Dec. 13, 2022
Melchizedek's Influence
In this episode, we honor several influential Urantia Book students who have passed in recent weeks, plus a closer look the the Salem teachings of Melchizedek and his lasting influence in the world since his appearance 4,000 years ago.
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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
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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
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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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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
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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.
