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Melchizedek's Influence · Urantia Radio

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  I want to delve into Melchizedek and his story a little bit and
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  because most recently, I have begun to appreciate just how
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  important he is to our history and also, what we might be able
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  to learn from his ministry, when he was establishing his legacy
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  through Abraham. But prior to that, there were
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  ninety seven years where he was on Earth, and he did some pretty
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  amazing things, which a lot of it is actually covered in
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  Genesis, which is amazing. And so we could talk about that
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  and then also a third generation but they call a legacy, Urantia
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  book reader passed on this week. So I want to talk a little bit
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  about John Hale, and that's what we've got in store this time up
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  on the ranch Radio podcast. Before we begin our podcast, I
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  want to say a few things about something that's as everyone
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  knows. One of the most tragic things
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  that could ever happen is the loss of a loved of a loved one.
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  And since I've had a lot of Engagement with Will Sherwood
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  over the year. I wanted to say that, I was sad
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  to hear that his wife, his beloved wife Margo Sherwood
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  passed away in late October of this year, after a long illness.
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  And she, of course, has her husband of great support her
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  animals and her loving hospice, care workers that were there to
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  help ease the transition and Margo was born in 1950.
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  For in Hungary. And she escaped.
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  The Communist nation in her early 20s.
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  And while attending a whole life Expo in Pasadena, California,
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  Margo found herself drawn to the booth hosted by the Urantia book
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  Los Angeles society. And from that point on still in
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  her 20s Margo started actively reading the book and attending
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  study groups in. Southern California, will very
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  fine man and I'm sure that this loss has been very hard for will
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  and no one of course, ever. Ever wants to lose.
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  Loved one. Even though we know it means
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  they're on their spiritual journey and the good news of
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  course, is that she'll be waiting for you.
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  Well, and so I just wanted to make a note of mention.
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  They're also I want to mention about John Hales who recently
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  passed, John in the very, very early days.
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  He was a child of a couple of forum members His father and
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  mother, and he was 16 and he was not allowed to read the year
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  Rancho book because it was still in pre-publication before dr.
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  Sadler William Sadler invited him to join the Urantia project,
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  John had to take a test and then he told the recounted that The
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  dr. Sadler had said, before you take
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  the test before you pass the interview, you need to read part
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  3 of the book and John did it. And he became a member of the
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  project as dr. Sadler called it back then and
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  John Hales ended up spending 70 years, serving various groups
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  within the ranch of fellowship and the movement.
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  He was a president vice president, secretary Secretary
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  General. And The first field
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  representative during those early days when the book was
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  published and a longtime reader Larry Bowman, once mentioned
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  that he John Hale serve longer on the general counsel than
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  anyone else. 1974 when he was 37 year old old, John became the
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  resident director and in doing so became the first paid
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  employee of the year, Asha Brotherhood, back in 1974 and
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  until then he had been entirely Lee a volunteer.
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  John remained with the organization, the next 32 years,
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  and retired from Paid employment and the Urantia book Fellowship
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  in 2006. So, from that time, 74 to 2006
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  in the Rancho movement, overall, John was very influential And of
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  course that was a very trying and testing time back then, as
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  well. So, and by the way, he was a
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  recipient of the van award and Van only two other.
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  Urantia book community members since the beginning.
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  I received that award dr. Sadler, and Christy Chris
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  Christensen. And the inscription on the van
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  award which was awarded a John Hale reads, these spiritual
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  insight, And moral steadfastness which enabled van to maintain
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  such an unshakable attitude of loyalty to the universe
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  government, was the product of clear thinking, wise reasoning
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  logical, judgment, sincere motivation, unselfish purpose
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  intelligent loyalty experiential, memory discipline
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  character and the unquestioning dedication of his personality,
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  to the doing of the will of the father and Paradise from paper
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  67. Section 3, John Hale shit,
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  shared memories of his parents involvement in the Forum and the
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  Urantia project. He says, the only thing he
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  recalled from the interview with dr.
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  Sadler was that he was an important guy like my
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  grandfather. He had big thick spectacles and
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  he suggested. I start reading part 3, the
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  history of Urantia. I seldom mention the book per se
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  John says, but of join various study groups at the church it's
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  reassuring. That people may not Not be ready
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  to pick up this volume. If of over 2,000 pages, but
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  they're open to dialogue. And I encourage you to seek out
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  some form of service John writes.
