Angels at Christ’s Baptism and in the Wilderness
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After the Third Temptation
After Satan had failed to overcome Christ in the wilderness, he
combined his forces to oppose Him in His ministry, and if possible to
thwart His work. What he could not accomplish by direct, personal
effort, he determined to effect by strategy. No sooner had he withdrawn
from the conflict in the wilderness than in council with his confederate
angels he matured his plans for still further blinding the minds of
the Jewish people, that they might not recognize their Redeemer. He
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planned to work through his human agencies in the religious world,
by imbuing them with his own enmity against the champion of truth.
He would lead them to reject Christ and to make His life as bitter as
possible, hoping to discourage Him in His mission.—
The Desire of
Ages, 205, 206
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