June 29, 2026
How To End War
Jesus gave us specific instructions on how to end war and achieve global peace and good will.
In his Urmia Lectures, from Paper 134 Jesus spoke on Political Sovereignty, and the dangers contained therein, The Master also warns us what will happen as nations and governments become more powerful, eerily describing conditions as they they prevail on earth in the present age.
Let's go through his lectures together on this edition of Urantia Radio.
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It's the Urantia Radio podcast.
Welcome in.
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I'm glad you're here.
We're going to cover some
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interesting topics this hour
from Paper 134.
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And this is just prior to when
Jesus was about to begin his
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public ministry, and he happens
upon a group in Lake Ermia where
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there's this sort of religious
philosophy school.
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I'll read a little bit about it
and it's in the Caspian Sea
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region.
So from paper 134 we learned
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that on the way to the Caspian
Sea, Jesus had stopped several
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days.
Forrest and recuperation at the
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old Persian city of Ermia on the
western shore of Lake Ermia, one
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of the largest group of islands.
Situated a short distance near
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Ermia was a large building, a
lecture amphitheater dedicated
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to the spirit of religion.
And this structure was really a
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temple of philosophy of
religions.
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Now this temple of religion had
been built by a wealthy merchant
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citizen of Ermia and his three
sons.
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This man's name was Symboyton
and Cy MB OYTON and he is
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numbered among the ancestors of
many diverse peoples.
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Now the lectures and discussions
in this school of religion began
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at 10:00 every morning of the
week.
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The afternoon session started at
3:00 and the evening debates
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opened at 8:00.
Tim Boynton is one of or one of
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his three sons always presided
at the sessions of teaching and
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they also had discussion and
debate.
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The founder of this unique
school of religions lived and
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died with ever without ever
revealing his own personal
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religious beliefs.
On several occasions Jesus
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participated in these
discussions and before he left
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Ermia, Symboitan arranged with
Jesus to sojourn with them for a
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few weeks on his return trip and
and give 24 lectures on the
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brotherhood of man and do
conduct 12 evening sessions of
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questions, discussions and
debates on his lectures in
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particular and on the
brotherhood of men in general.
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So Symboitan, who runs the
school of philosophy, is so
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impressed by what Jesus teaches
that he asks him, can you give a
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presentation?
And he agrees.
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So Paper, Paper 134, Section 3,
paragraph five.
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In accordance with this
arrangement, Jesus stopped off
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on the return trip and delivered
these lectures.
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This was the most systematic and
formal of all of the Master's
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teachings on Urantia.
Never before or after did he say
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so much on one subject as was
contained in these lectures and
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discussions on the Brotherhood
of Man.
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In reality, these lectures were
on the Kingdom of God and the
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kingdoms of men.
It also mentions that there were
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more than 30 religions and
religious cults who were
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presented on this faculty of
this temple of religious
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philosophy.
These teachers were chosen,
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supported, and fully accredited
by their respective religious
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groups.
At this time there were about 75
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teachers on the faculty and they
lived in cottages, each
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accommodating about a dozen
people.
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Every new moon these groups were
changed by the casting of lots.
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Intolerance, A contentious
spirit, or any other disposition
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to interfere with the smooth
running of the community would
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bring about the prompt and
summary dismissal of the
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offender teacher.
He would be unceremoniously
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dismissed and his alternative in
waiting would be immediately
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installed in his place.
This is this is very advanced
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when you consider that all of
this was going on around 2526 AD
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and and it doesn't exist
anymore.
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It it didn't last.
Symboyton passed away and he was
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able to maintain a certain order
that his sons did not possess
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and ultimately the school just
fell apart.
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What ended up happening,
ironically, is that they had
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brought in Abner.
Abner was, of course, a
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follower, a disciple of John the
Baptist.
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And this was years later, after
Jesus had been crucified and so
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forth.
And Symboitan and his sons
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actually reached out to Abner,
who was in Philadelphia at that
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time, and said, would you like
to run this philosophy of truth
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at Ermia, the philosophy school?
And he did, but he brought in
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all of his newly anointed
Christian fellows.
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And you know, it's not, it's a
bit of a besmirchment really,
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because the early Christians as
they were, because they had had
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first hand contact with the
teachings of Christ, they
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actually started throwing their
weight around and acting like
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they were the only ones that
really had a good religion.
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And subsequently this school of
religious philosophy went away,
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just crumbled.
So the midwayers, the midwayers
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are the ones who sponsored this
fourth section of the Urantia
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book on the life of teachings of
Jesus.