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  It brings to mind the quote from the book.
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  The self is not important, but the work is, it's been my
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  watchword over the years through thick and thin, that's what John
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  says. So John Hale, your aunt, your
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  book student, and a big part of the early days, by the way,
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  they're going to be holding a memorial service, which will be
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  held at the Kenilworth Union Church and Ken.
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  Well, Worth Illinois, there is a website.
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  I'll give you. It takes place by the way,
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  December 29th 2022. And all you have to do is is go
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  to KU c.org, that's KU c.org, and you can attend and watch and
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  celebrate the life of John Hale. Okay, we're back.
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  And I want to delve into this segment about Melchizedek who
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  I've taken a fond and ever increasing interest in it.
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  I must say this trip, you know how it is.
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  You just walking along and an idea comes into your head.
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  That something you read about and lately on my mind as you've
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  heard in previous podcast in trying to discuss the best way
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  to introduce the ranch of book. go and help it grow and it make
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  sure that people who are searching for truth and
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  searching for real meaning and an understanding of life that we
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  can somehow inject your ancient teachings or truths into
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  discourse by see a great movie, or if I see or read a great book
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  or a here, about a great TV show, Or I see a very exciting
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  moment on a recent, football game, doesn't matter.
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  I always want to share with people.
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  So if I read something that's very fascinating, I want to
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  share with people and I thought, well, you know, it would be good
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  to go back and learn about this, this much event Melchizedek
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  because he's so Central to so much of not only the Urantia
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  book I'll go over some of the influences that you'll find of
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  him in other world religions. You know, Melchizedek.
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  Wanted. Well, I mean the reason for him
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  coming in 1900 BC is because it was observed by the most highs.
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  And The Observers of our world that the light of life was
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  Vanishing, the truth of one God was disappearing.
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  And man was wandering in a sea of all kinds of different Cults
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  and pantheism. And if you understand that the
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  the evolution the progressive, evolution of man and his
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  spiritual, and intellectual growth is predicated on the
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  truth of one God and that and then that truth in as it is is
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  exposed later with. Jesus's teachings is the further
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  truth of the Brotherhood of Man. You cannot have one with the
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  other. You cannot have a brother of
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  man, unless there is a father Who brings all of us together.
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  And so that's part of the responsibility of these
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  melchizedek's is to not only teach truth, but to keep Truth
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  live, and we'll have lots of encounters with them as we
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  progress in our lives. Are there there, there, the
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  teachers of the universe. They're also our Elder Brothers
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  in the spiritual sense. They represent Michael and
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  Christ and they represent the Divine spirit and an in
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  actually, they are they the firstborn?
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  If you use the term born in a spiritual sense, And we've
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  talked a little bit about that in previous episodes and there's
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  so much good reading about them. And so, from 93, I want to read
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  a little bit about the way that he taught is.
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  His missionaries, the the students who learned under him
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  for that 94 years that Melchizedek taught and or, and
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  in Salem. So, Mo cosmetic, this is from
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  paper, 93, and then we'll just start reading from paragraph 3.
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  I'm not going to read every paragraph in its entirety.
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  I just want to get to the core of what we're talking about here
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  is, which is why you came what he taught, and how his influence
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  has survived because of it. So I'm out.
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  Cosmetic taught the concept of one.
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  God, a universal deity. But he allowed the people to
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  associate this, teaching, with the constellation fathers of nor
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  Lycia deck, whom he termed, El elyon, the most high to a
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  majority of Salem students, edentia was Heaven and the most
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  high was God, So even back then, they were taught about it ends
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  up being the name of heaven. And that the most high was God
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  The symbol of the three concentric circles.
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  Which by the way, are the same concentric circles, which is the
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  Rancho book logo which Melchizedek War he adopted as
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  the Insignia of his bestowal. Majority of the people
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  interpreted as standing for the Three Kingdoms of men Angels
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  than God and they were allowed to continue in that belief.
