Satan the father of lies

GOD HAS SPOKEN OF HIS ENEMY

Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to Him, ”All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him, ”Be gone, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve'” (Matthew 4:8-10).

In the same passage where Jesus speaks of worshiping God alone, we see a great spiritual struggle. There is another person who wants to have the worship that belongs to God. He is called "Satan," which means "Enemy." What sort of enemy is this? How does he work? And why does the all-powerful God even let such an enemy continue to fight against Him?

THE FATHER OF LIES

Though the Bible speaks often of this enemy, it does not say much about how he began. Since God created all things, Satan must also have been made by God. However, the Bible clearly shows that God is good (Mark 10:18). All that God makes is good (Genesis 1:31; James 1:17). Therefore, it would seem that Satan, like any other creation, had a good beginning. If so, he turned from good to bad, from truth to lies. Jesus said,

He [the devil] was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies (John 8:44).

The description "father of lies" suggests that Satan was the first to lie. He did not "hold to the truth."

Satan tries to make himself look like an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14). But he is the leader of the angels who rebelled against God (2 Peter 2:4; Jude 6). They are part of his "kingdom" (Matthew 12:26). His rebellion can be clearly seen when he tries to take God’s place, seeking worship that belongs to God alone (Matthew 4:9). 

WAR IN HEAVEN...WOE TO THE EARTH!

Satan, of course, cannot get God to make a mistake.

"God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one" (James 1:13).

It has always been fully in God’s power to destroy Satan at any time. Indeed, the complete defeat of Satan has been foretold in passages like Revelation 20:10. But God has allowed Satan to continue to rebel for a while. Why does God allow this struggle? The reasons are not all clearly revealed. However, God has revealed that the struggle is very serious.

An example of this can be found in Revelation 12, which describes "war in heaven." God’s angels, led by the angel Michael, fought against Satan and his angels. God’s angels were much stronger. They threw their enemies out of heaven. Then the struggle continued on the earth.

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world— he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him… But woe [great trouble] to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short! (Revelation 12:9,12).

"Woe" means "trouble." This is a warning to us that the earth has become the battleground. 

A STRUGGLE THAT CALLS FOR CHOICES

Yet man does not have to be a victim, trapped and crushed between these two powerful armies of angels. For God has made us "in the image of God" (Genesis 1:27; James 3:9). Each of us has a spirit or soul which lives beyond the death of the body (Matthew 10:28). We can also make real choices about which side we serve.

Joshua told his people that they had to make a choice between the true God and false gods.

Choose this day whom you will serve (Joshua 24:15).

Much later, Jesus said,

If anyone's will is to do God's will, he will know whether the teaching is from God… (John 7:17).

Mary was one person who chose the good (Luke 10:42). Pressure—called "temptation"—to do wrong is a necessary part of this world (Matthew 18:7). But 1 Corinthians 10:13 shows that the follower of God does not have to give in to temptation. These Scriptures show that people must make a choice between God and Satan, good and evil.

It is true that God commands us to worship Him. He demands our full love. But He does not force this love from us. Notice how the book of Deuteronomy, which commanded love for God (6:5), also makes it part of a choice (for our good):

I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him (Deuteronomy 30:19-20).

God is not interested in pretended love or in forced love from us. He could have made a machine for such kinds of "love." Instead He made people with spirits and hearts that can love Him freely and willingly. Jesus said that God actually "seeks" such "true worshipers," who "will worship the Father in spirit and truth" (John 4:23-24).   

A STRUGGLE OVER WORSHIP

When we compare Matthew 4 with John 4, we understand that the struggle is about worship. God—because He is the true God—deserves and rightfully seeks true worshipers (John 4:23-24). The enemy, Satan, seeks to take that worship away from God. Satan wants such worship for himself (Matthew 4:8-10).

The Old Testament story of Job is about worship. The devil could not accept the fact that Job was a true worshiper of God. The word devil means "accuser." Satan again earned that name. He accused Job of false, selfish reasons for worshiping God. Satan also accused God of protecting Job from any hard tests. Because the struggle is a serious one, with real choices, God allowed Satan to test Job (Job 1:12; 2:6). However, God stayed in control, always limiting Satan’s power to do harm. Satan took away Job’s wealth and family. Yet still Job "fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, … 'blessed be the name of the Lord'" (Job 1:20-21). Even painful illness could not change Job’s mind. Nothing could force him away from the choice to do right. Nothing could stop him from worshiping the true God.  

