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This is the place where we talk about the fifth epical
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revelation. Welcome to the Rancho Radio
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podcast. Very interesting person in
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spiritual history, someone who is known throughout scripture
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also is very well and highly regarded in in Catholicism,
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particularly in Africa, among Catholics in Africa and also
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part of the Islamic faith and very entrenched in the earlier
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teachings that eventually survived through Moses.
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His name is Melchizedek and we're going to be talking about
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him in just a moment. I think you'd be fascinated by
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The light of God shines from you, Moses.
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Do not kneel to me, Joshua. These.
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Tablets of stone. The writing of God, His 10
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commandments. There is a noise of war in the
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camp. It is not the noise of war, it
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is the noise of song and revelry.
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Moses, you are not worthy to receive these 10 commandments.
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We will not live by your commandments.
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We're free. There is no freedom without the
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Law. And today we're going to take a
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look at Macho Venta Melchizedek. And I want to particularly talk
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to my friends of the Christian faith in your Bible.
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It will tell you that there was sort of a spectacular event that
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happened during the times of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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And the names Melchizedek will probably be some somewhat
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familiar to you. You'll learn about Abraham if
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you know your stories about Abraham and Isaac his son.
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And it was really the beginnings of the Hebrew nation really,
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that was the whole point of Macheventa, choosing Abraham to
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be his protege, if you will. So this Melchizedek fellow who
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was mentioned in the Bible as the sage of Salem arrives on the
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scene in the biblical account and he has a series of
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conversations and convinces Abraham that he is going to be a
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great king and that his seed will be the seed of a nation.
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Now how did this sage of Salem know this?
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Well, he was a a son of a divine order, as it's mentioned in the
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Bible that he is without pedigree, without mother and
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father. So he's pretty mysterious
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fellow. The Urantia Book dedicates
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several papers to this individual and in specific
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tones. We also learn a lot about these
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orders of Melchizedek sons. Macheventa is one of these 12
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orders of Melchizedeks who are, they're like custodians.
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They show up, they represent Michael, the Creator's son.
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They are the eldest. I kind of consider them the
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elder sons of heaven. They they serve at the pleasure
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of their father. Who is the Creator's son and who
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was the Creator's son? Well, the Creator's son is
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Michael. And who was Michael?
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Michael was Jesus Incarnate as a bestowal son during his sojourn
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here on our planet. So now we get to the story where
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this emergency son makes an appeal to the Most high rulers
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of Edensia and says we've got a real problem on planet Earth and
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this is what they say about this.
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This comes from Paper 93, Section 1.
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Revealed truth was threatened with extinction during the
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millenniums which followed the miscarriage of the Adamic
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mission on Urantia. So now we're looking at Adam and
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Eve came approximately 40,000 years ago, and this is 17 or
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this would be 23,000 years after that event when the Adamic
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mission had faulted or defaulted.
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So they write that though making progress intellectually, the
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human races were slowly losing ground spiritually.
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About 3000 BC, the concept of God had grown very hazy in the
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minds of men. So in paraphrasing, the Adamic
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mission had failed to take root when it came to spiritual
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truths, and they started to sort of fizzle out over time.
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And mankind had a very hazy concept of deity, of anything
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having to do with the spiritual nature.
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Intellectually they were making great progress, but spiritually
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they were not. So they write that the 12
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Melchizedek receivers knew of Michael's impending the stole on
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our planet, but they did not know how soon it would occur.
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Therefore, they convened in solemn counsel and petitioned
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the Most Highs of Edentia that some provision be made for
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maintaining the light of truth on our world.
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This plea was dismissed with the mandate that the quote conduct
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of affairs of Urantia is fully in the hands of the Melchizedek
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custodians. The receivers then appeal to the
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Father Melchizedek, the first born, for help, but only
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received word that they should continue to uphold truth in the
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manner of their own election until the arrival of the
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bestowal Sun. So this puts the Melchizedek
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order, the custodians of our world, into sort of a what do we
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do? Because we know Michael is going
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to show up at some point. We know that he has selected
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this world as his 7th bestowal, but if the people aren't ready
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to receive him, then it is. It's not going to be in a very
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effective mission. And so this is.
