—whether in the form of demons, or in the inciting of hostility against him, or in his efforts to conscript into his service Jesus’ disciples Peter and Judas. In the terse summary language of the aged John: “The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.”29 And so from the beginning to the very end, from the garden of Eden turned into a desert because of sin, until in Revelation 21 and 22 when that desert is turned back into a garden, the whole of the Bible is the story