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And they got into a little
discussion, if you will, with
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the spiritual authorities about
how to take these teachings,
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these 24 lessons, and present
them so that they could apply to
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the modern day.
And eventually the ruling
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Melchizedek, who as we know as
Macheventa.
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I believe so because they're
talking about the chairman of
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the revelatory Commission.
And I'm not sure if they're tied
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to the four and 20 elders.
This is also mentioned in
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Revelation, but also in the
Urantia book.
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So I'm not if Mache Venta is the
leading Melchizedek.
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However, it's sort of
irrelevant.
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The point is that the midway has
got the approval to take what
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Jesus taught and and convert it
into modern language.
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And you say, well, why is that
important?
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Well, if you think about all of
the conflicts that are going on
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in the world today, we don't
usually go to Jesus for
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political advice because he he
spoke so little about it.
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I mean, there are rules that we
as politicians or leaders, civic
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leaders should follow that could
be based on the teachings of
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Jesus.
But he never spoke directly or
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at least publicly about
political life.
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He was not about reforming the
the Roman Empire.
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His duty was spiritual, not
material, that we know.
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But I want to read to you from
the same paper from 1:34 because
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it is relevant to today.
So much so.
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And it's from Section 5.
And he's talking about political
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sovereignty and what needs to
happen in order for our world to
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get to that point where there is
true brotherly love.
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And he writes or speaks or
conveys the following as part of
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his teaching.
So these are transcribed the
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ideas that Jesus taught at this
lecture about politics.
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And he says from Paper 134, war
on earth will never end so long
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as nations cling to the elusive
notions of unlimited national
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sovereignty.
There are only 2 levels of
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relative sovereignty on an
inhabited world, the spiritual
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free will of the individual
mortal and the collective
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sovereignty of mankind as a
whole between the level of
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individual human being and the
level of total of all mankind.
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All groupings and associations
are relative, transitory and of
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value only insofar as they
enhance the welfare, well-being
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and progress of the individual
and the planetary grand total,
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man and mankind.
So it is interjecting here.
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It is a truth that you can
measure any society in the world
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today, whether it's Canada,
whether it's Saudi Arabia, using
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one measurement.
What is the quality of life for
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the average person, the progress
of the individual of that
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country?
If you look at a country and
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there's murder, mayhem,
criminality, oppression,
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whatever it is, that is a
measurement.
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That's the only measurement that
you can apply to determine
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whether it's a good society or a
bad society.
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Jesus goes on to say that
religious teachers must always
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remember that the spiritual
sovereignty, sovereignty of God,
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overrides all intervening and
intermediate spiritual
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loyalties.
Someday civil rulers will learn
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that the Most Highs rule in the
kingdoms of men.
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It is our spiritual nature that
has brought us to this point,
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not necessarily just our
intellectual nature.
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Religious teachers must always
remember that the spiritual
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sovereignty of God is overrides
everything else.
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Your customs, the way that you
practice your faith, the name of
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your religion, it's all focused
and centered on the fact and the
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truth of the sovereignty of one
God known by many different
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names.
Jesus says the this rule of the
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most highs in the kingdoms of
men is not for the especial
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benefit of any especially
favored group of mortals.
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There is no such thing as a
chosen people.
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This is the words of Christ.
There are there.
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You cannot and and we were
talking about this weekend.
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When you think about all the
conflicts that are going on,
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certain people, they, they call
themselves the chosen people.
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According to Christ, we're all,
we're all equally respected on
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the same wavelength when it
comes to God.
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He is no respecter of persons or
countries or races of men.
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Jesus goes on to say that the
rule of the most highs, the over
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controllers of political
evolution is a rule designed to
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foster the greatest good for the
greatest number of all men and
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women and for the greatest
length of time.
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That is the only measurement
that you can apply to
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determining the growth and
direction of a people.
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Sovereignty is power, and it
grows by organization.
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This growth of the organization
of political power is good and
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proper, for it tends to
encompass ever widening segments
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of the total of mankind.
But this same growth of
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political organizations creates
a problem in every intervening
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stage between the initial and
the natural organization of
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political power, the family, and
the final consummation of
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political growth, the government
of all mankind by all mankind
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and for all mankind.
Starting out with the parental
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power in the family group,
political sovereignty evolves by
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organizations as families
overlap into consanguous clans,
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which become united for various
reasons into tribal units, super
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consanguous political groupings,
and then by trade, commerce, and
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conquest.
Conquest tribes become unified
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as a nation, while nations
themselves sometimes become
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unified by empire.
He goes on to say that his
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sovereignty passes from smaller
groups to larger groups.
