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[Assistant] This store was down town for three years, so I know exactly how crazy those motherfuckers are down there. There's wild shit happening down there.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I'm sorry about all of your hands, I figured that's part of it.


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[Assistant] Stream sniper, so is that another problem you have is just fucking people trying to be cool on your stream?


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[Assistant] One time I was doing a fucking vlog and I was at this rap show and like basically a dude got jumped by like 20 dudes and like a famous rapper got jumped by like 20 dudes and then like I just immediately stopped vlogging because like I got some like insane footage I was like I can't put this out these dudes are gonna kill me like if I was on stream


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[Assistant] Jesus Christ, I don't know what would have happened. Everybody would fucking know what happened. I would have probably had to turn the camera off or point it to the ground or something.


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[Assistant] They know exactly who I am, they know where my store is. They would have fucked me up. If that shit got out, they would have, I don't know, maybe they wouldn't have fucked me up because they would have been like kind of hyped that people knew about how crazy the beating that they just did was or something. But I mean, if they wanted to, they definitely would.


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[Assistant] Can't even fuck me up or been mad about it at least. Maybe have to talk to somebody.


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[Assistant] If it was just random people, I 100% agree. It just so happens that in this situation, it was like not random people to who I knew exactly who they were and what they were involved with. And I was like, oh yeah, this definitely ain't going in the vlog.


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[Assistant] So that's the whole thing with vlogging, it's like you get to paint this really fake portrait of what your life is like because you can just leave out all the bad stuff if you want. And I, I think that my vlogs are a little different than that because I just tend to show all the raw stuff that's just happening and stuff. But for a lot of people, it's like they make vlogs that they want to be very positive and fun.


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[Assistant] Because they wanna show like a fun, positive shit, and they know that if they do some sad, depressing shit that they're not gonna get as many views, so they just don't do it, they just leave out the sad stuff. Casey Neistat doesn't seem like he has a bad day very often.


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[Assistant] But this is a very like labor intensive career that you're kind of involved in, right? Because you feel like you just have to be out walking around a lot. Do you feel like it's like a lot of hard work or does it not feel that way?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so that high energy part, like how much of a part of maintaining a big fan base is that? Because I feel like it would be so easy to go do one and just have the energy be kind of like low and does that like mean that your fans actually leave?


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[Assistant] So, so do you feel like with the YouTube Live that YouTube actually cares about you and actually gives a fuck about you being on the platform though? You think that they're happy to have you?


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[Assistant] Well, they take someone like PewDiePie who's making them all this fucking money and they fucking slash his ad rates worse than they did mine. Like, he's making jack shit from videos and it's like, how the fuck do you not care about the guy who literally has the most subscribers, who literally is the fucking poster boy for the entire concept of being a YouTuber, and they don't give a fuck. They just totally treat him like shit.


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[Assistant] You're very wise that you know that all you have to do is follow the money. Then you can figure out the solution to everything on that one, yeaah.


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[Assistant] But you'd think that they'd want to treat PewDiePie good just because of the idea that you want other YouTubers to believe that this is a good platform.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but like if I'm the guy who works at YouTube and is, and is concerned with making YouTube live really popular, and then there's a guy who's really, really popular on Twitch and he gets banned from Twitch and then he comes over to YouTube and then he's doing really good on YouTube,


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[Assistant] I would be like, I'm gonna make sure that this guy is happy and that he doesn't, you know, start hating us. I would be very concerned with keeping that guy happy.


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[Assistant] But then they still ban you permanently for like something that's completely out of your control.


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[Assistant] I don't know. You seem like you're so over it. You're not mad about it at all. I'm still a little pissed off.


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[Assistant] You know, that's the only thing that pisses me off is just the fact that shit like that.


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[Assistant] There's very few people, like, there's no real outrage, you know, like, when, when all these YouTubers get their, their checks cut and everything, it's like, it's very easy to just be like, eh, who's the fuck, you know? Even though a lot of these people, man, like, people build serious fucking businesses thinking that they can depend on some level of income, and then YouTube decides to be completely fickle about it.


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[Assistant] And there's no, there's no recourse or anything. And you got people like literally going bankrupt out here because their YouTube money got shut off for no good reason.


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[Assistant] And then, like, nobody feels bad for him. Nobody gives a shit. For me, I mean, nobody has to feel bad for me because I got plenty of other ways that I'm making money. But, you know, it's like, even when I suggested, like, uh, you know, guys, I think I might make a Patreon or whatever if you want to give me five bucks, ten bucks a month.


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[Assistant] YouTube, they fucking acted like I was the worst person on earth because I suggested that even though I had just lost like 30 grand a month from fucking YouTube.


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[Assistant] I'm talking about when they drop the fucking, uh, the adpocalypse thing, which I guess doesn't affect you as much because you're not really making that many videos, you're not concerned about the ad revenue so much.


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[Assistant] Oh, so the ad revenue is a big part for you. So you never had your channel demonetized on YouTube?


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[Assistant] And there's that button, play ad. You ever see that? Yea, yea. You just play an ad in the middle of your stream. I've only done it once or twice.


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[Assistant] But is that always, there will always be music that makes it demonetized and stuff?


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[Assistant] That's the same exact thing with my shit, cause I'm playing all these videos that people are paying me to play, and not all of them are gonna get fly for copyright, because they're not all claimed, but there inevitably will be like at least like ten, and then some of them will be completely blocked, so even if I wanted to keep it on YouTube, I couldn't. I would have to somehow like download the file, or whatever, I have to record it while I do it, which I haven't been doing. Right. To this point.


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[Assistant] It's just so weird though, because it's like, I had YouTube just take all the ad money away, and then all of a sudden I have like a month where I'm making like basically the same as I was making with ad money, but now it's not coming from a bunch of advertisers, it's coming from all my fans.


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[Assistant] It's like a weird feeling, like, oh, well, thanks guys, I appreciate it, but I liked it better when you didn't have to give me any money and I could have just, you know, made money off fucking craft or whatever.


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[Assistant] The Adpocalypse stuff for me overall was like a really good experience cause it made me just realize like, oh you can't just like hang out and wait on the YouTube money, like you gotta actually get hungry and actually like hustle your ass off. Gotta work.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's true. Do you, do you still feel like you're driven to like hustle on YouTube or just streaming in general? Do you still have that fire?


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's more overall discovery, but then the actual specific live discovery hasn't been like fully exploited on YouTube is basically the case, huh?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and so you think that that is the one thing that's really making, that's like the secret sauce.


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[Assistant] See, now you're really making me think that I have to do that once I get my YouTube Live stuff back because like I put something on YouTube almost every day and then if I could just kinda, and then I livestream like a good percentage of the time too so I'll probably just line them up so they go together. That's a really good idea.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's the whole thing about it. It just feels like there's...


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[Assistant] You know, like you're already doing pretty good for yourself, I'm already making pretty good money and stuff, but it's like, it just feels like there's just a big seed of opportunity going on here. And maybe it doesn't 100% make sense right now, but like even last night when I was on Twitch for like fucking 7 hours,


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[Assistant] And I wasn't even making money because I didn't, I don't have my thing turned on or whatever. I was still just like, you know, something about like acquiring followers on here just feels like somehow this is going to be the future going forward that there's the live streaming thing is just really going to keep developing into some other weird beast.


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[Assistant] And especially young kids are like always craving like entertainment that's more and more raw and visceral. Like to a kid watching a sitcom these days just seems so insane.


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[Assistant] Watching, you know, a music video countdown show to these days kids want something that's super personal. And I think that vlogging in a weird way


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[Assistant] It's so crazy that we're having this conversation about how like vlogging is fake as fuck now because like, honestly like a year and a half ago, it's like the conversation was very like, oh like vlogs, this is the future because there's so much more real than a lot of this other YouTube content and stuff. And now it's like we're having this conversation about streaming. I wonder what's after that, body cams?


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, we should really do a day where you come and hang out at the store all day while you're streaming and then like your fans can come in and hang out and I really want to get like a sort of similar setup to what you have doing so that I can do like my live streaming shit here and watch videos and stuff and also do kind of like the live version, especially with the store.