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  Very few of his followers. Ever knew that these three
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  circles were emblematic of the infinity, interna, tea and
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  universality. Of the paradise Trinity from
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  paper 93 Section 3 paragraph for Melchizedek taught Advanced
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  truth, embracing the conduct and organization of the local
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  Universe while to His Brilliant disciple, nor damn the key
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  night. And his band of earnest
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  students, he taught the truths of the super-universe and even
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  of Havana. So these people back, then we're
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  even prepared a few of them. Anyway, of the greater universe.
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  The members of the families of catch row, which whom
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  Melchizedek have lived for more than 30 years.
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  New many of these higher truth and long perpetuated them in
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  their family, even to the days of their illustrious descendant.
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  Moses. There's about 700 years or so,
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  separating, the times of Melchizedek to, when Moses was
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  born, catch row lived or more. Proper to say that Melchizedek
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  live with the Castro, family, 30 years, boy, imagine living with
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  a Melchizedek for 30 years. So, the compelling traditional
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  days of Melchizedek were handed down.
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  Finally on his father's side and someone on the source of his
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  mother's side as well. And it was the key Knights who
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  we learn later and their belief systems that were taught to
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  Moses. And the key nights descendants
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  of Kate row, who lived with Melchizedek for 900 years
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  previous. Wow, it's amazing are 700 years
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  previous. Melchizedek taught his
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  followers. All they had capacity to receive
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  and assimilate even many modern religions.
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  And their ideas about heaven and earth of, man and angels are not
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  far removed from these teachings of Melchizedek but this great
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  teacher subordinate. Everything to the doctrine of
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  one, God a university, a Heavenly Creator.
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  A Divine father emphasis was placed on this teaching for the
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  purpose of appealing to man's of adoration. and a preparing, the
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  way, for the subsequent appearance of Michael, as the
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  son of the same Universal, father, Melchizedek taught that
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  at some future time. Another Son of God would come in
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  the flesh as he had come. but that he would be born of a woman
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  and that is why numerous later teachers, held that Jesus was a
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  priest or Minister quote Forever After the order of Melchizedek
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  in quote, and that, by the way, is a direct quotation from
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  Psalms, 110 paragraph section 4, From paper 93 section for the 7
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  Commandments, promulgated by Melchizedek wear.
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  Patterned along the lines of the ancient Dalmatian supreme law
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  and very much resemble, the seven commands taught in the
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  first and the second Gardens of Eden.
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  Adam and Eve of course we know with teach the seven
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  Commandments and they would be survived survived actually
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  re-energized by melchizedek's teachings.
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  And these were the seven Commandments.
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  These were the Commandments of the Salem religion.
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  These were the rules that these Tribal members who wanted to be
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  taught by Melchizedek when they went through a schools in Salem.
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  And you had to abide by these seven Commandments, Number one,
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  you shall not serve any God, but the most high creator of Heaven
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  and Earth. Number two shall not doubt.
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  The faith is the only requirement for Eternal
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  salvation. Number 3, you shall not bear
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  false witness before you shall not kill number 5, you shall not
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  steal. Number 6.
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  You shall not commit adultery. Number seven, you shot on show
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  disrespect for your parents and elders.
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  And, and this was the way for Melchizedek to teach these semi
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  savages. The least.
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  So that they could maintain control and grow and those were
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  truly must have been Advanced teachings in 1900 BC.
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  This is the age of the Sumerians.
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  Melchizedek taught Elementary revealed Truth at Salem for 94
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  years, Melchizedek continued, for some years, to ensure
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  instruct the students and to train the Salem missionaries who
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  penetrated to all the surrounding tribes, especially
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  to Egypt, Mesopotamia and Asia Minor.
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  And as the decades passed, these teachers, Journey, farther and
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  farther from Salem carrying with them, match event has Gospel of
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  belief and faith in God. The lives and experiences of the
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  men and women who ventured forth from Salem Mesopotamia and Lake
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  van to Enlighten the tribes of the Eastern.
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  Hemisphere present, a heroic chapter in the annals of the
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  human race. But the task was so great in the
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  tribes were so backward that the results were vague and
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  indefinite from one generation to another, the Salem gospel
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  found lodgment here and there but except in Palestine never
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  was the idea of one. God able to claim continued
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  allegiance of a whole tribe or race.
