How Will I meet My Family Members if I Sleep For 1000 years?
Q:
What if when I die I am not awakened for several
hundreds of years
while
my family members may have been resurrected in
just a few days and
after their initial tarry have moved on along the
ascension path, how
would I be able to see them again after I am
resurrected?
A:
I
can understand your concern - that if you or
another of your family
were destined to be a sleeping survivor, how would
you meet those who
have resurrected in three days? Reason would tell
us that those who
resurrected in three days would be long gone by
the time the sleeping
survivor arrives on the shores of Mansonia. But
keep in mind that the
only
time-frame we can use is that which we know as
Urantia mortals.
From my reading of The Urantia
Book,
it is my understanding that
the majority of Father-indwelt mortals are very
likely to be counted
among those who
resurrect in three days. But once on the spheres
of Mansonia, it is
impossible to reckon how much time (in Urantia
terms) must pass before
the ascender is released to go on to other worlds.
For all we know, it
could take hundreds of Earth-years (or thousands)
before we pass
through
even the first Mansion World. In that case, you
would certainly be able
to see those who went before you...
The following passage may give
you some comfort, as it does me:
113:1.8
When a
mortal mind breaks through the inertia of animal
legacy and attains the
third circle of human intellectuality and acquired
spirituality, a
personal angel (in reality two) will henceforth be
wholly and
exclusively devoted to this ascending mortal. And
thus these human
souls, in addition to the ever-present and
increasingly efficient
indwelling Thought Adjusters, receive the
undivided assistance of these
personal guardians of destiny in all their efforts
to finish the third
circle, traverse the second, and attain the first.
The fact that you are reading The Urantia
Book,
and can even ask such a
thoughtful question says to me that you have
broken "through the
inertia of animal legacy..." The amount of time
that the authors spend
on instructing us about the seraphic guardians,
again, says to me that
the reception of a guardian angel is pretty much a
given for sincere
faith-sons
of God. (Please see the whole of Paper
113)
I may be wrong, of course - I
don't know any more than you do - but I
believe that we would not have been given so much
comforting knowledge
about personal angelic service unless most of us
were eligible for that
service. It is certainly an achievement to strive
for in any event!
Try to put your mind at rest
about this worry...work diligently at your
spiritual growth and help those you love to do the
same. And in the
end, when you go to the sleep of death - whether
it is three
days or one thousand years - you will know that
you have done your
best, and that you can expect the best. And I
suspect that even if you
(or I)
do sleep for one thousand years, that provision
will be made for us to
reunite with our loved ones, if that is of prime
concern to us.
Thanks for this question, and I
hope that my reply has been helpful to
you.
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