquil Bondservant]

Rev 12 says Satan is the "serpent of old" -- so then the serpent in Gen 3 is either Satan taking on that form or using a serpent as a medium.


The link - in Job 1:7 is related to Rev 12 Satan was cast down to Earth and 2 Cor 4:4 Satan is the "God of this world'. In Matt 4 where Satan tempts Christ (also in Luke 4 as I recall) Satan says this World was given to him... and of course that happens when Adam chooses Satan over God.

Wow, I never made that connection regarding Satan being cast down to earth and Job 1:7. This is the kind of stuff that blows my mind, within a book written over multiple millennia with different authors that little details like this are harmonious. How awesome is our God?

 

[Wayne Gabler]

I've tried looking online but I'm unable to find anything. In Genesis 3:14 you have God cursing the serpent to crawl on the earth and in Job 1:7 you have God asking the Satan "From where have you come?" and then Satan responding "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it."

If there's no link then that's fine but I was just curious and was wondering if there's a congruence here. We know that the terminology of referring to the spiritual creature Satan as the serpent is ok or rather that the identity of the cursed serpent in the Genesis 3 & more specifically Genesis 3:15 is that spiritual creature, as it's used in Revelation 20:2 & Romans 16:20.

God bless .

They are one and the same. Before the flood, the program Satan was running was an attempt to exterminate 5-fingered people, so Jesus could never be born.
Re:20:2:
And he laid hold on the dragon,
that old serpent,
which is the Devil,
and Satan,
and bound him a thousand years,
Re:12:3-4:
And there appeared another wonder in heaven;
and behold a great red dragon,
having seven heads and ten horns,
and seven crowns upon his heads.
And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven,
and did cast them to the earth:
and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered,
for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

Lucifer is Satan in the Pit:
Re:20:1-3:
And I saw an angel come down from heaven,
having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
And he laid hold on the dragon,
that old serpent,
which is the Devil,
and Satan,
and bound him a thousand years,
And cast him into the bottomless pit,
and shut him up,
and set a seal upon him,
that he should deceive the nations no more,
till the thousand years should be fulfilled:
and after that he must be loosed a little season.
Isa:14:9-16:
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming:
it stirreth up the dead for thee,
even all the chief ones of the earth;
it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
All they shall speak and say unto thee,
Art thou also become weak as we?
art thou become like unto us?
Thy pomp is brought down to the grave,
and the noise of thy viols:
the worm is spread under thee,
and the worms cover thee.
How art thou fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer,
son of the morning!
how art thou cut down to the ground,
which didst weaken the nations!
For thou hast said in thine heart,
I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:
I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation,
in the sides of the north:
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will be like the most High.
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell,
to the sides of the pit.
They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee,
and consider thee,
saying,
Is this the man that made the earth to tremble,
that did shake kingdoms;