December 27 – Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today, December 27th.

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Check yourself before you wreck
yourself.

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Have you ever believed something
because it sounded spiritual,

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looked impressive, or everyone
else was hyping it up only to

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realize later it was wrong?
We live in a world full of

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voices and not all of them are
safe.

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That’s why first John chapter 4
verse one says, Beloved, do not

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believe every spirit, but test
the spirits to see whether they

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are from God.
For many false prophets have

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gone out into the world.
That’s not paranoia, that’s

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wisdom.
Proverbs chapter 30 verses 32 to

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33 gets painfully practical.
If you have been foolish

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exalting yourself, put your hand
on your mouth.

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In other words, stop, pause.
Don’t let pride, ego, or anger

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drive the moment it even says.
Pressing anger produces strife,

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like pressure turning milk into
curds or pressing a nose until

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it bleeds.
If you keep squeezing, something

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ugly comes out.
And if you keep feeding pride

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and anger, it will eventually
wreck relationships, peace, and

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your witness.
Then First Thessalonians chapter

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one, verse 5 reminds you what
real faith looks like.

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For our gospel came to you not
only in Word, but also in power

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and in the Holy Spirit and with
full conviction.

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God’s truth isn’t just loud,
it’s deep.

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It produces conviction,
humility, love, and endurance.

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And Revelation chapter 13 warns
that deception can even come

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with signs that look powerful.
It performs great signs, and by

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the signs it deceives those who
dwell on earth.

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So the test can’t just be, does
it look impressive?

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The test has to be, does it
align with Jesus?

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Does it match God’s word?
Does it produce the fruit of the

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Holy Spirit?
This is where you protect your

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life, slow down your reactions,
humble your heart, and filter

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everything through Scripture.
Not everything that sparkles is

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God, not every spiritual vibe is
holy, and not every strong

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emotion is truth.
Stay grounded, stay humble, stay

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close to Jesus.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, help me hear
your voice clearly in a world

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full of noise.
Teach me to test what I hear and

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see by Your Word and by the
truth of Jesus.

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Guard my heart from pride, anger
and deception.

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Fill me with the Holy Spirit,
with real conviction and with

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humility that listens before it
reacts.

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Keep me steady, faithful and
focused on You in Jesus name,

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Amen.
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strength in your soul, and the

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Proverbs 3032 to 33 World
English Bible.

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If you have done foolishly in
lifting up yourself, or if you

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have thought evil, put your hand
over your mouth.

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For as the churning of milk
produces butter, and the ringing

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of the nose produces blood, so
the forcing of wrath produces

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strife.
First, John 41 to four World

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English Bible.
Beloved, don’t believe every

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spirit, but test the spirits,
whether they are of God, because

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many false prophets have gone
out into the world.

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By this you know the Spirit of
God, every spirit who confesses

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that Jesus Christ has come in
the flesh is of God.

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And every spirit who doesn’t
confess that Jesus Christ has

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come in the flesh is not of God.
And this is the spirit of the

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Antichrist, of whom you have
heard that it comes.

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Now it is in the world already.
You are of God little children,

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and have overcome them because
greater is he who is in you than

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he who is in the world.
First Thessalonians one to two

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world English Bible, Paul,
Sylvanus and Timothy to the

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assembly of the Thessalonians in
God the Father and the Lord

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Jesus Christ.
Grace to you and peace from God

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our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.

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We always give thanks to God for
all of you mentioning you in our

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prayers, remembering without
ceasing your work of faith and

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labor of love and perseverance
of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ

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before our God and Father.
We know, brothers, loved by God,

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that you are chosen, and that
our good news came to you, not

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in Word only, but also in power
and in the Holy Spirit, and with

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much assurance.
You know what kind of men we

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showed ourselves to be among you
for your sake.

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You became imitators of us and
of the Lord, having received the

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Word in much affliction with joy
of the Holy Spirit, so that you

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became an example to all who
believe in Macedonia and in

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Achea.
For from you the Word of the

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Lord has been declared, not only
in Macedonia and Achea, but also

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in every place your faith toward
God has gone out, so that we

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need not to say anything.
For they themselves report

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concerning us what kind of a
reception we had from you, and

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how you turn to God from idols
to serve a living and true God,

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and to wait for his Son from
heaven, whom he raised from the

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dead, Jesus, who delivers us
from the wrath to come.

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For you yourselves know,
brothers, our visit to you

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wasn’t in vain, but having
suffered before and been

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shamefully treated, as you know,
at Philippi we grew bold in our

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God to tell you the good news of
God in much conflict.

