Volume Ninety-Six
The Voice of Truth International
He Is Risen! Where Can I Go?
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the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special trea- sure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples; but because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His command- ments; because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers. 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The voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps” “And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire—and also those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands” 2IWKHWKUHHRFFXUUHQFHVRQHGRHVQRWVSHDNRIDFWXDOKDUSVEXWRI“a voice like the sound of harpists playing on their harps.” 5HYHODWLRQLV ³DSRFDO\SWLF´ZULWWHQLQVLJQVDQGV\PEROVH[SODLQLQJVSLULWXDOWKLQJVE\ VSHDNLQJRIPRUHIDPLOLDUPDWHULDOWKLQJV,Q+HDYHQZHZLOOQRORQJHUEH FORWKHGLQRXUIOHVKO\ERGLHVEXWLQVSLULWXDOERGLHVLPPRUWDOLQFRUUXSW LEOHDQGJORULRXV &RULQWKLDQV ,GRQRWNQRZZKDW³DVSLULWXDO ERG\´LVEH\RQGLWVGHVFULSWLRQLQ6FULSWXUH,GRQRWH[SHFWKRZHYHU WROLWHUDOO\ZDONRQDJROGHQVWUHHWLQDFLW\DGRUQHGZLWKHYHU\NLQGRI SUHFLRXVVWRQH 5HYHODWLRQ ,GRQRWH[SHFWWRVHHOLWHUDOJROGHQ ERZOVIXOORILQFHQVHRUDVHDRIJODVVPLQJOHGZLWKILUHRUOLWHUDOKDUSV x 3VDOOR" ,WLVVDLGWKDWSVDOORRQHRIWKH*UHHNZRUGVWUDQVODWHG³VLQJ´RU³VLQJ SUDLVHV´LQWKH1HZ7HVWDPHQWDFWXDOO\PHDQV³VLQJZLWKLQVWUXPHQWDODF FRPSDQLPHQW´,WVHW\PRORJ\FRPHVIURP³WRSOXFN´DQGLWLVXVHGLQWKH 6HSWXDJLQWWRPHDQ³VLQJZLWKLQVWUXPHQWDODFFRPSDQLPHQW´0HDQLQJ WKRXJKLVQRWGHWHUPLQHGE\HW\PRORJ\ LWLVGHWHUPLQHGE\FXUUHQWXVDJH %\1HZ7HVWDPHQWWLPHVLWKDGFRPHWRPHDQ³VLQJ´(YHU\UHFRJQL]HG YHUVLRQVRWUDQVODWHVLW ,WLVQRWDUJXHGWKDWWKHZRUGVSHFLILFDOO\PHDQV ³VLQJZLWKRXWLQVWUXPHQWV´E\GHILQLWLRQ,WMXVWPHDQV³VLQJ´,WGRHVQRW VD\³QRLQVWUXPHQWV ´LWGRHVQRWLQFOXGHWKHP,WGRHVQRWDXWKRUL]HWKHP 3VDOORLVXVHGILYHWLPHVLQWKH1HZ7HVWDPHQWLQFOXGLQJWZLFHLQWKH VDPHYHUVH“And in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. 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