<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">4:4 </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">But he answered and said: It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- The&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;overcame&nbsp;all&nbsp;His&nbsp;temptations&nbsp;by&nbsp;quoting&nbsp;from Deuteronomy, showing that His mind was seeking strength from the words of the Angel leading Israel through the wilderness. There are clear similarities between the Angel's leading of Israel through the wilderness and the Lord's experience in the wilderness:</span></p>
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            <div style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">v. 2 &quot;The Lord thy God [an Angel] led you...   in the wilderness&quot;</span></div>
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            <div style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">v. 1 Jesus led by the spirit (an Angel?) into the   wilderness.</span></div>
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            <div style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Angel &quot;fed you with manna&quot; (Ps.   78:25)</span></div>
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            <div style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Jesus was tempted to ask the Angel to provide   bread as He did to Israel in their testing.</span></div>
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<p>Thus the Lord Jesus surveyed His own experience in the wilderness, and saw that He could take to Himself personally the lessons given to Israel. The Angel led Israel through the wilderness &quot;to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep His commandments or no&quot; (Dt. 8:2). God Himself knows anyway, so this must be regarding the Angel, seeking to know the spiritual strength of Israel, as Job's&nbsp;Satan Angel sought to know Job's strength. Similarly, the Lord&rsquo;s&nbsp;Angel led Him into the wilderness, suffering Him to hunger, to humble and&nbsp;prove Him, to reveal His real attitude to the word of God. His quoting of the word to answer the temptations surely proved this to the Angel, especially since the Lord showed Himself so capable of thinking Himself into Scripture, and therefore taking the lessons most powerfully to Himself. The Lord was made to realize the importance of His memory of the word, as He would have later reflected that this was the only way He had overcome- that man spiritually lives by &quot;every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God&quot;. As a result of their wilderness temptations, both Israel and Christ were led to &quot;consider in (their) heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God (the Angel) chasteneth thee&quot;. The chastenings of the Lord spiritually&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;wilderness&nbsp;were therefore arranged by the Angels. There did not have to be Angels actually tempting Christ in the wilderness temptations- because they can act directly on a man's heart, they can lead us into temptation. The fact we pray for Him not to implies that He does- through the Angels, as He Himself tempts no man (James 1:13), although the Angels tempted Abraham, and Israel among others. Thus the Angels may arrange an external stimulus, e. g. the fruit of the tree of knowledge, knowing it must produce certain internal desires within us which tempt us. Note how the temptation to throw Himself off the top of the temple was a temptation to misuse Angelic care. He answered it by a quotation which has an Angelic context: &quot;You (Jesus) shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted Him in Massah&quot; (Dt. 6:16). At Massah the Israelites put the Angel to the test by questioning whether He could provide water (Ex. 17:2-7).</p>