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Wars are lessened, that is,
minor wars between smaller
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nations are lessened, but the
potential for greater wars is
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increased as the nation's
wielding sovereignty become
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larger and larger.
Presently, when all the world
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has been explored and occupied,
when nations are few, strong and
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powerful, he's talking about
today.
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When these great and supposedly
sovereign nations come to touch
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borders when only ocean separate
them, then will the stage be set
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for major wars worldwide
conflicts so-called sovereign
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nations cannot rub elbows
without generating conflicts and
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eventuating wars.
From Paper 134, Section 5,
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paragraph 8.
The difficulty in the evolution
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of political sovereignty from
the family to all mankind lies
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in the inertia resistance
exhibited on all intervening
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levels.
Families have on occasion defied
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their clan, while clans and
tribes have often been
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subversive of the sovereignty of
the territorial state.
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Each new and forward evolution
of political sovereignty is and
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always has been embarrassed and
Hanford by the scaffolding
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stages of the previous
developments in political
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organization.
And this is true because human
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loyalties, once mobilized, are
hard to change.
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The same loyalty which makes
possible the evolution of the
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tribe makes difficult the
evolution of the Super tribe.
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The territorial state.
And the same loyal patriotism
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which makes possible the
evolution of the territorial
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state vastly complicates the
evolutionary development of the
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government of all mankind.
Jesus goes on to say political
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sovereignty is created out of
the surrender of self
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determinism, first by the
individual within the family and
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then by the families and clans
in relation to the tribes and
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larger groupings.
This progressive transfer of
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self determination from the
smaller to ever larger political
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organizations has generally
proceeded unabated in the East
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since the establishment of the
Ming and Moghul dynasties.
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In the West, it obtained for
more than 1000 years right on
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down to the end of the World
War, when an unfortunate
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retrograde retrograde movement
temporarily reversed this normal
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trend by reestablishing the
submerged political sovereignty
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of numerous small groups in
Europe.
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Now it's interesting that this
is pointed out because what do
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we see happening right now?
Well, we have NATO, which is a,
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a sort of a mutual respect
society for all the North
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Atlantic governments that
evolved from World War Two.
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We have the UN and again the UNI
think comes closer to what
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they're talking about, which is
a certain level of, of give
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upmanship.
I'll give you a good example.
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I asked myself if I was God and
I was looking at Earth right
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now, which of these governments
that are in existence right now?
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Which ones are more like what I
think is best for humanity in
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the most highs?
If they're observing how we are
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on our planet at this time,
which countries are they looking
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at and saying, no, that's that's
not good.
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Yes, that has potential.
These, these people over here,
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they're still early on.
They've got a few more
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centuries, but they've got the
potential.
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I wonder sometimes how our
unseen friends view us in this
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current age.
Which of our governments do they
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favor and which of our
governments do they hope will
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just sort of go away?
Now, when they're talking about
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how political sovereignty works
until it doesn't work, what
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they're talking about is that
eventually all of the
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governments are going to have to
acquiesce and and give up to a
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certain extent, their national
sovereignty.
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That's the only way we're ever
going to achieve World Peace.
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Now, it's not going to happen
tomorrow.
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It's not going to happen in 20
years, but eventually that's
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what will happen.
In paper 34 Section 5 paragraph
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10, it reads Urantia will not
enjoy lasting peace until the
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so-called sovereign nations
intelligently keyword there and
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fully surrender their sovereign
powers into the hands of the
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brotherhood of men, mankind,
government, Internationalism.
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Not globalism, internationalism,
Globalism is different.
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Globalism is power concentrated
into the hands of a few who want
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to micromanage because they have
all the cards, they have all the
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money, they have all the
resources, they have all the
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power, and they want to stay in
power.
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That's the difference between
what they're talking about and
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what what Jesus was talking
about.
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True internationalism, true
representation of the human
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being, so that the quality of
life for everyone rises.
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They write that
internationalism, as in the
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League of Nations, can never
bring permanent peace to
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mankind.
Worldwide confederations of
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nations will effectively prevent
minor wars and acceptably
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control the smaller nations, but
they will not prevent world
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wars, nor control the 3-4 or
five most powerful governments.
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In the face of real conflicts,
one of these world powers
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ultimately will withdraw from
the League and declare war, it
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reads.
You cannot prevent nations going
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to war as long as they remain
infected with the delusional
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virus of national sovereignty.
And that applies to Putin just
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as much as it applies to Xi
Jinping, just as much as it
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applies to the UN and most
likely the US.
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But there is a minor exception
and it it's really actually kind
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of interesting.
We're going to skip ahead a
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little bit.
