This is a continuation of Paper 31: Commentary on Selected Bible Scriptures, Part IV.

[78] What happened immediately after Jesus died: Was there an Earthquake? Were Graves Opened? Was the Temple Veil Rent?
       Matthew 27:45-53: Immediately after Jesus died: And behold, the veil of the temple was rent [torn or ripped] in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
     Luke 23:44,45: And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
     An early writer was ad-libbing: the earth did not quake; no bodies of the saints arose, went into the holy city, and appeared unto many; the Temple veil was not rent.
     But there was a horrific sandstorm: Although it was early in the season for such a phenomenon, shortly after twelve o'clock the sky darkened by reason of the fine sand in the air. This meant the coming of one of those hot-wind sandstorms from the Arabian desert. Before one o'clock the sky was so dark the sun was hid. Shortly after one o'clock, amidst the increasing darkness of the fierce sandstorm, Jesus began to fail in human consciousness. The sandstorm grew in intensity and the heavens increasingly darkened. It was just before three o'clock 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. [187:5:1-5]

     The activities of a vast universe practically ceased during the arrest, trial, and crucifixion of Jesus. "Thus ended a day of tragedy and sorrow for a vast universe whose myriads of intelligences had shuddered at the shocking spectacle of the crucifixion of the human incarnation of their beloved Sovereign; they were stunned by this exhibition of mortal callousness and human perversity." [187:6:3]

[79] What happened at Jesus' tomb after he was buried?
       Matthew 27:57-66; 28:1-15; Mark 16:1-8; Luke 24:1-12; John 20:1-10:
     After Joseph of Arimathea obtained permission to bury the body of Jesus he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and laid it in a new tomb. Joseph rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher, and then departed. The Jewish religious rulers received permission from Pilate to set a watch before the tomb until the third day so that the disciples could not come by night, steal the body, and tell the people that Jesus had risen from the dead. At first dawn on Sunday Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to the sepulcher. And behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow. And for fear of him the keepers did shake and became as dead men. And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead . . .
     The guards were paid a large sum of money and instructed to say that Jesus' disciples came by night and stole him away while they slept.

     The Mark version is slightly different: When Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome arrived with sweet spices, they found that the stone had already been rolled away from the door. Entering the sepulcher, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were afraid. He said unto them, Be not afraid: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.
     According to the Luke version, when the women entered the sepulcher and saw that Jesus' body was not there, they beheld two men standing nearby, clothed in shining garments, who told them Jesus is risen.
     According to John 20:11-18, Mary Magdalene, when she looked into the sepulcher, saw two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. They said to her: Why do you weep? She replied: Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. At this point she turned and saw Jesus standing nearby, although she did not immediately recognize him until he identified himself.

     In Papers 183 through Paper 189 the authors of The Urantia Book present a detailed chronological account of the events immediately preceding and following the crucifixion of Jesus.
     Following is a brief summary of the events that occurred after the death of Jesus, beginning with Paper 188.

     After the sandstorm had abated somewhat, a group of Jews representing the Sanhedrin went to Golgotha to make sure that the body of Jesus was thrown into the open burial pits where it would be consumed by wild animals. When Joseph and Nicodemus arrived at the cross with Pilate's permission for them to take the body, the Jews raised a tumult and clamored for its possession. In their raving they sought violently to take possession of the body. The centurion found it necessary to order four of his soldiers, with drawn swords, to stand astride the Master's body as it lay on the ground. The other soldiers were ordered to drive back the angry mob of infuriated Jews. When order was restored, and the centurion had read Pilate's permit to the Jews, he said to Joseph, "This body is yours to do with as you see fit. I and my soldiers will stand by to see that no man interferes."
     The mortals who bore the material body of Jesus to the tomb were: Joseph, Nicodemus, John, and the Roman centurion. When the embalming was completed, they tied a napkin about the face, wrapped the body in a linen sheet, and reverently placed it on a shelf in the tomb. After placing the body in the tomb, the centurion signaled for his soldiers to help roll the doorstone up before the entrance to the tomb.
     Several women were hiding nearby and saw it all. They agreed to return after the Sabbath to ensure that Jesus' body had been properly prepared for the death rest.
      A group of the Jewish religious leaders recalled that they had received reports that Jesus said he would rise from the dead. They then visited Pilate early the next day, bearing the official request of the Sanhedrin that a Roman guard be stationed before Jesus' tomb to prevent his friends from tampering with it. Pilate gave permission for ten soldiers to guard the tomb. The Jewish group then secured ten of their own guards so that the tomb was guarded by twenty men. The men then rolled a second stone before the tomb.

