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It's the Urantia Radio podcast. Welcome in.
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I'm glad you're here. We're going to cover some
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interesting topics this hour from Paper 134.
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And this is just prior to when Jesus was about to begin his
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public ministry, and he happens upon a group in Lake Ermia where
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there's this sort of religious philosophy school.
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I'll read a little bit about it and it's in the Caspian Sea
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region. So from paper 134 we learned
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that on the way to the Caspian Sea, Jesus had stopped several
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days. Forrest and recuperation at the
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old Persian city of Ermia on the western shore of Lake Ermia, one
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of the largest group of islands. Situated a short distance near
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Ermia was a large building, a lecture amphitheater dedicated
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to the spirit of religion. And this structure was really a
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temple of philosophy of religions.
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Now this temple of religion had been built by a wealthy merchant
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citizen of Ermia and his three sons.
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This man's name was Symboyton and Cy MB OYTON and he is
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numbered among the ancestors of many diverse peoples.
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Now the lectures and discussions in this school of religion began
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at 10:00 every morning of the week.
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The afternoon session started at 3:00 and the evening debates
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opened at 8:00. Tim Boynton is one of or one of
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his three sons always presided at the sessions of teaching and
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they also had discussion and debate.
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The founder of this unique school of religions lived and
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died with ever without ever revealing his own personal
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religious beliefs. On several occasions Jesus
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participated in these discussions and before he left
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Ermia, Symboitan arranged with Jesus to sojourn with them for a
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few weeks on his return trip and and give 24 lectures on the
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brotherhood of man and do conduct 12 evening sessions of
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questions, discussions and debates on his lectures in
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particular and on the brotherhood of men in general.
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So Symboitan, who runs the school of philosophy, is so
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impressed by what Jesus teaches that he asks him, can you give a
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presentation? And he agrees.
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So Paper, Paper 134, Section 3, paragraph five.
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In accordance with this arrangement, Jesus stopped off
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on the return trip and delivered these lectures.
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This was the most systematic and formal of all of the Master's
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teachings on Urantia. Never before or after did he say
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so much on one subject as was contained in these lectures and
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discussions on the Brotherhood of Man.
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In reality, these lectures were on the Kingdom of God and the
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kingdoms of men. It also mentions that there were
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more than 30 religions and religious cults who were
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presented on this faculty of this temple of religious
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philosophy. These teachers were chosen,
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supported, and fully accredited by their respective religious
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groups. At this time there were about 75
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teachers on the faculty and they lived in cottages, each
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accommodating about a dozen people.
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Every new moon these groups were changed by the casting of lots.
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Intolerance, A contentious spirit, or any other disposition
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to interfere with the smooth running of the community would
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bring about the prompt and summary dismissal of the
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offender teacher. He would be unceremoniously
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dismissed and his alternative in waiting would be immediately
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installed in his place. This is this is very advanced
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when you consider that all of this was going on around 2526 AD
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and and it doesn't exist anymore.
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It it didn't last. Symboyton passed away and he was
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able to maintain a certain order that his sons did not possess
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and ultimately the school just fell apart.
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What ended up happening, ironically, is that they had
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brought in Abner. Abner was, of course, a
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follower, a disciple of John the Baptist.
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And this was years later, after Jesus had been crucified and so
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forth. And Symboitan and his sons
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actually reached out to Abner, who was in Philadelphia at that
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time, and said, would you like to run this philosophy of truth
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at Ermia, the philosophy school? And he did, but he brought in
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all of his newly anointed Christian fellows.
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And you know, it's not, it's a bit of a besmirchment really,
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because the early Christians as they were, because they had had
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first hand contact with the teachings of Christ, they
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actually started throwing their weight around and acting like
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they were the only ones that really had a good religion.
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And subsequently this school of religious philosophy went away,
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just crumbled. So the midwayers, the midwayers
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are the ones who sponsored this fourth section of the Urantia
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book on the life of teachings of Jesus.
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And they got into a little discussion, if you will, with
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the spiritual authorities about how to take these teachings,
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these 24 lessons, and present them so that they could apply to
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the modern day. And eventually the ruling
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Melchizedek, who as we know as Macheventa.
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I believe so because they're talking about the chairman of
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the revelatory Commission. And I'm not sure if they're tied
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to the four and 20 elders. This is also mentioned in
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Revelation, but also in the Urantia book.
