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He answered me and said, "Measure carefully in your mind, and when you see that a certain part of the predicted signs are past,
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then you will know that it is the very time when the Most High is about to visit the world which he has made.
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So when there shall appear in the world earthquakes, tumult of peoples, intrigues of nations, wavering of leaders, confusion of princes,
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then you will know that it was of these that the Most High spoke from the days that were of old, from the beginning.
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For just as with everything that has occurred in the world, the beginning is evident, and the end manifest;
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