If the Antichrist rises from the Middle East, what religion dominates the Middle East? Most prophecy teachers won’t say it. In this video, Nelson Walters and his team say it — and prove it from six biblical witnesses. They build the case like a courtroom: five witnesses from scripture, each adding a layer of evidence, and then a climactic sixth witness — 2 Esdras — written over 500 years before Islam existed, when Arabia was nothing but scattered desert tribes. What it predicts about the “dragon nations of Arabia” converges on the same conclusion as every other witness.
WITNESS #1 — Isaiah 13-23 Every nation God singles out for end-time judgment is in the Islamic world. Not Rome. Not China. Not America.
WITNESS #2 — Daniel’s Beasts (Daniel 7-11) Three of four beasts operate in the Middle East. The little horn arises among them.
WITNESS #3 — Ezekiel 38 The Gog coalition: every named nation is Islamic today. Not one European. Not one Asian.
WITNESS #4 — Daniel 9:26 The “people of the prince who is to come” destroyed Jerusalem in 70 AD. Those Roman legions were recruited from Syria, Arabia, and the eastern provinces.
WITNESS #5 — The Early Church Fathers Hippolytus and Jerome said the Antichrist comes from the Seleucid Empire (Syria/Mesopotamia). The church only shifted to a European Antichrist after Rome became Christianized.
WITNESS #6 — 2 Esdras 15 (CLIMAX) The “dragon nations of Arabia” arise from the east. They destroy Babylon — the same act Revelation 17:16 attributes to the Beast. A 2,500-year-old prophecy converging on one conclusion. — “A matter shall be established by the mouth of two or three witnesses.” We have six.
“O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory. Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.”Psalm 61:1-2
The heading of Psalm 63 places it in ‘the wilderness of Judah’ — David likely wrote it while fleeing from his son Absalom’s coup (2 Samuel 15–18). He is politically deposed, physically displaced, and separated from the worship life of the temple. The desert setting is not metaphorical; it is literal. And David’s use of the desert as an image for his spiritual state is honest: he is dry. But the thirst is directed: ‘my whole being longs for you.’ Not for his throne back, not for his enemies’ defeat, not for comfort — for God. The Hebrew nephesh (whole being, soul) and basari (my flesh, my body) indicate that this longing is not merely intellectual. It is embodied, physical, total. David’s famous declaration in verse 3 follows: ‘Your love is better than life.’ A man in the desert says that even life itself is less valuable than the steadfast love of God.
My prayer is that my soul will long for God like David. What about you? Biblical prophecy reveals that we are fast approaching the time of Jesus return and persecution of Christians will intensify into great tribulation. God has warned us. We will need to be sold out for Jesus to resist the mark of the Beast. We will need to be like David and be able to say, ” “Because your steadfast love is better than life“.
The purpose of your identity is to ‘declare the praises’ of God. How is your life currently functioning as a witness to the one who called you out of darkness? I am presently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands with my family at 1 Napili Way, Napili. Today, I attended Harvest Church and was presently surprised at the good attendance with a lot of young families and the worship was sincere. It was a real encouragement for me to see God at work in another country.
When Germany smashed the Caribbean Curaçao team 7-1 during this year’s FIFA World Cup, the unexpected happened. Two of the four-time world champions stood with the first-time FIFA qualifiers and prayed.
“One of the most memorable moments following Curaçao’s debut didn’t involve a goal, a trophy, or a celebration,” wrote the country’s Chronicle news. “Instead, it came after the final whistle, when players from both Curaçao and Germany gathered together in prayer at the centre of the field.”
Germany’s Felix Nmecha and Jonathan Tah approached the team in what Nmecha told reporters was a pre-planned show of Christian brotherhood.
“Before the match, we agreed that afterwards we would come together, regardless of the result, to show that we are brothers in Christ and that there is more to life than football,” Nmecha told Sky Germany. “Being able to pray together,” Nmecha explained, “is something very special.” “On the pitch you are opponents, but afterwards you are family in Christ.”
To this, the viral ‘crown down’ signature player added, “I wanted to thank Kenji and the Curaçao players because this isn’t something you take for granted after a defeat. It was a very special moment.”
The United Methodist Church has removed Asbury Theological Seminary from its list of approved seminaries because it disagreed with the denomination’s decision to endorse homosexuality and same-sex marriage.
Asbury, based in Wilmore, Kentucky, is one of the most prominent institutions in the Wesleyan tradition. It remained committed to biblical theology, the authority of Scripture and the movement’s traditional understanding of Christian doctrine.
