ohel moshe biblical enigmas booki2s
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OHEL MOSHE
BIBLICAL
ENIGMAS
BOOKI2S MOSHE SISELSENDER
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THE MEDRISH STATES IN
BERAISIS THAT ONE OF THE
REASONS THE TORAH BEGINS
WITH BERAISHIS IS BECAUSE OF
AM YISROEltTHE)EWISH
PEOPLE. TH"'E JEWISH PEOPLE
ARE CALLED BERAISHIS IN THE
BEGINNING.
ANOTHER REASON IS BECAUSE
OFTHETORAH.THETORAHI
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CALLED BERAISHI IN THE
BEGINNING.
THE MEANING OF THE
MEDRISH IS THAT GOD
CREATED THE WORLD FOR THE
PURPOSE OF THE JEWISH
PEOPLE TO STUDY AND
OBSERVE THE MITZVOTH OF
THE TORAH AND ABSTAIN
FROM THE LAVIM THE
PROHIBITIONS IN THE TORAH.
QUESTION [1]
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IF THAT IS THE CASE WHY DID
GOD WAIT 2000 YAESR FROM
CREATION YEAR 1 UNTIL THE
GIVING OF THE TORAH AT
MOUNT SINAI YEAR 2300? WHY
DIDN'T GOD GIVE ALL THE
TORAH TO ADAM AND EVE AT
YEAR 1?
QUESTION [2]
WHY DIDN'T GOD GIVE ALL
THE TORAH TO AVROHOM
OVINU OUR FATHER
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ABRAHAM? GOD MADE A
COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM
THAT GOD WOULD
RECOGNIZE HIS CHILDREN AS
THE CHOSEN PEOPLE WHO
WOULD INHERIT ISRAEL. WHY
DIDN'T GOD GIVE HIM THE
TORAH?
ALTHOUGH ABRAHAM
OBSERVED AND KNEW THE
TORAH SUCH OBSERVANCE
WAS VOLUNTARY. ABRAHAM
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WAS NOT COMPELLED TO
OBERVE. ABRAHAM WROTE
THE PRASHIOT THE SCROLLS OF
THE TEFl LIN HE WORE.
HOWEVER J SUCH SCROLLS
WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN
KOSHER TO BE USED BY JEWS
AFTER THEY RECEIVED THE
TORAH IN YEAR 2300 AFTER
CREATION. SCROLLS MUST BE
WRITTEN BY A JEW WHO IS
COMMNADED TO WEAR THE
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TEFILIN. ABRAHAM WAS NOT
COMMENDED. EVEN THE
SCROLLS WRITTEN BY MOSHE
RABENU MOSES OUR TEACHER
BEFORE RECEIVING THE TORAH
WERE NOT KOSHER AFTER
RECEIVING THE TORAH FOR
THE SAME REASON. THAT IS
THE REASON THAT SCROLLS OF
TEFILIN WRITTEN BY WOMEN
TODAY ARE NOT KOSHER
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BECAUSE WIMEN ARE NOT
COMMENDED TO WEAR
THEM. THE REASON IS
BECAUSE WOMEN ARE NOT
COMMENDED TO OBSERVE
ANY MITZVOD COMMNDMENT
THAT IS TIME BOUND. TEFILLIN
ARE TIME BOUND. ONE CAN
NOT OBSERVE THE MITZVOH
AT NIGHT OR ON SABBATH OR
HOLIDAYS.
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[3] WHY WAS IT NECESSARY
FOR GOD TO HAVE THE
CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM THE
JEWS BE IN BONDAGE IN
EGYPT? GOD COULD HAVE
GIVEN THE LAND OF ISRAEL TO
ABRAHAM. IF THE SINS OF THE
INHABITANTS OF ISRAEL THE
NON JEWS DID NOT MERIT
THEIR EXPULSION -WERE NOT
RIPE FOR PUNISHMENT- UNTIL
AN OTHER 400 YEARS, WHY IS
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IT NECESSARY FOR THE JEWS
TO BE ENSLAVED TORTURED
AND MURDERED IN EGYPT FOR
210 YEARS FROM 2100 TO 2310
AFTER CREATION? TRUE FROM
THE TIME OF THE COVENANT
WITH ABRAHAM 1900TO 2310
IT IS 400 YEARS, HOWEVER TH E
ENSLAVEMENT WAS ONLY 210
YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF
LEVI THE SON OF JACOB IN THE
YEAR 2100 AFTER CREATION.
