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Well, this has been on my mind. Welcome to another edition of
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the Rancho Radio Podcast. My name is Jim, longtime student
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and host of this program. Now it's now going into its 7th
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year as we talk and discuss the 5th epical Revelation meaning
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the Urantia book and we. Cover a whole.
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Range of topics if you're relatively new.
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To this podcast. We focus on the Urantia book
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because. It is filled with.
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So many different. Topics that are worthy of of.
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Examination Analysis. The Urantia book no doubt is
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probably the definitive source for.
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Spiritual truth. Regarding God and Christ and the
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the meanings behind the universe, it sounds.
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Pretty, pretty prolific, but. By the same time, that's why we
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spend so much time on the Urantia book and we've talked
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about everything from the life and teachings of Jesus.
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To the. History of our planet.
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To the the. Ancestral beginnings of many of
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our. Habits and culture.
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And the way. That we worship.
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And the. Way that we.
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Approach Christianity and and all the different faiths through
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the lens of the Arantia book Revelation.
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Now, a lot of times we get into conversations with people who
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come on and they talk. About their projects.
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And there's some tremendously great projects, no question.
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And what we're doing is important work because we're
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laying the foundation for the next generation to pick it up
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again and carry it forward. Because that's exactly what I
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believe. The revelators.
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Had in mind, they knew that they were very much aware, having
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been an observant of us since the very beginnings of time,
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they're very much aware. Of what our.
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Capacity for understanding revelation is they.
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See for example. How slowly traditions.
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Evolve over. Time and we're at a point now
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where I'm sure that they're looking and saying, well, what
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is the next? Step.
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What is? The next step?
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For the Urantia book, where does it?
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Go from here. We have study.
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Groups as I've mentioned, 500 or so.
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Plus. Maybe more, maybe less.
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It's hard to know. I'm not sure if there's any.
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Particular group that keeps. Track the foundation can
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certainly. Track sales.
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And distribution of the book, which they've done remarkably.
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Over the years. And and obviously.
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They're the hub where a lot of people who call about the ranch
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book I I would. Love to get somebody on from the
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foundation at some point and talk.
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About what? Kind of calls.
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Do they get how? How?
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The calls have changed. Over the years.
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And because I think that would. Be a good.
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Gauge. Of how the?
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Revelation is doing on its own, standing on its own.
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You know, we throw out the term 5th ethical revelation as if
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it's just common nomenclature, but it's not really.
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Not really. Most people don't even know what
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an epical revelation is, much much less a revelation in and of
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itself. What's a revelation?
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The learning curve on the Arantia book is.
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Is pretty steep. But it's important and it's
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relevant and I put pen to paper and in my discussions.
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With various people. Within the Arantia movement,
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some of them I've known for a long time, others only having
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recently met them. And there is real concern with,
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especially with the war breaking out in Iran and American
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firepower. And, you know, it's like an
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anthill that gets kicked and all of the sudden there's
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pandemonium and uncertainty in the stock market and where are
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we going? What are we doing?
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Oh my gosh, things are crazy. Is this why?
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The revelation was put into our hands because we're.
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Maybe it's going to help save humanity.
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These are the thoughts that sometimes run through my mind,
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and certainly many others, because the natural inclination
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is. OK, so were they were the
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revelators? Trying to warn us about what was
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going on. Did they see that?
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Maybe if we had more information about.
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Our history. That we might be better.
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Be able to better assess. The present and make better
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decisions. For the future so.
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What are the next steps for the Urantia movement?
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What can it do to transform society?
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And I tell you, the more nervous I.
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Get about society. The more I.
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Go to the Urantia. Revelation.
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To try to. Find a solution or an answer,
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some nugget that I might be able to put into a blog or put into
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the. Podcast that would.
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Maybe have a chain reaction effect?
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For good. And and and.
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Do I do that in my circle of influence?
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Sure. I think we.
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All do but. I put pen to paper and I thought
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about the Urantia book and its next steps proximi gratis.
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What is the next step? And I put together a pro and con
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summary of different paths that the Arantia.
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Book could take Should we try to?
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Present it more to the mainstream.
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We talked with Byron Blitzos about this very subject.
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Should we? Be advertising should be we hire
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consultants. What's the step?
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What do we do to get this out there so that it's faster but
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that the question reveals itself?
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In the Urantia book and I have pinned 4 examples of what.
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We should do. With a revelation that would be
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pleasing and smart. To our revelators, because they
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gave us this book with the. Intent of affecting social
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change. They say it.
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Throughout the book. They say that the teachings of
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Jesus in this. Book will give.
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People, a renewed interest in the master's life and how
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transformative. It is but.
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The four examples. If we ask ourselves.
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What are the next steps? For the Urantia book, well,
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what? Are the next.