But the United Methodist Church has concluded that Asbury no longer fits within its vision for preparing future ministers.
For years, conservative churches and pastors left the UMC, convinced it had drifted from its biblical and theological foundations. They were often accused of abandoning Methodism. That raises an important question: who is really leaving Methodism?
John Wesley founded the Methodist movement on the authority of Scripture, the necessity of personal holiness, repentance, evangelism, and the transforming work of the Holy Spirit. Those were not secondary convictions. They were the very reason Methodism existed.
Every organization has the right to determine its own standards. The question is not about whether the United Methodist Church has that authority. The question is about whether those standards still reflect the movement John Wesley started.
Some will argue that Wesley himself evolved, and that faithful tradition must do the same. That is true, but there is a profound difference between development and departure Wesley’s ministry developed his understanding and application of biblical truth, but it never abandoned the authority of Scripture that grounded the movement. His changes deepened his founding convictions rather than contradict them.
Development builds upon a foundation; departure replaces it. When an institution begins revising the very authority that gave it its identity, it is no longer developing a tradition. It is creating a new one. History teaches that institutions rarely abandon their founding principles all at once. Drift is almost always gradual.
The best example is from the Old Testament in the life of King Solomon. Solomon did not wake up one morning and reject the God who had given him wisdom. His decline came one compromise at a time. One accommodation led to another. Small departures accumulated until the king who dedicated the Temple tolerated practices that would once have been unthinkable.
That is how drift works. It rarely announces itself. It happens slowly enough that each step seems reasonable. Only years later do people look back and realize how far they have travelled. The same danger confronts every institution, whether it is a church, a university, a business, or even a nation. Churches deserve the same honest examination.
The irony is striking. A seminary known worldwide for teaching historic Wesleyan theology is now considered unsuitable for preparing Methodist ministers. That fact alone should prompt serious reflection. This pattern is not unique to Methodism. Throughout history, movements that began with remarkable clarity have often struggled to preserve the convictions that first gave them life.
Universities founded to train ministers gradually became secular institutions. Churches established to proclaim biblical truth slowly shifted their focus to cultural relevance. The transition rarely happens because people consciously reject their heritage. That is why every generation must distinguish between faithfully applying timeless truth to new circumstances and redefining truth itself. The first preserves a movement’s identity. The second quietly replaces it.
Every church eventually faces the same temptation. Will we allow Scripture to shape our beliefs, or will we reshape our beliefs to fit the spirit of the age? The answer determines more than a denominational policy. It determines whether we are preserving our inheritance or slowly drifting from it. Perhaps the real question is no longer why some Methodists left Methodism, but whether Methodism has left Wesley.
The Trinity Pride Fest event at Fort Worth Texas was attended this year by several local churches, including St. Stephen Presbyterian and Broadway Baptist Church. It stoked controversy in 2025 after drag performers reportedly accepted tips from children and displayed vulgar signage at the all-ages event.
The encounter occurred June 27 at Trinity Pride Fest in Fort Worth, where police were caught on video threatening to arrest members of a street preaching team led by evangelist Rich Penkoski. According to the video, police blocked Penkoski and David Grisham from accessing the sidewalk upon their arrival at the event.
Tragedy is Jesus told us that in the last days before His return to restore righteousness there would be a great falling away. It is happening in our day along with many of the other Biblical prophesied end times events.
The Labour Party is proposing to formally enshrine one of this country’s most divisive rituals into party policy.
Here’s the exact wording of what is being proposed:
“Labor recognises the importance of welcome to country and acknowledgement of country ceremonies, as opportunities to show respect to First Nations people.”
Polling over the past few years has consistently shown that the majority of Australians are sick to death of these divisive race-based ceremonies in which we are ritually reminded that we are visitors in our own country.
So naturally Labor’s response is: “Let’s have more.”
WHAT YOU CAN’T SAY ABOUT ISLAM
Because of these newly enacted hate-speech laws, we may comfortably predict that many Australians will now be unprepared to make critical comments or give warnings about radical Islam, no matter how well-based those comments or warnings might be. In a world where Islamic hatred of Jews and Christians is an ugly and obvious reality, and where threats are made by radical Muslims against Western democracies, and where some Muslim leaders in Australia, preaching from their pulpits, openly express sympathy with terrorists, the ability of Australians to defend themselves and their interests is seriously diminished by the prohibition of strong criticism of religion. The Bondi killing of Jews by Muslim extremists has made no impact on ALP policy.
