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"And they said one to another, did not our heart burn within us, while He talked with us by the way, and while He opened to us the Scriptures?"

Luke 24:32

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How One Vote on November 8, 2016 Could Change America Forever.

Dennis D. Frey, M.Div., Th.D., President

The United States Pledge of Allegiance contains the phrase "One nation under God."  Our currency is imprinted with the motto "In God We Trust."  In both cases the word "God" is capitalized making it a proper noun - the name of a person.

It is that Person who is today in our culture increasingly the object of disrespect, and rejection.   It is the eternal requisites given to us by that Person that are being so strongly resisted and renounced.  Renounced by whom?  Psalm 10:4 identifies them - "The wicked, in the haughtiness of his countenance, does not seek Him. All his thoughts are, 'There is no God.'"

Whoever does not know that there has been for many years a pernicious and persistent effort to remove God and His Biblical requisites from American culture need read no further, because the rest of what I suggest will seem extreme and irrelevant.

However, for those who do know and care (all who read this I pray), it will not be necessary to document the effort to remove God and godliness from our culture, nor will it be necessary to do more than mention the following phrases.

• Removing the Bible from public schools,
• Abortion on demand,
• Prohibiting prayer in countless venues,
• Prohibited displays of the Ten Commandments,
• Stifling Christ at Christmas,
• Sexual perversion protections,
• Diminution of Biblical marriage,
• Total gender confusion.

This list can be expanded, and will be expanded if the madness is not stopped, and stopped soon.  Considering the above, how far can we be from adding the following to the list?

• Removal of all references to God in the public arena,
• Removal of Christian chaplains in the military,
• Aberrance and wickedness forced upon Christian institutions,
• Loss of tax exempt status for churches,
• Penalties for preaching the Gospel,
• Penal codes imposed by the courts against those who refuse to violate their Christian conscience at work or even in the privacy of their own homes,
• Nationally legalized prostitution (legal in Nevada),
• Legalized bestiality (legalized in Sweden in 2014).

How have we arrived to this point?  Mentally we arrived when we stopped reading the Bible, attending church, and started accepting Darwinian evolution as science.  Legally we arrived by the decrees of the United States Supreme Court, and it will be by the Supreme Court that we will either slow the slide or quicken it beyond what any of our ancestors could have possibly imagined.

That leads to the theme of this article - "How One Vote Could Change America Forever."

The United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) consists of nine Justices.  The idea behind nine is to prevent deadlock ties.  This makes the ninth vote the one vote that has the power to make or break the law of the land.

At the untimely death of Christian and conservative Justice Antonin Scalia earlier this year, the SCOTUS became a truly divided court.  The next Justice will break the tie.  The court will swing either to the left or to the right.  That swing will determine whether belief in God, and religious liberty remain a public right (or as they are in many other countries of the world) relegated to private conscious only.

That's how one vote could change America forever, and that's why your vote will count on November 8, 2016 more than it has ever counted in any other election.

Whomever is elected President of the United States will serve only four to eight years at the most.  Yet, that President must nominate at least one Justice (to replace Scalia), and very possibly four or even more.

The average Justice serves sixteen years.  Currently, there are four Justices who have served more than twenty years!  These are:

• Breyer - 22 years (considered moderate liberal)
• Ginsburg - 23 years (considered very liberal)
• Kennedy - 28 years (considered moderate liberal)
• Thomas - 25 years (considered conservative)

The math is easy to understand.  The consequences of the math could change "One Nation Under God" forever!  From Dred Scott to Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court has been responsible for the most fundamental changes in our nation's history.  That's why every vote counts.  The question is, "Will your vote count?"

I urge you to do the math, and make sure that your vote counts.  One vote could count more this time than ever before.  Vote your Biblical values, but make sure your vote is counted!

One Vote Could Change America Forever!

What Is Man?  Is Man A Creature? Was He Created?

David M. Tyler, Th.B., Ph.D.,
Dean, Biblical Counseling

What is man? Man is a creature.  Man was created by God therefore; the meaning of man’s life transcends man.  It is impossible for man to interpret and understand himself and the universe apart from the Creator.

