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The archangel Jeremiel answers them, "It will happen as soon as the complete number of those who have suffered as you have are here. For God has weighed this age,
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measured the years, and numbered the days. Nothing will be changed until time has run its predetermined course.'"
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"But, sir," I replied, "all of us here on earth are such wicked sinners.
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Is it possible that because of our sin the righteous dead are having to wait for their reward?"
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His answer was, "Can a pregnant woman keep her child from being born after her nine months are up?"
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.