(List of Machiventa Melchizedek subtopics.)
Machiventa Melchizedek arrived on Urantia in 1980 B.C. This year can be determined because we are given Jesus birthday as being on August 21, 7 B.C and are also told:
93:2.1 It was 1,973 years before the birth of Jesus that Machiventa was bestowed upon the human races of Urantia.
With 1980 B.C. as a starting point (and because there is no Year 0), the first bimillennial anniversary of Melchizedek’s arrival was in 21 A.D. And, of course, the next one will be in 2021 A.D.
Machiventa Melchizedek’s First Bimillennial Anniversary
Given the detailed account of Jesus life, an obvious question arises. How did Jesus celebrate Machiventa Melchizedek’s first bimillennial anniversary? Here are some excerpts to whet your appetite for the whole section.
Paper 129: The Later Adult Life of Jesus
129:0.1 JESUS had fully and finally separated himself from the management of the domestic affairs of the Nazareth family and from the immediate direction of its individuals. He continued, right up to the event of his baptism, to contribute to the family finances and to take a keen personal interest in the spiritual welfare of every one of his brothers and sisters. And always was he ready to do everything humanly possible for the comfort and happiness of his widowed mother.
129:0.2 The Son of Man had now made every preparation for detaching himself permanently from the Nazareth home; and this was not easy for him to do. Jesus naturally loved his people; he loved his family, and this natural affection had been tremendously augmented by his extraordinary devotion to them. The more fully we bestow ourselves upon our fellows, the more we come to love them; and since Jesus had given himself so fully to his family, he loved them with a great and fervent affection.
129:0.3 All the family had slowly awakened to the realization that Jesus was making ready to leave them. The sadness of the anticipated separation was only tempered by this graduated method of preparing them for the announcement of his intended departure. For more than four years they discerned that he was planning for this eventual separation.
1. The Twenty-Seventh Year (A.D. 21)
129:1.1 In January of this year, A.D. 21, on a rainy Sunday morning, Jesus took unceremonious leave of his family, only explaining that he was going over to Tiberias and then on a visit to other cities about the Sea of Galilee. And thus he left them, never again to be a regular member of that household.
129:1.11 Once a week Jesus held a meeting with the entire household, shop, and shore helpers, for Zebedee had many employees. And it was among these workers that Jesus was first called “the Master.”
129:1.14 This year Jesus made great advances in the ascendant mastery of his human mind and attained new and high levels of conscious contact with his indwelling Thought Adjuster.
129:1.15 This was the last year of his settled life. Never again did Jesus spend a whole year in one place or at one undertaking. The days of his earth pilgrimages were rapidly approaching. Periods of intense activity were not far in the future, but there were now about to intervene between his simple but intensely active life of the past and his still more intense and strenuous public ministry, a few years of extensive travel and highly diversified personal activity. His training as a man of the realm had to be completed before he could enter upon his career of teaching and preaching as the perfected God-man of the divine and posthuman phases of his Urantia bestowal.
Machiventa Melchizedek’s Second Bimillennial Anniversary
The second bimillennial anniversary of Machiventa Melchizedek’s arrival on Urantia is 2021 A.D. That’s in less than two years? Got anything planned? If not, why not? Just saying.
That being said, one approach to this second bimillennial anniversary–embodying an obvious mix of logical relationship and creative possibilities–is to celebrate it twice in the most obvious spot (perhaps next to Jerusalem), the Bold Knob Cross of Peace in southern Illinois. If you are not aware of why this is such an obvious spot for celebrating Machiventa’s second bimillennial anniversary twice, see the Topical Study: Prophecy and “signs of the times.”
If would like to join me once or twice at the Bald Knob Cross of Peace to celebrate Machiventa Melchizedek’s second bimillennial anniversary, please do get in touch. That would April 8, 2021 (a Thursday) and August 21, 2021 (a Saturday).