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For our exhortation is not of
error, nor of uncleanness, nor

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in deception.
But even as we have been

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approved by God to be entrusted
with the good news, so we speak

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not as pleasing men, but God who
tests our hearts.

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For neither were we at any time
found using words of flattery,

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as you know, nor a cloak of
covetousness.

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God is witness nor seeking glory
from men, neither from you nor

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from others.
When we might have claimed

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authority as apostles of Christ,
but we were gentle among you,

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like a nursing mother cherishes
her own children.

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Even so affectionately longing
for you, we were well pleased to

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impart to you not the good news
of God only, but also our own

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souls, because you had become
very dear to us.

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For you remember, brothers, are
labor and travail for working

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night and day, that we might not
burden any of you, we preach to

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you the good news of God.
You are witnesses with God.

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How holy.
Righteously and blamelessly we

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behaved ourselves towards you
who believe as you know, we

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exhorted, comforted and implored
everyone of you as a father does

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his own children, to the end
that you should walk worthily of

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God who calls you into his own
Kingdom and glory.

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For this ’cause we also thank
God without ceasing, that when

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you received from us the word of
the message of God, you accepted

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it not as the word of men, but
as it is in truth God’s Word,

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which also works in you who
believe.

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For you brothers, became
imitators of the Assemblies of

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God, which are in Judea, in
Christ Jesus.

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For you also suffered the same
things from your own countrymen,

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even as they did from the Jews,
who killed both the Lord Jesus

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and their own prophets and drove
us out and don’t please God, and

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are contrary to all men,
forbidding us to speak to the

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Gentiles, that they may be saved
to fill up their sins always.

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But wrath has come on them to
the uttermost.

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But we brothers, being bereaved
of you for a short season in

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presence, not in heart, tried
even harder to see your face

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with great desire, because we
wanted to come to you.

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Indeed I Paul once and again.
But Satan hindered us.

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For what is our hope or joy or
crown of rejoicing?

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Isn’t it even you before our
Lord Jesus at His coming?

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For you are our glory and our
joy.

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Revelation 13 World English
Bible Then I stood on the sand

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of the sea.
I saw a beast coming up out of

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the sea, having 10 horns and
seven heads.

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On his horns were 10 crowns, and
on his heads blasphemous names.

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The beast which I saw was like a
leopard, and his feet were like

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those of a bear, and his mouth
like the mouth of a lion.

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The dragon gave him his power,
his throne and great authority.

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One of his heads looked like it
had been wounded fatally.

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His fatal wound was healed and
the whole earth marveled at the

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beast.
They worshipped the dragon

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because he gave His authority to
the beast and they worship the

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beast, saying who is like the
beast who is able to make war

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with him?
A mouth speaking great things

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and blasphemy was given to him.
Authority to make war for 42

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months was given to him.
He opened his mouth for

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blasphemy against God, to
blasphemy his name, his dwelling

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and those who dwell in heaven.
It was given to him to make war

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with the Saints and to overcome
them.

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Authority over every tribe,
people, language and nation was

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given to him.
All who dwell on the earth will

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worship him.
Everyone whose name has not been

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written from the foundation of
the world in the book of Life of

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the Lamb who has been killed, If
anyone has an ear, let him hear.

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If anyone is to go into
captivity, he will go into

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captivity.
If anyone is to be killed with a

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sword, he must be killed.
Here is the endurance and the

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faith of the Saints.
I saw another beast coming up

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out of the earth.
He had two horns like a lamb,

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and it spoke like a dragon.
He exercises all the authority

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of the first beast in His
presence.

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He makes the earth and those who
dwell in it to worship the first

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beast whose fatal wound was
healed.

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He performs great signs, even
making fire come down out of the

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sky to the earth in the sight of
people.

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He deceives my own people who
dwell on the earth because of

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the signs He was granted to do
in front of the beast, saying to

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those who dwell on the earth
that they should make an image

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to the beast who had the sword
wound and lived.

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It was given to him to give
breath to the image of the

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beast, that the image of the
beast should both speak, and

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’cause as many as wouldn’t
worship the image of the beast

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to be killed.
He causes all the small and the

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great, the rich and the poor and
the free and the slave to be

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given marks on their right hands
or on their foreheads, and that

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no one would be able to buy or
to sell unless he has that mark,

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which is the name of the beast
or the number of his name.

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Here is wisdom.
He who has understanding, let

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him calculate the number of the
beast, for it is the number of a

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man.
His number is 666.

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