It says in in paper 134 to use
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an important 19th and 20th
century illustration in using
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the example of how we can
achieve peace and worldwide
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goodwill.
They point out that the course
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this book was written in 34, so
we didn't have 50 states at the
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time.
But the in this context, they
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say that the 48 states of the
American Federal Union have long
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enjoyed peace.
They have no more wars among
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themselves.
Well, so far, well, we had one.
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They have surrendered their
sovereignty to the federal
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government, and through the
arbitrary or arbitraryment of
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war, they have abandoned all
claims to the delusion of self
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determination.
While each state regulates its
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internal affairs, it is not
concerned with Foreign
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Relations, tariffs, immigration,
military affairs, or Interstate
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commerce.
Neither do the individual states
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concern themselves with matters
of citizenship.
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The 48 states suffer the ravages
of war only when the federal
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government's sovereignty is in
some way jeopardized.
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But they say these 48 states,
having abandoned the.
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Twin sophistries of sovereignty
and self determination enjoy
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Interstate peace and
tranquility.
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So will the nations of our world
begin to enjoy peace when they
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freely surrender their
respective sovereignties into
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the hands of a global
government, the sovereignty of
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the brotherhood of man.
In this world state, the small
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nations will be as powerful as
the great, even as the small
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state of Rhode Island has two
senators in the American
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Congress, just as the same of
the populous state of New York
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or the large state of Texas.
Now here we see that the
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midwayers are taking a little
bit of creative license because
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clearly Jesus didn't say these
words.
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But what Jesus was saying is
applicable to this illustration
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that they put forth to show that
eventually national sovereignty
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must fall to a global government
that truly serves mankind and
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not just, you know, power
players from Paper 135.
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The limited state sovereignty of
these 48 states was created by
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men and four men.
And that's what we're
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celebrating this holiday, right?
the Super state or national
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sovereignty of the American
Federal Union was created by the
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original 13 of these states for
their own benefit and for the
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benefit of men.
Sometime the Super national
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sovereignty of the planetary
government of mankind will be
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similarly created by nations for
their own benefit and for the
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benefit of all men, Paper 135,
Section 5, paragraph 16 reads.
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Citizens are not born for the
benefit of governments.
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Governments are organizations
created and devised for the
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benefit of men.
There can be no end to the
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evolution of political
sovereignty short of the
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appearance of the government of
the sovereignty of all men.
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All other sovereignties are
relative in value, intermediate
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in meaning, and subordinate in
status.
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And then this section concludes
with this.
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With scientific progress, wars
are going to become more and
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more devastating until they
become almost racially suicidal.
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How many world wars must be
fought and how many leagues of
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nations must fail before men
will be willing to establish the
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government of mankind and begin
to enjoy the blessings of
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permanent peace and thrive on
the tranquility of goodwill
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worldwide goodwill among men?
And that's only one short.
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Remember, he gave 24 lessons and
he talks about law, liberty, and
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sovereignty.
Again, he reiterates, or at
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least the midwayers who
sponsored this paper reiterate,
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the 48 American free states live
together in peace.
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They are among the citizens of
these 48 states, all of the
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various nationalities and races
that live in ever warring
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nations of Europe.
All these people, they come
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here.
They're not fighting like they
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are there.
The these Americans represent
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almost all the religions and
religious sects and cults of the
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whole wide world.
And yet here in North America
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they live together in peace so
far.
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And all this is made possible
because these 48 states have
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surrendered their sovereignty
and have abandoned all notions
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of the supposed rights of self
determination.
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They also say that war is not
man's great and terrible
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disease.
War is a symptom, a result.
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The real disease is the virus of
national sovereignty.
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It's hard for me as an American
and someone who believes that we
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have the best country on the
planet, for me to conceive of a
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global government, but not one
that is created by the people of
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the world.
Not not these individuals who
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are doing it for selfish
reasons.
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And they're just looking for
more control.
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So we've got a long way to go,
but they're giving us a road
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map.
It is my hope and I think maybe
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a lot of people in the Arantia
book, that smart people will
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start to read this book and
start to gain the wisdom and
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that that that wisdom will have
a positive impact in getting us
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farther ahead.
But my, my worst fear is it it
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might be too late.
It leads to offset some of the
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pain and suffering that I see
just over the horizon if we're
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not somehow able to manage our
global affairs.
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So it's worth sharing, it's
worth talking about, and
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certainly worth reading.
Paper 134, Jesus giving his
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wisdom on the politics of
mankind.
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I hope you enjoyed it.
We'll have more of these kinds
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of segments coming up and the
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Rancho Radio Podcast.
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Be of good cheer.
