Jesus is now almost six months from his passion. Once again, He is expelled from the Temple. He visits towns and villages North, East and south of Jerusalem and returns there at the end of the month.
Monday, October 1, 29 AD. Valtorta 4.499. The merchant returned to Mt Nebo with his blind children whom Jesus cured. This was followed by a bitter exchange with Sadoc, the Scribe.
There is a sad scene where an elderly blind man refuses to be healed because he does not want to see Jesus whom he calls a blasphemer.
They leave turning north to cross the Jordan at the ford at Bethabarra near where he was baptised.
Tuesday, October 2, 29 AD. Peter is so dejected that Jesus asks if he is unwell. Peter says he cannot take the hostility and hatred of Jesus anymore. Jesus begs him not to lose heart, don’t deprive me of your companionship, Jesus pleads with him.
Valtorta 4.500. Jesus goes on to explain the difference between possession by God and by evil. When God takes possession of a freely offered intellect, he gives it supernatural powers when it is at God’s service. But later what was then understood can become unclear and obscure.
Diabolical possession is also freely accepted, usually by degrees and can lead to complete possession and knowledge of evil. These are the most dangerous possessions. Peter asks why God does not strike them and is told those reasons are only known to God.
The conversation is interrupted by a shepherd recognising how tired Jesus is and offering him rest in his home which is gratefully accepted and Jesus stays with him in Beth-Hoglah.
Wednesday, October 3, 29 AD. They cross the Jordan. And visited hamlets along the East bank of the river.
Thursday, October 4, 29 AD. Valtorta 4.501. Jesus takes a boat upstream but goes back to Jericho, which alarms the apostles but Jesus says his hour had not come. His martyrdom will make men capable of earning heaven which is what he, Jesus, wants to do. This is my joy to give you God and his kingdom.
Thomas asks Jesus about his betrayer and expresses surprise about a man being able to betray the Son of God. Jesus says it will not be a man but a demon. He says that neither Mary of Magdala nor others were dominated by Beelzebub, his betrayer will be Beelzebub with his demoniac court.
Judas asks if that man is already possessed by Satan and is told he is not but is leaning in that direction. Jesus explained that his betrayer was putting himself in a condition where he was falling into Satan.
Judas asks why that man would not come to Jesus to be cured and is told that he does not persist in his decision to emerge from it.
Valtorta 502. They return to the Jordan and take a boat to Soloman’s village and learn that old Ananias has died.
Jesus is asked to meet a woman which he does but he says he can’t help her because her husband does not want to be cured. The man is a necromancer. The woman is desperate but Jesus says he cannot overrule the man’s free will.
Jesus saw this as a trap set up for him. He rebuked those involved with ferocious severity. They in turn accused him of being Satan. Peter suspects that Judas was, in some way, involved. He later confesses this to Jesus
Later Jesus is upset and says simply that he is in need of his mother. They go upriver.
Jesus commented on this incident: There are two types of spirits -those sent by God and those from the occult. The former are at God’s command, the latter are released by violence and idolatry. They cannot coexist. Men must choose.
October 6 – 11, 29 AD. Is spent around Jerusalem which is less crowded than at the great feasts. Lk 18. One day in the Temple he asked a distraught couple about their distress. They tell of the imminent repudiation and divorce of their daughter. He sends them away to pray with faith and expect the miracle. When they are gone, he says their faith is perfect and will be rewarded.
Valtorta 5.503. To emphasise the importance of perseverance Jesus told the parable of the unjust judge, Lk 18.
Friday, October 12, 29 AD. Valtorta 4.504. Jn 9. Jesus is back in Jerusalem. At the Temple Jn 8, he speaks of the Light of the World, and spells out the concept, the nature of man, and the wants of God; that man would need to be redeemed. I am Light and love, I create it in you and preserve it to make men know the wonder of the Trinity.
Jesus was told he was talking nonsense. He stressed that he is the Son of the Father who is God and this, too, was rejected by his critics. Jesus left and went to the Beth-Hinnom southwest of Jerusalem.
