The Lucifer rebellion was system wide. Thirty-seven seceding Planetary Princes swung their world administrations largely to the side of the archrebel. Only on Panoptia did the Planetary Prince fail to carry his people with him. On this world, under the guidance of the Melchizedeks, the people rallied to the support of Michael. Ellanora, a young woman of that mortal realm, grasped the leadership of the human races, and not a single soul on that strife-torn world enlisted under the Lucifer banner.
Quote from The URANTIA Book, 0607:02
The Universal Father does not appear personally in time and space. He resides eternally on the Isle of Paradise and appears personally in the universes of time and space only through His Sons. In our universe of Nebadon to see the Son is to see the Father, but 200,000 years ago, at the time of Lucifer’s rebellion, this fact was not yet proven.
In Nebadon, the Father’s Son is Michael, our Creator Son. The Creator Sons are not created perfect and achieve perfection by giving themselves to their creations. Seven times Michael of Nebadon has bestowed himself, successively lower and lower within his own creation. For his last bestowal, Michael was born of a woman as a male on Urantia, and lived and died the life of a mortal.
At the time of this rebellion and the two which preceded it there was no absolute and personal sovereign authority in the universe of Nebadon. Michael ruled by divine right, as vicegerent of the Universal Father, but not yet in his own personal right. He had not yet completed his bestowal career; he had not yet been vested with ‘all power in heaven and on earth.’
Quote from The URANTIA Book, 0605:06
In his mind, Lucifer began to dispute the existence of the unseen Father and of the right of His Son, Michael of Nebadon, to rule in the Father’s name. He recruited his associate and assistant, Satan, to his cause and issued his Declaration of Liberty (0603:02-0604:02). Lucifer “maintained that immortality was inherent” (0604:00) and declared the universe would run itself just fine without the Universal Father. He denounced as a hoax “the agelong program” (0604:01) of training for ascending mortals.
Lucifer used Satan to corrupt Caligastia, our Planetary Prince, here on Urantia. As he had on the occasion of the first two rebellions, Michael adopted an attitude of noninterference. While he could have summarily ended the rebellion, he chose not to. Before earning personal sovereignty of his universe, he knew this would be premature; in reality, Michael was under no threat.
For “seven crucial years” (0756:00) every celestial marooned by rebellion, including Van and Amadon, was compelled to make the eternal choice, the same choice we make, every moment.
For time is only, to choose eternity.
Ernest Clement
Yes, we were a rebellion planet for 200,000 years.
Not to worry! The rebellion against Love has no chance against the courageous, united mortal ascenders of Urantia.
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