The Lucifer Rebellion

53:9.1Early in the days of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion, sal­va­tion was of­fered all rebels by Mi­chael. To all who would show proof of sin­cere re­pen­tance, he of­fered, upon his at­tain­ment of com­plete uni­verse sov­er­eignty, for­give­ness and re­in­state­ment in some form of uni­verse ser­vice. None of the lead­ers ac­cepted this mer­ci­ful prof­fer. But thou­sands of the an­gels and the lower or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings, in­clud­ing hun­dreds of the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters, ac­cepted the mercy pro­claimed by the Panop­tians and were given re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion at the time of Je­sus’ res­ur­rec­tion nine­teen hun­dred years ago. These be­ings have since been trans­ferred to the Fa­ther’s world of Je­ru­sem, where they must be held, tech­ni­cally, un­til the Uversa courts hand down a de­ci­sion in the mat­ter of Ga­briel vs. Lu­cifer. But no one doubts that, when the an­ni­hi­la­tion ver­dict is is­sued, these re­pen­tant and sal­vaged per­son­al­i­ties will be ex­empted from the de­cree of ex­tinc­tion. These pro­ba­tion­ary souls now la­bor with the Panop­tians in the work of car­ing for the Fa­ther’s world.

53:9.2The archde­ceiver has never been on Uran­tia since the days when he sought to turn back Mi­chael from the pur­pose to com­plete the be­stowal and to es­tab­lish him­self fi­nally and se­curely as the un­qual­i­fied ruler of Neb­a­don. Upon Mi­chael’s be­com­ing the set­tled head of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, Lu­cifer was taken into cus­tody by the agents of the Uversa An­cients of Days and has since been a pris­oner on satel­lite num­ber one of the Fa­ther’s group of the tran­si­tion spheres of Je­ru­sem. And here the rulers of other worlds and sys­tems be­hold the end of the un­faith­ful Sov­er­eign of Sa­ta­nia. Paul knew of the sta­tus of these re­bel­lious lead­ers fol­low­ing Mi­chael’s be­stowal, for he wrote of Cali­gas­tia’s chiefs as “spir­i­tual hosts of wicked­ness in the heav­enly places.”

53:9.3Mi­chael, upon as­sum­ing the su­preme sov­er­eignty of Neb­a­don, pe­ti­tioned the An­cients of Days for au­thor­ity to in­tern all per­son­al­i­ties con­cerned in the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion pend­ing the rul­ings of the super­uni­verse tri­bu­nals in the case of Ga­briel vs. Lu­cifer, placed on the rec­ords of the Uversa su­preme court al­most two hun­dred thou­sand years ago, as you reckon time. Con­cern­ing the sys­tem cap­i­tal group, the An­cients of Days granted the Mi­chael pe­ti­tion with but a sin­gle ex­cep­tion: Sa­tan was al­lowed to make pe­ri­odic vis­its to the apos­tate princes on the fallen worlds un­til an­other Son of God should be ac­cepted by such apos­tate worlds, or un­til such time as the courts of Uversa should be­gin the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the case of Ga­briel vs. Lu­cifer.

53:9.4Sa­tan could come to Uran­tia be­cause you had no Son of stand­ing in res­i­dence—nei­ther Plan­e­tary Prince nor Ma­te­rial Son. Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek has since been pro­claimed vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia, and the open­ing of the case of Ga­briel vs. Lu­cifer has sig­nal­ized the in­au­gu­ra­tion of tem­po­rary plan­e­tary regimes on all the iso­lated worlds. It is true that Sa­tan did pe­ri­od­i­cally visit Cali­gas­tia and oth­ers of the fallen princes right up to the time of the pre­sen­ta­tion of these rev­e­la­tions, when there oc­curred the first hear­ing of Ga­briel’s plea for the an­ni­hi­la­tion of the arch­re­bels. Sa­tan is now un­qual­i­fiedly de­tained on the Je­ru­sem prison worlds.

53:9.5Since Mi­chael’s fi­nal be­stowal no one in all Sa­ta­nia has de­sired to go to the prison worlds to min­is­ter to the in­terned rebels. And no more be­ings have been won to the de­ceiver’s cause. For nine­teen hun­dred years the sta­tus has been un­changed.

53:9.6We do not look for a re­moval of the pres­ent Sa­ta­nia re­stric­tions un­til the An­cients of Days make fi­nal dis­po­si­tion of the arch­re­bels. The sys­tem cir­cuits will not be re­in­stated so long as Lu­cifer lives. Mean­time, he is wholly in­ac­tive.

53:9.7The re­bel­lion has ended on Je­ru­sem. It ends on the fallen worlds as fast as di­vine Sons ar­rive. We be­lieve that all rebels who will ever ac­cept mercy have done so. We await the flash­ing broad­cast that will de­prive these traitors of per­son­al­ity ex­is­tence. We an­tic­i­pate the ver­dict of Uversa will be an­nounced by the ex­e­cu­tion­ary broad­cast which will ef­fect the an­ni­hi­la­tion of these in­terned rebels. Then will you look for their places, but they shall not be found. “And they who know you among the worlds will be as­ton­ished at you; you have been a ter­ror, but never shall you be any more.” And thus shall all of these un­wor­thy traitors “be­come as though they had not been.” All await the Uversa de­cree.

53:9.8But for ages the seven prison worlds of spir­i­tual dark­ness in Sa­ta­nia have con­sti­tuted a solemn warn­ing to all Neb­a­don, elo­quently and ef­fec­tively pro­claim­ing the great truth “that the way of the trans­gres­sor is hard”; “that within ev­ery sin is con­cealed the seed of its own de­struc­tion”; that “the wages of sin is death.”

53:9.9[Pre­sented by Manovan­det Mel­chiz­e­dek, one­time at­tached to the re­ceiver­ship of Uran­tia.]