Welcome back to
the Liberty Insider.
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Before the break, I
was starting to read
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and then explicating
a very interesting dream
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that Ellen White,
Seventh-day Adventist pioneer
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and visionary had 100
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and some years ago.
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And I'll start it again because
I interjected with comments,
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but really, it needs
to be read as a whole,
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it's only one paragraph.
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And she said this, "In
the night I was, I thought,
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in a room but
not in my own house.
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I was in a city where I knew not
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and I heard expression after..."
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I'm sorry, that was
how it was first written.
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"I heard
explosion after explosion,"
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she actually wrote.
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It's the dream.
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But I believe God
was impressing something
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on this woman's mind.
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And think about it as
she explains the protocol,
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which I saw on 9/11,
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in front of my
TV, on my TV screen.
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She says, "I
woke up in this dream,
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in that room, I
didn't know where I was."
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She says, "I heard
explosion after explosion."
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Two planes hit
that night or that day.
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"I rose up quickly in
bed and saw from my window,
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large balls of fire,
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jetting out with
sparks in the form of arrows."
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That's what I most
noticed on 9/11these phew...
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And buildings
were being consumed,"
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she said, "and in
a very few minutes,
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the entire block of
buildings was falling.
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And the screeching
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and mournful groans
came distinctly to my ears."
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That's what I remember on 9/11.
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The howl of desperation,
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as the buildings
fell, and she said,
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"I cried out in
my raised position
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to learn what was happening.
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Where am I?
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And where are our family circle,
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where is our family circle?
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Then I awoke,
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but I could not
tell where I was,
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for I was in
another place than home.
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I said, "Oh Lord, where am I?
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And what shall I do?"
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It was a voice that spoke.
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"Be not afraid,
nothing shall harm you."
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To me, that's the message
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that God's people
need to have today.
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That was the message that Daniel
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and his fellows
took very directly
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to their experience.
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You know, I don't
think for a minute
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they thought they
were, they were like
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the God's
warriors for in Africa,
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the little boy
soldiers, they gave them alcohol
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and other stuff
and drugs to drink.
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And they told them that
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the bullets
wouldn't go through them.
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Silly, but you know,
they had that belief.
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I don't think that
the Shadrach, Meshach
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and Abednego and Daniel
thought they were exempt
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from normal
processes of reality,
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but they had enough
faith in God to know
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He would protect them
as they were faithful.
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And if He
intended them to witness,
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then they would witness
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no matter what the
king or anyone else said.
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It's a dynamic we
have to keep in mind today.
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And I do believe in our age,
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there are any number of
forces all around the world
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and even in the United States
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that would restrict
people speaking truth to power,
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truth to their
neighbors and so on.
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Even just today, I was talking
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to one of our
religious liberty leaders,
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who was telling
me of a situation
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where for
internal church reasons
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and disruptions
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in the normal worship and so on,
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some Seventh-day Adventists
have been meeting in their home
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with fellow church
members every Sabbath,
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hundreds of them.
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So it was a major get together
like block party equivalent.
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And the authorities
have come after them,
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threatening
them with major fines
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and saying if they don't pay,
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they'll take
away their property.
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You know, there
are consequences today,
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if you proceed often.
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But you have to
have the firm belief that
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if you're doing God's will,
a way will be made for you.
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Yes, sometimes people
have burned in the fire.
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But we have to believe that
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God has delivered from the fire.
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God has delivered
from the lions' mouth
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and God has delivered people
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from the pestilence
as the Bible says that
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goes by day and by night.
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The error by, what is it?
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The error by day and
the pestilence by night.
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These things are surrounding us,
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but we have to
have faith in God.
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Going further with Daniel,
the very end of his life,
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he was probably
80 some years old.
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Still serving
the powers that be,
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but still loyal to his God.
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I think that was the
secret to why Daniel could go
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from one regime to the other,
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as the Medes and
the Persians overrun
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the Babylonians
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and a new
kingdom was established.
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He was still there
in a point of influence.
