Satan Tried to Kill the Child Jesus, Part 2 (TMF:626)

Monday, April 17, 2017
Peace to Live By: Satan Tried to Kill the Child Jesus, Part 2 (TMF:626) - Daniel Litton
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       We understand that after the wise men had visited with Jesus, giving him their gifts, that they were warned in a dream not to return to King Herod, and they obey the Lord and did not. Then we read in Matthew chapter 2, in verse 16, “Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men” (Matthew 2:16, ESV). Now, he figured this out by calculating the time from when the star first appeared, as told by the wise men in their visit to Herod before they went to see Jesus. And we can see Satan’s great evil in his murdering of all of these Israeli children. He wanted to kill Jesus. Now, both Matthew and Luke recorded for us the temptations of Jesus by Satan in the wilderness, or desert. It was part of God’s plan, however, for the Spirit of God led him there. And we see how Satan pressed him hard. Remember, Jesus was at the end of his fasting period, as Matthew tells us. First, Satan tried to appeal to his basic hunger, trying to appeal to the weakness of his flesh. And this is where Satan is most successful with us most of the time.