Satan Meets Jesus
“If thou be the Son of God command these stones to be made bread.”
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“If thou be the Son of God command these stones to be made bread.”
Satan Meets Jesus
“This is my beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased,” said God the Father about Jesus at John’s baptism.
Straightaway, Jesus is led up of the Spirit into the wilderness.
Jesus eats nothing for forty days and nights and is hungry.
Satan recalls hearing, “This is my beloved Son.”
‘Is this the one to conquer me?’ he muses, ‘with the power to do it?’
Satan bids Jesus:
“If thou be the Son of God command these stones to be made bread.”
“Don’t need to,” Jesus replies.
(I’m paraphrasing here based on the Church Fathers.)
“God can feed the hungry by a word,” affirms Jesus, “as with Moses when raining manna from heaven in this same wilderness.”
Satan tries again.
Jesus allows Satan set him on top of the Temple.
“If thou be the Son of God,” Satan says, “cast thyself down, for it is written, He shall give his angels charge of thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.”
Clever.
This was a Messianic expectation taught by the scribes and Pharisees.
That Messiah would appear from the top of the Temple and “come down like rain upon the mown grass”—that is, “upon the people,” waiting on the stone pavement below.
‘Here’s your chance to proclaim yourself Messiah,’ Satan is flushing out.
To goad Jesus, hoping he was a mere man, into killing himself.
Or if the Son of God, to goad him into flaunting fanfare and pomp.
Satan used this same test later, this time to subvert the Messiah’s saving work:
“If thou be the Son of God come down from the Cross and we will believe you,” the devil’s instruments shouted.
Jesus could have shown His power both times as the God-man.
But His Messianic Mission was to submit to death, then win the ultimate bout with death, not to parade His omnipotent clout.
Jesus strikes back, “It is written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord Thy God.”
Satan makes one more stab.
He takes Jesus up into an exceeding high mountain and shows him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them:
“All these things will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me.”
“Get thee hence Satan,” Jesus rebukes, “for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and Him only shalt thou serve.”
A stab indeed.
Satan knows Jesus won’t fall down and worship him.
So he throws in Jesus’ face his vaunted ownership of the world.
The contest is set.
Between Satan, the prince of the world, and Jesus, the prince of the world to come.
At Divine Liturgy the Orthodox priest prays, “O Christ God, Thou didst deliver from bondage to the enemy them whom Thou didst fashion.”
What Satan once owned is now the proprietorship of Jesus Christ.
The question of what you want to own is the question of how you want to live your life.
But, I, raised in Judaism, want to be owned by Jesus.
Bro Nat, I greatly appreciate your short studies. Thank you.
If only more people would ask the following when tempted to get involved with Satan’s children and their innumerable lackeys:
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
Mark 8:36
Jews are soul robbers.
Is Satan judging for God with the COVID 19 death shot? Those being deceived and spellbound have not the Holy Spirit in them (that which also gives discernment and intuition)–from what I’ve read and understand.