The creator of a thing creates the thing with a plan and purpose in mind. It would be similar to a man, a thousand years ago, stepping into a time machine and finding himself at Cape Canaveral, Florida staring at the space shuttle.  As he inspects this strange object he would naturally ask “What is it?” and "what does it do?”  

The meaning and purpose of the space shuttle cannot be accurately ascertained by the man in and of himself.  A NASA scientist would have to explain to the man what it is and what it does.  Apart from that explanation the true meaning and purpose of the large object could not be known by the man.

There is no academic field of study and application more immersed with evolutionary thinking than psychology.  Ever since Darwin and especially Freud, psychologists have evaluated man’s behavioral problems on an animalistic basis. Experiments with animals and even insects are routinely used for guidance in dealing with human beings.  

Although many modern-day psychologists have disavowed Freud, they nevertheless have built on his foundation.  They theorize within an evolutionary framework. They believe man is merely a highly evolved animal with animal problems and animal solutions.

Psychology’s attempt to understand man’s nature, his behavior, attitudes and thoughts, apart from the Creator is impossible. Man exists by virtue of the fact that God exists.  God is man’s environment.  Man cannot be lifted out of his God-environment and be known.  

To understand man, as psychology attempts to do, one must understand God’s purpose for creating man in the first place. God, the Creator, is the Interpreter of what He has created.  To say there is no God who created man with meaning and purpose is to deny man has meaning and purpose.

The theory of evolution maintains that man evolved out of chaos and by chance.   Man has no meaning and purpose because chance has no meaning and purpose.  Chance has no plan because there is no Planner.  

If there is no NASA scientist to explain and interpret the meaning and purpose of the large object then it is impossible to know.  The object has no meaning and purpose. The man can hypothesize and guess, within the context of a man living a thousand years ago, however, all that the man will know for sure is that the object is; it exists.  Why, because it is there.  But what it is and what it does, he will never know.

To be continued in the next edition.

When Does Life in the Spirit Begin? John 3:5-8; 16:7-11

Raymond L. Parker, M.R.E., Ph.D., V.P. Academic Affairs

The successful Christian life is a life dependent upon and sensitive to the initial promptings of the Holy Spirit. In that life the Holy Spirit will produce His fruit – love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Gal. 5:22-23). This is what the successful Christian life looks like.

The example of the successful Christian life is found in Christ. Christ was led by the Spirit, lived in the Spirit, and walked in the Spirit. If we follow His example we become Christ-like. In that way others see Christ in us. We become a bold witness for the Savior.

In this article I want to explore the beginning. When does the successful Christian life begin? The answer is rather simple. Before one can have a successful Christian life, one must be a Christian; and the way one becomes a Christian is tied to the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

I. To bring us to Christ the Holy Spirit does three things (John 16:7-11)

Jesus stated that the Holy Spirit reproves, convicts, or convinces of sin, righteousness, and judgment.

The word “reprove or convict” is basically a legal term. It means to present evidence that proves. This is what a lawyer does. He goes into the courtroom with evidence to present to the jury to convince them of the truth of his case.

I remember as a child watching the TV show Perry Mason. Mason was a lawyer. Mason never lost a case. I have often said if I ever need a lawyer I want Perry Mason. He always had the evidence that proved his case.

One of the more recent TV lawyer shows was Matlock. Andy Griffith played an Atlanta attorney. Matlock, as Mason, never lost a case; he always had the evidence needed.

This is what the Holy Spirit does. He presents evidence to us to prove to us the truth about sin, righteousness, and judgment.

If one does not understand his sin, he sees no need for a Savior. If one does not understand righteousness – that is that Jesus is the righteous standard of God – one sees no need to come to Christ. If one does not understand judgment, he sees no need to change his current path of travel toward eternity.  The Holy Spirit presents evidence to prove these three realities. As one is convinced of sin, righteousness, and judgment, that one is ready to come to Christ.

The Holy Spirit does this work in our spirits – this is His inward work. The Holy Spirit uses the message of Scripture to do this work.

For example, one goes to a motel room. Perhaps he is perplexed or confused. He takes the Gideon Bible from the night stand and begins to read. As he reads John 3:16 (for example), "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life," the Holy Spirit is at work on the inside. The Holy Spirit says, “That’s right, God loves you. Jesus died for you. If you repent of your sin and accept Christ you will be saved. Believe what the Bible is saying.” The Holy Spirit is convincing of sin, righteousness, and judgment.