     The authors of The Urantia Book explain in some detail the procedure when a mortal dies and is resurrected on Mansion World Number One [the first heaven]. However, the authors of Part IV, The Life and Teachings of Jesus, state that they cannot fully explain just what happened to Jesus during the period of a day and a half when he was supposed to be resting in Joseph's new tomb. They present some facts along with a few intriguing conjectures in 188:3. We can keep in mind that Jesus is a powerful Creator Son: he had the ability to lay down his life and take it up again. Therefore, we assume that his resurrection from the dead would differ in some details from the resurrection of a mortal.
     Soon after the burial of Jesus on Friday afternoon, the chief of the archangels of Nebadon summoned his council of the resurrection of sleeping will creatures and entered upon the consideration of a possible technique for the restoration of Jesus. But by midnight the council of the archangels, the Life Carriers, and their various associates in the work of creature rehabilitation and morontia creation arrived at the conclusion that the creature could do nothing to facilitate the resurrection of the Creator. Said Gabriel: "As Jesus [Michael] laid down his life of his own free will, he also had power to take it up again in accordance with his own determination."
     Then the Personalized Adjuster of Jesus, being in personal command of the assembled celestial hosts then on Urantia [earth], spoke these words to the anxious waiting watchers: "Not one of you can do aught to assist your Creator-father in the return to life. As a mortal of the realm he has experienced mortal death; as the Sovereign of a universe he still lives. That which you observe is the mortal transit of Jesus of Nazareth from life in the flesh to life in the morontia. The spirit transit of this Jesus was completed at the time I separated myself from his personality and became your temporary director. Your Creator-father has elected to pass through the whole of the experience of his mortal creatures, from birth on the material worlds, on through natural death and the resurrection of the morontia, into the status of true spirit existence. A certain phase of this experience you are about to observe, but you may not participate in it. Those things which you ordinarily do for the creature, you may not do for the Creator. A Creator Son has within himself the power to bestow himself in the likeness of any of his created sons; he has within himself the power to lay down his observable life and to take it up again; and he has this power because of the direct command of the Paradise Father, and I know whereof I speak." [189:0]

     At 2:45 A.M. Sunday morning, the Paradise incarnation commission, consisting of seven unidentified Paradise personalities, arrived on the scene and immediately deployed themselves about the tomb. At ten minutes before three, intense vibrations of commingled material and morontia activities began to issue from Joseph's new tomb, and at two minutes past three o'clock, this Sunday morning, April 9, A.D. 30, the resurrected morontia form and personality of Jesus of Nazareth came forth from the tomb. [When a mortal is resurrected on Mansion World Number One, he/she also is given a morontia form body.]
     The physical body of Jesus was still lying there in the tomb, undisturbed and wrapped in the linen sheet, just as it had been laid to rest by Joseph and his associates on Friday afternoon. Neither was the stone before the entrance of the tomb in any way disturbed; the seal of Pilate on the door was still unbroken; the soldiers and the Temple guards were still standing watch. A mortal is resurrected on Mansion World Number One. But the authors state that all known phenomena associated with this mortal transit, or morontia resurrection, occurred right there in Joseph's new tomb, where the mortal material remains of Jesus lay wrapped in burial cloths. No creature of the local universe participated in this morontia awakening. Just as soon as Jesus appeared beside Gabriel, just above the tomb, the seven personalities from Paradise signalized their intention of immediate departure for Uversa [the capital of our superuniverse of Orvonton].

