PROTESTANT PROPHETS AND WORLD ECONOMY #4
Continued from previous page:
There will be many comments I will have on this section of David
Jeremiah's teachings. MY very first comment is: The
fundamentalists get the man "beast" and the "false prophet" of
the book of Revelation mixed up, and turned around backwards. The
anti-christ IS the FALSE PROPHET of Revelation. The man "beast"
is the political/military leader - Keith Hunt
Satan's CEO
....As we are about to discover, the Antichrist is indeed the CEO
of Satan's evil enterprise. As CEO, he carries out every wish of
Satan and is empowered to do whatever Satan bids him to do. The
Antichrist is described in 2 Thessalonians as "the man of sin"
and "the son of perdition" (2:3). He is also identified with "the
first beast" of Revelation 13, as "the little horn" of Daniel
7:8, and with offering the "abomination of desolation" of Matthew
24:15.....
This man of 2 Thessalonians, and the "little horn" of Daniel IS
THE PAPACY!! It is THE leading man of the Roman Catholic church;
it is the man who is willing to be called by many in that church
organization "God on earth." Years ago when the Pope visited a
South American country, a TV interviewer asked a young lady (she
looked to be about 20 years old) what she thought of the coming
of the Pope. Her reply was shocking, she said bluntly, "He is God
on earth." Many studies on this Website under "Prophecy" and "End
times" will prove who the Beasts of Daniel and Revelation are -
Keith Hunt
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Daniel's dream foretold the coming of the Antichrist. The
word antichrist refers, of course, to one who is against Christ.
But the prefix "anti," which we know to mean "against," can also
mean "instead of." In the Tribulation, the Antichrist will seek
to be a substitute for Christ. Since Christ is the "Anointed
One," or "the Messiah," the Antichrist will claim to be the
Messiah... a pseudo-Christ, if you will. He will be both in
opposition to Christ and in imitation of Him.
The English word antichrist is found in only four biblical
verses. All four are from the writings of the apostle John (1
John 2:18, 22: 4:3; 2 John 7). When John writes of the
Antichrist, he seems to be addressing the contemporary spirit of
the Antichrist more than the actual evil person who will appear
in the last days. Paul seems to be addressing the same principle
when he writes, "For the mystery of lawlessness is already at
work" (2 Thessalonians 2:7). According to John and Paul, the
spirit of the Antichrist is at work even before the person of the
Antichrist is revealed.
There are more than twenty-five different titles given to
the Antichrist, all of which help to paint a picture of the most
despicable man ever to walk on the earth. Some people think he is
Satan incarnate. We know for certain that Satan gives him his
power, his throne, and his authority.....
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No he will not claim he is Christ on earth. He will not claim he
is very God. But he will not stop people from saying, like the young
lady in that south American country, "He is God on earth." The
anti-christ will claim he is directly inspired by God, hence in
that sense he will be God on earth. He will be able to perform
miracles and so boost his claim to be directly God and Christ's
man on earth. He will sound very "Christian" - over ONE BILLION
follow him even now as I enter this in 2010. But his religion is
Babylon Mystery - false pagan teaching and practices dressed us
in Christian clothes and mixed with some truths, hence very
deceptive indeed. Satan will indeed be behind this religious
leader if not directly inside of him. Then again when I think about
it, he may in his miracle working vanity even go so far as to claim
he is God come to earth - Keith Hunt
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The Coming of the Antichrist
The Antichrist will make his debut in history at the
beginning of the Tribulation (see Daniel 9:24-27). Some of the
same words used to describe his appearing on the earth are also
used to describe the appearing of the Lord Jesus. According to 2
Thessalonians 2:3, the Antichrist is going to be revealed.
"Revealed" is translated from the Greek word "apokalupto," which
means "to make visible to the eye." That word is also used in
reference to Jesus Christ's appearing in 2 Thessalonians 1:7,
where we are told that "the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven
with His mighty angels" (emphasis added). Just as there will be a
time when the Lord Jesus will be revealed, so there will be a
time when the Antichrist will be revealed.
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And so indeed it is written and so it will come to pass - Keith
Hunt
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When the subject of the Antichrist is mentioned, people
inevitably have a myriad of questions, such as: Who is he? Is he
alive on the earth today? When will he be revealed?
