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• What is The Urantia Book?
• Standardized Time Conversions
• Scientific Date Discrepancies
• Ancient History - From the earliest recorded date in The Urantia Book to 10 million years ago.
• Early History - From 10 million years ago to the birth of Jesus, 7 B.C.
• The Life of Jesus - From 7 B.C. to 30 A.D.
• Modern History - From 30 A.D. to the present
• The Future - From the present up to the stages of light and life.
Urantia Book Timeline
Providing green links to references, blue links to source materials
Timeline within this blue background will not coincide with currently accepted scientific dates.
These discrepancies are explainable. See the explanatory links as they become available.
- Ancient History -
987,000,000,000 B.C. - Andronover - An associate force organizer reports to the Ancients of Days that space conditions are
favorable for the initiation of materialization phenomena in a sector of the easterly segment of the Superuniverse of Orvonton - (The Urantia Book,
57:1.3)
900,000,000,000 B.C. - A permit is issued by the Uversa Council of Equilibrium to the superuniverse government authorizing the
dispatch of a force organizer and staff to the region previously designated to execute the mandate of the Ancients of Days calling for the
organization of a new material creation - (The Urantia Book,
57:1.4)
875,000,000,000 B.C. - The Andronover nebula is duly initiated - (The Urantia Book,
57:1.6)
800,000,000,000 B.C. - The Andronover creation is well established as one of the magnificent primary nebulae of Orvonton - (The
Urantia Book,
57:2.2)
700,000,000,000 B.C. - The Andronover system assumes gigantic proportions. All of the material assigned to the subsequent creations
is held within the confines of this gigantic space wheel - (The Urantia Book,
57:2.3)
600,000,000,000 B.C. - The height of the Andronover energy-mobilization period is attained - (The Urantia Book,
57:2.4)
500,000,000,000 B.C. - The first Andronover sun is born (UB
57:3.6)
400,000,000,000 B.C. - The Michael and local universe Mother Spirit of Nebadon select the disintegrating Andronover nebula as the
site of their adventure in universe building. - (The Urantia Book,
119:0.7;
57:3.8)
400,000,000,000 B.C. - Many of the near-by and smaller suns are recaptured as a result of the gradual enlargement and further
condensation of the nucleus - (The Urantia Book,
57:3.7)
399,999,000,000 - 5,000,000,000 B.C. - The architectural worlds of Salvington and the 100 constellation headquarters groups of
planets, the local system headquarters planets, are constructed - (The Urantia Book,
57:3.8)
300,000,000,000 B.C. - The Andronover nebular system is passing through a transient period of relative physical stability. The staff
of Michael of Nebadon arrive on Salvington and the Uversa government of Orvonton recognizes the local universe of Nebadon - (The Urantia Book,
57:3.9)
200,000,000,000 B.C. - A time of contraction and condensation in the Andronover nuclear mass. Some
planets
revolving around the newborn
suns
have cooled sufficiently to be suitable for life implantation. The oldest inhabited planets of Nebadon date from these times. The completed universe
mechanism of Nebadon first begins to function; Michael's creation is registered on Uversa as a universe of inhabitation - (The Urantia Book,
57:3.10;
57:3.11)
75,000,000,000 B.C. - The Andronover nebula has attained the height of its sun-family stage. The majority of these
suns
have since developed extensive systems of
planets,
satellites,
dark islands,
comets,
meteors,
and
cosmic dust clouds - (The Urantia Book,
57:4.2)
50,000,000,000 B.C. - The first period of
sun
dispersion in the Andronovre nebula is completed, giving origin to 876,926 sun systems - (The Urantia Book,
57:4.3)
7,000,000,000 B.C. - The height of the Andronover terminal breakup, the period of the birth of the larger terminal
suns
and the apex of the local physical disturbances. The
Milky Way galaxy
is composed of vast numbers of former spiral and other nebulae, and many still retain their original configuration. But as the result of internal
catastrophes and external attraction, many are so distorted and rearranged that these enormous aggregations appear as gigantic luminous masses of
blazing suns, like the
Magellanic Cloud.
- (The Urantia Book,
15:4.8;
57:4.7)
6,000,000,000 B.C. - The birth of
Sol,
our Sun, the 56th from the last of the Andronover second
solar
family. The total number of suns and sun systems having origin in the Andronover nebula is 1,013,628. The number of the
solar system sun is 1,013,572. Our
Sun will shine for more than 25,000,000,000 billion years. - (The
Urantia Book,
57:4.8;
41:9.5)
5,000,000,000 B.C. -
The Sun
is a comparatively isolated blazing orb, having gathered to itself most of the near-by circulating matter of space - (The Urantia Book,
57:5.1)
4,500,000,000 B.C. - The enormous Angona system begins its approach to the neighborhood of our solitary
Sun,
which, in conjunction with one of its periodic internal convulsions, experiences a partial disruption; from opposite sides and simultaneously,
enormous volumes of matter are disgorged. From the Angona side there is drawn out a vast column of solar gases, rather pointed at both ends and
markedly bulging at the center, which become permanently detached from the Sun's immediate gravity control - (The Urantia Book,
57:5.4-6)
4,495,000,000 B.C. -
The Sun
continues to pour forth diminishing volumes of matter - (The Urantia Book,
57:6.1)
4,000,000,000 B.C. - The
Jupiter
and
Saturn
systems are organized much as observed today except for their moons, which continue to increase in size for several billion years. All of the
planets
and
satellites
of the
solar system
continue to grow as the result of continued
meteoric
captures - (The Urantia Book,
57:6.6)
3,500,000,000 B.C. - The cores of most of the
moons
are intact, though some of the smaller satellites later unite to make the present-day larger moons. This age may be regarded as the era of planetary
assembly - (The Urantia Book,
57:6.7)
3,000,000,000 B.C. - The
solar system
is functioning much as it does today. Its members continue to grow in size as
meteors
continued to pour in upon the planets and their satellites at a prodigious rate. The solar system is placed on the physical registry of Nebadon and
given its name, Monmatia - (The Urantia Book,
57:6.8-9)
2,500,000,000 B.C. - Earth
(Urantia) is a well-developed sphere about one tenth its present mass and is still growing rapidly by meteoric accretion - (The Urantia Book,
57:6.10)
1,500,000,000 B.C. -
Earth
is two thirds its present size, while Luna,
the moon
is nearing its present mass. Earth's rapid gain over the moon in size enables it to begin the slow robbery of what little atmosphere the moon
originally had - (The Urantia Book,
57:7.4)
1,500,000,000 B.C. - Precipitation of rain on the hot rocky surface begins. For thousands of years Urantia is enveloped in one
vast and continuous blanket of steam. - (The Urantia Book,
57:7.7)
1,000,000,000 - 550,000,000 B.C. - The first major planetary era, the prelife era, extends over this initial 450,000,000 years
period, defined as the
Archeozoic era
- (The Urantia Book,
59:0.1)
1,000,000,000 B.C. - 30 A.D. - It required almost one billion years to complete the bestowal career of Michael and to effect the
final establishment of his supreme authority in the universe of his own creation. The bestowals of Michael as a Melchizedek Son, then as a Lanonandek
Son, and next as a Material Son are all equally mysterious and beyond explanation. In each instance he appeared suddenly and as a fully developed
individual of the bestowal group - (The Urantia Book,
119:8.2;
119:3.6)
1,000,000,000 B.C. - Michael makes ready for his first bestowal mission,announcing that his elder brother, Immanuel,
will assume authority in Nebadon while he (Michael) will be absent on an unexplained mission. Three days after his disappearance a communication from
the Melchizedek sphere registers the appearance at noon of an unusual Melchizedek Son. He is gone for 20 years of standard time before reappearing on
Salvington - (The Urantia Book,
119:0.7;
119:1.1)
1,000,000,000 B.C. - The beginning of Urantia history. The planet has attained approximately its present size. And about this
time it is placed upon the physical registries of Nebadon and given its name, Urantia. Urantia is assigned to the system of Satania for
planetary administration and placed on the life registry of Norlatiadek - (The Urantia Book,
57:8.1;
57:8.6)
950,000,000 B.C. - There is one great continent of land and one large body of water, the
Pacific Ocean.
Volcanoes are still widespread and earthquakes are both frequent and severe.
Meteors
continue to bombard the earth. The atmosphere is clearing up, but with a large amount of
carbon dioxide.
The earth's crust is gradually stabilizing - (The Urantia Book,
57:8.5)
900,000,000 B.C. - The arrival of the first Satania scouting party sent out from Jerusem to examine Urantia to report on its
adaptation for a life-experiment world - (The Urantia Book,
57:8.7)
900,000,000 B.C. - Nowhere on the surface of the world will there be found more of the modified remnants of these ancient
preocean rocks than in northeastern Canada around
Hudson Bay
- (The Urantia Book,
57:8.12)
850,000,000 B.C. - Stabilization of the earth's crust begins. Most of the heavier metals have settled down toward the center of the
globe; the cooling crust has ceased to cave in on such an extensive scale as in former ages - (The Urantia Book,
57:8.16)
850,000,000 B.C. - Approximate time of Michael's second bestowal. Three days after his disappearance from
Salvington, there appeared within the reserve corps of primary Lanonandek Sons one with credentials of assignment to system 11 of constellation 37
where the most widespread and disastrous rebellion in Nebadon was in progress. For more than 17 years of universe time Michael worked to right the
wrongs instigated by the rebel System Sovereign, Lutentia, becoming known as Savior Sovereign of the system Palonia - (The Urantia Book,
119:0.7;
119:2.1)
750,000,000 B.C. - The first breaks in the continental land mass began as the great north-and-south cracking, which admits the ocean
waters and prepares the way for the westward drift of the continents of
North
and
South America,
including
Greenland.
A long east-and-west cleavage separates
Africa
from
Europe
and severes the land masses of
Australia,
the
Pacific Islands,
and
Antarctica
from the Asiatic continent - (The Urantia Book,
57:8.23)
700,000,000 B.C. - Urantia is approaching conditions suitable for the support of life - (The Urantia Book,
57:8.24)
700,000,000 B.C. - Approximate time of Michael's third bestowal. On the third day after his disappearance on
Salvington there appeared, unnanounced, on the headquarters world of system 87 in constellation 61, a Material Son assigned to world 217 (where the
second rebellion up to that time of a System Sovereign in Nebadon was transpiring); Michael began his difficult career as a planetary Adam on a
quarantined world in secession and rebellion - (The Urantia Book,
119:3.1)
600,000,000 B.C. - The commission of Life Carriers sent out from Jerusem arrives on Urantia to study the physical conditions
preparatory to launching life - (The Urantia Book,
58:1.1)
550,000,000 - 400,000,000 B.C. - The second major planetary era, the life-dawn era, extends over the next 150,000,000 years and is
defined as the
Proterozoic era - (The Urantia Book,
(59:0.1)
550,000,000 B.C. - Approximate time of Michael's fourth bestowal. On the third day after his disappearance from
Salvington there appeared an unknown seraphim belonging to the supreme order of the angels
assigned to the teaching counselors corps. For over 40 standard universe years he (Michael) functioned as a private secretary to 26 different master
teachers, functioning on 22 different worlds where his last assignment was as a counselor attached to a Trinity Teacher Son on world 462 in system 84
of constellation 3 in Nebadon - (The Urantia Book,
119:4.1;
119:0.7)
550,000,000 B.C. - The Life Carrier corps initiates the original life patterns and plants them in the water in 3 original,
identical, marine-life implantations: the central or Eurasian-African, the eastern or
Australasian,
and the western, embracing
Greenland
and
the Americas
- (The Urantia Book,
58:4.2)
500,000,000 B.C. - Primitive marine vegetable life is well established - (The Urantia Book,
58:4.3)
450,000,000 B.C. - The transition from vegetable to animal life occurs suddenly. There are many transitional stages between the early
primitive vegetable forms of life and the later well-defined animal organisms. From era to era radically new species of animal life arise. They do not
evolve as the result of the gradual accumulation of small variations; they appear as full-fledged and new orders of life, and they appear suddenly;
the higher
protozoan
types of animal life now appear suddenly. The
ameba,
the typical single-celled animal organism, appears today much as it did when it was the last and greatest achievement in
evolution. This creature and its protozoan cousins are to the animal creation what
bacteria
are to the plant kingdom; they represent the survival of the first early evolutionary steps in life differentiation together with failure of
subsequent development - (The Urantia Book,
58:6.1;
65:2.4)
400,000,000 - 350,000,000 B.C. - Designated the
Cambrian era
- (The Urantia Book,
59:1.20;
58:6.3)
400,000,000 - 150,000,000 B.C. - The third major planetary era, the marine life era, extends over the next 250,000,000 years and is
defined as the
Paleozoic era - (The Urantia Book,
59:6.11;
59:0.1)
400,000,000 B.C. - Both vegetable and animal marine life is fairly well distributed over the whole world - (The Urantia Book,
59:1.2)
400,000,000 B.C. - Suddenly and without gradation ancestry the first multicellular animals make their appearance. The trilobites have evolved, and for ages they dominate the seas.
From the standpoint of marine life this is the trilobite age - (The Urantia Book,
59:1.4)
390,000,000 B.C. - Over parts of eastern and western America and
western Europe may be found the stone strata laid down
during this time; these are the oldest rocks which contain
trilobite
fossils - (The Urantia Book,
59:1.6)
380,000,000 B.C. - The newly appearing
Atlantic Ocean makes extensive inroads on all adjacent
coast lines. The northern Atlantic or
Arctic Seas are connected with the southern Gulf waters.
When this southern sea enters the
Appalachian trough, its waves break upon the
east against mountains as high as the
Alps, but in general the continents are uninteresting lowlands,
utterly devoid of scenic beauty - (The Urantia Book,
59:1.8)
370,000,000 B.C. - The almost total submergence of
North
South America
occurs, followed by the sinking of
Africa
and
Australia.
Only certain parts of
North America
remain above these shallow
Cambrian
seas. All of these phenomena of land sinking and land rising are undramatic, taking place slowly over millions of years - (The Urantia Book,
59:1.11)
360,000,000 B.C. - The world climate is oceanic, not continental. The southern seas are warmer then than now, and they extended
northward over
North America up to the polar regions. The
Gulf Stream courses over the central portion of North
America, being deflected eastward warm the shores of
Greenland, making that continent a veritable tropic Paradise
- (The Urantia Book,
59:1.17)
350,000,000 B.C. - Three major inundations characterize this period, but before it ends, the continents again rise, the total land
emergence being 15 per cent greater than now exists - (The Urantia Book,
59:2.2)
340,000,000 B.C. - This is a great limestone age, much of its stone being laid down by lime-secreting algae - (The Urantia Book,
59:2.3)
330,000,000 B.C. - The great North American volcano of eastern Kentucky erupts, one of the greatest volcanic activities the world has
ever known. The ashes of this volcano cover five hundred square miles to a depth of from fifteen to twenty feet - (The Urantia Book,
59:2.5)
320,000,000 B.C. - Eastern
North America
and
western Europe
are from 10,000 to 15,000 feet under water - (The Urantia Book,
59:2.6)
310,000,000 B.C. -
Mexico
emerges, creating the Gulf Sea - (The Urantia Book,
59:2.7)
300,000,000 - 275,000,000 B.C. - The third marine-life period, covering 25,000,000 years known as the
Silurian
- (The Urantia Book,
59:3.12)
300,000,000 B.C. - The seas teem with lime-shelled life, and the falling of these shells to the sea bottom gradually builds up very
thick layers of limestone. This is the first widespread limestone deposit, covering practically all of
Europe
and
North America.
The thickness of this ancient rock layer averages about 1000 feet - (The Urantia Book,
59:3.1)
300,000,000 B.C. - Approximate time of Michael's fifth bestowal. Universe authority is transferred to Immanuel
and Michael and Gabriel depart Salvington. Shortly thereafter an unannounced and unnumbered ascendant pilgrim of mortal origin, Eventod, appeared,
living and functioning on Uversa for 11 years of Orvonton standard time where he (Michael) continued his career up to the time of the advancement of a
group of ascending mortals to Havona, when he took his leave of Uversa and returned to Salvington - (The Urantia Book,
119:0.7;
119:5.1)
290,000,000 B.C. - The early mountain movement of all the continents is beginning, and the greatest of these crustal upheavals are
the
Himalayas of
Asia and the great
Caledonian Mountains, extending from
Ireland through
Scotland and on to
Spitzbergen
- (The Urantia Book,
59:3.3)
290,000,000 B.C. - The
trilobites rapidly decline, and the center of the stage is
occupied by the larger mollusks, or
cephalopods. These animals grew to be fifteen feet long and
one foot in diameter and became masters of the seas. This species of animal appeared suddenly and assumed dominance of sea life - (The Urantia Book,
59:3.5)
280,000,000 B.C. - The rock deposits of this submergence are known in
North America as
Niagara limestone
because this is the stratum of rock over which
Niagara Falls
now flows - (The Urantia Book,
59:3.9)
280,000,000 B.C. - The
trilobites have nearly disappeared, and the
mollusks continue monarchs of the seas; coral-reef formation
increases greatly. During this age, in the more favorable locations the primitive water scorpions first evolve. Soon thereafter, and suddenly, the
true
scorpions
—actual air breathers—make their appearance - (The Urantia Book,
59:3.11)
275,000,000 - 225,000,000 B.C. - The conclusion of the longest periods of marine-life
evolution, the age of fishes. This period lasts almost 50,000,000 years; the
Devonian period
- (The Urantia Book,
59:4.18)
270,000,000 B.C. - The continents are all above water, one of the greatest land-emergence epochs in all world history - (The Urantia
Book,
59:4.4)
265,000,000 B.C. - The land areas of
North and
South America,
Europe,
Africa,
northern Asia, and
Australia are briefly inundated. The immense arctic North
American inland sea finds an outlet to the
Pacific Ocean through northern
California
- (The Urantia Book,
59:4.5)
250,000,000 B.C. - The appearance of the
fish family, the vertebrates, one of the most important steps in
all prehuman evolution - (The Urantia Book,
59:4.9)
250,000,000 B.C. - Suddenly, the prolific
fern family
appears and quickly spreads over the face of the rapidly rising land in all parts of the world. Tree types, two feet thick and forty feet high, soon
developed; later on, leaves evolved, but these early varieties had only rudimentary foliage. There are many smaller plants, but their fossils are not
found since they were usually destroyed by the still earlier appearing
bacteria - (The Urantia Book,
59:4.13)
240,000,000 B.C. - The
Catskill Mountains along the west bank of the
Hudson River
are one of the largest geologic monuments of this epoch - (The Urantia Book,
59:4.15)
230,000,000 B.C. - Great volcanic activity occurs in the
St. Lawrence region.
Mount Royal, at
Montreal, is the eroded neck of one of these volcanoes. The
deposits of this entire epoch are well shown in the
Appalachian Mountains of
North America where the
Susquehanna River has cut a valley exposing these
successive layers, which attain a thickness of over 13,000 feet - (The Urantia Book,
59:4.16)
220,000,000 B.C. - This is the age of ferns - (The Urantia Book,
59:5.2)
210,000,000 B.C. - Suddenly the first of the land animals appear. There are numerous species of these animals that are able to live
on land or in water. These air- breathing amphibians developed from the
arthropods, whose swim bladders have evolved into lungs.
This period could be known as the age of frogs. The
frog is one of the earliest of surviving human-race ancestors and
is the only species ancestor of the early dawn races now living on the face of the earth. The human race has no surviving ancestry between the frog
and the
Eskimo
- (The Urantia Book,
59:5.5;
65:2.7)
200,000,000 - 175,000,000 B.C. - The actual coal-deposition epoch is a little over 25,000,000 years - (The Urantia Book,
59:5.13)
200,000,000 B.C. - The really active stages of the
Carboniferous period
begin. For 20,000,000 years prior to this time the earlier coal deposits are being laid down, but now the more extensive coal-formation activities are
in process - (The Urantia Book,
59:5.13)
190,000,000 B.C. - The westward extension of the North American Carboniferous sea over the present
Rocky Mountains region, with an outlet to the
Pacific Ocean through northern
California.
