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The Ministry of Archangels and Seraphim · Urantia Radio

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Welcome to another edition of the Rancher Radio Podcast.
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I'm your host Jim Watkins, longtime reader and student of
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the 5th epical Revelation, and we have a lot to catch up on.
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I hope you enjoyed the. Last episode Which?
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Talks about one group of sons of God.
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Whose job it is is to. Transform that energy catalyst
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into life it. Addresses a lot.
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Of the scientific quandaries. Of just how?
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DNA and the complexities of living organisms.
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Could have possibly. Have been designed much less
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appeared spontaneously and it's something that scientists.
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Are absolutely boggled with. Well, the Urantia book.
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Tells the story of the life. Carrier Sons.
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And that's just one aspect. Of the spiritual.
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Family of the. Creator.
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And next we're going to get into or two more groups of high
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spirit personalities, not only the archangels and Seraphim,
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angels in general, and talk about their natures.
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O, we'll get to all. That lus some updates.
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Just a second here. Hang on.
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It's good to to be back. Here on the Rancho Radio
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podcast, and I appreciate your patience in between episodes.
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It just seems like around springtime things get busy, huh,
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Don't they? Just a little bit, anyway.
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It's. Good to have.
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You here and there's a lot of different conversations going on
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that I'm enjoying very much in the rancher community.
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A couple of events that are coming up.
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I know with there's a big event going on in Texas, I think it'll
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probably have. Passed by the time you've heard
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this, but. Your Rancher book readers are
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getting together, they're having conversation with scientists and
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fellow religionists, and so that's encouraging.
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There is a. Resurgence, I think, within
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Christianity, which in and of itself is a good thing.
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But there is still a a, a wage, a war, really, there is a.
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War going on and I've spoken about it a few times and the.
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War is is. Between really humanism exalted
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humanism in this. Idea of or?
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This notion of there being an afterlife and a continuance or
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resurrection, yeah, believe it or not, we're still having that
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that discussion. Now.
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There are people in positions of power, obviously, that don't
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want us to have that discussion they want.
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They prefer the. Atomized human being.
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The human being whose sole focus is not on eternal.
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Realities, but. Material pleasures and as a
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consequence of that, the profit motive in our in our world.
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Today. Which the Urantia book on the
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one hand defends to a certain degree, but on the other hand.
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Calls it out. For being a.
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Crude way for. Civilization to behave because
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it does bring out the. Worst whether?
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It's in in science and innovation technology sometimes
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improvements that. They do, actually.
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You know we. Get so obsessed.
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With machines and playing in the in the in the outer.
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World that we forget. About the inner world and I
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think This is why and and you've seen me do these presentations
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on mental health and drug addiction and all of these
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things that are the. Social ills of society today
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there's a. Lot of anxiety I was just
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reading today. About how a.
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Majority of young people, you know they.
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There's. 400 Different diagnosis is now for mental illness. 400
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The new diagnostic manual is coming out, which is basically a
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touchstone for people in mental as well.
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As physical health. And it's chock full of all kinds
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of drugs and medicines that you can take, many of them that
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cause long term illness, long term side effects.
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Just having a discussion with someone close to me about
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someone who who feels anxious all the time and the and the
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conversation never comes up. About the power of prayer, the
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power of service, the power of worship.
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You know, my own personal experience as a younger man,
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just like many people, those mid 20 years when you're trying to
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grapple with everything and you're.
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Trying to figure out which Rd. which.
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Path you're on and it can be very confusing and and very
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intimidating. And today I I would imagine it's
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10 times worse, 10 times harder to navigate.
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Through the the. Stormy waters of materialism as
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well as just getting along in society to me, a lot of those.
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People. That you see that are homeless
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are people where the system they they just couldn't handle it and
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the system broke them. Temporarily, perhaps?
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Or not, but never is the discussion about prayer and
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worship and service. And these are such important
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things and they're common to. Every great faith.
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You know there was. If you get.
