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Module 1: The Judicial Indictment and the Vision of the Sealed Book
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where Dawid dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
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Yeshayahu 29
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Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
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And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
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And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
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The Sudden Destruction of the Strangers
Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
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Thou shalt be visited of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
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And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
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It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Tziyon.
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The Deep Sleep Protocol and the Sealed Book
Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
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For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 hath poured out upon you the spirit (ruach) of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
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And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
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And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
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The Indictment of Heart-Distance
Wherefore Adonai said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
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Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
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The Woe to the Secret Counselors
Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
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The Potter and the Clay Protocol
Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
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The Restoration of Labanon and the Opening of Senses
Is it not yet a very little while, and Labanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
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And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
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The meek also shall increase their joy in 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Yashar'el.
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The Termination of the Terrible
For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
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That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
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The Redemption of Ya'aqob
Therefore thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Ya'aqob, Ya'aqob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
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But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Ya'aqob, and shall fear the Elohim of Yashar'el.
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They also that erred in spirit (ruach) shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.