Coal continues to be laid down throughout the
Americas and
Europe, layer upon layer - (The Urantia Book,
59:5.19)
160,000,000 B.C. - The land is largely covered with vegetation adapted to support land-animal life, and the atmosphere is ideal for
animal respiration - (The Urantia Book,
59:6.10)
150,000,000 - 50,000,000 B.C. - The fourth major planetary era, the early land-life era. extends over the next 100,000,000 years and
is known as the
Mesozoic era
- (The Urantia Book,
59:0.1;
60:4.6)
150,000,000 B.C. - Approximate time of Michael's sixth bestowal. Michael, accompanied by Gabriel, disappeared from
Salvington to appear as a full-fledged
morontia mortal of ascending status at the courts of the Most High Fathers on the
headquarters planet of constellation five - (The Urantia Book,
119:6.1;
119:0.7)
150,000,000 B.C. - The early land-life periods of the world's history begins - (The Urantia Book,
60:1.5)
140,000,000 B.C. - Suddenly and with only the hint of the two prereptilian ancestors that developed in
Africa during the preceding epoch,
reptiles appeared in full- fledged form. - (The Urantia Book,
60:1.9)
137,000,000 B.C. - The first
mammals appear. They are nonplacental and proved a speedy
failure; none survive - (The Urantia Book,
60:1.11)
130,000,000 B.C. - A rich and unique marine life appears on the Californian Pacific coast, where over 1000 species of
ammonites develope from the higher types of
Cephalopods
- (The Urantia Book,
60:1.13)
125,000,000 - 100,000,000 B.C. - This period, embracing the height and the beginning decline of the
reptiles, is known as the
Jurassic - (The Urantia Book,
60:2.15)
125,000,000 - 100,000,000 B.C. - This period, the
Triassic, extends over 25,000,000 years - (The Urantia Book,
60:1.14)
120,000,000 B.C. - A new phase of the reptilian age begins, the evolution and decline of the
dinosaurs. Land-animal life reaches its greatest development,
in point of size, and had virtually perished from the face of the earth by the end of this age - (The Urantia Book,
60:2.1)
100,000,000 - 50,000,000 B.C. - The end of the
Cretaceous age, bringing to a close the premammalian era of
land life - (The Urantia Book,
60:4.6)
100,000,000 B.C. - The reptilian age is drawing to a close - (The Urantia Book,
60:2.14)
95,000,000 B.C. - The southern seas invade
North America and connect with the
Arctic Ocean, constituting the second greatest
submergence of the continent. When this sea finally withdraws, it leaves the continent about as it now is. Before this great submergence began, the
eastern
Appalachian highlands had been almost completely
worn down to the water's level - (The Urantia Book,
60:3.5)
90,000,000 B.C. - The
angiosperms emerge from the early
Cretaceous seas and soon overrun the continents. These land
plants suddenly appeared along with
fig trees,
magnolias, and
tulip trees. Soon after this time fig trees,
breadfruit trees, and
palms overspread
Europe and the western plains of
North America
- (The Urantia Book,
60:3.7)
75,000,000 B.C. - From Alaska to Cape Horn the long
Pacific coast mountain ranges are completed, but
there are as yet few peaks - (The Urantia Book,
60:3.12)
65,000,000 B.C. - Many present-day trees first appear, including
beech,
oak,
walnut,
sycamore,
maple, and modern
palms.
Fruits,
grasses, and
cereals are abundant. Suddenly the great family of
flowering plants
mutated. This new flora soon overspread the entire world - (The Urantia Book,
60:3.19)
65,000,000 B.C. - One of the greatest lava flows of all time. The deposition layers of these and preceding lava flows are to be
found all over the
Americas, North and South
Africa,
Australia, and parts of
Europe
- (The Urantia Book,
60:3.16)
60,000,000 B.C. - Though the land
reptiles are on the the decline,
dinosaurs continued as monarchs of the land, with more agile
and active types of the smaller leaping kangaroo varieties of the carnivorous dinosaurs - (The Urantia Book,
60:3.19)
55,000,000 B.C. - The sudden appearance of the first of the true
birds, a small pigeonlike creature which is the ancestor of all
bird life. This is the third type of flying creature to appear on earth, and it springs directly from the reptilian group, not from the contemporary
flying dinosaurs nor from the earlier types of
toothed land birds. This becomes known as the age of
birds as well as the declining age of
reptiles
- (The Urantia Book,
60:3.22)
55,000,000 B.C. - The fern forests are largely replaced by pine and other modern trees, including redwoods.- (The Urantia Book,
60:4.5)
50,000,000 - 1,000,000 - The fifth major planetary era, the
mammalian era,
extends over this 50,000,000 year period - (The Urantia Book,
59:0.1;
61:0.1)
50,000,000 - 35,000 B.C. - Extending from the rise of mammalian life to the retreat of the ice and on down to historic times is
the last—the current—geologic period and is known as the
Cenozoic or recent-times era - (The Urantia Book,
61:7.19;
59:0.6)
50,000,000 B.C. - In
North America the
placental type of mammals suddenly appear, and they
constitute the most important
evolutionary development up to this time. Previous orders of
nonplacental mammals have existed, but this new type
sprang directly and suddenly from the pre- existent reptilian ancestor whose descendants persisted on down through the times of dinosaur decline. The
father of the
placental mammals is a small, highly active,
carnivorous, springing type of
dinosaurs - (The Urantia Book,
61:1.2;
65:2.12)
45,000,000 B.C. - Mammalian life is evolving rapidly. A small reptilian, egg-laying type of
mammal flourishes, and the ancestors of the later
kangaroos roam
Australia. There are small horses, fleet-footed
rhinoceroses,
tapirs with proboscises, primitive
pigs,
squirrels,
lemurs,
opossums, and several tribes of monkeylike animals. They are
all small, primitive, and best suited to living among the forests of the mountain regions. A large ten foot tall ostrichlike bird develops, laying an
egg nine by thirteen inches - (The Urantia Book,
61:1.9)
35,000,000 - 25,000,000 B.C. - By the close of this
Oligocene period, the plant life, together with the marine
life and the land animals, has very largely evolved and is present on earth much as today. Considerable specialization has subsequently appeared, but
the ancestral forms of most living things are now alive - (The Urantia Book,
61:2.13)
30,000,000 B.C. - The modern types of
mammals begin to make their appearance. Formerly the mammals
have lived for the greater part in the hills, being of the mountainous types; suddenly evolution of the plains or hoofed type, the grazing species,
begins. These grazers spring from an undifferentiated ancestor having 5 toes and 44 teeth, which perished before the end of the age - (The Urantia
Book,
61:2.8)
20,000,000 B.C. - The golden age of
mammals. The
Bering Strait land bridge is up, and many groups of animals
migrate to
North America from
Asia, including the
four-tusked mastodons, short-legged
rhinoceroses, and many varieties of the
cat family. The first deer appeared, and North America was
soon overrun by ruminants—deer, oxen, camels, bison, and several species of rhinoceroses. Elephants soon overran the entire world except Australia.
For once the world was dominated by a huge animal with a brain sufficiently large to enable it to carry on. No animal the size of an elephant could
have survived unless it had possessed a brain of large size and superior quality. In intelligence and adaptation the elephant is approached only by
the horse and is surpassed only by man himself. Even so, of the fifty species of elephants in existence at the opening of this period, only two have
survived. - (The Urantia Book,
61:3.4)
12,000,000 - 2,000,000 B.C. - Designated the
Pliocene era - (The Urantia Book,
61:4.7)
10,000,000 B.C. - Two great fresh-water lakes exist in western
North America. The
Sierras are elevating;
Shasta,
Hood, and
Rainier are forming - (The Urantia Book,
61:4.2)
Timeline within this blue background will not coincide with currently accepted scientific dates.
These discrepancies are explainable. See the explanatory links as they become available.
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- Early History -
5,000,000 B.C. - The
horse evolves as it now is and from
North America migrates to all the world - (The Urantia
Book,
61:4.5)
2,050,000 - 35,000 B.C. - The
Pleistocene ice age is the last completed geologic period
- (The Urantia Book,
61:7.17)
2,000,000 B.C. - The first
North American glacier starts its southern
advance. The central ice sheet extends south as far as Kansas - (The Urantia Book,
61:5.5)
1,500,000 B.C. - The first great glacier is retreating northward. Enormous quantities of snow are falling on
Greenland and on the northeastern part of
North America, and this eastern ice mass begins to flow
southward. This is the second invasion of the ice - (The Urantia Book,
61:5.6)
1,500,000 B.C. - The great event of this glacial period is the
evolution of primitive man. Slightly to the west of
India, on land now under water and among the offspring of
Asiatic migrants of the older North American
lemur types, the dawn mammals suddenly appear. These small
animals walk mostly on their hind legs, and they possess large brains in proportion to their size and in comparison with the brains of other animals.
In the seventieth generation of this order of life a new and higher group of animals suddenly differentiats. These new mid-mammals— almost twice the
size and height of their ancestors and possessing proportionately increased brain power—had only well established themselves when the
Primates, the third vital mutation, suddenly appeared. (At
this same time, a retrograde development within the mid-mammal stock gave origin to the simian ancestry; and from that day to this the human branch
has gone forward by progressive evolution, while the
simian tribes have remained stationary or have actually
retrogressed.) - (The Urantia Book,
61:6.1)
1,012,000 B.C. - The origin of the dawn mammals. The first direct ancestors to human beings. After almost nine hundred generations of
development, covering about twenty-one thousand years from the origin of the dawn mammals, the
Primates suddenly give birth to two remarkable creatures,
ancestors to the first true human beings. The dawn mammals, springing from the North American
lemur type, give origin to the mid-mammals, and these mid-
mammals in turn produce the superior Primates, who become the immediate ancestors of the primitive human race. The Primates tribes are the last vital
link in the
evolution of man, but in less than five thousand years not a single individual of these
extraordinary tribes is left - (The Urantia Book,
62:4.6-7;
62:2.1)
1,000,000 B.C. - The
Mesopotamian dawn mammals, the direct descendants of the
North American
lemur type of placental mammal, suddenly appear. The immediate
ancestors of mankind make their appearance by three successive and sudden mutations stemming from early stock of the lemur type of placental mammal.
The direct mammalian ancestry of mankind takes place in
southwestern Asia, on the borders of the eastern
regions lying between the then expanded
Mediterranean Sea and the elevating mountainous
regions of the
Indian peninsula. These lands to the west of India
establish the ancestry of the human race.- (The Urantia Book,
62:0.1-2;
62:2.1)
1,000,000 B.C. - The light from the Andromeda nebula, visible to the naked eye, left those distant suns almost one million years ago.
- (The Urantia Book,
15:4.7)
991,485 B.C. - The birth of the first two human beings. A mutation within the stock of the progressing Primates
suddenly produces twin primitive human beings, named Andon and Fonta, the actual ancestors of mankind - (The Urantia Book,
63:0.1)
991,474 B.C. - Urantia is registered as an inhabited world. Andon and Fonta were 11 years old.
Biologic evolution has once again achieved the human levels of will dignity; man has arrived - (The Urantia Book,
61:6.2;
62:5.1;
62:7.7;
63:0.1)
991,472 B.C. - The first child of Andon and Fonta is born; they name him Sontad. Sontad is the first creature to be
born on Urantia who is wrapped in protective coverings at the time of birth. Andon and Fonta had 19 children, almost half a hundred grandchildren and
6 great-grandchildren. The human race has begun. - (The Urantia Book,
63:3.1)
981,389 - 981,320 B.C. - Onagar. The achievements of this master mind and spiritual leader of the pre-Planetary
Prince days is a thrilling recital of the organization of primitive peoples into a real society. He instituted an efficient tribal government - (The
Urantia Book,
63:6.8)
950,000 B.C. - Migration of the descendants of Andon and Fonta, the Andonites. To the west they passed over
Europe to France and
England. To the east, as far as
Java, where their bones are so recently found—the so-
called
Java man—and then journeyed on to
Tasmania - (The Urantia Book,
64:1.6)
900,000 B.C. - The arts of Andon and Fonta and the culture of Onagar are vanishing from the face of the earth; culture,
religion, and even
flintworking are at their lowest ebb - (The Urantia Book,
64:2.1)
900,000 B.C. - Large numbers of inferior tribes are arriving in
England from southern
France. These tribes are so largely mixed with the forest
apelike creatures that they are scarcely human. They have no religion but are crude flintworkers and can kindle fire. They are followed in
Europe by a somewhat superior and prolific people, whose
descendants soon spread over the entire continent from the ice in the north to the
Alps and Mediterranean in the south. These are the
Heidleberg race. - (The Urantia Book,
64:2.3)
900,000 B.C. - A superior group with more Andonic genetics, the Foxhall people, already existed in western England and continued to
hold onto some of the traditions of Andon as well as some of Onagar's culture. They were the ancestors of the Eskimos - (The Urantia Book,
64:2.1)
850,000 - 849,000 B.C. - The Badonan tribes begin a warfare of extermination directed against their inferior and animalistic
neighbors. This campaign for the extermination of inferiors brings about a slight improvement in the hill tribes of that age. The mixed descendants of
this improved Badonite stock appear as an apparently new people —
the Neanderthal race
- (The Urantia Book,
64:3.5)
850,000 - 350,000 B.C. - The
Neanderthalers are excellent fighters, and they traveled
extensively. They gradually spread from the highland centers in northwest
India to
France on the west,
China on the east, and even down into
northern Africa. They dominated the world until the times
of the migration of the evolutionary races of color - (The Urantia Book,
64:4.1)
800,000 B.C. - The
Neanderthalers are great hunters; game is abundant; many
species of deer, as well as
elephants and
hippopotamuses roamed over
Europe.
Cattle are plentiful;
horses and
wolves are everywhere. - (The Urantia Book,
64:4.2)
750,000 B.C. - The fourth ice sheet is well on its way south. at its height it reaches to southern Illinois, displacing the
Mississippi River 50 miles to the west, and in the
east it extends as far south as the
Ohio River and central Pennsylvania - (The Urantia Book, 61:7.2;
64:4.4)
700,000 B.C. -
The fourth glacier, the greatest of all in Europe, is in recession; men and animals are returning north. The
climate is cool and moist, and primitive humans again thrive in Europe and western Asia. Gradually the forests spread north over land which has been
so recently covered by the glacier - (The Urantia Book,
64:4.6)
700,000 B.C. - In their hearts,
Lucifer and his first assistant,
Satan, begin to array themselves against the
Universal Father and his then vicegerent Son, Michael (The Urantia Book,
53:2.1)
650,000 B.C. - The continuation of the mild climate. By the middle of the
interglacial period it has become so warm that the
Alps
are almost denuded of ice and snow - (The Urantia Book,
64:4.8)
600,000 B.C. -
Ice has reached its then northernmost point of retreat and,
after a pause of a few thousand years, starts south again on its fifth excursion. - (The Urantia Book,
64:4.9)
550,000 B.C. - The
advancing glacier again pushes men and animals south. This
time there is a wide belt of land stretching northeast into
Asia and lying between the ice sheet and the then greatly
expanded
Black Sea extension of the
Mediterranean. These times of the fourth and fifth
glaciers provide the further spread of the crude culture of the
Neanderthal races. For almost 250,000 years these
primitive peoples drifted on, hunting and fighting, by spells improving in certain directions, but, on the whole, steadily retrogressing as compared
with their superior Andonic ancestors - (The Urantia Book,
64:4.10-11)
500,000 - 400,000 B.C. - Spreading of the news of the arrival of the Prince's staff. Much subsequent mythology grew out of the
garbled legends of those early days when the Prince's staff were repersonalized as supermen - (The Urantia Book,
66:4.1)
500,000 - 200,000 B.C. - Planetary civilization progressed in a fairly normal manner for almost 300,000 years. Urantia progressed
very satisfactorily in its planetary career up to the times of the
Lucifer rebellion and the concurrent
Caligastia betrayal. All subsequent history has been definitely modified by this
catastrophic blunder as well as by the later failure of
Adam and Eve to fulfill their planetary mission. See the Dalamatian teachings and the Law
of Dalamatia below - (The Urantia Book,
66:8.3)
500,000 B.C. - The Badonan tribes of the
northwestern highlands of India become involved in
another great racial struggle, only about one hundred families are left. But these survivors are the most intelligent and desirable of all the then
living descendants of Andon and Fonta. Among these highland Badonites a man and woman living in the northeastern part of the region begin suddenly to
produce an unusual family. This is the Sangik family, the ancestors and origin of all of the six colored races. The Sangik children,
19 in number, are not only intelligent above their fellows, but their skins manifested a unique tendency to turn various colors upon exposure to
sunlight. Among these nineteen children are five red, two orange, four yellow, two green, four blue, and two indigo. These colors became more
pronounced as the children grow older, and when these youths later mated with their fellow tribesmen, all of their offspring tended toward the skin
color of the Sangik parent - (The Urantia Book,
64:5.1-3;
61:7.4) Concurrent with the appearance of the 6 colored or Sangik races,
Caligastia, the Planetary Prince, arrives on Urantia with his staff of 100. The staff of 100 is repersonalized on Urantia by a
technique of the Life Carriers and a commission from the local universe of Avalon whereby a portion of human living material is transferred to the
constructed bodies of the Jerusem volunteers. The 100 modified human donors became the personal attendants of the staff and both staff and attendants
have the potential of immortality - (The Urantia Book,
66:2.7;
66:3.15)
500,000 B.C. - There are almost 500,000,000 primitive human beings on earth at this time, and they are well scattered over
Europe,
Asia, and
Africa. The Prince's headquarters, the walled city of
Dalamatia, established in
Mesopotamia, is at about the center of world population.
The Law of Dalamatia: 1. You shall not fear nor serve any God but the Father of all. 2. You shall not disobey the Father's Son, the
world's ruler, nor show disrespect to his superhuman associates. 3. You shall not speak a lie when called before the judges of the people. 4. You
shall not kill men, women, or children. 5. You shall not steal your neighbor's goods or cattle. 6. You shall not touch your friend's wife. 7. You
shall not show disrespect to your parents or to the elders of the tribe. This was the law of Dalamatia for almost 300,000 years. And many of the
stones on which this law was inscribed now lie beneath the waters off the shores of Mesopotamia and Persia. The Dalamatian teachings.
The true concept of the First Source and Center was first promulgated by the one hundred members of Prince Caligastia's staff. This expanding
revelation of Deity went on for more than three hundred thousand years until it was
suddenly terminated by the planetary secession and the disruption of the teaching regime. Except for the work of Van, the influence
of the Dalamatian revelation was practically lost to the whole world. Even the Nodites had forgotten this truth
by the time of Adam's arrival - (The Urantia Book,
61:7.4;
66:0.1-2;
66:3.1;
66:7.9-16;
92:4.5)
500,000 B.C. -
The fifth advance of the ice - (The Urantia Book,
61:7.4)
500,000 B.C. - The Union of Days on Salvington is aware that all is not at peace in Lucifer's mind - (The Urantia Book,
53:2.3)
500,000 - 35,914 B.C. - Van is left on Urantia until the time of Adam, remaining as titular head of all superhuman personalities
functioning on the planet - (The Urantia Book,
67:6.4)
499,967 - 450,000 B.C. - Origin of the primary midwayers. During the 33rd year in Dalamatia, number two and number
seven of the Danite group discovered a phenomenon that proved to be the origin of the first of the primary midway creatures. The original corps
consisted of 50,000 primary midwayers. A period of one-half year intervened between the production of each midwayer, and when 1000 such beings were
born to each couple, no more were ever forthcoming - (The Urantia Book,
66:4.10;
77:1.5)
350,000 B.C. - The green race experienced a great revival of culture under the leadership of Fantad - (The Urantia
Book,
64:6.17)
300,000 B.C. - Porshunta. The leader of the orange race, the master mind who ministered to them when their
headquarters was at
Armageddon - (The Urantia Book,
64:6.12)
300,000 B.C. - The main body of the yellow race entered
China from the south as coastwise migrants - (The Urantia Book,
79:5.3)
250,000 B.C. - The sixth and last
glaciation begins. This is the period of greatest snow
deposition on the northern ice fields - (The Urantia Book,
61:7.6)
200,000 - 199,993 B.C. - The crucial years of the
Caligastia rebellion. - (The Urantia Book,
67:3.6)
200,000 - 199,050 B.C. - Great confusion reigns in Dalamatia. The complete and radical reorganization of the whole world is
attempted; revolution displaced evolution as the policy of cultural advancement and racial improvement. Liberty is quickly translated into license by
the half-evolved primitive people of those days - (The Urantia Book,
67:5.1)
200,000 - 199,000 B.C. - Within 1000 years after the rebellion Van has more than 350 advanced groups scattered abroad in the world.