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[Assistant] Cause I just feel like that's such like a cool angle cause like, if I were to stay out in front of the store all day, it's just non-stop kids just taking selfies and stuff. And it would just be entertaining to be able to take all of them and put them on camera for a little bit and make this crazy eight hour montage or whatever.


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[Assistant] I will be careful. That's for sure. Yeah. It's crazy, man. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Wow, that's so fucking loud. So, what, so you're just really driven, you think, at this point, just to keep proving that you can do this shit on YouTube, that you don't need Twitch, that you can keep building this up. Do you feel like you have any, do you spend a lot of time thinking about what your life might be past streaming, or what you might do once all this kind of doesn't seem so attractive anymore?


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[Assistant] Because five years of this is not a normal five years, right? This is like a weird lifestyle that you've got.


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[Assistant] That could like be more than just like, Oh, I have to put in a shitload of hours actually doing the thing. Like if you could create a business based around streaming overall, especially since you're such a big name in the field, that it's like, if you could create products, whether online or real or whatever that, that appeal to people then.


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[Assistant] I'm kinda scared of those 40,000 people on Reddit when you talk about it, cause I feel like they're gonna be like, why didn't you ask them about this? Why didn't you ask them about this? And like, they're gonna be pissed off they didn't know about stuff.


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[Assistant] Man, it's funny that you came in here with purple hair because I was watching the video from that stream and you're like, what color should I have done my hair? And I'm looking at the chat and it's like all purple. Like, they had really settled on purple. Like, why did they want purple so specifically?


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[Assistant] Now they're gonna hate me for that, I don't know. No, but I knew about the Purple Army too, but it just didn't like, connect in my brain, like, oh yea, obviously that's why they wanted his hair purple, okay.


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[Assistant] Interesting. Uhm, fuck. I guess that's probably like pretty close to the end of the questions that I have to go here, but yea, I dunno. I really enjoyed this, like I've just become sort of fascinated with the whole streaming side of things, and especially, I've always just been really concerned on like a social justice warrior level about, ever since you got banned I just felt like it was so unfair, it just pissed me off.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, happy to see things, uh, going well and everything, and I'm glad we got to have this conversation. So, uh, if people want to check in with you, I guess, obviously you should just go search Ice Poseidon on YouTube. You're already on YouTube right now if you're watching this, so there you go.


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[Assistant] Easy. Yeah. If you don't know as well beside and grab a fucking dictionary or google.com or something, you fucking idiots. I could just talk to them like that. They like it.


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[Assistant] That's why I'm not really like, I feel like I'm kind of safe in a way with having a bigger fan base over time because I've just always been such a dick and like just kind of rude and just sort of like really, I've never really like pandered to my audience that much. I've always been kind of honest about like, you know, I'm just making stuff and I don't really care what you guys think. Yeah. Yeah, they seem to be alright with that.


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[Assistant] They came with nothing. They even drank my fucking orange juice. They brought us weed. That's why we hung out with them the first time. They just kind of showed up with weed and we didn't realize that they were, they were, they were hanging out around us while we were on stream for like three or four hours. And we didn't realize that like nobody else in the room knew them and that they were just there, but they had a bunch of weeds. So we're like, whatever. Like nobody really questioned it. Yeah. And then the next thing that happened is that the other night when we're on stream,


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[Assistant] He just shows up and his stream had tricked him into thinking that we wanted him to come here. And then he shows up and we had already had a couple of like weird things, people with pizzas showing up and stuff like that. So I look out the door, I don't even realize that it's a guy that I met before and I'm just like,


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[Assistant] Nah, nah, we're good, blah, blah, blah. Just close the door right away and then he realizes that the stream had fucked him over. But then last night, we were on stream and we were like, yo, we need weed.


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[Assistant] Dan Kwon showed up in the chat like, I got weed. And then he came through and I actually let him on the chat for like a couple hours and we just hung out and like just chatted and stuff. And he's cool. But at a certain point he told me he only had sex one time in his whole life and was only 17.


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[Assistant] That's so weird. He showed up and he let you shoot him with a paintball gun and stuff. That's pretty tight.


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[Assistant] It's weird because I feel kind of like vulnerable at night. Well, that's why I have a gun and everything is because I feel like, you know, this, this scenario right now, like anyone could just show up and do whatever. So it's like, I'm really not trying to be in a position where I have to like fight somebody or like get robbed or anything like that. So the gun thing just makes me feel pretty cool about whatever.


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[Assistant] But, you know, I usually have a bunch of guys with me and stuff like that, so I'm not really that worried, but...


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[Assistant] I don't know, obviously it's just completely wrong. You should never show up when you're streaming because you might get the shit beat out of you, to be totally honest. Like, if you show up back here, middle of the night, it's just not like a safe environment for you to show up. So if you get your ass kicked back here, don't blame me, you are asking for it.


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[Assistant] Who the fuck knows what they could- I wanna actually put a sign on the door that says like,


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[Assistant] We are streaming. People frequently call in false complaints. There's nothing to worry about, that kind of thing.


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[Assistant] Oh, the next day. So then how did you keep swatting? On YouTube Live? Yea, on YouTube. Oh, but YouTube doesn't really care.


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[Assistant] When you go to the cops, that's what they say about everything. They're like, my house got broken into. They're like, we can't do anything. We don't care. We have bigger things to worry about. I feel like every time I've ever had a conversation with a cop, that's what they say.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's like best case scenario is that you like become so famous or at least notorious that the cops then kind of like just, it's like, oh no, no, he's cool, he's cool.


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[Assistant] Internet. Anyway, I'm really glad we got to have this chat. Clocking in about an hour and a half. Pretty solid, man. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I'm glad, I'm glad I could kind of take your podcast virginity at least in a certain sense.


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[Assistant] You feel like this is professional. It smells like backwoods in here. There's a fucking giant fat white cat sleeping here. Kevin is just on the couch. A little bit unprofessional to me.


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[Assistant] I think just in general, just get famous and then you'll figure it out after that. It's like, get that following. And then you can figure out how to make money off it after that. True. Yeah. Basically. But streaming is definitely like.


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[Assistant] A big wave that is crashing in right now. Anyway, let's go smoke a blunt. Let's, let's be done with this shit. I'm ready. Yeah. Thank you very much guys for signing. No jumper. Coolest podcast in the world. Check us out on YouTube, SoundCloud, iTunes, subscribe. Check me out on Twitch, Adam 22 Ho.


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[Assistant] Don't check him out on Twitch. He's gone. Possibly permanently. Think he'll ever be back?


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[Assistant] Fuck the system. And fuck this white cat. We out. Peace.


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[Assistant] Writing is addictive. You know, you just, you just have to do it and it's fun. But with a busy schedule, it's hard to squeeze it in there.


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[Assistant] We're in 47 countries now and you get mailed from Finland.


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[Assistant] Now I'd say our male is 75% kids. My name is Stephanie or my name is Tiffany. I'm 12 years old. I watch two shows in the morning and then I come home and watch two shows in the afternoon. And I always think, when do you do your homework?


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[Assistant] Campe shot into the sky, her bat wings fully extended. She landed on the top of Zeus' fist and surveyed the carnage. Her face was filled with evil glee.


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[Assistant] But she popped it into a lion's mouth at her waist and drew her curved swords. The blades glowed green with poison.


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[Assistant] Camp A screeched in triumph and some of the campers screamed.


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[Assistant] Others tried to run and got trampled by hellhounds or giants.


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[Assistant] Tyson untangled himself from the giant whom he'd pummeled into unconsciousness. He ran at our lines, shouting, Stand! Do not run from her! Fight!


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[Assistant] But then a hellhound leaped at him, and Tyson and the hound went rolling away. Campe landed on the Athena command tent, smashing it flat. I ran after her and found Annabeth at my side, keeping pace, her sword in her hand. This might be it, she said. Could be. Nice fighting with you, seaweed brain. Ditto.


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[Assistant] Together, we leaped into the monster's path. Campe hissed and sliced at us. I dodged, trying to distract her, while Annabeth went in for a strike. But the monster seemed able to fight with both hands independently. She blocked Annabeth's sword, and Annabeth had to jump back to avoid the cloud of poison.