[80] Was the physical body of Jesus resurrected?
       Said the authors: "Let us forever clarify the concept of the resurrection of Jesus by making the following statements:
     His material or physical body was not a part of the resurrected personality. When Jesus came forth from the tomb, his body of flesh remained undisturbed in the sepulcher. He emerged from the burial tomb without moving the stones before the entrance and without disturbing the seals of Pilate.
     He did come forth from this tomb of Joseph in the very likeness of the morontia personalities of those who, as resurrected morontia ascendant [mortal] beings, emerge from the resurrection halls of the first mansion world of this local system of Satania. [189:1:7,9]

[81] What happened to the material [physical] body of Jesus?
       At ten minutes past three o'clock, as the resurrected Jesus fraternized with the assembled morontia personalities from the seven mansion worlds of Satania, the chief of archangels--the angels of the resurrection--approached Gabriel and ask for the mortal body of Jesus. Said the chief of the archangels:
     "We may not participate in the morontia resurrection of the bestowal experience of Michael our sovereign, but we would have his mortal remains put in our custody for immediate dissolution. We do not propose to employ our technique of dematerialization; we merely wish to invoke the process of accelerated time. It is enough that we have seen the Sovereign live and die on Urantia; the hosts of heaven would be spared the memory of enduring the sight of the slow decay of the human form of the Creator and Upholder of a universe. In the name of the celestial intelligences of all Nebadon, I ask for a mandate giving me the custody of the mortal body of Jesus of Nazareth and empowering us to proceed with its immediate dissolution."
     Their request was granted. They then made ready to remove the body of Jesus from the tomb. The Urantia midwayers prepared to roll away the two stones from the entrance of the tomb. The larger of these two stones was a huge circular affair, much like a millstone, and it moved in a groove chiseled out of the rock, so that it could be rolled back and forth to open or close the tomb. When the watching Jewish guards and the Roman soldiers, in the dim light of the morning, saw this huge stone begin to roll away from the entrance of the tomb, apparently of its own accord--without any visible means to account for such motion--they were seized with fear and panic, and they fled in haste from the scene. The Jews fled first to their homes, then went to the Temple to report these doings to their captain.
     It was then that the Jewish leaders began the sordid business of supposedly getting rid of Jesus by first offering bribes to the traitorous Judas Iscariot, and now, when confronted with this embarrassing situation, instead of thinking of punishing the guards who deserted their post, they resorted to bribing these guards and the Roman soldiers. The Roman soldiers and Jewish guards were instructed to say: "While we slept during the nighttime, his disciples came upon us and took away the body." [189:2]

[82] Christian Belief in the Resurrection of Jesus.
       The Christian belief in the resurrection of Jesus has been based on the fact of the "empty tomb." It was indeed a fact that the tomb was empty, but this is not the truth of the resurrection. The tomb was truly empty when the first believers arrived, and this fact, associated with that of the undoubted resurrection of the Master, led to the formulation of a belief which was not true: the teaching that the material and mortal body of Jesus was raised from the grave. Truth having to do with spiritual realities and eternal values cannot always be built up by a combination of apparent facts. Although individual facts may be materially true, it does not follow that the association of a group of facts must necessarily lead to truthful spiritual conclusions.
     The tomb of Joseph was empty, not because the body of Jesus had been rehabilitated or resurrected, but because the celestial hosts had been granted their request to afford it a special and unique dissolution, a return of the "dust to dust," without the intervention of the delays of time and without the operation of the ordinary and visible processes of mortal decay and material corruption. [189:2:6,7]
     After the women saw that the physical body of Jesus was not in the tomb, and after they had recovered somewhat from their shock, they rushed to tell the Apostles what they had seen. The Apostles were disinclined to believe the women's story, but when Mary Magdalene repeated the words that Jesus had spoken to them, and when Peter heard his name, he rushed out of the upper chamber, followed closely by John. When they reached the tomb, they, too, of course, saw that the body of Jesus was not there.

