The Beginning: Part 2 – Attempted Assassination
Satan knows that Jesus Christ is the Messiah and that Jesus has come to destroy him, and so Satan attempts to assassinate Jesus. This is the one very distasteful part of the Christmas narrative that no one wants to talk about. However, if we are to be truly open to all that our God wants us to know and understand, we need to lean into this scripture to understand what is at stake. There is a cosmic battle raging in the spiritual realm to which most of us are oblivious. It’s a battle between God’s will and the will of the Prince of Darkness. For a moment, this battle in the spiritual realm bleeds into the our realm and thus we see the attempted assassination on baby Jesus’ life. Satan’s failure here is a glorious signal of the future victory that is ahead, though Christ, our Messiah.