To illustrate the scope of God's sovereignty, Luther was quoted as saying: “Even the devil is God's devil”. In Revelation 17:17 Johns speaks of the characters of history related to the purposes of God including (17:15) people, multitudes, nations, and languages... “For God has put it into their hearts to carry out His purpose by being of one mind and handing over their royal power to the beast, until the Words of God are fulfilled”. A picture of this kind of inevitable submission to Christ's ultimate purposes is available for us to marvelously examine in Mat 12... here the very elements of narrative itself bow to His will and ministry proclaiming the Kingdom of Heaven.