[83] Did the death of Jesus on the cross pay for the sins of mankind?
       According to a footnote in The King James Study Bible: When Jesus quoted the words from the twenty-second Psalm "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" and then died with a loud shout of triumph, he had borne the wrath of God's judgment against sin, He knew He had triumphed over Satan and the curse of sin.
     God has never been wrathful; he will never be wrathful. Therefore, Jesus had not "borne the wrath of God's judgment against sin."
     The authors of The Urantia Book repeatedly reiterate: Jesus did not die on the cross to pay for anyone's sins. Each person is solely responsible for his/her sins. Many persons are not aware that our every thought, word, and action are instantly recorded on our soul. Christians [and others] say privately: I will be careful what I say aloud, but no one tells me what to think! True. But we survive death or die eternally as the result of our words, thoughts, and actions.

     The following statements appear in Paper 188:Section 4.
     Jesus did not die on the cross to atone for the racial guilt of mortal man nor to provide some sort of effective approach to an otherwise offended and unforgiving God; the Son of Man did not offer himself as a sacrifice to appease the wrath of God and to open the way for sinful man to obtain salvation.
     Jesus desired to live a full mortal life in the flesh on Urantia. Death is, ordinarily, a part of life. Death is the last act in the mortal drama.
     Mortal man was never the property of the archdeceivers. Jesus did not die to ransom man from the clutch of the apostate rulers and fallen princes of the spheres. [Lucifer, Satan, and Caligastia] The Father in heaven never conceived of such crass injustice as damning a mortal soul because of the evil-doing of his ancestors. Neither was the Master's death on the cross a sacrifice which consisted in an effort to pay God a debt which the race of mankind had come to owe him.
     Before Jesus lived on earth, you might possibly have been justified in believing in such a God, but not since the Master lived and died among your fellow mortals. Moses taught the dignity and justice of a Creator God; but Jesus portrayed the love and mercy of a heavenly Father.
     The animal nature--the tendency toward evil-doing--may be hereditary, but sin is not transmitted from parent to child. Sin is the act of conscious and deliberate rebellion against the Father's will and the Sons' laws by an individual will creature.
     Jesus lived and died for a whole universe, not just for the races of this one world. [When Jesus lived on the earth, there were more than three million inhabited planets in our local universe for which he is responsible.] While the mortals of the realms had salvation even before Jesus lived and died on earth, it is nevertheless a fact that his bestowal on this world greatly illuminated the way of salvation; his death did much to make forever plain the certainty of mortal survival after death in the flesh.
     [The divine laws of God regarding death, resurrection, and salvation are eternal. God's laws have eternally been in full force and effect throughout our Grand Universe. Jesus' life and death on earth did not change, or alter by one iota, a single one of these eternal laws.]
     Though it is hardly proper to speak of Jesus as a sacrificer, a ransomer, or a redeemer, it is wholly correct to refer to him as a savior. He forever made the way of salvation [survival] more clear and certain; he did better and more surely show the way of salvation for all the mortals of all the worlds of the universe of Nebadon [our local universe].
     When once you grasp the idea of God as a true and loving Father, the only concept which Jesus ever taught, you must forthwith, in all consistency, utterly abandon all those primitive notions about God as an offended monarch, a stern and all-powerful ruler whose chief delight is to detect his subjects in wrongdoing and to see that they are adequately punished, unless some being almost equal to himself should volunteer to suffer the them, to die as a substitute and in their stead. The whole idea of ransom and atonement is incompatible with the concept of God as it was taught and exemplified by Jesus of Nazareth. The infinite love of God is not secondary to anything in the divine nature.
     All this concept of atonement and sacrificial salvation is rooted and grounded in selfishness. Jesus taught that service to one's fellows is the highest concept of the brotherhood of spirit believers. Salvation should be taken for granted by those who believe in the fatherhood of God. The believer's chief concern should not be the selfish desire for personal salvation but rather the unselfish urge to love and, therefore, serve one's fellows even as Jesus loved and served mortal men.
     Neither do genuine believers trouble themselves so much about the future punishment of sin. The real believer is only concerned about the present separation from God. True, wise fathers may chasten their sons, but they do all this in love and for corrective purposes. They do not punish in anger, neither do they chastise in retribution.
     Even if God were the stern and legal monarch of a universe in which justice ruled supreme, he certainly would not be satisfied with the childish scheme of substituting an innocent sufferer for a guilty offender.
     The great thing about the death of Jesus, as it is related to the enrichment of human experience and the enlargement of the way of salvation, is not the fact of his death but rather the superb manner and the matchless spirit in which he met death.
     This entire idea of the ransom of the atonement places salvation upon a plane of unreality; such a concept is purely philosophic. Human salvation is real; it is based on two realities which may be grasped by the creature's faith and thereby become incorporated into the individual human experience: the fact of the fatherhood of God and its correlated truth, the brotherhood of man. It is true, after all, that you are to be "forgiven your debts, even as you forgive your debtors."
     Comments: The vast majority of mortals are still spiritually immature. During the mid-1930s there were about one thousand mortals worldwide in the Reserve Corps of Destiny. As previously explained, when a person achieves circle three, he/she is automatically enrolled in this reserve corps and assigned a personal destiny guardian. The Urantia Book was first published in 1955. Numerous persons around the world have been devoted students of this book for twenty, thirty, or more years. How many of these persons are currently enrolled in the reserve corps I do not know. However, I conjecture that exceedingly few Christian religious leaders of any stripe are members of this corps. It seems reasonable to conjecture that a person who has achieved at least circle three would absolutely refuse to believe that it was necessary for Jesus to die on the cross to pay for the sins of mankind. Such a person would willingly proclaim: "Jesus did not have to die on the cross to pay for my sins. I'll pay for my own sins." [49:6] [114:7]
     But almost all Christians still find it comforting to believe that God sent Jesus, his only son, to earth to die on the cross so that he/she can sin daily and yet emerge "white as snow" in the hereafter.

