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And why? Because the speech of these things trembleth and is moved, for it knoweth that the end of these things must be changed."
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And it happened that when I had heard it I stood up upon my feet and hearkened, and behold, there was a voice that spoke, and the sound of it was like the sound of many waters.
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And it said, "Behold, the days come that I will begin to draw nigh and to visit them that dwell upon the earth,
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and will begin to make inquisition of them what they be who have hurt unjustly with their unrighteousness and when the affliction of Zion shall be fulfilled.
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And when the world, which shall begin to vanish away, shall be finished, then will I show these tokens: the books shall be opened before the firmament, and they shall see all together;
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and the children of a year old shall speak with their voices, the women with child shall bring forth untimely children of three or four months old, and they shall live and be raised up.
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And suddenly shall the sown places appear unsown, the full storehouses shall suddenly be found empty;
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and the trumpet shall give a sound, which when every man heareth, they shall be suddenly afraid.
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At that time shall friends fight one against another like enemies, and the earth shall stand in fear with those that dwell therein, the springs of the fountains shall stand still, and for three hours they shall not run.
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"Whosoever remaineth from all these that I have told thee shall escape, and see My salvation and the end of your world.
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And the men that are received shall see it, who have not tasted death from their birth; and the heart of the inhabitants shall be changed and turned into another meaning.