BIBLE PROPHECIES: Are They Reliable?

     How reliable are Bible prophecies? Are they worth the time and effort expended to minutely examine them?

     To determine the answer to these questions, certain facts regarding the true history of the Jews should be kept in mind.

     [1] During the Babylonian captivity, the Jews rewrote their entire history. [Or as much of it as they were aware.] They did not permit the facts of their history to interfere with the glorification of the Jewish people. As a result, the Old Testament is primarily a work of fiction. And it is on this work of fiction that Christian religious leaders have based their teaching that the Old Testament is the inspired, infallible, Word of God. [The Jewish religious leaders did not claim to be writing their fictitious history by inspiration. The claim of infallibility was made by later religious leaders.]
     A few red-faced CIA agents can tell us a thing or two about basing conclusions and interpretations on faulty, incorrect, or misleading information!
     Viewing the experiences of the Hebrews as sacred history is responsible for much of the confusion existing in the human mind as to the interpretation of history. [97:8:1]

     [2] All modern religions have seriously blundered in the attempt to put a miraculous interpretation on certain epochs of human history. While it is true that God has many times thrust a Father's hand of providential intervention into the stream of human affairs, it is a mistake to regard theologic dogmas and religious superstition as a supernatural sedimentation appearing by miraculous action in this stream of human history.
     New Testament authors and later Christian writers further complicated the distortion of Hebrew history by their well-meant attempts to transcendentalize the Jewish prophets. Thus has Hebrew history been disastrously exploited by both Jewish and Christian writers. Secular Hebrew history has been thoroughly dogmatized. It has been converted into a fiction of sacred history and has become inextricably bound up with the moral concepts and religious teachings of the so-called Christian nations.
     A brief recital of the high points in Hebrew history will illustrate how the facts of the record were so altered in Babylon by the Jewish priests as to turn the everyday secular history of their people into a fictitious and sacred history. [97:8:5-7]

     [3] Hebrew History. I will not reproduce the entire section at 97:9. A few highlights follow.
     There never were twelve tribes of the Israelites--only three or four tribes settled in Palestine.
     Pretentious Hebrew history begins with Saul's rallying the northern clans to withstand an attack by the Ammonites upon their fellow tribesmen--the Gileadites--east of the Jordan. With an army of a little more than three thousand he defeated the enemy, and it was this exploit that led the hill tribes to make him king. When the exiled priests rewrote this story, they raised Saul's army to 330,000 and added "Judah" to the list of tribes participating in the battle.
     As a result of this victory, Saul was made king by popular election by his troops. No priest or prophet participated in this affair. But the priests later on put it in the record that Saul was crowned king by the prophet Samuel in accordance with divine directions. This they did in order to establish a "divine line of descent" for David's Judahite kingship.
     The greatest of all distortions of Jewish history had to do with David. Alas! There was nothing noble about David. But according to the record in the Old Testament, the prophet Samuel, by divine direction, selected David from among his brethren and proceeded formally and by elaborate and solemn ceremonies to anoint him king over the Hebrews and then to proclaim him Saul's successor. As king, David created a thoroughly corrupt political machine.
     After David's death his son Solomon continued all the corruption, tyranny, and taxation of his father's regime. Solomon bankrupted the nation by his lavish court and by his elaborate building program. His harem numbered almost one thousand.
     There were many ups and downs--wars between Israel and Judah. During this time the vigorous Elijah, one of the greatest of the prophets, appeared on the scene. Better times appeared as Johoash and his son Jeroboam delivered Israel from its enemies.
     State and church went along hand in hand. The attempt to suppress freedom of speech led Elijah, Amos, and Hosea to begin their secret writing, and this was the real beginning of the Jewish and Christian Bibles.
     The northern kingdom [Israel] did not vanish from history until the king of Israel conspired with the king of Egypt and refused to pay further tribute to Assyria. Then began the three years' siege followed by the total dispersion of the northern kingdom. Ephraim [Israel] thus vanished. Then Judah, the southern kingdom, fell, and then began the captivity in Babylon.
     It was during the Babylonian captivity that the Jews originated the new concept of their destiny--they must be portrayed as the chosen servants of Yahweh and they should be a light unto the world. [God always loves all his children equally. Therefore, there is no such thing as a "chosen people," although a group of people or an individual may be chosen for a specific task. Even then, the individuals involved must consent to perform the task.] The Jewish religion of the Old Testament really evolved in Babylon during the captivity. The doctrine of immortality also took form at Babylon. For the first time theology displaced sociology and economics. Religion was taking shape as a system of human thought and conduct more and more to be separated from politics, sociology, and economics. [For an example of life in a country in which religion constitutes the law of the land, consider the oppressive living conditions in Afghanistan when the Taliban was in power. See my paper "OSAMA BIN LADEN: AntiChrist? False Prophet? Beast?" for a brief description of life under the Taliban.]
     The author of Paper 97 provides much information regarding the true history of the Jews. Their true history discloses that much which has been regarded as sacred history turns out to be little more than the chronicle of ordinary profane history. Judaism was the soil out of which Christianity grew, but the Jews were not a miraculous people.

