KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

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Antichrist Is Here: Denying the Deity of Christ A ll of the spiritual sabre-rattling in Satan's scuffle for supremacy was summarized succinctly by Erwin Lutzer when he said, "The final conflict will come down to 'Who is God?'"i Jesus Christ, who is God "manifest in the flesh" (I Timothy 3:16) must be diminished in the eyes of his subjects before the devil dares depose him. Who could curtail him? — a mugger, a marauding maniac, or a mass murderer like Mao or Mussilini. Too blatant. When Satan wanted to unmiter the master, he conscripted Christ's veteran sparring partners—the scribes. Their method: subtlety.

[TJhe scribes. . .consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty and kill him. Matthew 26:3,4 [T]he scribes sought how they might take him by craft and put him to death. Mark 14:1 [TJhe scribes. . .sought how they might destroy him. Mark 11:18