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"You saw him gather another great crowd of peace-loving people.
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These are the ten tribes of Israel who were taken away into captivity in the time of King Hoshea. King Shalmaneser of Assyria captured them and deported them to a foreign land east of the Euphrates River.
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But the ten tribes decided not to stay in that land among the many Gentiles, so they moved farther east to a country where no human beings had ever lived before.
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There they hoped to keep their laws, which they had failed to keep in their own country.
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When they had to make the difficult passage across the Euphrates,
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God Most High performed miracles for them and blocked the channels of the river until they had crossed over.
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Their long journey through that region, which is named Arzareth, took a year and a half,
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and they have lived there ever since. Now in these last days they are coming back home,
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and once again God Most High will block the channels of the river, so that they may cross over. That is the meaning of the great crowd of peace-loving people you saw.
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But they will also have with them all of your own people who are left and who are found within the borders of my holy land.
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When the time comes for my son to destroy the crowd that has gathered from every nation, he will protect his people who are left