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[4] WHY DID JACOB LISTEN TO
HIS MOTHER AND STEAL THE
BLESSINGS FROM HIS BROTHER
ESOV? EVEN THOUGH JACOB
WAS A BEN NOAH SON OF
NOAH OBSERVING THE 7
PRINCIPLS
[1] NOT WORSHIP IDOLS
[2] NOT STEAL
[3]NOT KILL
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[4]NOT COMMIT ADULTERY
[5] ESTABLISH COURTS OF LAW
[6] EXERCISE ENFORCE LAWS
BY POLICE AND ARMY
[7] NOT CRUEL TO ANIMALS.
NON JEWS CAN LEGISLATE
THEMSELVES AND USE THEIR
OWN INTERPRETATION FOR
THESE PRINCIPLES
EXAMPLE CODE OF
HAMMURABI 4000 YEAR OLD
10,000 CLAY TABLETS FOUND 12
IN 1910 OF HAMURABI CODE.
WRITTEN IN DIALECT OF
HBREW.
REBECCA NEVERTHELESS WAS
COMMANDED NOT TO STEAL?
WHY DID REBECCA ADVISE
JACOB TO FOOL ISAAC AND
STEAL THE BLESSINGS
INTENDED FOR ESSAU?
IN ADDITION TO VIOLATING
THE COMMNADMENT NOT TO
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STEAL, SHE PLACED JACOB IN
MORTAL DANGER THAT ESSAU
WOULD KILL HIM?
[5] WHY DID ABRAHAM
CONSIDER SACRIFICING ISAAC
WHEN GOD PROMISED HIM
THAT GOD WOULD GIVE ISRAEL
TO THE CHILDREN OF ISAAC?
AT THE TIME OF THE AKEIDA
WHEN ABRAHAM WAS
BRINGING ISAAC TO BE A
SACRIFICE ISAAC WAS NOT YET
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MARRIED AND HAD NO
CHILDREN?
ABRAHAM SHOULD HAVE
DECLINED AND QUESTION GOD
THAT GOD CLEARLY
CONTRADICTED HIMSELF?
THE ANSWER IS THAT
ABRAHAM BELIEVED WITH
TRUE FAITH THAT THERE
EXISTED NO CONTRADICTION.
ABRAHAM WAS 1 MILLION %
CERTIN THAT GOD WOULD
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SEND AN ANMAL AS
SUBSTITUTE AS ASACRIFICE
INSTEAD OF ISAAC.
SO ABRAHAM DELIVERED
ISAAC AS A SACRIFICE IB
OBEDIENCE OF GOD'S
COMMNAD.
BUT DID NOT KILL HIM AGAIN
IN CONFIRMITY WITH GOD'S
PROMISE THAT ISAAC AND HIS
CHILDREN WILL COMPOSE THE
CHOSEN PEOPLE.
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WHAT ABRAHAM IS CREDITED
IS NOT FOR KILLING ISAAC BUT
RTAHER IN BLIEVING IN GOD'S
PROMISE. AND FOLLOWING
GOD'S COMMANAD TO
DELIVER ISAAC AS A SACRIFICE,
THAT HE DID. ABRAHAM
FOLLOWED ALL THE STEPS
WITH ISAAC THAT ARE
PRELIMINARY TO OFFERING A
SACRIFICE.
GOD DID NOT SAY
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II KI LL ISAAC. II
ANOTHER UESION IS
WHY DID JACOB SHOW
FAVORITISM TO JOSEPH BY
GETTING HIM A COLORED
COAT?
JACOB ESCAPED WITH HIS LIFE
AFTER HE STOLE THE
BLESSINGS FROM ESSAU.
WHY DID JACOB PLACE
JOSEPH'S LIOFE IN JEAPORDY
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BY SHOWING FAVORITISM FOR
JOSEPH?
THE EVENTS THAT FOLLOWED
THAT JOSEPH WAS SOLD INTO
SLAVERY BY HIS BROTHERS
COULD HAVE BEEN
ANTICIPATED BY JACOB.
WHY THEN DID JACOB ACT
THE WAY HE DID?
