Brooklyn_born wrote: You are right, and honestly Im not even putting much stock into it. it is not something I am internalizing. It is really my curiosity that has me looking into that event.
That’s a relief. Here’s something else to ponder about this sentence: “But my most exhilarating moment was the thrilling adventure connected with the Lucifer rebellion when, as second seraphic commander, I refused to participate in the projected insult to Michael; and the powerful rebels sought my destruction by means of the liaison forces they had arranged.”
You are contending that there is sequentiality in the sentence with everything after the semicolon occurring in response to everything before the semicolon. And I’m contending the opposite. But here’s another option: since Manotia chose to use the word AND, perhaps both parts of that sentence were happening simultaneously, meaning there is no sequentiality. It was just one long drawn out affair between her and the liaison forces, she refusing and they trying to persuade her to participate, back and forth, back and forth until she no longer entertained them and shut the door of her heart on them, as in this quote:
43:4.9 Since the triumph of Christ, all Norlatiadek is being cleansed of sin and rebels. Sometime before Michael’s death in the flesh the fallen Lucifer’s associate, Satan, sought to attend such an Edentia conclave, but the solidification of sentiment against the archrebels had reached the point where the doors of sympathy were so well-nigh universally closed that there could be found no standing ground for the Satania adversaries. When there exists no open door for the reception of evil, there exists no opportunity for the entertainment of sin. The doors of the hearts of all Edentia closed against Satan; he was unanimously rejected by the assembled System Sovereigns, and it was at this time that the Son of Man “beheld Satan fall as lightning from heaven.”
