What could Jesus and Satan see from the high mountain when Satan showed Jesus the kingdoms?
From the exceeding high mountain, Satan showed Jesus all the kingdoms of the world. Because Jerusalem sat at the center of the then-known world, and both were spiritual beings—with Jesus also physically present—they could envision the great empires of history, past and future, across the Roman Empire’s reach.
Satan took Jesus up into an exceeding high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world. Les explains that Jerusalem sits pretty much geographically in the center of the planet and, at the time of Christ, was the center of the then-known world. The Roman Empire reached west as far as Great Britain, east as far as India, and included North Africa, Egypt, and those areas. From that high vantage point, both spiritual beings, and Christ physically, could envision all the great empires that had ever existed back through history and even into the future. Satan then had the audacity to say that if Jesus would fall down and worship him, He could have all of it.
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How could Satan show Jesus all the kingdoms of the world from a high mountain?
Les explains that from the high vantage point of the mountain, both spiritual beings and the physically present Christ could envision all the great empires from history, perhaps even those of the future.