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[Assistant] But no help came. Everyone was either down, or fighting for their lives, or too scared to move forward. Three of Kyren's arrows sprouted from Kempe's chest, but she just roared louder. Now! Annabeth said.


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[Assistant] Together we charged, dodging the monster's slashes, got inside her guard, and almost, almost managed to stab Kampei in the chest, but a huge bear's head lashed out from the monster's waist, and we had to stumble backward to avoid getting bitten. Slam! My eyesight went black.


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[Assistant] The next thing I knew, Annabeth and I were on the ground. The monster had its four legs on our chests, holding us down. Hundreds of snakes slithered right above me, hissing like laughter.


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[Assistant] Campay raised her green-tinged swords, and I knew Annabeth and I were out of options. Then, behind me, something howled. A wall of darkness slammed into Campay, sending the monster sideways, and Mrs. O'Leary was standing over us, snarling and snapping at Campay. Good girl!


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[Assistant] Said a familiar voice. Daedalus was fighting his way out of the labyrinth, slashing down enemies left and right as he made his way toward us. Next to him was someone else, a familiar giant, much taller than the Lystergonians with a hundred rippling arms, each holding a huge chunk of rock.


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[Assistant] Briarus! Tyson cried in wonder.


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[Assistant] Hail, little brother, Briar is bellowed. Stand firm.


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[Assistant] And as Mrs. O'Leary leaped out of the way, the hundred-handed one launched a volley of boulders at Campay. The rocks seemed to enlarge as they left Briar's hands. There were so many, it looked like half the earth had learned to fly. Boom!


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[Assistant] What we hope to do is just demand freedom of mind and freedom of speech. It's not Hong Kong anymore.


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[Assistant] Let's get to it. So this video is trying to answer the following question. What were the various factors that contributed to the Union victory in the Civil War? And I know I just spoiled the ending. Yes, the Union wins the war. And if you didn't know that already, you know.


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[Assistant] Now from the outset, it wasn't a foregone conclusion that the Union, which is to say the Northern states, would win the war. Both sides had their advantages, and just because I'm feeling a little saucy, let's compare those strengths in a chart. The South had the advantage of fighting a defensive war. No need to invade anybody, just stay


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[Assistant] Additionally, the South possessed far greater and more experienced military generals like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. The North, on the other hand, had the advantage of population, which is to say about four times that of the southern states. Additionally, the North had possession and command of a robust navy by which they could control the seas and rivers. The North also had an economic advantage since they possessed most of the banks and manufacturing districts and something like 70% of America's railroads. Finally, the North had the advantage of a well-established


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, the South who had just written up a constitution eschewing centralized power would struggle in this area throughout the war. So even though I listed more advantages for the North, that doesn't mean that each item on both lists were weighted equally, which is to say neither side could look at the other and assume they would win in a landslide. Victory for either side will cause


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[Assistant] Both an awful lot of money and blood. Now in order to fight this war, both the Union and the Confederacy had to mobilize their entire economies. In the North, manufacturers answered the call by rapidly modernizing their productive capacity. In fact, many of the future barons of industry like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller got their start by manufacturing an astounding number of goods for the Union effort. The South relied mainly on tariffs and taxes on exports in order to raise revenue for the war. But this plan faltered with Union naval blockades and in general,


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[Assistant] Both the Union and the Confederacy would be all for war against one another. However, there was substantial opposition on the home front. In the South, the Confederacy launched another attempt to pay for the war by introducing a war tax. But since the Confederacy was built on the notion of states' rights, many people and states simply refused to fund the centralized effort with their tax money. In the North, they arguably dealt with even more opposition. A chief example on this count would be the New York City Draft Riots in 1863.


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[Assistant] Now in those days $300 was a buttload of money, and you had to be decently wealthy to afford it, and so the working class men saw this as a fundamental injustice. It's like they were saying, so there's an option to avoid getting killed in this war, but it's only available to the rich?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that dog don't hunt. And so a gathering of men in New York City to protest this injustice turned violent and at least 120 people were killed as a result. Okay, so all that we've done so far is just talk about the advantages that each side enjoyed and how this was kind of a total war for both and how there was opposition to the war on the home front. So with all of that settled, let's talk about the course of the war itself. And to do that, let's go back to Lincoln's election in 1860. Lincoln was very clear that he would not stand for Southern secession, but neither did he relish starting a war over


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[Assistant] So Fort Sumter was a federal possession that happened to be located in Confederate South Carolina, which to put it mildly, was awkward.


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[Assistant] South Carolinians cut off supply lines to the fort coming in from the north, and rather than fighting about it, Lincoln announced that he would be sending provisions to the Union troops trapped there. So the South had a choice, either let these federal troops be resupplied or blow up the incoming supply ships. And faced with that decision, they went ahead and started firing on the Union suppliers, and that is pretty universally agreed upon as the first official salvo of the war. Now the first part of the war


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[Assistant] Definitely belong to the Confederacy. And to illustrate that, let's look at one of the first major battles of the conflict, the first battle of Bull Run. In this battle, 30,000 Union troops marched to confront Confederate troops at Bull Run Creek in Virginia. And just to add a little sauce to this, I should mention that civilians actually came out with


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[Assistant] Anyway, the battle began with the Union positively mopping the floor with the Confederacy. But once Confederate reinforcements arrived under the command of Stonewall Jackson, they sent the inexperienced Union soldiers to flight. And this first major conflict disabused both sides of the dream that this would be a short and tidy war. Now we can talk about battles all day, and don't get me wrong, that will be fun. But you won't need to know many of the battles for the purposes of the exams, so let's talk overall strategy for both sides. One of the main Union strategies was called the Anaconda Plan.


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[Assistant] Basically, that meant that the North would lean heavily on its naval advantage in order to blockade southern ports and control the Mississippi River, which, if they could do, would effectively split the Confederacy in half. The southern strategy largely relied on foreign help, especially from Britain and France. And you may be wondering, why in the world would Britain and France care anything about helping the Confederacy? And the reason is,


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[Assistant] Both those countries relied heavily on exported southern cotton in order to keep their textile industries humming, and so southerners were pretty confident that King Cotton, as they called it, would convince both countries to come to their aid. Unfortunately, both countries were rude enough to discover that both India and Egypt could produce cotton like mad, and therefore King Cotton wasn't as powerful as they thought. But as the war ground on, ultimately the Union succeeded due to improvements in leadership and strategy, key battle victories, and wartime destruction of the South's infrastructure.


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[Assistant] Which one of those in turn? With respect to Union leadership, Lincoln about went crazy for lack of good generals to lead Union men. But with the rise of generals like Ulysses S. Grant, who rarely retreated and pressed the Confederates hard into their own territory, the tide began to turn. As far as strategy goes, we can talk about a lot of things, but I'll only mention one of them, namely Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1862. Now when you think about the Emancipation Proclamation, probably the first thing you think is that this magnificent document freed the enslaved people of America. But here's where I tell you.


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[Assistant] Like just think about it for a second. In the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln unequivocally freed all enslaved people beginning on January 1st, 1863. But go back and read it and you'll see that he actually only freed enslaved people in those states that were in active rebellion against the United States, which is to say the Confederacy. There were actually five states in the Union called border states, which were in fact slave states. Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and West Virginia. Those states were not in active rebellion against the Union and therefore


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[Assistant] That's why I say the Emancipation Proclamation was more of a military strategy than a document of freedom. However, that's not to say it didn't work. Like, in announcing this proclamation, Lincoln effectively changed the scope of the war. Like, it wasn't merely about saving the Union anymore, although that was certainly still in view. Now it was about eradicating slavery in the United States.


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[Assistant] Basically burned it to the ground, and from Atlantis, Sherman and his men embarked on the devastating march to the sea. In this march from Atlantis, Savannah Sherman destroyed railroads and generally held to a scorched earth policy, burning crops and land and making it near impossible for the South to recover its strength. So combine those victories with the devastation of Southern infrastructure and the success of the Union naval blockade, and that's how you get Union General Grant and Confederate General Lee meeting at the Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865.


