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And after this a cloud full of water passed before me, and it poured down much rain with force, and when the rainstorm had passed there remained drops in the cloud.
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He said to me, "Consider for yourself: as the rain is greater than the drops and the fire is greater than the smoke, so the measure that has passed is greater, but drops and smoke remain."
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I prayed and said, "Do you think I will live until those days? Who will be alive in those days?"
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He answered me: "I can tell you in part concerning the signs you ask about, but about your own life I'm not sent to tell you. I don't know.