The Scriptures are our final word of authority. We have a hedge put up by God around us. That is what Satan asked to have removed from Job. The eternal cannot be removed. The Word of God is eternal.
Nothing is added and nothing is taken away.
His Word is eternal and in His Word it is written that He knew us before the foundation of the world. He has always known us and will never leave us. It is God that loves us. A test might be made by outward or inward appeal. Temptation comes from without or within.