Participants: John Bradshaw
Series Code: IIW
Program Code: IIW001480A
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01:40 ♪[Theme Music]♪ 01:49 This is It Is Written. 01:50 I'm John Bradshaw, thanks for joining me. 01:53 Now, imagine it if you can. 01:55 You'd been reading your Bible, 01:57 and you're now convinced that Jesus is coming back soon, 02:02 really coming back, literally. 02:04 You believe that you're gonna see Jesus 02:06 and the angels on a certain day. 02:10 October days in Eastern New York state 02:13 near the Vermont border can be cool. 02:15 Life in the middle of the 19th century could be difficult, 02:18 and having peculiar religious views 02:21 doesn't ordinarily buy you popularity, 02:23 and when you're a Millerite, 02:25 a follower of the Baptist preacher William Miller, 02:28 you're out there on the fringes. 02:29 Now you're not alone, 02:31 Miller has tens of thousands of followers, 02:34 but still you, well, really, 02:36 none of that matters because you're gonna see Jesus. 02:39 He's coming back in just a few weeks, 02:41 He's coming back in just a few days. 02:43 He's coming back tomorrow. 02:45 You'll see Jesus in just a few hours. 02:49 Can you imagine? 02:52 So as October 22nd got closer, 02:55 the Millerites, 02:56 the Adventists, were more than excited. 02:59 These were regular hard working people, 03:01 faithful Christians, 03:02 and Jesus was returning? 03:04 Tomorrow? 03:06 William Miller had predicted that Jesus would return in 1843. 03:09 But that didn't happen. 03:12 But then he recalculated and said 03:13 the Second Coming would happen in the spring of 1844. 03:17 That didn't happen either. 03:19 The Millerites were perplexed until a man named 03:22 Samuel Snow calculated that Jesus would return 03:26 on October 22nd, 1844, of course. 03:33 William Miller was a rational man. 03:35 He was not a fanatic, he was a deep Bible student, 03:39 but he was wrong. 03:41 He was right about an awful lot, 03:43 but you don't have to be wrong about much 03:46 to botch a prediction about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. 03:49 As he was studying the Bible, 03:51 he came to Daniel 8:14, which says, 03:55 "Unto two thousand three hundred days, 03:57 then shall the sanctuary be cleansed." 04:00 Miller was convinced he was looking at a prophesy 04:02 about the Second Coming of Jesus. 04:05 Based on the prevailing idea that the sanctuary 04:08 represented the earth. 04:09 He figured the earth would be cleansed 04:12 when Jesus returned the second time. 04:15 What else could that possibly mean? 04:17 Looking at the scriptures, he determined that a day represents 04:22 a year in Bible prophesy. 04:24 He was right about that. 04:25 That's a symbol just like a beast represents a nation 04:29 and a woman represents the church. 04:32 Miller figured that Jesus would return 04:34 at the end of 2,300 years. 04:36 If only he could know when that period began, 04:40 then he could know when it ended. 04:42 But then Miller found his starting point. 04:45 Daniel chapter nine spoke of a decree of the going forth 04:50 of the commandment to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. 04:53 Miller found that decree in Ezra chapter seven. 04:57 It was issued in 457 B.C. by the Medo-Persian Emperor Artaxerxes, 05:04 so that was that then. 05:05 Start in 457 B.C., add 2,300 days or 2,300 years, 05:13 and you get to 1843. 05:16 You correct that because you forgot 05:18 that there's no year zero, and you get to 1844. 05:24 Miller's opponents couldn't argue with his logic. 05:27 Now, of course, 05:28 the Bible does say that no one knows the day or the hour 05:30 of Jesus' appearing, 05:32 but Miller never set a date. 05:34 It was Samuel Snow who set the date. 05:36 He did that in August of 1844. 05:40 Miller never accepted that interpretation 05:42 until October 6th. 05:45 He spent October 22nd in this very room. 05:49 Looking out this window, 05:51 waiting for Jesus to come in the eastern sky. 05:57 So imagine how it felt on October 23rd, 1844. 06:03 You weren't even expecting to be here, 06:05 but now you have to face people. 06:07 You have to go back to your occupation. 06:09 You have to admit that the movement was wrong, 06:12 that you've made a big mistake. 06:15 Where was God in all of this? 06:17 And what about the Bible? 