Jesus, you can have it all. You can rule over this world. I will give you what you have come for. Success, supreme success, is being offered Jesus, to receive with one wave of Satan s hand what he had been sent to achieve. In American suburbia, we spend a lot of money, a lot of time on our homes, homes that we can show off to our friends who visit.
Homes are often our symbol of success.
During college I was travelling with some fraternity brothers to a meeting at the house of one of the alums. Houses symbols of success. A couple years ago my mother showed me a newspaper article with a picture of a high school friend. He was standing in the basement of his new house holding a basketball. It was a 2-story basement with a basketball court.