Question:
If heaven is a holy place and sin cannot enter into God’s presence (as stated by Mr. Canner in the morning lecture), how do you explain in Job 1:6 that the sons of God entered into His presence and Satan was among them?
Answer:
Later on in Job we read, “The heavens are not clean in His sight” (15:15) and in Hebrews, “It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens [that is, the different elements of the tabernacle and temple] should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these [that is, the sacrifice of Christ]” (9:23,24). Then in Revelation we read that “Satan…was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him” (12:9). When the believers in Christ are caught up to heaven in the Rapture, Satan and his angels will be cast out and the heavens purified by the blood of Christ.