SATAN ATTACKS THE WORD OF GOD

Since Satan is not permitted to force us into wrong worship, he tries to fool us into it. He tries to deceive and mislead us. He knows that God is truly honored and loved when we obey God. For obedience treats God as the King He is. So Satan first attacks the word of God.

Notice how he lied to the first people. The snake told Eve that God was mistaken in saying that death would come to those eating the wrong fruit (Genesis 3:4). He also used Eve’s natural desires. The fruit looked "good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise" (Genesis 3:6). Eve, and then Adam, followed Satan into disobedience. As God had warned, their sin brought death into the good world, and with it much suffering (Genesis 2:17; 3:16-19).

"Death" for sin means more than the end of the body’s life. It means the end of the human spirit’s closeness and life with God. Thus Romans 5:12 says,

Sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned…

Why did death spread to all people? "Because all sinned"! Clearly, Satan’s lies have done terrible damage to all of us. As Revelation 12:9 says, he "leads the whole world astray." Among his many tools are leaders who claim to speak for God and for truth, but who mislead the people.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world (1 John 4:1).

Though God has spoken very clearly, these false teachers turn people away from God’s word. Some try to stop the people from learning God’s word for themselves. Others pretend to teach it, but they "twist" or change its meaning (2 Peter 3:16).

They do this so that they can follow what their "itching ears" want to hear (2 Timothy 4:3-4). This reminds us that we should test every teaching by what the Bible actually says.

Why would anyone teach things that are against God’s word? Some may do it selfishly—for money and power. Others may be holding to old, respected "traditions" of their people. Whatever the reason, most do not fully realize the harm they are doing. As Proverbs 21:2 says, "Every way of a man is right in his own eyes." Satan can so blind us that we think we are right, when we are quite wrong. Jesus warned His apostles of just how far Satan would go.

Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God (John 16:2).

This shows how fully Satan deceives, and how fierce the spiritual fight is.   

THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS CHRIST

What hope do humans have against such a clever enemy? Our fleshly eyes cannot even see these spirits that hate us.

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places (Ephesians 6:12).

ERV: Our fight is not against people on earth. We are fighting against the rulers and authorities and the powers of this world’s darkness. We are fighting against the spiritual powers of evil in the heavenly places.

Satan and his angels are powerful spirits. The truth of the matter is that, even with our power of choice, we would have no hope if God did not help us. In Ephesians 6:10, Paul says that the way to win the fight is to "be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power." In the same passage where the apostle John warned about false prophets, he went on to comfort and assure followers of Jesus:

He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4).

Satan cannot beat God. When God uses His great strength in us and for us, then Satan cannot defeat us either! Jesus came for this purpose.

The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8).

Jesus sent His apostles as special messengers to tell this Good News. As He sent the apostle Paul, Jesus said to Him,

… I am sending you to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified [made holy] by faith in me (Acts 26:17-18).

ERV for Acts 26:18: They can have a share with those people who have been made holy by believing in Me.

LET'S SUM UP

Our world has become the scene of a great spiritual war between God and Satan. Because man is made in God’s image, he may choose whom he will worship and serve. Satan uses lies, deception, and our own desires. Through these he gets us to choose his own evil way—rebellion against God. However, God’s power is far greater than Satan’s. Through Christ God has made the way for us to join Him in victory over this enemy.

Our worship, and our full obedience, belong only to You, eternal King. Yet often we have failed to honor You. Turn us from Satan’s darkness to Your light. Help us to find forgiveness, and a place among Your own special people, through Jesus Christ… 

The Bible / The Scripture is INSPIRED by GOD

GOD HAS SPOKEN THROUGH HIS WRITINGS

Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit (2 Peter 1:20-21).

One of the greatest works of the Holy Spirit has been the giving of God’s truth to people through the prophets. Notice that phrase, "prophecy of Scripture." This simply means God’s prophetic message as written in the Scriptures. The prophets not only spoke from God, they also wrote from God! What they prophesied was not their own "interpretation." It was not their personal opinion or guess about truth. True prophecy never came from human will. It came from God Himself as His Holy Spirit moved them to tell just what He planned.

All Scripture Is Inspired

The Holy Spirit did not have to change the prophets into machines to do this. They still wrote in the language and manner of their time. This passage in 2 Peter is about the Old Testament prophets. They usually used the Hebrew language. (The New Testament used the Greek language.) We can often see in the writing what kind of person the writer was. The Holy Spirit used all of this—the place and time, the language, and the person himself—to write exactly what God wanted. That is why Paul could be so confident in describing all Scripture in this way:

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work (2 Timothy 3:16-17).

