Confrontation - Ellen G. White

His human nature, and God to man through His
divine nature.
As soon as the long fast of Christ commenced,
Satan was at hand with his temptations. He came to
Christ enshrouded in light, claiming to be one of
the angels from the throne of God, sent upon an
errand of mercy to sympathize with Him and to
relieve Him of His suffering condition. He tried to
make Christ believe that God did not require Him
to pass through the self-denial and sufferings He
anticipated; that he had been sent from heaven to
bear to Him the message that God only designed to
prove His willingness to endure.
Satan told Christ that He was to set his feet in
the blood-stained path but not to travel it, that like
Abraham He was tested to show His perfect
obedience. He also stated that he was the angel that
stayed the hand of Abraham as the knife was raised
to slay Isaac, and he had now come to save His
life; that it was not necessary for Him to endure
this painful hunger and death from starvation; and
that he would help Him bear the work in the plan
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