     The true history of the Jews indicates that almost all the Old Testament should be regarded as a work of fiction. As a work of fiction, it is futile to place any reliance on the information contained in it. If we used our red pencil on the Old Testament what remained would be an extremely skinny book.

A Word About the Book of Revelation.
    When in temporary exile on Patmos, John wrote the Book of Revelation which we now have in greatly abridged and distorted form. This Book contains the surviving fragments of a great revelation. Subsequent to John's writing, large portions were lost and other portions were removed. It is preserved in only fragmentary and adulterated form. [139:4:14]
    It is highly probable that Caligastia, our traitorous Planetary Prince, is the true author of much of the Book of Revelation as it is preserved in our present-day Bible.
     Therefore, any attempt to arrive at accurate interpretations of prophecies in this book is mostly an exercise in futility. [However, a small amount of true information did manage to slip through the cracks.]

     Following are two statements that guided my comments regarding Bible prophecies:
     [A] I conjecture that Osama bin Laden is the AntiChrist, the False Prophet, and the Beast described in the Book of Revelation.
     [B] On Osama's Day of Armageddon, some six billion persons will perish.
     See my papers "Is Israel Flirting With Armageddon?" and "Osama Bin Laden: AntiChrist? False Prophet? Beast?"

     If Bible prophecies are compared with the information in these two papers, it follows that numerous prophecies in the Bible are impossible of fulfillment.

Following are some Bible prophecies that illustrate their unreliability.

[1] And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. . . . And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he shall rule the nations with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. [Revelation: 19:11-16]
     Jesus will never smite the nations with a sharp sword; he will never make war; he will never rule the nations with a rod of iron. Such actions would be entirely contradictory to his divine nature. Also, Jesus will never judge mortals. Judging mortals is the province of other celestial personalities.
     Throughout the Bible statements refer to the wrath of God and his cup of indignation. God has never been fierce, wrathful, angry, or jealous.

[2] The following places do not exist:
     [A] Hell. [86:4:7] [89:2:4] [95:2:9 ~ 6:6]
     [B] A lake which burneth eternally with fire and brimstone. [Revelation 20:10 ~ 21:8]
     [C] An everlasting fire . . . [At Matthew 25:41 appears a statement erroneously attributed to Jesus: . . . Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire . . .]
     [D] A bottomless pit. [ Revelation 9:1-3]
     [E] Jesus does not have the keys to a fictitious hell . . . [Revelation 1:18]

[3] Israel and the other Mid East countries will vanish from the earth on the Day of Armageddon.

THEREFORE:

     [A] Jesus will not return to earth to re-establish the throne of David so that he and the Jews can rule the world from Jerusalem. He will not return to establish the Kingdom of God during a thousand year reign.
     In the mid 1930s there were 3,840,101 inhabited planets in our local universe for which Jesus, as Sole Sovereign, is responsible. [32:2:9] It seems virtually certain that Jesus does not plan to spend any significant amount of time in visible form on our planet within the near future although he might make a brief appearance.
      However, we conjecture that the Son [or Sons] that Jesus sends to earth will lead surviving mortals to ever higher levels of spiritual development so that the Kingdom of God can become a reality on our planet. This Son [or Sons] may remain on earth a thousand years, perhaps longer.