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So I'm not if Mache Venta is the leading Melchizedek.
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However, it's sort of irrelevant.
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The point is that the midway has got the approval to take what
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Jesus taught and and convert it into modern language.
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And you say, well, why is that important?
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Well, if you think about all of the conflicts that are going on
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in the world today, we don't usually go to Jesus for
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political advice because he he spoke so little about it.
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I mean, there are rules that we as politicians or leaders, civic
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leaders should follow that could be based on the teachings of
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Jesus. But he never spoke directly or
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at least publicly about political life.
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He was not about reforming the the Roman Empire.
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His duty was spiritual, not material, that we know.
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But I want to read to you from the same paper from 1:34 because
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it is relevant to today. So much so.
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And it's from Section 5. And he's talking about political
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sovereignty and what needs to happen in order for our world to
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get to that point where there is true brotherly love.
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And he writes or speaks or conveys the following as part of
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his teaching. So these are transcribed the
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ideas that Jesus taught at this lecture about politics.
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And he says from Paper 134, war on earth will never end so long
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as nations cling to the elusive notions of unlimited national
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sovereignty. There are only 2 levels of
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relative sovereignty on an inhabited world, the spiritual
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free will of the individual mortal and the collective
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sovereignty of mankind as a whole between the level of
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individual human being and the level of total of all mankind.
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All groupings and associations are relative, transitory and of
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value only insofar as they enhance the welfare, well-being
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and progress of the individual and the planetary grand total,
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man and mankind. So it is interjecting here.
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It is a truth that you can measure any society in the world
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today, whether it's Canada, whether it's Saudi Arabia, using
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one measurement. What is the quality of life for
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the average person, the progress of the individual of that
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country? If you look at a country and
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there's murder, mayhem, criminality, oppression,
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whatever it is, that is a measurement.
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That's the only measurement that you can apply to determine
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whether it's a good society or a bad society.
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Jesus goes on to say that religious teachers must always
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remember that the spiritual sovereignty, sovereignty of God,
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overrides all intervening and intermediate spiritual
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loyalties. Someday civil rulers will learn
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that the Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men.
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It is our spiritual nature that has brought us to this point,
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not necessarily just our intellectual nature.
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Religious teachers must always remember that the spiritual
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sovereignty of God is overrides everything else.
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Your customs, the way that you practice your faith, the name of
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your religion, it's all focused and centered on the fact and the
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truth of the sovereignty of one God known by many different
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names. Jesus says the this rule of the
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most highs in the kingdoms of men is not for the especial
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benefit of any especially favored group of mortals.
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There is no such thing as a chosen people.
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This is the words of Christ. There are there.
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You cannot and and we were talking about this weekend.
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When you think about all the conflicts that are going on,
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certain people, they, they call themselves the chosen people.
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According to Christ, we're all, we're all equally respected on
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the same wavelength when it comes to God.
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He is no respecter of persons or countries or races of men.
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Jesus goes on to say that the rule of the most highs, the over
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controllers of political evolution is a rule designed to
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foster the greatest good for the greatest number of all men and
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women and for the greatest length of time.
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That is the only measurement that you can apply to
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determining the growth and direction of a people.
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Sovereignty is power, and it grows by organization.
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This growth of the organization of political power is good and
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proper, for it tends to encompass ever widening segments
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of the total of mankind. But this same growth of
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political organizations creates a problem in every intervening
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stage between the initial and the natural organization of
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political power, the family, and the final consummation of
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political growth, the government of all mankind by all mankind
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and for all mankind. Starting out with the parental
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power in the family group, political sovereignty evolves by
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organizations as families overlap into consanguous clans,
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which become united for various reasons into tribal units, super
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consanguous political groupings, and then by trade, commerce, and
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conquest. Conquest tribes become unified
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as a nation, while nations themselves sometimes become
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unified by empire. He goes on to say that his
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sovereignty passes from smaller groups to larger groups.
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Wars are lessened, that is, minor wars between smaller
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nations are lessened, but the potential for greater wars is
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increased as the nation's wielding sovereignty become
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larger and larger. Presently, when all the world
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has been explored and occupied, when nations are few, strong and
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powerful, he's talking about today.