These outposts of civilization consisted largely of the descendants of the loyal Andonites slightly admixed with the Sangik races, particularly the
blue men, and with the Nodites - (The Urantia Book,
67:6.6)
200,000 B.C. - Proclamation of the Lucifer manifesto and the start of the
Lucifer rebellion and the consequential spiritual ban of Norlatiadek for all the worlds
of Satania - (The Urantia Book,
61:7.8;
50:6.5;
53:4.1)
200,000 B.C. - Michael petitions the Ancients of Days for authority to intern all personalities concerned in the Lucifer
rebellion - (The Urantia Book,
53:9.3)
200,000 B.C. -
Satan, Lucifer's assistant, makes one of his periodic inspection calls. He was, and still
is, a Lanonandek Son of great brilliance. - (The Urantia Book,
67:1.1)
200,000 B.C. - 30 A.D. - The rebel forces of
Lucifer are allowed to run a free course. The postrebellion era witnessed many unusual
happenings. A great civilization--the culture of Dalamatia--was disintegrating. "The Nephilim (Nodites) were on earth in those days, and when these
sons of the gods went in to the daughters of men and they bore to them, their children were the 'mighty men of old,' the 'men of renown."' While
hardly "sons of the gods," Caligastia's staff and their early descendants were so regarded in those distant days; even their stature came to be
magnified by tradition. This is the origin of the well-nigh universal
folk tales and legends of the gods who came down to earth and
there with the daughters of men begot an ancient race of heroes - (The Urantia Book,
53:5.3;
77:2.3)
199,998 B.C. - It was over two years of system time from the beginning of the
"war in heaven" until the installation of Lucifer's successor - (The Urantia Book,
53:7.12)
199,838 B.C. - (162 years after the outbreak of the Caligastia's rebellion) A tidal wave swept up over Dalamatia, and the planetary
headquarters sank beneath the waters of the sea, and this land did not again emerge until almost every vestige of the noble culture of those splendid
ages had been obliterated - (The Urantia Book,
67:5.4)
190,000 B.C. - Practically all the gains of the Prince's administration have been effaced; the races of the world are little better
off than if this misguided Son had never come to Urantia. Only among the Nodites and the Amadonites is there persistence of the traditions of
Dalamatia and the culture of the Planetary Prince. The pure-line Nodites are a magnificent race, but they gradually mingle with the evolutionary
peoples of earth, and before long great deterioration has occurred. They have lost ground to the point where their average length of life is little
more than that of the evolutionary races - (The Urantia Book,
73:1.2;
77:2.9)
180,000 B.C. - The Melchizedeks begin to teach that the good resulting from Lucifer's folly has come to equal the evil incurred -
(The Urantia Book,
54:6.6)
150,000 B.C. - Earthly affairs are so disorganized and retarded that the human race has gained very little over the general
evolutionary status existing at the time of Caligastia's arrival 350,000 years previously - (The Urantia Book,
67:7.3)
150,000 B.C. -
The sixth and last glacier reached its farthest
points of southern extension, the western ice sheet crossing just over the Canadian border; the central coming down into Kansas, Missouri, and
Illinois; the eastern sheet advancing south and covering the greater portion of Pennsylvania and Ohio. This glacier sent forth many tongues, or ice
lobes, which carved out the present- day lakes, great and small. During its retreat the North American system of
Great Lakes is produced. These bodies of water did, at
different times, empty first into the
Mississippi valley, then eastward into the
Hudson valley, and finally by a northern route into the
St. Lawrence 37,000 years ago. - (The Urantia
Book,
61:7.9-10)
100,000 B.C. - End of the orange race. The last great struggle between the orange and the green men occurred in the region of the
lower Nile valley in
Egypt. This long-drawn-out battle was waged for almost one
hundred years, and at its close very few of the orange race are left alive. The shattered remnants of these people are absorbed by the green and
by the later arriving indigo races - (The Urantia Book,
64:6.13)
100,000 B.C. - Singlangton assumed the leadership of the yellow race and proclaimed the worship of the "One
Truth." - (The Urantia Book,
64:6.15)
100,000 B.C. - The decimated tribes of the red race are fighting with their backs to the retreating ice of
the last glacier, and when the land passage to
the West, over the
Bering isthmus,
became passable, these tribes were not slow in forsaking the inhospitable shores of the Asiatic continent - (The Urantia Book,
79:5.6)
85,000 B.C. - The comparatively pure remnants of the red race go en masse from
Asia to North America, and shortly thereafter the
Bering land isthmus sank, thus isolating them. The red race occupies the
Americas, having been driven out of
Asia over 50,000 years before the arrival of Adam - (The Urantia
Book,
78:1.6;
64:6.5)
83,000 B.C. - The last of the pure red men depart from Asia, but the long struggle left its genetic imprint upon the victorious yellow race. The northern
Chinese peoples, together with the Andonite
Siberians, assimilated much of the red stock and are in
considerable measure benefited - (The Urantia Book,
79:5.6)
80,000 B.C. - Shortly after the red race entered northwestern North America, the freezing over of the north seas and the advance of
local ice fields on
Greenland drove the
Eskimo descendants of the Urantia aborigines to seek a new
home; and they are successful, safely crossing the narrow straits which then separate Greenland from the northeastern land masses of
North America. They reach the continent about 2100 years
after the red race arrived in
Alaska. Subsequently some of the mixed stock of the blue race
journeyed westward and amalgamated with the later-day Eskimos, and this union was slightly beneficial to the Eskimo tribes - (The Urantia Book,
64:7.18)
65,000 - 64,004 B.C. - Onamonalonton, the leader and spiritual deliverer of the
American red race revives their
worship of the "Great Spirit." Onamonalonton maintained his headquarters among the great
redwood trees of California. Many of his later descendants
have come down to modern times among the
Blackfoot Indians - (The Urantia Book,
64:6.7)
40,000 B.C. - The Melchizedek receivers and the Life Carriers petitioned the Most Highs of Edentia asking that Urantia be inspected
with a view to authorizing the dispatch of biologic uplifters, a Material Son and Daughter,
Adam and Eve - (The Urantia Book,
73:0.1)
38,000 B.C. - present) - The ancient civilization of the yellow race has persisted down through the centuries. The civilization of
the sons of Han comes the nearest of all to presenting an unbroken picture of continual progression right on down to the times of the twentieth
century. The mechanical and religious developments of the white races have been of a high order, but they have never excelled the
Chinese in family
loyalty, group ethics, or personal morality - (The Urantia Book,
79:8.16)
36,000 B.C. - Tabamantia, sovereign supervisor of the series of decimal or experimental worlds, comes to inspect the
planet and, after his survey of racial progress, duly recommends that Urantia be granted Material Sons. At the time Adam was chosen to come to
Urantia, he was employed, with his mate, in the trial-and-testing physical laboratories of Jerusem. For more than 15,000 years they have been
directors of the division of experimental energy as applied to the modification of living
forms. Long before this they had been teachers in the citizenship schools for new arrivals on Jerusem - (The Urantia Book,
73:0.3;
74:1.2)
35,997 B.C. - Eighty-three years before the arrival of
Adam and Eve, Van and his associates devote themselves to the preparation of a garden
home for their reception - (The Urantia Book,
73:2.2)
35,994 - 35,992 B.C. - Locating the Garden of Eden. The committee on location is absent for almost 3 years. It then
reports favorably concerning three possible locations: The first is an island in the
Persian Gulf; the second, the river location subsequently
occupied as the
second garden; the third,
a long narrow peninsula—almost an island— projecting westward
from the eastern shores of the
Mediterranean Sea. The committee almost unanimously
favored the third selection. This site is chosen, and two years are occupied in transferring the world's cultural headquarters, including the tree of
life, to this Mediterranean peninsula - (The Urantia Book,
73:3.1-2)
35,914 - 33,797 B.C. - The "golden age" is a myth, but Eden was a fact - (The Urantia Book,
74:8.14)
35,914 B.C. - Adam and Eve, a Material Son and Daughter
of the local system, arrive midseason unannounced at high noon to begin the difficult task of attempting to untangle the confused affairs of a planet
retarded by rebellion and resting under the ban of spiritual isolation. From the time of their arrival ten days passed before they are re-created in
dual human form for presentation as the world's new rulers - (The Urantia Book,
74:0.1)
35,914 B.C. - Birth of Adamson, the first-born of the violet race of Urantia, followed by his sister and
Eveson, the second son of Adam and Eve - (The Urantia Book,
74:6.2)
35,907 B.C. - The Melchizedek receivers remained on duty for almost seven years after Adam's arrival before turning the
administration of world affairs over to him and returning to Jerusem.- (The Urantia Book,
74:5.1)
35,900 B.C. -
Adam and Eve portrayed the concept of the Father of all to the evolutionary peoples. But
by 2500 B.C. mankind has largely lost sight of the
revelation sponsored in the days of Eden - (The Urantia Book,
92:4.6)
(When human beings first appeared on the planet up until this time, a span of approximately 964,000 years, human beings had black hair and dark or
black irises. Skin color diversified with the advent of the
Sangik races at about 500,000 B.C., but it wasn't until the beginning of the infusion of Adamic genetics into the evolutionary
DNA that hair and eye color began to exhibit significant color variations.)
35,800 B.C. - After more than one hundred years of effort on Urantia, Adam is able to see very little progress outside the Garden;
the world at large does not seem to be improving much. The realization of race betterment appears to be a long way off, and the situation seems so
desperate as to demand something for relief not embraced in the original plans. At least that is what often passes through Adam's mind, and he so
expresses himself many times to Eve. Adam and his mate are loyal, but they are isolated from their kind, and they are sorely distressed by the sorry
plight of their world - (The Urantia Book,
75:0.1)
35,797 B.C. - The default of Adam and Eve. For more
than 5 years plans are secretly matured by Eve. At last they have developed to the point where she consents to have a secret conference with Cano, the
most brilliant mind and active leader of the near-by colony of friendly Nodites. The Garden civilization was overthrown. Adam and Eve lived in the
Garden for one hundred and seventeen years when, through the impatience of Eve and the errors of judgment of Adam, they presumed to turn aside from
the ordained way, speedily bringing disaster upon themselves and ruinous retardation upon the developmental progression of all Urantia - (The Urantia
Book,
75:3.7)
35,794 B.C. - Adamson sets out in search of the land of his youthful dreams, the highland home in the north of Van and Amadon ; he is
120 years old at this time and has been the father of 32 pure-line children of the first garden - (The Urantia Book,
77:5.2)
35,791 B.C. - Adamson's party finds the object of their adventure, and among these people he discovers Ratta, 20 years old, who
claims to be the last pure-line descendant of the Prince's staff, the last of her race, having no living brothers or sisters. She heard the story of
Eden, how the predictions of Van and Amadon have really come to pass, and the recital of the Garden default. In a little more than three months
Adamson and Ratta are married. and become partents to 67 children and the parents and grandparents of almost 2,000 secondary midwayers - (The Urantia
Book,
77:5.5)
35,790 B.C. - Michael selects Urantia as the theater for his final bestowal shortly after learning of the default of
Adam and Eve - (The Urantia Book,
119:7.2)
35,786 B.C. - The second garden. It required almost a full year for the
caravan of Adam to reach the
Euphrates River. Finding it in flood tide, they remained
camped on the plains west of the stream almost 6 weeks before they made their way across to the land between the rivers which became
the second garden, situated east of the
southern shore of the
Caspian Sea near the
Kopet Dagh - (The Urantia Book,
75:5.9;
77:5.10;
78:1.3;
76:1.1)
35,786 B.C. - Birth of Cain, the mortal son of Eve, and Sansa, the mortal daughter of Adam, were both born
before the Adamic
caravan had reached its destination
between the rivers in Mesopotamia.
Laotta, the mother of Sansa, perished at the birth of her daughter;
Eve suffered much but survived, owing to superior strength. Eve took Sansa, the child of
Laotta, to her bosom, and she was reared along with Cain. Sansa grew up to be a woman of great ability. She became the wife of Sargan, the chief of
the northern blue races, and contributed to the advancement of the blue men of those times - (The Urantia Book,
76:0.2;
76:2.1)
35,785 - 5,800 B.C. - The second Eden is the cradle of civilization for almost 30,000 years. In
Mesopotamia the Adamic peoples held forth, sending out
their progeny to the ends of the earth, and as amalgamated with the Nodite and Sangik tribes, are known as the Andites. From this region went those
men and women who initiated the doings of historic times, and who have so enormously accelerated cultural progress - (The Urantia Book,
78:0.1)
35,785 B.C. - Abel is born, the first child of
Adam and Eve to be born in the second garden - (The Urantia Book,
76:2.1)
35,785 B.C. - Birth of Seth, the eldest son of Adam and Eve born in the second garden. Seth was absorbed in the
work of improving the spiritual status of his father's people, becoming the head of the new priesthood of the second garden. His son, Enos, founded
the new order of worship, and his grandson, Kenan, instituted the foreign missionary service to the surrounding tribes, near and far - (The Urantia
Book,
76:3.4)
35,776 B.C. - Cain turned upon Abel in wrath and slew him - (The Urantia Book,
76:2.5)
35,700 - 29,000 B.C. - The Adamsonites maintained a high culture for almost 7,000 years from the times of Adamson and Ratta. Later on
they became admixed with the neighboring Nodites and Andonites and are also included among the "mighty men of old." And some of the advances of that
age persisted to become a latent part of the cultural potential which later blossomed into
European civilization - (The Urantia Book,
77:5.9)
35,518 B.C. - Death of Adamson - (The Urantia Book,
77:5.7)
35,403 B.C. - Death of Eve.
Eve died nineteen years prior to Adam of a weakened heart - (The Urantia Book,
76:5.5)
35,384 B.C. - Death of Adam.
Adam lived for 530 years and died of old age - (The Urantia Book,
76:5.5.)
35,000 - 15,000 B.C. - The culture of the second garden persisted, but it experienced a steady decline until the regeneration of the
Sethite priesthood and the leadership of Amosad
inaugurated a brilliant era. The massive waves of civilization which later spread over
Eurasia immediately followed the great renaissance of the
Garden consequent upon the extensive union of the Adamites with the surrounding mixed Nodites to form the Andites.
35,000 B.C. - The termination of the great ice age excepting in the
polar regions and corresponding to the beginning of the
Holocene or postglacial period - (The Urantia Book,
61:7.18)
33,000 B.C. - While the blue race pervaded the
European continent, there are scores of other racial types. The
European blue races are already a highly blended people carrying strains of both red and yellow, while on the Atlantic coastlands and in the regions
of present-day
Russia they have absorbed a considerable amount of Andonite
blood and to the south are in contact with the
Saharan peoples - (The Urantia Book,
80:3.2)
33,000 B.C. - Beginning of a steady improvement in human musical appreciation - (The Urantia Book,
44:1.5)
32,000 B.C. - Submergence of the Garden of Eden. After the garden was vacated by Adam, it was occupied variously by the Nodites,
Cutites, and the Suntites. It later became the dwelling place of the northern Nodites who opposed co-operation with the Adamites. The peninsula had
been overrun by these lower-grade Nodites for almost 4000 years after Adam left the Garden when, in connection with the violent activity of the
surrounding volcanoes and the submergence of the Sicilian land bridge to
Africa, the eastern floor of the
Mediterranean Sea sank, carrying down beneath the
waters the whole of the Edenic peninsula. Concomitant with this vast submergence the coast line of the eastern Mediterranean was greatly elevated. The
sinking was not sudden, several hundred years being required completely to submerge the entire peninsula - (The Urantia Book,
73:7.1)
30,000 - 10,000 B.C. - Epoch-making racial mixtures are taking place throughout
southwestern Asia. The highland inhabitants of
Turkestan are a virile and vigorous people. To the northwest
of
India much of the culture of the days of Van persisted. Still to
the north of these settlements the best of the early Andonites have been preserved. And both of these superior races of culture and character are
absorbed by the northward-moving Adamites - (The Urantia Book,
78:3.4)
28,000 B.C. - Extinction of fandors, the passenger birds for humans - (The Urantia Book,
66:5.6)
27,000 - 2,000 B.C. - The heart of Eurasia is
predominantly, though diminishingly, Andite. In the lowlands of
Turkestan the Andites make the westward turning around the
inland lakes into
Europe, while from the highlands of this region they infiltrate
eastward.
Eastern Turkestan
(Sinkiang) and, to a lesser extent,
Tibet are the ancient gateways through which these peoples of
Mesopotamia penetrated the mountains to the northern lands
of the yellow race. The Andite infiltration of
India proceeded from the
Turkestan highlands into the
Punjab and from the Iranian grazing lands through
Baluchistan - (The Urantia Book,
79:1.1)
25,000 - 15,000 B.C. - Racial distributions, associated with extensive climatic changes, set the world stage for the inauguration of
the Andite era of civilization - (The Urantia Book,
78:3.9)
25,000 - 5,000 B.C. - The highest mass civilization on Urantia is in central and northern
China. The yellow race is first to achieve a racial solidarity—
the first to attain a large-scale cultural, social, and political civilization - (The Urantia Book,
79:6.8)
23,000 B.C. - As the purer elements of the Adamites penetrated northward, they became less and less Adamic until, by the times of
their occupation of
Turkestan, they became thoroughly mingled with the other
races, particularly the Nodites. Very few of the pure-line violet peoples ever penetrated far into
Europe or
Asia - (The Urantia Book,
78:3.3)
23,000 B.C. - The earliest Andite peoples took origin in the regions adjacent to
Mesopotamia and consisted of a blend of the Adamites and
Nodites - (The Urantia Book,
78:4.2)
23,000 B.C. - Between the rivers of
Mesopotamia in southwestern Asia there existed the
potential of a great civilization, the possibility of the spread to the world of the ideas and ideals which were salvaged from the days of Dalamatia
and the times of Eden - (The Urantia Book,
78:1.12)
23,000 B.C. - For almost 20,000 years the Andonites have been pushed farther and farther to the north of
central Asia by the Andites - (The Urantia Book,
80:9.6)
20,000 B.C. - The population of
western India has already become tinged with the Adamic
blood, and never in the history of Urantia did any one people combine so many different races. As it developed, the red race was destroying itself in
the
Americas, the blue race was disporting itself in
Europe, and the early descendants of Adam (and most of the
later ones) exhibited little desire to mingle with the darker colored peoples, whether in India,
Africa, or elsewhere - (The Urantia Book,
79:2.3)
19,000 B.C. - The Adamites are a real nation numbering 4,500,000 and already they have poured forth millions of their offspring into
the surrounding peoples - (The Urantia Book,
78:2.5)
18,000 B.C. - The ancestors of the
Chinese have built up a dozen strong centers of
primitive culture and learning, especially along the
Yellow River and the
Yangtze. These centers began to be reinforced by the
arrival of a steady stream of improved blended peoples from
Sinkiang and
Tibet - (The Urantia Book,
79:6.5)
16,000 B.C. - A company of one hundred
Sethite priests enters
India and very nearly achieves the religious conquest of the
western half of that polyglot people. Within 5,000 years, however, their doctrines of the
Paradise Trinity has degenerated into the triune symbol of the fire god - (The Urantia
Book,
79:3.4)
15,000 - 6,000 B.C. - The Andite migrations - (The Urantia Book,
78:3.9)
15,000 B.C. - Increasing population pressure throughout
Turkestan and
Iran provoke the first really extensive Andite movement toward
India. For over fifteen centuries Andites poured in through the
highlands of
Baluchistan, spreading out over the valleys of the
Indus and
Ganges and slowly moving southward into the
Deccan - (The Urantia Book,
79:2.4)
15,000 B.C. - The
Chinese are aggressive militarists; they have not been
weakened by an overreverence for the past, and numbering less than 12,000,000, they formed a compact body speaking a common
language - (The Urantia Book,
79:6.9)
15,000 B.C. - As the period of the early Adamic migrations ends, there are already more descendants of Adam in
Europe and
central Asia than anywhere else in the world, even than
in
Mesopotamia. The European blue races have been largely
infiltrated.
Russia and
Turkestan are occupied throughout their southern stretches
by a great reservoir of the Adamites mixed with Nodites, Andonites, and red and yellow Sangiks.
Southern Europe and the Mediterranean fringe are
occupied by a mixed race of Andonite and Sangik peoples—orange, green, and indigo—with a sprinkling of the Adamite stock.
