- Melchizedek in the Urantia Book
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Melchizedek in The Urantia Book is reported as being the first of the four orders of descending sonship designated as local universe Sons of God, created by the Creator Son and Creative Spirit in collaboration with the Father Melchizedek in the early days of populating the local universe of Nebadon. The Father Melchizedek was created by the union of the Creator Son and the Creative Spirit. These Sons, who number more than ten million in the local universe, are self-governing and are primarily devoted to education and experiential training.
The term is also used to designate a unique order of beings who were brought into existing by Father Melchizedek, collaborating with the Creator Son and the Creative Spirit. The beings are a divine group referred to as the Melchizedek Sons. [1]
In brief, the sage of Salem was the incarnation of Machiventa Melchizedek, who materialized as a human being 1,973 years before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, near what was to become the city of Salem, in Palestine. Melchizedek's mission on Earth was an emergency bestowal to keep revealed truth from becoming extinct, since the human races were slowly losing ground spiritually. The materialization of Machiventa Melchizedek was not witnessed by human eyes and was unspectacular. He was first seen by a Chaldean herder of Sumerian extraction by the name of Amdon. Melchizedek proclaimed his mission to this shepered by saying, “I am Melchizedek, priest of El Elyon, the Most High, the one and only God.”[2]
Melchizedek taught the concept of one God, a universal Deity; the Father of all. He presented teachings about the conduct and organization of the local universe, while to some of his most advanced disciples, he taught about the superuniverse. Melchizedek taught that another Son of God would come in the flesh, but that he would be born of a woman. This is why many subsequent teachers held that Jesus was a priest, or minister, "forever after the order of Melchizedek."[3]
Melchizedek made a covenant with Abraham at Salem. Abraham decided to conquest all of Canaan, but became worried that he had no son to succeed him as a ruler of this proposed kingdom. Melchizedek persuaded Abraham to abandon his scheme of material conquest in favor of the kingdom of heaven. He said to Abraham: “Look now up to the heavens and number the stars if you are able; so numerous shall your seed be.” Abraham believed him, and not long after, his son Isaac was born.[4]
Machiventa Melchizedek did not experience death, instead he decided to end his emergency bestowal on Earth. After saying good night to his human companions, he retired to his tent at Salem, and when he was called in the morning, he was no longer there, for he was taken by his fellows.[5]
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- "The Urantia Book: Machiventa Melchizedek". http://www.urantia.org/en/urantia-book-standardized/paper-93-machiventa-melchizedek.
- "The Urantia Book: The Melchizedek Sons". http://www.urantia.org/en/urantia-book-standardized/paper-35-local-universe-sons-god#U35_2_0.
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