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00:04 of the Amazing Facts Ministry. 00:07 ♪♪ 00:14 Doug Batchelor: Angels are unique and individual. 00:17 If God doesn't make two snowflakes the same, and if 00:19 every human on the world has got a different iris 00:22 and fingerprint, then why would you think that God has a big 00:25 cookie-cutter factory where he makes his angels and he just 00:28 stamps them out and they're all the same? 00:29 ♪♪ 00:34 Doug Batchelor: There was an amazing story in the Bible, 00:36 the prophet Elisha was sort of the secret weapon 00:40 for the king of Israel. 00:42 Every time the king of Syria wanted to launch an attack 00:47 on Israel, he wanted to ambush them, he'd have his spies find 00:51 out where the king of Israel was going to be traveling and try 00:53 and get them through some narrow canyon so he could surprise him. 00:57 But every time they tried to launch these surprise 01:00 attacks, it seems like the king of Israel found out in advance. 01:04 And the king of Syria was so frustrated he said to his 01:06 servants, "One of you must be a spy. 01:09 How else can the king of Israel always know what my secret plans 01:12 are?" 01:14 And one of the servants for the king of Syria said, 01:17 "It's none of us, we're not betraying you." 01:19 He said, "It's Elisha the prophet in Israel. 01:22 He knows the things that you say in your bedroom, which would 01:26 make any king nervous. 01:28 He said, "Well, we can't have that! 01:30 Where is he?" 01:32 He said, "Well, he's staying in a little town called Dothan." 01:34 Dothan by the way, is where Joseph went to look for his 01:37 brothers, it means wells, two wells. 01:40 So the king of Syria says, Look, let's, get the army together. 01:45 And a great army came, and during the night they 01:48 surrounded this little hamlet of Dothan, where Elisha was 01:51 with some of the people and his servant. 01:54 Early in the morning, his servant wakes up to go 01:56 to the well and get water and he looks over the little walls 01:59 of Dothan, and they were just big enough to keep the cattle 02:01 out, and he sees the glimmer of armor and hears the snort 02:05 of the horses. 02:07 And his eyes get adjusted and he realized they are now surrounded 02:09 by the Assyrian army. 02:11 In a panic he runs and he shakes Elisha awake and says, "Alas, 02:14 Master, what will we do?" 02:17 Elisha doesn't look one bit troubled. 02:19 He gets up and he walks through the door, and then he 02:21 walked outside the city walls, and he prays a prayer. 02:26 2 Kings 6 verse 17, "And Elisha prayed, and said, 'Lord, I pray 02:31 thee, open his eyes that he may see.' 02:35 And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. 02:38 And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots 02:43 of fire round about Elisha." 02:46 You've heard that expression, chariots of fire. 02:49 And when Elisha saw Elijah taken up to heaven, that's when he got 02:53 his first glimpse of these chariots and horses of fire. 02:56 These are the ministering spirits of God. 02:58 I don't think that God is galloping around up in heaven 03:02 on an Appaloosa. 03:04 You know, this is the Biblical terminology to talk about, you 03:09 know, it says, When Elisha was caught up, chariots and horses 03:13 of fire using the spiritual. 03:15 It says, "I looked over Jordan and what did I see? 03:17 A band full of angels." 03:19 That's good theology. 03:20 That's what they were. 03:21 These are angels of God that they saw protecting them. 03:25 The mysterious world of angels, there's a lot 03:30 of misunderstandings about angels, which is why we're 03:32 talking about it today. 03:33 Typically when people see pictures of angels they see fat 03:37 little babies on clouds looking extremely bored. 03:43 More times than not, if you type angels in the Internet and look 03:46 at pictures, you're going to see they looked like Greek 03:48 goddesses, they're ladies. 03:52 Are angels male, female, or babies? 03:56 Now typically when angels appeared in the Bible, it says 03:59 they appeared as men. 04:02 And it says when the disciples saw Jesus ascend to heaven, 04:04 there stood by them two men in white raiment at the tomb. 04:07 Says they were men. 04:09 When the angels came for judgments on Sodom, says 04:12 there were men. 04:13 There is one vision in Zechariah, where he said, "I 04:17 raised my eyes," Zechariah 5:9, "and there were two women, 04:20 coming in the wind in their wings, for they were the wings 04:24 of a stork, and they lifted up a basket." 