Asia Minor and the central-eastern European lands are held by
tribes that are predominantly Andonite - (The Urantia Book,
78:3.5)
15,000 B.C. - It is the great climatic and geologic changes in
northern Africa and
western Asia that terminate the early migrations of the
Adamites, barring them from
Europe by the expanded
Mediterranean and diverting the stream of migration
north and east into
Turkestan. By the time of the completion of these land
elevations and associated climatic changes civilization has settled down to a world-wide stalemate except for the cultural ferments and biologic
reserves of the Andites still confined by mountains to the east in
Asia
and by the expanding forests in
Europe to the west - (The Urantia Book,
81:1.2)
13,000 B.C. - The Andites, in considerable numbers, are traversing the pass of Ti Tao and spreading out over the upper valley of the
Yellow River among the Chinese settlements of
Kansu. They penetrated eastward to
Honan, where the most progressive
settlements are situated - (The Urantia Book,
79:7.1)
13,000 B.C. - The Alpine forests spread extensively. The European hunters are being driven to the river valleys and to the
seashores by the same climatic changes that turn the world's happy hunting grounds into dry and barren deserts. These great and relatively sudden
climatic modifications drive the races of
Europe to change from open-space hunters to herders, and in
some measure to fishers and tillers of the soil - (The Urantia Book,
80:3.8)
13,000 B.C. - Further biologic retrogression. During the previous hunting era the superior tribes intermarried with the higher
types of war captives and unvaryingly destroyed those deemed inferior. As they establish settlements and engaged in agriculture and commerce, they
begin to save many of the mediocre captives as slaves. The progeny of these slaves subsequently greatly deteriorate the whole
Cro-Magnon type. This retrogression of culture continued
until it received a fresh impetus from the east when the final and en masse invasion of the <
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Europe, quickly absorbing the Cro-Magnon type and culture and
initiating the civilization of the white races about 10,000 B.C. - (The Urantia Book,
80:3.9)
12,000 B.C. - The ancestors of the
Japanese people are driven off the mainland, dislodged
by a powerful southern-coastwise thrust of the northern Chinese tribes. Their final exodus is not so much due to population pressure as to the
initiative of a chieftain whom they came to regard as a divine personage - (The Urantia Book,
79:6.3)
12,000 B.C. - The climatic destruction of the rich, open grassland hunting and grazing grounds of
Turkestan compels the men of those regions to resort to new
forms of industry and crude manufacturing. Some turn to the cultivation of domesticated flocks, others became agriculturists or collectors of water-
borne food, but the higher type of Andite intellects chose to engage in trade and manufacture. It even becomes the custom for entire tribes to
dedicate themselves to the development of a single industry. From the valley of the
Nile to the Hindu Kush and from the
Ganges to the
Yellow River,
the chief business of the superior tribes is the cultivation of the soil, with commerce as a side line - (The Urantia Book,
81:3.1)
12,000 B.C. - Three quarters of the Andite stock of the world is resident in
northern and
eastern Europe, and when the later and final exodus
from
Mesopotamia takes place, 65 per cent of these last waves
of emigration enter
Europe - (The Urantia Book,
78:5.4)
12,000 B.C. - A tribe of Andites migrates to
Crete. This is the only island settled so early by such a
superior group, and it is almost 2,000 years before the descendants of these mariners spread to the neighboring isles. This group is the narrow-
headed, smaller-statured Andites who have intermarried with the Vanite division of the northern Nodites. They are all under 6 feet in height and have
been literally driven off the mainland by their larger though inferior fellows. These emigrants to Crete are highly skilled in textiles, metals,
pottery, plumbing, and the use of stone for building material. They engage in writing and carry on as herders and agriculturists - (The Urantia Book,
80:7.2)
10,000 B.C. - Origin of the Greeks. Almost 2,000 years after the settlement of
Crete a group of the tall descendants of Adamson make their way
over the northern islands to
Greece, coming almost directly from their highland home north
of
Mesopotamia. These progenitors of the
Greeks were led westward by Sato, a direct descendant of
Adamson and Ratta - (The Urantia Book,
80:7.3)
10,000 B.C. - A second attempt to erect the
tower of Babel. The mixed races of the Andites (Nodites
and Adamites) undertake to raise a new temple on the ruins of the first structure, but there is not sufficient support for the enterprise; it fell of
its own pretentious weight - (The Urantia Book,
77:3.9)
10,000 B.C. - The Andites have been absorbed but the whole mass of the people have been markedly improved by this absorption -
(The Urantia Book,
79:2.6)
10,000 B.C. - The blending of the Andite conquerors of
India with the native stock eventually results in that mixed
people called
Dravidian. The earlier and purer Dravidians
possessed a great capacity for cultural achievement, which is continuously weakened as their Andite inheritance becomes progressively attenuated. This
composite stock immediately produced the most versatile civilization then on earth. - (The Urantia Book,
79:3.1)
10,000 B.C. - The
Chinese people begin to build cities and engage in
manufacture subsequent to the climatic changes in
Turkestan and the arrival of the later Andite immigrants.
The infusion of this new blood did not add so much to the civilization of the yellow race as it stimulated the further and rapid development of the
latent tendencies of the superior Chinese people - (The Urantia Book,
79:7.5)
10,000 B.C. - Independent cities are dawning. These primitive trading and manufacturing cities are always surrounded by zones of
agriculture and cattle raising. - (The Urantia Book,
81:3.3)
10,000 B.C. - For several thousand years cremation of the dead was almost universal throughout
Scandinavia. This explains why remains of the earlier
white races, although buried all over Europe, are not to be
found — only their ashes in stone and clay urns. These white men also built dwellings; they never lived in caves. And again this explains why there is
so little evidence of the white race's early culture, although the preceding
Cro-Magnon type is well preserved where it has been
securely sealed up in caves and grottoes. As it were, one day in
northern Europe there was a primitive culture of the
retrogressing
Danubians and the blue race and the next that of a
suddenly appearing and superior white race - (The Urantia Book,
80:9.4)
9,000 B.C. - The widespread use of metals is a feature of this era of the early industrial and trading cities. A
bronze culture in
Turkestan dates before 9000 B.C., and the Andites early
learned to work in
iron,
gold, and
copper, as well. But conditions are very different away
from the more advanced centers of civilization. There are no distinct periods, such as the
Stone,
Bronze, and
Iron Ages; all three existed at the same time in different
localities - (The Urantia Book,
81:3.4)
9,000 B.C. - For more than 7,000 years, down to the end of the Andite migrations, the religious status of the inhabitants of
India is far above that of the world at large - (The Urantia
Book,
79:3.5)
8,000 - 6,000 B.C. - The last three waves of Andites poured out of
Mesopotamia. These three great waves of culture are forced
out of Mesopotamia by the pressure of the hill tribes to the east and the harassment of the plainsmen of the west. The migratory conquests of the
Andites continue on down to their final dispersions. As they poured out of Mesopotamia, they continuously deplete the biologic reserves of their
homelands while markedly strengthening the surrounding peoples. And to every nation to which they journeyed, they contributed
humor,
art,
adventure,
music, and
manufacture. They are skillful
domesticators of animals and expert
agriculturists. Their presence usually improves the
religious beliefs and
moral practices of the older races. And so the
culture of Mesopotamia quietly spread out over
Europe,
India,
China,
Northern Africa, and the
Pacific Islands - (The Urantia Book,
78:6.1;
78:5.8)
8,000 B.C. - The slowly increasing aridity of the highland regions of
central Asia begin to drive the Andites to the river
bottoms and the seashores. This increasing drought not only drives them to the valleys of the
Nile,
Euphrates,
Indus, and
Yellow Rivers, but it produces a new development, a new
class, the traders - (The Urantia Book,
79:1.3)
7,000 - 6,000 B.C. - Ancestors to the Nordic races. The whole inhabited world, outside of
China and the
Euphrates region, has made very limited cultural progress
for 10,000 years when the hard-riding Andite horsemen made their appearance in the sixth and seventh millenniums before Christ. As they moved westward
across the
Russian plains, absorbing the best of the blue
race and exterminating the worst, they became blended into one people. These are the ancestors of the so-called
Nordic races, the forefathers of the
Scandinavian,
German, and
Anglo-Saxon peoples - (The Urantia Book,
80:4.5)
7,000 B.C. - The
Dravidians are among the earliest peoples to build
cities and to engage in an extensive export and import business, both by land and sea.
Camel trains make regular trips to distant
Mesopotamia; Dravidian shipping is pushing coastwise
across the
Arabian Sea to the
Sumerian cities of the
Persian Gulf and is venturing on the waters of the
Bay of Bengal as far as the
East Indies. An alphabet, together with the art of
writing, is imported from Sumeria by these seafarers and merchants - (The Urantia Book,
79:3.7)
6,000 B.C. - The Sumerians. When the last Andite dispersion broke the biologic backbone of
Mesopotamian civilization, a small minority of this
superior race remained in their homeland near the mouths of the rivers. These are the
Sumerians. They are largely Andite in extraction, though their
culture is more exclusively Nodite in character, and they cling to the ancient traditions of Dalamatia. The Sumerians of the coastal regions are the
last of the Andites in Mesopotamia. But the races of Mesopotamia are already thoroughly blended by this late date, as is evidenced by the skull types
found in the graves of this era - (The Urantia Book,
78:8.1;
77:4.7)
6,000 B.C. - Sumerian Legends.
The lingering traditions of ancient advanced civilizations, of paradises on earth, lent substance to the dream of a onetime "golden age" of the dawn
of the races, helping confirm the the belief that mankind had origin in a special creation in perfection. The elaborate records left by the Sumerians
describe the site of one remarkable ancient settlement located on the Persian Gulf near the earlier city of Dilmun. The Egyptians called this city of
ancient glory Dilmat. And archaeologists have found these ancient Sumerian clay tablets which tell of this earthly paradise "where the Gods first
blessed mankind with the example of civilized and cultured life." These tablets, descriptive of the city of Dilmun which was initially established
about 200,000 B.C., are now silently
resting on the dusty shelves
of museums - (The Urantia Book,
77:4.8;
89:2.3)
5,000 B.C. - The evolving white races are dominant throughout all of
northern Europe, including
northern Germany, northern
France, and the
British Isles.
Central Europe is for sometime controlled by the blue
race and the round-headed Andonites. - (The Urantia Book,
80:5.8;
80:9.1)
5,000 B.C. - The three purest strains of Adam's descendants are in
Sumeria,
Northern Europe, and
Greece. The whole of
Mesopotamia is being slowly deteriorated by the stream of
mixed races which filtered in from
Arabia. And the coming of these inferior tribes contributed
further to the scattering abroad of the biologic and cultural residue of the Andites - (The Urantia Book,
80:7.9)
5,000 B.C. - A host of progressive
Mesopotamians moved out of the
Euphrates valley and settled upon the island of
Cyprus; this civilization is wiped out about 2,000 years
subsequently by the barbarian hordes from the north - (The Urantia Book,
80:7.10)
5,000 B.C. - The Andites of
Turkestan are the first peoples to extensively
domesticate the horse, and this is another
reason why their culture is for so long predominant.
Mesopotamian,
Turkestan, and
Chinese farmers have begun the raising of
sheep,
goats,
cows,
camels,
horses,
fowls, and
elephants. They employed as beasts of burden the ox, camel,
horse, and
yak - (The Urantia Book,
81:2.12)
5,000 B.C. - The
horse is in general use throughout civilized and semicivilized
lands. These later races not only have the domesticated horse but also various sorts of
wagons and
chariots. Ages before, the
wheel has been used, but now vehicles so equipped became
universally employed both in commerce and war - (The Urantia Book,
81:3.6)
5,000 B.C. - For thousands of years after the submergence of the first Eden the mountains about the eastern coast of the
Mediterranean and those to the northwest and
northeast of
Mesopotamia continued to rise. This elevation of the
highlands is greatly accelerated and this, together with greatly increased snowfall on the northern mountains, caused unprecedented floods each spring
throughout the
Euphrates valley. These spring floods grew
increasingly worse so that eventually the inhabitants of the river regions are driven to the eastern highlands. For almost 1,000 years scores of
cities are practically deserted because of these extensive deluges. With the later diminution of these floods,
Ur became the center of the pottery industry. Ur is on the
Persian Gulf, the river deposits having since built up
the land to its present limits - (The Urantia Book,
78:7.2;
78:8.2)
5,000 B.C. - The reckoning of time by the 28 day month persisted long after the days of Adam. The
Egyptians undertook to reform the
calendar with great accuracy, introducing the year of 365
days - (The Urantia Book,
77:2.12)
4,000 B.C. - The
Chinese are still keen students and aggressive in their
pursuit of truth - (The Urantia Book,
79:6.11)
3,000 B.C. - A chance meeting occurred between an
Indian tribe and a lone
Eskimo group on the southeastern shores of
Hudson Bay. These two tribes found it difficult to
communicate with each other, but soon they intermarried with the result that these Eskimos were eventually absorbed by the more numerous red race.
This represents the only contact of the
North American red race with any other human race down
to about 1,000 years ago, when white men first chanced to land on the Atlantic coast - (The Urantia Book,
64:7.19)
3,000 B.C. - It is a fallacy to presume to classify the white peoples as
Nordic, Alpine, and
Mediterranean. There has been altogether too much
blending to permit such a grouping. At one time there is a fairly well-defined division of the white race into such classes, but widespread
intermingling has since occurred, and it is no longer possible to identify these distinctions with any clarity. The ancient social groups are no more
of one race than are the current inhabitants of
North America - (The Urantia Book,
80:9.15)
3,000 B.C. - Increasing aridity drove the Andonites back into
Turkestan. This Andonite push southward continued for over
1,000 years and, splitting around the
Caspian and
Black seas, penetrated
Europe by way of both the
Balkans and the
Ukraine - (The Urantia Book,
80:9.6)
3,000 B.C. - Though making progress intellectually, the human races slowly lose ground spiritually. The concept of God has grown
very hazy - (The Urantia Book,
93:1.1)
2,500 - 2,000 B.C. - The second Andite penetration of
India is the
Aryan invasion during a period of almost five hundred years
in the middle of the third millennium before Christ. This migration marked the terminal exodus of the Andites from their homelands in
Turkestan - (The Urantia Book,
79:4.1)
2,500 B.C. - The
Sumerians suffered severe reverses at the hands of the
northern Suites and Guites.
Lagash, the Sumerian capital built on flood mounds, fell.
Erech held out for thirty years after the fall of
Akkad. By the time of the establishment of the rule of Hammurabi
the
Sumerians had become absorbed into the ranks of the northern
Semites and the Mesopotamian Andites passed from the pages of
history - (The Urantia Book,
78:8.10)
2,500 B.C. - The westward thrust of the Andonites reached
Europe, And this overrunning of all
Mesopotamia,
Asia Minor, and the
Danube basin by the barbarians of the hills of
Turkestan constituted the most serious and lasting of all
cultural setbacks up to that time. These invaders definitely Andonized the character of the
central European races, which have ever since remained
characteristically
Alpine. The Mediterranean coastlands did not become
permeated by the Andites until the times of these great nomadic invasions. Land traffic and trade are nearly suspended during these centuries when the
nomads invade the eastern Mediterranean districts.
This interference with land travel brought about the great expansion of sea traffic and trade; Mediterranean sea-borne commerce was in full swing. And
this development of marine traffic resulted in the sudden expansion of the descendants of the Andites throughout the entire coastal territory of the
Mediterranean basin - (The Urantia Book,
80:9.7;
80:9.9)
2,000 - 400 B.C. - Approximate times for events of the Old Testament. These dates are not provided by The Urantia Book; they're given
here simply as a reference for the general time periods during which these historical events occurred: Abraham (2001 B.C.); Ishmael (1915 B.C.); Isaac
(1901 B.C.); Jacob (1841 B.C.); Joseph (1750 B.C.); Exodus from Egypt (1290 B.C.); Samuel (1050 B.C.); Saul (1100 B.C.); David (1060 B.C.); Solomon
(1020 B.C.); Jehoshaphat (919 B.C.); Period of minor prophets (Obadiah, Joel, Jonah) - (840-400 B.C.); Jonah (770 B.C.); Amos (760 B.C.); Hosea (760
B.C.); Isaiah (740 B.C.); Micah (737 B.C.); Hezekiah (726 B.C.); Hosea (722 B.C.); Josiah (640 B.C.); Habakkah (630 B.C.); Zephaniah (627 B.C.);
Jeremiah (627 B.C.); Daniel (605 B.C.); Ezekiel (593 B.C.); Nahum (593 B.C.); Haggai (520 B.C.); Zechariah (520 B.C.); Joel (500 B.C.); Obadiah (500
B.C.); Malachi (433 B.C.)
2,000 B.C. - Special bestowal school established by the Melchizedeks on Edentia - (The Urantia Book,
43:1.6)
2,000 B.C. -
Mount Sinai is intermittently active as a
volcano, occasional eruptions occurring as late as the time of
the sojourn of the
Israelites in this region. The fire and smoke, together
with the thunderous detonations associated with the eruptions of this volcano, all impressed and awed the
Bedouins of the surrounding regions and caused them greatly to
fear
Yahweh. This spirit of
Mount Horeb later became the god of the
Hebrew Semites,
and they eventually believed him to be supreme over all other gods - (The Urantia Book,
96:1.11)
1,980 - 1,886 B.C. - The bestowal of
Machiventa Melchizedek. The proclamation of his mission is embodied in the
simple statement which he made to a shepherd, "I am Melchizedek, priest of El Elyon, the Most High, the one and only God." Machiventa terminated his
bestowal as a mortal being just as suddenly and unceremoniously as he had begun it. It was a great trial for Abraham when Melchizedek suddenly
disappeared. Although he had fully warned his followers that he must sometime go as he had come, they were not reconciled to the loss of their leader
- (The Urantia Book,
93:2.1-2;
93:9.1;
93:10.2)
1,500 - 1,400 B.C. - Melchizedek's Salem missionaries pass through
Asia, spreading the doctrine of the Most High God and
salvation through faith. The teachers commissioned by Melchizedek and his successors did
not default in their trust; they did penetrate to all peoples of the
Eurasian continent and
China.
At See Fuch, for more than one hundred years, the Salemites maintained their headquarters, there training
Chinese teachers who taught throughout all the domains
of the yellow race. During this period the Salem missionaries teach the concept of the one God to the
Brahman caste of teacher-priests in
India.
This doctrine ran counter to the dogmas, traditions, and teachings of the Brahman priesthood. The
Rig-Veda, one of the most ancient of sacred writings stems
from this period as a refutation by the priesthood of the Melchizedek teachings - (The Urantia Book,
94:5.1,
94:1.5)
1,391 B.C. - Approximate time of the birth of Moses - (The Urantia Book,
92:5.8,
96:3.1),
Wikipedia article
1,300 B.C. - It was hard for the next generation to comprehend the story of Melchizedek; within five hundred years many regarded the
whole narrative as a myth - (The Urantia Book,
93:9.5)
1079 B.C. - Saul, (1079-1007 B.C.), was, according to the Bible and Qur'an, the first king of the united Kingdom of Israel. The
successor to his throne was his son-in-law David. (The Urantia book,
97:9.4,
Wikipedia article)
1040 B.C. - David, (1040-970 B.C.) The biblical King David of Israel is remembered for his youthful victory with a slingshot against
the Philistine giant Goliath, later for his diverse skills as both a warrior and a writer of psalms. In his 40 years as ruler, between approximately
1010 and 970 B.C.E., he united the people of Israel, led them to victory in battle, conquered land and paved the way for his son, Solomon, to build
the Holy Temple.
(AncientHistory,
Wikipedia article,
Jewish Library)
900 B.C. - 500 A.D. - Greek philosophy arose and continued through the Hellenistic period, at which point Ancient Greece was
incorporated in the Roman Empire. - (The Urantia Book,
92:5.12;
98:0.0,
160:0.0,
161:0.0,
Wikipedia, Greek Philosophy)
900 B.C. - Earliest written records. The
Hebrews had no written
language in general usage long after they reached
Palestine. They learned the use of an alphabet from the
neighboring
Philistines, who are political refugees from the higher
civilization of
Crete. Having no written language until such a late date, they
had several different stories of creation in circulation, but after the
Babylonian captivity they inclined more toward
accepting a modified
Mesopotamian version - (The Urantia Book,
74:8.9)
770 B.C. - 450 B.C. - Prophets of the Old Testament; an approximately 350 year span: Jonah (770 B.C.); Amos (760 B.C.); Hosea (760
B.C.); Isaiah (740 B.C.); Micah (737 B.C.); Habakkah (630 B.C.); Zephaniah (627 B.C.); Jeremiah (627 B.C.); Daniel (605 B.C.); Ezekiel (593 B.C.);
Nahum (593 B.C.); Haggai (520 B.C.); Zechariah (520 B.C.); Joel (500 B.C.); Obadiah (500 B.C.); Malachi (433 B.C.)
