1. The Great Decisions. The heavens opened to Jesus and he was shown the enormous celestial host gathered to do his will as needed. Surrounding the Earth were twelve legions of seraphim, and representatives from every other of the thousands of orders of universe intelligences.
2. Jesus’ first decision was if he should use these spiritual personalities, and all of the power they possessed. He decided, no. He wouldn’t use any heavenly help for any reason, unless of course, he decided that it was his Father’s will that he did so for some reason.
3. Next, Jesus decided that he might use his creator powers to help others, but he’d never use them to meet his own material needs, like to meet his want for food right then and there, because his body was hungry after these first three days on the mountain.
4. Jesus decided that defending himself, and engaging in the other natural bodily urges and desires of a normal man were also things that he wouldn’t do. Jesus supported these conclusions with the scripture that said, man doesn’t live by bread alone, but by the word of God.
5. Jesus knew the Jews expected a messiah who would do even greater miracles than Moses. Jesus felt sorry for his people, but he wouldn’t break his own natural laws just to send them back to ignorant beliefs in magic and degraded practices of savage medicine men.
6. Jesus demonstrated for us that selfishness and gratifying the senses are not enough to bring happiness to people: that intellectual mastery and spiritual achievement bring greater joy than meeting any physical desires.
7. Knowing the ways of men in the world, Jesus had to decide on whether or not to use things like compromise and diplomacy, or worldly wisdom if you would, to persuade the people about God their Father. Again, he decided not to use either, and to rely just on his Father’s will.
8. Thinking about these decisions took days, and as they passed Jesus came to sense what was going to come. Choosing his Father’s way was the more difficult of the options, and Jesus realized it was not going to be easy, and most likely, bitter. Regardless, he held firm.
9. Jesus went through a process where his human mind, a product of his upbringing and the times in which he lived, was still asking questions, and in response he was receiving, accepting, and submitting to the divine guidance he received: he was human becoming fully divine.
10. Jesus decided he would disregard any messianic prophecies.. Instead, he’d appear on Earth as the Prince of Peace to reveal a God of love. His objective, the revelation of God to man thereby establishing the kingdom of the heavenly Father in the hearts of humanity.
11. By making these decisions, Jesus set the example for us and mortals on the other worlds of time and space that we can’t use material tests to prove spiritual realities, or temporal power to gain glory from our Father in Heaven.
12. Jesus pledged that in all other matters he’d be subject to the will of his Father. At that point, Jesus loaded his pack and then headed back down the mountain to end his isolation, his face shining with spiritual victory and moral achievement.