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and</c><00:11:09.799><c> why</c><00:11:10.080><c> Jeroboam</c><00:11:10.960><c> phrases</c>

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intention<00:11:14.860><c> here</c><00:11:15.340><c> is</c><00:11:15.899><c> the</c><00:11:16.179><c> same.</c>

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crisis,<00:11:38.659><c> but</c><00:11:38.779><c> not</c><00:11:39.039><c> to</c><00:11:39.320><c> undermine</c><00:11:39.620><c> the</c><00:11:39.840><c> worship</c><00:11:40.159><c> of</c>

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word<00:12:00.879><c> for</c><00:12:01.179><c> God</c><00:12:01.519><c> is</c><00:12:02.000><c> Elohim,</c><00:12:04.519><c> both</c><00:12:04.740><c> simultaneously</c>

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I've<00:13:51.539><c> lived</c><00:13:51.700><c> life,</c><00:13:52.039><c> the</c><00:13:52.240><c> longer</c><00:13:52.659><c> I</c><00:13:53.259><c> struggle</c>

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what<00:19:56.339><c> these</c><00:19:56.579><c> things</c><00:19:56.740><c> look</c><00:19:56.980><c> like,</c>

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unprecedentedly<00:20:45.839><c> successful</c><00:20:46.579><c> militarily</c><00:20:47.579><c> powerful</c>

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and<00:20:49.039><c> spiritually</c><00:20:49.559><c> corrupted</c><00:20:50.220><c> by</c><00:20:50.900><c> his</c><00:20:51.259><c> predecessors</c><00:20:51.859><c> and</c>

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good

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he's<00:27:51.559><c> accused</c><00:27:51.779><c> by</c><00:27:52.220><c> two</c><00:27:52.460><c> false</c><00:27:52.720><c> witnesses</c><00:27:53.119><c> of</c><00:27:53.539><c> blasphemy</c><00:27:53.900><c> like</c>

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use<00:28:33.900><c> the</c><00:28:34.099><c> name</c><00:28:34.400><c> Jezebel</c>

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this<00:41:48.449><c> evening</c>

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Paul

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we<00:42:10.190><c> are</c><00:42:10.570><c> all</c><00:42:10.889><c> slaves</c>

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death

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