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Steps. What do we do the first?
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Example is from. The book itself.
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When it talks about the Dalamatian teachings and I want
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to. Go through the four.
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Previous epical revelations and how did.
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They do it. That's how we should do it, how
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they did it. Then we should.
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Do it. Now there's no reason to deviate
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from the original plans, I'm sure there.
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Are probably outlines. If you think.
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About it every. Evolutionary World.
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Will receive revelations. It outlines this in the papers
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having to do with the different. Epic Ages.
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Of mankind and generally speaking, all races on all.
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Worlds go through these. Varying epics.
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They're demarcation points. Of social, spiritual.
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Adjustment and evolution now the dalamatian teachings were which.
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Were the first. Epical revelation that the
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Urantia. Book refers to takes us back to.
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About 1/2 a million years ago when Calogasti and the 100 from
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Jerusalem came here to teach. Us the basic.
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Fundamentals of of. Agriculture of trade.
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Of working in the. Fields.
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Customs. How to get along with one
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another to the basics. I mean you, you imagine if the
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50 men and 50 women or what they call the Dalmatian 100, the
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physical representatives. Of Calagasia the.
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The original Prince or the first Prince to appear on our planet?
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And it explains exactly. What happened they?
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Built a civilization in the Persian Gulf, and some of this
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is recorded in the Book of Enoch.
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Some of it. Is is uttered to the pages of
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Zoroastra, where we get our. Basic elemental teachings of
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right and wrong. Many of the depictions of the
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War in Heaven. Survived the.
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Dalamatian teachings because. The.
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Dalmatia was in formation at the time that the Lucifer Rebellion
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came in came underway. So all of.
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These ancient teachings in the Dilmud and Gilgamesh.
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These are all echoes of that. Period of time when man was
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first learning his social skills, he was first being
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revealed the. Basic The very basic truths of
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of God, however. Human beings could possibly
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conceive. At that.
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Early stage when the six colored.
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Races had appeared. And this is.
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Before the. Adam and Eve, epic.
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That came later. But the the lesson that we
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learned on the Dalmatian teachings was slow instruction.
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Never teach people more than they can handle.
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You're dealing with natives. You can't hit them over the head
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with all of this advanced knowledge.
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They they won't know how to process it.
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They won't know how to. React to it.
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And they certainly. Will overreact.
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And I'm sure that the. 1st. Problem that the Dalmatian
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teachers had was the tendency for humans to worship, and This
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is why so much of their ancient history might still be in our.
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Folklore. Folklore.
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Because the early humans must have looked upon these people as
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the mighty men of old who would live hundreds of years and, and,
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and there they would. Take the.
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Daughters of men. As wives.
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But the method. Was.
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According to the. Urantia book a slow.
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Process of inviting selected members.
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Of the outside group the the outside tribes.
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Bring them in. Teach them the most that they
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could. Accept or learn?
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And then send them back into the general population.
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Take the truths. With you.
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And and teach them to. Your brethren, that.
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Was the method of teaching for hundreds.
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Of thousands of years as the. Dalamatian citizens tried to
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uplift mankind. So that was the first epical.
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Revelation second ever. Epical Revelation.
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Again, we see a similar pattern of slow revelation.
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You had to earn the privilege of garden citizenship.
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Through a display. Of maturity, of not being
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dangerous, Adam and Eve did. Did not teach sudden truth to
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the natives of their times. They adopted and raised.
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Children with the. Truths of the Kingdom and man's
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eternal destiny. And then what did they do?
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They sent them back into the communities.
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Where there was a slow but steady absorption of religious
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culture that could take place. In those papers depicting this
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period, it. Shows us clearly.
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The the method is no different from the previous method, the
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initial plans of the first garden.
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Obviously were disrupted. And it it we have been living in
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the shadow of that event ever since, having been deprived of a
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material son and daughter who would have lived long enough.
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To have a. Lasting effect on society but
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the method. By way they.
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Taught the. Tribes of that their area, their
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era. And this.
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Gets us into. The the Mesopotamian period.
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The cradle of of civilization. Period.
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Long before the Agadians and the Sumerians.
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We're talking 35,000 years. Much of what Adam and Eve?
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Taught did survive the ideas of. A mother and a father raising
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children, but they didn't teach sudden truth.
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They adopted. As I mentioned and and sent
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these young. People who had lived.
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Among the citizens of the garden, send them back now this,
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of course, contradicts the biblical narrative because based
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on the writings of Genesis, Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were
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the. 1st 1st 4. People on the earth, so how?
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Could they go back and well, of course, the Bible.
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Also says that Cain was banished from a garden and went to the
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land of Nod, east to the land of Nod where he found himself.
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A wife? Well.
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Hardly that would have been. Possible if there.