06:20 How do you relate to the Bible now? 06:22 Well, some people simply chose not to, 06:24 and they gave up on their hope in God altogether. 06:27 Most people simply went back to the churches 06:30 from which they'd come, 06:31 but that wasn't an option for everyone. 06:33 William and Lucy Miller and their children were 06:35 kicked out of the Baptist church that they'd been 06:37 attending because they continued to hang 06:40 on to the belief that Jesus was still coming back soon. 06:45 And then there were others who tried to figure out 06:47 how God was leading now. 06:50 But what became known as the Great Disappointment of 1844 06:55 became to the heirs of the Millerite movement what the 06:58 Great Disappointment of Calvary 07:00 became to the followers of Jesus. 07:03 Jesus' disciples were sure that their master would set up an 07:06 earthly kingdom and drive the heathen Romans 07:09 from the covenant land. 07:11 On the road to Emmaus, two disciples poured out 07:14 their despondency to Jesus himself saying, 07:17 "But we were hoping that it was 07:18 He who was going to redeem Israel." 07:21 Luke 24:21. 07:23 But the disciples' hopes had been based on a false view 07:27 of the Messiah's mission. 07:29 They weren't wrong in recognizing 07:30 Jesus as the promised Savior, 07:33 but they were wrong in their understanding of his work. 07:37 The same was true with the disappointed followers 07:39 of William Miller in 1844. 07:42 They were correct in their timing, 07:45 but they were wrong about the event. 07:47 But God wouldn't leave His faithful followers 07:49 in the dark for long. 07:51 After an all night vigil weary and heartbroken, 07:55 two men decided to visit some of their fellow believers 07:57 who'd been through the same disappointment. 07:59 One of them was Hiram Edson. 08:03 Here's how he explained the events that followed. 08:06 "We started, and while passing through a large field, 08:10 I was stopped about midway of the field. 08:13 Heaven seemed open to my view, 08:15 and I saw distinctly and clearly that instead of our High Priest 08:19 coming out of the Most Holy of the heavenly sanctuary, 08:22 to come to this earth on the tenth day of the seventh month, 08:25 at the end of the 2,300 days, 08:28 He for the first time entered on that day the second apartment 08:33 of that sanctuary; 08:35 and that He had a work to perform in the Most Holy 08:38 before coming to this earth." 08:40 With this dramatic insight, 08:42 the movement birthed by William Miller 08:44 gave rise to yet another movement, 08:46 the one predicted by the angel spoken of by John 08:49 in the 10th of the chapter of the book of Revelation. 08:52 "Thou must prophesy again before many peoples 08:56 and nations and tongues and kings." 08:59 Revelation 10:11. 09:01 A movement was born, and with this new movement, 09:04 God set in place a global initiative 09:07 to complete the Protestant Reformation. 09:10 I'll have more in just a moment. 09:12 ♪[Music]♪ 09:19 I'm John Bradshaw from It Is Written, 09:21 inviting you to join me for 500. 09:25 Nine programs produced by It Is Written, 09:27 taking you deep into the Reformation. 09:30 This is the 500th anniversary of the beginning 09:33 of the Reformation when Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses 09:37 to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. 09:40 We'll take you to Wittenberg and to Belgium, 09:42 to England, 09:43 to Ireland, 09:45 to Rome, 09:45 to the Vatican City, 09:47 and introduce you to the people who created the Reformation, 09:50 who pushed the Reformation forward. 09:52 We'll take you to sites all throughout Europe 09:54 where the Reformers lived and in some cases died. 09:56 We'll bring you back to the United States 09:58 and take you to a little farm in Upstate New York 10:01 and show you how God spread the Reformation here. 10:04 Don't miss 500. 10:06 You can own the 500 series on DVD. 10:09 Call us on 888-664-5573 10:14 or visit us online at itiswritten.shop. 10:21 This is It Is Written, I'm John Bradshaw. 10:24 Thanks for joining me. 10:25 William Miller became the figurehead for a movement 10:28 after studying his Bible and then sharing what he found. 10:32 He and others believed that Jesus was coming back 10:34 to the earth in the year 1844. 10:37 And they believed this based on a prophesy which said that 10:41 the sanctuary would be cleansed. 