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When these great and supposedly sovereign nations come to touch
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borders when only ocean separate them, then will the stage be set
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for major wars worldwide conflicts so-called sovereign
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nations cannot rub elbows without generating conflicts and
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eventuating wars. From Paper 134, Section 5,
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paragraph 8. The difficulty in the evolution
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of political sovereignty from the family to all mankind lies
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in the inertia resistance exhibited on all intervening
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levels. Families have on occasion defied
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their clan, while clans and tribes have often been
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subversive of the sovereignty of the territorial state.
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Each new and forward evolution of political sovereignty is and
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always has been embarrassed and Hanford by the scaffolding
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stages of the previous developments in political
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organization. And this is true because human
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loyalties, once mobilized, are hard to change.
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The same loyalty which makes possible the evolution of the
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tribe makes difficult the evolution of the Super tribe.
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The territorial state. And the same loyal patriotism
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which makes possible the evolution of the territorial
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state vastly complicates the evolutionary development of the
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government of all mankind. Jesus goes on to say political
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sovereignty is created out of the surrender of self
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determinism, first by the individual within the family and
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then by the families and clans in relation to the tribes and
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larger groupings. This progressive transfer of
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self determination from the smaller to ever larger political
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organizations has generally proceeded unabated in the East
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since the establishment of the Ming and Moghul dynasties.
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In the West, it obtained for more than 1000 years right on
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down to the end of the World War, when an unfortunate
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retrograde retrograde movement temporarily reversed this normal
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trend by reestablishing the submerged political sovereignty
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of numerous small groups in Europe.
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Now it's interesting that this is pointed out because what do
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we see happening right now? Well, we have NATO, which is a,
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a sort of a mutual respect society for all the North
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Atlantic governments that evolved from World War Two.
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We have the UN and again the UNI think comes closer to what
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they're talking about, which is a certain level of, of give
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upmanship. I'll give you a good example.
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I asked myself if I was God and I was looking at Earth right
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now, which of these governments that are in existence right now?
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Which ones are more like what I think is best for humanity in
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the most highs? If they're observing how we are
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on our planet at this time, which countries are they looking
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at and saying, no, that's that's not good.
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Yes, that has potential. These, these people over here,
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they're still early on. They've got a few more
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centuries, but they've got the potential.
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I wonder sometimes how our unseen friends view us in this
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current age. Which of our governments do they
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favor and which of our governments do they hope will
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just sort of go away? Now, when they're talking about
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how political sovereignty works until it doesn't work, what
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they're talking about is that eventually all of the
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governments are going to have to acquiesce and and give up to a
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certain extent, their national sovereignty.
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That's the only way we're ever going to achieve World Peace.
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Now, it's not going to happen tomorrow.
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It's not going to happen in 20 years, but eventually that's
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what will happen. In paper 34 Section 5 paragraph
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10, it reads Urantia will not enjoy lasting peace until the
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so-called sovereign nations intelligently keyword there and
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fully surrender their sovereign powers into the hands of the
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brotherhood of men, mankind, government, Internationalism.
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Not globalism, internationalism, Globalism is different.
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Globalism is power concentrated into the hands of a few who want
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to micromanage because they have all the cards, they have all the
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money, they have all the resources, they have all the
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power, and they want to stay in power.
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That's the difference between what they're talking about and
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what what Jesus was talking about.
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True internationalism, true representation of the human
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being, so that the quality of life for everyone rises.
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They write that internationalism, as in the
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League of Nations, can never bring permanent peace to
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mankind. Worldwide confederations of
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nations will effectively prevent minor wars and acceptably
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control the smaller nations, but they will not prevent world
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wars, nor control the 3-4 or five most powerful governments.
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In the face of real conflicts, one of these world powers
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ultimately will withdraw from the League and declare war, it
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reads. You cannot prevent nations going
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to war as long as they remain infected with the delusional
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virus of national sovereignty. And that applies to Putin just
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as much as it applies to Xi Jinping, just as much as it
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applies to the UN and most likely the US.
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But there is a minor exception and it it's really actually kind
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of interesting. We're going to skip ahead a
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little bit. It says in in paper 134 to use
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an important 19th and 20th century illustration in using
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the example of how we can achieve peace and worldwide
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goodwill. They point out that the course
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this book was written in 34, so we didn't have 50 states at the
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time. But the in this context, they
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say that the 48 states of the American Federal Union have long
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enjoyed peace. They have no more wars among
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themselves. Well, so far, well, we had one.
