Basic HTML Version
156
The Story of Redemption
Satan claimed the kingdom of earth as his and insinuated to
Jesus that all His sufferings might be saved: that He need not die
to obtain the kingdoms of this world; if He would worship him He
might have all the possessions of earth and the glory of reigning
over them. But Jesus was steadfast. He knew that the time was to
come when He would, by His own life, redeem the kingdom from
Satan, and that, after a season, all in heaven and earth would submit
to Him. He chose His life of suffering and His dreadful death as the
way appointed by His Father that He might become a lawful heir
to the kingdoms of earth and have them given into His hands as an
everlasting possession. Satan also will be given into His hands to be
destroyed by death, nevermore to annoy Jesus or the saints in glory.
[202]