Does The Book of Job Say that Satan Visits Heaven?

[ComtedeMaistre]

One of the strangest parts of the Bible is Job 1:6

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+1&version=GNT

[When the day came for the heavenly beings to appear before the Lord, Satan was there among them. The Lord asked him, “What have you been doing?”]

This part suggests that Satan visits heaven. Satan, of course, began as a full time resident of heaven, before he was expelled from heaven. It seems that he retains visiting rights.

It is this passage that led Mormons to teach that Jesus and Satan started out as brothers. We do know that Lucifer/Satan was the most senior of the Angels, with more seniority than Arch-Angels Gabriel and Michael. He was effectively Number 3 in heaven after God and Jesus.

Can any freeper Bible experts explain what Satan was doing in heaven, when unrepentant human sinners whose sins are much less than Satan's, are going straight to hell without a chance of seeing heaven?

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

The reference in Isaiah actually refers to Babylon (the “morning star” of civilizations) and predicts its fall. Just about any Biblical scholar will tell you that; it’s not even disputed. A medieval monk who was not particularly familiar with the context associated that phrase with Satan... but “Lucifer” was never intended (by the Hebrews) to refer to Satan.

[Olog-hai]

Not possible for Babylon itself to rise up to the heavens and “be like the Most High” (never mind falling from heaven in the first place without having been there prior), but the power behind Babylon certainly gave it a try. (My experience is that the phrase “it’s not even disputed” is like the global warmists’ “settled science”, with all due respect; everything is disputed.)

And you are calling John who wrote Revelations a “medieval monk”? or Jesus himself? And who can not detect the evident malice in Satan’s words in the book of Job?