04:26 This is an apocalyptic vision. 04:28 So it never says they're angels, it's really a vision. 04:32 Typically they appear as men, but don't take that too far, 04:36 because angels don't have gender like we do. 04:39 Jesus made it pretty clear in Mark 12:25, "For when they 04:43 rise from the dead, they neither marry or are given in marriage, 04:47 but are like the angels in heaven." 04:49 Angels do not procreate like humans. 04:52 Sometimes people read in Genesis chapter 6, "And the sons of God 04:57 saw the daughters of men that they were fair and took them 04:59 wives of all they chose." 05:02 And you know, in some Bibles you might even have one here, 05:04 translates that these fallen angels married humans and had 05:09 babies that were giants. 05:12 That is one of the goofiest teachings I've ever heard. 05:15 Angels do not procreate with humans. 05:18 Jesus is very clear about that. 05:19 That verse, the sons of God are talking about the children 05:23 of Seth, Adam, and Eve that were faithful, they were still 05:26 worshiping God, they were offering there at the garden, 05:28 at the gates of the Garden of Eden. 05:31 And then you had Cain, he departed from the Lord, and they 05:34 had two separate groups of people, and Cain was in us, 05:38 children of men. 05:39 They weren't the sons of God. 05:41 How did he become a son of God? 05:42 Behold with manner of love the father's bestowed on us that 05:45 we should be called sons of God. 05:46 When we believe we are adopted in, God said to his son when he 05:51 was baptized, this is my beloved son. 05:53 And when we're baptized and we accept Christ, we become sons 05:56 and daughters of God. 05:58 So it's when the children of Seth began to intermarry 06:01 with the daughters of Cain then wickedness was great in this 06:04 world because of the mixed marriages. 06:07 It had nothing to do with angels marrying people. 06:11 They don't have gender that way. 06:13 Angels do not procreate with humans. 06:15 Angels are created, they're made by God. 06:19 He makes them uniquely. 06:21 And Lucifer may have been one of the first of his angels. 06:25 There are typically three terms that we find being used 06:29 in the New Testament. 06:30 It's usually angel, means messenger, angelos. 06:34 In the Hebrew you've got malakh, or malach, if you say it 06:37 with a Jewish pronunciation. 06:41 You've got the seraphim. 06:44 A seraph is one seraphim, cherub is one, cherubim would be two. 06:49 And these are the ministering spirits. 06:51 Literally seraphim means the burning ones. 06:54 And the malakh is, they're like deputies. 06:57 They're the people of authority. 06:59 It's also translated messengers. 07:02 And so there seem to be different levels of angels, 07:05 different ranks of angels, and they're organized servants 07:10 of God. 07:12 You read about them in--By the way, the word cherubim means 07:15 minister, more precisely. 07:17 Hebrews 1 verse 14, speaking of the angels, "Are they not all 07:22 ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will 07:27 inherit eternal salvation?" 07:30 God has his army of angels that watch over us to minister. 07:34 Psalm 103 verse 20, "Bless the Lord, you his angels, who 07:39 excel in strength, who do his word, heeding the voice of 07:43 his word. 07:44 Bless the Lord, all you. 07:45 his hosts, you ministers of his, who do his pleasure." 07:49 These are ministering spirits. 07:52 Sometimes in the Bible it calls it--He's called the Lord 07:57 of hosts, so there you would have the Lord of angels. 08:02 One place you can see where he's called the Lord of Sabaoth. 08:05 That doesn't mean the Lord of the Sabbath, It's 08:06 a completely different word, it means the Lord of armies. 08:09 It's an army of angels. 08:11 You read in Daniel 7 verse 10, "A fiery stream issued and came 08:15 forth from before him. 08:17 A thousand thousands ministered to him. 08:21 And ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him." 08:25 Because surrounding the dwelling place of God are clouds 08:29 of angels. 08:30 When Jesus comes it says he's coming like he left. 08:33 How did he leave? 08:34 He was caught up into this cloud, and not H2O, 08:38 but a brilliant cloud of holy ones, burning ones, the angels. 08:41 And when he comes again, it says he will come with all 08:44 the angels. 08:46 He's coming in a cloud of angels. 08:49 We look through the telescope and we see these nebula and we 08:51 call them nebulous clouds. 