JETS 50:3 (September 2007) p. 459 is described in the prologue of Job and in the account of the temptation of Jesus and with the general biblical teaching concerning divine sovereignty. However, God no more desires the failure of the followers of Jesus than he desired the failure of Jesus himself. It is his will that believers experience temptation, and he uses Satan as an instrument through which temptation comes, but his intentions are radically different from those of the one who is called “the