Let’s say one comes to a church service. In the sermon the preacher says, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved" (Acts 16:31). On the inside the Holy Spirit is saying, “Yes, that’s right. Jesus is the Savior. If you will accept Him you will be saved. You must trust Him today. If you reject Jesus or ignore Jesus you will be lost forever.” The Holy Spirit is convincing of sin, righteousness, and judgment. This is His task in the lives of nonbelievers.

This is a powerful Biblical text. Individuals are prepared to come to Christ by the Holy Spirit. It is His ministry to draw people to faith in Jesus.

Now this brings us to a second salvation reality.

II. When one comes to faith in Christ, the Holy Spirit produces the New Birth (John 3:5-8)

Jesus told Nicodemus that to reach the Kingdom of God one must be "born of water and the Spirit" (John 3:5). The water birth mentioned here is the physical birth representing "that which is born of the flesh" (vs. 6). We celebrate this birth each year on our birthday.

Nicodemus placed great stock in his physical birth since he was a Jew. Many Jews believed that since they were born physical descendants of Abraham, they would automatically be in God’s kingdom; nothing more needed to happen. However, Jesus told Nicodemus that being a Jew was not enough to reach the Kingdom; one must be born of the Spirit or born from above or born again.

Thus, when one comes to saving faith in Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit in an unseen, invisible way, awakens spiritual life within. The believer at that moment of faith is born into the family of God. At one moment he was spiritually dead, and then at the next moment he has new spiritual life from God. This is an instantaneous, creative act of the Holy Spirit.

Here then is the beginning of the Christian life. The Holy Spirit convinces us of sin, righteousness, and judgment. He leads us to faith. At the moment of faith in Jesus the Holy Spirit gives us new, eternal life in Christ. We are born again (John 3:7). At that moment the Christian life begins.

This new birth brings observable results. As Wayne Gruden wrote, “Genuine love for God and His people, heartfelt obedience to His commands, and the Christ-like character traits that Paul calls the fruit of the Spirit, demonstrated consistently over a period of time in a person’s life, simply cannot be produced … by the natural man or woman in his or her own strength. These can only come about by the Spirit of God working within and giving new life” (p. 706).

You may think it foolish

what I'm goin' to say,
"I'm not ashamed, no not ashamed."
One day I prayed,

"Jesus take my sin away."
And that's when I was born again!

Born again, there's really been

a change in me
Born again, just like Jesus said
Born again, and all because of Calvary
I'm glad so glad that I've been born again.

Book Review: Luke and the People of God: A New look at Luke/Acts

by Jacob Jervell. Minneapolis. Augsberg Press, 1972.

Cheryl A. Durham, M.Min., Ph.D., Dean of Students

While this is an older volume, I believe it has relevance for today’s growing interest in the Hebrew origins of the New Testament writers. The Forward is written by Nils A Dahl of the Yale University Divinity School, whose work in the understanding of the Historical Jesus is notable.

Jervell’s Preface lets the reader know that this book will present an old but new idea that can, if the reader will let it, reform the traditional way of looking at Luke/Acts.

His seven chapters include The Problem of Tradition in Acts, The Divided People of God, the Restoration of Israel and Salvation for the Gentiles, The Twelve on Israel’s Thrones: Luke’s understanding of the Apostolate, The Lost Sheep of the House of Israel, the Understanding of the Samaritans in Luke/Acts as well as The Law in Luke/Acts, Paul, the teacher of Israel, and James, the defender of Paul.

Nils Dahl admits that the two volume book addressed to Theophilus (Luke/Acts) “has been quite controversial” (p.9) and that the view espoused by Jervell in the current volume, is a unique perspective that is growing within New Testament scholarship.  Since the finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls, it is becoming harder for New Testament scholars to refrain from examining traditional assumptions about the historical milieu of the Gospels in light of the Scrolls revelations.

Jervell explores his theme of “Messianic Reunification” which represents a sound theory but challenges many traditional assumptions of the ‘meaning’ of Luke/Acts that the Christian church has made since the Reformation and even before as to the nature of the believing community and the purpose of the book of Acts.