[84] Paul's Teachings on Death and Resurrection. How shall the body be raised up? How are the dead to be raised up?
       Paul had very confused ideas regarding the events that occur at death and resurrection as the following passages illustrate.
1 Corinthians 15:51: Behold I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. [Paul describes death as sleep--a state of unconsciousness.]
1 Corinthians 15:52-54: In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-17: But I would not have you to be ignorant concerning them which are asleep [dead], that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep [are dead] in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep [dead]. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: so shall we ever be with the Lord.

     Paul distinguishes between two groups of people: those persons who are "dead in Christ," and the faithful followers of Jesus who are alive when he comes. If I correctly understand Paul's statements, the first group [those who are dead in Christ], will be resurrected first.
     Then the second group [persons still alive] will be caught up together [resurrected] in the clouds with Jesus and the first group. This second group will be miraculously and instantaneously changed to incorruptible spirit, thus inheriting the gift of eternal life. [From the booklet "What Happens After Death?" pages 21-24, published by The United Church of God.]

     If I understand Paul correctly, in 1 Corinthians 15:12-19 he states that if God had not first resurrected Jesus, then the rest of us could not be resurrected.

     Additional Scriptures could be cited, but the above passages are sufficient to illustrate that Paul had erroneous ideas pertaining to death and resurrection. Were these beliefs original with Paul, or were they inspired by Caligastia, the traitorous Planetary Prince? Of course, it is possible that Paul himself formulated some of these concepts. But we know Paul certainly did not receive these erroneous teachings from Jesus, God, or other celestial beings faithful to Jesus.

Comments:
[A] Jesus will not return in the clouds to reign for a thousand years. Therefore, not one person will be caught up in the clouds to join Jesus.
[B] At the present time, death is our only method of "escaping the planet." [Elijah and Enoch fused with their Thought Adjuster while still in the flesh, but they definitely are the exceptions. If other mortals have fused with their Thought Adjusters while still in the flesh we are not told about it.] Persons who die comprise two groups: survivors and non-survivors. Survivors will be resurrected on Mansion World Number One. Non-survivors will never be resurrected at any time in any place.
[C] The statement that if Jesus had not been resurrected the rest of us could not be resurrected is erroneous. God's eternal laws pertaining to death, salvation, and resurrection have been in full force and effect since before he began creating the planets, suns, and other heavenly bodies in our Grand Universe. Jesus' death and resurrection had no effect whatsoever on God's eternal laws.