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  Except in Palestine. And therein lies the.
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  I think unspoken truth about why, the judaic religion, daheck
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  religion is the one that maintain this Melchizedek truth,
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  Even down to the Modern Age and I'll explain that in a little
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  bit. Long before the coming of Jesus
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  the teachings of the early States.
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  Ala missionaries had become generally submerged in the older
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  and more Universal superstitions and beliefs.
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  The original Melchizedek gospel had been wholly, almost wholly,
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  absorbed in the beliefs Of the great mother, the Sun, and other
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  ancient cults. Then they right here from paper.
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  93 section 7 paragraph for you. Who today enjoy the advantages
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  of the art of printing little understand how difficult it was
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  to perpetuate truth during these earlier times how easy it was to
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  lose sight of a new doctrine from one generation to another.
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  There was always a tendency for the new doctrine to become
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  absorbed into the older body of religious teachings and magical
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  practice. A new revelation is always
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  contaminated by the older evolutionary beliefs.
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  Should highlight that. A new revelation is always
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  contaminated by the older, religious older evolutionary
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  beliefs. And finally, on his departure,
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  Melchizedek wanted to leave the scene of his Earthly activities,
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  a sufficient length of time before Abraham's death to ensure
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  that the truth of The One and Only God would be become
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  strongly established in the minds of his followers.
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  Accordingly match of enter retired, one night to his tent
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  at Salem, having said, Can good night to his human Companions
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  and when they went to call him in the morning he was not there
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  for his fellows had taken him. He just was gone like that
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  mission accomplished mission complete so you know you look
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  back many phase particularly in Africa.
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  I recently read an article by a man who is the Rancho book
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  reader? Think it might have been a
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  recent addition of Tidings, perhaps.
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  And he said that being from Africa, he was a mop, a lot more
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  influenced earlier on by abrahamic beliefs, but not so
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  much in Christian teachings, and it was one of the things that
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  attracted him to the Urantia book because the ranch book
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  gives so much homage to Melchizedek and his teachings
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  and his his contribution. So I found that interesting that
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  it was through the erotic faith of an African who is now a year
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  Rancho book reader that he Like the fact that the Iran chibok
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  had so much Melchizedek in him or in the book, you know, in
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  some Jewish teachings Melchizedek is described as the
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  Archangel, Michael or that he represents Michael and the Torah
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  which are the first five books of Moses, we are introduced to
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  the Ten Commandments. and I'll mention this because it's among
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  the more interesting of the interpretations of Melchizedek
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  that in the Islamic religion, they believe that he will be the
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  one who ushers in the new, dispensation the age of judgment
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  and the age of atonement which sort of corresponds, a little
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  bit with the Rancho book teachings because your answer
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  book teachings, do say that it is likely that Melchizedek It's
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  not done. He is of course, the titular,
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  planetary Prince, taking Michaels place until the son of
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  man returns. We're taught in the Rancho book,
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  the equivalent of the second coming.
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  And we're also told that Gunk hesitant could come in any time
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  and he would be accompanied by his 11 fellows.
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  They took him that last night in Salem and so those are the
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  things to consider and paper. 93 is a great read and I highly
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  recommended especially especially like me if you like
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  the Genesis story. Was there something.
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  I think there was something that they mentioned about that
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  although Marquez attic is not referred to in the Quran.
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  Al qasr take known as moloch. All Salam king of peace is
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  believed to have been one to initiate Abraham and to
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  Prophethood. And ismaili treaties dated back
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  to the 1300s proclaimed that Melchizedek would return
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  following the resurrection as the righteous judge and reveal
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  the Divine Mysteries, which the prophets have kept secret
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  throughout the centuries, the Divine mystery.
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  And then, of course, there's this nugget from Cecil B Demille
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  20th century. The light of God.
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  Shines from you Moses. Turn up new to me, Joshua.
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  Tablets of stone writing of God, his Ten Commandments.
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  There is a noise of war in the camp.
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  It is not the noise of War. It is the noise of song and
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  revelry. You are not worthy to receive
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  these 10 commandments. We will not live by your
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  Commandments. We're free.
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  There is no freedom without the law.