700 B.C. - 50 A.D. - For more than six hundred years the
Jews of
Judea, and later on those of
Galilee also, had been at enmity with the
Samaritans. This ill feeling between the Jews and the
Samaritans came about in this way: Sargon, king of
Assyria, in subduing a revolt in central
Palestine, carried away and into captivity over 25,000 Jews
of the northern kingdom of
Israel and installed in their place an almost equal number of
the descendants of the
Cuthites,
Sepharvites, and the
Hamathites. Later on, Ashurbanipal sent still other colonies to
dwell in Samaria - (The Urantia Book,
143:4.1)
600 B.C. - 500 B.C. - Urantia witnesses a most unusual presentation of manifold religious truth. Through the agency of several human
teachers the Salem
gospel is restated and revitalized. Outstanding teachers in
China were Lao-tse and Confucius, in India, Gautama Siddhartha,
Zoroaster, the Jainist teachers, the Greek poet Pindar - (The Urantia Book,
94:6;
92:5.12;
95:6.1;
98:2.5)
423 - 347 B.C. - Plato, a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, and student of Socrates is the first of record to mention
Atlantis in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 BC. This is possibly a legend based on the original Garden of Eden,
that sank in the eastern Mediterranean Sea in 32,000 B.C. (See above) - (The Urantia Book,
92:5.12,
98:2.6,
121:6.3,
130:4.1,
133:5.2,
146:1.3,
164:3.4,
Plato, Atlantis, wikipedia)
106 B.C. - 43 B.C. - Marcus Tullius Cicero, is generally perceived to be one of the most versatile minds of
ancient Rome - (The Urantia Book,
195:2.6)
Wikipedia bio
100 B.C. - The beginning of the rise of the Roman Empire to dominate the politics of Europe, North Africa and the Near East
completely,
(Rise of the Roman Empire)
80 B.C. - The apocalyptists. About one hundred years before the days of Jesus and John a new school of religious teachers arose in Palestine, the apocalyptists. These new teachers evolve a
system of belief that accounted for the sufferings and humiliation of the
Jews on the ground that they are paying the penalty for the
nation's sins. They fall back onto the well-known reasons assigned to explain the
Babylonian and other captivities of former times
- (The Urantia Book,
135:5.2)
29 B.C. - The birth of
Joseph, the earth father of Jesus. Joseph was a Hebrew. He belonged to a long
and illustrious line of the nobility of the common people. He carried many non-Jewish racial strains which had been added to his ancestral tree from
time to time by the female lines of his progenitors. His ancestry went back to the days of Abraham, leading to the Sumerians and Nodites and, through
the southern tribes of the ancient blue man, to Andon and Fonta. David and Solomon were not in the direct line of Joseph’s ancestry, neither did
Joseph’s lineage go directly back to Adam. Joseph’s immediate ancestors were mechanics — builders, carpenters, masons, and smiths. Joseph himself was
a carpenter and later a contractor. - (The Urantia Book,
122:1.2,
122:5.9)
-
Mary, the earth mother of Jesus is a descendant of a long line of unique
ancestors embracing many of the most remarkable women in racial history. Mary is an average woman of her day and generation, possessing a fairly
normal temperament, but she reckoned among her ancestors such well-known women as Annon, Tamar, Ruth,
Bathsheba, Ansie, Cloa,
Eve, Enta, and
Ratta. No
Jewish woman of that day had a more illustrious lineage of common
progenitors or one extending back to more auspicious beginnings. Mary's ancestry, like Joseph's, was characterized by the predominance of strong but
average individuals, relieved now and then by numerous outstanding personalities in the march of civilization and the progressive
evolution of
religion. Racially considered, it is hardly proper to regard Mary as a
Jewess. In culture and belief she was a Jew, but in hereditary
endowment she was more a composite of
Syrian,
Hittite,
Phoenician,
Greek, and
Egyptian genetics, her racial inheritance being more general
than that of Joseph. Mary's parents were Joachim and Hannah. She had two brothers and two sisters, one of which was named Salome. - (The Urantia Book,
122:1.2)
15 B.C. - Birth of Abner, who lived to be 89 years old - (The Urantia Book,
166:5.7)
8 B.C. - Gabriel appears to Mary - (The Urantia Book,
122:0.3)
8 B.C. - March.
Joseph and
Mary are married, in accordance with Jewish custom, at Mary's home in the environs of
Nazareth; Joseph is 21 years old. This marriage concluded a
normal courtship of almost two years' duration -
(The Urantia Book,
122:5.9)
8 B.C. - March. Caesar Augustus decrees that all inhabitants of the
Roman Empire should be numbered, that a
census should be made which could be used for effecting better
taxation. Throughout all the Roman Empire this census is registered in the year 8 B.C., except in the Palestinian kingdom of Herod, where it is taken
in 7 B.C., one year later - (The Urantia Book,
122:7.1)
8 B.C. - Late in June, about three months after the marriage of Joseph and Mary, Gabriel appeared to Elizabeth
at noontide one day, just as he later made his presence known to Mary - (The Urantia Book,
122:2.2)
7 B.C. - Birth of Lazarus, brother of Martha and Mary,
whom Jesus resurrected in March, 30 A.D. - (The Urantia Book,
168:5.3)
7 B.C. - February, Elizabeth tells Mary of Gabriel's visit - (The
Urantia Book,
122:2.4)
7 B.C. - March 25. Birth of John the Baptist. In accordance with the promise that Gabriel made to Elizabeth in
June of the previous year - (The Urantia Book,
135:0.1)
7 B.C. - On May 29, there occurred an extraordinary conjunction of
Jupiter and
Saturn in the constellation of
Pisces. And it is a remarkable astronomic fact
that similar conjunctions occurred on September 29 and December 5 of the same year. Upon the basis of these extraordinary but wholly natural events
the well-meaning
zealots of the succeeding generation constructed the
appealing legend of the
star of Bethlehem and the adoring
Magi led thereby to the
manger, where they beheld and worshiped the newborn babe - (The
Urantia Book,
122:8.7)
Beginning of the earth life of
Jesus period
7 B.C. - Michael's seventh bestowal. Michael and Gabriel depart Salvington for Urantia. Michael is gone for about one third of a
century of earth time before returning to Salvington as the undisputed and supreme sovereign of the universe of Nebadon.
Joshua ben Joseph, the Jewish baby is conceived and born into the world just as all other
babies before and since except that this baby is the incarnation of a divine Son of Paradise and the creator of all this local universe of
things and beings. The seraphim of former attachment to
Adam and Eve, through the midway creatures, make announcement to a group of Chaldean
priests whose leader was Ardnon, telling of the birth of the newborn child - (The Urantia Book,
119:7.1)
7 B.C. - August 21, noon. Birth of
Jesus. With the help and kind ministrations of women fellow travelers,
Mary is delivered of a male child - (The Urantia Book,
122:8.1)
Dated papyri in
Egypt tell of a 14 year cycle of census inaugurated by the
Roman Emperor, Caesar Augustus (27 B.C.–A.D. 14), and
record one taken in 20 A.D. The Roman census of 6 A.D. is referred to in the
Book of Acts
5:37. Counting back 14 years previous to that (and remembering that instead of starting at year zero the calendar begins at Jan. 1, A.D. 1), the first
census, the one originally decreed by Caesar Augustus that would have been attended by Joseph and Mary should have occurred in 8 B.C. However, because
of
Jewish
opposition to “being numbered” (and paying taxes to Rome) Herod is thought to have delayed instituting this first census of the
Roman World.
We may assume that Herod held the census the next year, dating Jesus’ birth at 7 B.C. This 7 B.C. date is also consistent with two other recorded
events associated with Jesus’ birth. Herod, alive at the time of Jesus’ birth, died in 4 B.C. Also, three extraordinary conjunctions of Jupiter and
Saturn, which might explain the new “star” in the sky noticed by the Magi took place in 7 B.C. The modern calendar is based on calculations made by
Dionysus Exegines, a Roman abbot who lived more than 500 years after the time of Jesus. Because of insufficient historical data the monk erred in
fixing the time of Jesus' birth and this seven year error persists in the calendar to this day.
(Preston Thomas's The Life and Teachings of Jesus,
5. The Birth of Jesus)
Additional dates and timelines for the life of Jesus: Wikipedia article - Chronology of Jesus, Timeline of Jesus - www.history-timelines.org.uk, Chronological Study of the Life of Christ - www.xenos.org, Some dates in the life of Jesus Christ - www.csun.edu, Chronology of the life of Jesus Christ -
www.newadvent.org
6 - 4 B.C. - Middle of October, 6 B.C. The
massacre of infants took place when Jesus is
a little over one year of age. The night before the massacre
Joseph and Mary departed from
Bethlehem with the babe for
Alexandria in
Egypt. They lived in Alexandria two full years, not returning to
Bethlehem until after the death of Herod - (The Urantia Book,
122:10.4)
4 B.C. - Death of Herod, and his son Herod Antipas governes
Galilee and
Perea during Jesus' youth and ministry until A.D. 39
- (The Urantia Book,
21:2.11)
4 B.C. - Late August. Joseph and Mary finally leave
Alexandria on a boat bound for
Joppa. They go directly to
Bethlehem,
where they spend the entire month of September in counsel with their friends and relatives concerning whether they should remain there or return to
Nazareth - (The Urantia Book,
123:0.4)
4 B.C. - October. Jesus is about three years and two months old at the time of their return to Nazareth - (The Urantia Book,
123:1.2)
4 B.C. - Jesus' entire fourth year is a period of normal physical development and of unusual mental activity. He formed a very
close attachment for a neighbor boy about his own age named Jacob. Jesus and Jacob are always happy in their play, and they grow up to be great
friends and loyal companions - (The Urantia Book,
123:1.4)
3 B.C. - April 2. The birth of James, Joseph and
Mary's second child - (The Urantia Book,
123:1.5)
3 B.C. - July. An outbreak of malignant intestinal trouble spread over all
Nazareth
from contact with the
caravan
travelers. Mary became so alarmed by the danger of Jesus being exposed to this epidemic that she bundled up both her children and fled to the country
home of her brother, several miles south of Nazareth on the
Megiddo road near
Sarid. They did not return to Nazareth for more than two months;
Jesus greatly enjoyed this, his first experience on a farm - (The Urantia Book,
123:1.7)
2 B.C. - February 11. Jesus' first moral decision and the arrival of his Thought Adjuster, which had served with
Machiventa Melchizedek. Jesus is no more aware of the coming of his Thought Adjuster than
are the millions upon millions of other children who, before and since that day, have likewise received them to indwell their minds - (The Urantia
Book,
123:2.1)
2 B.C. - July 11. The birth of Miriam, Joseph and
Mary's third child - (The Urantia Book,
123:2.3)
2 B.C. - August 21. It is the custom of the
Galilean
Jews
for the mother to bear the responsibility for a boy's training until the fifth birthday, and then to hold the father responsible for the lad's
education from that time on. This year Mary formally turns Jesus over to Joseph for further
instruction - (The Urantia Book,
123:2.13)
1 B.C. - Already, with
his mother's help, Jesus has mastered the
Galilean dialect of the
Aramaic tongue; and now his father begins teaching him
Greek.
Mary spoke little Greek, but Joseph was a fluent speaker of both Aramaic and Greek - (The Urantia Book,
123:3.1)
1 B.C. - Zacharias and Elizabeth and their son John came to visit the
Nazareth
family. Jesus and John had a happy time during this, their first visit within their memories - (The Urantia Book,
123:3.4)
1 B.C. - During this year Joseph and Mary have trouble with Jesus about his
prayers. He insisted on talking to his heavenly Father much as he would talk to
Joseph, his earthly father. This departure from the more solemn and reverent modes of
communication with Deity is a bit disconcerting to his parents, especially to his mother - (The Urantia Book,
123:3.6)
1 B.C. - June. Joseph turns the shop in
Nazareth
over to his brothers and formally enters upon his work as a builder. Before the year is over, the family income more than trebled - (The Urantia Book,
23:3.7)
1 B.C. - June. The most eventful occurrence in John's early childhood is the visit, in company with his parents, to Jesus and
the
Nazareth
family; John is a little over six years of age - (The Urantia Book,
135:0.3)
1 - 4 A.D. - Jesus attends the elementary school of the
Nazareth synagogue, where he studies the rudiments of the
Book of the Law as it was recorded in the
Hebrew tongue.
For the following three years he studies in the advanced school and committed to memory, by the method of repeating aloud, the deeper teachings of the
sacred law. He graduated from this school of the synagogue during his thirteenth year - (The Urantia Book,
123:5.2)
1 A.D. - Jesus' seventh year is an eventful one. Early in January a great snowstorm occurred in
Galilee.
Snow fell two feet deep, the heaviest snowfall Jesus saw during his lifetime and one of the deepest at
Nazareth in a hundred years - (The Urantia Book,
123:4.1)
1 A.D. - March 16, Wednesday. The birth of Joseph, Joseph and
Mary's fourth child - (The Urantia Book,
123:4.9)
1 A.D. - August, Jesus is now seven years old, the age when Jewish children begin their formal
education in the
synagogue
schools. Accordingly, he entered upon his eventful school life at
Nazareth.
Already he is a fluent reader, writer, and speaker of two
languages,
Aramaic and
Greek language. He is now to acquaint himself with the
task of learning to read, write, and speak the
Hebrew language - (The Urantia Book,
123:5.1)
1 A.D. - Before he is eight years of age, he is known to all the mothers and young women of
Nazareth,
who have met him and talked with him at the spring, which was not far from his home, and which was one of the social centers of contact and gossip for
the entire town. This year Jesus learns to milk the family cow and care for the other animals. During this and the following year he also learns to
make cheese and to
weave - (The Urantia Book,
123:5.15)
2 A.D. - Jesus' uncles and aunts are all very fond of him, and there ensued a lively competition among them to secure his company for
these monthly visits throughout this and immediately subsequent years. His first week's sojourn on his uncle's farm (since infancy) is in January; the
first week's fishing experience on the
Sea of Galilee occurred in May - (The Urantia Book,
123:6.2)
2 A.D. - Jesus makes arrangements to exchange dairy products for lessons on the
harp.
He has an unusual liking for everything musical. Later on he did much to promote an interest in vocal music among his youthful associates. By the time
he is eleven years of age, he is a skillful harpist and greatly enjoyed entertaining both family and friends with his extraordinary interpretations
and able improvisations - (The Urantia Book,
123:6.5)
2 A.D. - April 14, Friday. The birth of Simon, Joseph and Mary's fifth child - (The Urantia Book,
123:6.7)
3 A.D. - By the time Jesus is ten years of age, he is an expert
loom operator - (The Urantia Book,
123:5.15)
3 A.D. - May. On his uncle's farm Jesus for the first time helps with the grain harvest - (The Urantia Book,
124:1.11)
3 A.D. - September 13, Thursday night. The birth of Martha, Joseph and Mary's sixth child and Jesus' second
sister - (The Urantia Book,
124:1.7)
3 A.D. - The most serious trouble as yet to come up at school occurrs in late winter when Jesus dared to challenge the
chazan regarding the teaching that all images, pictures, and
drawings are idolatrous in nature. Jesus delights in drawing landscapes as well as in modeling a great variety of objects in
potter's clay. Everything of that sort is strictly forbidden by
Jewish law, but up to this time he has managed to disarm his
parents' objection to such an extent that they have permitted him to continue in these activities - (The Urantia Book,
124:1.3)
4 A.D. - July 5. The first
Sabbath of the month while strolling through the countryside
with his father, Jesus first gives expression to feelings and ideas which indicated that he is becoming self-conscious of the unusual nature of his
life mission - (The Urantia Book,
124:2.1)
4 A.D. - August. Jesus enters the advanced school of the
synagogue. At school he is constantly creating trouble by
the questions he persists in asking. Increasingly he keeps all
Nazareth in more or less of a hubbub - (The Urantia Book,
124:2.2)
4 A.D. - Late this year Jesus has a fishing experience of two months with his uncle on the
Sea of Galilee - (The Urantia Book,
124:2.7)
5 A.D. - Jesus spends considerable time at the
caravan supply shop, and by conversing with the travelers
from all parts of the world, he acquires a store of information about international affairs that is amazing, considering his age of 11. This is the
last year in which he enjoys much free play and youthful joyousness - (The Urantia Book,
124:3.3)
5 A.D. - June 24, Wednesday. The birth of Jude, Joseph and Mary's seventh child. Complications attended the
birth. Mary is so very ill for several weeks that Joseph remains at home. Jesus is 10 years old - (The Urantia Book,
123:4.9)
6 A.D. - Before he is thirteen, Jesus has managed to find out something about practically everything that men and women worked at
around
Nazareth except
metal working, and he spent several months in a
smith's shop when older - (The Urantia Book,
124:1.11)
6 A.D. - Jesus pays more attention than ever to music, and he continues to teach the home school for his
brothers and sisters. It is at about this time that Jesus becomes keenly conscious of the
difference between the viewpoints of
Joseph and
Mary regarding the nature of his mission - (The Urantia Book,
124:4.5)
6 A.D. - Jesus' last year at school; he is 12 years old - (The Urantia Book,
124:4.7)
7 A.D. - January 9, Sunday night. The birth of Amos, Joseph and Mary's eighth child - (The Urantia Book,
124:5.2)
7 A.D. - March 20. On the first day of the week Jesus graduates from the course of training in the local school connected with
the Nazareth
synagogue - (The Urantia Book,
124:5.4)
7 A.D. - Saturday, April 4. Jesus' first
Passover. Having graduated from the
synagogue schools, Jesus is qualified to proceed to
Jerusalem with his parents to participate with them in the
celebration of his first Passover. One hundred and three relatives, friends and neighbors depart from
Nazareth early Monday morning, for
Jerusalem. No incident in all Jesus' eventful earth career
was more engaging, more humanly thrilling, than this, his first remembered visit to Jerusalem. He was especially stimulated by the experience of
attending the temple discussions by himself, and
it long stood out in his memory as the great event of his later childhood and early youth. - (The Urantia Book,
124:6.1;
125)
8 - 12 A.D. - Poverty. For 4 years their standard of living has steadily declined; year by year they felt the pinch of increasing
poverty. By the close of this year they face one of the most
difficult experiences of all their uphill struggles. Their hopeful courage contributed mightily to the development of strong and noble characters, in
spite of the depressiveness of their poverty - (The Urantia Book,
127:3.14)
8 A.D. - Of all Jesus' earth-life experiences, the fourteenth and fifteenth years are the most crucial. No human youth, in passing
through the early confusions and adjustment problems of adolescence, ever experienced a more crucial testing than that which Jesus passed through
during his transition from childhood to young manhood - (The Urantia Book,
126:0.1)
8 A.D. - August, Jesus' fourteenth birthday. He has become a good
yoke maker and worked well with both
canvas and
leather. He is also rapidly developing into an expert
carpenter and
cabinetmaker - (The Urantia Book,
126:1.1)
8 A.D. - September 25, Tuesday. Death of Joseph. A runner from
Sepphoris
brings the tragic news that
Joseph had been severely injured by the falling of a
derrick while at work on the governor's residence. Mary
directs that James should accompany her to Sepphoris while Jesus remains home with the younger children until she returns, as she did not know how
seriously Joseph had been injured. But Joseph died of his injuries before Mary arrives. They brought him to
Nazareth, and on the following day he is laid to rest - (The
Urantia Book,
126:2.1)
8 A.D. - Jesus becomes the head of household to his family. Mary was about 32 years old and 2 months pregnant with Ruth; James
was just short of 9 and 1/2 years old; Miriam was a couple of months over 8 years of age; Joseph was 7 and 1/2; Simon was just short of 6 and 1/2
years old; Martha had just turned 5; Jude was 3 years and 3 months old and Amos was 1 year and 8 months old.
8 A.D. - September 26. Just at the time when prospects had been good and the future looked bright, an apparently cruel hand
struck down the head of this
Nazareth household, the affairs of this home are disrupted,
and every plan for Jesus and his future
education is demolished. Jesus, just past fourteen years of age, awakens to the realization
that he has not only to fulfill the commission of his heavenly Father to reveal the divine nature on earth and in the flesh, but that he must also
shoulder the responsibility of caring for his widowed mother and seven
brothers and sisters—and another yet to be born. Jesus now becomes the sole support and
comfort of this family - (The Urantia Book,
126:2.2)
8 A.D. - Jesus would not now be expected to go to
Jerusalem to study under the
rabbis. It remained always true that Jesus "sat at no man's
feet." He is ever willing to learn from even the humblest of little children, but he never derived authority to teach truth from human sources - (The
Urantia Book,
126:2.3)
9 A.D. - April 17, Wednesday evening. The birth of Ruth, Joseph and
Mary's ninth child. To the best of his ability Jesus endeavored to take the place of his
father in comforting and ministering to his mother during this trying and peculiarly sad ordeal. And he is an equally good father to all the other
members of his family - (The Urantia Book,
126:3.2)
9 A.D. - Jesus first formulated the
prayer which to many has become known as
"The Lord's Prayer." In a way it is an
evolution of the family altar; they have many forms of praise and several formal prayers.
After his father's death Jesus tried to teach the older children to express themselves individually in prayer—much as he so enjoyed doing—but they
could not grasp his thought and would invariably fall back upon their memorized prayer forms. It is in this effort to stimulate his older brothers and
sisters to say individual prayers that Jesus would endeavor to lead them along by suggestive phrases, and presently, without intention on his part, it
developed that they are all using a form of prayer which is largely built up from these suggestive lines which Jesus has taught them - (The Urantia
Book,
126:3.3)
9 A.D. - By the end of this year Jesus could earn, by working early and late, only the equivalent of about 25 cents a day. By
the next year they found it difficult to pay the civil taxes, not to mention the
synagogue assessments and the temple tax of one-half
shekel. During this year the tax collector tried to squeeze
extra revenue out of Jesus, even threatening to take his
harp - (The Urantia Book,
126:5.5)
9 A.D. - The great shock of his fifteenth year came when Jesus went over to
Sepphoris to receive the decision of Herod regarding the
appeal taken to him in the dispute about the amount of money due Joseph at the time of his accidental death. Jesus and Mary had hoped for the receipt
of a considerable sum of money when the treasurer at Sepphoris had offered them a paltry amount - (The Urantia Book,
126:5.7)
9 A.D. - Jesus rents a considerable piece of land just to the north of their home, which is divided up as a family garden plot.
Each of the older children have an individual garden, and they enter into keen competition in their agricultural efforts. Jesus spends some time with
them in the garden each day during the season of vegetable cultivation - (The Urantia Book,
126:5.10)
9 A.D. - When sixteen years old, John (the Baptist), as a result of reading about Elijah, became greatly impressed with the
prophet of
Mount Carmel and decided to adopt his style of dress.
From that day on John always wore a hairy garment with a leather girdle. At 16 he is more than 6 feet tall and almost full grown. With his flowing
hair and peculiar mode of dress he is indeed a picturesque youth - (The Urantia Book,
135:1.4)
10 A.D. - Jesus, age 16, attains his full physical growth. He is a virile and comely youth - (The Urantia Book,
127:1.2)
10 A.D. - Simon starts to school, and they are compelled to sell another house. James now takes charge of the teaching of his
three sisters, two of whom are old enough to begin serious study. As soon as Ruth grew up, she was taken in hand by Miriam and Martha. Ordinarily the
girls of Jewish families receive little
education, but Jesus maintained (and his mother agreed) that girls should go to school the
same as boys, and since the
synagogue school would not receive them, there was nothing
to do but conduct a home school especially for them - (The Urantia Book,
127:1.5)
11 A.D. - James graduates at school this year and begins full-time work at home in the
carpenter shop.
