THE FINAL BATTLE: Jesus vs. Caligastia et al

     Two hundred thousand years ago Lucifer, the System Sovereign, rebelled against Michael [Jesus] and God the Father. He issued his infamous Declaration of Liberty in which he made sweeping, terrible, and blasphemous charges against God. Satan, Lucifer's first assistant, joined him. Satan came to earth and persuaded Caligastia, our Planetary Prince, to join the cause of Lucifer. [Isaiah 14:12-17] [Papers 53, 54, 66, 67]
     [See my Paper 13, "The Lucifer Rebellion: Causes and Consequences."]

The Seven-Year Bitter Struggle.
     Daligastia, Caligastia's associate, formally proclaimed Caligastia "God of Urantia [earth] and supreme over all." Every superhuman personality on earth was compelled to choose between sin and righteousness--between the ways of Lucifer and the will of the unseen Father. For seven long bitter years this struggle continued--but eventually every superhuman personality had made a final decision. The spirit personalities on our planet who joined Lucifer and Caligastia numbered in the millions: exactly how many millions we do not know. As many as 100,000,000 or 200,000,000? [Revelation 9:16] [67:2]

     During the past 200,000 years the battle has raged: the primary task of Caligastia and his rebel followers has been the destruction of as many mortal souls as possible. The sixty members of the Staff of One Hundred who joined Caligastia worked diligently advancing the cause of Lucifer until they were overtaken by death. [It was the fruit from the tree of life that had enabled them to live for 300,000 years. When they joined Lucifer in his rebellion against the government of God and Jesus, they were degraded to the status of mortal beings and deprived of the fruit of the tree of life--the sustenance of the system life circuits.] [67:2]
     The efforts of Caligastia and his rebellious followers have been enormously successful. The authors of The Urantia Book describe our planet as disordered and backward; spiritually retarded; a world beset by evil; a world largely dominated by selfishness and sin.

     But now the final battle looms in the near future. The superhuman personalities in the spiritual realms surrounding our planet know that Osama's Day of Armageddon is just around the corner. The battle between the forces of Jesus and the forces of Caligastia will intensify during the remaining days before the day of doom.

     I conjecture that Caligastia [the "devil"] plus the other apostate spirit personalities still on the planet will comprise the rebel army whose members have labored unceasingly for 200,000 years to destroy the souls of as many persons as possible.
     Each time the soul of a mortal is completely destroyed that person's universe career ends at death. Such persons become as if they had never been. From Caligastia's point of view, the spiritual death of a person is far more desirable than mere physical death. A person who has created a soul with survival value will be resurrected in heaven regardless of the method of physical death.
     And there was war in heaven: Michael [Jesus] and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. [Revelation 12:7-9]
     Like the war in heaven, the final battle on earth will also be fought in terms of life eternal: "There was war in heaven [about 200,000 years ago]; Michael's [Jesus'] commander and his angels fought against the dragon [Lucifer, Satan, and the apostate princes]; and the dragon and his rebellious angels fought but prevailed not." [43:4:6,8,9] [53:5:6,7] [Isaiah 14:12-17]

Leaders of the Rebel Celestial Army.
     Caligastia, the "devil," our traitorous Planetary Prince, will no doubt be the "five-star general" leading the army of celestial personalities who comprise the foes of Jesus and God. Caligastia is cruel, vicious, sadistic, cunning, wily, ruthless, a master psychologist . . . who for the past 200,000 years has posed as the Holy Spirit or other "divine messenger" dispensing the "Word of God." He and his traitorous followers have succeeded in causing the soul death of millions of mortals.
     Abaddon was the chief of staff of Caligastia. He followed Caligastia into rebellion and has ever since acted as chief executive of the disloyal celestial army. [Revelation 9:1-11] [53:1:5] However, he does not have non-existent keys to a non-existent bottomless pit.
     Beelzebub was the leader of the disloyal midway creatures who allied themselves with the forces of the traitorous Caligastia. [Matthew 12:24-27]
     Lucifer: Very little was heard of Lucifer on earth owing to the fact that he assigned his first lieutenant, Satan, to advocate his cause on our planet. Lucifer and the majority of those personalities who followed him in rebellion against Michael (Jesus) are now confined on the prison worlds in Jerusem. Satan is also now unqualifiedly detained on the Jerusem prison worlds. [45:1:11] [53:1:3,4,5 ~ 7:4-10 ~ 9:2,4,7,8]

Who will support Jesus and God against Caligastia's rebel army?
     The author of Paper 114 in The Urantia Book, the Chief of Seraphim stationed on our planet, stated that at noon on a certain day in the mid-1930s, "the roll call of planetary angels, guardians, and others [celestial personnel] on Urantia [earth] was 501,234,619 pairs of seraphim. There were assigned to my command two hundred seraphic hosts--597,196,800 pairs of seraphim, or 1,194,393,600 individual angels." [Some angels--191,924,362--were absent from this world on transport, messenger, and death duty.] On Urantia there are about the same number of cherubim as seraphim, and they are similarly organized. This means that during the mid-1930s the total number of celestial administrative personnel on earth was about 2.4 billion. The angels are ably assisted by several thousand midwayers.
     [Imagine the consternation of a five-star general in World War II when he learned that he had 1,194,393,600 soldiers under his command!]
     World population has increased appreciably since the 1930s. The number of superhuman administrators now in the spirit realms around our planet may well be three billion or more. It is conceivable that millions or billions of additional celestial personnel have come to earth to support Jesus in this final battle.