08:54 But as we get a little closer what we thought were cloudy 08:57 images we find out these are actually burning suns. 09:01 And they just looked like clouds from a distance. 09:04 And so when Christ comes, he's coming with clouds of angels. 09:09 Now, I probably should say right here, you don't wanna worship 09:13 angels. 09:14 See, there are good angels and there are bad angels. 09:16 "There was war in heaven, that great dragon, the serpent, was 09:20 cast out, who deceives the whole world. 09:22 He was cast to the earth, and his angels--" 09:27 Satan means adversary. 09:28 He's gone from Lucifer to adversary. 09:31 "They who deceives the whole world, he was cast to the earth 09:34 and his angels were cast out with him." 09:37 You read in 2 Peter 2 verse 4, "For God did not spare 09:40 the angels who sinned." 09:42 Yup, there are angels who sin. 09:43 You know what that means about angels? 09:45 In order for you to sin you must have a free will. 09:48 Angels are unique and individual. 09:51 If God doesn't make two snowflakes the same, and if 09:54 every human on the world has got a different iris 09:56 and fingerprint, then why would you think that God has a big 10:00 cookie-cutter factory where he makes his angels and he just 10:02 stamps them out and they're all the same? 10:04 I'm sure these angels are unique. 10:06 They are created, not born, they're created by God to live 10:09 forever, and they're probably, I don't know what their, you know, 10:12 they part their hair differently and they've got some different 10:14 idiosyncrasies, I'm not sure. 10:16 But they've got their unique personalities, yet they're holy, 10:19 the good ones, and then you get the fallen ones Jude 6, "And 10:25 the angels who did not keep their first estate, their proper 10:27 domain, but they left their own abode, he has reserved 10:31 in everlasting chains under darkness." 10:34 Bible says that one angel's going to come down in chains, 10:38 Satan. 10:39 And these chains are, they are chained to our world. 10:42 They cannot leave. 10:43 They're not free like the other ministering spirits. 10:46 In everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment 10:49 of the great day. 10:51 Angels said to Christ, the fallen angels, "Have you 10:53 come to judge us before the time?" 10:54 They know their judgment's coming. 10:56 Satan's come down with great wrath, because he what? 10:59 Knows his time is short. 11:01 God's fixed a day in which he'll judge the world and Satan 11:04 and his angels. 11:06 The Bible says, "Depart you cursed into everlasting fire 11:08 prepared for Satan and his angels." 11:10 So there are some bad angels out there. 11:12 How many? 11:14 I don't know, I can tell you the percentage. 11:15 So Satan, when he was cast out, he drew a third of the stars, 11:20 were drawn in the wake of the tail of the dragon. 11:24 A third of the angels followed Lucifer in his rebellion 11:26 against God. 11:28 We don't know how many that is, I'm guessing billions. 11:30 Because, if God has guardian angels for each person, 11:33 and they're eight billion people roughly in the world, then 11:37 there's gotta be a lot of good angels. 11:39 And we're not the only world that they take care of. 11:42 Look at how big the cosmos is. 11:45 I'm sure they're going through the whole creation 11:47 of God. 11:48 So there are billions of angels, I would think. 11:53 announcer: Don't forget to request today's life-changing 11:55 free resource. 11:57 Not only can you receive this free gift in the mail, you can 11:59 download a digital copy straight to your computer or mobile 12:01 device. 12:03 To get your copy of today's free gift, simply call us and ask 12:06 for the offer number shown on your screen. 12:08 Or visit the web address and download a digital copy. 12:12 And be sure to select a digital download option on the request 12:15 page. 12:16 It's now easier than ever for you to study God's Word 12:19 with amazing facts wherever and whenever you want. 12:22 And, most important, to share it with others. 12:27 Doug Batchelor: So, what do the angels do? 12:30 Angels guard and protect. 12:33 Job 1:9, "Satan was angry with the Lord, he said, 'Does 12:37 Job fear God for nothing? 12:39 Have you not made a hedge about him, and about his 12:41 household, around all that he has?"' 12:43 Is it a hedge of bushes? 