Will you please give me your understanding of the state that would have befallen our Saviour, Satan, mankind, and earth, if our Lord had yielded to the temptation of the devil at any time? First of all, let us thank God that He did not yield. What would have occurred had He failed is too awful to contemplate. How much Heaven has risked in that awful sacrifice it is not for mortals themselves to estimate. It seems from the teaching of the Word that Heaven had risked all in the giving of Christ to die, in His taking upon Himself the nature of man, in becoming the Seed of David according to the flesh, and in meeting in that flesh by faith the sins and temptations to which men are subject. If He had failed, He would have been led captive by the enemy. That Satan would have triumphed temporarily would have been true. That he would have triumphed eternally could not have been true, because "the wages of sin is death," and eventually he would meet the consequence. The curse would still have rested upon the earth, and it would have gone to destruction. But if that yielding had left God without other means of regenerating the world, the work of corruption and disintegration would go on until the universe was blasted, yet righteousness in the end would triumph. Our Lord could not fail so long as He held to righteousness; no soul can fail holding to righteousness; and the great eternal righteousness of God could not fail in eternal purpose regarding this earth, tho to our human sight He seemed to have failed. All this is supposition. In the eternal love manifested by Christ Jesus there could be no character failure. Jesus Christ conquered in His own flesh, and will conquer in the flesh of every other one who trusts Him.