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These are great questions as they help to explain MUCH of our world's turbulent and religious history.

 Epoch = a particular period of time marked by distinctive features, events, 

Epochal meaning: extremely important and significant.

So, there have been 5 Epochal Revelations brought to us here on our world. First of all, when you think of the Bible, many think it was INSPIRED by God, however, the UB was MANDATED/COMMISSIONED by God, our Father, carried out by his representatives on the capital of our superuniverse.

The first Epochal Revelation, occurred 500 000 years ago in and around Iraq when the then-Planetary Prince and his staff of 100 came from on high to help sort out the humans, living here in those areas at the time, to bring them to a noble cultural place and enhanced understanding of God. This Prince and his associates failed as they sided under the leadership of the evil, rebellious Lucifer and Satan in rejecting our Creator (Jesus/Michael) and his/ our Heavenly Father as being not worthy of adoration or the time to progress towards Him...BIG MISTAKES. It was this major disaster and disruption in the Father’s plan for us to become "perfect as he is" that has caused all the troubles we see and experience on this world. 

The 2nd Epochal Revelation(ever keeping in mind, that the word Revelation means a revealing of information, informing us of new facts, usually by higher sources), occurred when Adam and Eve arrived at the already-established Garden of Eden almost 38 000 years ago, to help correct what happened in the previous Revelation by uplifting humanity by biological means as well as in their teachings...this did not work out well as Adam and Eve defaulted, she, because she had bonded with a man in the neighbouring tribe (Cano), became pregnant and threw off that plan they had come with, according to Jesus/Michael...

It was just after this "default" that our Creator had decided to come to Urantia(earth) to make his 7th and final bestowal (when he chose to fully become and live in the likeness of 7 of his creature-children to learn and know how they experienced their living under his sovereignty). We are so lucky he did!

The 3rd Epochal Revelation was the appearance of another adult male(all adults who arrived here so far), called Machiventa Melchizedek, 1973 years before the arrival of Jesus, in the Chaldean hills near Salem. He came to make sure that the LIGHT of Truth be maintained and uplifted for the arrival of his Father, Michael/Jesus. He taught Abraham until he was 94 years of age when he quietly entered a tent and his fellow spirit brothers carried him away. 

The 4th Epochal Revelation was JESUS...Yay! And he came, not as an adult, but came just as we do, as a BABY. His FULL life, with missing years from the Bible, teach us in Part IV how wonderful our Beloved Father BROTHER is, as he lived perfectly religious life to the full approval of and perfect revelation of our Heavenly Father and his love for us.  As you take time to read EVERY Paper, in order,  in the last Part you WILL fall in love with him...even if you THOUGHT you loved him before, something will happen in your mind and heart and a NEW Revelation of Jesus will envelop and warm you all to bits! 

So. The 5th Epochal Revelation is the ONE you have here and are living during this time! Think about it! We missed all those other times when these spiritual beings came to earth to teach us and  NOW we are living in the time of the last one....so far!!! How lucky we are to be able to KNOW everything that brought us to the world we live in today, and what we can do to help our Creator Father Brother in teaching others about our loviing Heavenly Father.

Hoping this helps!

Your sister in this earthly challenge of "becoming perfect as He is"! 

Monica 

Hi brother Osbert,

I would like to add some important information about the revelations of God to this question as informational background. Information on both Epochal Revelations as well as autorevelations the steadfast method by which God brings about revelational evolution upon the whirling worlds of space. Bringing his children living on these worlds ever closer to Him. Our revelation reveals this declaration by Jesus to a young lad from India about your age concerning autorevelation and revelational evolution.

  ^132:7.6 Then exclaimed Ganid: "Teacher, let's you and I make a new religion, one good enough for India and big enough for Rome, and maybe we can trade it to the Jews for Yahweh." And Jesus replied: "Ganid, religions are not made. The religions of men grow up over long periods of time, while the revelations of God flash upon earth in the lives of the men who reveal God to their fellows." But they did not comprehend the meaning of these prophetic words.

This attribute of the God knowing men and women is called autorevelation and known as revelational  evolution.

  ^101:4.3 Truth is always a revelation: autorevelation when it emerges as a result of the work of the indwelling Adjuster; epochal revelation when it is presented by the function of some other celestial agency, group, or personality.

  ^101:4.4 In the last analysis, religion is to be judged by its fruits, according to the manner and the extent to which it exhibits its own inherent and divine excellence.

Tumwijukye Simon just put a Poem about this on our Network 

Along with revelational evolution their periodically appears Epochal Revelations when much older Divine Sons of God appear on Urantia (earth) in answer to the prayers from the evolving races of the world. 

When these Divine Sons appear on our world they always clarify the information on all past Epochal Revelations, just as Jesus did when He arrived and made his mission public. Said Jesus to his apostles clarifying the past Epochal Revelations and predicting the Father would send our 5th Epochal Revelation. 

  ^176:2.3  And when the kingdom shall have come to its full fruition, be assured that the Father in heaven will not fail to visit you with an enlarged revelation of truth (This is the 5th Epochal Revelation) and an enhanced demonstration of righteousness, even as he has already bestowed upon this world him who became the prince of darkness (This is the 1st  Epochal Revelation), and then Adam (This is the 2nd Epochal Revelation), who was followed by Melchizedek, (This is the 3rd Epochal Revelation) and in these days, the Son of Man.(This was the 4th Epochal Revelation) 

THE URANTIA PAPERS ARE THE 5TH EPOCHAL REVELATION FULFILLING THIS PROMISE OF JESUS  the Father in heaven will not fail to visit you with an enlarged revelation of truth

In the early years of the 1930's many Divine Sons of God were commissioned and mandated to come to this world and deliver THE 5TH EPOCHAL REVELATION of God to the human family into the hands of members of the Reserve Corps of Destiny Guardians of this world.

A series of 196 revelation papers were created by these Divine Sons of God for the following purposes.

1. The reduction of confusion by the authoritative elimination of error.
2. The co-ordination of known or about-to-be-known facts and observations.
3. The restoration of important bits of lost knowledge concerning epochal transactions in the distant past.
4. The supplying of information which will fill in vital missing gaps in otherwise earned knowledge.
5. Presenting cosmic data in such a manner as to illuminate the spiritual teachings contained in the accompanying revelation.

We are living in the days when an Epochal Revelation has been presented to this world and a wonderful opportunity like the Apostles,Evangelist, Messengers, and Disciples had when they entered the work of Jesus bringing his gospel to this world. 

Hello brother Osbert. This evening spirit told me to answer some of these questions on SFN . Here is my answer The word Epochal means a significant, defining moment or event in history that has a profound and lasting impact. In the context of the Urantia Book, the 5th Epochal Revelation refers to a spiritual revelation that is considered to be a milestone in the evolution of human understanding and progress. It is called the 5th because it is seen as the latest in a series of epochal revelations throughout history. The intended purpose of the 5th Epochal Revelation is to enhance the spiritual growth, knowledge, and enlightenment of individuals and society as a whole.

However there were other four epochals, the 1st, the 2nd ,the 3rd, the 4th. I can refer to you to visit my book and read about all these 4 epochals. They are well formulated and explained for everyone to get into his /her understanding.
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Thank you for this interesting question, I hope I answered you correctly. Godspeed in your spiritual awakening and journey.