12:45 Or was he hedged in with the Lord? 12:48 Bible says, "The angel of the Lord," Psalm 34:7, "The 12:51 angel of the Lord encamps round about those who fear him." 12:55 You sometimes, you just--I remember one time, you all got 12:58 your stories, I posted I was going to preach about angels 13:01 today online, all these people started telling me their angel 13:03 story, because I think it's really neat. 13:05 And don't build your theology on angel stories. 13:09 When someone says, I had an angel spoke to me, you gotta 13:12 be careful. 13:13 It might be an angel that spoke to them. 13:15 You know, there's a lying prophet in the Bible. 13:18 He went to a prophet of the Lord, God told that 13:21 prophet after you pronounce your judgement on King Jeroboam, you 13:24 do not eat bread, you do not drink water in this place, you 13:27 go home, you do not pass go. 13:31 Well he was on his way home, and this false prophet said, God 13:34 told me you're supposed to come to my house. 13:36 An angel of the Lord, he says, told me disregard what you heard 13:40 earlier, I got a message from an angel, you're to come 13:42 to my house. 13:44 He listened to that false prophet, who had an angelic 13:47 message, and he died. 13:49 And so you gotta be very careful when people say, an angel 13:51 told me. 13:53 I mean, people have angel experiences, I believe that. 13:55 Don't base your theology on someone's angelic experience. 13:59 But they got all kinds of movies and TV programs and people talk 14:03 about this, and they'll say, yeah, angels were talking to my 14:05 dead relatives in heaven. 14:07 And so there's a lot of bad theology that has come 14:09 through that corridor of people saying an angel told me. 14:14 But I do believe angels guide. 14:17 And I remember one time in particular, I was driving 14:21 to Central Church, and I always have to cross several streets 14:25 where there's lights. 14:26 And I'm an aggressive driver, and if the light's green, you 14:29 know what that means? 14:31 Go fast! 14:32 And I'm going' along, and I'm coming up and the light is 14:35 green, and I felt the strongest urge to hit my brakes on 14:41 a green light. 14:42 And I hit my brakes and slowed down. 14:44 Somebody ran the light, went right through, they would've 14:47 T-boned me, they were speeding right through. 14:50 And I knew right then that an angel had said, Hit your 14:52 brakes. 14:53 Because everything else in my world would've said, Go. 14:56 Have you had experiences like that? 14:58 And it just, it was uncanny, it's like a voice told me. 15:01 So often when we say the Lord did this for me, or the Lord did 15:05 that for me, it's not generally the Lord. 15:07 The Lord works through his agency, it's usually angels. 15:10 God gets the glory, but he often works through his angels. 15:13 And he's guiding them. 15:14 And people will say, Oh, the devil made me do this, 15:17 and the devil tempted me. 15:19 It's typically not the devil. 15:20 Matter of fact, the devil doesn't know who most of us are. 15:22 God knows all of us, but the devil, he's not 15:25 omniscient, he doesn't know everybody. 15:27 It's usually his fallen angels that are doing these things. 15:32 And so I just, the Bible says a lot about it. 15:35 It's probably healthy for us to know what the Word says. 15:38 So you've got these angels, and they guide us. 15:43 God told Moses, "I will send an angel before you to keep you 15:47 in the way, to bring you to the place that I prepared." 15:50 Angels do guide and, if we ask for it, I think they're more 15:53 inclined. 15:55 Angels have feelings. 15:57 Now, you have a guardian angel, but I don't recommend you try 16:01 and talk to 'em. 16:03 And I know some people, they say, I've given my angel 16:06 the name Wilbur, and I'm always talking to Wilbur. 16:09 So you gotta be very careful. 16:11 You might think it's Wilbur and it could be some other 16:13 wicked angel named Ernest. 16:18 So nowhere in the Bible are we told to talk to the angels. 16:21 Angels might appear to us, but talks about worshiping 16:26 angels, that's forbidden in the Bible, the angels 16:30 loathe that. 16:31 John fell on his knees, John Revelation 19, to worship 16:35 the angel. 16:36 The angel says, "See you do not do it." 16:38 And Daniel and Ezekiel and they all saw angels, they felt 16:42 inclined to fall down and worship. 16:43 The Angels always pointed the glory and the worship back 16:46 to God, because it's a sin to have any other God besides 16:50 the Lord, right? 16:51 Angels are co-laborers with us. 16:54 Now, people, the Bible tells us, that we are made a little lower 16:58 than the angels. 