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[Assistant] Terror rules in Europe. The people are chained, yet their souls do not submit. This film is made in the faith that those who batter down the prison gates from without will find brave allies among the prisoners within.


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[Assistant] Your papers, please. Huh? Oh, papers, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Plenty of them. Then what is wrong? Who is to blame? John Wesley is an extremely zealous man. A good fault normally.


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[Assistant] It is a rule that those who would partake of Holy Communion give notice at least one day previous. This she did not do. And used to affirm on it.


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[Assistant] Believe that if you will. If I was to be of service to the unhappy people of Savannah...


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[Assistant] No other way remain but to come before this board myself and tell you of their plight. Plight? You spoke of those in high places. I will not mince my words, Colonel. I mean among the foremost, your Chief Magistrate. He is all powerful.


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[Assistant] The law of Savannah is nothing but his whim and his advantage. What sweeping assertions are these? The saving of souls means nothing to such men. If there be money in it, then the Sabbath is a day of work. If there be a profit in drunkenness, then more liquor is imported. These are the things I have preached against. They ask, why can't we have black slaves? I declared slavery is against the law of God.


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[Assistant] My lord, these are most serious allegations. Shall we not desire Mr. Wesley to put those things in writing so that they may have our proper judgement?


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[Assistant] After two years being still prevented from fulfilling my mission, I felt myself free to return when I would.


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[Assistant] At the moment I'm staying at the bookshop known as the Bible and Son in Little Wild Street.


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[Assistant] My father was a country parson. One evening, when we were all asleep, a fire broke out. Will you need me anymore, Master Hutton?


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[Assistant] Yet, when the chance came for me to go to Georgia, you can see, can't you, how it appeared to me. And now, I'll leave you two to talk.


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[Assistant] Begin and end every day with God. Be diligent in your calling. Employ all spare hours in religion.


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[Assistant] The truth was I'd already resolved to prepare myself for holy orders. I was 22 when I was ordained.


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[Assistant] Odd how some moments live with one forever. About this time my young brother, Charles, obtained a scholarship to Oxford.


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[Assistant] He banded himself with two or three companions of like mind, meeting together regularly to study the Bible. They asked me to become their leader. We broadened the design of the little society. We decided to give away every penny we could spare. We went out into the town, visiting the sick and the poor. We even set up a small school, paying the schoolmistress out of our own pockets. With the bishop's sanction, we went to the castle.


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[Assistant] And minister to the wretches in prison, distributing food, teaching them their letters, even the catechism.


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[Assistant] Among our fellow students, such strange behavior did not pass unnoticed.


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[Assistant] I was delighted to welcome him and did my best to put him at his ease. I asked his name. Whitfield sir, he replied. George Whitfield. George Whitfield? The Reverend George Whitfield? Yes.


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[Assistant] That's Charles' old room, where he first foregathered with his friends.


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[Assistant] Then why not my heart? Why not mine? Could I have gone to my death as that poor man did? Never.


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[Assistant] This certainty of peace, this calm, quiet spirit,


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[Assistant] Does it come always, do you suppose, as it did to this poor man, in the matter of a moment?


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[Assistant] Writing of Paul's epistle to the Romans. This is what Martin Luther says.


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[Assistant] And is of such dignity and value, that a Christian man should not only know it by heart,


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[Assistant] But he should meditate on it every day as the soul's daily bread. Faith is not what we sometimes suppose it to be. A faith which is just a notion never goes to the bottom of the heart. Faith is God's work in us. It changes us all over and makes us like new.


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[Assistant] Whereas a devout man has always borne himself towards God in the manner of a servant, of a sudden, he sees himself to be a son, beloved of his father.


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[Assistant] He that is not so affected is simply an unbelieving man, poking and casting about in the dark. All he does is to chatter the way about faith and good works. Faith is a lively, reckless confidence in the grace of God, so short of itself


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[Assistant] That is what the Holy Spirit does in this experience of faith. My friends, forgive me for breaking in upon this reading. A most wonderful thing has happened to me.


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[Assistant] And I cannot restrain myself from bearing witness to it now at once. I, John Wesley, I am that man described by Luther, casting about him in the outer darkness. Sir, when I heard the words, faith is God's work in us.


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[Assistant] I felt my heart strangely warm.


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[Assistant] At last I know that he has taken away my sins, even mine. I know now that I never could have worked out my own salvation. It is a gift freely bestowed, a gift of the most high God.


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[Assistant] Housemanship of old, not as I'd imagined it. A word to the drunkard. I have a message from God to thee.


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[Assistant] It's followed us all through the years, from Oxford to London. And followed George Whitfield all the way to Bristol. Nay, wait. You say the gybe has stuck to us.


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[Assistant] Indeed, we'll give it the place of honor. You mean, from now on, not the people called Methodists, but the people calling themselves Methodists. Read on, Brother Charles. The rules of the Methodists.


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[Assistant] That is not surprising since he has chosen to preach under an open sky with neither altar nor pulpit. He's going to Savannah.


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[Assistant] Expects to sail any time now. I wonder how you'll fare. The work that has begun in Bristol is thus in jeopardy. He asks me...


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[Assistant] But if it proved the only way to reach them... But what of our society? I will consult them, of course. If they say it's right, so be it.


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[Assistant] Two days ago I considered the saving of souls outside a church almost a sin. But these people are desolate in utter darkness.


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[Assistant] When they show by their cries and tears that their souls are in deep anguish, I frequently pray to God to deliver them from it. And our prayer is often answered.


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[Assistant] My lord, my business on earth is to do what good I can. At present, I think I can do most good here. Therefore, here I must stay.


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[Assistant] I am commissioned to preach the word of God in any part of the Church of England. Indeed, I look upon all the world as my parish.


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[Assistant] Do you imagine God concerns himself only with the rich? Nay, my friends, he knows of the day's toil. He knows of your weariness, of your return to a dreary, cold lodging, of the look in the eyes of your little ones,


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[Assistant] You desire to speak with me? Why are you here? By what authority do you preach to these people? By the authority of Jesus Christ.


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[Assistant] Conveyed to me by the Archbishop of Canterbury when he laid his hands upon me and said, Take thou authority to preach the Gospel.


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[Assistant] Sir, did you ever hear me preach? Of course not.


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[Assistant] Give me leave to ask, is not your name Nash? My name is Nash.


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[Assistant] In this place, where was made so many pieces of death-dealing artillery, let us think for a moment of the words of Isaiah.


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[Assistant] And they shall beat their swords into plowshares. Nations shall not lift up sword against nation. Neither shall they learn war anymore.


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[Assistant] Forgive me if I say that John is not entirely logical.


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[Assistant] He and Mr. Charles are much absent in Bristol and thereabouts.


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[Assistant] There. That's a real burn, isn't it? Sit down. You shouldn't be standing. How was it caused?


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[Assistant] Whether it be God's will or no, I cannot tell. I know we are not dissenters. I know we are, and pray God ever shall be. One with the church. And you Tom. John.


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[Assistant] Mother, give me twenty. Nay, only ten such men. What ground could we not cover?


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[Assistant] As class leaders, your duty has been to call weekly on our members for their pennies. Continue to do so.


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[Assistant] You have each a class of eleven. In future, I ask you to call on your members, not only for their pennies, but for their soul's sake. Rejoice with them. Pray with them. Where necessary, reprove them. Do all you can to turn them back to God.


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[Assistant] But I am content to leave what may befall me in God's hand.


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[Assistant] As God is my judge. Michael O'Rourke. But I suppose it to be you.


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[Assistant] The time will come when you will regret the course of life in which you are now engaged.


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[Assistant] I come to tell you of my master, of Christ, who came into the world to teach us the way of love, to lift us from shame and suffering to peace.


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[Assistant] Very soon, here, within a short distance of the old foundry, we shall have a house worthy of our society.


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[Assistant] How the tide has turned. Why, I have become respectable, but not rich. I own four silver spoons, two here and two in Bristol. I doubt if there's any man more wealthy. But you came to see me. The great day is set. I heard this morning


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[Assistant] That the ship is to sail from Bristol about the middle of next month. Mr. Watkirk and Mr. Vasey are going with you? Yes, and have been informed of the sailing. Once I too set out for America. Had I possessed then the blessed, deeper knowledge that is mine today. It is a vast continent, America.


