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Why the big noise, nations? Why the mean plots, peoples?
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Earth-leaders push for position, Demagogues and delegates meet for summit talks, The God-deniers, the Messiah-defiers:
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"Let's get free of God! Cast loose from Messiah!"
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Heaven-throned God breaks out laughing. At first he's amused at their presumption;
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Then he gets good and angry. Furiously, he shuts them up:
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