And if it's still not too late,
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I hope you had a great
Independence Day celebration
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celebrating the freedom of man.
Until next time, thank you again
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for stopping by the Rancher
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It's the Urantia Radio podcast.
Welcome in.
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I'm glad you're here.
We're going to cover some
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interesting topics this hour
from Paper 134.
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And this is just prior to when
Jesus was about to begin his
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public ministry, and he happens
upon a group in Lake Ermia where
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there's this sort of religious
philosophy school.
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I'll read a little bit about it
and it's in the Caspian Sea
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region.
So from paper 134 we learned
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that on the way to the Caspian
Sea, Jesus had stopped several
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days.
Forrest and recuperation at the
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old Persian city of Ermia on the
western shore of Lake Ermia, one
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of the largest group of islands.
Situated a short distance near
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Ermia was a large building, a
lecture amphitheater dedicated
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to the spirit of religion.
And this structure was really a
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temple of philosophy of
religions.
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Now this temple of religion had
been built by a wealthy merchant
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citizen of Ermia and his three
sons.
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This man's name was Symboyton
and Cy MB OYTON and he is
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numbered among the ancestors of
many diverse peoples.
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Now the lectures and discussions
in this school of religion began
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at 10:00 every morning of the
week.
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The afternoon session started at
3:00 and the evening debates
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opened at 8:00.
Tim Boynton is one of or one of
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his three sons always presided
at the sessions of teaching and
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they also had discussion and
debate.
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The founder of this unique
school of religions lived and
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died with ever without ever
revealing his own personal
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religious beliefs.
On several occasions Jesus
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participated in these
discussions and before he left
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Ermia, Symboitan arranged with
Jesus to sojourn with them for a
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few weeks on his return trip and
and give 24 lectures on the
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brotherhood of man and do
conduct 12 evening sessions of
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questions, discussions and
debates on his lectures in
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particular and on the
brotherhood of men in general.
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So Symboitan, who runs the
school of philosophy, is so
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impressed by what Jesus teaches
that he asks him, can you give a
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presentation?
And he agrees.
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So Paper, Paper 134, Section 3,
paragraph five.
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In accordance with this
arrangement, Jesus stopped off
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on the return trip and delivered
these lectures.
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This was the most systematic and
formal of all of the Master's
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teachings on Urantia.
Never before or after did he say
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so much on one subject as was
contained in these lectures and
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discussions on the Brotherhood
of Man.
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In reality, these lectures were
on the Kingdom of God and the
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kingdoms of men.
It also mentions that there were
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more than 30 religions and
religious cults who were
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presented on this faculty of
this temple of religious
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philosophy.
These teachers were chosen,
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supported, and fully accredited
by their respective religious
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groups.
At this time there were about 75
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teachers on the faculty and they
lived in cottages, each
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accommodating about a dozen
people.
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Every new moon these groups were
changed by the casting of lots.
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Intolerance, A contentious
spirit, or any other disposition
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to interfere with the smooth
running of the community would
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bring about the prompt and
summary dismissal of the
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offender teacher.
He would be unceremoniously
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dismissed and his alternative in
waiting would be immediately
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installed in his place.
This is this is very advanced
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when you consider that all of
this was going on around 2526 AD
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and and it doesn't exist
anymore.
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It it didn't last.
Symboyton passed away and he was
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able to maintain a certain order
that his sons did not possess
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and ultimately the school just
fell apart.
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What ended up happening,
ironically, is that they had
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brought in Abner.
Abner was, of course, a
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follower, a disciple of John the
Baptist.
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And this was years later, after
Jesus had been crucified and so
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forth.
And Symboitan and his sons
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actually reached out to Abner,
who was in Philadelphia at that
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time, and said, would you like
to run this philosophy of truth
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at Ermia, the philosophy school?
And he did, but he brought in
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all of his newly anointed
Christian fellows.
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And you know, it's not, it's a
bit of a besmirchment really,
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because the early Christians as
they were, because they had had
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first hand contact with the
teachings of Christ, they
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actually started throwing their
weight around and acting like
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they were the only ones that
really had a good religion.
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And subsequently this school of
religious philosophy went away,
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just crumbled.
So the midwayers, the midwayers
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are the ones who sponsored this
fourth section of the Urantia
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book on the life of teachings of
Jesus.
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And they got into a little
discussion, if you will, with
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the spiritual authorities about
how to take these teachings,
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these 24 lessons, and present
them so that they could apply to
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the modern day.
And eventually the ruling
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Melchizedek, who as we know as
Macheventa.
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I believe so because they're
talking about the chairman of
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the revelatory Commission.
