What is your point? Jesus was God in the flesh and spoke as a prophet (and a prophet speaks God’s words).
So what are you driving at? Who cares if Jesus was speaking the words of his Father or speaking as God? His words are the words of God, regardless…right? So what is your point???
What you are failing to see, is that Jesus was required to remain as a man in order to qualify to die in the place of all men.
Satan knew who Jesus really was. So did demons...
Then what was the point of Satan tempting Jesus to turn stones into bread when Satan knew the true identity of Jesus?
A first class condition in the Greek means something is so...
And, its what Satan used in Matthew 4:3.
The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the
Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
The Greek uses a first class condition, and should be rendered more as follows...
The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of
God [and you are], tell these stones to become bread.”
What was Satan hoping to accomplish with his challenge to Jesus?
Reading the English translation renders a wrong impression.
Satan was not seeking for Jesus to prove he was God.
Knowing the Greek grammar and syntax , it would let the Greek reader know that Satan was not challenging Jesus to prove he was the God the Son. For Satan was acknowledging that He knew Jesus was the Son. Satan had known Jesus prior.
But, Satan's challenge had to mean something different than what many English Bible readers could not know.
The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of
God [and you are], tell these stones to become bread.”
Satan was tempting Jesus to cease being as a man, and to be as God.
If Jesus gave in? And returned to functioning as God?
In the moment Jesus did that? Jesus would have been disqualified
to die as a man for all men!
The following was taken from notes of a lecture/Bible lesson given my Pastor who always taught us from the Greek text.
3~~ And when the tempter {Satan/Lucifer/the devil} came to Him, he said, "If You are always {in the absolute status of being} the Son of God - and you are - SPEAK that these stones may become bread."
{Note: The Greek syntax of a 1st class conditional clause requires 'and you are'. This indicates that Satan recognized the deity of Christ even if we do not! Doesn't imply though Satan was saved by this belief, his salvation test was different and his judgement already declared.}
{Note: This is a true and unique temptation for Christ - he could do it! You and I could not! Tempting the humanity of Christ to obtain a lawful thing (food) in an unlawful way (using a Miracle to relieve intense hunger - hunger peaks in a human body in the 40th day) instead of relying on his Unique Prototype Spiritual Life). This would be a sin -- Arrogance -- similar to Lucifer's first sin 'I will be like the most high'}.
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