"And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that
they are turned unto other gods....And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their
end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith."
-Deuteronomy 31:18; 32:20.

"Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit
upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD." -Ezekiel 39:29.

Why Does God Tolerate Suffering and Evil?

The question that almost inevitably arises when we try to teach people the truth about the state of the world and
where it's going is this:  If God is not responsible for evil and wickedness, why does He allow evil and endless
human suffering and do nothing?  When contemplating what it would mean if God forcibly put an end to
wickedness, those same people consider God's bringing about the end of Satan's rotten world to be evil and cruel!
On one hand God  is accused of being uncaring and negligent for not exercising His power to rid the world of evil,
and on the other hand He is a tyrant and a bully for His stated intent to destroy the wicked world we live in.

God is most certainly aware of these questions regarding His good name and reputation. He was asked by the
prophet Habakkuk:  "O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! Even cry out unto thee of violence,
and thou wilt not save! Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? For spoiling and
violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention. Therefore the law is slacked, and
judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment
proceedeth." -Habakkuk 1:2-4.

Ever since Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, man has dominated man to his injury.  
(Ecclesiastes 8:9) At this point in time, mankind has developed all kinds of sinister weapons that endanger the
continued existence of mankind, so that the idea of Divine intervention is considered by many thinking people to
be the only hope of averting the inevitable.

Most people scoff at the idea of not only a day of God's reconciliation, but also the thought of a global conspiracy
by the world's elite to depopulate the earth and bring in a New World Order.  They have been conditioned to think
this way by the minions of Satan in control of mainstream media, most notably FoxRuse Channel.  But when we
consider that the world is ruled over by Satan, who offered control of all the kingdoms of the world to Jesus, and
that Jesus identified him as "the father of the lie", how could there not be a conspiracy against God's kingdom?

Through Habakkuk, Ehyeh foretold of these scoffers in the next verse, saying: ""Behold it you scorners, and
look, and wonder marvelously, and vanish away, because I am working a work in your days, which you will by no
means believe even if anyone relates it in detail." (Septuagint) And what would that work be?  Verses 6-10 say:
"For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land,
to possess the dwelling places that are not theirs. They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity
shall proceed of themselves. Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening
wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the
eagle that hasteth to eat. They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall
gather the captivity as the sand.  And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them:
they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it."












Dust from WTC compared to nuclear blast

The "work" that God is working has to do with allowing the neo-Babylonian armies of the coming Eighth King to
serve as His executioner in order to accomplish His purpose, as He has often done in the past.  God used the
Babylonian army of Nebuchadnezzar to bring judgment on unfaithful Israel, and then used Cyrus the Mede to
destroy Babylon.  We read in verse 12: "O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God,
thou hast established them for correction."


Does God Suffer?

It would be a terrible thing on God's part if He asked His Only-Begotten Son to undergo horrific pain and
suffering if He had no feelings Himself.  The same can be said of all the persecution and suffering that lovers of
God and Jesus have endured, even to a painful death.  

"And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart." (Genesis 6:6 BBE)
"How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!
Again they put God to the test, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel." (Psalms 78:40,41 BBE) "How shall I
give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as
Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together." (Hosea 11:8)  "For God so loved
the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal
life." (John 3:16 ASV) "The Lord takes pleasure in his worshippers, and in those whose hope is in his mercy."
(Psalms 147:11 BBE) "My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, That I may answer him that reproacheth me."
(Proverbs 27:11 ASV) "The LORD your God wins victory after victory and is always with you. He celebrates and
sings because of you, and he will refresh your life with his love." -Zephaniah 3:17 CEV.

Our Heavenly Father is strongly affected by what we do, and our conduct, good or bad, brings up intense feelings
from his loving, tender, forgiving and grace-filled heart!