In his second letter to the Thessalonians, Paul answers some
of these questions. He provides a context for the coming of the
Antichrist by listing certain things that must happen on earth
before he can be revealed. Notice that I did not say before he
will be born. There are no signs pointing to the birth of the
Antichrist. For all we know he may already have been born. But
before he can be revealed - before he can be identified as the
Antichrist - certain events must take place. Let's look at those
events one by one.
Rapture of the church
The Rapture of the church will precede the revelation of the
Antichrist.....
The Rapture must occur before the Tribulation begins, which
tells us that the Rapture is a necessary prerequisite to the
revealing of the Antichrist.
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Here is where the fundamentalists of Christianity begin to wander
off the straight and narrow pathway of Bible prophecy. They teach
a "secret rapture." They teach that Jesus will return in TWO
PHASES - one invisibly and the second, 7 years later, visible. No
such teaching can be found in the Bible, either in the OT or the
NT. The teaching is based upon mixing up verses or cutting in two
verses that are one whole, and do not or should not be cut in
two. I have covered in great detail on this Website, the
expounding of this false "secret rapture" teaching. The craziest
part of this teaching is that "Christians" driving school buses,
driving taxi cabs, piloting airplanes, driving trains, and the like,
will in a split second disappear - you can imagine not only the
chaos but the deaths of innocent people and children. God is not
such a person as to let this kind of event happen, on that scale
all over the earth - Keith Hunt
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The Rejection of the Truth
In 2 Thessalonians 2:3, Paul assures us that the Antichrist will
not be revealed until after the world sees a widespread rejection
of God's truth: "Let no one deceive you by any means; for that
Day will not come unless the falling away comes first."
The key to understanding this verse is found in Paul's use of
"that Day." This is a shortened version of "the day of the Lord,"
which the apostle uses three times in his letters (see 1
Corinthians 5:5; 2 Corinthians 1:14; 1 Thessalonians 5:2).....
As Paul tells the Thessalonians believers, "that day" will
not come until there is first a "falling away." The Greek word
for "falling away" is the word "apostasia," which appears only
one other time in the New Testament. There it is translated
"forsake" (Acts 21:21). Paul is telling us that before the
Tribulation comes, before the Antichrist can be revealed, there
will be a falling away, a forsaking on the part of professing
believers. Because the article "the" precedes "falling away," we
are to understand that this is a specific apostasy. It is
probable that some of the persecution and suffering of the
Tribulation period will have begun to escalate in the days before
the Rapture. When those who merely profess to be Christians
experience this time of testing, they will "fall away" from the
faith.
Spiritual apostasy is not an ignorance of truth; it is a
departure from truth. It occurs when a person forsakes truths
that he formerly believed. In other words, it is premeditated and
deliberate.....
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This prophecy in 2 Thessalonians is only partly understood by the
funny-mentals. The falling away started towards end of the first
century A.D. The Roman Catholic church came OUT OF the very true
Apostolic church of God. And its head leader and bishops have
continued to fall away from THE faith once delivered to the
saints over the last 2,000 years. The man of sin was manifest in
Rome in the first century A.D. and will culminate in the final
"false prophet" of Revelation - the anti-christ - THE man of sin,
the miracle working man of sin. I have a full in-depth study of
this prophecy of 2 Thes.2 on this Website - Keith Hunt
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Paul wrote about this coming apostasy in his second letter
to Timothy: "For the time will come when they will not endure
sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they
have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and
they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned
aside to fables" (2 Timothy 4:3-4).....
Paul alerts his young friend Timothy to a future "falling
away" with a warning similar to that which he gave the
Thessalonians: "Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter time
some will depart from the faith" (1 Timothy 4:1).....
In so much of organized religion today there is a growing
resistance to biblical truth. Most of us are familiar with the
faith compromises that many mainstream American churches have
made in recent years. Though the following list is far from
exhaustive, it identifies some of the most common deceptions that
have crept into these churches:
* Denial of the deity of Jesus Christ
* Denial of the inspiration, inerrancy, and absolute authority of
the Bible
* Denial of biblical creation, the historicity of Adam and Eve,
and a historical Fall
* Denial of Jesus Christ as the only means of salvation
* Denial of the supernatural and historical miracles of Scripture
* Denial of Israel's status as God's chosen people through His
covenant with Abraham
* Denial of the virgin birth, substitutionary death, and the
bodily resurrection of Jesus
* Denial of Christ's return, His righteous judgment, and eternal
rewards and punishment.....
