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everlasting<00:12:56.340><c> salvation.</c>

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so<00:16:39.519><c> with</c><00:16:39.899><c> patience.</c>

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the<00:17:44.460><c> capital</c><00:17:44.799><c> city</c><00:17:45.259><c> of</c><00:17:45.619><c> Jerusalem.</c>

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time<00:18:33.920><c> for</c><00:18:35.039><c> this</c><00:18:35.339><c> nation</c><00:18:35.839><c> to</c><00:18:36.299><c> once</c><00:18:36.579><c> again</c><00:18:36.940><c> fall</c><00:18:37.339><c> into</c><00:18:37.619><c> debt,</c>

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and<00:18:39.019><c> it</c><00:18:39.220><c> has</c><00:18:39.619><c> stayed</c><00:18:39.859><c> in</c><00:18:40.259><c> debt</c><00:18:40.640><c> for</c><00:18:41.039><c> the</c><00:18:41.200><c> past</c><00:18:41.740><c> 188</c><00:18:43.500><c> years.</c>

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Today,<00:18:46.500><c> the</c><00:18:46.740><c> national</c><00:18:47.180><c> debt</c><00:18:47.400><c> is</c><00:18:47.660><c> in</c><00:18:47.799><c> excess</c><00:18:48.279><c> of</c><00:18:48.680><c> $33</c><00:18:49.500><c> trillion.</c>

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It<00:18:53.979><c> is</c><00:18:54.619><c> no</c><00:18:54.839><c> secret</c><00:18:55.259><c> that</c><00:18:55.500><c> we</c><00:18:55.700><c> live</c><00:18:55.920><c> in</c><00:18:56.019><c> a</c><00:18:56.240><c> world</c><00:18:56.519><c> of</c><00:18:56.819><c> financial,</c>

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ethical,<00:18:59.579><c> and</c><00:18:59.720><c> moral</c><00:19:00.180><c> collapse.</c>

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We<00:19:02.680><c> are</c><00:19:02.980><c> without</c><00:19:03.420><c> question</c><00:19:04.099><c> beyond</c><00:19:04.940><c> the</c><00:19:05.440><c> point</c><00:19:05.759><c> of</c><00:19:06.039><c> return,</c><00:19:07.420><c> at</c><00:19:07.680><c> least</c><00:19:07.900><c> from</c><00:19:08.119><c> a</c>

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human<00:19:08.599><c> standpoint.</c>

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hopeful<00:19:22.779><c> presidential</c><00:19:23.539><c> candidates</c>

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attempting<00:19:24.759><c> to</c><00:19:25.140><c> sway</c><00:19:25.359><c> the</c><00:19:25.619><c> masses</c><00:19:26.099><c> to</c><00:19:26.779><c> endorse</c><00:19:27.240><c> their</c><00:19:27.640><c> plans</c>

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it<00:20:26.019><c> is</c><00:20:26.299><c> my</c><00:20:26.559><c> exhortation</c><00:20:27.339><c> that</c><00:20:27.579><c> we</c><00:20:27.859><c> remember</c><00:20:28.380><c> the</c><00:20:28.799><c> path</c><00:20:29.099><c> to</c><00:20:29.359><c> the</c>

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