So, not one person saw him as the risen Christ until after the ascension. Read it carefully, not one saw him. People think the ascension means he died and then he rose. No. While you’re walking this world in a body of flesh and blood, you have the experience of the ascension. That’s why I told you I’m not here…my nights are certainly not here, and if I am anchored here during the day to complete a certain passage of time, all well and good. But on the 8th day of April, 1960 (well, that’s eight years ago) I ascended. And from that day on everything in me was turned around, and from that day on I have been seen, not only here, up north, east, all over, by a few. They’ve told me, “I saw you, Neville but strangely enough I saw you as the risen Lord.” Now, they were the ones who were in love not with Neville they were in love with what they heard. The hope I held out to them: That the same Neville that now is so weak carried within him God’s plan of salvation and the plan to unfold it. They were in love with what I told them concerning that plan that God placed in every man born of woman, a plan of redemption, and when the time is fulfilled, that plan awakens within man. Then they fall in love with that…that was the Christ that they loved.782 ¶16