Satan took them away, but only after he'd had a conversation with God and been told that he could. Satan could not have done anything on his own, and if Job's suffering only came about because of his own fear+the devil's intervention, why is the whole conversation with God recorded in Scripture? If the devil was saying "of course Job honours you, you have blessed him and put a hedge of protection around him", and God's reply was basically "no, there is no hedge of protection," then that means that Job's wealth and good health had nothing to do with his upright and moral character and fear of God. He just happened to be a person who honoured and worshipped God, and a very wealthy one. Therfore Job worshipped God, but God did not protect him especially, or maybe interact in his life in any way. So if his blessings and favoured lifestyle were not as a result of God's protection - as Satan thought - then they were because of Job's hard work, good luck, positive thinking etc? Job himself secured his own good health and blessings, and the reason he suffered was because he let his guard down - he gave in to the fears that he had always haboured - began to think negatively? Thinking negatively somehow gave the devil a foothold in his life, he was able to go out and first kill his family, and then inflict him with sores, and there was nothing God could do about it? Is that the message - that Job's suffering was all his own fault and God couldn't stop it until Job repented of his attitude?
If that's what you're saying then I don't see any point in discussing this any more. This is what bothers me about some people's teaching on healing. It all boils down to "well it's not God's fault so it must be yours." God, apparently, has no control over anything negative; he does not want it to happen, but his "hands are tied" if we decide to allow it to happen. And we apparently can do this by our lack of positive confession/faith, or the "wrong kind of prayer" - asking instead of claiming.
So I'll ask again; did God allow Jesus to suffer? Was it part of his plan that the soldiers would cause him physical pain and then kill him? Did God plan and want the death of his Son? Jesus was God, he was also a human being, who had real bones, blood, nerves and muscles and felt real pain. He was so distressed at the thought of his death that he sweated blood, and asked God to take the cup of suffering away from him. Did God want this?
Jesus went through with it because it was God's will that he should suffer, and the reasons for that were that 1) it was for our good, his death would allow us to come to his Father and have eternal life and 2) it was the way in which the devil would be defeated. An example of God allowing suffering for good reasons.
Also with regards to the second coming; why doesn't God wind up this world now? Because he wants to give people a chance to repent and find him. Evil is being allowed to exist now, for a short time, so that people might be saved.
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That is going to be pretty hard to spin!
God did not "give permission".