Paul the Apostle.
     The following information appears in The New Unger's Bible Dictionary in the lengthy item "Paul."
     Paul was surely a diligent persecutor of the early Christians. But then on his way to Damascus, he had that wonderful conversion which changed the proud and persecuting Saul into the loving, helpful Paul. He was convinced that it was Jesus who had appeared before him. He states that he then went into Arabia for three years. [Galatians 1:15-20] Conscious of what he believed to be his divine mission, he never believed that it was necessary to consult those who were apostles before him.
     The doctrine, position, walk, and destiny of the church appear in Paul's writings alone. This was given to him by divine revelation. In his epistles to seven Gentile churches, the "mystery which for ages has been hidden in God" is fully set forth. Neither Peter nor any of the other disciples was given the revelation distinctively concerning the church.

Comments:
     There was no divine revelation regarding the doctrine, position, walk, and destiny of the church given to Paul. His teachings pertaining to the establishment and purposes of the church were either original with him or were "revealed" to him by Caligastia. Jesus himself gave no instructions on the establishment of the church. He knew that his followers must solve these organizational problems themselves.
     The church, as a social outgrowth of the kingdom, would have been wholly natural and even desirable. The evil of the church was not its existence, but rather that it almost completely supplanted the Jesus concept of the kingdom. Paul's institutionalized church became a virtual substitute for the kingdom of heaven which Jesus had proclaimed. [170:5:7]
     We read further: Sooner or later another and greater John the Baptist is due to arise proclaiming "the kingdom of God is at hand"--meaning a return to the high spiritual concept of Jesus, who proclaimed that the kingdom is the will of his heavenly Father dominant and transcendent in the heart of the believer--and doing all this without in any way referring either to the visible church on earth or to the anticipated second coming of Christ. [170:5:19]
     According to Malachi 4:5: The "greater John the Baptist" could be Elijah, who is destined to appear on earth before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord [the Day of Armageddon].
     Jesus left no mystery "hidden in God" for Paul to reveal.
     If Jesus' death on the cross had been necessary for the salvation of mankind, he would have fully explained this vital fact to his Apostles.
     Papers 120 through 196 in The Urantia Book present in great detail the life and teachings of Jesus from his birth to his death. Jesus' gospel was complete in itself. His teachings required no further amplification by his Apostles or Paul.
     The New Testament would better be described as the "Gospel of Paul" rather than the gospel of Jesus. When Paul's teachings are compared with the teachings of Jesus as presented in The Urantia Book, it is apparent that the gospel according to Paul contains many erroneous teachings. In spite of the numerous erroneous teachings in Paul's gospel, he went forth to build up one of the most progressive human societies which has ever existed on earth. [170:5:16]
     Although Paul's gospel contains many erroneous teachings, his formulation of the Christian religion was superior to any religion then in existence. His letters contain much valuable information that could have been given to him by celestial beings loyal to Jesus and God.

[85] Special Resurrections.
From time to time, on motion of the planetary authorities or the system rulers, special resurrections of the sleeping survivors are conducted. Such resurrections occur at least every millennium of planetary time, when not all but “many of those who sleep in the dust awake.” These special resurrections are the occasion for mobilizing special groups of ascenders for specific service in the local universe plan of mortal ascension. [49:6:2] [Daniel 12:2]

Group Guardians of the Sleeping Survivors.
Calling Together the Elect.
     The group guardians of assignment to the sleeping survivors always function with the judgment Sons on their world advents. “He shall send his angels, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds.” With each seraphim of assignment to the repersonalization of a sleeping mortal there functions the returned Adjuster, the same immortal Father fragment that lived in him during the days in the flesh, and thus is identity restored and personality resurrected.
     Matthew 24:31: And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Mark 13:27 reads very similarly.

Note: Numerous statements in this paper were quoted verbatim from the source.