     [B] The Jews are in error when they declare that God gave them the land of Israel as an everlasting possession. [Genesis 13:15 ~ 17:8]
     [C] Satan will not be bound and cast into a fictitious bottomless pit for a thousand years, . . . [Revelation 20:1-4]
     [D] All nations will not be gathered against Jerusalem in a battle to retake the city . . . [Zechariah 14:1-9]
     [E] The beast will not ascend out of a bottomless pit, and Satan will not raise up the Antichrist as his false messiah and give him worldwide authority during the [fictitious] seven-year period of Tribulation. [Revelation 17:8]

     [F] An army of 200,000,000 horsemen [soldiers] will not assemble in Palestine for the biblical battle of Armageddon. [Rev.9:16 ~ 16:16]
     [G] The dispersed of Judah will not be gathered together from the four corners of the earth to dwell in Israel. [Isaiah 11:11,12]
     [H] The glory of Israel will never be restored so that she will be "a name and a praise among all people on the earth, . . ." [Zephaniah 3:20]

[4] The Second Death. [ Revelation 20:14,15. ~ 21:8] The explanation of the second death in the Book of Revelation is both muddled and erroneous. The definition of the second death is given by the authors of The Urantia Book. [47:2:1-8] [See especially paragraph 8]

[5] The 144,000 Israelites. This is a fictitious number. As there have never been twelve tribes of Israelites, 144,000 Israelites from the twelve tribes cannot be "sealed" before the beginning of the [fictitious] Tribulation. [Revelation 7:3-8 ~ 14:1-5]

[6] The Seven-Year Tribulation. The concept of a seven-year Tribulation during which the years are unbelievably fraught with God's wrath and judgment, his cup of indignation; worldwide persecution of the followers of Jesus; darkness; and sorrow is a fiction. Numerous passages in the Bible are cited to support the concept of a seven-year period of Tribulation, but it will not happen. [Revelation 6:9-11 ~ 7:13-17 plus additional passages throughout the Bible]
     Some Bible scholars believe that the seals described in Revelation 6 represent the beginning of Christ's judgment of unbelievers on the earth during the Tribulation period. In a footnote for Revelation 6:1 it is explained that the purpose of the Tribulation period is to punish unbelievers for their sin and rejection of Christ and to bring the remnant to faith in Christ. However, as Jesus will not judge unbelievers, and as he will not punish unbelievers for their sin and rejection of his gospel, and as there will not be a seven-year period of Tribulation, most of Revelation 6 can be viewed as irrelevant.

[7] The Beast. The beast described in Revelation 13:1,2 who rises from the sea is identified by some Bible scholars as the final Gentile world ruler. The sea supposedly represents the Gentile nations. However, in my paper "Osama bin Laden: AntiChrist? False Prophet? Beast?" I conjecture that the sea represents the Arab nations and Osama is the AntiChrist, False Prophet, and the Beast who rises from the Arab nations.

[8] The Lucifer Rebellion. The passages at Revelation 12:3,4,7-9 refer to the Lucifer Rebellion that occurred about 200,000 years ago. The dragon was Lucifer, Satan, and the apostate princes. Our Planetary Prince, Caligastia, is one of the apostate princes. [53:5:6] Papers 53, 54, and 67 in The Urantia Book discuss in detail the Lucifer Rebellion.

[9] The Twelve Apostles. At Matthew 19:28 and Luke 22:30 Jesus is erroneously quoted as saying the twelve Apostles will eat and drink at his table in his kingdom, and sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

[10] The number 666.
     And he [the beast] causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six. [Revelation 13:16-18]
     Mortals already bear the mark of the beast. We are descended from fighting animals. Many mortals are barely above the animal level as measured by their spiritual development. However, as we progress spiritually, we gradually overcome our animalistic tendencies so that in the distant future it can be said we have overcome the mark of the beast. [Revelation 15:2]

[11] God's Two Witnesses.
     The attributes accorded these two witnesses who supposedly will be sent to Jerusalem are so phenomenal as to defy belief: . . . they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. . . . And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed . . . They have power to shut heaven, that it not rain in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. The beast will overcome them and kill them. Their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city [Jerusalem]. And after three days and a half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; . . . And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies beheld them. [Revelation 11:3-12]
     Someone deserves an A+ for creative writing. This description of the two witnesses is pure fiction. God has no need to indulge in such mind-boggling miracles.

