The Bestowals of Christ Michael

119:2.1For al­most one hun­dred and fifty mil­lion years af­ter the Mel­chiz­e­dek be­stowal of Mi­chael, all went well in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, when trou­ble be­gan to brew in sys­tem 11 of con­stel­la­tion 37. This trou­ble in­volved a mis­un­der­stand­ing by a La­non­an­dek Son, a Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, which had been ad­ju­di­cated by the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers and ap­proved by the Faith­ful of Days, the Par­a­dise coun­selor to that con­stel­la­tion, but the protest­ing Sys­tem Sov­er­eign was not fully rec­on­ciled to the ver­dict. Af­ter more than one hun­dred years of dis­sat­is­fac­tion he led his as­so­ciates in one of the most wide­spread and dis­as­trous re­bel­lions against the sov­er­eignty of the Cre­ator Son ever in­sti­gated in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, a re­bel­lion long since ad­ju­di­cated and ended by the ac­tion of the An­cients of Days on Uversa.

119:2.2This rebel Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, Lu­ten­tia, reigned su­preme on his head­quar­ters planet for more than twenty years of stan­dard Neb­a­don time; where­upon, the Most Highs, with ap­proval from Uversa, or­dered his seg­re­ga­tion and req­ui­si­tioned the Sal­ving­ton rulers for the des­ig­na­tion of a new Sys­tem Sov­er­eign to as­sume di­rec­tion of that strife-torn and con­fused sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds.

119:2.3Si­mul­ta­ne­ously with the re­cep­tion of this re­quest on Sal­ving­ton, Mi­chael ini­ti­ated the sec­ond of those ex­traor­di­nary procla­ma­tions of in­ten­tion to be ab­sent from the uni­verse head­quar­ters for the pur­pose of “do­ing the bid­ding of my Par­a­dise Fa­ther,” promis­ing to “re­turn in due sea­son” and con­cen­trat­ing all au­thor­ity in the hands of his Par­a­dise brother, Im­manuel, the Union of Days.

119:2.4And then, by the same tech­nique ob­served at the time of his de­par­ture in con­nec­tion with the Mel­chiz­e­dek be­stowal, Mi­chael again took leave of his head­quar­ters sphere. Three days af­ter this un­ex­plained leave-tak­ing there ap­peared among the re­serve corps of the pri­mary La­non­an­dek Sons of Neb­a­don, a new and un­known mem­ber. This new Son ap­peared at noon, unan­nounced and ac­com­pa­nied by a lone ter­tiaphim who bore cre­den­tials from the Uversa An­cients of Days, cer­ti­fied by Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton, di­rect­ing that this new Son be as­signed to sys­tem 11 of con­stel­la­tion 37 as the suc­ces­sor of the de­posed Lu­ten­tia and with full au­thor­ity as act­ing Sys­tem Sov­er­eign pend­ing the ap­point­ment of a new sov­er­eign.

119:2.5For more than sev­en­teen years of uni­verse time this strange and un­known tem­po­rary ruler ad­min­is­tered the af­fairs and wisely ad­ju­di­cated the dif­fi­cul­ties of this con­fused and de­mor­al­ized lo­cal sys­tem. No Sys­tem Sov­er­eign was ever more ar­dently loved or more widespreadly hon­ored and re­spected. In jus­tice and mercy this new ruler set the tur­bu­lent sys­tem in or­der while he painstak­ingly min­is­tered to all his sub­jects, even of­fer­ing his re­bel­lious pre­de­ces­sor the priv­i­lege of shar­ing the sys­tem throne of au­thor­ity if he would only apol­o­gize to Im­manuel for his in­dis­cre­tions. But Lu­ten­tia spurned these over­tures of mercy, well know­ing that this new and strange Sys­tem Sov­er­eign was none other than Mi­chael, the very uni­verse ruler whom he had so re­cently de­fied. But mil­lions of his mis­guided and de­luded fol­low­ers ac­cepted the for­give­ness of this new ruler, known in that age as the Sav­ior Sov­er­eign of the sys­tem of Palo­nia.

119:2.6And then came that event­ful day on which there ar­rived the newly ap­pointed Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, des­ig­nated by the uni­verse au­thor­i­ties as the per­ma­nent suc­ces­sor of the de­posed Lu­ten­tia, and all Palo­nia mourned the de­par­ture of the most no­ble and the most be­nign sys­tem ruler that Neb­a­don had ever known. He was beloved by all the sys­tem and adored by his fel­lows of all groups of the La­non­an­dek Sons. His de­par­ture was not un­cer­e­mo­ni­ous; a great cel­e­bra­tion was ar­ranged when he left the sys­tem head­quar­ters. Even his erring pre­de­ces­sor sent this mes­sage: “Just and righ­teous are you in all your ways. While I con­tinue in re­jec­tion of the Par­a­dise rule, I am com­pelled to con­fess that you are a just and mer­ci­ful ad­min­is­tra­tor.”

119:2.7And then did this tran­sient ruler of a re­bel­lious sys­tem take leave of the planet of his short ad­min­is­tra­tive so­journ, while on the third day there­after Mi­chael ap­peared on Sal­ving­ton and re­sumed the di­rec­tion of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. There soon fol­lowed the third Uversa procla­ma­tion of the ad­vanc­ing ju­ris­dic­tion of the sov­er­eignty and au­thor­ity of Mi­chael. The first procla­ma­tion was made at the time of his ar­rival in Neb­a­don, the sec­ond was is­sued soon af­ter the com­ple­tion of the Mel­chiz­e­dek be­stowal, and now the third fol­lows upon the ter­mi­na­tion of the sec­ond or La­non­an­dek mis­sion.