ERV: All Scripture is given by God. And all Scripture is useful for teaching and for showing people what is wrong in their lives. It is useful for correcting faults and teaching the right way to live. Using the Scriptures, those who serve God will be prepared and will have everything they need to do every good work.

Are you looking for "teaching" that is truly from God? Go to Scripture! Do you need "training in righteousness"? Go to Scripture! If you are mistaken and need "correcting," go to Scripture! There God Himself guides you, so that you can return to Him. In fact Scripture is so dependable in every part that all of it is useful. It completely (”thoroughly”) prepares us for every good work.

God gave the New Testament in much the same way as He had given the Old Testament. As we shall see later in this lesson, the Holy Spirit worked in the apostles and their fellow-prophets in the early church. Their writings are also called "Scripture" (2 Peter 3:16; 1 Timothy 5:18).

The statements of the Bible itself leave no doubt. God has spoken fully and clearly through the Scriptures! Many great thinkers have written their own books. But not one of their books is like the Bible. The Bible is like a great library of 66 books. God used 40 different writers to pen these 66 books during a period of over 1,500 years.

Yet all these writings agree. They tell one story—the greatest theme of all history. Yes, this Book is "breathed" or "inspired" by the one true God Himself. The Bible is the Lord's own book!

GOD'S MAIN WAY OF SPEAKING

Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son (Hebrews 1:1-2).

In a previous lesson we noted from Hebrews 1:1 that God spoke through the prophets. But the writer of Hebrews had an even more important lesson to teach. He wished to show how God has spoken to us today. He did not mean that the old prophets have nothing to say to us. Hebrews itself has many quotes and lessons from Old Testament prophets. So the writer clearly means that God’s main way of speaking to us today is "by His Son." According to the book of Hebrews, "His Son" is Jesus Christ (Hebrews 3:1-6). 

GOD HAS SPOKEN IN TWO PARTS

Hebrews 1:1-2 places God’s speaking into two different parts. Look at each of these:

TIME HAS TWO PARTS

”Long ago” (1:1)
”in these last days” (1:2)

GOD’S PEOPLE ARE IN TWO GROUPS

”God spoke to our fathers” (1:1)
”He has spoken to us” (1:2)

GOD HAS USED TWO METHODS

”by the prophets” (1:1)
”by His Son” (1:2)

In the past God used the prophets as His main method of speaking. He used them "at many times and in many ways." Yet all along God planned to use a better method for the last part of history. "In these last days" He has spoken "by His Son."

The verses which come next in Hebrews show why the Son is far better. He is the same as God, and He represents God in the most clear and exact way.

”He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature” (Hebrews 1:3).
ERV: The Son shows the glory of God. He is a perfect copy of God's nature.

The old prophets give us much of the basic knowledge that we need. What they said is still true. Yet God wants us to know more fully what He is like. God has much to say especially "to us." That is why we should learn from God’s Son, Jesus Christ.

The Bible becomes much easier to understand when we realize that God has dealt with two major groups in two major ways. This is especially important when we try to obey the commands of the Bible. Should we have the priests of the Old Testament or the priests of the New Testament? Should we be circumcised or baptized? Should we keep the Sabbaths? Should we still worship in the ways given by the Law of Moses? Hebrews chapter 7 helps us to find the answer.

THERE HAS BEEN A CHANGE OF THE LAW

Remember that Psalm 110 promised that God would send the special "Priest forever." Hebrews 7 shows us that Priest. He is Jesus Christ! Jesus came from the family line of Judah and King David. But the Law of Moses was very strict about such matters. It said that its priests should come only from the family line of Levi and Aaron. How could Jesus have become our High Priest when He did not belong to the right family? Remember that it was God’s prophet who foretold that the Christ would come from Judah and David (Genesis 49:10; Psalm 89). It was also God’s prophet who said that this Christ would be "Priest forever" (Psalm 110). Therefore God must have planned some change. God planned a change of law, so that the King from Judah and David could become Priest. This conclusion is exactly what we find in Hebrews 7:12.

For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well.

Hebrews 7:18 goes on to say that

”a former commandment is set aside.”
ERV: The old rule is now ended. 

 

OTHER LAWS OF MOSES

God spoke through the great prophet Moses when He gave that old rule about priests coming only from Levi and Aaron. What about the other laws given through Moses? Are they also "set aside"? The very same words are used in Hebrews chapter 10.