     Who are these two witnesses? If they are to appear, it is probable that they are Apostles, prophets, or other Sons sent by Jesus. If he or they arrive before the Day of Armageddon, part of their assignment may be to assist in warning the world of the approaching Day of Armageddon. In any event, we can be certain that whoever Jesus sends will not uphold the numerous erroneous teachings in the Bible.
     We do not know when this Son [or Sons] will appear: Will they arrive before or after the Day of Armageddon? If they are to appear in the city of Jerusalem, they must arrive before the global catastrophe.

[12] False Religions and False Prophets.
     Christians are warned repeatedly to beware false prophets and false religions that will arise in the End Times. But it is the Christians who, for hundreds of years, have deceived themselves and others around the world. In fact, it is the Christian religious leaders who can be viewed as false prophets purveying a mostly false religion. [However, Christian religious leaders are not the only false prophets proclaiming a defective religion.]
     Said Jesus: Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets who shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. [Matthew 24:4,5,23,24]
     Jesus was misquoted. He did not say that false Christs and false prophets will arise who will show great signs and wonders. There are many statements in the New Testament erroneously attributed to Jesus.
     There are tens of thousands of Christian false prophets around the world, but they will not show great signs and wonders. Neither will false prophets in other religions produce signs and wonders. A false prophet must have the cooperation of God to produce a sign or wonder, and such cooperation from God will not be forthcoming. [However, Caligastia and other apostate spirits are capable of producing signs and wonders. Whether they will be permitted to do so I do not know.]

     Said Paul: Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come [the coming of Jesus] until that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.
     Paul warns of a lawless one who will be revealed "whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming." [2 Thessalonians 2:3,8]
     Osama bin Laden could be the "lawless one." In another paper I conjecture that Osama is the AntiChrist, the False Prophet, and the Beast. But he will perform no great signs and wonders; he will perform no miracles; he will not make fire come down from heaven. [Whether Caligastia will be permitted to perform signs and wonders for Osama I do not know. (Rev.13:11-13)]
     [See my paper " Osama Bin Laden: AntiChrist? False Prophet? Beast?"]

     Jesus will not consume Osama "with the spirit of his mouth." In fact, based on Bible prophecies it appears certain that Jesus will permit Osama to destroy about six billion people.
     [See my paper "Is Israel Flirting With Armageddon?"]
     To what extent Jesus will stay the hand of Osama in his plan to wipe all "infidels" off the face of the earth we do not know. However, based on information in the prophecies we conclude that not all persons will perish in the holocaust: a few persons will survive. It appears improbable that Osama can survive both the explosions and their aftermath.

     We can be virtually certain that Christian fundamentalists and literalists will condemn as a false religion the gospel of Jesus as presented in Part IV of The Urantia Book. Persons who believe and spread the word of this epochal revelation of the life and teachings of Jesus will be branded as false prophets or worse.

[13] The Rapture.
     There is some dissension among Bible scholars as to when in the stream of End Times events the supposed Rapture will occur. One prevalent belief is that Jesus will appear in great glory in the clouds to rescue the church before the beginning of the dreaded events in the seven-year Tribulation.
     Other Bible scholars are of the opinion that passages supposedly supporting the belief in a Rapture should be interpreted metaphorically or symbolically, not literally.
     Bible passages cited to support a belief in the Rapture of the church include those found in 1 Thessalonians: 13-17; John 14:1-3; Revelation 4:1,2.
     Unfortunately, the concept of a Rapture in which Jesus will appear in the clouds to rescue believers in the church before the beginning of a supposed seven-year Tribulation is pure fiction. It will not happen.
     Millions of survivors will wish for death to end their suffering. Said John: And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. [Revelation 9:6]
     However, it seems reasonable to conjecture that many people may find death by committing suicide. How many parents will kill their children rather than watch them starve to death day by day? There will indeed be weeping and gnashing of teeth. [Matthew 22:13 and other passages]

