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For they that were not left were in heaviness.
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Now understand I the things that are laid up in the latter days, which shall happen unto them, and to those that are left behind.
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Therefore are they come into great perils and many necessities, like as these dreams declare.
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Yet is it easier for him that is in danger to come into these things, than to pass away as a cloud out of the world, and not to see the things that happen in the last days. And he answered unto me, and said,
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The interpretation of the vision shall I shew thee, and I will open unto thee the thing that thou hast required.
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Whereas thou hast spoken of them that are left behind, this is the interpretation:
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He that shall endure the peril in that time hath kept himself: they that be fallen into danger are such as have works, and faith toward the Almighty.
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Know this therefore, that they which be left behind are more blessed than they that be dead.
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This is the meaning of the vision: Whereas thou sawest a man coming up from the midst of the sea:
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The same is he whom God the Highest hath kept a great season, which by his own self shall deliver his creature: and he shall order them that are left behind.
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And whereas thou sawest, that out of his mouth there came as a blast of wind, and fire, and storm;