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Some Roman Catholic bishops do deny some of the above. But there
is more to it than this. The falling away has been happening in
the Protestant churches, who are the daughters of Mystery Babylon
the Great - she is said to have daughters in the book of
Revelation. Prophecy has indeed been fulfilled - the mother Rome
church gave birth to daughters, who came out of her in "protest"
over a few of her indulgences. Many churches in the Protestant
world today sanction abortion; they allow practicing homosexuals
and lesbians into their congregations; they even ordain to the
ministry homosexuals and lesbians; some do not believe in the
Bible as fully inspired by God; and there is a push in the RC
church as well as many Protestant churches to ordain women to the
priesthood or ministry. Some churches partake in "gambling" to
bring in revenue for their church. Those are some of the modern
moves away from truth. Other truths they have departed from
centuries ago - God's Festivals of Leviticus 23 and the correct
weekly Sabbath on the 7th day - Keith Hunt
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While we may not yet be experiencing the full-blown apostasy
that Paul speaks of in 2 Thessalonians and 1 Timothy, we are
surely on the leading edge of it. "Evil men and seducers shall
wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived" (2 Timothy
3:13 KJV). In my more than forty years as a pastor, there has
never been a time when biblical truths, historical facts, and
moral absolutes have beer so increasingly up for grabs.
This age will close in a great falling away. This is a
prophetic fact of Scripture that nothing can alter, for it is
indelibly set in the councils of God. The Antichrist cannot be
revealed before either the Rapture or the great apostasy occurs.
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Certainly he will not be revealed before more and more truth of
the Word of God is departed from. He will be revealed before a
secret rapture, because no secret rapture will ever happen -
Keith Hunt
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The Removal of the Holy Spirit
The Bible tells us that before the Antichrist can be
revealed, the Holy Spirit must be removed. "And now you know what
is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the
mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now
restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way" (2
Thessalonians 2:6-7). "He who restrains" is a reference to the
Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit, acting through the church, is
currently engaged in a strong effort to hold back evil and to
delay the appearance of the Antichrist.....
After the Rapture, when the church and the Holy Spirit are
removed, Satan will be released to dominate completely without
any hindrance or restraint. While it is true that the "mystery of
iniquity" is already at work in the earth (2 Thessalonians 2:7
KJV), it is being restrained or held back by the ministry of the
Holy Spirit, the influence of believers, and the salt and light
of the church. During the Tribulation, however, the restraint
will have been removed and iniquity will go unchallenged.....
After the Rapture of the church, after the rejection of the
truth. After the removal of the Holy Spirit, then, and not until
then, will the Antichrist, the man of sin, the son of perdition,
be revealed (see Thessalonians 2:3).....
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There will be no secret rapture - it is a false doctrine. The
Holy Spirit will not disappear from the earth, because God's
people will not vanish from the earth. Some will find safety in
the wilderness, as they did during the middle ages, when the
Roman Babylon whore rode the beast, as it was called the Holy
Roman Empire (Rev.12). Some will be converted during the time of
the Great Tribulation and Day of the Lord - the last 42 months of
this age, as given in Revelation. 144 thousand of the tribes of
Israel will be converted. The two witnesses of Revelation 11 will be
preaching the truths of God in the city of Jerusalem for 42
months or 1260 days, also working miracles. The Holy Spirit will
be very much at work on this earth during the 42 months end times
of this age. See my expounding of the book of Revelation under
"The New Testament Bible Story" on this Website - Keith Hunt
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The Characteristics of the Antichrist
....The Bible is silent about the identity of the Antichrist. We
cannot now know who he is, but we can know what he is. Both the
Old and the New Testaments contain more than one hundred passages
that describe the Antichrist, which means that God obviously
wants us to know something about this coming prince of darkness.
Let's review some of his more prominent attributes.
