Jesus Defeated the Devil in 42 Months

JESUS DEFEATED THE DEVIL IN FORTY TWO MONTHS

February 18, 2010

 

The conflict of all conflicts was launched on the day of Jesus’ baptism. He ended it forty-two months later, even on the day that He arose from the dead.

Matthew described the first forty days of that forty-two months altercation:

He wrote;  “Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

The dialogue between Jesus and the Devil went like this:

“And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.   But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.   Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.   Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.   Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;  And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.   Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.” Matthew 4:1-11

Now the first forty days of that  conflict  Jesus contended with the Devil himself, however the remaining forty months and twenty days were played out by the Devil working through the heads of Governments residing in Jerusalem at the time.

During those remaining days the men of Israel and the Gentiles came together with the soul purpose of destroying Jesus. What they did is history.   Jesus took on the Devil on the day of His baptism’ and ended it on the day of His Resurrection.

The Psalmist said it like this. He wrote; “The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.” Psalms 9:15

Amen!