17:00 We do not have the same power and strength and knowledge 17:04 and connection with God that angels have. 17:07 But humans are made in the image of God and, in some ways, we 17:11 have advantages. 17:12 And one of those is something that really bothered the devil. 17:15 Humans, like God, made in the image of God, are able 17:18 to procreate in our own image through an act of cooperative 17:22 love. 17:23 The devil can't create life. 17:25 And it really bothered him that, in this world, these humans 17:29 could procreate, and he couldn't. 17:31 And so, in some ways, you know, we've got blessing. 17:34 But angels have emotions. 17:36 "All the morning stars sang together, and they shouted 17:39 for joy." 17:41 Jesus said, Luke 15, "Likewise there'll be more joy in heaven 17:45 over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons 17:50 who need no repentance." 17:51 So if it's true that angels can feel joy when the lost are 17:55 saved, how do angels feel when people are lost? 18:01 Do angels feel sadness? 18:03 What do you think the angels did when Jesus was on the cross? 18:06 Were they strumming their harps, or is it like Psalm 137, where 18:10 they hung their harps on the willows, how can we sing 18:12 the song of Zion in Babylon? 18:15 And the angels, it's like when Daniel was in the lion's den, it 18:18 says, "In the king's palace, there was no music brought 18:21 before him, and the angels were sad." 18:25 They've got feelings, they've got emotions. 18:29 Even good angels can be devastating, they're very 18:33 powerful, they can be deadly. 18:36 Psalms 78:49, "He cast on them the fierceness of his anger, 18:41 wrath, indignation, and trouble. 18:43 By sending angels of destruction among them." 18:48 1 Chronicles 21:16, "Then David lifted his eyes." 18:51 This is when David numbered Israel and a plague was going 18:54 through the land. 18:55 "David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord standing 18:59 between heaven and earth, having a drawn sword stretched 19:02 out over Jerusalem." 19:04 You know, we've sometimes heard about the grim reaper, you've 19:09 heard the expression the angel of death. 19:11 Many times in the Bible these angels of death are not 19:13 diabolical, they're actually good angels that were sent 19:16 with judgment. 19:18 "And David prayed and the angel put his sword back in 19:21 its sheath." 19:23 Acts chapter 12, King Herod was trying to wipe out the church. 19:25 The beginning of Acts chapter 12, Herod the King kills 19:29 the apostle James. 19:31 He sees it pleases the Jews. 19:33 He says, I'm going to kill Peter too. 19:35 You see a battle going on, a spiritual battle, a great 19:37 controversy between the Word of God and the devil working 19:41 through Herod the King. 19:42 Herods are typically not good in the New Testament, and try 19:47 and kill the babies in Bethlehem. 19:49 And you know what happens at the end of the story? 19:51 Peter escapes from prison, Herod then makes a speech, and they 19:57 say, Oh, it's the voice of God. 19:58 And he doesn't give the glory to God. 20:00 Herod wants to be God, like Lucifer. 20:02 It says, "And then the angel of the Lord struck him, because 20:05 he did not give God glory. 20:07 And he was eaten by worms and he died." 20:09 By the way, Josephus actually mentions that very event 20:12 in history. 20:14 And then, as we began our message this morning, we noticed 20:17 that throughout the life of Jesus we see angels. 20:22 Every time in the life of Christ when the devil would try 20:25 to destroy him, you remember Nazareth? 20:28 Well, first of all, they wanted to kill him as a baby 20:30 in Bethlehem. 20:31 He was delivered. 20:33 Through his youth, I'm sure angels were guarding Christ. 20:38 Can you imagine how vulnerable Jesus would've been as a child 20:41 and a baby if it was not for angels that were guarding 20:44 him? 20:46 And then when he began his ministry, he fast 40 days 20:49 in the wilderness. 20:51 You know it says after he fasted, It's his angels came 20:52 and ministered to him. 20:54 I believe they did for him what the angel did for Elijah when he 20:56 was hungry. 20:58 I think they fed him at the end of those 40 days. 21:01 And then, in the garden of Gethsemane, when Jesus-- 21:05 Well, several times through his life they tried tried to kill 21:08 Jesus. 21:09 You know, they wanted to throw him off a cliff in Nazareth, it 21:11 says, and he passed through their midst. 21:12 Who do you think parted the crowd so Jesus could pass 21:15 through? 