Confrontation - Ellen G. White

Chapter 13
Significance of the Test
When Christ bore the test of temptation upon
the point of appetite He did not stand in beautiful
Eden, as did Adam, with the light and love of God
seen in everything His eye rested upon; but He was
in a barren, desolate wilderness, surrounded with
wild beasts. Everything around Him was repulsive.
With these surroundings, He fasted forty days and
forty nights, “and in those days he did eat nothing.”
He was emaciated through long fasting and felt the
keenest sense of hunger. His visage was indeed
marred more than the sons of men.
Christ thus entered upon His life of conflict to
overcome the mighty foe, in bearing the very test
which Adam failed to endure, that through
successful conflict He might break the power of
Satan and redeem the race from the disgrace of the
fall.
All was lost when Adam yielded to the power
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