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The decision was ultimately made and Macheventa, one of the 12
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Melchizedek sons, volunteered to bestow himself in a manner as
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follows. It was 19173 years before the
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birth of Jesus that Macheventa was bestowed upon the human
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races of Urantia. His coming was unspectacular,
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his materialization was not witnessed by human eyes, and he
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was first observed by mortal man on that eventful day when he
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entered a tent of Amdon, A Chaldean herder of Sumerian
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extraction, and the proclamation of his mission was embodied in
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the simple statement which he made to the shepherd.
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Quote I am Melchizedek, priest of Elian, the Most High, the one
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and only God. When the herder had recovered
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from his astonishment and after he had plied the stranger with
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many questions, he asked Melchizedek to Sup with him.
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And this was the first time in his long universe career that
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Machevente had partaken of material food.
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The nourishment was to sustain him throughout his 94 years of
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life as a material being. And that night, as they talked
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out under the stars, Melchizedek began his mission of revelation
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of the truth of the reality of God, When with a sweep of his
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arm, he turned to Amdon, saying, quote, Elian, the Most High is
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the divine creator of the stars, of the firmament, and even of
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this very earth on which we live, and he is also the supreme
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God of heaven. Within a few years, Melchizedek
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had gathered around him a group of pupils, disciples and
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believers who form the nucleus of the later community of Salem.
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He was soon known throughout Palestine as the priest of
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Aliyan, the Most High, and the Sage of Salem.
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Among some of the surrounding tribes, he was often referred to
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as the Sheikh or king of Salem. Salem was the site which, after
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the disappearance of Melchizedek, became the city of
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Jebus, subsequently being called Jerusalem.
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He spoke Chaldean and a half dozen other languages.
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He dressed much as did the Canaanite priest, except that on
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his breast he wore an emblem of the three concentric circles.
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In the course of his ministry, this Insignia of three
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concentric circles became regarded so sacred by his
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followers that they never dared to use it, and it was soon
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forgotten with the passing of a few generations.
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So I want to stop there and I want to go to the next section
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where it talks about his teachings.
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Because this is really where it's becomes important to
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understand how it is that the Urantia book, which I mentioned
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in the previous episode, how it validates the Bible.
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And there's a reason why the biblical teachings are so much
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correlated in the Urantia book for the reason that the Bible
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came about as a result of the revelation of Christ.
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Before that, the revelation of Adam and Eve, the early
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revelation of Calagastia, which ironically survives through the
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teachings of the subsequent revelations, Adam and Eve.
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OK, so the Bible is in itself a reservoir of the, I have to say,
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the spiritual crumbs that take us into the past.
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So what did he teach? Well, to the rank and file of
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his followers, He made no effort to present teachings beyond the
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fact of the rulership of the Most High.
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He spoke of the Most High and, and that's where the biblical
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references come from. They are derived from the
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teachings of Melchizedek. But Melchizedek had taught
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advanced truth, embracing the conduct and organization of the
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local universe, which is what the Urantia book does as well.
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And he had a brilliant disciple, Nordan of Kenite of the Kenite
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tribe, Nordan, Nordan, the Kenite and his band of earnest
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students to them he taught the truths of even the Super
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universe and even Havona. Now this is an important lesson
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to us as Urantia book readers, because if you understand that
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Melchizedek and his method, he did teach advanced truth to
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certain people who are willing or capable of understanding the
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truth. But to the rank and file, he
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didn't teach advanced truth. He he just basically taught
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monotheism, one God over many. Now the members of the family of
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Catro, with whom Melchizedek lived with for more than 30
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years, knew many of these higher truths and long perpetuated them
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and their family even to the days of their illustrious
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descendant Moses, who thus had a compelling tradition of the days
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of Melchizedek handed down to to him on this his father's side.