Valtorta 4.505. Jesus is warned by some Roman legionaries, telling him they had been asked to stand by him.
Almost immediately he is told he is not allowed to teach his doctrine in the Temple. He is told to go away. Jesus says that he is going away and they won’t be able to find him. His critics think he is going to kill himself as he knows he has failed the ‘test’ and will do so to avoid the fate of the last false Messiah.
Jesus is pursued through the Temple enclosures but a crowd protects him. He says he is the Truth and never tells lies. Jesus talks of being raised up but not to a throne. He adds that his doctrine will spread throughout the world.
Jesus says to accept his doctrine is to come to God. He says that neither he nor his Father will compel men to believe or accept him.
Once again, he is attacked and escapes through a secret passage, led by a Levite who shoved Jesus through a hidden door.
Saturday, October 13, 29 AD. Valtorta 4.508. Jesus goes to the synagogue near the southwest gate. He is asked by the crowd for some explanation. He says that to accept his doctrine is to come to God. He reminds them he was sent to show men God’s will but that neither he nor his father will force people to accept him.
He heals the blind man in Jn 9. This was a set-up, the man had been tailed by two men who immediately reported to the Temple. It seems that Sanhedrin member, Joseph of Arimathea was aware of the plot and had determined to witness it. He ignored Jesus which made some think it was too dangerous for him to acknowledge Jesus.
Instead, he followed the man to the pool and later to his house. When the rejoicing crowd turned on the Temple delegation, Joseph silenced the crowd. He offered himself as surety for the young man and accompanied him to the Temple to give evidence of the miracle.
The incredulous Temple people think Jesus had set up a fraudulent ‘miracle, but Joseph of Arimathea says that the meeting was accidental on Jesus’ part as it was Judas Iscariot who brought the man to Jesus. I witnessed him. He added spitting on the ground and putting mud on eyelids is not servile work.
Jesus’ enemies are defeated by their colleagues and then demand of the boy that he tell them what he thinks. The boy says Jesus is greater than Elijah because he made my eyes which I had not got and never had.
The accusers do not believe that the boy was ever blind and sent for his parents. The boy and his parents are ejected from the Temple and go straight to the synagogue to give thanks to God.
Jesus and his group had already gone to Novah/Nob and had no involvement in what happened after the miracle. But Joseph and Nicodemus arrived at Novah and not only told them of all that happened but Joseph bluntly accused Judas as the organiser of the healing and the setup. Judas denied his involvement.
They hear that those giving hospitality to Jesus will be barred from their synagogues. Joseph warns Jesus to stay away from the Temple and not to stay there longer than his prayers. Never, he stresses, is Jesus to tell anyone where he is going.
Sunday, October 14, 29 AD. Valtorta 4.510. En route to Ramah Jesus and his group stop in a deserted village where Jesus talks of the fate of those who ignore God, quoting from the prophets and referring to the miserable fate that awaits Israel. He quotes from Baruch.
Tuesday, October 16, 29 AD. Valtorta 4.511. Jesus is welcomed at Emmaus on the Mountain where he says his mission is to lead men to Wisdom, a wise way of life leads to life in his kingdom. Wisdom is bought by living money: virtue, one cannot be great without wisdom.
Thursday, October 18, 29 AD. Valtorta 4.512. At Beth-Horan Jesus is asked to heal a seriously ill and demented woman but first heals a soldier’s broken leg. This turns the village against Jesus who reproaches them in strong words for their lack of faith and hostility, quoting the scriptures extensively.
He says truth is forgotten and he ends by saying he comes offering fantastic gifts. God has spoken to Israel as though it was his bride from the prophets and from the history of the place which upsets them further.
He complains that Israel wants God for their purposes and not for God’s. He says the future of the place is one of sadness and betrayal.
It transpires that one of Jesus’ chief enemies lives in the village and also that Judas had played some role in turning the place against Jesus. Jesus is not offered hospitality.