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[Assistant] He and his men are taking the word into the very heart of the wilderness. Tom, I am sending you out as superintendent. I beg you.


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[Assistant] See that those you choose as helpers are in very truth the sons of God. That their teaching may not be mere words, but have as its source the inward witness. Yes. Tell men, all men, that when they discover their true relation to Christ,


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[Assistant] Nay, nay, my boy. I make no more visits to the New World. But you'll come to see us off. The middle of the month. Yes, you may depend upon it. I shall be there.


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[Assistant] Chapter 19 Light Through Darkness


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[Assistant] The work of God in the earth presents from age to age a striking similarity in every great reformation or religious movement. The principles of God's dealing with men are ever the same. The important movements of the present have their parallel in those of the past.


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[Assistant] Then that God by His Holy Spirit especially directs His servants on earth


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[Assistant] has ever attained to a full understanding of the great plan of redemption.


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[Assistant] In all its bearings the message which they utter in his name.


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[Assistant] Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?


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[Assistant] My thoughts are not your thoughts. Neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.


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[Assistant] For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.


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[Assistant] I am God and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times the things that are not yet done. Job 11 verse 7, Isaiah 55 verses 8 and 9, chapter 46 verses 9 and 10.


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[Assistant] Even the prophets who are favored with the special illumination of the spirit.


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[Assistant] Did not fully comprehend the import of the revelations committed to them.


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[Assistant] As the people of God should need the instruction therein contained.


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[Assistant] Peter, writing of the salvation brought to light through the gospel says,


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[Assistant] Of this salvation, the prophets have inquired and searched diligently.


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[Assistant] Yet while it was not given to the prophets to understand fully the things revealed to them,


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[Assistant] They earnestly sought to obtain all the light which God had been pleased to make manifest. They inquired and searched diligently.


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[Assistant] Searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, did signify.


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[Assistant] What a lesson to the people of God in the Christian age.


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[Assistant] For whose benefit these prophecies were given to his servants, unto whom it was revealed that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister.


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[Assistant] With the listless unconcern with which the favored ones of later ages treat this gift of heaven.


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[Assistant] What a rebuke to the ease loving, world loving indifference, which is content to declare that the prophecies cannot be understood.


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[Assistant] Though the finite minds of men are inadequate to enter into the councils of the Infinite One, or to understand fully the working out of His purposes,


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[Assistant] And even of God's servants are so blinded by human opinions, the traditions and false teaching of men.


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[Assistant] With the popular conception of the Messiah as a temporal prince.


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[Assistant] Who was to exalt Israel to the throne of the universal empire.


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[Assistant] And they could not understand the meaning of his words foretelling his sufferings and death.


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[Assistant] Christ himself had sent them forth with the message, the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand.


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[Assistant] Repent ye and believe the gospel. Mark 1 verse 15.


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[Assistant] That message was based on the prophecy of Daniel 9.


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[Assistant] the 69 weeks were declared by the angel to extend to the messiah the prince and with high hopes and joyful anticipations


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[Assistant] The disciples looked forward to the establishment


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[Assistant] of Messiah's kingdom at Jerusalem to rule over the whole earth.


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[Assistant] They preached the message which Christ had committed to them, though they themselves misapprehended its meaning.


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[Assistant] They did not see, in the next verse of the same chapter, that Messiah was to be cut off.


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[Assistant] From their very birth, their hearts had been set upon the anticipated glory of an earthly empire, and this blinded their understanding alike to the specifications of the prophecy and to the words of Christ.


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[Assistant] They perform their duty in presenting to the Jewish nation the invitation of mercy and then


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[Assistant] At the very time when they expected to see their Lord ascend the throne of David, they beheld him seized as a malefactor, scourged, derided and condemned, and lifted up on the cross of Calvary.


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[Assistant] What despair and anguish rung the hearts of those disciples during the days while their Lord was sleeping in the tomb? Christ had come at the exact time and in the manner foretold by prophecy.


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[Assistant] The testimony of scripture had been fulfilled in every detail of his ministry. He had preached the message of salvation and his word was with power.


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[Assistant] The hearts of his hearers had witnessed that it was of heaven.


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[Assistant] The Word and the Spirit of God attested the Divine Commission of His Son.


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[Assistant] The disciples still clung with undying affection to their beloved master.


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[Assistant] In their anguish, they did not then recall the words of Christ pointing forward to his suffering and death.


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[Assistant] If Jesus of Nazareth had been the true Messiah, would they have been thus plunged in grief and disappointment?


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[Assistant] This was the question that tortured their souls while the Savior lay in his sepulcher during the hopeless hours of that Sabbath which intervened between his death and his resurrection.


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[Assistant] Though the night of sorrow gathered dark about these followers of Jesus, yet were they not forsaken, saith the prophet,


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[Assistant] When I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. He will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee.


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[Assistant] But the night shineth as the day. The darkness and the light are both alike to thee.


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[Assistant] God hath spoken unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness.


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[Assistant] I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not I will lead them in paths that they have not known


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[Assistant] I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight.


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[Assistant] These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.


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[Assistant] The announcement, which had been made by the disciples in the name of the Lord, was in every particular correct.


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[Assistant] Christ had received the anointing of the Spirit after his baptism by John in Jordan.


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[Assistant] And the kingdom of God which they had declared to be at hand was established by the death of Christ.


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[Assistant] This kingdom was not, as they had been taught to believe, an earthly empire.


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[Assistant] Nor was it that future immortal kingdom which shall be set up when the kingdom and dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the most high.


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[Assistant] After pointing to Christ, the compassionate intercessor who is touched with the feeling of our infirmities, the apostle says,


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[Assistant] Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy,


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[Assistant] The kingdom of heaven to designate the work of divine grace upon the hearts of men.


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[Assistant] So the throne of glory represents the kingdom of glory.


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[Assistant] And this kingdom is referred to in the Savior's words,


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[Assistant] When the Son of Man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him,


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[Assistant] Then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory.


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[Assistant] It is not to be set up until the second advent of Christ.


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[Assistant] The kingdom of grace was instituted immediately after the fall of man.


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[Assistant] When a plan was devised for the redemption of the guilty race.


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[Assistant] It then existed in the purpose and by the promise of God, and through faith men could become its subjects.


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[Assistant] Yet it was not actually established until the death of Christ. Even after entering upon his earthly mission, the Savior, wearied with the stubbornness and ingratitude of men, might have drawn back from the sacrifice of Calvary. In Gethsemane the cup of woe trembled in his hand.


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[Assistant] He might even then have wiped the blood sweat from his brow.


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[Assistant] And with his expiring breath cried out, It is finished. Then the fulfillment of the plan of redemption was assured.


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[Assistant] The promise of salvation made to the sinful pair in Eden was ratified.


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[Assistant] The kingdom of grace, which had before existed by the promise of God, was then established.


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[Assistant] The very event which the disciples had looked upon as the final destruction of their hope was that which made it forever sure. While it had brought them a cruel disappointment, it was the climax of proof that their belief had been correct. The event that had filled them with mourning and despair


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[Assistant] was that which opened the door of hope to every child of Adam.


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[Assistant] And in which centered the future life and eternal happiness of all of God's faithful ones in all the ages. Purposes of infinite mercy were reaching their fulfillment even through the disappointment of the disciples.


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[Assistant] While their hearts had been won by the divine grace and power of his teaching, who spake as never man spake.


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[Assistant] Yet, intermingled with the pure gold of their love for Jesus.


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[Assistant] was the base alloy of worldly pride and selfish ambitions.


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[Assistant] Their vision was filled with the throne, the crown, and the glory.


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[Assistant] While just before them lay the shame and agony of the garden, the judgment hall, the cross of Calvary. It was their pride of heart, their thirst for worldly glory,


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[Assistant] That had led them to cling so tenaciously to the false teaching of their time and to pass unheeded the Savior's words showing the true nature of his kingdom and pointing forward to his agony and death.