And I'm not sure if they're tied
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to the four and 20 elders.
This is also mentioned in
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Revelation, but also in the
Urantia book.
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So I'm not if Mache Venta is the
leading Melchizedek.
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However, it's sort of
irrelevant.
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The point is that the midway has
got the approval to take what
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Jesus taught and and convert it
into modern language.
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And you say, well, why is that
important?
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Well, if you think about all of
the conflicts that are going on
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in the world today, we don't
usually go to Jesus for
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political advice because he he
spoke so little about it.
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I mean, there are rules that we
as politicians or leaders, civic
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leaders should follow that could
be based on the teachings of
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Jesus.
But he never spoke directly or
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at least publicly about
political life.
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He was not about reforming the
the Roman Empire.
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His duty was spiritual, not
material, that we know.
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But I want to read to you from
the same paper from 1:34 because
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it is relevant to today.
So much so.
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And it's from Section 5.
And he's talking about political
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sovereignty and what needs to
happen in order for our world to
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get to that point where there is
true brotherly love.
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And he writes or speaks or
conveys the following as part of
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his teaching.
So these are transcribed the
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ideas that Jesus taught at this
lecture about politics.
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And he says from Paper 134, war
on earth will never end so long
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as nations cling to the elusive
notions of unlimited national
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sovereignty.
There are only 2 levels of
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relative sovereignty on an
inhabited world, the spiritual
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free will of the individual
mortal and the collective
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sovereignty of mankind as a
whole between the level of
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individual human being and the
level of total of all mankind.
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All groupings and associations
are relative, transitory and of
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value only insofar as they
enhance the welfare, well-being
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and progress of the individual
and the planetary grand total,
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man and mankind.
So it is interjecting here.
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It is a truth that you can
measure any society in the world
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today, whether it's Canada,
whether it's Saudi Arabia, using
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one measurement.
What is the quality of life for
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the average person, the progress
of the individual of that
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country?
If you look at a country and
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there's murder, mayhem,
criminality, oppression,
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whatever it is, that is a
measurement.
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That's the only measurement that
you can apply to determine
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whether it's a good society or a
bad society.
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Jesus goes on to say that
religious teachers must always
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remember that the spiritual
sovereignty, sovereignty of God,
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overrides all intervening and
intermediate spiritual
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loyalties.
Someday civil rulers will learn
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that the Most Highs rule in the
kingdoms of men.
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It is our spiritual nature that
has brought us to this point,
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not necessarily just our
intellectual nature.
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Religious teachers must always
remember that the spiritual
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sovereignty of God is overrides
everything else.
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Your customs, the way that you
practice your faith, the name of
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your religion, it's all focused
and centered on the fact and the
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truth of the sovereignty of one
God known by many different
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names.
Jesus says the this rule of the
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most highs in the kingdoms of
men is not for the especial
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benefit of any especially
favored group of mortals.
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There is no such thing as a
chosen people.
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This is the words of Christ.
There are there.
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You cannot and and we were
talking about this weekend.
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When you think about all the
conflicts that are going on,
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certain people, they, they call
themselves the chosen people.
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According to Christ, we're all,
we're all equally respected on
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the same wavelength when it
comes to God.
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He is no respecter of persons or
countries or races of men.
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Jesus goes on to say that the
rule of the most highs, the over
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controllers of political
evolution is a rule designed to
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foster the greatest good for the
greatest number of all men and
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women and for the greatest
length of time.
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That is the only measurement
that you can apply to
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determining the growth and
direction of a people.
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Sovereignty is power, and it
grows by organization.
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This growth of the organization
of political power is good and
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proper, for it tends to
encompass ever widening segments
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of the total of mankind.
But this same growth of
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political organizations creates
a problem in every intervening
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stage between the initial and
the natural organization of
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political power, the family, and
the final consummation of
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political growth, the government
of all mankind by all mankind
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and for all mankind.
Starting out with the parental
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power in the family group,
political sovereignty evolves by
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organizations as families
overlap into consanguous clans,
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which become united for various
reasons into tribal units, super
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consanguous political groupings,
and then by trade, commerce, and
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conquest.
Conquest tribes become unified
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as a nation, while nations
themselves sometimes become
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unified by empire.
He goes on to say that his
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sovereignty passes from smaller
groups to larger groups.
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Wars are lessened, that is,
minor wars between smaller
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nations are lessened, but the
potential for greater wars is
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increased as the nation's
wielding sovereignty become
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larger and larger.
Presently, when all the world
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has been explored and occupied,
when nations are few, strong and
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powerful, he's talking about
today.