10:44 But Jesus didn't come back in 1844. So where was the error? 10:49 Miller believed like virtually everybody else, 10:52 that the sanctuary in Daniel 8:14 was the earth. 10:55 But look into the Bible and you see that that sanctuary 10:58 could really only be the portable sanctuary 11:02 that went with Israel throughout the wilderness 11:04 or the temple or the great sanctuary of God in Heaven. 11:09 In Old Testament times, 11:10 the cleansing of the sanctuary took place once a year 11:14 on the Day of Atonement. 11:16 It was a day of judgment. 11:19 So some of these Millerite believers went to the Bible 11:22 and studied, and their eyes were opened. 11:27 Hebrews 8:1 and 2 says, 11:30 "We have such a high priest, who is seated at the 11:33 right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens. 11:36 A minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, 11:40 which the Lord erected and not man." 11:44 The book of Hebrews describes this sanctuary again 11:46 in the following chapter. 11:48 "But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, 11:52 with the greater and more perfect tabernacle 11:55 not made with hands, that is, not of this creation." 11:59 That's Hebrews 9:11. 12:02 These believers found that on the day of atonement, 12:04 a new sacrifice was offered by which the record of sin 12:09 in the sanctuary was taken away or cleansed. 12:12 On that day, God's people would afflict their souls 12:15 and search their hearts to be sure that no unconfessed 12:19 or unforsaken sin remained in their lives. 12:24 Once the record of sin was expunged from the sanctuary, 12:28 the sins were transferred again to a scapegoat. 12:32 That goat would then be led into the wilderness to carry 12:35 the sins of the people into oblivion and to die there. 12:40 But the ultimate purpose of the service was not only 12:42 to remove the record of sin, 12:44 but to remove sin itself from the hearts and lives 12:47 of the worshipers. 12:48 Leviticus, 16:30 says, 12:50 "For on that day the priest shall make atonement for you, 12:54 to cleanse you, 12:56 that you may be clean from all your sins before the Lord." 12:59 And like the sanctuary on earth, 13:01 the book of Hebrews is clear that the sanctuary 13:04 in heaven must also be cleansed. 13:08 "Therefore, it was necessary that the copies of the things 13:10 in the heavens should be purified with these, 13:14 but the heavenly things themselves 13:16 with better sacrifices than these." 13:19 The judgment hour message hadn't ever been proclaimed. 13:22 It was a message that would lead people to the Bible. 13:26 Bibles people now had thanks to the Reformers. 13:30 These were people who were free to think for themselves 13:33 thanks to Roger Williams, and it was a message that 13:36 would prepare people for the Second Coming of Jesus, 13:38 a teaching now known, thanks to the ministry of William Miller. 13:43 It's interesting that Martin Luther said this. 13:45 "I persuade myself verily, 13:48 that the day of judgment will not be absent full 300 years. 13:53 God will not, cannot, suffer this wicked world much longer!" 13:57 In the 1500s, Martin Luther said that the judgment 14:02 would take place 300 years into the future 14:05 in the middle of the 1800s. 14:07 So what would God do? 14:09 2,000 years before John wrote in the book of Revelation 14:13 that the judgment hour message would go to the world, 14:16 but there was much more which by the time of William Miller 14:20 still had not been proclaimed. 14:23 This is Revelation 14:6 and 7. 14:26 John wrote, "And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven 14:30 having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them 14:33 that dwell on the earth, 14:34 and to every nation, 14:36 and kindred, 14:37 and tongue, 14:37 and people, 14:38 saying with a loud voice, 14:40 Fear God, and give glory to him, 14:42 for the hour of his judgement is come. 14:45 And worship him that made heaven and earth 14:47 and the sea and the fountains of waters." 14:51 John wrote that there would come a time when God's people 14:54 would be called to live lives of complete surrender 14:57 to Jesus in the time of earth's final judgement. 15:00 And there's something else in that passage. 15:04 "Worship him that made heaven and earth 15:07 and the sea and the fountains of waters." 