Although Satan was said to have tempted Jesus with the scriptures but as we try to understand the person and words of Jesus, we’ll come to understand that Satan did a lot more than tempt Jesus with the scriptures. Satan would go as far as lie just to get his way with a person.

While tempting Jesus Satan quoted scriptures twice to try to unbalance Jesus mentally but that didn’t work, so Satan resulted to lying just to appeal to the flesh of Jesus.

What then is the lie? While tempting Jesus, satan claimed that all things in this world is given unto him. He went even further by saying he’ll give all things to Jesus if Jesus bowed and worshipped him.

Although we never consider these words as we too often times believe this lie satan told to Jesus. We think everything in this world is given unto satan because Jesus also called satan the prince of this world.

But as we come to understand the person of Jesus (the truth) and knowing that satan is just opposite of him (liar), we’ll know that satan lied in the above statement. Jesus said that satan is a liar and that he has no truth in him. This means that the instance when satan opened his mouth to claim that all things is given unto him, he was lying.

Nothing is given to satan, Infact satan lost the claim to anything God made when he actually fell from the presence. Satan is only a prince of this world through logic and manipulations because the world through its foolishness have become mentally enslaved by satan.

Satan has nothing. Jesus is the one given things and unto whom all powers and authority is given. For this reason, we don’t run from satan, we must only resist his tricks and whispers and he shall flee away from us because he has nothing and is nothing.

Written by David A.O.