The Great Legal Case

God created everything in the universe for the enjoyment of both man and the spiritual world, and set up a system
over His creation and trusted those that He put in charge to abide by the rules that would ensure peace,
prosperity and happiness.  God knew that at some point the issues of good and evil would have to be settled,
because in order for good to prevail, evil must be defeated.  As a creation of free will, the high-ranking angel who
would become "Satan" decided that he was jealous of God and His creation and decided to challenge His
sovereignty.  He started a class-action lawsuit that no one would worship EHYEH if put under test, and the claim
has been disproved. The only thing left to accomplish, before he is removed from existence, is to get as many
individuals as possible to fail under test: To, in effect, “curse God and die”, as Job’s disheartened wife exclaimed.
A key component of the Devil's plan is to wear people out.  However, it is at the point when people have no other
apparent options that the importance of real tests of faith become obvious.

In the case of Job, Satan knew of God’s allowing misery and wickedness to drag on for thousands of years, but he
also had to endure his own personal misery. As if losing his livelihood were not enough, Satan caused the death of
Job's entire family, and struck Job with a most loathsome physical condition.

Satan knows that if he can wear people out and cause their thinking to become clouded, they will focus too much  
on God for allowing the world’s conditions, instead of on himself for causing them. It is so important to remember
that God’s thoughts are higher than our own, and that there must be some good reason why Ehyeh has allowed
world conditions to drag on for over 6,000 years.  Humans have a limited frame of reference because their
lifespans are so short. The issues Satan raised in Eden were not the type that could be ended quickly and easily.
Jesus will soon condemn all creatures, both spiritual and human, who fall into unfavorable judgment to a state of
eternal non-existence, and this cannot be enacted lightly.

The eternal success of God’s purposes depends on standards and execution of righteous judgments.  The
Revelation says that after the Millennial reign of Jesus, those same questions will be raised once again.  Why?  
Because billions of unrighteous people will have been resurrected during that time.  That's why there won't be any
such long, drawn-out trial at that time, and there will not be any need to put mankind through such a mess again:

"And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,  And shall go out to deceive
the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the
number of whom is as the sand of the sea.   And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the
camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.   
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false
prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever." -Revelation 20:7-10.

Job’s example and that of many others in the Holy Scriptures are there for an important reason: The things
written aforetime were written for our collective instruction into how real people endured real tests of their faith,
and passed. Some may perceive these people of faith in some idealistic manner: That somehow they were super-
humans empowered in advance by God to pass these extreme tests. That is not true, because if we examine their
accounts closely, we see that they were in every respect exactly like us, with the same strengths and weaknesses,
and they had to deal with their tests on an ongoing basis, day after day, year after year, their entire lives.

Job was able to keep his integrity and not blame God, while he had no idea that he was the target of a direct
attack that all the angels were watching, thus the matter was of universal implications. It may at first appear that
God flippantly gave Satan permission to commit such horrible acts upon Job, causing people to point their finger
at God and say, "Ha!  God allowed such brutality to take place?  What a reward for being faithful!  Why should I
bother trying to prove my integrity?"  But there is no doubt that it tore God’s heart out to allow Satan to do these
things, not only upon Job, but also upon his equally innocent wife and children.

The issues can be addressed only as God has done: Allowing sufficient time to prove or disprove all the  
consequences of mankind’s rebellion.  In his infinite wisdom, Ehyeh knows that hard fact to be true. To fully
comprehend the need of suffering to prove faith, we need to look at the example of Jesus:  He was the Only-
Begotten Son of God from the heavenly realms, but he was not yet a tested son able to effectively provide the
ransom of all mankind, which is the only way Ehyeh can bail mankind out of his present mess while adhering to
His own judicial standards.

Job's test was only a few years in duration, but the lessons of that test lasted until his death. Like Job, many may
never have to endure all the way to death, but whatever test each person endures will surely will be a very real
one for them. For many, the fact that God has allowed such suffering for so long has become a serious test that
they will either pass or fail.