     The forces of Jesus far outnumber Caligastia's followers. However, the loyal angels are helpless to manipulate the free will of mortals. They can lead but not coerce. Caligastia's followers are under no such restriction. From their point of view the ends entirely justify the means.
     We do not yet know who will lead the loyal celestial army supporting Jesus and God. Will it be Gavalia, the head of the Brilliant Evening Stars? [37:2:6] The chief of the archangels? [37:3] The chief of Seraphim? [Papers 38 and 114] Could it be Gabriel, the chief executive of Nebadon, the "supreme commander of the armies of heaven," "the Lord God of hosts"? [33:4] [38:6:2] [114:0:1-3]

     In the mid-1930s there were about 1,000 mortals enrolled in the Reserve Corps of Destiny. [114:7] The number of mortals presently enrolled in this Reserve Corps of Destiny we do not know. How many of them will courageously and openly support Jesus in this final battle we do not yet know. Will Caligastia succeed in so confusing these individuals that they will choose to observe from the sidelines?

     Christians have been thoroughly saturated with the doctrine that Jesus died on the cross to pay for their sins. Will they now support Jesus in the forthcoming final battle? At the present time the number of Christians worldwide is estimated to be about two billion. World population is estimated to be about 6.3 billion. If all Christians actively support Jesus in the final battle and heed the warnings announcing the coming day of doom, the number of mortals who perish would be about four billion rather than six billion. We conclude that exceedingly few Christians will support Jesus in the task of warning the world of the coming day of doom.
     Christians will suffer the same fate as persons who choose to ignore the warnings that the end of the world as we know it is imminent: There will be no Rapture. Jesus will not arrive in clouds of glory to establish a thousand-year reign. [Revelation 1:7 ~ 11:15 ~ 20:4 . . .]
     There are many thousands of persons around the world who study and believe the teachings of The Urantia Book. How many of them will support Jesus in the final battle we do not yet know.
     I have been a student of The Urantia Book since the mid-1970s. Several years ago when I learned that a Son [or Sons] of God would soon appear on this planet, I stated that I would work for this Son [or Sons] in every way that I can. My position has not changed.

     It does not appear probable that we will experience a seven-year period of excruciating Tribulation as described in various passages in the Bible. We do know that it will require some time to warn every person on the planet of the approaching Day of Armageddon. Whether it will require three and one-half years or seven years or some other period of time to complete this task we do not know at this time.
     All adults on the planet must decide whether they will support Jesus or Caligastia. Caligastia will be very effective in confusing not only Christians but followers of all other world religions. Christians [and others] will be mentally paralyzed: They will be unable to make rational decisions. They will be fearful of "changing horses in midstream." They will be incapable of getting off "dead center."
     During Jesus' epochal sermon in Capernaum [April 30, 29 A.D.] he told the congregation in the synagogue:
     Verily, verily, I say to many who sit before me this day, you are confronted with the necessity of choosing which way you will go; and I say to you, as Joshua said to your forefathers, "choose you this day whom you will serve." Today, many mortals also stand at the parting of the ways. [153:2:5]
     We surmise that there may be millions, or billions, of persons whose universe career will end at their physical death. John the Revelator tells us that countless mortals will not repent of their evil doings. [Revelation 9:21] The casualties from soul deaths will be horrendous.

     If Caligastia is smart, and we are told he is brilliant, he will not reveal himself to a person whose soul he is attempting to destroy. One glimpse of Caligastia would reveal his utter depravity. But there are numerous ways he can confuse and mislead an individual without revealing himself. If he is permitted to produce signs and wonders he can use them as a deadly weapon in his effort to destroy souls. If Caligastia is permitted to produce apparent miracles, will Jesus permit the Two Witnesses [or other Sons] to produce signs and wonders to counter Caligastia's efforts?
     We are told that God is a very practical person. My impression is that he always looks for the shortest distance between two points when developing his eternal purposes. Jesus is a chip off the old block. It will be intriguing to observe how Jesus handles the coming End Times events.

     We know that the army fighting for Jesus will be victorious in the forthcoming final battle. The traitorous Caligastia and his equally traitorous followers will use every weapon in their arsenal. Their fighting tactics will be "no holds barred." It will not be enough. They will go down in utter defeat.

     Caligastia and his deluded followers will surely suffer personality extinction by order of the Ancient of Days, the rulers of our superuniverse. These traitors will become as though they had never been.

     All spirit personalities in our local universe of Nebadon await the Uversa executionary broadcast that will effect the annihilation of the unworthy traitors who joined Lucifer. We do not know when this executionary broadcast will occur. But let us hope that after their total and utter defeat these rebel spirits will be removed from earth and placed on the prison worlds in Jerusem, the capital of our local System of Satania. [18:3:7] [53:9:7,8]

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SOURCE:
     The Urantia Book, published by Uversa Press, a subsidiary of Urantia Book Fellowship.
http://www.urantiabook.org
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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.

August 3 2005