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The thoughts to ponder from the Urantia Foundation Which?
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Is easy to do, just go. To the Urantia website and sign
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up. Click to follow and you'll get a
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nice little statement every day from the Urantia book and I.
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I think when they first came out is when I first started getting
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them. I can't remember a time when I
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haven't gotten started. My day with the thoughts to
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ponder and the 1 today talked. About.
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Jesus instructing his. Apostles to look.
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For the commonalities when you're discussing, if you want
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to talk about the Urantia book. To people talk.
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About the commonalities of what? The Urantia book.
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Is saying that is similar because all the great religions
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obviously have some commonality and if you focus on the ones
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that. That we share as opposed.
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To the new and advanced concepts that come with the Urantia book,
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it it becomes an an intellectual discussion, not a spiritual one.
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I mean, you can say, you know, maybe what the world needs is
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more prayer. And I say.
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That because I read what the Urantia book has to say about
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prayer. And I've experienced it.
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Probably not enough, but I I know it's a.
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Powerful force worship. For its own sake, having an
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understanding of prayer and worship to me was one of the.
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Greatest gifts. From the Urantia book because it
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explains to me what each one does and then of course when you
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think. About worship.
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In Group form is even more. Powerful so.
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All we can really hope. For is.
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In this current age is for more people to find and and.
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Seize that power. And it's a shame that so much of
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our messaging, so much of everything, particularly about
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pain and suffering, is. Always dealt with.
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With medicine and yet we have not learned to unlock and
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harness. The spiritual powers.
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You know the. Doctors would.
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Rather give you something that stimulates or calms you down the
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good. Doctors will tell you, try this,
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try yoga, try. And and great doctors will say
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you should read the Urantia book.
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All right, so. A couple of things I wanted to
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talk about. We may have someone on in a few
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weeks that believes, and based on what I've read I'm pretty
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convinced as well. That he has.
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Found the actual home of. Joseph Jesus's.
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Father in the family and right now I don't want to say too much
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but if you're reacting the way I am you can see that that's
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pretty significant and it's for two reasons one because the
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Urantia book in its description of Jesus home is very consistent
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with what this gentleman has found and in an.
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Archaeological site believe. Somewhere in Nazareth, yeah.
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And based on the geographic locations and the descriptions
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in the Urantia book. It corroborates what?
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This man has found, and it's in a place where we don't, you
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know, it's not recognized as being the home of Jesus.
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No one really knows exactly where the home was in Nazareth.
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But this book? The Urantia book.
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Gives us such. Detailed information and this
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man says that he just literally stumbled on this site and he's
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pretty convinced that it is the home of of our Son of God.
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Our. Our.
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Creator son as. Jesus.
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Joshua bin Joseph. So that should.
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Be very interesting and that hopefully will be coming up soon
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and if I can't interview him, I'll at least get the
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information to you it's. Quite, quite great.
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I think the other thing that I I'm focusing on this.
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Particular episode about. Some of the family of God, and
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what I mean by that is you know the best way for me.
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To express the great. Truths of the Urantia book with
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anybody, and I'm trying to do this more and more, is to ask
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people, do you think this entire universe was created?
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Just for us. And also, do you think that
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everything is accidental and without causation?
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And of course any sane or common sense based person would say,
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well probably not, that would be kind of selfish for us to think
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that the universe was created. Just for us.
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And yeah, it would be kind of of vanity, great vanity to believe.
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That we're. The only ones here and then
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also, you know, it would be hard to explain how such complex
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organisms could could arise out of nothing.
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You know, the universe wouldn't just spontaneously come out of
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nothing. That that, that seems
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ridiculous. That seems almost.
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As ridiculous as. Believing that Christ to some
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people. Resurrected, however, however,
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it is logical to think. That we are not the only ones
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here, and that the universe does have some.
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Creative purpose or? Design because there.
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Does appear to be order so that that that's the way to.
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Get in And then when we talk about the family of God, think
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of in terms of time, how long the current present grand
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universe has been in existence. I would venture to save some,
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perhaps somewhere a trillion years.