He has become a clever worker with tools and now took over the making of
yokes and
plows while Jesus begins to do more house finishing and expert
cabinet work - (The Urantia Book,
127:2.11)
12 A.D. - All the family property, except the home and garden, is disposed of. The last piece of
Capernaum property (except an equity in one other), already
mortgaged, is sold. The proceeds are used for taxes, to buy some new tools for James, and to make a payment on the old family supply and repair shop
near the
caravan lot, which Jesus proposes to buy back since James
is old enough to work at the house shop and help Mary about the home. With the financial pressure
thus eased for the time being, Jesus decides to take James to the
Passover - (The Urantia Book,
127:3.1)
12 A.D. - December 3, Saturday afternoon. Death of Amos. Jesus' baby brother died after a week's illness with a high fever -
(The Urantia Book,
127:3.13)
12 A.D. - July. Death of Zacharias. After an illness of several months Zacharias died; John is just past eighteen years of age -
(The Urantia Book,
135:2.1)
12 A.D. - September. Elizabeth and John made a journey to
Nazareth to visit
Mary and Jesus. John has just about made up his mind to launch out in his lifework, but he
is admonished, not only by Jesus' words but also by his example, to return home, take care of
his mother, and await the "coming of the Father's hour." - (The Urantia Book,
135:2.2)
12 A.D. - John and Elizabeth returned to their home and began to lay plans for the future. Since John refused to accept the
priest's allowance due him from the temple funds, by the end of two years they have all but lost their home; so they decide to go south with the sheep
herd - (The Urantia Book,
135:2.3)
13 A.D. - Jude starts school, and it is necessary for Jesus to sell his
harp
in order to defray these expenses. Thus disappeared the last of his recreational pleasures - (The Urantia Book,
127:4.10)
13 A.D. - Rebecca. Although Jesus is poor, his social standing in
Nazareth is in no way impaired. He is one of the foremost
young men of the city and very highly regarded by most of the young women. Since Jesus is such a splendid specimen of robust and intellectual manhood,
and considering his reputation as a spiritual leader, it is not strange that Rebecca, the eldest daughter of Ezra, a wealthy merchant and trader of
Nazareth, should discover that she was slowly falling in love with this son of
Joseph. She first confided her
affection to Miriam, Jesus' sister, and Miriam in turn talked all this over with her
mother. After she and Miriam talked this matter over, they decide to make an effort to stop it before Jesus learned about it, by going direct to
Rebecca, laying the whole story before her, and honestly telling her about their belief that Jesus is a son of destiny; that he is to become a great
religious leader, perhaps the
Messiah - (The Urantia Book,
127:5.1)
14 A.D. - The story of Rebecca's love for Jesus is whispered about
Nazareth and later on at
Capernaum. For many years, whenever the story of Jesus'
human
personality is recited, the
devotion of Rebecca is recounted - (The Urantia Book,
127:6.1)
14 A.D. - Jesus wanted most of all to see Lazarus, Martha, and Mary. Lazarus is the same age as Jesus and now head of the house;
by the time of this visit Lazarus's mother had also been laid to rest. Martha is a little over one year older than Jesus, while Mary is two years
younger - (The Urantia Book,
127:6.5)
14 A.D. - Although all their
Nazareth property (except their home) is gone, this year they
receive a little financial help from the sale of an equity in a piece of property in
Capernaum. This is the last of Joseph's entire estate. This
real estate deal in Capernaum is with a
boatbuilder named Zebedee - (The Urantia Book,
127:6.10)
14 A.D. - Joseph graduates at the
synagogue school this year and prepares to begin work at the
small bench in the home
carpenter shop - (The Urantia Book,
127:6.11)
15 A.D. - With Jesus' 21st year he enters upon the stupendous task fully realizing his dual nature. He has already effectively
combined these two natures into one— Jesus of
Nazareth - (The Urantia Book,
128:1.1)
15 A.D. - Jesus goes to
Jerusalem with Joseph to celebrate the
Passover. Having taken James to the
temple for consecration, he deems it his duty to
take Joseph, his younger brother - (The Urantia Book,
128:1.1)
16 A.D. - Jesus'
brothers and sisters ranged in ages from seven to eighteen, and he is kept busy helping
them adjust themselves to the new awakenings of their intellectual and emotional lives. This year Simon graduates from school and begins work with
Jesus' old boyhood playmate and ever-ready defender, Jacob the
stone mason. As a result of several family conferences it
is decided unwise for all the boys to take up carpentry. It is thought that by diversifying their trades they would be prepared to take contracts for
putting up entire buildings - (The Urantia Book,
128:2.1-2)
16 A.D. - Jesus continues this year at house finishing and cabinetwork but spends most of his time at the
caravan repair shop. James is beginning to alternate with
him in attendance at the shop. The latter part of this year Jesus leaves James in charge of the repair shop and Joseph at the home bench while he goes
to
Sepphoris to work with a
smith. He worked six months with metals and
acquired considerable skill at the
anvil. Before taking up his new employment at Sepphoris, Jesus
held one of his periodic family conferences and installed James, then just past eighteen years old, as acting head of the family. From this day James
assumes full financial responsibility for the family, Jesus making weekly payments to his brother. Never again did Jesus take the reins out of James's
hands. He has begun the slow process of weaning his family - (The Urantia Book,
128:2.3-4)
17 A.D. - Jesus' 23rd year. The financial pressure is slightly relaxed as four are at work. Miriam earns considerable by the sale of
milk and butter; Martha has become an expert weaver. The purchase price of the repair shop is over one third paid. The situation is such that Jesus
stopped work for three weeks to take Simon to
Jerusalem for the
Passover, and this is the longest period away from daily toil
he has enjoyed since the death of his father - (The Urantia Book,
128:3.1)
17 A.D. - Jesus talks to Stephen. A young
Hellenist named Stephen was on his first
visit to Jerusalem and chanced to meet Jesus on Thursday afternoon of Passover week. Jesus began the casual conversation that resulted in their
becoming interested in each other, and which led to a 4 hour discussion of the way of life and the true God and his worship. Stephen was tremendously
impressed with what Jesus said; he never forgot his words. Stephen subsequently became a believer in the teachings of Jesus, and whose boldness in
preaching this early
gospel resulted in his being stoned to death by irate
Jews - (The Urantia Book,
128:3.5)
17 A.D. - The last four months of this year Jesus spent in
Damascus as the guest of the merchant whom he first met at
Philadelphia
when on his way to
Jerusalem - (The Urantia Book,
128:4.1)
18 A.D. - This is Jesus' first year of comparative freedom from family responsibility - (The Urantia Book,
128:5.1)
18 A.D. - The week following the
Passover of this year a young man from
Alexandria comes to
Nazareth to arrange for a meeting between Jesus and a group
of Alexandrian Jews. This conference is set for the middle of June, and Jesus goes to
Caesarea to meet with five prominent Jews of Alexandria, who
besought him to establish himself in their city as a religious teacher as assistant to the
chazan in their chief
synagogue - (The Urantia Book,
128:5.2)
18 A.D. - James and Esta. In December James has a private talk with Jesus, explaining that he is much in love with Esta, a young
woman of
Nazareth, and that they would like to be married. Joseph
would soon be eighteen years old; it would be a good experience for him to have a chance to serve as the acting head of the family. Jesus gives
consent for James's marriage two years later, provided he has, during the intervening time, properly trained Joseph to assume direction of the home -
(The Urantia Book,
128:5.7)
19 A.D. - Jesus' deep meditation is often broken into by Ruth and her playmates. Always is Jesus ready to postpone the contemplation
of his future work for the world and the universe that he might share in the childish joy and youthful gladness of these youngsters, who never tired
of listening to Jesus relate the experiences of his various trips to
Jerusalem. They also greatly enjoyed his stories about
animals and nature - (The Urantia Book,
128:6.10)
20 A.D. - Jesus becomes strongly conscious that he possessed a wide range of potential power. He is fully persuaded that this power
is not to
be employed as the Son of Man, at least not until his hour should come - (The Urantia Book,
128:7.1)
20 A.D. - For years James had trouble with his youngest brother, Jude, who was not inclined to settle down to work nor was he to
be
depended upon for his share of the home expenses. While he would live at home, he was not conscientious about earning his share of the family upkeep -
(The Urantia Book,
128:7.3)
20 A.D. - November. A double wedding. James and Esta, and Miriam and Jacob are married. It is truly a joyous occasion. Even Mary
is once
more happy except every now and then when she realized that Jesus is preparing to go away - (The Urantia Book,
128:7.10)
20 A.D. - The day after this double wedding Jesus holds an important conference with James, telling him that he is preparing to
leave
home. Jesus presents full title to the repair shop to James, and establishes his brother as "head and protector of my father's house." He drew up a
compact in which it is stipulated that James would assume full financial responsibility for the family, thus releasing Jesus from all further
obligations in these matters - (The Urantia Book,
128:7.13)
20 A.D. - James and his bride, Esta, move into a small home on the west side of town, the gift of her father. While James
continues to
support his mother's home, his quota is cut in half because of his marriage, and Joseph is formally installed by Jesus as head of the family. Jude is
now very faithfully sending his share of funds home each month. The weddings of James and Miriam has a very beneficial influence on Jude - (The
Urantia Book,
128:7.11)
20 A.D. - Miriam lives next door to
Mary in the home of Jacob, Jacob the elder having been laid to rest with his fathers.
Martha took Miriam's place in the home, and the new organization is working smoothly before the year ended - (The Urantia Book,
128:7.12)
21 A.D. - January, on a rainy Sunday morning, Jesus took unceremonious leave of his family. He left them, never again to be a regular
member of that household - (The Urantia Book,
129:1.1)
21 A.D. - Jesus stopped in
Capernaum to pay a visit to his father's friend Zebedee.
Zebedee's sons are fishermen; he himself is a
boatbuilder. Jesus is an expert in both designing and
building; he is a master at working with wood; and Zebedee has long known of his skill. For a long time Zebedee has contemplated making improved
boats; he now lays his plans before Jesus and invites him to join him in the enterprise, and Jesus readily consented. - (The Urantia Book,
129:1.2)
21 A.D. - Throughout this year Jesus built boats and continued to observe how men lived on earth. He worked with Zebedee only a
little more than one year, but during that time he created a new style of boat and established entirely new methods of boatmaking. Jesus became well
known to the
Galilean fisherfolk as the designer of the new boats -
(The Urantia Book,
129:1.3;
129:1.7)
22 - 23 A.D. - April 26, 22 A.D. - December 10, 23 A.D. The tour of the Roman world. This tour consumes most of the 28th and the
entire 29th year of Jesus' life. Jesus and the two natives from
India—Gonod and his son Ganid— leave
Jerusalem on a Sunday morning, April 26, A.D. 22. They make
their journey according to schedule, and Jesus says good-bye to the father and son in the city of
Charax on the
Persian Gulf on the tenth day of December the following
year. From Jerusalem they travel to
Caesarea by way of
Joppa. At Caesarea they take a boat for
Alexandria. From Alexandria they sail for Lasea in
Crete. From Crete they sail for
Carthage,touching at
Cyrene. At Carthage they take a boat for
Naples,stopping at
Malta, Syracuse, and
Messina. From Naples they go on to
Capua, whence they travel by the
Appian Way to
Rome. While at Rome they make five side trips which
included the
northern Italian lakes and
Switzerland. After their stay in Rome they travel overland
to
Tarentum, where they set sail for
Athens in
Greece, stopping at
Nicopolis and
Corinth. From Athens they go to
Ephesus by way of
Troas.
From Ephesus they sail for
Cyprus, putting in at
Rhodes on the way. They spend considerable time visiting and
resting on Cyprus and then sail for
Antioch in
Syria. From Antioch they journey south to
Sidon and then go over to
Damascus. From there they travel by
caravan to
Mesopotamia, passing through
Thapsacus and
Larissa. They spend some time in
Babylon, visiting
Ur, and then on to
Susa.
From Susa they returned to Charax, from which place Gonod and Ganid embark for India - (The Urantia Book,
130:0.1-3;
132:7.1)
22 A.D. - March. Jesus takes leave of Zebedee and of
Capernaum. He asks for a small sum of money to defray his
expenses to
Jerusalem - (The Urantia Book,
129:2.1)
22 A.D. - Gonod and Ganid. This
Passover week Jesus meets a wealthy traveler, Gonod,and his
son, Ganid, a young man about seventeen years of age from
India, and being on their way to visit
Rome and various other points on the Mediterranean, they
arranged to arrive in
Jerusalem during the Passover, hoping to find someone they
could engage as interpreter and as tutor for Ganid. Gonod is insistent that Jesus consent to travel with them and advances Jesus the wages of one year
so that he could intrust such funds to his friends for the safeguarding of his family. Jesus turned this large sum over to
John Zebedee. Jesus took Zebedee fully into his confidence regarding this Mediterranean
journey, but he enjoined him to tell no man, not even his family, and Zebedee never did disclose his knowledge of Jesus' whereabouts during this long
period of almost two years. Before Jesus' return from this trip the family at
Nazareth has just about given him up as dead. Only the
assurances of Zebedee, who went up to Nazareth with his son John on
several occasions, kept hope alive in Mary's heart - (The Urantia Book,
129:2.9-10)
22 A.D. - August 17. Death of Elizabeth. John's mother suddenly passed away.
23 A.D. - The whole of Jesus' 29th year is spent finishing up the tour of the Mediterranean world - (The Urantia Book,
129:3.1)
24 A.D. - After taking leave of Gonod and Ganid at
Charax (in December), Jesus returns by way of
Ur
to Babylon, where he joins a desert
caravan that is on its way to Damascus. From Damascus he
goes to Nazareth, stopping only a few hours at
Capernaum, where he pauses to call on Zebedee's family.
There he meets his brother James, who had sometime previously come over to work in his place in Zebedee's boatshop - (The Urantia Book,
134:1.1)
24 A.D. - During his stay of a few weeks at
Nazareth, Jesus visits with his family and friends, spends
some time at the repair shop with his brother Joseph, but devotes most of his attention to Mary and Ruth. Ruth is now nearly fifteen years old, and
this was Jesus' first opportunity to have long talks with her since she had become a young woman - (The Urantia Book,
134:1.3)
24 A.D. - March. Both Simon and Jude have for some time wanted to get married with Jesus' consent; accordingly they have
postponed these events, hoping for their eldest brother's return. Though they all regarded James as the head of the family in most matters, when it
came to getting married, they wanted the blessing of Jesus. So Simon and Jude are married at a double wedding. All the older children are now married;
only Ruth, the youngest, remains at home with
Mary - (The Urantia Book,
134:1.4)
24 A.D. - About the time Jesus is preparing to leave
Nazareth, the conductor of a large
caravan which is passing through the city is taken
violently ill, and Jesus, being a linguist, volunteers to take his place. Since this trip would necessitate his absence for a year, and inasmuch as
all his brothers are married and
his mother is living at home with Ruth, Jesus calls a family conference at which he
proposes that his mother and Ruth go to
Capernaum to live in the home which he has so recently given
to James. Accordingly, a few days after Jesus left with the caravan, Mary and Ruth moved to Capernaum, where they lived for the rest of Mary's life in
the home that Jesus provided. Joseph and his family moved into the old Nazareth home - (The Urantia Book,
134:1.6)
24 A.D. - April 1. Jesus left
Nazareth on the caravan trip to the
Caspian Sea region. The caravan which
Jesus joined as conductor is going from
Jerusalem by way of
Damascus and
Lake Urmia through
Assyria, Media, and Parthia to the southeastern Caspian Sea
region - (The Urantia Book,
134:2.1)
24 A.D. - This is a most interesting episode in the human life of Jesus, for he functions during this year in an executive
capacity, being responsible for the material intrusted to his charge and for the safe conduct of the travelers making up the caravan party - (The
Urantia Book,
134:2.4)
24 A.D. - On the return from the
Caspian region, Jesus gives up the
direction of the
caravan at
Lake Urmia, where he tarries for slightly over two weeks.
He returns as a passenger with a later caravan to
Damascus, where the owners of the camels ask him to remain in
their service. Declining this offer, he journeyed on with the caravan train to
Capernaum, arriving the first of April, A.D. 25 - (The
Urantia Book,
134:2.5)
25 A.D. - March. At last John thought out the method of proclaiming the new age, the kingdom of God; he settled that he is to become
the herald
of the Messiah; he swept aside all doubts and departed from Engedi to begin his short but brilliant career as a public
preacher - (The Urantia Book,
135:4.6)
25 A.D. - Early March. John journeyed around the western coast of the
Dead Sea and up the
river Jordan to opposite
Jericho, the ancient ford over which Joshua and the children
of Israel passed when they first entered the promised land; and crossing over to the other side of the river, he established himself near the entrance
to the ford and began to preach to the people who passed by on their way back and forth across the river - (The Urantia Book,
135:6.1)
25 A.D. - Middle of August. After spending some time in the vicinity of
Caesarea Philippi, Jesus makes ready his supplies,
and securing a beast of burden and a lad named Tiglath, he proceeds along the
Damascus road to the village of
Beit Jenn in the foothills of
Mount Hermon. Here he establishes his headquarters, and
leaving his supplies in the custody of Tiglath, he ascends the lonely slopes of the mountain.
Tiglath accompanies Jesus this first day up the mountain to a designated point about 6,000 feet above sea level, where they build a stone container in
which Tiglath deposits food twice a week - (The Urantia Book,
134:8.1)
25 A.D. - Middle of September. Jesus confronts the two emissaries of
Lucifer,
Satan and
Caligastia, on
Mount Hermon in what is known as the
"temptation of Christ." This is the end of his
purely human career and the beginning of the more divine phase of his bestowal - (The Urantia Book,
134:8.6)
25 A.D. - By December when John reaches the neighborhood of
Pella in his journey up the
Jordan River, his fame has extended throughout all
Palestine, and his work has become the chief topic of
conversation in all the towns about the
Sea of Galilee - (The Urantia Book,
135:8.1)
26 A.D. - Sunday, January 13. As time passes, rumors came to
Capernaum of John who is preaching while baptizing penitents
in the
Jordan, and John preached: "The
kingdom of heaven is at hand; repent and be baptized." Jesus listens to these reports as
John slowly works his way up the
Jordan valley from the
ford of the river nearest to
Jerusalem. But Jesus works on, making boats, until John has
journeyed up the river to a point near
Pella, when he lays down his tools, declaring, "My hour
has come." He went out to his brothers James and Jude, repeating, "My hour has come—let us go to John." And they started immediately for Pella, eating
their lunch as they journeyed - (The Urantia Book,
134:9.8;
135:8.3)
26 A.D. - January. Jesus is almost thirty-one and one-half years old when he is
baptized. While Luke says that Jesus is baptized in the
fifteenth year of the reign of
Tiberius Caesar, which would be A.D. 29 since Augustus died
in A.D. 14, it should be recalled that Tiberius is coemperor with Augustus for two and one-half years before the death of Augustus, having had coins
struck in his honor in October, A.D. 11. The fifteenth year of his actual rule is, therefore, this very year of A.D. 26, that of Jesus' baptism. And
this was also the year that Pontius Pilate began his rule as governor of
Judea - (The Urantia Book,
136:2.8)
26 A.D. - January 14, Monday noon. John baptizes Jesus. John is atremble with emotion as he makes ready to
baptize Jesus in the
Jordan. Thus did John baptize Jesus and his two brothers
James and Jude. And when John baptized these three, he dismissed the others for the day, announcing that he would resume baptisms at noon the next
day. As the people depart, the four men still standing in the water hear a strange sound, and there appeared for a moment an apparition immediately
over the head of Jesus, and they heard a voice saying, "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." A great change came over the countenance of
Jesus, and coming up out of the water in silence he took leave of them, going toward the hills to the east. And no man saw Jesus again for forty days
- (The Urantia Book,
135:8.6)
26 A.D. - February 23, early Saturday morning. Jesus came down from the hills to rejoin John's company encamped at
Pella. All that day Jesus mingled with the multitude. He
ministered to a lad who had injured himself in a fall and journeyed to the near-by village of Pella to deliver the boy safely into the hands of his
parents - (The Urantia Book,
137:0.1)
26 A.D. - February 23. Jesus' first
apostle,
Andrew. During this
Sabbath two of John's leading disciples spend much time with
Jesus. Of all John's followers one named Andrew is the most profoundly impressed with Jesus; he accompanied him on the trip to
Pella with the injured boy. Jesus welcomed Andrew as the
first of his
apostles, that group of 12 who are to labor with him in the work of
establishing the new kingdom of God in the hearts of men - (The Urantia Book,
137:1.1)
26 A.D. - February 23. Jesus' second
apostle,
Simon Peter. Soon after Jesus and
Andrew return to the camp, Andrew sought out his brother, Simon, and taking him aside,
informed him that he has settled in his own mind that Jesus is the great Teacher, and that he has pledged himself as a disciple. He suggests that
Simon likewise go to Jesus and offer himself for fellowship in the service of the new kingdom. Andrew beckoned to Jesus to draw aside while he
announced that his brother desired to join himself to the service of the new kingdom. And in welcoming Simon as his second apostle, Jesus said:
"Simon, your enthusiasm is commendable, but it is dangerous to the work of the kingdom. I admonish you to become more thoughtful in your speech. I
would change your name to Peter." - (The Urantia Book,
137:1.3)
