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Then the angel said to me, "These are the things that I have come to show you tonight.
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Now if you will pray and fast for seven more days, I will come back and tell you even greater things,
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because God Most High has heard your prayer; the Mighty God has seen the pure and righteous life that you have lived since your youth.
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That is why he has sent me to show you all these things and to tell you not to be afraid but to trust him.
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Do not be so quick to raise useless questions in the present age; then you will not be so quick to do so in the final age."
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After that, I mourned and fasted for seven more days, as I had done before, and so I completed the three weeks of fasting that I had been commanded to observe.
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On the eighth night I was again deeply troubled, and I began to speak to God Most High.
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I was very tense and my heart was uneasy,
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but I said, "O Lord, at the beginning of creation you spoke the word. On the first day you commanded, "Let the universe be made,' and your word carried out that command.
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At that time the spirit was moving, darkness and silence were everywhere, and no human voice was yet heard.
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Then you commanded that a ray of light shine out of the room where it was stored, so that your works could be seen.