On the road to Emmaus



Ever wonder what Jesus really said to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus.  In Lukes gospel we are only given the abbreviated form:

 ²⁵ Then he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have declared! ²⁶ Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer these things and then enter into his glory?” ²⁷ Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things about himself in all the scriptures. Lk 24: 25-27

But in the Gospel as Revealed to Me, formally the Poem of the Man-God, there is a much more detailed version open to discernment.

"Oh!  how foolish you are and hard to understand!  And how slow you are in believing the words of the prophets!  And had all that not already been said?  The error of Israel is this:  they have misinterpreted the regality of the Christ.  That is why He was not believed.  That is why He was feared.  That is why you are now in doubt.  In high places, in low ones, in the Temple, in villages, everywhere people thought of a king according to human nature.  The reconstruction of the Kingdom of Israel was not limited, in the mind of God, in time, in space and in means, as it was in you.

Not in time:  no royalty, even the most powerful one, is eternal.  Remember the mighty Pharaohs who oppressed the Jews in the days of Moses.  How many dynasties have come to an end, and only soulless mummies remain of them at the bottom of secret hypogea!  And a remembrance remains, if even that still remains, of their power of one hour, and even less, if we measure their centuries by the eternal Time. This Kingdom is eternal.

In space.  It was called:  Kingdom of Israel.  Because the stock of the human race came from Israel; because in Israel there is, so to say, the seed f God; and therefore, by saying Israel, it was meant:  the kingdom of those created by God.  But the regality of the King Messiah is not limited to the small space of Palestine, but it stretches from north to south, from east to west, wherever there is a being with a spirit in its body, that is, wherever there is a man.  How could one person alone gather under him all the peoples, hostile to one another, and from only one kingdom, without shedding rivers of blood and subjecting them all by means of cruel oppressions of armed men?  So, how could He have been the peaceful king mentioned by the prophets?

In means:  the human means, I said, is oppression.  The superhuman means is love.  The former is always limited, because peoples rebel against the oppressor.  The latter is unlimited, because love is loved or, if it is not loved, it is derided.  But as it is spiritual, it cannot be attacked directly.  And God, the Infinite, wants means to be like Himself.  He wants what is not finite, because He is eternal:  the spirit; what belongs to the spirit; what leads to the Spirit.  That has been the error:  that men conceived in their minds a messianic idea that is wrong in means and form.

Which is the highest regality?  God's.  Is it not so?  Therefore, this Admirable, this Immanuel this Holy, this sublime Germ, this Strong, this Father of the future century, this Prince of peace, this God like Him from Whom He comes, because so is He named and so is the Messiah, will He not have a regality like that of Him Who generated Him?  Of course, He will!  A regality which is completely spiritual and eternal, immune from violence and blood, unaware of betrayals and abuse of power.  His Regality!  That which the Eternal Goodness bestows also on poor men, to give honor and joy to His Word.

But did David not say that this powerful King had all things placed under His feet as a footstool?  Did Isaiah not narrate all His Passion, and did David not count, one might say, also His tortures?  And is it not said that He is the Savior and Redeemer, Who with His holocaust will save sinful mankind?

And is it not stated, and Jonah is the sign, that for three days He would be swallowed by the insatiable stomach of the Earth, and then He would be ejected as the prophet was by the whale?  And was it not said by Him:  "My Temple, that is My Body, the third day after being destroyed, will be rebuilt by Me (that is, by God)?"  And what did you think?  That by magic He would raise the walls of the Temple again?  No.  Not the walls.  But Himself.  And God only could make Himself rise from the dead.  He has raised the true Temple:  His Body of the Lamb.  Sacrificed, as Moses received the order and the prophecy, to prepare the "passage" from death to Life, from slavery to freedom, of men, the children of God and slaves of Satan.

How did He rise? you ask each other.  I reply:  He has risen with His true Body and with His Divine Spirit that dwells in it, as in every mortal body there dwells the soul as queen of the heart.  That is how He has risen after suffering everything to expiate everything, and make amends for the primitive Offence and for the countless ones that every day are committed by Mankind.  He has risen as it had been said under the veil of the prophecies.  He had come at His time, I remind you of Daniel, at His time He was sacrificed.  And listen and remember, at the time predicted after His death the deicide town will be destroyed.

I advice you to do this:  read the prophets with you souls, not with proud minds, from the beginning of the Book to the words of the Sacrificed Word remember the Precursor who indicated Him as the Lamb; recall which was the destiny of the symbolic Mosaic lamb.  The first-born of Israel were saved through that blood.  Through this Blood the first-born of God will be saved, that is those who with goodwill have made themselves sacred to the Lord.  Remember and understand the Messianic psalm of David and the Messianic prophet Isaiah.  Remember Daniel, recall to your minds, but raising these from the filth of the earth to the celestial blue, recall every word on the regality of the Saint of God, and you will understand that no other more just or more strong sign could be given to you than this victory over Death, than this Resurrection accomplished by Himself.  Remember that it would have been contrary to His mercy and to His mission to punish from the height of His Cross those who had put Him on it.  He was still the Savior, even if He was the Crucified scoffed at and nailed to a scaffold!  His limbs were crucified, but His spirit and will were free.  And with the latter He wanted to wait, to give the sinners time to believe and to invoke His Blood on themselves, not with blasphemous cries, but with groans of contrition.