Having taught classes on the Gospel of John that explores the Messianic Reunification theme within the same historical/cultural context, I see that Luke’s Gospel may have likeminded goals and in fact may create a hermeneutical tie to John that I have not seen much scholarship on.

Jervell does a marvelous job of tying the loose ends together systematically and progressively, although the entire volume is based on former essays he wrote on the topic.

In Chapter One, Jervell talks about the traditions in the interpretations of Luke/Acts noting two specific points in history (1923, 1956) that he claims were important junctures in the traditional hermeutical development. The first was the work of Martin Debelius, the second was the work of Ernst Haenchen. After outlining that history, Jervell goes on to propose yet a different view that comports with current research.

Chapters Two through Seven Jervell develops his idea that the traditional understanding of Luke, writing as a theologian about the missional plan for the Apostles, is anachronistic. Rather, he says, the Gospel accounts and Acts show the creation of mission and not the exposition of an already designed plan. Jervell posits “that Luke never had any conception for the church as a new or true Israel” (p. 15). This idea, he says, more accurately attaches to the New Testament time period and removes an anachronistic reading of the text.

I would recommend this book to any student of the Gospels as it introduces a nontraditional theme that will have a lasting effect on a student’s hermeneutics of the text.

Your Church Can Save Babies

Bradley Mattes, M.B.S. Adjunct Faculty; President and CEO of Life Issues Institute, Inc.

When was the last time you heard a sermon about abortion?

Maybe abortion doesn’t seem a proper topic for the pulpit. After all, people who hear sermons are in church, right? And church people don’t get abortions. Right?

Wrong.

In fact, 37 percent of women who had a first abortion were attending church at least once or twice a month at the time. Twenty percent were attending every week.

These numbers come from a survey commissioned by Care Net, a network of pregnancy help centers. The survey focused solely on American women who’ve had an abortion.

The results challenge every pastor and layperson. The survey asked questions and plotted numbers with percentages marked in colored bars. But behind those colored bars are real women with real needs.

Pastors, teachers—anybody who shares the Good News—appropriately speak about God’s forgiveness. But somehow that message isn’t getting through to women who face an unplanned pregnancy. Somehow, when it comes to unplanned pregnancy and abortion, most don’t believe what the church says about forgiveness.

Or they don’t believe the church believes what the church says about it.

In fact, as they considered abortion, 75 percent either received or expected to receive a “cold,” “judgmental” or “condemning” response from their church.

My first thought when I read that was, “Wait! So for some, that’s what they expected to receive, not what they actually would have received.”

It doesn’t matter. Perception, as they say, is reality. Whatever the reason, only 7 percent turned to “someone at a local church” before they turned to abortion. And 76 percent said the church had no influence whatsoever on their decision to abort. They turned to the baby’s father, to doctors, to friends and family, and even to abortion center staff far more often. The church was one of the last places they’d go for help.

Interestingly, despite the reaction they received or expected to receive, more than half believe churches are prepared to provide support to women who choose life for their babies. Even then, though, about two-thirds of the women surveyed believe church folks judge single women who get pregnant and gossip about them.

Even if they do feel it’s safe to confide in a pastor—and 43 percent do—almost half the women surveyed feel that pastors’ teachings about forgiveness don’t apply to abortion. And 42 percent feel that same way even if they acknowledge that pastors do teach that forgiveness extends to abortion.

That last number—the 42 percent who don’t believe forgiveness applies to them even if the pastor says it does—hit me hard. It indicates that whatever a woman may believe about the church, her most difficult part of the journey to forgiveness is fully accepting Christ’s forgiveness.

The church must get better at reaching out to these women, and outreach should start before the baby’s on the way. Especially in urban areas—prime targets for the abortion industry—churches far outnumber pregnancy help centers. They’re on the front lines of the fight against abortion. They must speak about it, up front and out loud.

In a very specific way, churches must follow a teaching that’s so important it was the last instruction Jesus gave on earth: make disciples. Churches have the opportunity to offer what can’t be found anywhere else: forgiveness that goes beyond words to transformation and support that goes beyond diapers to discipleship.

