Summer Study Session 2022 - Are We “On the Brink”? - Paula Thompson

For our final plenary session we will look forward from the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Epochal Revelations to the future of our continued progressive religious evolution as punctuated by the inspiration of revelation. The Urantia Book tells us that the changes previewed by Melchizedek 4,000 years ago have not run their full course: A new and fuller revelation of the religion of Jesus is destined to conquer an empire of materialistic secularism and to overthrow a world sway of mechanistic naturalism. Urantia is now quivering on the very brink of one of its most amazing and enthralling epochs of social readjustment, moral quickening, and spiritual enlightenment. Paper 195:9.2 (page 2082.7) Are we indeed “on the brink“? And, what are we on the brink of? In what sense is this promised epoch already underway, and how literally should we take the prediction that: “This new and oncoming social order will not settle down complacently for a millennium.“? Paper 99:1.1 (page 1086.4) Paula