When can God bring about the cleansing of Creation that the book of Revelation promises?  When can Our
Father Ehyeh and His Son Yeshua act without adversely affecting the legal case of Genesis? If they intervene to
remove any badness before the issues are settled, Satan could contend that mankind could have sorted out his
own problems, if only God hadn't butted in!  The entire legal case could be considered a "mistrial" and God's
honesty would be tainted.  Satan would claim that God cannot be trusted to let justice prevail, and that would be a
terrible slur on our Creator!

Once the original issue of mankind's capability to "be like God" in Genesis is disproved, Satan will have lost that
devious power to prevent God and Yeshua from intervening and helping us. That large restriction will then be
lifted, as a lynch-pin, to launch God's help when He decides, once His wisdom has been proven to have been right
all along.  

Conclusion

The truth is that God does not simply "allow" evil and suffering, it has been forced upon Him and all of us.  All
those who are "sighing and groaning" over the detestable things going on in the world have been marked by God
to be saved  (Ezekiel 9:1-4).  If we have our eyes and ears open to what's going on in the world right now, we know
that this comforting promise from Our Father in Heaven is not far off:

"And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass
over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.   No lion shall be there, nor
any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:
And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads:
they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." -Isaiah 35:8-10.  

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"Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety."
-Proverbs 11:14.

From http://www.musingsaboutgod.com/many.htm

The Truth About God.....

Many years ago I awoke in the middle of the night to the sound of my father in agony, it was to mark the
beginning of the slow trip through hell called cancer. If you are going through this yourself or with someone close
to you please forgive my use of that horrible word, few words can match it for horror. But such was the beginning
of a process of questioning and thinking that ended for me some years after my father's death.

My first reaction to my father's pain was one that surprised and disturbed me a great deal; anger and resentment
towards God. I never would have expected it. I am more than somewhat embarrassed and actually sad to have to
tell you what I said to God, I actually told him "I know everyone has to die, but if you let Dad suffer horribly I'll
never forgive you, because I know you can prevent it if you want to".

Fortunately, my father never went through the long suffering, the anticipation of which brought on my outburst to
God. But it did leave me with a problem; I needed to know why God permits suffering. There was obviously
something about the nature of God that I didn't understand.

So like whinnie-the-pooh I was determined to think, think, think.

The first rule in my process of inquiry that I determined to use for the answer to the question of God and
suffering, was;  that the answer must be quite deductive, as opposed to inductive, in other words; an inductive
conclusion is achieved by direct observation. For example, if you see me move a glass of water with my hand you
know how that glass was moved. However, if you don't directly see me move the glass, but I'm the only other
person in the room you can deduce that I moved the glass. Similarly, most conclusions as to why God permits
wickedness are somewhat inductive; God exists, God is all powerful, wickedness exists, therefore God permits
wickedness.

The second rule of inquiry was a principle of deductive reasoning that Sherlock Holmes tried to impress on
Watson "When you have eliminated every possibility, whatever is left, no matter how impossible must be true".
In other words, if you come to a crime scene, and you eliminate every possible murder weapon except for a green
monkey with a red machete, you have to put aside your preconceptions and preferences and look for a green
monkey with a red machete.

The third rule of inquiry was a principle of tenacity from my Dad. I remember one time many years ago I was out
on the patio with my Dad and my oldest brother came up and very smugly said "no one can understand the fact
that God has no beginning or end". To which Dad said "well, I don't understand it, but that doesn't mean it can't
be understood. You can understand anything if you think about it long enough, look at what Einstein did with Time.
Who would have thought that time could be so well understood?".

The forth principle was one from my mother, and although I wasn't going to consider it binding I wanted to honour
it if I could. She maintained that "the truths about God elevate him, and lies about him degrade him".

So, armed with these four principles of inquiry:

1. The problem must be quite deductive and not inductive.

2. After I had eliminated every possibility whatever was left, no matter how impossible, I had to accept.

3. You can understand anything if you think about it long and hard enough.

4. The truth about God should elevate your view of him.

And so, my pondering began.

