The Dwelling Place of God
The new Jerusalem that John from the Bible in Revelations saw coming down from Heaven, was something I thought was a form of symbolism for the most part of my life, and then to find out from the Urantia Book that there are floating cities or worlds in space, or as the Urantia Book terms Architectural Spheres, made to order worlds, …numbered a little less than 500 billion of them, spread out across the universes. John was not being symbolic but literally seeing a city, actually much more than a city…an Architectural Sphere.
If you find it a little hard to comprehend, welcome to the reality of Gods kingdom…and this is only the beginning of the discoveries, as you journey inwards towards eternity and all the way to the Isle of Paradise, to reach the dwelling place of God the Father, our true destiny. Read below about what the Urantia Book Paper 11 says about the Eternal Isle of Paradise which is a very real/material place …the dwelling place of God.
The Eternal Isle Of Paradise
PARADISE is the eternal center of the universe of universes and the abiding place of the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, the Infinite Spirit, and their divine co-ordinates and associates. This central Isle is the most gigantic organized body of cosmic reality in all the master universe. Paradise is a material sphere as well as a spiritual abode. All of the intelligent creation of the Universal Father is domiciled on material abodes; hence must the absolute controlling center also be material, literal. And again it should be reiterated that spirit things and spiritual beings are real.
The material beauty of Paradise consists in the magnificence of its physical perfection; the grandeur of the Isle of God is exhibited in the superb intellectual accomplishments and mind development of its inhabitants; the glory of the central Isle is shown forth in the infinite endowment of divine spirit personality–the light of life. But the depths of the spiritual beauty and the wonders of this magnificent ensemble are utterly beyond the comprehension of the finite mind of material creatures. The glory and spiritual splendor of the divine abode are impossible of mortal comprehension. And Paradise is from eternity; there are neither records nor traditions respecting the origin of this nuclear Isle of Light and Life.
God’s residence is central and eternal, glorious and ideal. His home is the beauteous pattern for all universe headquarters worlds; and the central universe of his immediate indwelling is the pattern for all universes in their ideals, organization, and ultimate destiny.
Paradise is the universal headquarters of all personality activities and the source-center of all force-space and energy manifestations. Everything which has been, now is, or is yet to be, has come, now comes, or will come forth from this central abiding place of the eternal Gods. Paradise is the center of all creation, the source of all energies, and the place of primal origin of all personalities.
After all, to mortals the most important thing about eternal Paradise is the fact that this perfect abode of the Universal Father is the real and far-distant destiny of the immortal souls of the mortal and material sons of God, the ascending creatures of the evolutionary worlds of time and space. Every God-knowing mortal who has espoused the career of doing the Father’s will has already embarked upon the long, long Paradise trail of divinity pursuit and perfection attainment. And when such an animal-origin being does stand, as countless numbers now do, before the Gods on Paradise, having ascended from the lowly spheres of space, such an achievement represents the reality of a spiritual transformation bordering on the limits of supremacy.
[Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom commissioned thus to function by the Ancients of Days on Uversa.]
