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waits<00:17:11.180><c> all</c><00:17:11.480><c> the</c><00:17:11.660><c> Gentiles</c><00:17:12.680><c> they</c><00:17:14.119><c> will</c><00:17:14.299><c> be</c><00:17:14.519><c> subdued</c><00:17:15.380><c> defeated</c>

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men<00:19:28.950><c> in</c><00:19:29.109><c> verse</c><00:19:29.369><c> 17</c><00:19:29.990><c> of</c><00:19:30.190><c> Acts</c><00:19:30.390><c> 15</c>

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might<00:19:31.609><c> seek</c><00:19:32.029><c> after</c><00:19:32.329><c> the</c><00:19:32.549><c> Lord</c><00:19:32.829><c> and</c><00:19:32.990><c> all</c><00:19:33.190><c> the</c><00:19:33.369><c> Gentiles</c><00:19:33.829><c> upon</c>

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whom<00:19:34.529><c> my</c><00:19:34.789><c> name</c><00:19:35.029><c> is</c><00:19:35.430><c> called</c><00:19:36.349><c> Seth</c><00:19:36.849><c> the</c><00:19:37.170><c> Lord</c><00:19:37.529><c> who</c>

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doeth<00:19:38.289><c> all</c><00:19:38.769><c> these</c><00:19:39.069><c> things.</c><00:19:41.269><c> So</c><00:19:41.490><c> unless</c><00:19:41.730><c> they</c><00:19:42.049><c> call</c><00:19:42.289><c> upon</c><00:19:42.569><c> the</c>

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name<00:19:42.950><c> of</c><00:19:43.150><c> the</c><00:19:43.329><c> Lord</c><00:19:43.750><c> they</c><00:19:44.309><c> will</c><00:19:44.750><c> be</c><00:19:45.390><c> destroyed.</c>

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yet<00:20:02.750><c> what</c><00:20:03.089><c> had</c><00:20:03.329><c> gone</c><00:20:03.569><c> wrong?</c><00:20:06.109><c> They'd</c><00:20:06.470><c> adapted</c><00:20:06.789><c> the</c><00:20:07.250><c> truth</c>

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