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His father was named Catro. Catro was a descendant of Nordan
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who actually lived with Melchizedek for 30 years now.
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Can you? Yeah, 30 years.
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Can you imagine what Catro must have learned?
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He might be the most lucky individual, aside from the
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apostles, to have lived and gotten to know.
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You get to know someone over 30 years, they must have become
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great friends. And it's the link between Moses
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and and Abraham is that Catro, while he wasn't the one that
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found the the Hebrew faith as Abraham had done, he still was
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instrumental in carrying the the truths that he had down his
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lineage. So he may have been the great,
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great grandfather of Moses. And Moses then took those great
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truths and became the founder of the first five books of the
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Torah and the Hebrew faith. And that Hebrew faith survived
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and continues to survive on the pages of the New Testament
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because all of the apostles were raised on the Old Testament, the
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old truths, the old laws of Moses.
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So in this way, the Urantia Book validates the biblical teachings
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by showing the connection between Melchizedek and what he
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taught his followers on down the line through the Kenites, who
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then passed through their Catro, Moses's father.
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And then from then they became absorbed into the Christian
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teachings which we now have at our disposal in the New
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Testament. But the lessons learned here,
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and I'll just end with this and from Paper 93, Section 3,
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Melchizedek taught the followers of his day all they had the
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capacity to receive and assimilate.
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That's a lesson for us in the Urantia community.
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Don't get too far advanced, at least initially when you're
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talking to people about the Urantia book because these are
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advanced truths and not everybody is ready for advanced
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truths. Sometimes when we over teach, we
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drive people away. It's too much.
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I know I'm guilty of that. So from paper 93.3 it says even
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many modern religious ideas about heaven and earth of man,
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God and angels are not far removed from those teachings.
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These were considered advanced teachings from Melchizedek.
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But this great, great Teacher subordinated everything to this
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doctrine of one God, a universe Deity, A heavenly Creator, a
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divine Father. Emphasis was placed upon this
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teaching for the purpose of appealing to man's adoration and
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at preparing the way for the subsequent appearance of Michael
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as the son of this same universal Father.
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Melchizedek taught that at some future time another Son of God
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would come in the flesh, but that he would be born of a
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woman. And This is why numerous later
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teachers held that Jesus was a priest or minister.
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Quote forever after the order of Melchizedek, which is a quote
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from the Bible. And thus did Melchizedek prepare
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the way and set the monotheistic stage of world tendency for the
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bestowal of the actual Paradise Son of the one God whom he so
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vividly portrayed as the Father of all, and whom he represented
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to Abraham as a God who would accept man on the simple terms
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of personal faith. And Michael, when he appeared on
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Earth, confirmed all that Melchizedek had taught
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concerning the Paradise Father. So there are so many different
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takeaways from this story #1 the confirmation of Melchizedek as a
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divine revealer of truth #2 how the truth survived down through
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several factions, but primarily through the descendants of the
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Kenites and Nordan who actually knew Melchizedek.
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And then of course, through the other method which we're more
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familiar with, which is the Abramic teachings which survive
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even to this day, not only in Christianity and in the Jewish
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faith, but also in the Islamic faith, which as its predecessor,
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Zoraster, was able to learn from some of the teachers who came
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from the Melchizedek schools. And all of this brought into a
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cohesive manner and understandable through the
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revelation of the Urantia book. So this is a good example, one
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of thousands of examples, by the way, 'cause we haven't even
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gotten to the the apostles. The revelation of the apostles
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and their interaction with Christ more than validates the
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words that we read in the New Testament as we explore the
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Urantia book and talking about the validity that it provides to
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both the Old and the New Testament as documents of
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spiritual truth. Indeed.
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You've got questions or comments?
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Thank you for joining me on this episode of Urantia Radio.