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[Assistant] And these errors resulted in the trial, sharp but needful, which was permitted for their correction. Though the disciples had mistaken the meaning of their message, and had failed to realize their expectations, yet they had preached the warning given them of God.


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[Assistant] And the Lord would reward their faith and honor their obedience.


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[Assistant] To them was to be entrusted the work of heralding to all nations the glorious gospel of their risen Lord. It was to prepare them for this work


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[Assistant] Jesus appeared to his disciples on the way to Emmaus.


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[Assistant] It was his purpose to enlighten their understanding


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[Assistant] He wished the truth to take firm root in their minds.


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[Assistant] Not merely because it was supported by his personal testimony,


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[Assistant] But because of the unquestionable evidence presented by the symbols and shadows of the typical law and by the prophecies of the Old Testament.


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[Assistant] It was needful for the followers of Christ to have an intelligent faith not only in their own behalf


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[Assistant] But that they might carry the knowledge of Christ to the world.


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[Assistant] And as the very first step in imparting this knowledge, Jesus directed the disciples to Moses and all the prophets. Such was the testimony given by the risen Savior to the value and importance of the Old Testament scriptures.


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[Assistant] In a more complete and perfect sense than ever before, they had found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write.


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[Assistant] The uncertainty, the anguish, the despair.


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[Assistant] gave place to perfect assurance to unclouded faith.


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[Assistant] What marvel that after his ascension they were continually in the temple praising and blessing God.


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[Assistant] The people knowing only of the Savior's ignominious death.


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[Assistant] Looked to see in their faces the expression of sorrow, confusion and defeat. But they saw their gladness and triumph.


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[Assistant] What a preparation these disciples had received for the work before them.


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[Assistant] They had passed through the deepest trial which it was possible for them to experience.


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[Assistant] And had seen how when to human vision all was lost, the word of God had been triumphantly accomplished.


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[Assistant] Henceforward, what could daunt their faith or chill the ardor of their love?


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[Assistant] In the keenest sorrow, they had strong consolation.


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[Assistant] They had been witness to the wisdom and power of God, and they were persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,


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[Assistant] Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature.


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[Assistant] Sayeth the Lord, My people shall never be ashamed. Joel 2 verse 26. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. Psalm 30 verse 5.


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[Assistant] When on his resurrection day these disciples met the Savior, and their hearts burned within them as they listened to his words, when they looked upon the head and hands and feet that had been bruised for them,


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[Assistant] When, before his ascension, Jesus led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands in blessing, bade them, Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel, adding, Lo, I am with you always.


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[Assistant] When, on the day of Pentecost, the promised Comforter descended, and the power from on high was given, and the souls of the believers thrilled with the conscious presence of their ascended Lord,


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[Assistant] Then, even though like his their pathway led through sacrifice and martyrdom,


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[Assistant] Would they have exchanged the ministry of the gospel of his grace?


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[Assistant] With the crown of righteousness to be received at his coming.


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[Assistant] He who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, had granted them, with the fellowship of his sufferings, the communion of his joy.


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[Assistant] The joy of bringing many sons unto glory, joy unspeakable.


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[Assistant] An eternal weight of glory to which, says Paul, our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is not worthy to be compared.


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[Assistant] The experience of the disciples who preached the gospel of the kingdom at the first advent of Christ.


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[Assistant] And his associates proclaimed that the longest and last prophetic period brought to view in the Bible was about to expire, that the judgment was at hand, and the everlasting kingdom was to be ushered in.


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[Assistant] The preaching of the disciples in regard to time was based on the 70 weeks of Daniel 9.


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[Assistant] The message given by Miller and his associates announced the termination of the 2300 days of Daniel 814.


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[Assistant] William Miller and his associates did not themselves fully comprehend the import of the message which they bore.


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[Assistant] Errors that had been long established in the church prevented them from arriving at a correct interpretation of an important point in the prophecy.


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[Assistant] Unto 2,300 days, then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. Miller, as has been stated, adopted the generally received view that the earth is the sanctuary.


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[Assistant] And he believed that the cleansing of the sanctuary represented the purification of the earth by fire at the coming of the Lord.


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[Assistant] When, therefore, he found that the close of the 2300 days was definitely foretold, he concluded that this revealed the time of the second advent.


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[Assistant] Which was a shadow of the sacrifice and priesthood of Christ.


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[Assistant] The cleansing of the sanctuary was the last service performed by the high priest in the yearly round of ministration. It was the closing work of the atonement.


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[Assistant] A removal or putting away of sin from Israel.


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[Assistant] It prefigured the closing work in the ministration of our high priest in heaven.


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[Assistant] In the removal or blotting out of the sins of his people, which are registered in the heavenly records.


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[Assistant] This service involves a work of investigation a work of judgment


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[Assistant] And it immediately precedes the coming of Christ in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.


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[Assistant] Those who proclaimed this warning gave the right message at the right time. But as the early disciples declared, the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand based on the prophecy of Daniel 9, while they failed to perceive


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[Assistant] That the death of the Messiah was foretold in the same scripture.


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[Assistant] So Miller and his associates preached the message based on Daniel 8 14 and Revelation 14 7.


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[Assistant] And failed to see that there were still other messages brought to view in Revelation 14 which were also to be given before the advent of the Lord.


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[Assistant] As the disciples were mistaken in regard to the kingdom to be set up at the end of the seventy weeks,


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[Assistant] There was an acceptance of, or rather an adherence to, popular errors that blinded the mind to the truth.


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[Assistant] Both classes fulfilled the will of God in delivering the message which he desired to be given, and both, through their own misapprehension of their message, suffered disappointment.


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[Assistant] And in his providence, the people were brought to the test of a definite time.


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[Assistant] In order to reveal to them what was in their hearts.


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[Assistant] The message was designed for the testing and purification of the church.


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[Assistant] They were to be led to see whether their affections were set upon this world or upon Christ in heaven. They professed to love the Savior. Now they were to prove their love.


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[Assistant] Were they ready to renounce their worldly hopes and ambitions and welcome with joy the advent of their Lord?


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[Assistant] the message was designed to enable them to discern their true spiritual state it was sent in mercy


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[Assistant] Though the result of their own misapprehension of the message which they gave was to be overruled for good.


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[Assistant] Would they rationally give up their experience and cast away their confidence in God's word? Or would they, in prayer and humility,


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[Assistant] Seek to discern where they had failed to comprehend the significance of the prophecy. How many had moved from fear or from impulse and excitement? How many were half-hearted and unbelieving? Multitudes professed to love the appearing of the Lord. When called to endure the scoffs and reproach of the world and the test of delay and disappointment, would they renounce the faith?


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[Assistant] Because they did not immediately understand the dealings of God with them, would they cast aside truths sustained by the clearest testimony of his word?


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[Assistant] This test would reveal the strength of those who with real faith had obeyed what they believed to be the teaching of the Word and the Spirit of God.


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[Assistant] It would teach them, as only such an experience could.


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[Assistant] The danger of accepting the theories and interpretations of men instead of making the Bible its own interpreter.


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[Assistant] To the children of faith, the perplexity and sorrow resulting from their error would work the needed correction.


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[Assistant] They would be led to a closer study of the prophetic word.


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[Assistant] They would be taught to examine more carefully the foundation of their faith.


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[Assistant] And to reject everything, however widely accepted by the Christian world, that was not founded upon the scriptures of truth.


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[Assistant] That which in the hour of trial seemed dark to their understanding Would afterward be made plain When they should see the end of the Lord


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[Assistant] They would know that notwithstanding the trial resulting from their errors,


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[Assistant] His purposes of love toward them had been steadily fulfilling.


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[Assistant] They would learn by a blessed experience that he is very pitiful and of tender mercy.


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[Assistant] That all his paths are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.


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[Assistant] Five minutes in Norway and they're after us already. That's a tough break, Eric, but it couldn't be helped. Oh, come on.


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[Assistant] Ah, the general shoulder, it's broken. Do what you can for him, Eric. We can't stop now.


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[Assistant] You and your men are covered by Sergeant Harry Hall. Sergeant is an excellent marksman. You will find out if you don't believe me.


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[Assistant] We were welcomed and helped because we came to set a man free, not to make him a slave.