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And at the last
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when Belshazzar,
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we're not sure his relation to
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Nebuchadnezzar,
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but he probably
was the grandson.
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He was wining and dining
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and celebrating
even as the Medes
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and the Persians were
coming up attacking the city
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and they eventually overran it.
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And Daniel was
called for the last, why?
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Because God
showed His signal power
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on the wall there,
a moving finger wrote.
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And I've always thought
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that the
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
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is borrowed from
that biblical figure,
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because the Rubáiyát
says the moving finger writes
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and having written moves
on are all your party know
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what can lure it
back to cancel half alone,
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but in reality,
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it's the Bible
account this heavenly finger,
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the angelic finger was writing
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in an in comprehensible
script on the wall.
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It was God signaling
to that corrupt regime
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as Daniel interpret and says,
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your kingdom has
been found wanting.
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And I do believe
that's the message again
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that people have faith
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and integrity even our age
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need to say
whenever it's appropriate.
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Even in the US and
extensively moral society,
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a society guided extensively
by a fixed constitution.
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If it's corrupting justice,
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if it's inappropriately
moving to support some religion
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and not others, the
Constitution says that
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you should support none as
far as state aid and so on.
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But if it's doing
things appropriate,
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we have to speak out,
we have to say, you're,
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you know, you're found wanting.
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We need God not
in our government,
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but in our lives.
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And there might be a
consequence for that.
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But we have to realize that,
that's, you know, that's it.
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The sample, the examples
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of people
standing for their faith,
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even with great
persecution are many and varied.
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And one that, that impressed me
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years and years ago
when I was back working
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in my homeland of Australia,
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I was editing a church
paper for all of our members
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in that whole
region, about 50,000 of them
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at that time in
Australia proper,
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and someone sent me a manuscript
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of the story of missionaries
in the Solomon Islands,
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back when it was worth
your life to go back then.
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A number of
missionaries were killed.
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Even in my lifetime,
I remember a young man
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that visited their homes,
at home when I was growing up.
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He and his wife, a
nurse, newly married,
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went to the Solomon Islands.
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And he was working
in the hospital there
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and a guy came in and
speared him with a rebar,
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sharpened rebar straight through
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and he had to
take a canoe overnight,
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sitting up with
the blood coming out,
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this thing
straight through his body
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trying to get to the
hospital and he died on the way.
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That was in my living memory.
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But as I read this manuscript,
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it told the
story of the missionary
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pioneers there
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and how they
converted some of the locals
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and one local named Jugah
was left behind on an island.
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Not his own, to witness to them
for Christianity with his wife.
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And eventually, the antagonisms
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against this new
religion was so great
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that he and his wife
had to flee for their life
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along a village
track, a jungle track.
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They ran for their lives.
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She trailed behind,
and she was cut down,
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killed and eaten.
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And he made it to
the coast swam out
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to a gunboat back in
the days of colonialism,
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which fired a few cannon shots.
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And they said to him,
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because he swam
out to the gunboat,
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and they said, "Well,
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we'll take you
back to Australia."
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Now he says, "No." He
says, "I'm going back."
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So they took him back
to the scene of the attack.
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They found just a few fingers
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of his wife's hand that was all,
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rest had been eaten.
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They put that under a rock kiln
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and on the rock kiln
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he wrote on a
wood marker he says,
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direct quote from the Bible,
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"The Word of God is not bound."
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And he continue there
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and in that part
of the world today,
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there are whole islands
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that are Seventh-day Adventists,
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whole islands
that are Christian,
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and many of those
people became missionaries
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to other parts of the world.
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His wife died, he did not die.
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The fires and the
teeth of the crocodiles,
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the crocodiles, in
that part of the world,
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teeth of the lion come and go.
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But God's promise is
as sure now as before,
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do not worry, it
will not come near you.
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But as with Daniel,
as with his fellows,
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I believe the
call is given to us.
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Stand fast, stand firm.
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You know, we
don't need to be careful
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answering your king.
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We don't need to be careful
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because we serve
the God of heaven.
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I'll be back
after a short break.
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