[14] Consequences of Ignoring Warnings of the Forthcoming Day of Armageddon.
     Christians will be told, repeatedly, by ministers and priests that as teachings in The Urantia Book are false the warnings about the coming Day of Armageddon can safely be ignored. Many Christians will rely on the advice of their religious leaders with the result that most Christians will perish in the holocaust.
     Christians are not the only group who will ignore the warnings about the forthcoming day of doom. We can expect that followers of the Islamic religion will ignore the warnings. [Followers of the religion of Islam are taught that Islam is the only true religion.] Jews no doubt will also ignore the warnings.
     Even most devout believers in The Urantia Book will believe that the warnings are inconsequential and can be ignored. Many of them will reason as follows: We believe that the information in the Bible is highly unreliable. The Book of Revelation is impossible. Therefore, we are justified in ignoring the warnings.
     Disbelief of persons worldwide explains why some six billion persons will die on the Day of Armageddon.

[15] Sequence of events in the End Times.
     Every person on earth must be warned of the approaching Day of Armageddon. A place must be prepared for those who heed the warning. But as Jesus warned: For many are called but few are chosen. [Matthew 22:14] The good news is that there will be ample space for every person who chooses to heed the warning.
     When Jesus will give the signal to commence this warning we do not yet know. We also do not know who will give this warning.
     There will be a time limit for making the decision. There will be no admittance to the safe place after "the gate closes."
     We do know that this global disaster will not strike until every person has been warned.
     Billions of mortals will perish on this Day. Millions of survivors who do not die in the explosions will slowly starve to death, or die because of lack of life-sustaining medicines or from other causes. [There will be no Rapture to rescue Christians or any other group to save them from the ravages of the holocaust.] We can expect the arrival of a Son [or Sons] sent by Jesus. Whether this Son [or Sons] will appear before or after the Day of Armageddon we do not yet know.

[16] Spiritual Fate of Victims.
     The spiritual fate of mortals who die in the explosions or in their aftermath depends on their level of spiritual development. There are both survivors and non-survivors.
     Survivors: If a mortal has achieved the requisite level of spiritual development [at least circle three] that person will be resurrected in heaven on the third day following death. Survivors who have not achieved the requisite level of spiritual development must rest in unconscious sleep until the next roll call.
     Non-Survivors: Not all mortals will be resurrected in heaven. Persons who have not developed a soul with survival value will not be resurrected anywhere at any time. Death ends their universe career. They will become as though they had not been.
     Every word, thought and action of a person is unfailingly registered on the soul. Thus, the spiritual status of persons is revealed by their souls. This means that mortals' spiritual fate is in their own hands. In a very real sense, we judge ourselves.
     [For more information regarding survivors and non-survivors see (36:6:5) and (49:6:7-9).]

[17] The Powerful X-Ray.
     It is my understanding that the hundreds or thousands of nuclear explosions that will occur on Osama's Day of Armageddon will act as a powerful X-ray that will alter the DNA of every living thing on the planet. As I understand the results of this X-ray, the changes in DNA will be beneficial. There may occur a sudden forward leap in the evolution of mankind. Survivors may become more spiritually receptive. If so, this enhanced spiritual reception has the potential to hasten the establishment of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth by the Son [or Sons] of God.

