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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