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Had only been the four progenitors of the the human
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race. So obviously there were more.
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And clearly, genetically, we can prove that while we did come
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from an original mitochondria, the the human genome has been
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around for a long, long time. So then we move on to the third.
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Epical revelation. The third epical revelation.
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And what was that? How many of you know of?
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The Sage of. Salem Melchizedek of Salem, he
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was the one. That set up a.
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School, a Salem school, and he brought in again people from the
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community. Who adopted the approach of A?
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Of a one God over many God, or many gods.
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A much event to Melchizedek. Taught these truths.
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To not just Abraham, although Abraham he was his mentor
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Melchizedek. Was the.
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Mentor to Abraham and he was a natural born leader.
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And Abraham, of course, went on to father not one, not 2.
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But three? Great.
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Religions. This influence came from the
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teachings of Melchizedek. To.
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Abraham and others. Who also spread the truths as as
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best they could. He.
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Sent them out. To the to the world so.
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In the first epical Revelation, Slow teaching, Bring them in,
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teach them, send them back. Adam and Eve, same thing.
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Raise them, teach them, send them on their.
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Way Melchizedek. Bring in the the students, train
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them, teach them, send them on their way.
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You see a pattern? All right, so.
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Let's go to the 4th epical. Revelation and we all.
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Know that's Jesus. What did Jesus do?
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Jesus. Adopted the message of teaching
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teachers and let these teachers go back to their communities to
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share the good news. So it would.
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Appear, at least to me, that the method of introducing a new
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revelation of advanced truth. To the people.
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Of our world has never won and which it's been rushed, it does
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no good to suddenly thrust upon the world a brand new and
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culturally exciting idea, and it might even be made with, you
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know, some temporary reception. But it will be.
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Fading as quickly. Because.
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That's what happens when you over.
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Teach. People initially get.
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Shocked they. They don't know what to do.
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With it, they try to adapt. To it and then eventually it
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falls to its own. What?
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Do they call it the reciprocal? Balance of time.
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So The thing is in this case is no matter what the outside.
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World is doing. We need not be anxious, we know
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that the book. Is is out there in the 1st 50
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years of its publication, to be fair.
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The fact that it's gone as far as it's gone without drawing UN
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unwanted attention upon itself is great.
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We've seen a lot what happens to a lot of great religions.
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They come, and sometimes they're too.
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Good to be. True.
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Certainly this is not the. Case that the.
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Intention of this revelation is long term.
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I do these podcasts because. I like talking about the Urantia
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book. I find it not only extremely
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profound and and helpful to understanding God's.
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Will but it also. Gives me a place of.
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Refuge where I. Can know that everything's going
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to be OK. But I don't.
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Go around proselytizing and and I know a lot of people read the.
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Ranch book probably. Don't either, but what we need
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not be anxious, I think is the the point because that's when
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people make mistakes, Jordan Peterson said.
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We'll all meet 1000 people throughout our life, and each of
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those people will influence 1000 people in their life.
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So if you do the math, that puts each one of us away from
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influencing 1,000,000. Others but.
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In the same fashion. What I see?
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Are the great strengths of the Urantia movement are the the
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appearance? Of the study groups, these are
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little. Beacons of light.
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That are. That are coming out of the the
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the ground, so to speak, organic, natural people share
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the news with their friends and family people that are maybe.
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Perhaps spiritually. Like minded and hey, would you
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like to come over and read the book with me or we could do it
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on a Sunday afternoon and I can answer any questions you.
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Have that. To me is the organic principle.
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Of revelatory growth. That sounds like it's it's
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moving at a pace of its own. I don't know a natural will.
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Yeah, we have better tools today to spread the.
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Good news than during the previous epical revelation.
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So we're. Already ahead of the.
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Game, I know that there are people that are putting out
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there's someone on X. That takes excerpts.
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From the the Urantia book. Not even a link, just just.
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A. Here's a Here's a little quote
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for you to. Think about that.
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That to me is is organic. It's one person who says, why
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don't we just pepper the landscape with the.
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Thoughts of the Urantia book? Instead of coming out saying
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we've got the new 5th epical revelation and we can't tell you
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and and there's nothing wrong with that.
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What CFU is? Doing in creating the the Jesus
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experience is is an organic thing that one person, several
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people. Got together and.
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Said we can do this and then people can come in and they can
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take what they've learned and they can take it.
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Out to where they live. And that to me is the ordained
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way, the divine way. And it's only when we try to
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make it a religion and we and we think we're going to save.
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The world that's. That's when it gets, you know,
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a. Little.
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Dicey and unpredictable, we could do more harm than.
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Good, in fact. I think that's kind of what
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happened with Martin Gardner and his.
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Horrible book because it has set the stage.