21:16 I think the angels of God said, This is not as time. 21:20 Other times, they took up stones to stone Jesus, and Jesus was 21:24 protected. 21:26 And in the garden of Gethsemane, when he prayed and he wept three 21:30 times and said, Not my will, thy will be done. 21:33 You know, at that moment, it may have been Gabriel. 21:37 We don't know who took the place of Lucifer, maybe Gabriel. 21:40 Gabriel may have already been in one of those positions. 21:44 But I think Gabriel came and it says angels ministered to him. 21:48 I think they were there to comfort him, but do you know 21:51 at that moment in the garden, as the Angels, left him, he got 21:56 up and he went to the disciples, he said, Now is the hour 21:58 of darkness. 22:00 And as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly 22:03 of the fish, the sufferings of Christ began that night. 22:08 God's presence, God's angelic protection, was withdrawn 22:13 from Jesus for the first time in his life, maybe the first 22:17 time in history. 22:20 And the devil and his forces had their way with Christ. 22:24 He paid the penalty, they tortured him, they tried 22:27 to extract all the suffering they could. 22:29 More than anything, they wanted Jesus to sin, because then 22:32 the plan of salvation would have imploded. 22:35 And so they didn't just want to kill him, they wanted him 22:38 to do something wrong, to sin, because then there'd be no hope 22:41 for us. 22:43 And the angels had to watch and they had to veil their 22:45 presence, just like you and I can't see them. 22:48 And Peter said, Lord I'll save you. 22:51 And Jesus said, Don't you know I could pray for 12 legions 22:53 of angels right now? 22:55 That means they weren't there helping him, they withdrew 22:58 from him. 23:00 They were watching as he hung on the cross, they watched 23:03 the whole scene. 23:04 They watched the mob, they took careful notes. 23:06 You know, angels are recording, not only are they guiding. 23:10 Jesus said, In the judgment we'll give an account for every 23:12 idle word that we speak. 23:15 And I think God's got these angels, the angels are there 23:17 when the books are open. 23:19 And I don't know if the Lord uses a hard drive or how he does 23:21 that, but he's got some way the angels record. 23:25 Talks about books. 23:27 And angels were watching and they were recording those 23:29 who mocked Christ on the cross. 23:32 And they took notes when that thief said, Lord, remember me. 23:36 They saw when Jesus was laid in the tomb and the angels could 23:40 not wait for Sunday morning when the signal was given that Jesus 23:46 had paid the penalty of suffering and death. 23:50 He had fulfilled those three days and three nights 23:52 in the hands of Satan, the heart of the earth suffering 23:56 for the sins of the world. 23:58 And God said, Okay go for it. 24:00 And they came and threw aside the stone. 24:02 And angels were there to tell the women. 24:05 when he rose. 24:06 Angels were there when he ascended to heaven, and angels 24:11 are gonna be with him when he comes again. 24:14 It's good to know you're not alone, isn't it? 24:17 You know, Jesus said, I'll be with you always. 24:19 Now Christ is at the right hand of the Father. 24:21 So how is Christ with us? 24:22 Through his spirit? 24:23 And that same spirit is given, God the spirit to the angels, 24:27 and it's given to us, and it's reassuring to know that they're 24:32 always here, present. 24:34 It's also little sobering. 24:37 Jesus said, If you confess my name in this evil and adulterous 24:41 generation, I will confess your name before my Father and his 24:44 angels. 24:45 If you deny me and my name in this evil and adulterous 24:49 generation, I will deny your name before my Father and his 24:51 angels. 24:52 And you look in the book of job, and you see God confessing 24:55 the name of Job before the angels. 24:59 That means that, when we stand up for God in our daily battles, 25:04 the Bible says angels desire to look into the things that are 25:07 happening. 25:09 This plan of salvation is being acted out on a stage, it's 25:11 a theatre to the universe is watching. 25:15 So it's comforting to know angels are watching. 25:17 It can make you nervous to know angels are watching. 25:19 I hope it'll help keep you in the way to know that all 25:23 things are naked and open to the eyes of him with whom we 25:26 have to do. 25:28 God sees everything, amen? 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