5. What is the devil's mission on the earth?
6. How did Jesus characterize the devil?
TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, Scheffer
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WHY EVIL IS IN THE WORLD
The devil's desperate hope.
No better illustration of the mission of the devil on the earth can be found than the story of the temptation of Jesus. You remember, that, when Jesus was grown to manhood He went to the river Jordan and was baptized by John. "Then," we are told, "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 hungered."