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Okay.

What if?

You know, we talked about this a while back about Job and I was saying,

and maybe in a confusing way and maybe I'll further confuse it with this explication.

With the following. That maybe Job is and we think it's the oldest book in the Bible

okay is something of a template for reality for all of us what do you mean? What if?

Now, I mean, we know these other,

the Elohim, other spiritual beings were created.

They existed before the universe.

It seems like they have free will, right? So what if there was already,

apparently there was already a rebellion underway and like the enemy this beautiful, talented enemy, started rumor-mongering about God saying, you know what, look, he's's just he's got power but that's it he's just he's just

strong arms everybody like he coerces he's keeping something from you yeah right

so he spreads the word among some other beings with free will.

And God wants to prove that that's not true in front of them.

So there's a backstory of, I got something to prove here.

I'm not gonna coerce these beings. They will love me of their own accord. I will

bend over backwards not to coerce, but I will do whatever it takes from a love standpoint to get them

to enter into this love relationship and you will not be able to say that that was coercion. Not only that, I'm going to

train them to reign with me like you were supposed to. Yeah. That's actually a

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