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93:2.1 It was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_BC 1,973] years before the [[birth]] of [[Jesus]] that [[Machiventa]] was [[bestowed]] upon the [[human]] races of [[Urantia]]. His coming was unspectacular; his [[materialization]] was not [[witnessed]] by human eyes. He was first [[observed]] by [[mortal]] man on that eventful day when he entered the tent of ''Amdon'', a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaldea Chaldean] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd herder] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer Sumerian] extraction. And the proclamation of his mission was embodied in the [[simple]] [[statement]] which he made to this shepherd, "I am [[Melchizedek]], priest of [[El Elyon]], the [[Most High]], the one and only [[God]]."

93:2.2 When the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd herder] had recovered from his astonishment, and after he had plied this stranger with many questions, he asked [[Melchizedek]] to sup with him, and this was the first time in his long [[universe]] [[career]] that [[Machiventa]] had partaken of [[material]] [[food]], the nourishment which was to [[sustain]] him throughout his ninety-four years of life as a [[material]] [[being]].

93:2.3 And that night, as they talked out under the [[stars]], [[Melchizedek]] began his mission of the [[revelation]] of the [[truth]] of the [[reality]] of [[God]] when, with a sweep of his arm, he turned to ''Amdon'', saying, "[[El Elyon]], the [[Most High]], is the [[divine]] [[creator]] of the [[stars]] of the firmament and even of this very [[earth]] on which we live, and he is also the [[supreme]] [[God]] of [[heaven]]."

93:2.4 Within a few years [[Melchizedek]] had gathered around himself a group of [[pupils]], [[disciples]], and believers who formed the [[nucleus]] of the later [[community]] of [[Salem]]. He was soon known throughout [[Palestine]] as the [[priest]] of [[El Elyon]], the [[Most High]], and as the [[sage]] of [[Salem]]. Among some of the [[surrounding]] [[tribes]] he was often referred to as the sheik, or [[king]], of [[Salem]]. Salem was the site which after the disappearance of [[Melchizedek]] became the [[city]] of Jebus, subsequently being called [[Jerusalem]].

93:2.5 In [[personal]] [[appearance]], Melchizedek resembled the then blended [[Nodite]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer Sumerian] peoples, being almost six feet in height and possessing a commanding [[presence]]. He spoke [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaldea Chaldean] and a half dozen other [[languages]]. He dressed much as did the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan Canaanite] [[priests]] except that on his breast he wore an emblem of [[three]] [[concentric]] [[circles]], the [[Satania]] [[symbol]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]]. In the [[course]] of his [[ministry]] this insignia of three concentric circles became regarded as so [[sacred]] by his followers that they never dared to use it, and it was soon forgotten with the passing of a few [[generations]].

93:2.6 Though [[Machiventa]] lived after the [[manner]] of the men of the realm, he never [[married]], nor could he have left [[offspring]] on [[earth]]. His [[physical]] [[body]], while resembling that of the [[human]] [[male]], was in [[reality]] on the order of those especially constructed [[bodies]] used by the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF one hundred materialized members of Prince Caligastia' s staff] except that it did not carry the life [[plasm]] of any [[human]] race. Nor was there available on [[Urantia]] the [[tree of life]]. Had [[Machiventa]] remained for any long period on [[earth]], his [[physical]] [[mechanism]] would have gradually deteriorated; as it was, he terminated his [[bestowal]] mission in ninety-four years long before his material body had begun to disintegrate.

93:2.7 This [[incarnated]] [[Melchizedek]] received a [[Thought Adjuster]], who indwelt his [[superhuman]] [[personality]] as the monitor of [[time]] and the [[mentor]] of the [[flesh]], thus gaining that [[experience]] and practical introduction to Urantian [[problems]] and to the [[technique]] of indwelling an [[incarnated]] Son which enabled this spirit of [[the Father]] to [[function]] so valiantly in the [[human]] [[mind]] of the later Son of God, [[Michael]], when he [[appeared]] on [[earth]] in the likeness of [[mortal]] flesh. And this is the only [[Thought Adjuster]] who ever functioned in two minds on [[Urantia]], but both minds were [[divine]] as well as [[human]].

93:2.8 During the [[incarnation]] in the [[flesh]], [[Machiventa]] was in full [[contact]] with his eleven fellows of the corps of [[Melchizedek receivers|planetary custodians]], but he could not [[communicate]] with other orders of [[celestial]] [[personalities]]. Aside from the [[Melchizedek receivers]], he had no more [[contact]] with [[superhuman]] [[intelligences]] than a [[human being]].

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