Deliverer

135:8.7John fol­lowed Je­sus a suf­fi­cient dis­tance to tell him the story of Ga­briel’s visit to his mother ere ei­ther had been born, as he had heard it so many times from his mother’s lips. He al­lowed Je­sus to con­tinue on his way af­ter he had said, “Now I know of a cer­tainty that you are the De­liv­erer.” But Je­sus made no re­ply.

27:0.2Pri­mary super­na­phim are also placed in com­mand of the se­raphic hosts min­is­ter­ing on worlds iso­lated be­cause of re­bel­lion. When a Par­a­dise Son is be­stowed upon such a world, com­pletes his mis­sion, as­cends to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, is ac­cepted, and re­turns as the ac­cred­ited de­liv­erer of this iso­lated world, a pri­mary super­na­phim is al­ways des­ig­nated by the chiefs of as­sign­ment to as­sume com­mand of the min­is­ter­ing spir­its on duty in the newly re­claimed sphere. Super­na­phim in this spe­cial ser­vice are pe­ri­od­i­cally ro­tated. On Uran­tia the pres­ent “chief of ser­a­phim” is the sec­ond of this or­der to be on duty since the times of the be­stowal of Christ Mi­chael.

143:5.7But Nalda would make one more ef­fort to avoid the dis­cus­sion of the em­bar­rass­ing ques­tion of her per­sonal life on earth and the sta­tus of her soul be­fore God. Once more she re­sorted to ques­tions of gen­eral re­li­gion, say­ing: “Yes, I know, Sir, that John has preached about the com­ing of the Con­verter, he who will be called the De­liv­erer, and that, when he shall come, he will de­clare to us all things”—and Je­sus, in­ter­rupt­ing Nalda, said with startling as­sur­ance, “I who speak to you am he.”

143:5.8This was the first di­rect, pos­i­tive, and undis­guised pro­nounce­ment of his di­vine na­ture and son­ship which Je­sus had made on earth; and it was made to a woman, a Samar­i­tan woman, and a woman of ques­tion­able char­ac­ter in the eyes of men up to this mo­ment, but a woman whom the di­vine eye be­held as hav­ing been sinned against more than as sin­ning of her own de­sire and as now be­ing a hu­man soul who de­sired sal­va­tion, de­sired it sin­cerely and whole­heart­edly, and that was enough.

176:1.1In an­swer­ing Na­than­iel’s ques­tion, Je­sus said: “Yes, I will tell you about the times when this peo­ple shall have filled up the cup of their in­iq­uity; when jus­tice shall swiftly de­scend upon this city of our fa­thers. I am about to leave you; I go to the Fa­ther. Af­ter I leave you, take heed that no man de­ceive you, for many will come as de­liv­er­ers and will lead many astray. When you hear of wars and ru­mors of wars, be not trou­bled, for though all these things will hap­pen, the end of Je­ru­sa­lem is not yet at hand. You should not be per­turbed by famines or earth­quakes; nei­ther should you be con­cerned when you are de­liv­ered up to the civil au­thor­i­ties and are per­se­cuted for the sake of the gospel. You will be thrown out of the syn­a­gogue and put in prison for my sake, and some of you will be killed. When you are brought up be­fore gov­er­nors and rulers, it shall be for a tes­ti­mony of your faith and to show your stead­fast­ness in the gospel of the king­dom. And when you stand be­fore judges, be not anx­ious be­fore­hand as to what you should say, for the spirit will teach you in that very hour what you should an­swer your ad­ver­saries. In these days of tra­vail, even your own kins­folk, un­der the lead­er­ship of those who have re­jected the Son of Man, will de­liver you up to prison and death. For a time you may be hated by all men for my sake, but even in these per­se­cu­tions I will not for­sake you; my spirit will not desert you. Be pa­tient! doubt not that this gospel of the king­dom will tri­umph over all en­e­mies and, even­tu­ally, be pro­claimed to all na­tions.”

157:3.5More than half the apos­tles par­tic­i­pated in an­swer­ing Je­sus’ ques­tion. They told him that he was re­garded as a prophet or as an ex­traor­di­nary man by all who knew him; that even his en­e­mies greatly feared him, ac­count­ing for his pow­ers by the in­dict­ment that he was in league with the prince of dev­ils. They told him that some in Judea and Samaria who had not met him per­son­ally be­lieved he was John the Bap­tist risen from the dead. Pe­ter ex­plained that he had been, at sundry times and by var­i­ous per­sons, com­pared with Moses, Eli­jah, Isa­iah, and Jeremiah. When Je­sus had lis­tened to this re­port, he drew him­self upon his feet, and look­ing down upon the twelve sit­ting about him in a semi­cir­cle, with startling em­pha­sis he pointed to them with a sweep­ing ges­ture of his hand and asked, “But who say you that I am?” There was a mo­ment of tense si­lence. The twelve never took their eyes off the Mas­ter, and then Si­mon Pe­ter, spring­ing to his feet, ex­claimed: “You are the De­liv­erer, the Son of the liv­ing God.” And the eleven sit­ting apos­tles arose to their feet with one ac­cord, thereby in­di­cat­ing that Pe­ter had spo­ken for all of them.