Confrontation - Ellen G. White

Chapter 17
The Second Temptation
But Satan was not willing to cease his efforts
until he had tried every means to obtain victory
over the world’s Redeemer. He knew that with
himself all was at stake, whether he or Christ
should be victor in the contest. And in order to awe
Christ with his superior strength he carried Him to
Jerusalem and set Him on a pinnacle of the
Temple, and continued to beset Him with
temptations. He again demanded of Christ that, if
He was indeed the Son of God, to give him
evidence by casting Himself from the dizzy height
upon which he had placed Him. He urged Christ to
show His confidence in the preserving care of His
Father by casting Himself down from the Temple.
In Satan’s first temptation upon the point of
appetite he had tried to insinuate doubts in regard
to God’s love and care for Christ as His Son, by
presenting His surroundings and His hunger as an
evidence that He was not in favor with God. He
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