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Wrong again by the fundamental prophets - the anti-christ CAN BE
KNOWN! He will be the head of the Roman Catholic faith - he will
be the Pope of that day. The organization that Satan has used
through the centuries to persecute and kill the saints of the
Lord has been the Roman Catholic church - it is in the history
books as clear as the nose on your face - sticking out as clear
as the nose on your face. It is written that Babylon church will
yet, once more, at the end time, persecute and kill the true
saints of God - Keith Hunt
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He Will Be a Dynamic Leader
In Daniel 7:8 we are told that the Antichrist has "a mouth
speaking pompous words." Not only pompous words, but "pompous
words against the Most High" (Daniel 7:25). The NIV translates
"pompous" as "boastful." John, writing in Revelation says, "And
he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies"
(Revelation 13:5). John uses two Greek words, "megas" and
"blasphmea," neither of which needs explanation. The Antichrist
knows the power of the spoken word!
As Satan's CEO, the Antichrist will also be his public
voice. He will be able to sway crowds with his eloquence. He
will, no doubt, be a superb television communicator. People will
naturally want to follow him. Orators like Abraham Lincoln,
Winston Churchill, John R Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and
yes, even Adolf Hitler, were masters at captivating and moving
large audiences. But even their best and most passionate speeches
would be dull compared to the rhetoric of the Antichrist.....
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And is it not so today? When the Pope speaks to audiences do they
not turn out by the tens/hundreds of thousands to hear him speak?
Yes they do, and give that Pope the ability to work miracles, and
see how the people will react and turn to him - Keith Hunt
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He Will Be a Defiant Leader
The Antichrist will be the most defiant, arrogant, proud,
and selfimpressed person who has ever walked on this earth.....
Paul describes him as: "the son of perdition. who opposes and
exalts himself above all that is called God or that is
worshipped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing
himself that he is God" (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4).
Satan will put his CEO on display in the temple of God,
showing himself to be god. By this time, the Jews will have
rebuilt the temple in Jerusalem. As a condition of his covenant
with Israel, the Antichrist will allow the Jewish sacrificial
system to be restored. But once the Jews have served his purpose,
he will push them aside. He will surround Jerusalem with his
troops and seize their temple. And then, as one last mockery of
God, Satan will install his man of sin as god in the temple.....
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MORE utter garbage by the funny-mental on prophecy. There will be
no temple built by the Jews; there will be no sacrifices of
animals by the Jews; there will be no covenant treaty signed
between the Jews and the anti-christ, so there will be no
covenant to break; and the man of sin will not sit in some
physical temple build by the Jews. All of this I have covered in
detail in other prophetic studies on this Website and on the
Youtube - under 1horsesrcool - Keith Hunt
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He Will Be a Deceitful Leader
"The coming of the lawless one is according to the working
of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders" (2
Thessalonians 2:9). Power, signs, and wonders are all words that
describe the genuine miracles of Christ. However, those same
three words in this passage are modified to describe the false
miracles of the Antichrist "power, signs, and lying wonders." The
difference is that the word lying discredits the Antichrist's
so-called miracles. Satan will empower him to perform certain
signs and lying wonders, and the whole world will marvel and say,
"Who is like the beast?" (Revelation 13:4).
The Antichrist will deceive many into believing his lie.
Those who have heard the gospel and rejected it will be sent a
deception so strong that they will not be able to believe the
truth even if they want to. As Paul explains it, the work of
Satan through the Antichrist will bring about "all unrighteous
deception among those who perish, because they did not receive
the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this
reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should
believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not
believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness" (2
Thessalonians 2:10-12).....
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This is very true - Jeremiah got this correct - oh put out the
flags! They can at times read the simple words of the Lord and
get it correct! Wonders never cease! Notice if you do not receive
the truth, search for it, seek it with all your heart and mind -
you will be given over to lies and delusion and the pleasures of
unrighteousness. And with that comes condemnation from God -
Keith Hunt
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He Will Be a Diabolical Leader
In the early stages of his career, the Antichrist will be
admired and loved. But as soon as he has gained the confidence of
the people and total control of the world, he will spring his
trap and initiate his murderous deeds. The Bible says he will
persecute the saints (see Daniel 7:21-25), kill the two witnesses
(see Revelation 11:7), and be used to lead all the nations
against Jerusalem (see Zechariah 14:1-3). His heart will be
filled with a murderous hatred for the Jewish people and the
believing Gentiles.
The Antichrist will ultimately be revealed for who he is
when he breaks the covenant with Israel that we mentioned
above.....