Help your church actively reach out to women. Help make your church the first place they come for help, not the last. You can find resources on our website:
http://www.lifeissues.org/the-clergy-connection/.

Thank God for Pollinators!

James J.S. Johnson, Th.D., J.D.
Chief Academic Officer, The Institute for Creation Research

"Behold the fowls of the air:  for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they" (Matthew 6:26)?

Imagine the mathematics of a nectarivorous hummingbirds’ metabolism, as it busily accumulates food energy from flower nectar, as it visits one flower after another.  The flowers are benefiting the high-energy hummingbird – yet the hummingbird itself, by pollinating one flower from another, is also benefiting the flowers, helping them to successfully reproduce.  There is a balance in all of this.

In a recent article of the CHESAPEAKE BAY JOURNAL, wildlife biologist Kathy Reshetiloff stresses the importance of animals that pollinate plants:   “Pollinators are nearly as important as sunlight, soil and water to the reproductive success of more than 75 percent of the world’s flowering plants.  They are crucial to the production of most fruits, nuts and berries that people and wildlife depend on.  More than 150 food crops in the United States depend on pollinators, including blueberries, apples, oranges, squash, tomatoes and almonds.  Worldwide, there are more than 100,000 different animal species that pollinate plants.  Insects [like bees] are the most common pollinators, but as many as 1,500 species of vertebrates [like bats] also help pollinate plants.” [Quoting Kathy Reshetiloff, “If You Like Plants, Bee Grateful for Pollinators This Month”, Chesapeake Bay Journal, 26(4):40 (June 2016).]  

And truly, the role of pollinators is critically valuable for flowering plants to successfully produce the next generation.  Yet not all pollinators serve the same flowering plants, so pollination is another one of the countless examples of God’s variety.  

In fact, the “courier service” of pollination – as it pertains to many kinds of flowering plants – may be provided by bugs, bats, birds, or other beasts.  Besides bugs, other pollinators include mammals, especially bats, -- yet pollination is performed even by pygmy possums, lemurs, rock mice, and shrews, and birds, such as hummingbirds, sunbirds, and honey-eaters, and even reptiles, such as gecko lizards.  [David Attenborough, THE PRIVATE LIFE OF PLANTS (Princeton University Press, 1995), pages 112-124.]

All of this is wonderful information, but the obvious question remains – how does that fascinating process – that occurs daily around the world – fit the journal article’s title, “If You Like Plants, Bee Grateful for Pollinators This Month”?  

The information surely proves that we should appreciate the genius of the pollination process, as well as the variety of details that accompany it in its multitudinous applications, but the word “thankful” presumes that someone is due our gratitude, i.e., that we should express our appreciation for pollination to someone who deserves to be thanked for arranging it to work, worldwide, as it does.  

But Kathy Reshetiloff’s CHESAPEAKE BAY JOURNAL article never mentions who should receive our thanksgiving, for the many magnificent and beneficial services that these pollinators provide.  Are we really expected to “thank” the pollinators themselves – the hummingbirds, bats, bees, and beetles?  (That would be quasi-polytheistic, as illogical as Darwin’s secular-animistic “natural selection” theory!)

Obviously, we should be thankful for pollinators – especially if we like to eat on a regular basis!  But the One Who is due our gratitude should be identified.  Thus, there is “something wrong” with the “picture” portrayed in the above-quoted CHESAPEAKE BAY JOURNAL article, because something important is missing – in fact, it is Someone Who is not mentioned, but Who should be: God.  It is God Who feeds the birds (Matthew 6:26) --  sometimes using the pollination process to do so,  --  and it is that same God Who feeds us, both physically and spiritually (Acts 14:17; Matthew 4:4). 

Living Lessons From Old Things

Gary K. Fair, M.Min., D.P.Th.,

Vice President

One of my hobbies is photography. The subjects of most of my pictures are old, historic buildings such as churches, schools, houses and farms. My specialty, however, is old dilapidated barns. The older and the more dilapidated, the better. So, as often as I can, I strike out to the back roads to search out those relics of the farm. These trips I refer to as "barn hunts." 

