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Three Doves

Story of Noah is recorded in Genesis 6-10.

Genesis 8:1 And God remembered Noah…
In the midst of all trouble and travail, God remembers His own…
Noah and family locked up inside the Ark for 7 months and 17 days…
Genesis 19:29 God remembered Abraham…
Genesis 30:22 God Remembered Rachel…
1 Samuel 16:19 God remembered Hanna…
And the list goes on all through Scriptures…
God Never forgets, (Except our sins Hebrews 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. Hebrews 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.)
In times of trouble, despair, disaster, GOD IS THERE, remembering you …
Genesis 8:6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, (after 10 months vs 5)
A Raven is sent out … why a Raven? Ravens are mentioned in Scripture 11 times.
Leviticus 11:15, Deuteronomy 14:14, Unclean, not to be eaten.
1 Kings 17:4, obeyed God and brought food to Elijah
Proverbs 30:17, They are scavengers
Psalm 147:9, Job 38:41,
Song of Solomon 5:11, Isaiah 34:11, Comparisons of color.
Then Noah sent forth a Dove. Dove appears 31 times in Scripture, (Turtledove, same word, 10 times).
Most of the time it’s used is reference to being a sacrifice for sins…
Other times used as a word of endearment of peace and gentleness. (Song of Solomon 2:14,5:2)
The four Gospels all equate the Dove to the image of the Holy Spirit which descended upon the Lord Jesus at His baptism.
IT’S INTERESTING THAT THE DOVE IN GENESIS WAS SENT FORTH 3 TIMES.
8:8-9 returned, finding no rest
8:11 returned with an olive branch
8:12 didn’t return (found a resting place)
WHY? Is there a spiritual truth hidden here?
1st The Raven… type of man’s effort. Willing to settle for lesser things.
Scavenger, pick’s on bones of dead.
The 1st Dove … Symbol of God, the Father (1 Dove 3 times … 1 God, 3 offices)
No rest for her feet.
(mountain tops were in view, no doubt debris, trees, dead bodies were floating).
Doves are very gentle, sensitive creatures, just as the Dove find no resting place, neither did God find mankind fit for fellowship with Him.
The 2nd Dove …. Symbol of God the Son
Returned with an Olive Branch, the symbol of peace.
The Son came to earth to bring peace … and had to shed His blood
The 3rd Dove … Symbol of the Holy Spirit.
Returned not again, found a resting place
The Holy Spirit has found a resting place in the heart of all who have believed and are saved by the blood of Christ.

For a list of some of the Animals Noah had on the Ark see Animals

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Mother Nature

Just who or what is Mother Nature?
Why do we keep crediting or blaming Mother Nature?
Mother Nature is defined as: a personification of nature that focuses on the life-giving and nurturing aspects of nature by embodying it, in the form of the mother.
This replaces God!
God is in total control of ALL that happens here on earth.
He created it all. Genesis 1-3.
Who caused the flood of Noah? Genesis 6:7
Who sent plagues upon Pharaoh during Abram’s time? Genesis 12:17
Who sent the plagues upon Egypt to free Israel? Exodus 9:14
Who parted the Red Sea? Exodus 14:21-22
Who Plagued Israel when they made the golden calf? Exodus 32:35
Who protected and provided for Israel during the 40 years on their way to the Promise land? Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.
The Lord God used plagues upon Israel to remind them of who He is and His punishment and protection when they disobey. Deuteronomy 28:59.
Who sent a great fish to swallow a disobedient Jonah? Jonah 1:17
Who sent the strong wind, earthquake, and fire in Elijah’s time?
1 Kings 19:11-12 And again, in Isaiah 29:6, Amos 1:1
Who freed Peter from Jail? Acts 12:11
There are many, many more examples of God intervening with man.
And yet even Believes want to credit “Mother Nature”.
Nay, God is in control of everything in Heaven and Earth.
Psalm 115:15, 121:2, 124:8, 134:3, 146:6, Matthew 11:25, Revelation 14:7

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Gentiles

Defined as: a person who is not Jewish.

