<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">4:6&nbsp;</span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">And said to him: If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down. For it is written, He shall give His angels charge concerning you, and on their hands they shall carry you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- Presumably this was to be taken literally- the Angels physically with Him would have literally held Him under the arms if He jumped from the temple. So we see the literal physical presence of the Angels in our lives. The eyes of God, an evident reference to the Angels, are associated with the temple (1 Kings 8:29; Ps. 11:4; Ps. 5:6-8). The implication surely is that the Angel[s] specifically functioned in the temple / sanctuary. It seems that great stress is placed in Scripture on the Angels physically moving through space, both on the earth and between Heaven and earth, in order to fulfil their tasks, rather than being static in Heaven or earth and bringing things about by just willing them to happen.</span></p>
<p>The &lsquo;devil&rsquo; of the Lord&rsquo;s own thoughts tempted Him to apply Ps. 91:11 in a wrong context, and jump off the pinnacle of the temple. But if the Lord had gone on, as surely He did, He would have found the words: &ldquo;Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet&rdquo; (Ps. 91:13). This promise would have been of wonderful comfort, as throughout the wilderness temptations the Lord &ldquo;was with the wild beasts&rdquo; (Mk. 1:13).&nbsp;</p>