THE REAL JESUS: THE STRUGGLE WITH SATAN - Garner Ted Armstrong - January 1978

Garner Ted Armstrong

"Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil" Thus begins the account of a cosmic battle of wills unique in all the history of the world. Jesus spoke at great length, in private, to His disciples about His encounter with Satan. The accounts of both Matthew and Luke, together with Mark's one paragraph establishing the time of the event Gust before the beginning of His ministry and just after His baptism), prove that Christ discussed this monumental struggle with them in detail. Obviously, there were important lessons to be learned. In this struggle, Jesus was qualifying to take over rulership of all the governments of the world-and He had to defeat the present world ruler at his own game, according to his own rules, on his own battlefield. It was to be the supreme battle, and the enemy had all the weapons. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library