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righteousness?” Under the feet of the Son, the last Adam, God the Father had put all
things (Ps. 8:6). The rest of the universe was all subject to Him. So for Him to have
performed an act of worship toward the devil would have been for Him to surrender to

Satan the lordship of the whole of the universe. In effect, the subtle one offered to
trade Him this cosmos for the whole of the universe! We praised God for the answer,
“Get thee behind me, Satan!”

Christ was a “Son over His own house” (Heb. 3:6) and was faithful to the last. He
came to redeem a world lying in death, by His own death, and by that means to
destroy him that had the power of death (Heb. 2:14). One day by God‟s grace we shall
join in the heavenly oratorio and sing, “The kingdoms of this world are become the

kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ, and He shall reign for ever and ever…We
give thanks, O Lord God Almighty…because Thou hast taken to Thee Thy great
power, and hast reigned!” (Rev. 11:15, 17).

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