The first question I asked of the great 'out there' was "is this just the way things are supposed to be?".
Interestingly, the bottom line of all medicine, law, religion, philosophy, and much science is the simple sentence
"things ain't right". Medicine tries to repair and prevent, law tries to control and correct, religion and philosophy
try to explain and much of science tries to repair.

So the answer to the first question is; No, this is not the way things are supposed to be.

The second question, which at first seems to be the same as the first question is "is the earth being lived in
according to God's will?". Now this is where it gets interesting, logically the answer must be the same as the
answer to the first question; "No, the earth is not being lived in according to God's will". So, stated differently;
the earth is being lived in against God's will. As I thought about this I realized; if you can do something against
someone's will, that person obviously has limitations. For example, if I come into your house and take some of
your possessions against your will, I can only do that if I'm stronger than you or I have legal powers over you, as
in the case of a repossession. But in each case you have limitations. If you had unlimited control or powers there
is no way I could take those possessions against your will. Likewise the earth can't be lived on in a manner
against God's will if he's unlimited, therefore God must in fact be a limited being. This, needless to say, is
something I had never heard before anywhere, but invoking the Holmesian principle "when you have eliminated
every possibility, whatever is left no matter how impossible must be true" requires you to come to that conclusion.
But if this is a truth, is seems to degrade God and not elevate him. But consider this illustration; a good strong
man gets into a situation where he has to fight a dirty street fighter, well, he makes a resolve to himself that he's
not going to fight dirty just to win a fight. So, he wades into the fight and probably takes a few more licks than he
would have if he'd fought dirty, but, by golly, he wins. As he walks away from the fight do you view him as a weak
man because he limited himself to fighting clean? Hardly. His limitations actually make you view him with more
respect. Actually, the Bible says that God cannot lie... That's a limitation, it also says he can't leave his word
unfulfilled, or a promise unkept... Those are limitations too. So limitations can be a good thing and a sign of
strength. So mom's still right.

So, the first conclusion I came to (there are three main conclusions and one super-conclusion) is: God is limited.

The second point is actually quite straightforward, if unorthodox. And it is this; anyone who suffers unfairly
against their will is a victim. That, in fact is the definition of a victim. So God by definition is a victim: His creation
has somehow been wrested from him and abused in front of his eyes against his will with him unable to stop it.
What this did for me is, for the first time in my life, I felt compassion for God. Instead of "poor me, my Dad is
suffering with cancer and God won't help my Dad or me" it became "poor God, his creation has been somehow
taken from him, and he's forced to see it suffer". So the second conclusion is: God is a victim. In fact The victim.

The third conclusion is a bit more convoluted. So put on your thinking cap. To illustrate this point let me create a
scenario similar to that of the book of Job, wherein the veil of invisibility into heaven is removed and we can see
and hear the events happening in heaven. The scene is this: Satan has just gotten Adam and Eve to sin and he's
back up in heaven polishing stars, or whatever it is they do up there. And along comes God and he says to Satan "
I saw what you just did with Adam and Eve."

Satan's reply "So?".

God: "Well, because of what you got them to do, now they have to die".

Satan: "So?".

God: "That means you have to die too".

Satan: "No I don't".

God: "How is that?".

Satan: "You can't kill me. Unless you can prove that you wouldn't do the same thing in similar circumstances.
With the right pressure you'll bend or break the rules too. No one is any better than me, with the right
circumstances and motivation anyone will bend or break the rules". (That Satan feels that no one has perfect
integrity, and that God's integrity is on trial can be established with at least two accounts in the bible. The first is
in Job chapter 2:3 wherein God in talking to Satan says ' you try to incite me without cause to do evil to my
servant Job', thus showing that Satan thought he could provoke God to do wrong. The second account is in
Matthew 4:1-11 where Satan directly tries to challenge and compromise Jesus' integrity. Again, who was Jesus
picturing?)