DO ALL TH ESE EVENTS
PORTRAY THE MATRIARCHS
AND THE PATRIARCHS AS NOT
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BEING SUCH PRUDENT AND
WISE PEOPLE?
[5] THE MATRIARCHS AND
PATRIARCHS WERE PROPHETS.
WHY DIDN'T GOD INTERVENE
AND TELL THEM THE
CONSEQUENSES OF THEIR
ACTIONS?
[7] WHAT WAS THE MASTER
PLAN THAT GOD HAD IN ALL
OF TH ESE EVENTS?
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THE ANSWER IS THAT GOD
WANTED TO PRESENT THE
TORAH TO THE
CONGREGATION OF ISRAEL TO
A MULTITUDE OF OVER
600,000 JEWS OVER 20 YEARS,
AS WELL AS, MILLIONS OF
OTHER JEWS AND JEWESSES
AND NON JEWS.
WOULD GOD HAVE GIVEN THE
TORAH TO ADAM OR
ABRAHAM THEN FUTURE
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GENERATIOS COULD BE
SKEPTICLE OF TH E TRUTH OF
REVELATION AND THE GIVING
OF THE TORAH.
HOWEVER WHEN THE TORAH
WAS RECEIVED BY MILLIONS OF
JEWS JEWESSES AND NON
JEWS DESCENDANTS OF THESE
PEOPLE WOULD POINT TO
THEIR FATHER GRANDFATHER
AND ALL THE WAY BACK TO
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THEIR FAMILY MEMBER WHO
HEARD GOD RECITE
II I AM YOUR GOD"
II DO NOT HAVE ANY OTHER
gods BESI DE GOD."
THE JEWS JEWESSES AND NON
JEWS HEARD THE REST OF THE
10 COMMNADMENTS AND ALL
THE REST OF THE TORAH FROM
MOSES AARON AND THE
ELDERS.
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THE JEWS WROTE THE DOWN
WHAT THEY HEARD THE TORAH
ON PARCHMENTS THAT THEY
TOOK WITH THEM WHEN THEY
LEFT EGYPT.
THUS IT WAS NECESSARY TO
WAIT UNTIL THE CHILDREN OF
ABRAHAM BECAM E A
MULTITUDE OF PEOPLE IN THE
MILLIONS. IT TOOK 400 YEARS
FROM THE TIME OF THE
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COVENANT IN THE YEAR 1900
FROM CREATION.
GOD WANTED THE JEWS TO BE
INDEBTED TO HIM THAT HE
REDEEMED THEM FROM
SLAVERY IN EGYPT.
IN THAT WAY THEY WOULD
FEEL OBLIGATED TO BE THE
SLAVES OF GOD.
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NOTHING IS
GIVEN FOR
FREE.
ONE MUST
EARN THE
REWARD. 26
TORAH AND THE LAND OF
ISRAEL ARE TH E REWARD.
THE JEWS HAD TO EXPERIENCE
SLAVERY IN ORDER TO GAIN
THE COMPASSION TO OBSERVE
THE MITZVOHS BETWEEN MAN
AND MAN.
THEY GOT THE COMPASSION
BY BEING SLAVES IN EGYPT.
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HE
MATRIARCHS
AND
PATRIARCHS
DI NOT
POSSESS
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COMPLETE
FREE WIL .
GOD PLANTED
CERTAIN IDEAS
IN THEIR
MINDS THAT 29
WITH OUR
BACKSITE 4000
YEARS LATER
TH Y SHOULD
HAVE TAKEN
AN OTHER
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COURSE OF
ACTION. IT WAS GOD WHO PLANTED
THE IDEAS IN REBECCA'S HEAD
TO PLOT TO FOOL ISAAC TO
GIVE HIS BLESSINGS TO JACOB
RATHER THAN ESSAU AS ISAAC
HAD PLANNED.
REBECCA WAS THE
DOMINANT INDIVIDUAL AND
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CONSPIRED WITH JACOB TO
ST AL TH E BLESSI NGS FROM
SSAU.
WOULD ESSAU AVE RECEIVED
THE BLESSINGS HE A HI
CHILDR N WOULD HAV
GOTTEN TH ELAN D OF ISRAEL.
THIS WAS OT WHAT GOD
WANTED.