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Nabadon is is 997 billion years old or something like that.
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I. Believe that.
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When Christ, Michael and the Divine Daughter of the Infinite
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Spirit decided it was time. To have their.
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Creation. That was 987 billion years ago,
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according to the Urantia book. And then we have all that time.
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Before that. And remembering now that the
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completed grand universe, super universes all came about as an
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expression of the Trinity, that's a.
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Rough way of. Describing it so I'm willing to
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just. Put a stake.
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At at the one trillion mark. Just just because.
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Let's just. Agree, because that's 999
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billion years ago and, and, and we know we're probably off the
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mark even with that too. But my point is that everything
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before us came a long time ago, and judging on the scope and the
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size of the universe and the energy contained therein, I
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would have to. Believe that if there is order,
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as the Urantia book clearly states that there is, that there
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would have. Eventuated higher personalities.
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Whose job it would. Be to nourish and bring into
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creation through ministry a system inhabited by spiritual.
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People or spiritual? Made in his image and and in my.
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Previous podcast. That's why I went into the.
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Life. Carrier Sons.
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Because they're one aspect, they're one part of this
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wonderful family of spirit personalities who do a lot of
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things in the universe. And many of these personalities
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are are interwoven into Western and and even Eastern Christian
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religion and Judaism to a certain degree, Islam, in fact,
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the. Farther back you.
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Go, somebody said to me, The farther back you go in time, the
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more the religion start to look the same.
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They all start to. Say the same story and
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archangels are mentioned numerous times, Michael the
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Archangel being the most probably the the most famous.
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I drive by. A church in Florida often and I
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see it and it's Saint Michael. And I think to myself, boy, if
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they only knew who Saint Michael is.
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The Archangels are the offspring of the Creator's Son and the
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Universal Mother Spirit. They are the highest type of
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high. Spirit beings produced in large
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numbers in a universe and at the time of the last.
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Registry there were. 800,000 in a in a system of 10 million.
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Worlds so. 800 thousand of these archangels that exist in
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Michael's create a creation of Nebadon.
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Archangels are one of the few groups of local universe
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personalities who are not normally under the jurisdiction
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of Gabriel. They are not in any manner
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concerned with the routine administration of the universe,
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being dedicated instead to the. Work of creature.
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Survival and to the furtherance of the ascending career of the
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mortals of time and space. So it is their job.
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As archangels and there's 800,000 so they're spread pretty
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thin and they're not ordinally subject to the direction of
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Gabriel as. It's stated.
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But they do sometimes function by his.
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Authority. They also collaborate with
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others. Of the universe aids now
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universe. AIDS is it has several
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different. Orders of these spirit beings,
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the ones that are most directly. Associated with Gabriel.
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And his administrative because Gabriel.
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Is like ACOO. He's like a chief.
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Operating Officer Operating. Under Jesus Christ.
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And the daughter of the Infinite Spirit, the sponsor of the Holy
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Spirit. It's another thing that the
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Urantia book denotes is that the Holy Spirit comes from the
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Infinite Spirit by way. Of.
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Her offspring, the daughters, the daughters of the infinite
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Spirit. And this is, in my opinion, why
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so many people worship the Mother Mary, because in in
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essence, she becomes the symbol. Of that spiritual.
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Love and mercy that comes from moms.
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The Archangel Core of Nabadon is directed by the first born of
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this order. So there's there's the head of
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the the the. Head of the family as far as the
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children are concerned, and this may blow.
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You away but. According to the Urantia.
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Book our World. Is the divisional headquarters
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of the. Archangels.
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So would. That mean that at one, maybe at
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one time in our history, there have been 8. 800.
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Thousand of these archangels here all at once.
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Perhaps that's. Something that I've not thought
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about. The Urantia book writes the
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following. The Archangel Corps of Nebadon
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is. Directed by the.
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First born of this order and in more recent times a divisional
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headquarters of the Archangels has been maintained on Urantia.