26 A.D. - February 24.
James and
John Zebedee, Jesus' third and fourth
apostles. John asked, "But, Master, will James
and I be associates with you in the new kingdom, even as Andrew and Simon?" And Jesus, laying a hand on the shoulder of each of them, said: "My
brethren, you are already with me in the spirit of the kingdom, even before these others made request to be received. You, my brethren, have no need
to make request for entrance into the kingdom; you have been with me in the kingdom from the beginning." - (The Urantia Book,
137:1.6)
26 A.D. - February 24, Sunday morning.
Philip, Jesus' fifth
apostle. It suddenly dawns on Philip that Jesus
is a really great man, possibly the
Messiah, and he decides to abide by Jesus' decision in this
matter; he asks Jesus, "Teacher, shall I go down to John or shall I join my friends who follow you?" And Jesus answers, "Follow me." Philip is
thrilled with the assurance that he has found the Deliverer - (The Urantia Book,
137:2.5)
26 A.D. - February 24, Sunday morning.
Nathaniel, Jesus' sixth
apostle. Philip leads Nathaniel to Jesus, who,
looking benignly into the face of the sincere doubter, said: "Behold a genuine
Israelite, in whom there is no deceit. Follow me." And
Nathaniel, turning to Philip, said: "You are right. He is indeed a master of men. I will also follow, if I am worthy." And Jesus nodded to Nathaniel,
again saying, "Follow me." Jesus has now assembled one half of his
future corps of intimate associates, 5 who have for some time known him and one stranger, Nathaniel. Without further delay they crossed the
Jordan and, going by the village of
Nain, reached
Nazareth late that evening - (The Urantia Book,
137:2.7;
137:2.8)
26 A.D. - February 27, Wednesday noon.
The wedding at Cana. Almost 1,000 guests have arrived
in
Cana, more than four times the number bidden to the wedding
feast. It is a
Jewish custom to celebrate weddings on Wednesday, and the
invitations have been sent abroad for the wedding one month previously. In the forenoon and early afternoon it appears more like a public reception
for Jesus than a wedding. That evening, from six stone waterpots filled with water and holding about 20 gallons apiece, Jesus turns the water into
wine. This water was intended for subsequent use in the final purification ceremonies of the wedding celebration. The commotion of the servants about
these huge stone vessels, under the busy direction of his mother, attracted Jesus' attention, and going over, he observed that they are drawing wine
out of them by the pitcherful - (The Urantia Book,
137:4.1;
137:4.11)
26 A.D. - March 3, Sunday morning. Since Jesus had gone north into
Galilee, John felt led to retrace his steps southward. John
and the remainder of his disciples began their journey south. About one quarter of John's immediate followers had meantime departed for Galilee in
quest of Jesus. There is a sadness of confusion about John. He never again preached as he had before baptizing Jesus - (The Urantia Book,
135:10.1)
26 A.D. - Near the village of Adam, John tarried for several weeks, and it is here that he made the memorable attack upon Herod
Antipas for unlawfully taking the wife of another man. John is back at the
Bethany ford of the Jordan, where he had begun his
preaching of the coming kingdom more than a year previously. In the weeks following the
baptism of Jesus the character of John's preaching gradually
changed into a proclamation of mercy for the common people, while he denounced with renewed vehemence the corrupt political and religious rulers. On
June 12, John is arrested and imprisoned - (The Urantia Book,
135:10.2)
26 A.D. - June 22-23, Saturday and Sunday. Jesus delivers the "Sermon on The Kingdom." On Sunday, before they began this first
two weeks of service, Jesus announces to them that he desires to ordain 12
apostles to continue the work of the kingdom
after his departure and authorized each of the six to choose one man from among his early converts for membership in the projected corps of apostles -
(The Urantia Book,
137:8.1,
138:1.2)
26 A.D. - July. After each man presents his selection for the new apostleships, Jesus asks all the others to vote upon the
nomination; thus all six of the new
apostles are formally
accepted by all of the older six. Then Jesus announced that they would all visit these candidates and give them the call to service. The newly
selected apostles are:
Matthew Levi, the customs collector of
Capernaum, who has his office just to the east of the city,
near the borders of
Batanea. He was selected by
Andrew.
Thomas Didymus, a fisherman of Tarichea and onetime
carpenter and
stone mason of
Gadara. He was selected by
Philip.
James Alpheus, a fisherman and farmer of Kheresa, was selected by
James Zebedee
Judas Alpheus, the twin brother of James Alpheus, also a fisherman, was selected by
John Zebedee
Simon Zelotes was a high officer in the patriotic organization of the
Zealots, a position which he gave up to join Jesus' apostles.
Before joining the Zealots, Simon had been a merchant. He was selected by Peter.
Judas Iscariot was an only son of wealthy Jewish parents living in
Jericho. He had become attached to John the Baptist, and his
Sadducee parents had disowned him. He was looking for
employment in these regions when Jesus' apostles found him, and chiefly because of his experience with finances,
Nathaniel invited him to join their ranks. Judas Iscariot was the only
Judean among the 12
apostles - (The Urantia Book,
138:2.2-9)
26 A.D. - The year he was chosen as an
apostles,
Andrew was 33. Jesus never gave Andrew a
nickname. But even as the apostles soon began to call Jesus
Master, so they also designated Andrew by a term the equivalent of Chief - (The Urantia Book,
139:1.2)
26 A.D. - When Simon joined the
apostles, he was 30 years of age, married, has
three children, and lived at
Bethsaida, near
Capernaum. His brother,
Andrew, and his wife's mother live with him. Both Peter and Andrew are fisher partners of
the sons of Zebedee - (The Urantia Book,
139:2.1)
26 A.D. - James, the older of the two
apostles sons of Zebedee, whom Jesus nicknamed
"sons of thunder," is 30 years old when he became an apostle, married, has four children, and lives near his parents in the outskirts of
Capernaum. He was a fisherman, plying his calling in company
with his younger brother John and in association with
Andrew and Simon. James and his brother John enjoyed the advantage of having known Jesus
longer than any of the other apostles - (The Urantia Book,
139:3.1)
26 A.D. - When he became an
apostle, John was 24 years old and was the
youngest of the 12. He was unmarried and lived with his parents at
Bethsaida; he was a fisherman and worked with his brother
James in partnership with
Andrew and Peter. Of all the 12
apostles,
John Zebedee eventually became the outstanding theologian - (The Urantia Book,
139:4.1, 15)
26 A.D. -
Philip was 27 years of age when he joined the
apostles; he was recently married, but he had no
children. The nickname which the apostles gave him signified "curiosity." Philip was always wanting to be shown. He never seemed to see very far into
any proposition. He was not necessarily dull, but he lacked imagination - (The Urantia Book,
139:5.2)
26 A.D. - When
Nathaniel joined the
apostles, he was 25 years old and was the next to
the youngest of the group. He was the youngest of a family of seven, was unmarried, and the only support of aged and infirm parents, with whom he
lived at
Cana, his brothers and sister were either married or deceased,
and none lived there - (The Urantia Book,
139:6.2)
26 A.D. -
Matthew, the seventh
apostles, was chosen by
Andrew. Matthew belonged to a family of tax gatherers, or
publicans, but was himself a customs collector in
Capernaum, where he lived. He was 31 years old, married and
had four children. He was a man of moderate wealth, the only one of any means belonging to the apostolic corps - (The Urantia Book,
139:7.1)
26 A.D. - When
Thomas joined the
apostles, he was 29 years old, married, and had 4
children. Formerly he had been a
carpenter and
stone mason, but latterly he had become a fisherman and
resided at Tarichea, situated on the west bank of the
Jordan where it flows out of the
Sea of Galilee - (The Urantia Book,
139:8.2)
26 A.D. -
James and Judas. the sons of Alpheus, the twin fishermen living near
Kheresa, were the ninth and tenth
apostles and were chosen by
James and
John Zebedee. They were 26 years old and married, James having three children, Judas two -
(The Urantia Book,
139:9.1)
26 A.D. -
Simon Zelotes, the eleventh
apostle, was chosen by
Simon Peter. He was 28 years old when he became an apostle - (The Urantia Book,
139:11.1)
26 A.D. -
Judas Iscariot, the twelfth
apostle, was chosen by
Nathaniel He was born in
Kerioth, a small town in southern
Judea. When he was a lad, his parents moved to
Jericho, where he lived and had been employed in his father's
various business enterprises until he became interested in the preaching and work of John the Baptist. Judas' parents are
Sadducees and when their son joined John's disciples, they
disowned him. He was thirty years of age and unmarried - (The Urantia Book,
139:12.1-2)
27 A.D. - January 12, Sunday, just before noon. The ordination of the 12.
Sermon on the Mount. Jesus called the apostles
together for their ordination as public preachers of the gospel of the kingdom - (The Urantia Book,
140:0.1)
27 A.D. - January 19, Sunday. Jesus and the 12
apostles make ready to depart from their
headquarters in
Bethsaida to go to
Jerusalem to attend the
Passover feast in April - (The Urantia Book,
141:0.1)
27 A.D. - The month of April is spent in Jerusalem; first ministry by Jesus and the twelve.
27 A.D. - At the end of June, because of the increasing opposition of the Jewish religious rulers, Jesus and the 12 departed
from
Jerusalem, after sending their tents and meager personal
effects to be stored at the home of Lazarus at
Bethany - (The Urantia Book,
143:0.1)
27 A.D. - During this first year of Jesus' public ministry more than three fourths of his followers have previously followed
John and have received his
baptism. This entire year is spent in quietly taking over
John's work in Perea and Judea - (The Urantia Book,
141:1.5)
28 A.D. - January 10, evening. John the Baptist is beheaded by order of Herod Antipas. The next day a few of John's
disciples who have gone to Machaerus heard of his execution and, going to Herod, made request for his body, which they put in a tomb, later giving it
burial at
Sebaste, the home of Abner - (The Urantia Book,
144:9.1)
28 A.D. - January 12. When Jesus heard the report of John's death, he dismissed the multitude and, calling the 24 together,
said: "John is dead. Herod has beheaded him. Tonight go into joint council and arrange your affairs accordingly. There shall be delay no longer. The
hour has come to proclaim the kingdom openly and with power. Tomorrow we go into Galilee." - (The Urantia Book,
144:9.1)
28 A.D. - January 13, Tuesday evening. Jesus and the
apostles arrived in
Capernaum and, as usual, made their headquarters at the home
of Zebedee in
Bethsaida. Now that John the Baptist has been sent to his
death, Jesus prepares to launch out in the first open and public preaching tour of
Galilee - (The Urantia Book,
145:0.1)
28 A.D. - January 18, Sunday - March 17. Jesus and the
apostles started out upon their first really
public and open preaching tour of the cities of
Galilee and continued for about two months. On this tour Jesus
and the 12
apostles, assisted by the former apostles of John, preach the
gospel and
baptized believers in
Rimmon,
Jotapata,
Ramah,
Zebulun, Iron,
Gischala,
Chorazin, Madon,
Cana,
Nain, and Endor. While in Iron Jesus worked as a miner in
the mineral mines - (The Urantia Book,
146:0.1)
28 A.D. - May 3 to October 3. Jesus and the apostolic party are in residence at the Zebedee home at
Bethsaida. Throughout this five months' period of the dry
season an enormous camp is maintained by the seaside near the Zebedee residence, which have been greatly enlarged to accommodate the growing family of
Jesus. This seaside camp, occupied by an ever-changing population of truth seekers, healing candidates, and curiosity devotees, numbered from five
hundred to fifteen hundred. This tented city is under the general supervision of David Zebedee, assisted by the
Alpheus twins. The sick of different types are segregated and are under the supervision of
a believer physician, a
Syrian named Elman - (The Urantia Book,
148:0.1)
28 A.D. - October 3, Sunday - December 30. Beginning of Jesus' second public preaching tour of
Galilee. Participating in this effort are Jesus and his 12
apostles, assisted by the newly recruited corps of
117
evangelists and by numerous other interested persons. On
this tour they visited
Gadara
Ptolemais,
Japhia,
Dabaritta,
Megiddo,
Jezreel,
Scythopolis, Tarichea,
Hippos,
Gamala,
Bethsaida-Julias, and
many other cities and villages. Returning to Bethsaida by the end of December, of the 117 evangelists starting the tour 75 completed it. - (The
Urantia Book,
149:0.1)
28 A.D. - Ruth is the only member of Jesus' family who consistently and unwaveringly believes in the divinity of his earth
mission from the times of her earliest spiritual consciousness right on down through his eventful ministry, death,
resurrection, and
ascension;
and she finally passed on to the worlds beyond never having doubted the supernatural character of her father-brother's mission in the flesh. Baby Ruth
is the chief comfort of Jesus, as regards his earth family - (The Urantia Book,
145:0.3)
29 A.D. - March 28, the feeding of the 5,000 and the king-making episode - (The Urantia Book,
152:2.1)
29 A.D. - April 30, Saturday night. As Jesus is speaking words of comfort and courage to his downcast and bewildered disciples,
at
Tiberias a council is being held between Herod Antipas and a
group of special commissioners representing the Jerusalem
Sanhedrin. These
scribes and
Pharisees urge Herod to arrest Jesus; they do their best to
convince him that Jesus is stirring up the populace to dissension and rebellion. But Herod refuses to take action against him as a political offender.
Herod's advisers had correctly reported the episode across the lake when the people sought to proclaim Jesus king and how he rejected the proposal -
(The Urantia Book,
154:0.1)
29 A.D. - May 8, Sunday. At
Jerusalem, the
Sanhedrin passed a decree closing all the
synagogues of
Palestine to Jesus and his followers. This is a new and
unprecedented usurpation of authority by the
Jerusalem Sanhedrin. Theretofore each synagogue has existed
and functioned as an independent congregation of worshipers and was under the rule and direction of its own board of governors. Only the synagogues of
Jerusalem have been subject to the authority of the Sanhedrin. One hundred messengers are immediately dispatched to convey and enforce this decree.
Within two weeks every synagogue in Palestine has bowed to this manifesto of the Sanhedrin except the synagogue at
Hebron - (The Urantia Book,
154:2.1)
29 A.D. - May 22, Sunday. This morning, before daybreak, one of David's messengers arrives in great haste from
Tiberias, bringing the word that Herod has authorized, or is
about to authorize, the arrest of Jesus by the officers of the
Sanhedrin. The receipt of the news of this impending danger
causes David Zebedee to arouse his messengers and send them out to all the local groups of disciples, summoning them for an emergency council at seven
o'clock that morning. When the sister-in-law of Jude heard this alarming report, she hastened word to all of Jesus' family who dwelt near by,
summoning them forthwith to assemble at Zebedee's house. And in response to this hasty call, there are assembled
Mary, James, Joseph, Jude, and Ruth - (The Urantia Book,
154:5.1)
29 A.D. - For three years Jesus has been proclaiming that he is the "Son of Man," while for these same three years the
apostles have been increasingly insistent that he
is the expected Jewish
Messiah. He now discloses that he is the Son of God, and upon
the concept of the combined nature of the Son of Man and the Son of God, he determined to build the
kingdom of heaven - (The Urantia Book,
157:5.3)
29 A.D. - August 12, Friday near sundown. Jesus and his associates reach the foot of
Mount Hermon, near the very place where the lad Tiglath
once waited while the Master ascended the mountain alone to settle the spiritual destinies of Urantia and technically to terminate the
Lucifer rebellion. And here they sojourn for two days in spiritual preparation for the
events so soon to follow - (The Urantia Book,
158:0.1)
29 A.D. - August 15, Monday. The Transfiguration Jesus and the three apostles begin the ascent of
Mount Hermon. When
Peter,
James, and
John had been fast asleep for about half an hour, they are suddenly awakened by a near-by
crackling sound, and much to their amazement and consternation, they behold Jesus in intimate converse with two brilliant beings clothed in the
habiliments of the light of the celestial world. Peter erroneously conjectured that the beings with Jesus were Moses and Elijah; in reality, they are
Gabriel and the Father Melchizedek - (The Urantia Book,
158:1.1,8)
29 A.D. - November 19, the ordination of the seventy at Magadan Park; Abner placed at head of this group; 400 believers and
workers gathered on the shore of the Sea of Galilee to witness the ordination.
30 A.D. - March. By the middle of month when Jesus begins his journey toward
Jerusalem, over four thousand persons composed the large
audience which heard Jesus or Peter preach each morning. The Master chose to terminate his work on earth when the interest in his message had reached
a high point - (The Urantia Book,
165:1.2)
30 A.D. - March. The resurrection of
Lazarus. It is shortly after noon when Martha starts out to meet Jesus as he came over the brow of the hill near
Bethany. Her brother, Lazarus, had been dead four
days and had been laid away in their private tomb at the far end of the garden late on Sunday afternoon. The stone at the entrance of the tomb had
been rolled in place this Thursday morning - (The Urantia Book,
168:0.1)
30 A.D. - March 31, Friday. Jesus and the
apostles arrive at
Bethany shortly after four o'clock. Lazarus, his
sisters, and their friends are expecting them; and since so many people came every day to talk with Lazarus about his
resurrection, Jesus is informed that arrangements have
been made for him to stay with a neighboring believer, one Simon, the leading citizen of the little village since the death of Lazarus's father. -
(The Urantia Book,
172:0.1)
30 A.D. - April 4, Tuesday. At eight o'clock the fateful meeting of the
Sanhedrin is called to order. On many previous occasions had
this supreme court of the Jewish nation informally decreed the death of Jesus. Many times has this august ruling body determined to put a stop to his
work, but never before have they resolved to place him under arrest and to bring about his death at any and all costs. It is just before midnight that
the Sanhedrin officially and unanimously voted to impose the death sentence upon both Jesus and Lazarus - (The Urantia Book,
175:3.1)
30 A.D. - April 5, Wednesday. Judas's betrayal. Shortly after Jesus and
John Mark left the camp,
Judas Iscariot disappeared from among his brethren, not returning
until late in the afternoon. This confused and discontented apostle, notwithstanding his Master's specific request to refrain from entering
Jerusalem, went in haste to keep his appointment with Jesus'
enemies at the home of Caiaphas the high priest. This is an informal meeting of the
Sanhedrin and has been appointed for shortly after 10
o'clock that morning - (The Urantia Book,
177:4.1)
30 A.D. - April 6, Thursday evening.
The Last Supper - (The Urantia Book,
179:0.1)
30 A.D. - April 6, Thursday night. In the garden at
Gethsemane - (The Urantia Book, 182:3.1)
30 A.D. - April 6, Thursday night. When
Judas Iscariot started out from the temple, about 11:30, he was accompanied by more than
sixty persons—temple guards, Roman soldiers, and curious servants of the chief priests and rulers - (The Urantia Book,
183:2.4)
30 A.D. - April 6, Thursday night. The arrest of Jesus. As the company of armed soldiers and guards, carrying torches and
lanterns, approach the garden, Judas stepped well out in front of the band that he might be ready quickly to identify Jesus so that the apprehenders
could easily lay hands on him before his associates could rally to his defense - (The Urantia Book,
183:3.1)
30 A.D. - April 7, Friday morning. At about 3:30 the chief priest, Caiaphas, called the Sanhedrist court of inquiry to order and
asked that Jesus be brought before them for his formal trial. On three previous occasions the
Sanhedrin, by a large majority vote, have decreed the death
of Jesus - (The Urantia Book,
184:3.1)
30 A.D. - April 7, Friday morning. Throughout this awful hour Jesus uttered no word.. The human heart cannot possibly conceive
of the shudder of indignation that swept out over a vast universe as the celestial intelligences witnessed this sight of their beloved Sovereign
submitting himself to the will of his ignorant and misguided creatures on the sin-darkened sphere - (The Urantia Book,
184:4.3-4)
30 A.D. - April 7, Friday morning. At 6:00 this morning Jesus is led from the home of Caiaphas to appear before Pilate, the
Roman
procurator who governed
Judea,
Samaria, and
Idumea under the immediate supervision of the
legatus of
Syria. For the confirmation of the sentence of death which the
Sanhedrist court has so unjustly and irregularly decreed, Jesus is taken by the temple guards, bound, and accompanied by about fifty of his accusers,
including the Sanhedrist court (principally
Sadduceans),
Judas Iscariot, and the high priest, Caiaphas, and by the Apostle
John. - (The Urantia Book,
184:5.11;
185:0.1)
30 A.D. - April 7, Friday morning. The death of Judas. This onetime ambassador of the
kingdom of heaven on earth walked through the streets of
Jerusalem, forsaken and alone. His despair is desperate and
well-nigh absolute. On he journeyed through the city and outside the walls, on down into the terrible solitude of the valley of
Hinnom, where he climbed up the steep rocks and, taking the
girdle of his cloak, fastened one end to a small tree, tied the other about his neck, and cast himself over the precipice - (The Urantia Book,
186:1.7)
30 A.D. - April 7, Friday morning. A little after 8:00 Pilate turned Jesus over to the soldiers and a little before 9:00 they
start for the scene of the
crucifixion. During this period of more than half
an hour Jesus never spoke a word - (The Urantia Book,
186:4.2)
30 A.D. - April 7, Friday morning.
The Crucifixion. Shortly after
9:00 the procession of death arrives at
Golgotha, and the Roman soldiers set themselves about the task
of nailing the two brigands and the Son of Man to their respective crosses. At about 9:30, Jesus is hung upon the cross. Before 11:00, upward of 1,000
persons have assembled to witness this spectacle of the
crucifixion of the Son of Man. Throughout these
dreadful hours the unseen hosts of a universe stood in silence while they gazed upon this extraordinary phenomenon of the Creator as he is dying the
death of the creature, even the most ignoble death of a condemned criminal - (The Urantia
Book,
187:1.11, 3.1)
30 A.D. - April 7, Friday afternoon. Jesus dies on the cross. It is just before 3:00 when Jesus, with a loud voice, cried out,
"It is finished! Father, into your hands I commend my spirit." And when he had thus spoken, he bowed his head and gave up the life struggle; he was 36
years old. When the
Roman centurion saw how Jesus died, he smote his breast and
said: "This is indeed a righteous man; truly he must have been a Son of God." And from that hour he began to believe in Jesus - (The
Urantia Book,
187:5.5)
End of the earth life of Jesus period
|
- Modern History -
30 A.D. - April 7, Friday afternoon. At about 4:30 the burial procession of Jesus started from
Golgotha
for Joseph's tomb across the way. The body is wrapped in a linen sheet as the four men carried it, followed by the faithful women watchers from
Galilee
Those who bore the material body of Jesus to the tomb are: Joseph, Nicodemus, John, and the
Roman centurion - (The Urantia Book,
188:1.3)
[Point of Historical Interest]
30 A.D. - April 9, Sunday. At 3:02 am.
The resurrection of Jesus. The
morontia form and
personality of Jesus of Nazareth came forth from the
tomb. To believers, the
resurrection of Lazarus and Jesus' resurrection prove conclusively that death is not extinction, that rather it is a transition
from one form of life to another - (The Urantia Book,
189:1.1)
30 A.D. - April 9, Sunday morning. About 3:30 the 5 women, laden with their ointments, arrived before the empty
tomb. As they passed out of the
Damascus gate, they encounter a number
of soldiers
fleeing into the city more or less panic-stricken, and this caused them to pause for a few minutes; but when nothing more developed, they resumed
their journey - (The Urantia Book,
189:4.5)
30 A.D. - April 9, Sunday, 4:30. Resurrection roll call of Michael. The divisional headquarters for the universe administration
of archangel activity is established and the circuit of the archangels operates on Urantia for the first time - (The Urantia Book,
45:4.2;
189:4.2;
37:3.4)
30 A.D. - April 16.
John Zebedee took
Mary the mother of Jesus to his home in
Bethsaida. James, Jesus' eldest brother,
remained with his
family in
Jerusalem. Ruth remained at
Bethany with Lazarus's sisters. The
rest of Jesus'
family returned to
Galilee.
