Jesus' Celestial Visitations 

In April of 7 CE, at age thirteen, Jesus went to Jerusalem with Mary and Joseph for his first Passover. After the first day in the great city, he felt deep emotions of love and concern for all those who had such strong attachments to the ancient temple rituals. That night, and for the first time, a celestial messenger Immanuel had sent appeared to Jesus. The messenger told Jesus: "The hour has come. It is time that you began to be about your Father’s business." Even at a young age, Jesus was reminded that he had responsibilities of a universal nature. This visitation marked the end of Jesus’ childhood and the beginning of his adolescence.

In September of 25 CE, Jesus was at the end of his year of personal, solitary travel. He was led to go to Mount Hermon to complete the mastery of his human mind and to strengthen his consecration to his earthly mission. Jesus spent six weeks "alone with God."

Near the end of his stay there in the foothills of Mount Hermon at age 31, Jesus requested of his heavenly Father that he be permitted to meet with the beings who were responsible for the rebellion that had happened so many years before. And his request was granted by God.

Satan, representing Lucifer, and Calgastia, the disgraced Planetary Prince of this world, were permitted to come before Jesus, fully visible. Jesus met these rebels as his human self, the Son of Man; he spoke with them and listened to their schemes and suggestions, proposals, and counter-proposals, designed to allow them to continue in their positions of power on earth. They made deceptive and misleading proposals regarding Jesus’ incarnation mission; they suggested compromises and improvised different scenarios so that they could prevail over Jesus.

But in the end, Jesus prevailed over them, saying to Caligastia: "May the will of my Paradise Father prevail, and you, my rebellious son, may the Ancients of Days judge you divinely. I am your Creator-father; I can hardly judge you justly, and my mercy you have already spurned. I commit you to the adjudication of the Judges of a greater universe." To all the Lucifer-suggested compromises and makeshifts, to all such specious proposals about the incarnation bestowal, Jesus only made reply, "The will of my Father in Paradise be done."

It was a great struggle for the Son of Man that day; and when it was over, a guardian seraphim came to Jesus and ministered to him.

This event, also known as the "great temptation," constituted the termination of the Lucifer rebellion.

After Jesus’ baptism, he entered upon forty days of adjusting himself to the changed relationships of the world. During this isolation in the Perean hills, he determined upon the policy to be pursued and the methods to be employed in the new and changed phase of earth life which he was about to inaugurate.

While wandering about in the hills, seeking a suitable shelter, Jesus encountered his universe chief executive, Gabriel, who informed him that his bestowal experience on earth was practically finished concerning the earning of perfected sovereignty of his universe and the termination of the Lucifer rebellion. Later, the Constellation Father appeared to Jesus and Gabriel, saying his sovereignty was complete and Jesus was at liberty to terminate his incarnation bestowal at any time. Jesus decided to continue his bestowal.

In February of 26 CE, Jesus, at age 31, attended the wedding of Naomi at Cana. During the festivities, the father of the bridegroom learned that the wine was running short, a concern shared with Mary by the bridegroom’s mother. Confident in her son’s abilities, Mary asked Jesus for help. He replied: "Woman, what have you to do with making such promises? See that you do it not again. We must in all things wait upon the will of the Father in heaven."

Though Jesus sought to remain aligned with his Father’s will, his human compassion for Mary overcame him. As he tenderly reassured her not to grieve, he said, "Most gladly would I do what you ask of me if it were a part of the Father’s will—" and then hesitated. Mary sensed something was happening, but Jesus said nothing. He realized he had already said—or rather thought—too much.

Unbeknownst to everyone, there was a group of certain celestial personalities with universe powers standing at the ready, waiting to fulfill the slightest wish of their Universe Creator. When Jesus stated his desire that the Father’s will be done in this matter, the act of turning the water into wine happened instantaneously. This could only happen because the act was indeed the Father’s will in response to the Son’s desire.

These "agents of the Creator" made the wine by assembling the chemical ingredients necessary for any winemaking, but this transformation was done in an instant, without the intervention of time.

When the best man tasted the wine, he said to the groom’s father: "It is the custom to set out first the good wine and, when the guests have well drunk, to bring forth the inferior fruit of the vine; but you have kept the best of the wine until the last of the feast."