Now He is risen.  He has accomplished everything.  Glorious He was before His incarnation.  Three times glorious He is now that, having humbled Himself, elevating Obedience to the perfection of being able to die on the Cross to do God's Will.  Most glorious, with His glorified Body, now that He ascends to Heaven, and enters into the eternal Glory, beginning the Kingdom that Israel has not understood.

To this Kingdom, in a more and more pressing manner, through the love and the authority of which He is full, He calls the tribes of the world.  As foreseen and predicted by the just of Israel and by the prophets, all peoples will come to the Savior.  And there will no longer be Judeans or Romans, Scythians or Africans, Iberians or Celts, Egyptians or Phrygians.  The land beyond the Euphrates will join the springs of the perennial River.  The Hyperborians beside the Numidains will come to His Kingdom, and races and languages will fall away.  There will no longer be different customs and different colors of skins and hair, but there will be an immense bright pure people, one language only and one love.  It will be the Kingdom of God.  The Kingdom of Heaven.  And eternal Monarch:  the Sacrificed Lord Who has risen again from the dead.  The eternal subjects:  the believers in His Faith.  Do believe, in order to belong to it."

The Gospel as Revealed to Me, Volume10, pgs 274-279.  by Maria Valtorta


Well... a couple of things really strike me from all this.  The first is the stark acknowledgement of how greatly the Christ and Redeemer was misinterpreted by his Chosen people.  Applying human restrictions on a boundless Spiritual Being.  The second is how careful we have to be not to do the same thing again.  Actually we are doing the same thing again trying to make his Kingdom all holy, all peaceful, all glorious, all love, all spiritual into a physical Kingdom that we can comfortably understand with our physical natures.  How often have we met those people that believe that once everyone is Catholic then the Kingdom will come or similar.  But as always God is not limited by our understanding and he acts in a way worthy of the Divine Omnipotent Being that He is.  In the Volumes Jesus refers to each individual as being a kingdom.

“My daughter, it is certain that the Kingdom of my Divine Will has existed upon the earth and therefore there is the hope that he will return again in his full vigor; our house of Nazareth was his true kingdom, however we were without people.  Now you should know that every creature is a kingdom, hence one who lets my Will reign in her can be called a little kingdom of the Supreme Fiat.  So that she is a tiny little house of Nazareth that we hold upon the earth, and for however little being (that) our Will reigns in her, Heaven is not closed for her, she observes the same rights of the Celestial Country, loves with the same love, feeds herself with the foods of up there, and is incorporated in the kingdom of our interminable regions.  Now in order to form the great Kingdom of our Will upon the earth, we will first make the so many little tiny houses of Nazareth, that is the souls that will want to know him in order to make him reign in them.  I and the Sovereign Queen will be at the head of these little tiny houses, because we having been the first ones that possessed this kingdom in earth, it is our right, that we won’t surrender to anyone to be the managers of them.  Whence [with] these tiny little houses we repeat our house of Nazareth, we will form so many little states of ours, so many provinces, that after it has been well formed and ordered as so many little kingdoms of our Will, they will fuse together and will form one kingdom alone and one great people.

Vol. 29, 1931



It is so very true that each individual contains the potential to be an entire kingdom where Jesus will reign as king that he goes on to emphasize later on in Vol. 29 the details of what is contained within each kingdom.

     “My daughter, life, sanctity consists in two acts:  God gives his Will and the creature receives him, and afterwards the life has been formed in herself with that act of Divine Will that she has received, to re-give it as act of her will, in order to receive it again, and to give and to receive, and to receive and to give, in this is everything.  God could not give more of his continuous act of his Will to the creature; the creature could not give more to God, for as much as it is possible for (the) creature, his Divine Will received in her as formation of divine life.  In this way, to give and to receive, to receive and to give, my Divine Fiat takes dominion and forms his kingdom there, and all the interior of the creature forms as the people of the kingdom of the Divine Will, the intelligence, faithful people that glories with being directed by the Sovereign Commander of the Divine Fiat, and the crowd of thoughts that press around and aspire to know always more and to love the great King, who takes a seat as enthroned in the center of the intelligence of the creature.  The desires, the affections, the heartbeats that issue forth from the heart, augment the number of the people of my kingdom, and oh! how they crowd around his throne, they are all at attention in order to receive the divine orders and even to put forth (their) life in order to execute them; what an obedient, ordered people, are the people of the kingdom of my Fiat, there are no contentions, no dissensions, but this entire crowd of people of the interior of this fortunate creature want one thing alone, and as a trained army they put themselves in the fortress of the kingdom of my Divine Volition.  Whence when the interior of the creature becomes all my people, he emerges outside from the interior and augments the people of words, the people of works, of steps, it can be said that every act that this Celestial people forms contains the word, the written order in gold characters:  ‘Will of God.’  And when this crowd of people move in order to exercise each their office, they put forth the flag with the motto ‘Fiat’, followed by the words written with living light:  ‘We belong to the Great King of the Supreme Fiat.’  You see therefore, every creature that lets herself be dominated by my Volition forms a people for the kingdom of God.”

Vol. 29, Oct. 26, 1931

 

May he reign both upon the earth and within the earth of each of us and may his Kingdom come and reign as he ordains.