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[Assistant] And thou knowest there is little learning in this land for any but the privileged and well-to-do. These men are setting up schools for the orphans, for the sons and the daughters of the poor.


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[Assistant] The welfare of thine own subjects that is in their hearts and in their hands. I know them well.


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[Assistant] Well, our traffic light noise is iconic to us, but speaking of iconic, if we're talking about bad guy, we're talking about that duh, right?


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[Assistant] Our big goal is to solve a linear system, that is to find values for the variables such that if you substitute those values in, then every single one of the equations is going to be simultaneously true.


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[Assistant] And I would get this equation here, and then I could figure out the two values from that. Now, this was fine in the two by two case.


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[Assistant] However, what happens if it was three variables in three equations, or a hundred variables in two hundred equations,


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[Assistant] Translate it into a matrix form and then do things to the matrix to get the same values. So, what we've seen previously is that I can translate this system into this augmented matrix. Three, three, three.


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[Assistant] So now let me look at the step which was dividing the first row by three. So if I'm going to divide the first row by three, I just, well, do that. Every time that there's a three, it goes down to a one. So one, one, one, one minus one, zero. This step here is dividing my first row by three.


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[Assistant] Then, in my ad hoc approach, my, my next one was to, to add this new thing that I just created, this, this new first row, and add that to the second row.


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[Assistant] So then what I did on the left was I used the second of these equations, that's corresponding to our second row, to evaluate that x1 had to be a half.


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[Assistant] This series of numbers 2, 0, 1 is precisely corresponding to this equation, this linear equation 2 times x1 plus 0 is equal to 1. And so from this I can get the same value that x1 is equal to a half. So that tells me the first variable here.


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[Assistant] Now, this might not actually seem like I'm doing much, it's really the exact same thing, but just a new notation.


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[Assistant] Manipulations that I'm allowed to do that do not change the solutions. So they figure out, and I want to explicitly codify, what am I allowed to do algebraically here? What manipulations am I allowed to make to my matrices that do not change the solutions?


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[Assistant] And the first of them was the first step that we just saw. Namely, I had my top row was an equation that had three different threes in it, and my first step was just to get rid of the threes to divide the entire top row by three.


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[Assistant] So, dividing is the same thing as multiplying by one third. I can say that I can multiply


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[Assistant] If you think, if I was allowed to just always multiply every row by zero, it would just reduce every single system to the, to the zero system. But as long as I'm not doing that, I'm still keeping the structure of this particular equation in place by multiplying by some scalar that's not zero, then I do not change my solutions. So the next rule that we used is that


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[Assistant] In my bottom row, I replaced that bottom row with the sum of the first row and the second row. I had divided over my three and then I added two things together and wrote that in the place of my second row. So that's what I'm allowed to do. I can replace a row.


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[Assistant] So that is also something that does not change the solution. I can add my two different rows together, and I can put that in place of one of them, and that's gonna be perfectly fine.


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[Assistant] Two different rows. And this is going to be it.


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[Assistant] And we're gonna use those to try to find out the solutions to linear systems.


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[Assistant] Basically, I gotta take this wall out, and I gotta shoot him in there. Wait, he can just go in there right now.


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[Assistant] It is with considerable reluctance that I, on behalf of my fellow neighbours,


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[Assistant] Bring to your notice that we continue to be inconvenienced by the orphan hoses.


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[Assistant] The noise and disruption have increased and once again the drains have overflowed the third time in one week.


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[Assistant] Whilst we understand the difficulty you have in caring for so many children in so small a place, we would respectfully ask you to consider what action you could take to alleviate the situation.


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[Assistant] Right now, come on. I want it word for word with diagraph.


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[Assistant] Wait till I tell them back in Baltimore, local girl makes good.


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[Assistant] Chapter 17 Heralds of the Morning


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[Assistant] One of the most solemn and yet most glorious truths revealed in the Bible.


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[Assistant] is that of Christ's second coming to complete the great work of redemption to God's pilgrim people.


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[Assistant] So long left to sojourn in the region and shadow of death.


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[Assistant] A precious, joy-inspiring hope is given in the promise of his appearing, who is the resurrection and the life, to bring home again his banished.


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[Assistant] The doctrine of the second advent is the very keynote of the sacred scriptures.


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[Assistant] From the day when the first pair turned their sorrowing steps from Eden, the children of faith have waited the coming of the promised one to break the destroyer's power.


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[Assistant] Looked forward to the advent of the Messiah in glory, as the consummation of their hope. Enoch, only the seventh in descent from them that dwelt in Eden.


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[Assistant] He who for three centuries on earth walked with his God.


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[Assistant] The Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints to execute judgment upon all. Jude 14 and 15.


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[Assistant] The patriarch Job in the night of his affliction exclaimed with unshaken trust,


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[Assistant] And that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.


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[Assistant] In my flesh shall I see God, whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another.


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[Assistant] The coming of Christ to usher in the reign of righteousness.


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[Assistant] has inspired the most sublime and impassioned utterances of the sacred writers.


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[Assistant] The poets and prophets of the Bible have dwelt upon it in words glowing with celestial fire.


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[Assistant] The psalmist sang of the power and majesty of Israel's king.


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[Assistant] Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.


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[Assistant] Our God shall come and shall not keep silence. He shall call to the heavens from above and to the earth that he may judge his people. Psalm 50 verses 2 through 4.


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[Assistant] Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust.


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[Assistant] For thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise.


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[Assistant] He will swallow up death and victory and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces.


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[Assistant] This is our God. We have waited for Him. And He will save us.


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[Assistant] This is the Lord. We have waited for Him.


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[Assistant] We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. Isaiah 26, verse 19, chapter 25, verses eight and nine. And Habakkuk, wrapped in holy vision, beheld his appearing. God came from Timon and the holy one from Mount Peron.


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[Assistant] His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise, and his brightness was as the light.


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[Assistant] He stood and measured the earth. He beheld and drove us under the nations. And the everlasting mountains were scattered. The perpetual hill did bow. His ways are everlasting.


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[Assistant] Thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation. The mountains saw thee and they trembled.


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[Assistant] The deep uttered his voice and lifted up his hands on high.


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[Assistant] The sun and moon stood still in their habitation,


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[Assistant] At the light of thine arrows they went, And at the shining of thy glittering spear.


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[Assistant] When the savior was about to be separated from his disciples.


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[Assistant] He comforted them in their sorrow with the assurance that he would come again. Let not your heart be troubled. In my father's house are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you.


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[Assistant] And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself. John 14 verses one to three.


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[Assistant] The Son of Man shall come in his glory and all the holy angels with him.


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[Assistant] Then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory and before him shall be gathered all nations. Matthew 25 verses 31 and 32.


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[Assistant] The angels who lingered upon Olivet after Christ's ascension repeated to the disciples the promise of his return.


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[Assistant] says the prophet of patmas behold he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him revelation one verse seven about his coming cluster the glories of that


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[Assistant] Restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. Acts 3 verse 21.


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[Assistant] Then the long continued rule of evil shall be broken.


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[Assistant] The kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ.


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[Assistant] And he shall reign forever and ever. Revelation 11 verse 15.


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[Assistant] The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.


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[Assistant] The Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations. He shall be for a crown of glory and for a diadem of beauty unto the residue of his people.


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[Assistant] It is then that the peaceful and long-desired kingdom of the Messiah shall be established under the whole heaven. The Lord shall comfort Zion. He will comfort all her waste places, and he will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the Lord. The glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon. Thou shalt no more be termed forsaken


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[Assistant] Neither shall thy land any more be termed desolate, but thou shalt be called my delight and thy land Beulah. As the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.


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[Assistant] Isaiah 51 verse 3, chapter 35 verse 2, chapter 62 verses 4 and 5.


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[Assistant] The coming of the Lord has been in all ages the hope of His true followers. The Savior's parting promise upon Olivet, that He would come again, lighted up the future for His disciples, filling their hearts with joy and hope that sorrow could not quench, nor trials dim. Amid suffering and persecution,


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[Assistant] The appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ was the blessed hope. When the Thessalonian Christians were filled with grief as they buried their loved ones who had hoped to live to witness the coming of the Lord, Paul their teacher


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[Assistant] Pointed them to the resurrection to take place at the Savior's advent.