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And has stunted the normal, otherwise normal reception of
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the Urantia book for 20 years. And he never even read the damn
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book. He just went and talked to
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people that didn't like it. Or people that felt like it.
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Threatened Christianity. And let me tell you something
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Christianity is not going to. Accept the Urantia.
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Book in our age. Not at least publicly, they
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can't. They would have.
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To commit suicide to their own Christian faith.
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And I think that would be an upsetting thing for the world.
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I think people are comfortable. I was driving home from visiting
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friends over the weekend. It's about Sunday morning and I
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drove. By this sizable Catholic Church.
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And there were just it was the end of the service and everybody
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was coming out. There were all kinds of people
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dressed in their Sunday wares and.
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You know, Catholic Church. Hundreds of people coming out.
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I was actually mildly. Shocked.
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That that many people still go. To church.
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But they do, because it's a sense of refuge.
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It's a sense. Of perhaps?
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Traditional refuge, safety, inspiring, making you feel that
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it's not just about humanity, it's also about divinity.
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The world does need. That that.
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Environment I I'm convinced of that and there is room for the
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Urantia book, but it's not in the way that not in the way yet.
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Of what we'd like, perhaps. But right now, to me it's.
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A seed. That has been planted and only
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now are the roots starting to pop up and it's going to tape.
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Who knows? 1000 years, 500 years.
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I mean think about the time difference between Melchizedek
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and Christ was 52,000 years and he estimated he needed that much
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time because he didn't know when Michael was going to be
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bestowing on our planet. But I have a feeling he probably
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had a few connections and could estimate when this event could.
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Occur or how? Long it would take, maybe.
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Christ waited until. The influence of Melchizedek.
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Could be absorbed so if the Urantia book is.
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An emergency. Book.
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Let's just say it. Let's posit it as a.
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Is a an emergency situation? Let's assume for a moment and.
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These are pretty. Grand assumptions, but let's
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assume from for a moment. That our seraphic.
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Overseers anticipated based on the experience of other.
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Worlds that we were about. To head into dangerous
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territory. We were literally a decade away
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from. Developing the atom bomb which
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the. Revelators would have been aware
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of the book. Was written in 3435, or at least
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transcribed into the English language, according to the
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revelators. And we knew the Manhattan
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Project was underway. We also knew World War 2.
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Was about to get underway. So it wouldn't have taken a
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rocket. Scientist.
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No pun intended to determine that humanity was heading
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towards contentious times, and it has not changed since.
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It has been contentious since. The first world.
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War. The Second World War Our methods
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of destruction have increased. The ways that we kill each.
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Other have become more advanced. Now we're into the drone.
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Stage of warfare. Where we don't even need to
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expend human life. And it would seem logical to me
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that the. Revelators would have.
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Some experiential knowledge. They would see ahead.
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Farther than we would and they would understand that religion
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is losing its influence and it's time to invest and a new.
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Software upgrade, so the Urantia.
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Book in a way. Is a software.
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Upgrade but not. Everybody upgrades.
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Their computers at the same time, do they?
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Some of us are still using Windows 10 for God.
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'S sakes. So they would have anticipated
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that at some point people would start asking questions, but it's
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not there. We're not there yet.
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We're not there. Yet, but this book provides, I
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think it provides hope. And it unifies faith with
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science and philosophy in a way that no other.
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Book has provides us. Information and clarity about
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our. Past and it reveals to us our
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potential future if we. Can all get along.
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As brothers of the same spiritual.
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Family, but we need not be in a. Hurry, Jesus.
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Never ran from town to town. The apostles did not run to
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India. Or Europe or.
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Northern Africa, they took their time, they went the natural way,
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so. Let's let's.
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Focus on that. Let's let's really say a prayer.
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And and ask for patience. Patience is the most important
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element of spreading a new. Revelation, because that.
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Prevents you from getting frustrated and from suffering
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from despair. Ban and Amidon had to endure
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150,000 years of waiting. That's a long time and they were
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patient. All right, so that's it.
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I hope you check out the website.
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Podcast Please share this book. In the podcast and if you.
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Org we have the link to the online.
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And you can write a comment if you want to.
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So. We'll see you again soon.
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April is coming. I want to mention before I
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forget, May 17th is the day of. Prayer, which is odd because the
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president. Is calling all.
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Religious faiths to. Washington.
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We'll see if that. Still happens, but it's
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interesting because may. 18th was the day that Christ had his.
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Final word. With his apostles.
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And his. Followers before he.
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Ascended on to heaven May 18th. So I just thought it was a
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little. Bit of a clinky.
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Dink there that those two dates would be so close.
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So, a day of prayer. Indeed.
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Now the world needs prayers, no question.
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So we'll see you again. Here on the Rancho Radio.
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Podcast. Thank you.
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So much for stopping by. None.