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They have surrendered their sovereignty to the federal
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government, and through the arbitrary or arbitraryment of
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war, they have abandoned all claims to the delusion of self
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determination. While each state regulates its
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internal affairs, it is not concerned with Foreign
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Relations, tariffs, immigration, military affairs, or Interstate
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commerce. Neither do the individual states
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concern themselves with matters of citizenship.
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The 48 states suffer the ravages of war only when the federal
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government's sovereignty is in some way jeopardized.
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But they say these 48 states, having abandoned the.
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Twin sophistries of sovereignty and self determination enjoy
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Interstate peace and tranquility.
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So will the nations of our world begin to enjoy peace when they
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freely surrender their respective sovereignties into
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the hands of a global government, the sovereignty of
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the brotherhood of man. In this world state, the small
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nations will be as powerful as the great, even as the small
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state of Rhode Island has two senators in the American
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Congress, just as the same of the populous state of New York
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or the large state of Texas. Now here we see that the
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midwayers are taking a little bit of creative license because
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clearly Jesus didn't say these words.
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But what Jesus was saying is applicable to this illustration
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that they put forth to show that eventually national sovereignty
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must fall to a global government that truly serves mankind and
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not just, you know, power players from Paper 135.
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The limited state sovereignty of these 48 states was created by
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men and four men. And that's what we're
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celebrating this holiday, right? the Super state or national
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sovereignty of the American Federal Union was created by the
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original 13 of these states for their own benefit and for the
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benefit of men. Sometime the Super national
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sovereignty of the planetary government of mankind will be
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similarly created by nations for their own benefit and for the
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benefit of all men, Paper 135, Section 5, paragraph 16 reads.
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Citizens are not born for the benefit of governments.
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Governments are organizations created and devised for the
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benefit of men. There can be no end to the
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evolution of political sovereignty short of the
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appearance of the government of the sovereignty of all men.
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All other sovereignties are relative in value, intermediate
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in meaning, and subordinate in status.
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And then this section concludes with this.
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With scientific progress, wars are going to become more and
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more devastating until they become almost racially suicidal.
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How many world wars must be fought and how many leagues of
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nations must fail before men will be willing to establish the
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government of mankind and begin to enjoy the blessings of
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permanent peace and thrive on the tranquility of goodwill
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worldwide goodwill among men? And that's only one short.
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Remember, he gave 24 lessons and he talks about law, liberty, and
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sovereignty. Again, he reiterates, or at
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least the midwayers who sponsored this paper reiterate,
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the 48 American free states live together in peace.
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They are among the citizens of these 48 states, all of the
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various nationalities and races that live in ever warring
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nations of Europe. All these people, they come
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here. They're not fighting like they
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are there. The these Americans represent
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almost all the religions and religious sects and cults of the
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whole wide world. And yet here in North America
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they live together in peace so far.
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And all this is made possible because these 48 states have
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surrendered their sovereignty and have abandoned all notions
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of the supposed rights of self determination.
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They also say that war is not man's great and terrible
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disease. War is a symptom, a result.
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The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty.
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It's hard for me as an American and someone who believes that we
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have the best country on the planet, for me to conceive of a
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global government, but not one that is created by the people of
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the world. Not not these individuals who
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are doing it for selfish reasons.
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And they're just looking for more control.
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So we've got a long way to go, but they're giving us a road
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map. It is my hope and I think maybe
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a lot of people in the Arantia book, that smart people will
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start to read this book and start to gain the wisdom and
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that that that wisdom will have a positive impact in getting us
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farther ahead. But my, my worst fear is it it
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might be too late. It leads to offset some of the
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pain and suffering that I see just over the horizon if we're
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not somehow able to manage our global affairs.
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So it's worth sharing, it's worth talking about, and
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certainly worth reading. Paper 134, Jesus giving his
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wisdom on the politics of mankind.
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I hope you enjoyed it. We'll have more of these kinds
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of segments coming up and the conversation continues on the
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website yourrancheradio.org. Blessings to you.
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Be of good cheer. And if it's still not too late,
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I hope you had a great Independence Day celebration
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celebrating the freedom of man. Until next time, thank you again
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