He does away with the first in order to establish [begin] the second (Hebrews 10:9).

This passage teaches that Christ’s new sacrifice replaces the old sacrifices. The two kinds of sacrifice could not continue together. The book of Hebrews uses the word "better" thirteen times to show how Jesus’ way is greater than any other way.

The new way of Christ is so much better that there is no longer any need for the old way given through Moses. Moses was the first mediator. But just as Moses himself promised, God sent a second Mediator. Now we must listen to the new Mediator, Jesus Christ.

That is why the New Testament tells us that Moses’ laws about circumcision no longer rule us (Acts 15). Anyone trying to put us under those laws again will have serious trouble from God (Galatians 5:1-6). For the same reason, no one can judge us now about Moses’ special days and Sabbaths (Colossians 2:16). Colossians 2:17 describes those old days as "a shadow of the things to come." Hebrews 8:5 and Hebrews 10:1 also describe matters of the Law as "a copy" and "shadow". Imagine a man walking along behind a hanging sheet. People on the other side of the sheet see his shadow. They know he is coming. But they only have a little idea of what he might look like. In the same way, the Law was a "shadow" that came first so that people could get an idea of what was to come. The shadow helped to picture the coming reality. As Colossians 2:17 says, "the substance belongs to Christ."

Even the Ten Commandments were a part of that old shadow. Romans 7 shows this because it quotes from "the Law." Using the very words of the Ten Commandments (Romans 7:7), it plainly says we "died to the Law" and "we have been released from the Law."

Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God… But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code. (Romans 7:4,6).

ERV: In the same way, my brothers and sisters, your old selves died and you became free from the law through the body of Christ. Now you belong to someone else. You belong to the one who was raised from death. We belong to Christ so that we can be used in service to God… In the past the law held us as prisoners, but our old selves died, and we were made free from the law. So now we serve God in a new way, not in the old way with the written rules. Now we serve God in the new way, with the Spirit.

We see the same teaching in many other scriptures (Romans 3-4; 6:15; 10:4; Galatians 2-3; 5:1-4; Hebrews 9:15-17; 12:18-24). Perhaps the passage that sums them up best is Galatians 3:25:

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

ERV: Now the way of faith has come. So we don’t live under the Law now.  

 

THE COVENANT WITH ISRAEL

When God has chosen people to belong to Him, He has usually made a special agreement with them. This agreement ties or binds those people to God. Since the agreement is so strong it is called a covenant. Covenants are like contracts. They help people to know where they stand with each other. For example, when a man and woman marry they enter a marriage covenant. They know they belong to each other. They should feel sure about their relationship. They know what each should give and receive. They go forward in life with more certainty about the right direction.

One of the most famous covenants God made was with Abraham and his family (Genesis 17). The Israelites were Abraham’s children through his son, Isaac. When the Israelites had grown large enough to become a nation, God sent Moses to them. When God brought them out of Egypt, He made His special covenant with all Israelites (1 Kings 8:9,21). The Ten Commandments were an important part of this covenant.

And the Lord said to Moses, ”Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”… And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. (Exodus 34:27-28).

Many people have misunderstood this covenant. They have thought that it was meant for all people. But God Himself spoke of it as the special agreement between Him and the Israelites (Exodus 34:27; Leviticus 20:23-26; 26:46; Malachi 4:4).

Many have thought that it would go on after Christ. Yet even the Old Testament pointed ahead to a great change. The Old Covenant would be replaced by a New Covenant.

”Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant [agreement] with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt… (Jeremiah 31:31-32).

Notice that the New Covenant would be quite different. It would "not be like" the covenant that God had made with them when they came from Egypt. Scripture is very clear on this point. The New Covenant would not be the old one continued or repeated. The two covenants would be different in important ways. 

THE NEW COVENANT REPLACED THE OLD

Hebrews 8 proves that the promise of Jeremiah 31 has come true. It declares that Christ is now the Mediator of the New Covenant (Hebrews 8:6). It quotes from Jeremiah 31, and then concludes,

In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away (Hebrews 8:13).

"Obsolete" means "no longer in use" or "out of date." We can still learn many important things from the old covenant (as we have already done in this course). But the Old Covenant is "obsolete" in that it does not rule over us as it once ruled over the Israelites. God’s people are no longer part of that covenant written on stone tablets at Sinai (2 Corinthians 3:6-11; Galatians 4:21-31). Many people worry about this change. They ask, "If we are not under the Ten Commandments, does that mean we can steal, commit adultery, and murder now?" The answer is that God has replaced the Law with something far better.