God: "That's not true, my laws are perfect and I'll never break them."

Satan: "Really? Well, try this one on, big guy.

You told Adam and Eve if they touched or ate that fruit they would die and you'd reject them. Yes?".

God: "Yes".

Satan: "...and you always keep your word, in fact, that's one of your laws. Yes?".

God: " Yes to both".

Satan: " But you also had already told them that they could have children. And you always keep your word. So
let's see... hmmm.... You've rejected them, but they still can have children, so obviously the children won't be
yours, I guess that makes them mine".

At that point God knew what Satan would do to human children, brutalizing, rape, torture, disease...

Satan: "...by the way, you had a little rule with Adam and Eve; if they so much as ate or touched that fruit once,
you'd kill them. I'm holding you to your own rule; if you so much as bend or break one rule one time to help them,
you lose. and then you can't kill me. Your big lesson with Adam and Eve was respect for property rights, (see the
monograph on this website 'everything you need to know about life') and you no longer own the human race, I do."
(remember, even Jesus acknowledged that Satan was the ruler of this world, {John 14:30})

So, what I realized is that God is on trial, just because you're on trial that doesn't mean you're guilty, but you do
have to show up in court. (The concept of God being on trial is not foreign to the Bible; Asaph in Psalm 74:22 says
to God ' arise o God, do conduct your own case at law'. And again in Micah 6:1-3 God offers to put himself on trial
with Israel)

It is an interesting fact of life that you can tell a great deal about a person by watching them work, you can see if
they are organized, neat, smart, clean, etc. etc. Applying that same principle to observing God's work you will
come up with an interesting conclusion about the nature of God; the nature of every single thing God has made,
without exception, can be described with one word, and that word is "Law". If everything he has made reflects
and conforms to law, then he himself must be a law-loving, law-abiding person.

This conversation between God and Satan continued...

Satan to God: "Are you perfect?".

God: " Yes".

Satan: "Did you make me perfect?".

God: "Yes".

Satan: " Then how did I turn out so bad? If there is a flaw in me I must have gotten it from you".

With this compelling logic Satan clinched the deal, at this point God and everyone else knew that God would have
to be so severely tested, that at the end of the trial he could with solid proof say "There is no defect in me at all".
Just a side comment here, you have to give the Devil his due. It is unarguable that Round One went to the Devil.
Neither God nor any of his angels could come up with a counter-argument that could stop this horrible process,
and it is unarguable that Satan derailed God's original plan.

Here's something to ponder. Every Christian knows that when Christ was on earth, he pictured God. Whether you
believe he was God incarnate, a God-man being, or a perfect man, we all know he pictured God. He himself said
"if you've seen me you've seen the Father". So why is it then, if we know that Jesus pictured God his whole life
on earth, we forget that he especially pictured God on his last day of life on earth? When he was on trial, (I count
at least five trials the night before he died), and said not one word in self-defence, when he died of a broken heart,
the person who most loved God; tried, convicted, and executed as a blasphemer. Who was he picturing? God is on
trial, and yet how much does he say in his own defence? God would die of a broken heart if he could die, because
of the reproach he has had to endure. Here is the kindest, most tender hearted person who has ever lived accused
even by his best servants of permitting wickedness. And when Jesus died his horrible death, is there any doubt in
your mind that he was a victim? Again, who was he picturing? (Please read Psalm 69:20) And so the super-
conclusion is: God does not permit wickedness, God has wickedness forced on him against his will.

In fact in the Bible book of James, James says "with evil God cannot be tried, nor with evil does he try anyone".
God just flat does not have evil in him, he never touches the stuff. To even say he "permits" wickedness is an
inaccurate statement at best, and a false accusation at worst. I like Elihu's denouement towards the end of the
book of Job, "Know this for a fact; God will never do wrong".