In January, 28 CE, a great multitude of sick people were assembled in the garden of Zebedee’s home, having followed Jesus, age 33, there as sunset settled in. They hoped to be healed of their many afflictions.

When someone in the crowd implored the Master to speak the word that would heal their bodies and save their souls, there were present an enormous number of angels and other celestial personalities who were standing ready to act on his behalf, should he give them a signal.

Jesus’ heart was deeply stirred, and his compassionate nature awoke upon seeing this large group of his afflicted children. He wanted to help them but before doing anything else, he appealed to the heavenly Father for direction. Jesus said: "I have come into the world to reveal the Father and establish his kingdom. For this purpose have I lived my life to this hour. If, therefore, it should be the will of Him who sent me and not inconsistent with my dedication to the proclamation of the gospel of the kingdom of heaven, I would desire to see my children made whole—and—"

No more words needed to be spoken after declaring his desire and his appeal to the Father for guidance. And evidently, there was no objection because this vast celestial entourage went into the crowd, healing 683 men, women, and children in just a moment of time. They were all made whole and healed of their various afflictions. There was never an occasion such as this before that day and never since that day.

In August of 29 CE, just six days after the event known as "Peter’s confession," Jesus and three of his apostles – Peter, James, and John – hiked about halfway up Mount Hermon. Jesus, at age 34, had been "summoned" to make this journey. It was to be an important "executive meeting" having to do with his mission.

The beings who conferred with Jesus that day were Gabriel and Father Melchizedek. During this important meeting, later to be known as the Transfiguration, Jesus received from these celestial visitors the assurance of the completion of his mission to our world. If he had wished, he could have ended his mission then and there and returned to his previous existence as the Creator Son of our universe. But he chose to stay on earth and go through to the end of his mortal life as the Son of Man and Son of God.

After a three-hour meeting between Jesus and the celestial messengers, he returned to the three apostles. After dinner, when the apostles were just getting to sleep, they awoke to see Jesus conversing with these two heavenly beings, clothed in celestial light. Next, they all saw the approach of a silvery cloud and heard a voice saying: "This is my beloved Son; give heed to him."

In March, 30 CE, Jesus, age 34, arrived at the home of Lazarus, Mary, and Martha. Lazarus had been dead for four days by the time Jesus arrived.

There was a small group of about 45 people standing nearby Lazarus’ tomb. None of them suspected that there was a large attendant company of celestial beings—led by Gabriel—waiting and ready to do the bidding of their Creator Son.

Jesus spoke the words, "Take away the stone," and this enormous company made ready. This assembly of celestial personalities was particularly large and intricately organized because the act of restoring Lazarus back to his material body involved a great level of difficulty.

Again, Jesus invoked the Father and his will in executing this amazing display of power. He prayed to the Father, thanking him for allowing him to perform this act of resurrection and for working with him; then Jesus said in a loud voice: "Lazarus, come forth!"

And while the human observers saw nothing, the attendant company of celestial visitors immediately went to work with Lazarus, and in just twelve seconds, Lazarus – who had been dead for four days – began to move. And in a short time, still partially wrapped in grave cloths, Lazarus sat up and then stood up, alive. And Jesus said: "Loose him and let him go."

On April 6, 30 CE, the day before his crucifixion, Jesus, age 35, spent the hours between the Last Supper and his arrest in a ravine in Gethsemane, where he liked to pray. He took Peter, James, and John with him so that they could watch with him. But they kept falling asleep, so he suffered the human uncertainty and anguish of what was so soon to come all alone.

He prayed that God would tell him for certain that this coming ordeal was his will. He told the Father that he would drink the cup of bitterness if it was his will. He asked for assurance. And an angel came and ministered to him. The angel touched him, spoke to him, and strengthened him. The mighty angel told Jesus that the heavenly Father desired that his Son should finish his mission on earth by going through the death experience, just as all mortals do.

Even though Jesus made the final decision to fulfill the Father’s will by submitting himself to the ordeal that was to follow, there was surrounding him an immense gathering of celestial beings standing at the ready, but they had been warned not to interfere unless Jesus himself ordered such an intervention.