JESUS TEMPTED.

Who is that, talking so earnestly with the Savior®
He has wings like an angel; but he is not an angel—he
is the Devil, or Satan. He is trying to tempt Jesus to.
do wrong. a

Jesus, very soon after his baptism, “was led up of
the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted of the Devil.”
Satan came and offered him the kingdoms of this world,
if he would fall down and worship him. If he had done
this, it would have defeated him in the work of saving the
world.

Satan is called “the father of lies,” and was trying to.
claim the kingdoms of the world, when they belonged
alréady to Jesus. Jesus did not listen to him, but simply
told him what the Bible said: “Thou shalt worship the
Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.”

Satan is the great evil Spirit who led our first parents
to sin, by tempting them to eat the forbidden fruit. But.
God promised Adam and Eve that hé would provide for
them a Savior, who should “ bruise the serpent’s head,” and
open the way of salvation for the lost. When Jesus came:
to perform this great work the Devil appears again, and.