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pethuel wrote: I work as an English coach for executives and also handle translations. Yesterday I received a project for translation and as I began to do a revision of the English (a book that will be available in two languages) I was shocked by the implications of what I was reading. I don't know exactly how to present this but here goes:
The book is a collection of scholarly articles discussing the possibilities and potential of multiple identities existing by means of virtual reality, and the definition of "reality" in the light (or dark) of digital technology. I can't help but think that at least one group of people is supporting this idea of a sort of "master avatar" that is a digital entity. As a former Bible prophecy student I came to the conclusion that Satan ( I speak in traditional evangelical terms here) has no creative power and therefore attempts to imitate God's creation, therefore Satan's realm is a counterfeit of God's attributes and that the mark of the beast spoken of in Revelation is what gives access to the counterfeit virtual reality of Satan's kingdom. The ultimate "hard token" if you will. The beast and the false prophet of Revelation 11 -19 are (by the teaching I received) the counterfeit of Jesus and the Holy Spirit, and the image of the beast the ubiquitous computer or smart phone screen, the "Black Mirror". Anyway, I do not preach this stuff since the Papers don't dwell on it, but as I mentioned elsewhere, I lived in this stuff for 25 years and it is hard for me not to believe that the world is run by a group of people totally dedicated to a centralized digitally controlled reality. No matter what it is still a temporal existence, be it virtual or not.
Now perhaps this is not a bad thing, IF that is the next step to Urantia being settled in light and life. But I suspect otherwise, not in a negative doomsday sense, but in the sense that this counterfeit virtual reality is the darkest hour before a bright and glorious dawn!
My first examinations of the Urantia Book were a disappointment in one sense because I had hoped for a clearer explanation of Revelation and discovered the Urantia Book doesn't dwell on it, and barely mentions it. Yet learning that Urantia has loving caretakers and monitors such as Machiventa Melchizidek certainly alleviates concerns about a so called antichrist world government and coming great tribulation and other catastrophic events described in the visions of Revelation, yet I am still separating the wheat from the chaff of former teachings and learnings.
So much was about to happen when the Papers were given, mankind was on the brink of great and terrible discoveries with the potential to destroy everything, and considering the mentality of some of the earth's rulers it is amazing that they haven't done worse. I can only credit the intervention of the Most Highs or their representatives in preventing the extinction of the light of life on Urantia.
Is this worth discussing here in the forum or is it unnecessary? Thanks!
I addressed the UB text about the Book of Revelations and my opinions on its effects on Christianity. So the UB teaches that there is no "mirror" or reflection or reflectivity of rebellion anywhere today or to come. It is over. It is done. It's repercussions are contained and subsiding. And the mercy ministry and time lag of justice has proved to have delivered far more good in its effects and inoculation than all the evil experienced and all the suffering caused by the one time rebellion.
Should also say that this Book of Revelation (based on an actual personal revelation of a concurrent event and time and place as when the personal revelation was experienced - meaning it actually had nothing whatsoever to do with the future or any future at all!) turned into a prophetic fable of the end times has not only set some people's expectations for the planet's future but have also set specific points of resistance, especially regarding anything that encourages globalism and international homogenization....including the UN, World Trade Organization(s), World Bank(s), Global Human Rights Orgs., etc. Such folks are now beginning to see the potential, even inevitable, results of the digital revolution and its ability to inform, unite, and mobilize people around the world....in wonderful ways regarding disaster response and relief (in some cases) and in dangerous ways to some special interests and entrenched power centers/forces. Politics is now founded upon and influenced by this false fable and primitive superstition.
We have to remember that the 666 and Mark of the Beast and Armageddon crowd is a subset within Christianity (and with certain pagans and other conspiracy theorists) and does not represent all or even perhaps a majority of this non-homogeneous group. There are many different beliefs regarding what the definition of the Mark actually is in Christianity and the pagan numerological "meanings" of 666 (or 616) - neither of which has anything at all to do with either our planet or Satan or Lucifer - pure mythological inventions as distortions of our planetary sequence # in the order of inhabited worlds in our local system - the six hundred and sixth planet to be deemed inhabited! But for the Armageddon crowd, the digital revolution is or will become a real symbol of social "decay" and globalization and definitive steps toward the end of the world.
An interesting and ironic element to end of the world believers is the obvious fact that if today is not the end of the world, it is one day closer TO the end of the world!! And to such ones, everything that happens becomes some sort of "sign" of the end of days. Whether good news or bad news, all news is news about the coming end!! And it is by such an expectation and deep anxiety that whole perspectives are formed and philosophies of living are created - all based on this unshakable belief in the end of days. We have several such believers among us here!
For a better understanding of the issue and to identify those among us here who support and promote such myths, readers here may wish to visit these very popular and trending topics at TruthBook:
The Urantia Book and The New World Order viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4628
What Really is Going On In Our World Right Now? viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5371
Nationalism vs. Globalization: Globalism and the Urantia Book viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5350
Your interest in the Most Highs is commendable and recommended. Here's a link to the results of a keyword search for "Most Highs":
https://truthbook.com/search/UBParagrap ... &start=all
There are those students among us who could truly benefit by such study for they seem always to have anxieties and the mistaken opinion that Urantia suffers from a lack of governance, leadership, attention, progress, etc. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is completely contrary to and a contradiction of the UB to promote such anxieties. We are a beloved world receiving intensive attention and being guided through the Mortal Epochs of Time in ways which are amazingly effective and in response to unique challenges that are being well managed by those who lead us forward into our certain destiny!!
114:4.1 The sovereignty of Urantia is further complicated by the onetime arbitrary seizure of planetary authority by the government of Norlatiadek shortly after the planetary rebellion. There is still resident on Urantia a Vorondadek Son, an observer for the Most Highs of Edentia and, in the absence of direct action by Michael, trustee of planetary sovereignty. The present Most High observer (and sometime regent) is the twenty-third thus to serve on Urantia.
114:4.2 There are certain groups of planetary problems which are still under the control of the Most Highs of Edentia, jurisdiction over them having been seized at the time of the Lucifer rebellion. Authority in these matters is exercised by a Vorondadek Son, the Norlatiadek observer, who maintains very close advisory relations with the planetary supervisors. The race commissioners are very active on Urantia, and their various group chiefs are informally attached to the resident Vorondadek observer, who acts as their advisory director.
114:4.3 In a crisis the actual and sovereign head of the government, excepting in certain purely spiritual matters, would be this Vorondadek Son of Edentia now on observation duty. (In these exclusively spiritual problems and in certain purely personal matters, the supreme authority seems to be vested in the commanding archangel attached to the divisional headquarters of that order which was recently established on Urantia.)
114:4.4 A Most High observer is empowered, at his discretion, to seize the planetary government in times of grave planetary crises, and it is of record that this has happened thirty-three times in the history of Urantia. At such times the Most High observer functions as the Most High regent, exercising unquestioned authority over all ministers and administrators resident on the planet excepting only the divisional organization of the archangels.
114:4.5 Vorondadek regencies are not peculiar to rebellion-isolated planets, for the Most Highs may intervene at any time in the affairs of the inhabited worlds, interposing the superior wisdom of the constellation rulers in the affairs of the kingdoms of men.

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