What is called God's permission of wickedness might be illustrated in this manner; A man marries a woman who
already has a child, but before he can adopt the child, the mother dies. At the same time the government under
which the man and child live determine that the child needs a surgery that the father/husband feels is
unnecessary. At this point the father has two choices, one; kidnap the child and probably get caught and lose the
child forever, two; let the government do the surgery, adopt the child, and then repair the damage. If God were to
intervene prematurely (illegally) he would ,in fact, prove Satan's point and all would be lost. If he waits until he
has the legal right, Ezk 21:27 (Please see the monograph on this website ' how the ransom works') he will regain
control and do his repair ("look I'm making all things new" Revelation 21:5).

Conclusions:

1. God is limited (in a good way)

2. God is a victim

3. God is on trial

4. God does not permit wickedness, but it is forced on him against his will.

Well, it's probably not what you're used to hearing, but as Elihu said to Job (Job 34:3) "...the ear itself makes a
test of words, just as the palate tastes when eating".

Also, please consider this: For a law to be a law it can have no exceptions, in fact that is what makes it a law.
Similarly, for a complete explanation to be truly complete it must cover all possible aspects, or it is in fact not a
complete explanation.  To say that God permits wickedness so as to allow persons to choose to serve him might
satisfy some. But frankly, many have chosen to serve God and still suffer and experience wickedness. And even
Asaph in the 73rd Psalm confirmed that the wicked do not serve God and yet sometimes prosper greatly. And
when a two-week old infant suffers horribly and dies of cancer, please, tell me how that child benefits from
suffering. In fact, wickedness is not here for anyone's benefit. It is a horrible thing that God is forced to deal with,
and he will deal with it well. But it is not something he chose.

Dear king David made a very peculiar statement once. He had just done that awful episode in his life with
Bathsheba, and he wrote Psalm 51. And in that Psalm he makes this peculiar statement to God "against you, you
alone I have sinned". He just murdered a man, committed adultery, and yet he says to God 'against you alone I
have sinned'. Why? Because David knew that 'Guess Who' had to clean up the mess, not him, God. Everything
ever done wrong will be fixed by God and is in fact against God. We're just very lucky to have a God like him.

So, gentle reader, thank you for taking the time to read this. Please take a bit of time to ruminate on it.


(If I could Just trouble you with a brief afterword here..... )  

We are always told that God is;
Omnipotent (all powerful)
Omniscient (all knowing)
and,

Omnipresent (in all places, everywhere).
These statements are intended to be the highest superlatives that could possibly describe our Creator. And they
are well-intended, but on closer examination, God is not unlimited in his power, in fact Satan is the unlimited one,
he will use his power for good or bad whenever and however he chooses. God on the other hand will only use his
power for good, so he is not All powerful, but he does have Unmeasurable power, but he, because of his pure and
clean nature has no power for wrong. God also is not all knowing, if that were true then all things would be
predestined, but he gave us his greatest gift when he gave us the ability to choose (free-will). Some would say  
'God chooses not to know', well, that is true, if I choose not to know how to speak Japanese, do I know how to
speak Japanese? No. If God chooses not to know everything about the future then he is not all knowing. Some
would say by choice, I would say by design, and really it's the same thing. And lastly God is not Omnipresent,
because then he would be in the hand of the murderer, when murder is committed, and in the virus that causes
horrible disease.

So we are told that God is:

Omnipotent, but he's not, he's better than that, he only uses his power for Good.

We are told that God is:

Omniscient, but he's not, he's better than that, he let's us choose. (Free-Will)
We are told that God is:

Omnipresent, but he's not, he's better than that, he is perfectly clean and never touches bad (see the monograph
on this website "Uncommon Definitions of Common Words": at the end of the definition for the word Sin, the part
about the word 'holy').
It turns out that God is not as we have been told,   he turns out to be much better than we could have ever
imagined.

Elihu said at Job 36:2, 'Have patience with me a little while, and I shall declare to you that there are yet words to
say for God'.
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