15:09 That's a direct quote from the fourth commandment, 15:13 the Sabbath commandment. 15:15 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 15:18 Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, 15:20 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." 15:24 It goes onto say, 15:26 "For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, 15:29 the sea, and all that in them is and rested the seventh day. 15:34 Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it." 15:39 It's about as clear as it could be. 15:41 In earth's last days, 15:43 God would call His people to surrender, 15:47 to obedience to His word rather than obedience 15:50 to the teachings of men or of churches. 15:52 Up until this time, very few people 15:54 were keeping the seventh-day Sabbath. 15:56 Sunday was the day acknowledged to be the holy day. 16:00 It just stands to reason that Jesus 16:02 would want the people He's going to return 16:04 for to be surrendered, 16:07 to be living in obedience because as He has said, 16:10 surrender demonstrates love. 16:13 John 14:15 says, 16:15 "If you love me, keep my commandments." 16:20 So who are these people who'd been keeping 16:22 the commandments of God? 16:24 I'll tell you in just a moment. 16:26 ♪[Music]♪ 16:34 >>Announcer: In Matthew 4:4, the Word of God says, 16:36 "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, 16:39 but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.'" 16:43 "Every Word" 16:44 is a one-minute Bible based daily devotional 16:46 presented by Pastor John Bradshaw 16:48 and designed especially for busy people like you. 16:51 Look for Every Word on selected networks 16:54 or watch it online every day on our website, 16:56 itiswritten.com. 16:59 Receive a daily spiritual boost, 17:01 watch Every Word, 17:02 you'll be glad you did. 17:04 Here's a sample. 17:13 >>John: As you look back at the Reformation 17:14 which began 500 years ago on October 31st, 1517, 17:18 there are several major events that are pretty well forgotten. 17:21 In August of 1572, King Charles IX of France 17:24 ordered the killing of a group of French Huguenots, 17:27 Protestants. 17:27 By the time the St. Bartholomew's Day 17:29 massacre was over, as many as 30,000 people had been killed. 17:33 Protestants were ruthlessly persecuted, 17:35 and it was not until the French Revolution 17:37 that they gained equal right in France. 17:40 What kind of person or people perpetrate 17:41 that kind of utter wickedness? 17:44 Jeremiah 17:9 says, 17:45 "The heart is deceitful above all things, 17:47 and desperately wicked, who can know it?" 17:49 What kind of person? 17:51 Anyone at all. 17:52 The heart can be extremely wicked 17:54 when God's fear and love have been removed. 17:56 Human nature follows just one selfish direction, 17:59 but Christ in your heart creates a new you, 18:02 gives you a new heart. 18:03 I'm John Bradshaw for It Is Written. 18:04 Let's live today by Every Word. 18:08 ♪[Music]♪ 18:12 Thanks for joining me on It Is Written. 18:14 Rachel Oakes lived here in Washington, 18:17 New Hampshire in 1844. 18:20 Her daughter, Delight, was a local school teacher. 18:22 This was almost 70 years after this town became the first 18:27 to be named after George Washington. 18:29 Then as now, Washington, New Hampshire 18:32 was just a tiny little slice of the New England landscape. 18:36 But what happened here in Washington in 1844 18:39 went on to make a major impact in the entire world. 18:46 She attended this church pastored by a man 18:50 named Frederick Wheeler. 18:52 Wheeler had accepted the teachings of William Miller 18:54 and was active in preaching the doctrine of the second advent. 18:58 While preaching during a communion service 19:02 in this church building, 19:03 Wheeler made the comment that only those who keep 19:06 all of the Ten Commandments should participate. 19:09 Well, Sister Oaks, 19:10 a Seventh-Day Baptist, challenged him. 19:13 And she told him after the service that he wasn't keeping 19:16 all of the Ten Commandments 19:18 because he did not keep the seventh-day Sabbath. 19:21 Wheeler went to his Bible and he studied the matter for himself, 19:24 and he came to the conclusion that Rachel Oaks was right. 19:27 And he became the first Sabbath keeping Adventist minister. 19:31 And this church building became the first Sabbath keeping 19:35 Adventist church in the world. 