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as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.

Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this matter. [fn]

Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!"

The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. [fn]

There are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he must continue a short time.

"The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast.