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41:10.5Uran­tia is com­par­a­tively iso­lated on the out­skirts of Sa­ta­nia, your so­lar sys­tem, with one ex­cep­tion, be­ing the far­thest re­moved from Je­ru­sem, while Sa­ta­nia it­self is next to the out­er­most sys­tem of Nor­la­ti­adek, and this con­stel­la­tion is now travers­ing the outer fringe of Neb­a­don. You were truly among the least of all cre­ation un­til Mi­chael’s be­stowal el­e­vated your planet to a po­si­tion of honor and great uni­verse in­ter­est. Some­times the last is first, while truly the least be­comes great­est.

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163:3.4And then said Pe­ter, “But, Mas­ter, we have left ev­ery­thing to fol­low you, what then shall we have?” And Je­sus spoke to all of the twelve: “Ver­ily, ver­ily, I say to you, there is no man who has left wealth, home, wife, breth­ren, par­ents, or chil­dren for my sake and for the sake of the king­dom of heaven who shall not re­ceive man­i­fold more in this world, per­haps with some per­se­cu­tions, and in the world to come eter­nal life. But many who are first shall be last, while the last shall of­ten be first. The Fa­ther deals with his crea­tures in ac­cor­dance with their needs and in obe­di­ence to his just laws of mer­ci­ful and lov­ing con­sid­er­a­tion for the wel­fare of a uni­verse.

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166:3.5“But fear not; ev­ery one who sin­cerely de­sires to find eter­nal life by en­trance into the king­dom of God shall cer­tainly find such ev­er­last­ing sal­va­tion. But you who refuse this sal­va­tion will some day see the proph­ets of the seed of Abra­ham sit down with the be­liev­ers of the gen­tile na­tions in this glo­ri­fied king­dom to par­take of the bread of life and to re­fresh them­selves with the wa­ter thereof. And they who shall thus take the king­dom in spir­i­tual power and by the per­sis­tent as­saults of liv­ing faith will come from the north and the south and from the east and the west. And, be­hold, many who are first will be last, and those who are last will many times be first.”