ecological, psychological, spiritual, and physical afflictions, Christ is born into our world. He comes to “share in [our] humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil” (Heb 2:14–15). For “the reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work” (1 John 3:8). Suspecting something about the child of Mary and Joseph, Satan tries to kill Jesus as an infant (Matt 2:13–18; Rev 12:4) but, due to divine intervention, the child escapes. Later, after God publicly identifies Jesus as the Messiah (Matt 3:13–17), Satan immediately
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