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[Assistant] Then the dead in Christ should rise, and together with the living be caught up to meet the Lord in the air.


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[Assistant] And so, he said, shall we ever be with the Lord? Wherefore, comfort one another with these words. First Thessalonians 4 verses 16 through 18.


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[Assistant] On rocky Patmos, the beloved disciple hears the promise, Surely I come quickly.


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[Assistant] And his longing response voices the prayer of the church in all her pilgrimage.


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[Assistant] Even so, come Lord Jesus. Revelation 22 verse 20


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[Assistant] From the dungeon, the stake, the scaffold, where saints and martyrs witnessed for the truth,


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[Assistant] Comes down the centuries the utterance of their faith and hope.


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[Assistant] Being, quote, assured of his personal resurrection and consequently of their own at his coming.


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[Assistant] For this cause, says one of these Christians, they despise death.


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[Assistant] And we're found to be above it. Close quote.


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[Assistant] Lord to come from heaven in the clouds with the glory of his father, bringing to the just the times of the kingdom." The Waldensis cherished the same faith. Taylor pages 129 to 132.


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[Assistant] Whycliffe looked forward to the Redeemers appearing as the hope of the Church. See Taylor pages 132 to 134. Luther declared, quote,


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[Assistant] I persuade myself verily that the day of judgment will not be absent full three hundred years.


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[Assistant] God will not, cannot, suffer this wicked world much longer.


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[Assistant] This aged world is not far from its end, said Melanchton.


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[Assistant] Calvin bids Christians not to hesitate, ardently desiring the day of Christ's coming as of all events most auspicious.


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[Assistant] We must hunger after Christ. We must seek, contemplate, he says, till the dawning of that great day when our Lord will fully manifest the glory of his kingdom.


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[Assistant] Has not the Lord Jesus carried up our flesh into heaven? said Knox the Scotch reformer. And shall he not return?


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[Assistant] We know that he shall return, and that with expedition."


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[Assistant] Ridley and Latimer who laid down their lives for the truth looked in faith for the Lord's coming. Ridley wrote, quote,


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[Assistant] The world without doubt, this I do believe, and therefore I say it, draws to an end.


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[Assistant] Let us with John, the servant of God, cry in our hearts unto our Savior Christ, Come, Lord Jesus, come.


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[Assistant] It is the work of faith and the character of his saints to love his appearing and to look for that blessed hope.


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[Assistant] If death be the last enemy to be destroyed at the resurrection,


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[Assistant] We may learn how earnestly believers should long and pray for the second coming of Christ.


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[Assistant] When this full and final conquest shall be made, close quote. Baxter, volume 17, page 500.


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[Assistant] Hason, oh lord, this blessed day. Closed quote. Baxter, volume 17, pages 182 and 183.


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[Assistant] Such was the hope of the apostolic church, of the church in the wilderness, and of the reformers.


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[Assistant] Prophecy not only foretells the manner and object of Christ's coming, but presents tokens by which men are to know when it is near.


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[Assistant] Said Jesus, there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars. Luke 21 verse 25.


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[Assistant] The sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light.


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[Assistant] And the stars of heaven shall fall and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.


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[Assistant] And then shall they see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.


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[Assistant] These signs were witnessed before the opening of the 19th century.


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[Assistant] In fulfillment of this prophecy there occurred in the year 1755 the most terrible earthquake that has ever been recorded. Though commonly known as the earthquake of Lisbon, it extended to the greater part of Europe, Africa, and America. It was felt in Greenland,


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[Assistant] In the West Indies, in the island of Madeira, in Norway and Sweden, Great Britain and Ireland.


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[Assistant] It pervaded an extent of not less than four million square miles.


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[Assistant] In Africa the shock was almost as severe as in Europe. A great part of Algiers was destroyed.


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[Assistant] In a short distance from Morocco, a village containing eight or ten thousand inhabitants was swallowed up.


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[Assistant] The vast wave swept over the coast of Spain and Africa engulfing cities and causing great destruction. It was in Spain and Portugal


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[Assistant] That the shock manifested its extreme violence. At Kadiz the inflowing wave was said to be 60 feet high.


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[Assistant] Mountains, quote, some of the largest in Portugal, were impetuously shaken as it were from their very foundations, and some of them opened at their summits.


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[Assistant] Which were split and rent in a wonderful manner.


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[Assistant] Huge masses of them being thrown down into the subjacent valleys. Flames are related to have issued from these mountains. At Lisbon, quote, a sound of thunder was heard underground.


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[Assistant] And immediately afterwards a violent shock threw down the greater part of that city.


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[Assistant] In the course of about six minutes, 60,000 persons perished.


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[Assistant] The sea first retired and laid the bar dry. It then rolled in, rising 50 feet or more above its ordinary level.


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[Assistant] Among other extraordinary events related to have occurred at Lisbon during the catastrophe was the subsidence of a new quay.


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[Assistant] Built entirely of marble at an immense expense.


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[Assistant] A great concourse of people had collected there for safety.


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[Assistant] In about two hours after the shock, fires broke out in different quarters and raged with such violence for the space of nearly three days that the city was completely desolated.


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[Assistant] The earthquake happened on a holy day when the churches and convents were full of people.


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[Assistant] Very few of whom escaped. Close quote. Encyclopedia Americana. Article Lisbon. Note. Edition 1831. The terror of the people was beyond description. Nobody wept. It was beyond tears.


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[Assistant] They ran hither and thither, delirious with horror and astonishment.


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[Assistant] Beating their faces and breasts. Crying. Misericordia. The world's at an end. Mothers forgot their children. And ran about loaded with crucifixed images.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, many ran to the churches for protection, but in vain was the sacrament exposed. In vain did the poor creatures embrace the altars


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[Assistant] Images, priests, and people were buried in one common ruin.


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[Assistant] It has been estimated that 90,000 persons lost their lives on that fatal day.


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[Assistant] Twenty-five years later appeared the next sign mentioned in the prophecy, the darkening of the sun and moon. What rendered this more striking was the fact


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[Assistant] That the time of its fulfillment had been definitely pointed out.


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[Assistant] In the Savior's conversation with His disciples upon Olivet.


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[Assistant] After describing the long period of trial for the church, the 1260 years of papal persecution, concerning which he had promised that the tribulation should be shortened,


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[Assistant] He thus mentioned certain events to precede his coming.


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[Assistant] The 1260 days or years terminated in 1798. A quarter of a century earlier, persecution had almost wholly ceased. Following this persecution, according to the words of Christ, the sun was to be darkened. On the 19th of May 1780, this prophecy was fulfilled.


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[Assistant] Almost, if not altogether alone, as the most mysterious and as yet unexplained phenomenon of its kind.


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[Assistant] A most unaccountable darkening of the whole visible heavens and atmosphere in New England." R. M. Devins, Our First Century, page 89.


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[Assistant] An eyewitness living in Massachusetts describes the event as follows, quote, in the morning, the sun rose clear, but was soon overcast. The clouds became lorry and from them black and ominous as they soon appeared, lightning flashed, thunder rolled and a little rain fell toward nine o'clock. The clouds became thinner and assumed a brassy or coppery appearance.


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[Assistant] And earth, rocks, trees, buildings, water, and persons were changed by this strange unearthly light.


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[Assistant] A few minutes later, a heavy black cloud spread over the entire sky, except a narrow rim at the horizon.


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[Assistant] And it was as dark as it usually is at nine o'clock on a summer evening.


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[Assistant] Fear, anxiety, and awe gradually filled the minds of the people.


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[Assistant] Women stood at the door looking out upon the dark landscape. Men returned from their labor in the fields. The carpenter left his tools, the blacksmith his forge, the tradesman his counter. Schools were dismissed, and tremblingly the children fled homeward. Travelers put up at the nearest farmhouse. What is coming? queried every lip and heart.


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[Assistant] It seemed as if a hurricane was about to dash across the land.


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[Assistant] Or as if it was the day of the consummation of all things.