30 A.D. - May 18, Thursday. Jesus'
ascension. Jesus made his 19th and
final appearance
on earth. It is about 7:45 this morning when the morontia Jesus disappeared from the observation of his eleven
apostles to begin the ascent to the
right hand of
his Father, there to receive formal confirmation of his completed sovereignty of the universe of Nebadon. - (The Urantia Book,
193:3.1, 5.5)
30 A.D. - May.
Pentecost and the bestowal of the
Comforter, the Spirit of Truth - (The Urantia Book,
194:1.1)
30 A.D. - May. By 4:30 more than 2,000 new believers follow the
apostles down to the
pool of Siloam where Peter,
Andrew, James, and John
baptize them in the Master's name - (The
Urantia Book,
194:1.4)
30 A.D. - June. David Zebedee and Ruth, Jesus' youngest sister wed - (The Urantia Book,
190:1.10)
34 A.D. - Lanonandek Fortant attached to the staff of Lanaforge - (The Urantia Book,
45:3.7)
34 A.D. - Establishment of the 24 counselors on Jerusem - (The Urantia Book,
45:4.1)
37 – 100 A.D. - Josephus, Titus Flavius, a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and biographer. Josephus recorded Jewish history, with
special emphasis on the 1st century AD. In his historical writings refers to the Sadducees, Jewish High Priests of the time, Pharisees and Essenes,
the Herodian Temple, Quirinius' census and the Zealots, and to such figures as Pontius Pilate, Herod the Great, Agrippa I and Agrippa II, John the
Baptist, James the brother of Jesus, and a centuries-long disputed reference to Jesus.
(Josephus, Wikipedia)
40 A.D. - The
Apostle
Matthew's original record is edited and added to just before he left
Jerusalem to engage in
evangelistic preaching. His was a private
record - (The
Urantia Book,
121:8.6)
50 A.D. - At first the
Apostles
baptized in the name of Jesus; it was almost 20
years before
they began to baptize in "the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit."
baptism was all that was required for admission
into the
fellowship of believers. There was no organization as yet; it was simply the Jesus brotherhood - (The Urantia Book,
194:4.9)
59 A.D. - Death of Lazarus. After his
resurrection
in 30 A.D. Lazarus became treasurer of the church at Philadelphia and a strong supporter of Abner in his controversy with Paul and the
Jerusalem church. He ultimately died at 67
years, of the
same sickness that carried him off when he is a younger man at
Bethany - (The Urantia Book,
168:5.3)
67 A.D. - Death of the
Apostle Peter - (The Urantia Book,
121:8.3)
68 A.D. -
The Gospel by Mark.
John Mark wrote the earliest (excepting the notes of
Andrew), briefest, and most simple record of Jesus' life. He presented the Master as a
minister, as man among men. Although Mark was a lad lingering about many of the scenes which he depicts, his record is in reality the
Gospel according to
Simon Peter. He was early associated with Peter; later with Paul. Mark wrote this record
at the instigation of Peter and on the earnest petition of the church at Rome. Knowing how consistently the Master refused to write out his teachings
when on earth and in the flesh, Mark, like the
apostles and other leading
disciples,
was hesitant to put them in writing. Peter felt the church at Rome required the assistance of such a written narrative, and Mark consented to
undertake its preparation. In accordance with the outline approved by Peter and for the church at Rome, he began his writing. The Gospel was completed
near the end of A.D. 68. Mark wrote entirely from his own memory and Peter's memory - (The Urantia Book,
121:8.3)
70 A.D. -
The Roman destruction of Jerusalem.
70 A.D. -
The Gospel by Matthew. Isador escaped
from
Jerusalem after the investment of the city by
the armies of
Titus, taking with him to
Pella a copy of
Matthew's notes. In the year 71, while living at Pella, Isador wrote the Gospel according
to Matthew. He also had with him the first four fifths of Mark's narrative - (The Urantia Book,
121:8.7)
74 A.D. - November 21. Death of Abner, who, living to be 89 years old, died at
Philadelphia. To the very end he was a faithful believer in, and teacher of, the
gospel of the heavenly kingdom - (The Urantia
Book,
166:5.7)
79 A.D. -
The destruction of the city of Pompeii by the
eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
82 A.D. -
The Gospel by Luke. Luke, the physician
of
Antioch in
Pisidia, was a
gentile convert of Paul, and he wrote quite a
different story
of the Master's life. He began to follow Paul and learn of the life and teachings of Jesus in A.D. 47. Luke preserves much of the "grace of the Lord
Jesus Christ" in his record as he gathered up these facts from Paul and others. He did not formulate his many notes into the
Gospel until after Paul's death. Luke wrote in
Achaia. He planned three books dealing with
Christ and
the history of Christianity but
died in A.D.
90 just before he finished the second of these works, the
"Acts of the Apostles." - (The
Urantia Book,
121:8.8,9)
100 A.D. - In the first century after Christ,
Hellenistic culture had already attained its
highest levels;
its retrogression had begun; learning was advancing but genius was declining. It was at this very time that the ideas and ideals of Jesus, which are
partially embodied in
Christianity, became a part of the salvage
of Greek
culture and learning - (The Urantia Book,
195:1.9)
101 A.D. - The Gospel of John. The Gospel according to John relates much of Jesus' work in Judea and around
Jerusalem which is not contained in the other
records. This
is the so-called Gospel according to John the son of Zebedee, and though John did not write it, he did inspire it. Since its first writing it has
several times been edited to make it appear to have been written by John himself. When this record was made, John had the other Gospels, and he saw
that much had been omitted; he encouraged his associate, Nathan, a
Greek
Jew from
Caesarea, to begin the writing. John supplied
his material from memory and by reference to the three records already in existence. He had no written records of his own. The
Epistle known as
"First John" was written by John
himself as a
covering letter for the work which Nathan executed under his direction - (The Urantia Book,
121:8.10)
103 A.D. - John the
Apostle died a natural
death at
Ephesus when he was one hundred and one years
of age. - (The
Urantia Book,
139:4.1, 15)
200 A.D. - The second century after Christ is the best time in all the world's history for a good
religion to make progress in the
Western world - (The Urantia Book,
195:3.7)
300 A.D. - The final decline of the Roman Empire, which had lasted for about 400 years.
(Decline of Rome)
386 A.D. - The Archbishop of Constantinople, John Chrysostom, preached a sermon in Antioch c. 386 which established the date of
Jesus' birth, Christmas, as December 25 on the Julian calendar. [Point of Historical Interest
How December 25 Became Christmas];
[Point of
Historical Interest
Wikipedia, Christmas]
416 A.D. - The last copy of
Matthew's original record of Jesus was destroyed in a fire in a
Syrian
monastery - (The Urantia Book,
121:8.6)
1000 A.D. -
Machiventa Melchizedek, the onetime sage of Salem, was invisibly present on Urantia for a
period of one hundred years, acting as resident governor general of the planet - (The Urantia Book,
93:10.1)
1034 A.D. - Origin of the
Crab nebula - (The Urantia Book,
41:8.4)
1434 A.D. - Completion of the Michael memorial on Jerusem - (The Urantia Book,
46:5.12)
1500 A.D. -
Jehovah is a term which in recent times has
been employed to
designate the completed concept of
Yahweh which finally evolved in the long
Hebrew experience. But the name Jehovah did not
come into use
until fifteen hundred years after the times of Jesus - (The Urantia Book,
96:1.10)
1808 A.D. - True prophets and teachers arose to denounce and expose
shamanism. Even the vanishing red race had
such a prophet,
the
Shawnee Teuskwatowa, predicted the
eclipse of the sun in 1808 and denounced
the vices of
the white man - (The Urantia Book,
90:2.9)
1827 – 1915 A.D. - Ellen G. White, one of the founders of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, was influential in William S. Sadler's
early theological beliefs.
Wikipedia
1847 - 1849 A.D. - Archeological excavations in Iraq uncover 30,000 cuneiform tablets and fragments from the royal state library of
King Ashurbanipal (668-around 630 BC) which were taken to the British Museum where they remained until the undertaking of the Ashurbanipal Library
Project begun in 2002. See
Ashurbanipal
Library Project of the British Museum; [Timeline reference -
6,000 B.C. - Sumerian Legend]
1875 - 1969 A.D. -
William S.
Sadler MD, was an American surgeon, psychiatrist and author who helped publish The Urantia Book.
1875 - 1939 -
Lena K.
Sadler (nee Kellogg) MD, was an American physician, surgeon, and obstetrician-leader in women's health issues. She, along with her husband William
Sadler helped to publish The Urantia Book.
1880 -
Meteorite strike in Bengal, India
mentioned in The Urantia Book.
1884 - There are not many sun-forming nebulae active in Orvonton at the present time, though
Andromeda, which is outside the
inhabited
superuniverse, is very active. The giant nova of the Andromeda nebula collapsed in forty minutes - (The Urantia Book,
15:4.7;
41:8.3)
1934 - Inditing of the Urantia Papers, Parts I, II, III into English by revelatory commission - (The Urantia Book,
56:10.23)
1934 - The twentieth century has brought new problems for
Christianity and all other
religion to solve - (The Urantia Book,
195:5.1)
1934 - The worst of the materialistic age is over; the day of a better understanding is already beginning to dawn. The higher
minds of the
scientific world are no longer wholly materialistic in their philosophy, but the rank and file of the people still lean in that direction as a result
of former teachings - (The Urantia Book,
195:6.4)
1935 - Receipt of Part IV, restatement of the life and teachings of Jesus, by commission of Urantia midwayers - (The
Urantia Book,
Part IV)
1941 -
Arrangements with RR Donnelley & Sons, Chicago, made for setting the text
of The Urantia Book into steel plates for printing. The first printing of The Urantia Book will not take place until October, 1955.
1950 -
Urantia Foundation established;
Wikipedia article
1955 -
Urantia Brotherhood established; Urantia Book
Historical Society
article
1955 - October, first printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, hardcover, 10,000 copies
1961 - First printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation French Edition, Le Livre D'Urantia
1967 - Second printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, hardcover, 10,000 copies
1971 - Third printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, hardcover, 15,000 copies
1973 - Fourth printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, hardcover, 25,000 copies
1975, August 1-2 - Urantia Brotherhood International Conference - Kendall College, Evanston Illinois
1976 - Fifth printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, hardcover, 25,000 copies
1978, August 13-18 - Urantia Brotherhood International Conference -
1978 - Sixth printingof The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, hardcover, 25,000 copies
1981, June 28-July 3 - Urantia Brotherhood International Conference - Snowmass, Aspen, Colorado
1981 - July, seventh printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, hardcover, 23,114 copies
1984 - Urantia Brotherhood International Conference
1984 - Eighth printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, hardcover, 25,000 copies
1984 -
Jesusonian Foundation established
1986 - Ninth printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, hardcover, 30,000 copies
1987, August 2-7 - Urantia Brotherhood International Conference - Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
1989 - October,
Urantia Foundation disenfranchises Urantia Brotherhood
which changes its name to "Fifth Epochal Fellowship".
1990, June 30-July 5 - International Conference for Readers of The Urantia Book "Walking With God" - Snowmass, Aspen, Colorado
1990 - Tenth printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, hardcover, 30,000 copies
1991 - The organization name "Fifth Epochal Fellowship," is officially changed to "The Fellowship" (For readers of The Urantia Book).
1993, July 31-August 5 - International Conference "Touch The World" - St-Hyacinthe/Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1993 - Eleventh printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation,
1993 - First printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation Finnish Edition, Urantia-Kirja
1993 - First printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation Spanish Edition, El Libro de Urantia
1994 - The Urantia Book arrives on the internet to be read and searched
1995 - May, twelfth printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, softcover, 5,000 copies
1995 - October, thirteenth printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, hardcover, 25,000 copies
1995 - God's Bible printing of The Urantia Book, Pathways, Inc., hardcover, 5,000 copies
1995 - The Urantia Papers printing of The Urantia Book, Pathways, Inc., hardcover, 5,000 copies
1996, August 3-8 - The Fellowship's International Conference "Living Faith" - Flagstaff, Arizona
1996 - First printing of The Urantia Book, Uversa Press Edition
1997 - First printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation Russian Edition,
1997 - First printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation Dutch Edition, Het Urantia Boek
1997 - Second printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation Spanish Edition, El Libro de Urantia
1998 - Fourteenth printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation,
1998 - Urantia Foundation Leather Pocket Side printing of The Urantia Book
1999, August 7-12 - The Urantia Book Fellowship International Conference "Spirit Quest 2000" - University of British Columbia,
Vancouver,
Canada
1999 - Fifteenth printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation
2001 - Second printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation Russian Edition
2001 - Second printing of The Urantia Book, Uversa Press Edition
2002, February 7 - Press release announcing the establishment of Jesusonian Foundation's website
Truthbook.com
2002, June 30-July 6 - The Urantia Book Fellowship International Conference
"Revelation in Action" - Estes Park, Colorado
2003 - First printing of The Urantia Book, Uversa Press indexed Edition
2003 - First printing of The Urantia Book, Uversa Press indexed version special leather bound gilt edge
2005, July 31 - The Urantia Book Fellowship International Conference "Body, Mind and Spirit" - Villanova University, Pennsylvania
2005 - Second printing of The Urantia Book, Uversa Press indexed version special leather bound gilt edge
2005 - First printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation German Edition, Das Urantia Buch
2006 - July 26, establishment of
The
Urantia Book Historical Society
2007 - Eighteenth printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation,
2007 - First printing of Portuguese translation of The Urantia Book.
2008, July - The Urantia Book Fellowship International Conference - University of California, Los Angeles, California
2008 - Nineteenth printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation,
2008 - Second printing of The Urantia Book, Uversa Press indexed Edition
2008 - Standardized Reference Text Committee for the text of The Urantia Book produces Reference Documentation.
Available at Urantia Foundation Website
2009 - Newly designed
Urantia Foundation
Website on-line. In conjunction with the new website, the text of The Urantia Book and each of its translations is being reformatted for
electronic use and to standardize printing processes. A new standardization text identification system is implemented to provide control of the
current text and a new annotation system is adopted which accounts for every paragraph and list item in the text.
2011, July - The Urantia Book Fellowship International Conference - University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
- The Future -
Before the inception of life, Urantia was designated a decimal, life-experiment world.
(See 900,000,000 B.C.
- The Urantia Book,
36:2.8,
40:5.5,
57:8.8,
58:0.1,
62:7.1,
119:8.8)
Although its ultimate destiny is secure, Urantia is a "wild card world." The path to
that future destiny will provide many unforseen turns and branches, similar to the circuitous path
in the spiritual evolution of the planet that has resulted in the world we know today.
Urantia has already been the stage for unanticipated events conforming it to the unique niche in the cosmos that it will forever occupy:
• the loss of a spiritual steward through rebellion,
(See 200,000 B.C.),
• the default and loss of the planetary mother and father,
(See 35,797 B.C.),
• the emergency Melchizedek revelation
(See 1,980 - 1,886 B.C.)
to reinforce the concept of monotheism and to pave the way for the incarnation of the Creator Son,
(See 7 B.C.), and
•
culminating with the reception of the Urantia revelation
(See 1934).
What can be predicted of the future, along with the usual evolutionary course of events, is that it will continue to provide surprises.
In the immediate future for each of us is physical death and resurrection on the
mansion worlds in a new
(morontia) body. (The Urantia Book,
Paper 47)
The Future +1 - The midwayers relate that "the worst of the materialistic age is over; the day of a better understanding is already
beginning to dawn." (The Urantia Book,
195:6.4)
and Jesus stated that "when the world has passed through the long winter of material-mindedness and you discern the coming of the spiritual springtime
of a new dispensation, should you know that the summertime of a new visitation draws near." (The Urantia Book,
176:2.6)
The visitation of a Magisterial Son and the inauguration of a new dispensation is approaching.
The Future +2 - The revelators indicate that Machiventa Melchizedek will return to assume the position of Planetary Prince at the
beginning of the next dispensation; but others think that he could come even sooner--"any day or hour." (The Urantia Book,
114:1.3)
The Future +3 - Michael will return sometime (as he promised) to finish his bestowal Son tasks as the spiritual uplifter, a job that
he couldn't complete because he came before the mindal uplift of the Magisterial Son (or Sons). Michael may also wait for further biologic uplift,
which some of the revelators speculate may be fostered by Machiventa in the additional role as Material Son. (The Urantia Book,
93:10.6-7)
The Future +4 - Wars and rumors of wars will fade away as the teachings of Jesus, the Gospel of the Kingdom, permeate the hearts of
mankind. "...peace on earth will not come until all are willing to believe and enter into their glorious inheritance of sonship with God." (The
Urantia Book,
165:6.3)
The Future +5 - The races will have blended, resulting in a skin tone of an olive hue. (The Urantia Book,
52:3.7)
The Future +6 - The first stage of light and life will manifest. The world is administered by three celestial beings: the Planetary
Sovereign, the chief of the planetary corps of finaliters, and Adam and Eve.(The Urantia Book,
55:4.4)
The Future +7 - The beginning of the second stage of light and life. A Life Carrier becomes the adviser of the planetary rulers
regarding the further efforts to purify and stabilize the mortal race. (The Urantia Book,
55:4.8)
The Future +8 - The beginning of the third stage of light and life. Representatives of the superuniverses enter into new
relationships with the planetary administration. (The Urantia Book,
55:4.10)
The Future +9 - The fourth stage of light and life. Trinity Teacher Sons become advisors to the world administration. (The Urantia
Book,
55:4.14)
The Future +10 - The fifth stage of light and life pertains almost entirely on stabilizing the planetary environment. (The Urantia
Book,
55:4.17)
The Future +11 - The sixth stage of light and life produces enhanced mindal function among the people of the world. (The Urantia
Book,
55:4.18)
The Future +12 - The world is settled in the seventh stage of light and life. The physical forces of the planet and the sun are
stabilized so
that they can continue on into eternity.
(The Urantia Book,
32:3.2,
55:4.18)
The Future +13 - The local universe of Nebadon becomes settled in light and life.
(The Urantia Book,
15:9.15)
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