RECECCA WAS A BRILLIANT
WOMAN WITH EXCEPTIONAL
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AND RARE JUDGEMNET AND
INTUITION.
S E AD TO MAKE A DIFFICULT
CHOIC BETWEEN TWO OF HER
TWINS JACOB A D ESSAU.
W ICH ONE OF HER TWI S
WOULD TEACH HEIR
CHILDREN THE SANCTITY OF
THE TORAH THE DIVIN LAW.
W ICH OF THE DEC NDANTS
WOULD E BETTER
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POSI I NED TO B THE
CHOS N PEOPLE?
EVEN IF GOD WOUl NOT
HAVE INT RFEARED SH
WOULD HAV MADE THE
CHOICE OF JACOB AN HIS
POSTERITY. SH KNEW
THAT JACO AND HIS
CHllDR N WERE TH BETTER
CANDIDAT S TO WIN THE lAND
OF ISRAEL B CAUSE THEY
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WOULD ACCEPT THE TORAH
AND PRCTICE THE MITZVOHS.
LIKEWISE, GOD PLANTED IN
JACOB'S HEAD TO FAVOR
JOSEPH AND DISPLAYED HIS
EMOTION BY GETTING HIM A
SPECIAL COLORED SUIT. GOD
MADE JACOB THROW CAUTION
TO THE WIND AND NOT
SUSPECT THAT THE JEALOUSY
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AND FEAR OF HIS OTHER
C I LDREN WOU LD EXPLODE.
JACOB'S OTHER CHILDR N
SUSPECTED T AT THEY WOULD
BE SIDELINED AND DEPRIV D
BY JOS PH OF TH IR RIGHTFUL
INHERIT NCE. JOS PH AND
HIS CHIL REN WOULD
B COME TH ONLY CHOSEN
P OPLE. TH Y WOUL
SUF ER T E SM FATE AS
ESSAU.
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JACOB WAS TOTALLY BLIND
AND UNAWARE.
GOD ERAS D ANY F AR T AT A
PRUDENT P RSON SHOULD
HAVE HAD.
THIS AC ION BY GOD WAS
PART OF THE MASTER PLAN OF
GTTING JOS PH INTO EGYPT.
GOD WOULD THE S APE
EV NTS THAT JOS PH IS SOLD
TO POTI PH ER.
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POTIPHER'S WIFE FALSELY
CHARGES JOSEPH OF
ATTEMPTED RAPE.
JOSEPH IS TH ROWN INTO
PRISON.
TWO OF PHAROAH'S
SERVANTS ARE LIKEWISE
IMPRISONED.
THEY HAVE DREAM.
JOSEPH BY DIVINE HELP
INTERPRETS TH E DREAMS THAT
BECOME REALITY. 38
THEN PHAOAH HAS TWO
DR AMS.
NON OF THE GYPTIAN
MAGICIANS AND WISE MEN
ARE CAPA LE TO INTERPRET
T E DR AM.
JOSEPH IS CALLED TO
IN RPRET THE DREAM THAT
GOD INSTRUCTS HIM.
PHAOAH AND ALL HIS
ADVISORS ARE FASCINATED Y
JOSEPH'S INTERPRETATION.
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GOD PLANTS THE IDEA IN THE
HEAD OF PHARAH AND HIS
ADVISORS TO APPOINT JOEPH
AS THE VISE PHAOAH AND
ADMINISTRATOR OF ALL
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS.
GOD CAUSES A FAMINE IN THE
LAN D OF ISRAEL.
JACOB SENDS HIS CHILDREN
TO EGYPT TO PURCHASE
FOOD AND SUPPLIES.
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JOSEPH TESTS H ATTITUD
OF HIS BROTHERS IF THEY HAVE
CHANGED.
WHEN HE IS CONVINCED E
REVEAL HIMSELF TO THEM
WHO HE R ALLY IS.
IT IS JOSEPH WHO REALIZES
THAT I IS GOD WHO PLANTED
ALL TH ALSE ID AS IN TH
HEAD OF JACOB AND HIS
BROTHERS. THE FACT T AT NO
ON USED PRU ENT LOGIC
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WAS PART OF GOD'S MASTER
PLAN.
WHEN GOD
DEEMS IT
NECESSARY H E
WI LL SUSPEN D
FREE WILL AND 42
PRUDENT
THINKING IN
OR RTO
ENABLE GOD'S MASTER PLAN TO UNFOLD.