From Adam to Noah, some 1600 plus years, there is no distinction between the peoples.
After the Flood, Noah’s decedents were instructed to spread out and repopulate the earth Genesis 9:1.
As they multiplied, Nations were formed, Genesis 10:5, but they were all of one speech and one language, Genesis 11:1. They turned their backs on God and they build a city and tower to make a name for themselves: Genesis 11:1-4. So, God scattered them and confounded their language Genesis 11:7-8. Still no Jews. Then God chose one man, Abram a Hebrew, Genesis 12:1-3, and gave him many promises. After many years Abram was renamed Abraham, Genesis 17:5, and Sarai became Sarah Genesis 17:15. Again years passed and they had a son, Isaac Genesis 21:3. Still no Jew. Isaac took Rebekah to wife Genesis 24:67. They had twin boys, Esau and Jacob Genesis 25:26. Esau married, had sons who became the nation Edom Genesis 36:1. (Not Jews). Jacob married and fathered 12 sons Genesis 35:22. Jacob is renamed (by God) Israel Genesis 32:28. The twelve sons of Jacob (Israel) go into Egypt and under the leadership of Joseph prosper and multiply becoming a nation. 400 years later they are slaves of Egypt. God sends Moses to take them out and lead them to the promise land Genesis 12:7. But just when did they become Jews?
NOTE: The English term Jew originates in the Biblical Hebrew word Yehudi, meaning “from the Kingdom of Judah”.
The first mention of JEW is in 2 Kings 16:6. It would appear, as they occupied the promise land and grew as a nation, the descendants of Abram, a Hebrew, started to call themselves JEWS. The promises God gave to Abram were passed unto Isaac and then to Jacob and his 12 sons who became the nation of Israel, JEWS. Now, anyone descending from any of the twelve tribes (sons of Israel) are called Jews. The rest of the people of the world are Gentiles.
One can follow to Jews all thru history by reading the Bible. From Genesis to Acts, chapter 12, when God shuts the door to Salvation to the Nation of Israel, and opens the door of salvation to the Gentiles, who are spread all over the earth Genesis 11:7-8. This includes Europe, Asia, and the Americas. But as the gentiles traveled, they took with them their false gods and false religious practices. Remember the Tower of Babel Genesis 11:1-4? These towers, pyramids are still being discovered in many parts of the earth.
Why did God exclude the Gentiles until He called Saul (Paul) to go to them with the Gospel? The answer is found in Romans 1:18-32. But now, the door of salvation is open to every individual, Jew and Gentile. Romans 1:13-17.

For more about who are Jews, See God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob
For more about the tower, See Tower of Babel

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The Sons of God

The sons of God in the Old Testament:
Genesis 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Genesis 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Just who were these Sons of God? What saith the Scripture?
Job 1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
Job 2:1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.
Sons of God and Satan appear before God. Satan, Lucifer was an Angel. Sons of God are Angles. Job mentions them again, shouting for joy.
Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Peter and Jude speak of “angels that sinned”, that “left their own habitation”.
2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Could these angels have been the sons of God spoken of in Genesis?
The sons of God in the New Testament:
John told the Jews were told that if the accepted the Lord Jesus as their Messah they would become:
John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
He restates this in his epistles to the Jews:
1 John 3:1-2 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
Paul, tells believing Gentiles:
Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Romans 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Philippians 2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

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Demon

demon: an evil spirit. a source or agent of evil, harm, distress, or ruin.
The word, DEMON is not found in the KJV Bible.
devils: used to refer to the group of demons.
evil spirit: a spirit tending to cause harm.
unclean spirit: spirit being who is unclean and immoral in nature and activities.

Many would be surprised to learn that there’s no verse in the Bible that explains where demons came from. Christians typically assume that demons are fallen angels, cast from heaven with Satan (Lucifer, the Devil) right before the temptation of Adam and Eve. But guess what? There’s no such story in the Bible. Where do they come from? … In ancient Jewish texts like the Dead Sea Scrolls, demons are the disembodied spirits of dead Nephilim giants who perished at the time of the great flood.
The fact is, God, in the Scripture refers to devils and unclean spirit. The Old Testament has 4 references to devils:
God tells the Israelis, no more:
Leviticus 17:7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.
Deuteronomy 32:17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
King Jeroboam:
2 Chronicles 11:15 And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.
Israel forgot the God that delivered them from Egypt:
Psalm 106:37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
The Gospels mentions devils 34 times, they were very active as the Lord walked the earth: …..
11 times in Matthew: Matthew 4:24, 7:22, 8:16,28,31,33, 9:34, 10:8, 12:24,27-28
10 times in Mark: Mark 1:32,34,39, 3:15,22, 5:12, 6:13, 9:38, 16:9,17
16 times in Luke: Luke 4:41, 8:2,27,30,33,35-36,38, 9:1,49, 10:17, 11:15,18-20, 13:32
It’s interesting that John does not mention devils
Paul, the apostle to the gentiles, refers to devils 5 times and warns gentile believers:
1 Corinthians 10:20-21 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.
A warning, activity from the devils will increase in the latter times:
1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
James issues a fact:
James 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
During the Tribulation devils are again very active.
Revelation 9:20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Revelation 16:14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Revelation 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

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People

people (pē′pəl)

noun

Humans considered as a group or in indefinite numbers. Often treated as a plural of person,especially in compounds.
The mass of ordinary persons; the populace. Used with the.
A body of persons living in the same country under one national government; a nationality.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

It’s interesting “Human” is not in the Scriptures, neither is “Race” (as people).
Note … Many are called by the names of the Land (Nation, Kingdom, City) in which they lived. I.E Babylonians Daniel 1:1, Medes Daniel 9:1, Greek(s) Mark 7:25, Roman(s) John 11:4

In the Scripture some of us people are referred to as:

People 1,920x Genesis 11:6
Folk 6x Genesis 33:15
Person 107x Genesis 14:21
Tribe 297x Genesis 49:16
Heathen 145x Leviticus 25:44
Mankind 6X Leviticus 18:22
Gentile 244x Genesis 10:5
Saint(s) 98x Deuteronomy 33:2
Jew(s) 275x 2 Kings 16:6
Christian(s) 3x Acts 11:26
Body of Christ 4x Romans 7:4