Take the question of murder, for example. Jesus, our Mediator, teaches us not to murder. But He goes much further. He warns us against anger and calling people bad names (Matthew 5:21-22). What keeps us from becoming murderers? Is it old ties to the Law of Moses? No, for Romans 7 tells us that we died to that Law. Now we do not even want to murder, for we follow Jesus and He trains us how to love.

The same can be said for nearly all of the Ten Commandments. Jesus not only repeated them in His New Covenant, He gave them greater meaning. The only command not repeated for Christians was the Sabbath. Indeed, as already noted, no one can force Sabbaths on us today.

Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ (Colossians 2:16-17).

The shadows were important for their purpose, which was to point toward Christ. But that purpose has been served. Christ has come. We now have the reality. Hebrews 8:11 assures that all in the New Covenant "know the Lord." They all have His "laws" written on their hearts (Hebrews 8:10).

Which "laws"? The full will of God now given through Jesus! For Jesus is the Mediator of the New Covenant (Hebrews 8:6). He is the main way that God speaks to us now (Hebrews 1:2). He is the Prophet like Moses. He is the One of whom God said,

”You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you. And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people” (Acts 3:22-23).

Jesus emphasized that all His teachings and commands should be obeyed (Matthew 7:21-23; 28:18-20).  

THE NEW FOUNDATION

In Matthew 7, Jesus pictured His teachings as a rock. Wise people build on that rock by following His teachings (Matthew 7:24-27). Ephesians 2:19-20 also draws a picture of building.

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone [foundation].

Jesus chose special apostles and prophets to serve as the "foundation" with Him. Since that time, all others who follow Jesus should build on that firm foundation. In what sense were the apostles and prophets of the New Testament the foundation? They passed on the teachings of Jesus. He gave His very words to them (John 17:8). Jesus used the Holy Spirit to keep His teachings safe (John 14:26; 16:12-15; 1 Corinthians 2:10-16). Jesus promised the apostles,

When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth (John 16:13).

When these teachings were written down they were respected as words from the Lord Himself.

If anyone thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should acknowledge [say] that the things I am writing to you are a command of the Lord (1 Corinthians 14:37).

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter (2 Thessalonians 2:15).

Today we no longer hear the apostles speak in a direct way ("by word of mouth"). But we do have their letters. So we must continue to "stand firm and hold to the teachings" given in these letters. The holy writings of the apostles and their helpers are called the New Testament. "Testament" means a will or a covenant. When we call these writings the "New Testament," we reflect the fact that the "New Covenant" has now come. When we call the writings of the Hebrew prophets the "Old Testament," we reflect the fact that it included the Old Covenant. By calling that first covenant an "Old Covenant," we imply that a New Covenant has come. (See a similar thought in Hebrews 8:13.)

The best news of this new covenant is that Christ brought something that Moses’ Law could never bring. Laws can only show us what sin is and tell the punishment for sin. But laws and animal sacrifices do not provide forgiveness for us (Hebrews 10:1-18). We needed God’s kindness and mercy, which the Bible also calls God’s "grace."

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ (John 1:17).

In this new agreement God forgives and forgets our sins because of Jesus.

For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more (Hebrews 8:12; 10:17).

Do you need God to forgive your sins? Do you need God to forget the bad things in your past? Do you need God’s kindness and mercy? Then you need the New Covenant! Even we who are non-Jews are welcomed into it and share in its blessings (Ephesians 2:11-3:7). All who truly want to belong to God today must enter into this New Covenant with Him.

LET'S SUM UP

We have already seen how important it is to listen carefully to God’s prophets, and especially to the Prophet like Moses. But how can we today listen carefully when they spoke so long ago? God knows our need for clear words from Him. Therefore He has also worked carefully. His Holy Spirit worked in the writers of the Bible. Through them He gives us His pure words that can be fully trusted. God also knew that people who read the Bible might be confused about which rules apply to them. Therefore He has made clear that we today are not under the Old Covenant that was given at Sinai for the Israelites. We are under the far better covenant, the New Covenant, given through Christ for all people. In the New Covenant, we know God and enjoy His full forgiveness.

LORD, how you have blessed us by your prophets and the written record they left for us! Thank You for showing so clearly how the old prophecies were fulfilled. Help us to enter Your New Covenant through Jesus Christ… 

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