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ONCE JACOB AND HIS SONS ARE IN GYP THEY REMAIN.
EVENTUAL Y A NEW KING BECOMES PHAOAH WHO DID OT SHARE HIS PREDECC SSOR'S GOOD WILL TOWRD THE JEWS. THE NEW PHAROAH ENSLAVES THE JEWS.
E KILLS ALL NEW BORN MALEBAB S.
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THE JEWS SUFFER SLAVERY FOR 210 YEARS.
THEN GOD REVEALS HIMSELF TO MOSES AT THE BURNING BUSH.
GOD ORDERS MOSES TO GO TO EGYPT AND PLEAD WIH THE CRUEL PHAROAH TO LET MY PEOPL GO.
GOD SUSPENDS FREE WILL OF PHAROAH AND PHAROAH REFUSES. MOSES STRIKES THE
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EGYPTIANS WITH 10 PLAGUES. THE PUNISHMENT IS NOT THE
SULT OF REFUSING SI CE THERE WAS NO FREE WILL TO PHAROAH. IT WAS PAYME T FOR210 YEARS 0 SLAVERY TO THE JEWS.
FINALLY PHAOOAH RELENTS
LETS THE JEWS GO . HOWEVER
PHAPOAH RELENTS AND HAS
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TH E EGYPTI N ARMY CHASE TH E
FLEEING JEWS.
GOD CREATES A MIRACLE
SPLITS TH E RED SEA.
THE JEWS FLEE TO THE OTHER
SIDE.
ALL TH E EGYPTIANS WITH TH E
EXCEPTION OF PHAROAH
DROWN IN TH E RED SEA.
GOD THEN GIVES THE 10
COMMANDMENTS AT MPONT
SINAI IN FRONT OF MILLIONS 47
OF JEWS JEWESSES AND NON
JEWS.
MOSES IS USHERED TO CLIMB
THE MOUNTAIN AND REMAIN
THERE FOR 40 DAYS TO
RECEIVE THE WRITTEN AND
ORAL TORAH APPERAING
TODAY IN THE TALMUD
RISHONIM ACHRONIM AND
SHULCHAN ARUCH ALL THE
LITERATURE FOR THE LAST
3500 YEARS THAT HAS ARISEN
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TOWRI OWN THE ORAL
TORAH P US T E NEW CASES
THAT DEVOPED OVER 3 00
YEARS.
DURING TH TIME THAT
MOSES IS ON MOUNT SINAI
RECEIVING THE TORAH THE
J WS PANIC.
THEY FEAR MOSES DI D.
THEY DEMAN A R PACEMENT
TO MOSES.
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TH JEWS VI D MOSES AS
LOKIM.
HUMANS WHO TEACH AND
AJUDICATE THE LAWS OF THE
TORAH ARE HONOR DAD
CONSIDERED AS LOKIM
gods
B CAUSE TH Y I TERPRET AN D
TEACH AND ADJUDICAT THE
WORD OF GOD.
THE J WS DEM D THAT
AARON PRODUC OR T EM
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AN OTHER ELOKIM . THEY
WANTED NON MORTAL THAT
WOULD NOT IE AS TH Y
SUPPOS D MOSES DIED.
AARON TELLS THEM TO BRING
GOLD N JEWELR THAT HE
THROWS INTO A FIRE AND
PRODUCES A GOLDEN CAL.
HIS WAS DON BY BLACK
MAGIC.
AARON WANTED TO GAIN
TIM . SO HE USED THIS
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SCHEME. HOWEVER THE
SCHEME BACKFIRED AND THE
GOLDEN CALF WAS CREATED.
THE SITUATION FURTHER
WORSENS AND THE JEWS
WORSHIP THE GOLDEN CALF.
MOSES IS EVICED FRO MOUNT
SINAI BY GOD MOSES BREAKS
THE TABLETS OF THE
10 COMMANDMENTS.
THE REST IS HISTORY.
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HOWEVER WE
SEE THAT
WHEN GOD
FINDSIT
NECESSARY
GOD SUSPENDS
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FREE WILL IN
ORDER TO
ENABLE
HISTORY TO
UNFOLD THE
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WAYGOD
ORDAINS.
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