A young man approaches Jesus, and tells him of his doubts but clearly would love to follow Jesus. The young man fears Jesus’s standards are too high for a mere man but Jesus says the secret is love, love contains all the virtues, and those who strive to love acquire the virtues. He likens love to a banquet. A banquet with one dish is not a banquet nor a single flower a bunch. Love has many virtues.
Friday, October 19, 29 AD. Valtorta 4.513. They arrive at Gibeon in the late afternoon where they are welcomed. Because this was where Solomon prayed for wisdom, wisdom was the theme of his talks.
He says there are two great indicators of a man’s spiritual value: how he behaves in joy and in sorrow.
He is asked about the value of good acts before sinning. Jesus says they always counter the consequences of sin and disobedience. But only after repentance.
Sunday, October 21, 29 AD, They leave Gibeon. Jerusalem to Nob is a good walk but is near enough. On the way, he says his passion has already started, that he needs rest for his heart, not for his limbs. He needs to confide his distress with those closest to him, his mother and apostles.
He is told he should have stayed in Gibeon where he was loved or at Bethany. Someone suggests that he does not go to Bethany because of the Magdalen but Jesus says not so, lust of the flesh does not upset him.
Sensuality can only attract those who do not feed on the supernatural. The joy of victim souls is entirely of the spirit, adding that the spiritual man is a true Superman.
Judas realises he is being reproached by Jesus and asks for forgiveness with sincerity.
Approx October 24, 29 AD. Jesus is back in Jerusalem early. He meets the blind boy/man. Jn 9. Jesus is heckled by those who were annoyed by that miracle. Jesus implied they were blind which prompts Jesus to say that the time of the new law had come. He then launched into the good shepherd theme.
When he says he wants to lead his flock into the Kingdom, he is asked if Israel is no longer the Kingdom of God. He says it is the place from where people must rise to the Kingdom and to the new Jerusalem. Again, he says the Kingdom of the Messiah is a spiritual one based on love and states that the Messiah will be the King of the world and not just of Israel.
He talks of giving his life for the flock which once again makes some say he is possessed,
Jesus takes the once blind young man to his father for a paternal blessing for his new disciple.
Sunday, October 28, 29 AD. Valtorta 4.51., Jesus arrives early at Bethany. They wait for Judas who had stayed in Jerusalem to the stated relief of the other apostles which earns them a rebuke. It is never too late to pray for someone – there is always time for forgiveness.
Jesus is spared no detail about Lazarus’ condition. The sisters are treating it as if he had leprosy and want to shield him from the consequences of that diagnosis. Mary Magdalen refuses to believe he has the dreaded disease.
She had got a colony of lepers to show her their sores and is convinced that they are different from Lazarus’. She says Simon Zealot (1) was declared one for less dreadful sores.
Jesus says he cannot cure Lazarus and reiterates that this is for the glory of God. On his way out, Jesus confides to Martha that his heart is far more ulcerated than that of Lazarus, grief gnaws at him.
Tuesday, October 30, 29 AD. Valtorta 4.518. Jesus and the group leave Bethany for Teqoa. James’ brother Jude consoles Thomas who bitterly regrets bringing Judas to meet Jesus.
Jesus gathers the group and tells them every family has a weak or sick member. They need and get more attention from their parents. We must ignore the illness of the body and fortify the spirit of the weak or sick.
Without the will of man, God’s love is in vain.
They meet an old man who was evicted by his son on account of his belief in Jesus; Jesus arranges help and accommodation for him. Only then does the old man realise Jesus was his rescuer. Jesus tells the man that he cannot know how much his faith has meant to him, that he, Jesus, was the one that received most.
Wednesday, October 31, 29 AD. Valtorta 4.519. At Teqoa. He speaks well of the population but when they ask him to stay, he says can’t. He adds you are in me and I in you because we love each other.
In an interesting aside Jesus is told of vendors selling products by false claims. Jesus commented their sin is not so much against the customer as against God.
I. Elsewhere we were told that Simon had inherited a venereal disease from his father.
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