[18] Events in the Far Future.
     Said Isaiah: The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. [Isaiah 65:17,25]
     The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' [snakes'] den. [Isaiah 11:6-8]
     The new heaven and new earth may not be exactly as recorded in Isaiah and the Book of Revelation, but it will surely be a marvelous time to be born into the world. Compared to our present backward earth, the future described by John and Isaiah will seem like heaven on earth. [Rev.21:1-3] God will not come down and dwell among mortals: He will reside at his residence on Paradise in the eternal future as in the eternal past
     [In those distant days, tens of thousands of years in the future, the physical administration of our world will require about one hour each day on the part of every adult individual. The length of life will approach five hundred years. (52:7:5,6)]

[19] Planetary Epochs.
     The author of Paper 52 describes in some detail the seven planetary epochs that mortals pass through as they progress from primitive man to that of a highly developed spiritual race. We lag far behind in our spiritual development because, first, Caligastia, our traitorous Planetary Prince, joined Lucifer about two hundred thousand years ago in his rebellion against the government of Jesus and God; and second, Adam and Eve partially defaulted in their assignment. While these two calamities slowed our spiritual development, they did not permanently stop it.
     It is in the far future that mortals will witness "a new heaven and a new earth and the new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven . . ." [52:7:11-13] [Revelation 21:1,2]

Summary.
     Based on information in my Papers [1] and [18], I believe we can conclude that the great majority of prophecies in both the Old and New Testaments are misleading or erroneous.
     There are numerous erroneous prophecies in the New Testament. Time after time Jesus is misquoted.
      The gospel that claims to be the Gospel of Jesus is in fact the Gospel of Paul. In another paper I conjecture that Paul received an enormous amount of information from the apostate Caligastia, our traitorous Planetary Prince. If so, then a significant portion of Paul's teachings is erroneous. [See my paper "Holy Spirit: Holy or Unholy?"]
     At least 99 percent of the information in the Book of Revelation is false or irrelevant.
     The Old Testament is largely a work of fiction.
     To what extent Caligastia influenced the Jewish religious leaders as they rewrote their history I do not know. But he no doubt inspired many of the later Christian writers as they revised, added to, or subtracted from, the book that eventually claimed to be the inspired, infallible, inerrant Word of God.
     Many of the prophecies recorded in the Bible have caused much unnecessary anguish on the part of Christians. They especially view the End Times events with considerable apprehension. It is regrettable that millions of Christians will not have the courage to disregard most of the information in the Bible. So they will continue to wait for signs that, according to their beliefs, indicate the End Times are underway, signs that will not be forthcoming.

     I believe we can track the footprints of Caligastia [the "devil"] through the entire Bible. In fact, it appears that Caligastia has been enormously successful in adulterating every religion on earth.

     For the past 200,000 years of the Lucifer Rebellion, God and Jesus have stood aside as we exercised our God-given freewill. We have sown the wind; they will now permit us to reap the whirlwind. [Hosea 8:7]

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     In this paper I recognize that Caligastia [the "devil"] has the ability to produce signs and wonders. Whether he will be permitted to do so I do not know at this time. [July 6 2005] In another paper I conjecture that Caligastia presented Paul the vision that resulted in his conversion to Christianity. Further, Caligastia presented the vision in such a way that caused Paul to believe it was Jesus who appeared to him.
     [See my paper 20: "Holy Spirit: Holy or Unholy?"]
     Suppose for a moment that when the End Times events get underway Caligastia will be permitted to produce signs and wonders calculated to deceive Christians [and no doubt followers of all other religions] while at the same time concealing his true identity.
     How would persons determine what information in the signs and wonders is true and what is false? We could certainly expect total confusion to reign as people attempt to decide what they can safely believe.
     At the outbreak of the Lucifer Rebellion some 200,000 years ago, Gabriel, the chief executive of our local universe, came to Jerusem to speak for Jesus. [Jerusem is the capital of our local system of Satania.] In spite of Gabriel's efforts, millions upon millions of celestial personalities joined Lucifer in his rebellion.
     Who are the two witnesses? Will they appear? If so, will they speak for Jesus or Caligastia?
     We could expect that Jesus would surely send one or more Sons to speak for him. Would this Son or Sons be prophets from the Old Testament, one or more of the Apostles, or other Sons?
     Would Satan be permitted to join Caligastia in producing signs and wonders calculated to deceive people worldwide? What about Lucifer? Would he also be permitted to join Caligastia?
     In my next paper I consider these possibilities.

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     The Urantia Book, published by Uversa Press, a subsidiary of Urantia Book Fellowship.
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     The King James Study Bible, Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville.

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

July 10 2005