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When these great and supposedly
sovereign nations come to touch
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borders when only ocean separate
them, then will the stage be set
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for major wars worldwide
conflicts so-called sovereign
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nations cannot rub elbows
without generating conflicts and
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eventuating wars.
From Paper 134, Section 5,
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paragraph 8.
The difficulty in the evolution
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of political sovereignty from
the family to all mankind lies
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in the inertia resistance
exhibited on all intervening
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levels.
Families have on occasion defied
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their clan, while clans and
tribes have often been
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subversive of the sovereignty of
the territorial state.
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Each new and forward evolution
of political sovereignty is and
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always has been embarrassed and
Hanford by the scaffolding
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stages of the previous
developments in political
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organization.
And this is true because human
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loyalties, once mobilized, are
hard to change.
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The same loyalty which makes
possible the evolution of the
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tribe makes difficult the
evolution of the Super tribe.
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The territorial state.
And the same loyal patriotism
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which makes possible the
evolution of the territorial
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state vastly complicates the
evolutionary development of the
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government of all mankind.
Jesus goes on to say political
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sovereignty is created out of
the surrender of self
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determinism, first by the
individual within the family and
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then by the families and clans
in relation to the tribes and
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larger groupings.
This progressive transfer of
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self determination from the
smaller to ever larger political
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organizations has generally
proceeded unabated in the East
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since the establishment of the
Ming and Moghul dynasties.
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In the West, it obtained for
more than 1000 years right on
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down to the end of the World
War, when an unfortunate
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retrograde retrograde movement
temporarily reversed this normal
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trend by reestablishing the
submerged political sovereignty
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of numerous small groups in
Europe.
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Now it's interesting that this
is pointed out because what do
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we see happening right now?
Well, we have NATO, which is a,
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a sort of a mutual respect
society for all the North
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Atlantic governments that
evolved from World War Two.
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We have the UN and again the UNI
think comes closer to what
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they're talking about, which is
a certain level of, of give
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upmanship.
I'll give you a good example.
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I asked myself if I was God and
I was looking at Earth right
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now, which of these governments
that are in existence right now?
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Which ones are more like what I
think is best for humanity in
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the most highs?
If they're observing how we are
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on our planet at this time,
which countries are they looking
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at and saying, no, that's that's
not good.
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Yes, that has potential.
These, these people over here,
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they're still early on.
They've got a few more
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centuries, but they've got the
potential.
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I wonder sometimes how our
unseen friends view us in this
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current age.
Which of our governments do they
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favor and which of our
governments do they hope will
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just sort of go away?
Now, when they're talking about
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how political sovereignty works
until it doesn't work, what
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they're talking about is that
eventually all of the
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governments are going to have to
acquiesce and and give up to a
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certain extent, their national
sovereignty.
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That's the only way we're ever
going to achieve World Peace.
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Now, it's not going to happen
tomorrow.
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It's not going to happen in 20
years, but eventually that's
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what will happen.
In paper 34 Section 5 paragraph
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10, it reads Urantia will not
enjoy lasting peace until the
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so-called sovereign nations
intelligently keyword there and
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fully surrender their sovereign
powers into the hands of the
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brotherhood of men, mankind,
government, Internationalism.
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Not globalism, internationalism,
Globalism is different.
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Globalism is power concentrated
into the hands of a few who want
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to micromanage because they have
all the cards, they have all the
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money, they have all the
resources, they have all the
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power, and they want to stay in
power.
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That's the difference between
what they're talking about and
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what what Jesus was talking
about.
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True internationalism, true
representation of the human
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being, so that the quality of
life for everyone rises.
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They write that
internationalism, as in the
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League of Nations, can never
bring permanent peace to
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mankind.
Worldwide confederations of
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nations will effectively prevent
minor wars and acceptably
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control the smaller nations, but
they will not prevent world
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wars, nor control the 3-4 or
five most powerful governments.
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In the face of real conflicts,
one of these world powers
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ultimately will withdraw from
the League and declare war, it
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reads.
You cannot prevent nations going
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to war as long as they remain
infected with the delusional
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virus of national sovereignty.
And that applies to Putin just
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as much as it applies to Xi
Jinping, just as much as it
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applies to the UN and most
likely the US.
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But there is a minor exception
and it it's really actually kind
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of interesting.
We're going to skip ahead a
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little bit.
It says in in paper 134 to use
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an important 19th and 20th
century illustration in using
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the example of how we can
achieve peace and worldwide
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goodwill.
They point out that the course
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this book was written in 34, so
we didn't have 50 states at the
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time.