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No covenant will be signed with any Jews, that is false doctrine,
but Jeremiah is correct when he says the anti-christ will
persecute and murder (use his powerful influence to have the army
and police do the persecuting and killing of the true saints) -
Keith Hunt
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Israel, fatigued by its decades of continual conflict and
vigilance, will sign the covenant with the Antichrist.
Immediately the Jews will turn their attention and their economy
away from defense and concentrate on building the financial
wealth of their nation.
"But in the middle of the week [after three and one-half
years] he shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on
the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, even
until the consummation.. which is determined, is poured out on
the desolate" (Daniel 9:27).
Suddenly the Antichrist will turn on the unsuspecting and
now unprepared Jews. He will shut down their worship, and defy
and humiliate them by desecrating the holy temple.
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No he will not! For no covenant will be signed between Jews and
this anti-christ false prophet. This teaching of the fundamentals
is out of Daniel 9 and the 70 week prophecy. The Protestant old
Bible Commentaries understood it correctly, but the new modern
fundamental prophets have it all WRONG! The truth of this passage
in Daniel is explained on this Website, and also on my studies on
Youtube - 1horsesrcool - Keith Hunt
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He Will Be a Dramatic Leader
The book of Revelation records a prophecy that demonstrates
the lengths to which Satan will be allowed to go in his final
attempt to seduce the world. Speaking of the Antichrist, John
writes: "And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally
wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world
marvelled and followed the beast" (Revelation 13:3).
As we have noted above, Satan's strategy is to imitate God.
As these passages show, that imitation will apparently even go so
far as to imitate the Resurrection. It is not hard to imagine
that when the Antichrist's apparent death stroke is healed, the
entire world will be so astounded that they will willingly follow
him.....
Up until this moment in his career, the Antichrist will have
rule the world politically. But from this moment on, he will
demand to be worshipped. And, as John tells us, this demand will
be met: "And all the world marvelled and followed the beast. So
they worshipped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and
they worshipped the beast, saying, `Who is like the beast? Who is
able to make war wit` him?"' (Revelation 13:3-4).
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Jeremiah comes up with some out of this world, planet Pluto talk
about this anti-christ being killed and then being resurrected
back to life. He does not understand the Beasts of Daniel and
Revelation. You need to study my study on this Website called
"The Beasts of Daniel and Revelation" and get straight on that
subject - Keith Hunt
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He Will Be a Defeated Leader
No power will be able to stop the Antichrist until the Lord
returns with His saints at the end of the Tribulation period.
Then we are told that the Lord will destroy him with the breath
of His mouth. "And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom
the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy
with the brightness of His coming" (2 Thessalonians 2:8). "He
shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the
breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked" (Isaiah 11:4).....
....When we are told that the Antichrist will be destroyed, that
does not mean that he will be annihilated. He will continue to
exit throughout eternity, but he will be defeated and rendered
inoperative. His power and his purposes will be destroyed. As
Daniel puts it. "He shall be broken without human means" (Daniel
8:25).
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And of course the funny-mentals have to bring in the false
doctrine of the "immortal soul" - they still teach the ever
burning hell-fire for the wicked, who will anguish in some sort
of pain for all eternity - Keith Hunt
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He Will Be a Doomed Leader
The prophet Daniel describes the final doom of the
Antichrist: "I watched till the beast was slain, and its body
destroyed and given to the burning flame" (Daniel 7:11).
John's description parallels that of Daniel: "Then the beast was
captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in hi,
presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the
beast and those who worshipped his image. These two were cast
alive e into the lake of fire burning with brimstone" (Revelation
19:20).
Not only do these passages paint a clear picture of the doom
of the Antichrist and the False Prophet, they add the interesting
fact that these two henchmen of Satan arrive in hell long before
he does. If we fast-forward one thousand years to the end of the
Millennium, we read: "The devil, who deceived them, was cast into
the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false
prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and
ever" (Revelation 20:10). The Beast and the False Prophet will
have been in hell for a thousand years before Satan joins them at
the end of the Millennium.....
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The truth of death, hell, and heaven, are fully expounded in
detail with many studies on this Website. It is a large topic,
many hours of study are needed to understand what the Bible
teaches on this matter. The reader is encouraged to take the time
and study the studies dealing with death, hell, and heaven. The
Roman Catholics and the Protestants have it all wrong!
Keith Hunt
To be continued
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