The Golden Age

0:00 Welcome to the Urantia Radio Podcast, and in a moment we're going to talk about the exciting convention that was in the desert recently involving the Urantia Fellowship. Also, we'll talk a little bit more about this concept of the Golden Age, and I think that you'll be very interested to to hear what the revelators say about what we can expect when we get there. Welcome back to another edition of the Rancho Radio Podcast. And I want to do a little bit of a follow up to the last podcast. So if you haven't heard the previous podcast to this one, which is all about our sister's fear, I would encourage you to to listen.

0:45 It's chock full of great, interesting information and it will blow you away. And I love reading that part of the book. We delve into what life is like on another world. And Speaking of another world, I was just just thrilled to read about the Urantia Fellowship and their attendance at the Contact in the Desert. And I have to praise everyone because they did such a great job. Not only what they did there, Lynn Goodwin among them, Pamela Keller and others who were there. There was another article that I loved, Taylor Verser and Diedrich Baker.

1:27 They, they gave their assessment. And what is exciting about it is that with the growth of popularity and curiosity about UFOs and alien life, which has been, you know, in the news lately, you know, and we've talked about how there is that kind of connection with the Urantia book because the Urantia book does substantiate that life is abundant in the universe and we are just one planet of many and that there is an evolutionary track to all this. We're divinely guided. And I've always believed, and I have to admit that in many ways, my curiosity about UF OS as a young person, when I would read Eric von Daniken and certainly when I would watch, you know, the science fiction that was on TV, You know, my curiosity about the universe was wedded by my early influences in Ufology. And my my curiosity, it made it more acceptable to me to read the Urantia book in many ways because the Urantia book validates this concept.

2:35 Star Wars is another good example. I think one of the reasons it's so darn popular is because this idea of life being out in the universe in abundance offers so much hope, doesn't it? Anyway, so to all the folks at the Fellowship, they said there were a lot of people there, a lot of influencers, and that the booth, the Urantia book booth, got more visits than ever before. Or is there something about 30 books were handed out, but there were influencers there? Documentarian Jeremy Nori did an interview which may be floating out on the Internet at some point. We also are told that an interview was scheduled with Jeremy Corbel, who has one of the most popular UFO podcast. I think, Oh no, no, no, I'm wrong. Jeremy Corbel is an investigator and he is responsible for bringing active duty military members to testify in front of Congress on the reality of military UFO programs. They said that Bob Lazar, or Lazar, who's a filmmaker, got a chance to hook up with some of the folks about the Urantia book.

3:53 And it it was just an overwhelming success. And it's gives me great pleasure to know that, you know, some of our brothers and sisters are starting to get the attention of people who are naturally curious about these things. And it's a, it's wonderful to hear. So again, I want to talk a little bit about what we touched on in the last, the idea of, of progress. You know, we, if we accept the fact that our planet, our world is on a definite course towards progress, you have to kind of think about what that progress means. How is that progress expressed on a social level?

4:37 In one way is this idea of the golden age. You know, we aspire to the golden age. Isn't that true? I think it's true. I think that deep down inside, we all hope that all of this striving in the universe, certainly in our life, we want our grandchildren and their grandchildren to continues to prosper. We want there to be peace. We want wars to end all of these things. We want to be healthy. We want to be happy. I would have to believe that if you're a human being on this planet, This is why we're here, right? This is what we are striving to accomplish.

5:18 Learning to be better people. I mean, raising the, the, the lowering the, the death rate of children is progress. Figuring out better ways to distribute food. You know, we want a better life because it's inherent. It's in US to be perfect even as our father is perfect. That that's a driving force, right? OK, so the golden age we all want, we want the golden age. What is the golden age? Well, the Urantia book actually explains what the golden age is in paper 55, Section 3. And so it reads that during the age of light and life.

6:00 And by the way, our sister sphere is striving for that same goal, a golden age. So during this age, light and life, the world increasing increasingly prospers under the fatherly rule of the Planetary Sovereign. So who could that be? In our case it most likely will either be Christ himself or his appointed Planetary Sovereign. In this case, probably likely to be either Melchizedek or perhaps even Adam and Eve. There's another section of the book where they talk about the fact that it is possible that that as part of the reconciliation of this world, that Adam and Eve could be re allowed to serve as the the sovereign rulers. That could be so when that day is here, the world still has hospitals.

6:51 They write that even in the age when we have the one language, the one superior religion that everybody agrees with, even in that perfect period there are still hospitals, homes for the care of the sick. There still remain the problems of caring for accidental injuries and the inescapable infirmities attendant upon the decreptitude of old age and the disorders of senility. Even in the golden Age, disease has not been entirely vanquished, neither have the earth's animals been subdued in perfection. But such worlds are like paradise in comparison with the early times of primitive man. During the pre planetary Prince age, you would instinctively describe such a realm.

7:42 Could you be suddenly transported to a planet in this stage of development as heaven on earth? Human government in the conduct of material affairs continues to function throughout this age of relative progress and perfection. The public activities in the world in the first stage of light and life, which I recently visited. So he is telling us that he was on a planet that had entered that first stage and what he saw and he mentioned something that's interesting because he says, when I visited this other planet, you know, they were still they still had an economy financing, but their system was that every adult worker contributed 10% of their wages to the public treasury. And that was like out of nowhere, they all of a sudden start talking about even in this advanced age, societies developed to the point where everybody starts to help one another.

8:41 And he goes into detail about it and says, well, here's how it worked out. 3% of everybody's adult that worked, 3% of their wages would be expended to the promotion of truth, science, education and philosophy. 3% would be devoted to beauty, play, social, leisure and art. 3% dedicated to goodness, social service, altruism and religion. And then 1% would be assigned to the insurance reserves against the risk of incapacity from labor in like you get into an accident. So they, so he's, he's telling us that, that in the, in that first stage when mankind is really gotten its act together, one problem that they solve through this 10% taxation is that all of these services that we need are funded by us.

9:35 I, I just think that's interesting. It's it's, it's literal too. You know, it's like practical. They're telling us something that actually it's true. You know, if if you were to bring somebody who lived in 1000 AD to where we are today, they would, they wouldn't be able to comprehend how we were able to do what we were able to do. But we still work and we still pay taxes and we, you know, we still farm the land. So even in a, in a much more progressive age, there will still be some certain fundamentals within society that we'll always have to deal with as mortals. And you know, to me, that legitimizes the message that don't think for a moment that when you get to the perfect age of mankind, that all of our needs will be met and nothing will go wrong and everything will be perfect because it won't be.

10:32 We're still going to be dealing with disease, even with the best scientists. We'll still be dealing with trying to find cures to things like cancer and so forth. And, and we'll still have to work. We'll still have to provide for each other. In a functioning society, none of that goes away. Sometimes people have a false sense that when we get to heaven, that suddenly everything will be great. We'll just be sitting around eating ice cream, you know, telling God how much we love him and that that just that's childlike it. It's not that's not an adult way to look at life. A realistic, you know, the universe is administrated. It's not just like a pinball floating, bouncing around from bumper to bumper with no clear direction. It's intelligently designed.

11:18 And I love that concept. Thank you for this time that we've spent together. If you have a comment, check out the the website yourrancherradio.org and leave a comment, leave a voicemail. I'd love to hear from you. Got a question? We'll see you online at your at yourradio.org.