19:39 In March of 1844, he preached his first sermon 19:42 on the subject of the Sabbath. 19:45 A number of families here in Washington 19:47 became Sabbath keepers. 19:49 A man named Thomas Motherwell Preble learned of the Sabbath 19:53 from Wheeler, and he wrote a tract on the subject called 19:56 Tract showing that the seventh day should be observed 20:00 as the Sabbath. 20:01 Somehow a retired sea captain named Joseph Bates 20:05 who lived in Fairhaven, Massachusetts 20:07 got hold of that tract. 20:08 And he was so moved by it that he traveled from his home 20:11 60 miles south of Boston to meet with Frederick Wheeler 20:15 here in Washington, New Hampshire. 20:17 A distance of at least 160 miles. 20:21 The men studied all night long, 20:23 and by the time they were finished, 20:25 Joseph Bates was a Sabbath keeping Adventist. 20:30 And he was committed. 20:32 While heading back from Washington, New Hampshire, 20:34 to his home in Fairhaven, Massachusettes, 20:36 Bates was crossing a bridge near his home when a man named 20:40 James Madison Monroe Hall called out to him. 20:42 He said, "What's the news, Captain Bates?" 20:45 Bates replied by saying, 20:47 "The news is the seventh day 20:48 is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." 20:51 Hall began keeping the Sabbath, and so a movement began. 20:54 The truth began to spread, 20:56 and this was truth God wanted the world to know. 20:58 The messages of the Three Angels in Revelation 14 21:03 are called by God the everlasting gospel 21:06 or the final gospel message. 21:08 The final good news message to go to the world. 21:12 And that final message contains a call to worship the Creator 21:16 by keeping the seventh-day Sabbath, 21:19 a day set aside at creation so all of God's children 21:22 could rest, 21:24 worship, 21:25 and commune with Him in a special way. 21:28 The most basic principle of the Protestant Reformation 21:31 was the supreme authority of the Bible, 21:34 supreme over church councils and church tradition. 21:38 This new movement God raised up from the ashes of the 21:41 Great Disappointment of 1844 21:43 would focus in a special way on testing all Christian beliefs 21:48 and practices by the Holy Scriptures. 21:52 Even though, many Reformers taught things that didn't quite 21:55 measure up with the Bible, 21:56 they all appealed to the Bible as their ultimate authority. 22:00 Martin Luther had theological challenges, 22:03 John Calvin taught predestination in spite 22:05 of the fact that the best known verse in the Bible says that, 22:09 "God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son, 22:13 that whosoever believeth in him should not perish 22:17 but have everlasting life." 22:19 And down through the years, 22:21 the Reformers had a blind spot about the law of God. 22:25 Something so fundamental and yet, 22:27 they were missing something essential. 22:29 But rather than castigate them, 22:31 we remember that the likes of Calvin and Zwingli 22:35 and Luther came to the Bible from out of complete darkness. 22:39 Martin Luther was a Roman Catholic priest. 22:42 They came pre-programmed by tradition. 22:45 The fact that they were able to shake off so much 22:47 of that tradition is remarkable. 22:49 And it's important to remember that truth is progressive. 22:53 It grows down through time. 22:54 Knowledge of agriculture, 22:56 of science, 22:57 of mathematics, 22:58 of physical wellness, well, that grows. 23:01 The same is true of knowledge of the Bible. 23:04 But the sad truth is that many people simply don't grow. 23:09 They accept what they were taught as children, 23:11 and then spend the rest of their lives 23:13 defending that instead of asking God 23:16 if there is more that they could learn. 23:18 All the way to about the time of William Miller, 23:21 Christians, with some exceptions, 23:22 believed in not the Ten Commandments 23:25 but in the nine commandments. 23:27 And when those Adventists saw the truth of God's word 23:30 and understood that all of the Ten Commandments 23:32 should be kept, 23:34 it was the dawning of a new day. 23:36 Sunday had come into Christianity as a tradition 23:39 of the Roman Catholic church. 23:41 Rome had absorbed Sunday worship from paganism. 23:44 It didn't come from the Bible. 