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It is this unusual fact that soon arrest the attention of
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extra Nebadon student visitors among.
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That the early. Observations of the entry
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universe transactions is the discovery that many ascendant
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activities of the brilliant evening.
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Stars are directed. From the capital.
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Of the local. System which is Satania.
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On further examination, they discover that certain Archangel.
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Activities are directed. From a small and apparently
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insignificant inhabited world called Urantia.
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And then ensues the revelation of Michael's bestowal on our
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world and their immediate quickened interest of the
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general. Passers by in the universe start
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to look at our planet and they write.
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Do you? Grasp.
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The significance of the facts that you're a lowly and confused
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planet has become a divisional. Headquarters for the.
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Universe administration and direction of certain Archangel
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activities having to. Do with the.
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Paradise ascension scheme. This undoubtedly.
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Presages the future. Concentration of other ascendant
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activities on the bestow a world of nebadon and lends a
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tremendous and solemn import to the Masters personal promise
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When Jesus said I will come again.
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So. All of the sudden, you.
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Start to appreciate that. You know, as bad as things are
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on our world, they they must have really good plans for us.
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You know one of my. Favorite pastors?
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And I know he gets critiqued. A lot.
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Because he sounds more like a motivational speaker, which
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there's nothing wrong with that. But Joel Osteen often says God
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has great plans for you. If you only knew with God's
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plans for you, you wouldn't worry about a thing.
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And he's right. Because we're.
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Such an unusual sphere. You know.
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We're Agandon sirs, which is a term that means those have been
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tried and tested. And so you know that down the
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road, down the future, you know, you and I may be in the
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fortunate position of having experienced such strife.
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That it acts. Actually makes us more
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trustworthy, more loyal to the cause of Michael.
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Who, of course. Is the Son of God and the Son of
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Man known on our world? As Jesus Christ.
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Do we have time? To Yeah, let's.
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See if we can get over to Paper 38 and you can come along with
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me. Paper 38.
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Section 2, which is about the angelic natures and I've not
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spoken a lot about the angelic natures, but.
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I'd like to they. Deserve a mention from the
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Annals of the Urantia Book. Angels do not have material.
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Bodies, it says. But they are definite and
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discreet beings. They are of spirit, nature and
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origin. Now angels, unlike archangels,
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come directly from the Daughter of the Infinite Spirit.
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The angels are the offspring, though invisible to mortals.
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They perceive you as you. Are in the.
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Flesh without the aid of. Transformers or translators?
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Those are interesting words, by the way.
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Transformers and translators. I'm I'm not sure a whole lot of
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people knew what that what those things were back in the mid 30s
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when this book was written. But the.
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Book says they intellectually understand the mode of mortal
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life, and they share all of the man's nonsensuous emotions and
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sentiments. They appreciate and greatly.
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Enjoy your efforts and music, art and real humor.
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They are fully cognizant of your moral struggles and spiritual.
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Difficulties they love. Human beings and only good can
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result from your efforts to understand and love them.
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That's why they're telling us this now.
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When has it ever been told to you in such specific literal
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terms that angels? Are your spiritual?
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Brethren, your associates in the Spirit and they, exist to learn
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from us and to minister. To us.
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And to somehow get us. To appreciate the spiritual
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aspects of life. Hence bringing us.
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Closer to God. Though Seraphim.
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I'll read now. Though Seraphim are very
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affectionate and sympathetic beings, they are not sex emotion
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creatures. They are much as you will.
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Be. On the mansion.
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Worlds where you. Will quote neither marry nor be
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given in marriage, but will. Be as the.
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Angels of Heaven. End Quote.
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For all who quote shall be. Accounted worthy to attain the
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mansion, Worlds neither marry nor are given in marriage,
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neither do they die anymore. For they are.
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Equal to the angels, End Quote. Nevertheless, in dealing with
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sex creatures. It is our.