The main reason for my photographing these buildings is that they are part of history, and those particular settings are gradually fading away from the horizon. My love for the study of history causes me to understand that preservation of the past provides guidance as we live in the short period of time God allows us on this earth.

As I spend time searching for the old barns, in particular, I am reminded of the purpose of those buildings. They were used primarily for storage. Grain, hay, farming equipment were all, at one time, stored there.

Occasionally, I will find a barn which still has those commodities remaining. But, as I look at them, especially the equipment, it is obvious they have been rendered useless by rust through the passage of time.

And then, I am reminded of the Apostle Paul's word to the church at Corinth when he said (2 Corinthians 5:1): "Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands."

These barns have already served their builders' purposes and needs. Now they stand (some just barely stand) as a reminder to us that all that is earthly will fade away. All that is made by the hands of man will eventually decay and be destroyed. 

The owners of most of the buildings I find have likely gone on to their reward. If they could see the condition of the labor of their hands now they might be saddened. Unless, of course, the reward they have gone to is eternity with the Lord our God. There they are experiencing a building, a dwelling place, which is far more stable, far more lasting, and never to be affected by the passing of time, or weather, or demolition. This is the eternal building, built by God. He has prepared a dwelling place for us to spend eternity with Him.

As we live day by day, settled into the buildings in which we live and work, we may not consider that the usefulness of those buildings is temporary. Our need for them will, in God's timing, disappear. And that, of course, is because this life, our existence on this earth, is temporary. Paul writes further in his letter that we groan as we long to be in that heavenly dwelling, shedding off that which is mortal, that which cannot enter into the heavenly dwelling. 

As we grow older I believe we appreciate the older things around us. Old barns, and such, occupy some of our time here and now.  But, a new dwelling is our forever home!

Like Feathers in the Wind

James B. Solberg, M.Div., D.D.,

Adjunct Faculty; U.S.A. National Director, Bridges for Peace International

In a small Jewish village in the Ukraine, a young man became angry with the rabbi. In his anger, he shared a lie with one friend, speaking evil of the rabbi. As is typical, particularly in a small town, the one man told another, who told his wife, who told her sister, and eventually the rabbi himself heard the story. The rabbi was deeply hurt by the lies being told; but could do nothing to counter the now widespread story.

After a few weeks, the young man realized he had been wrong to be angry at the rabbi, and even more wrong to have told the story about the rabbi. With a truly repentant heart, he went to the rabbi and confessed both his anger and the lie he had told. He offered to do anything to repair the damage he had done.

The rabbi offered the young man one simple task. The young man was overjoyed and gladly asked what he must do. The rabbi told him to go home and get a feather pillow, take it to the center of town on a windy day, and cut it open. Once all the feathers had been scattered by the wind, he told the young man to simply walk around and gather up each and every feather and return it to the pillow case.

The young man’s countenance dropped, and he told the rabbi that such an assignment was impossible. The rabbi shook his head and told the young man that just as it was impossible to regather the feathers, so it was impossible to regather the lie he had spread. The Rabbi could and would forgive the young man, but the damage could never be completely undone.

In Hebrew there is a phrase, lashon hara, which means “speaking evil.” The term is not limited to lies, but includes telling an evil truth about someone. The rabbis teach that the only time it is permissible to share an evil truth, or we might say “bad report,” about someone is when not doing so will cause damage to the person you might tell. In other words, if I tell you that Johnny stole candy from the store, but you don’t own the store, I am simply speaking evil, even if it is true. I could only share about Johnny’s thievery if you will personally suffer from it if I don’t tell you.

Further, the rabbis teach that whenever you speak evil of another, three people are hurt. First, and most obviously, the person you are speaking about is hurt. The idea that I hurt you, if I speak evil about you, is pretty straightforward and common sense. More subtle, but I believe equally true, you hurt yourself when you speak evil about another. The teaching here is that you both pollute your own thoughts by focusing on the evil, and you also tarnish your image, as people come to know you as one who spreads a bad report—a gossip.

Finally, you hurt the person you tell. You pollute their mind and their image of the other person, and you tempt them to continue the gossip train and share this same evil report with others. Remember, all three people are damaged, even if the evil report is true!  Is there any Scripture to back this up?

To be continued in the next edition.

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