But the in this context, they
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say that the 48 states of the
American Federal Union have long
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enjoyed peace.
They have no more wars among
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themselves.
Well, so far, well, we had one.
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They have surrendered their
sovereignty to the federal
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government, and through the
arbitrary or arbitraryment of
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war, they have abandoned all
claims to the delusion of self
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determination.
While each state regulates its
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internal affairs, it is not
concerned with Foreign
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Relations, tariffs, immigration,
military affairs, or Interstate
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commerce.
Neither do the individual states
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concern themselves with matters
of citizenship.
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The 48 states suffer the ravages
of war only when the federal
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government's sovereignty is in
some way jeopardized.
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But they say these 48 states,
having abandoned the.
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Twin sophistries of sovereignty
and self determination enjoy
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Interstate peace and
tranquility.
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So will the nations of our world
begin to enjoy peace when they
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freely surrender their
respective sovereignties into
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the hands of a global
government, the sovereignty of
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the brotherhood of man.
In this world state, the small
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nations will be as powerful as
the great, even as the small
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state of Rhode Island has two
senators in the American
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Congress, just as the same of
the populous state of New York
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or the large state of Texas.
Now here we see that the
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midwayers are taking a little
bit of creative license because
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clearly Jesus didn't say these
words.
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But what Jesus was saying is
applicable to this illustration
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that they put forth to show that
eventually national sovereignty
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must fall to a global government
that truly serves mankind and
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not just, you know, power
players from Paper 135.
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The limited state sovereignty of
these 48 states was created by
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men and four men.
And that's what we're
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celebrating this holiday, right?
the Super state or national
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sovereignty of the American
Federal Union was created by the
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original 13 of these states for
their own benefit and for the
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benefit of men.
Sometime the Super national
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sovereignty of the planetary
government of mankind will be
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similarly created by nations for
their own benefit and for the
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benefit of all men, Paper 135,
Section 5, paragraph 16 reads.
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Citizens are not born for the
benefit of governments.
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Governments are organizations
created and devised for the
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benefit of men.
There can be no end to the
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evolution of political
sovereignty short of the
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appearance of the government of
the sovereignty of all men.
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All other sovereignties are
relative in value, intermediate
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in meaning, and subordinate in
status.
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And then this section concludes
with this.
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With scientific progress, wars
are going to become more and
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more devastating until they
become almost racially suicidal.
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How many world wars must be
fought and how many leagues of
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nations must fail before men
will be willing to establish the
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government of mankind and begin
to enjoy the blessings of
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permanent peace and thrive on
the tranquility of goodwill
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worldwide goodwill among men?
And that's only one short.
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Remember, he gave 24 lessons and
he talks about law, liberty, and
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sovereignty.
Again, he reiterates, or at
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least the midwayers who
sponsored this paper reiterate,
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the 48 American free states live
together in peace.
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They are among the citizens of
these 48 states, all of the
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various nationalities and races
that live in ever warring
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nations of Europe.
All these people, they come
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here.
They're not fighting like they
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are there.
The these Americans represent
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almost all the religions and
religious sects and cults of the
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whole wide world.
And yet here in North America
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they live together in peace so
far.
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And all this is made possible
because these 48 states have
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surrendered their sovereignty
and have abandoned all notions
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of the supposed rights of self
determination.
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They also say that war is not
man's great and terrible
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disease.
War is a symptom, a result.
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The real disease is the virus of
national sovereignty.
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It's hard for me as an American
and someone who believes that we
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have the best country on the
planet, for me to conceive of a
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global government, but not one
that is created by the people of
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the world.
Not not these individuals who
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are doing it for selfish
reasons.
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And they're just looking for
more control.
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So we've got a long way to go,
but they're giving us a road
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map.
It is my hope and I think maybe
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a lot of people in the Arantia
book, that smart people will
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start to read this book and
start to gain the wisdom and
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that that that wisdom will have
a positive impact in getting us
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farther ahead.
But my, my worst fear is it it
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might be too late.
It leads to offset some of the
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pain and suffering that I see
just over the horizon if we're
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not somehow able to manage our
global affairs.
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So it's worth sharing, it's
worth talking about, and
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certainly worth reading.
Paper 134, Jesus giving his
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wisdom on the politics of
mankind.
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I hope you enjoyed it.
We'll have more of these kinds
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of segments coming up and the
conversation continues on the
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Rancho Radio Podcast.
Always feel free to e-mail me
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Blessings to you.
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Be of good cheer.
And if it's still not too late,
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I hope you had a great
Independence Day celebration
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celebrating the freedom of man.
Until next time, thank you again
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for stopping by the Rancher
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