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Custom to speak of those beings as being more direct descendants
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from the Father and the sons as the Son of God, while referring
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to the children of the Spirit. As the daughters of God.
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Angels are therefore commonly designated by feminine pronouns
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on the sex planets, the seraphim.
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Are so created. As to function on both spiritual
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and literal levels. There are few.
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Phases of Morontia. Or spirit activity.
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Which are not open to their administrations.
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While in personal status angels are not so far removed from
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human beings, in certain functional performances,
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seraphim are. Are also able to.
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Transcend them. They possess many powers far
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beyond human comprehension. For example, you've been told.
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That the very hairs of your. Head are numbered and it is
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true. They are.
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But a seraphim does not spend her time counting them and
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keeping the number corrected and up to date.
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Angels possess inherent and automatic.
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That is as. Far as we're concerned,
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automatic powers of knowing such things and you would truly
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regard a Seraphim as a mathematical prodigy.
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Therefore, numerous duties, which would be tremendous tasks
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for mortals are performed with exceeding ease by seraphim.
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It goes on to say that angels. Are superior to.
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You in spiritual status, but they are not your judges.
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Or your accusers. No matter.
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What your faults? The angels, although greater in
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power and might bring no accusation against you.
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Angels do not sit in judgement on mankind, neither should
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individual mortals prejudice. Their fellow creatures.
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It says you. Do well.
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To love them. But you should not adore them.
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Angels are not. Objects of worship, the Great.
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Seraphim loyalacea when? Your seer quote.
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Fell down to worship before the feet of the Angel said, See that
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you do it not I am a fellow servant with you and.
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With your races. Who are all enjoined to worship?
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God. In nature and personality
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endowment. The Seraphim.
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Are just A trifle. Ahead of mortal races and the
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scale. Of creature existence.
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Indeed, when you are delivered from the.
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Flesh you will. Become very much like them on
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the mansion worlds. You will begin to appreciate the
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Seraphim on the constellation Fears to enjoy them while on
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Salvington, which is the headquarters fear of Nebadon,
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they will. Share their places of rest.
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And worship with you throughout the whole Marancha and
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subsequent spirit ascent your fraternity with the Seraphim.
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Will be ideal. Your companionship.
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Will be superb. And so.
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There's the a little. Extra insight into just one
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aspect of the family of God. Those Hyatt.
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Spirit Personalities. Who are also a part of.
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Our Grand Universe first ministering to us and then later
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becoming true partners in the Marancha and the Spirit
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Ascendancy. I like that story a lot it it
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gets. Down and deep in into it,
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probably more so than most faiths.
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But it is a beautiful story. And I really like it and that's
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why I wanted to share it with. You if you've got a paper.
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Or some subject matter in the Urantia book that you think
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needs a deeper? Dive I'd.
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Love to hear from you. I know that our listeners are
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there, they're growing, people are sharing the podcast.
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Maybe one of these days I'll get to.
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I'll show you. Who's listening and where?
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And it's pretty fascinating. They're all over the place and I
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can see and since with all the new secondary materials that are
25:49
coming out, there's great conventions going on, the
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associations doing things all the time, the foundation
25:55
sponsoring great events. There's just so much more out
25:59
there now and and it's, you know, it's making me feel good
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just going back to what I. Said.
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You know they have they have plans for this planet and even
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in giving us a revelation in book form, which is not only.
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Epical but. Unique.
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I'm only to bet that it's not a path they normally take.
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But you know, desperate times call for desperate measures,
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right? Isn't that the thing?
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But we'll. We'll be here again and I think
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I want to get into there was some things I wanted to talk
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about in the next maybe about. Prayer.
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You know, we haven't gotten into prayer and worship in a long,
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long time, so it might be good for us.
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To to. Delve into that in the next
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segment. What do you think?
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You can always e-mail me. The e-mail address is your
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answer book at Gmail dot com and I look forward to our next get
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together once again, your rancherbookradio@gmail.com.
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See you next time and God bless and in peace until we meet
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again. The.