23:47 So you would think then that Christians who were 23:49 conscientious about separating from tradition 23:52 would be open to embracing the seventh-day Sabbath. 23:55 That's certainly what God was hoping. 23:57 And that's why the message of the Sabbath 23:59 was included into the final gospel message 24:02 to go to the world. 24:04 As the movement grew, 24:06 it eventually became the Seventh-day Adventist Church, 24:10 identified in the Bible as a 24:12 "Remnant which keep the commandments of God 24:14 and the testimony of Jesus." 24:16 That's Revelation 12:17. 24:18 This group would proclaim the everlasting gospel, 24:22 the judgment hour message. 24:24 A message of cleansing and preparation pointing 24:27 to Jesus as high priest and the believers' only hope. 24:31 The seventh-day Sabbath, 24:33 total surrender to the indwelling of Jesus, 24:36 resulting in willing obedience to God's law and not man's law. 24:41 The call out of Babylon, 24:43 out of false worship and into true worship. 24:47 A call to the world to worship not the beast but the lamb, 24:51 Jesus and to receive the seal of God 24:55 rather than the mark of the beast. 24:57 And the relationship with Jesus so strong, 25:00 a dependence on Jesus so complete 25:03 that they're characterized by Revelation 14:12, which says, 25:07 "Here is the patience of the saints. 25:10 Here are they that keep the commandments of God 25:14 and the faith of Jesus." 25:17 This final company of the faithful and the sacred story 25:20 will share one last message of mercy with the world. 25:24 Jesus was clear, he told Peter in Matthew 16:18 25:28 that he would build his church. 25:31 The early Christian church was led by people such as Peter 25:34 and James and John and Paul and others like them 25:37 who presented Jesus to the world as the sinner's only hope. 25:42 But that early church lost its way, 25:44 it became corrupted by traditions, 25:47 many of which came into the church from paganism. 25:50 And then the church was hijacked by a system 25:54 that neglected the Bible, 25:55 that departed from the Bible. 25:58 That obscured the Bible 26:00 and then kept the Bible from the people. 26:03 But Wycliffe and Tyndale and Luther 26:05 and others like them put the Bible back in the hands 26:09 of God's children. 26:10 Hearts were touched by the power of God's Word, 26:13 and the broken system was reformed. 26:16 But that reformation didn't go all the way, 26:19 so God raised up others across the ocean from Europe, 26:22 beyond the reach of a pope to go back to the Bible, 26:26 to discover neglected teachings, 26:28 and to deliver the final gospel message to the world. 26:32 Organized in 1863, and now numbering 26:36 in the tens of millions of members, 26:38 the Seventh-day Adventist Church exists to complete 26:41 the work of the Reformers, 26:43 to take the message of justification by faith, 26:46 the message of salvation, 26:48 to reveal the character of God to the world. 26:51 And will that work be finished? 26:53 Yes, it will. 26:54 God has 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28:02 Thanks for your generous support. 28:03 Our number is 800-253-3000, 28:06 and our web address is itiswritten.com. 28:10 Let's pray together now. 28:12 Our Father in Heaven we thank You today for Jesus. 28:15 For the Bible, delivered to us at such great expense. 28:20 It cost noboday more than it cost You. 28:23 We thank You for the plan of salvation, 28:25 for giving Jesus to die for us. 28:28 To lead us. 28:29 And I pray to give us grace to follow 28:31 those who've gone before us, 28:34 brave men and women of the reformation, 28:36 who laid their lives on the line, 28:38 often giving their lives, 28:40 that they might stand for You. 28:43 Oh great Creator, 28:44 Savior, Redeemer, 28:46 Friend, Guide, 28:48 Lord give us grace. 28:50 To live our lives in the light of Your love, 28:53 and according to Your Word. 28:55 Fill us with Your presence, 28:56 give us Your Holy Spirit. 28:58 Make us Yours. 29:00 And ready us for that great day when Jesus comes again, 29:04 to take us home. 29:06 In Jesus' name, 29:07 Amen. 29:09 Thanks for joining me. 29:10 I look forward to seeing you again next time. 29:13 Until then, remember, 29:15 "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, 29:19 but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.'" 29:23 ♪[Music]♪ |
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