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²⁸You will decide on something, and it will come to you, and the light will shine in your ways.

⁸Ask of me and I will give to you: the Gentiles for your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for your possession.

¹⁹God is not like a man, so that he would lie, nor is he like a son of man, so that he would be changed. Therefore, having spoken, will he not act? Has he ever spoken, and not fulfilled?

¹⁶For the Lord himself, with a command and with the voice of an Archangel and with a trumpet of God, shall descend from heaven. And the dead, who are in Christ, shall rise up first. ¹⁷Next, we who are alive, who are remaining, shall be taken up quickly together with them into the clouds to meet Christ in the air. And in this way, we shall be with the Lord always.

¹¹And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And he who was sitting upon it was called Faithful and True. And with justice does he judge and fight. ¹²And his eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, having a name written, which no one knows except himself. ¹³And he was clothed with a vestment sprinkled with blood. And his name is called: THE WORD OF GOD. ¹⁴And the armies that are in heaven were following him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. ¹⁵And from his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword, so that with it he may strike the nations. And he shall rule them with an iron rod. And he treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. ¹⁶And he has on his garment and on his thigh written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

²⁸And we know that, for those who love God, all things work together unto good, for those who, in accordance with his purpose, are called to be saints.

⁴And I will multiply your offspring like the stars of heaven. And I will give to your posterity all these regions. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed, ⁵because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and commandments, and observed the ceremonies and the laws.”

¹⁶so that you may love the Lord your God, and walk in his ways, and keep his commandments and ceremonies and judgments, and so that you may live, and he may multiply you and bless you in the land, which you shall enter in order to possess.

¹Woe to those who make unfair laws, and who, when writing, write injustice:

¹²And now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you? Only that you fear the Lord your God, and walk in his ways, and love him, and serve the Lord your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul, ¹³and that you keep the commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies, which I am instructing to you this day, so that it may be well with you.