From Adam to Noah: People, Folk, Person, Tribe

From Noah to Tower of Babble: People

From Tower of Babble to the Law: People

From the Law to Resurrection: People, Folk, Person, Tribe, Mankind, Jews, Saints, Heathen

From Resurrection to Today: Folk, Tribe, Mankind, Person, Gentile, Jew, Saint, Christian, Body of Christ

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Fathers Day

Fathers Day, in the United States, holiday (third Sunday in June) to honour fathers. Sonora Smart Dodd, whose father, a Civil War veteran, raised her and her five siblings after their mother died in childbirth. The first Fathers Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910, the month of the birthday of Dodd’s father.
In 1924 U.S. Pres. Calvin Coolidge gave his support to the observance, and in 1966 Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson issued a proclamation that recognized the day. It became a national holiday in 1972, when Pres. Richard Nixon signed legislation designating the third Sunday of June as Fathers Day.

There are over 850 references to Father in the Scripture and over 810 to Fathers.
Many are to God the Father.
Needless to say, all of them will not be looked at now.
However, Genesis has 3 important ones worth knowing:
A man should establish his own family.
Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
They lived in Tents and herded cattle.
Genesis 4:20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
They established music.
Genesis 4:21 And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
Paul reaffirms Genesis 2:24.
Ephesians 5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
And then gives this advice:
Ephesians 6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Colossians 3:21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

Most of all, be a father, not a friend. Friendly, but your children need the authority of a father.

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Eden

When one hears of Eden, it brings to mind the place where Adam and Eve were created. However, they were created in the GARDEN of Eden, a place in the far east side of the land of Eden. The land in which God planted a garden, where upon his creation he put the man whom he had formed. One can read of this in Genesis 2. This land of Eden will later be given by God to Abram and his seed. Genesis 12-14 (the Abrahamic covenant). The Israelites have yet to possess all of it.
A garden eastward in Eden:
Genesis 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Genesis 2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
Genesis 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Adam’s punishment after he had sinned:
Genesis 3:23-24 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Cain’s punishment:
Genesis 4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
In the future, the Lord will make the land of Israel like Eden:
Isaiah 51:3 For 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; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Ezekiel 36:35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
Lucifer, Satan had been in Eden:
Ezekiel 28:13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
More about Lucifer:
Ezekiel 31:9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
Ezekiel 31:16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
Ezekiel 31:18 To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
Joel tells of the last days:
Joel 2:3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
It appears that Eden was also a man:
2 Kings 19:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
2 Chronicles 29:12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:
2 Chronicles 31:15 And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:
Isaiah 37:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
Ezekiel 27:23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.
Amos 1:5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.

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Daniel 4

Dream of a Tree … The Year was 577 BC
4:1-3 Nebuchadnezzar the king, was a great king of Babylon. He was the Greatest King in all the world.
4:4-5 He has a dream that distributes him.
4:6-7 He calls for help, but they fail him.
4:8-9 Daniel (Belteshazzar) brought in.
4:10-12 The Dream – The good part
4:13-17 The Dream — The troubling part
Compare Ezekiel 31:10-14 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
Compare Job 14:7-9 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
4:18 Daniel (Belteshazzar) please interpret, and Daniel is astonied for one hour.
4:19-23 Daniel considers the Dream
Compare Jeremiah 27:6-8 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the Lord, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
4:24-28 The interpretation.
Compare Job 40:11-1212 Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him. Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
Compare Zechariah 1:6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the Lord of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
4:29 Twelve months pass. (1 Year)
4:30-33 The dream fulfilled. (7 Years)
… they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, …
4:34-36 Nebuchadnezzar is restored.
Compare Proverbs 22:4 By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life.
4:37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
As the Lord Jesus said But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Matthew 6:33

Nebuchadnezzar forgot who God is. The dream was to warm him to amend his ways. When he didn’t, the dream became a reality. At the end he acknowledged who God is.

We should not forget who God is and how He blesses us.

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Marriage Failures Part 2

Marriage Success
Things to remember about Marriage:
Marriage is life’s biggest relationship and should be the longest and closest.
Become and expert on your mate. What makes them happy.
Talk over your relationship. Face life together. Remember your vows.
Seek help from others when problems arise.
Keep the Lord center in your marriage.

God has a divine order for EVERYTHING, including the Home.
Christ is head
Ephesians 1:22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
He is over all
Ephesians 4:6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
Man is head of the Family
Ephesians 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Woman is to be the backbone of the family, loved by her husband
Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Children are part of the family, obey parents
Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Marriage Success includes:
FINICIAL… Partners in everything. Everything above the board.
IN-LAWS… Your mate comes first.
SEXUAL… Be lovers. Remember, love is more than sex, but sex is important. Given by God.
SPIRITUAL… Put Christ first. It’s His will for marriage to succeed.
Four things married couples ought to be:
Partners, Pals, Lovers, Christians
Believers in the death, burial and resurrection of Christ, and that He is God

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