The Beloved Disciple wrote by THE SPIRIT in John chapter 14:
21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”
As we mature in Agape Love, we open ourselves to be visited face-to-face with Jesus Himself. The word “manifest” means: exhibit to view, to show one’s self, come to view, appear, to indicate, disclose, declare, make known. Is Jesus opposed to appearing before you or me? Not in the least. Many believers have testified of their face-to-face encounters with Jesus thus He is not reluctant to appear and visit with us.
Many have sought encounters with angels yet why should we direct our focus on the messengers when the “Message Giver” is willing to manifest Himself to us? Jesus manifested Himself many times after His resurrection. Mark wrote by THE SPIRIT in Mark chapter 16:
9 Now when He rose early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven demons.
10 She went and told those who had been with Him, as they mourned and wept.
11 And when they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe.
12 After that, He appeared in another form to two of them as they walked and went into the country.
13 And they went and told it to the rest, but they did not believe them either.
14 Later He appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table; and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen.
What keeps us from expecting Jesus’ appearance? Unbelief. Jesus isn’t restricted to visitations based on some worldly perception of scarcity of time or space. It is written by THE SPIRIT in Acts chapter 1:
1 The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
2 until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen,
3 to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
Those of us who are pressing in can expect Jesus to present Himself to us just as He accommodated the disciples after His resurrection. He will show us the depth of His Love and speak to us those things pertaining to the Kingdom. In order to fully understand the Kingdom, we must know The King. Otherwise, we may know His acts but not know His ways.