The Albanese government has, inter alia, recently appointed an anti-Semitism envoy to draft a report on how to combat this undeniable social ill. The recommendations emanating from the envoy’s report propose the further erosion of free speech by adopting even more stringent hate-speech laws. This is concerning, because the criticism of religion, any religion, should be tolerated, and even celebrated, as an expression of the implied freedom of political communication, recognised by the Australian High Court.
Unfortunately, however, the ruling Labor Party and its Coalition doppelgangers appear completely oblivious to the fact that their new hate speech legislation, because of its generality, can easily be used as a convenient tool to effectively remove free speech on religious grounds from the public forum.
One aggravating problem leading to anti-Semitism (and other sources of societal problems), of course, is the policy of mass immigration depositing on our shores some who are prone to religious extremism and scripturally endorsed anti-Semitism. Accordingly, Australia should engage in serious research into all would-be visitors and immigrants and abandon the pro-forma review that prevails these days.
It entails that each person entering the country be checked to ensure no radical anti-Semite is allowed in, even for brief visits, to secure our common security. To deal with immigration in a responsible manner, it is worth remembering the words of the late Sir Harry Gibbs, formerly Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia:
While it would be grossly offensive to modern standards for a state to discriminate against any of its own citizens on the grounds of race, a state is entitled to prevent the immigration of persons whose culture is such that they are unlikely readily to integrate into society, or at least to ensure that persons of that kind do not enter the country in such numbers that they will be likely to form a distinct and alien section of society, with the resulting problems that we have seen in the United Kingdom.
Courtenay Hickey interviews her sister, Stephanie Rice (different fathers) 5 time gold medal swimmer. She was her first guest on her new Good To Know Podcast to share her testimony.
“God is doing such powerful things through you, and I cannot wait to see what He does in the future. We are praying and believing that this will set people free and they will come into a right relationship with God – He loves us so much.”
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16-17
Feeling rundown and at the end of the proverbial rope, Rice went to church. “I went to church with my sister who was a Christian and decided to open my heart to Jesus.”
“If I’m honest,” Rice reflected, “I had no idea if this was the ‘answer’ or if [it] would help, I just knew for sure that what I was doing wasn’t working and I was willing to try anything to feel hopeful again.” Sharing further, Rice said, “I’ve finally found that inner peace, stability, hope, encouragement, purpose and contentment that I was always looking for, just in all the wrong places.”
“I pray that more people would be open to Jesus.”
This is, she added, “because I just know He would heal your heart in ways you don’t even know are possible, and it would free you to dream and hope again, believing that anything is possible; because with Him, it really is.”
Now married to a Pastor and living in Dubai, Rice was earning a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Queensland when she declared a commitment to Christ.
Describing the MBA as a step of faith, Rice said in a LinkedIn post marking her graduation, “I learnt so much about myself on this two-year journey, and each course helped me discover and clarify where my natural, God-given skills, abilities and leadership lie.” “The most profound part of the journey,” she concluded, “has been how deeply healing it was.”
“Don’t let doubt be the loudest voice in your head,” Rice asserted. “Step out in faith and watch how kind the Lord is, meeting us exactly where we are and giving us everything we need.”
“In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:16
The story behind this verse (Matthew 5:14–16) is the ‘salt and light’ teaching from the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus says ‘you are the light of the world‘ (plural) — not will be, not should try to be, but already are by virtue of being His. A lamp is not lit and then hidden; the very purpose of its light is to illuminate what is around it. The hiding of light is a denial of its function. The critical detail is the purpose clause: ‘that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.’
The goal of visible faithfulness is not personal reputation — it is God’s glorification. The people who see your life should be moved, not to admire you, but to worship God.
This means the character of your public faithfulness matters: it should be genuinely good, genuinely other-serving, and genuinely uninterested in credit.
Reflection:
What does ‘letting your light shine‘ look like in your specific community, workplace, neighborhood, or family? What specific good deeds has God positioned you to do where you are?
There is a tension between not doing good to be seen, “Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven”. Matthew 6:1and doing good so others can see. “In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 5:16.
What would someone who observed your daily life for a week conclude about your Father in heaven? Would they see something worth glorifying?
Action Steps:
Do one anonymous good deed today. Find a way to do something genuinely good in a way that cannot come back to you as credit. Practice good deeds that only God can see. When you do good and someone notices, give God the credit. The next time someone thanks you for something kind, generous, or helpful, let God into the conversation. I’m just trying to follow Jesus.
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Pastor Mark Driscoll has laid it out, plain as day, in his bold message: Satan has a four-step blueprint to crush Christianity, dismantle the family, and rule through chaos.
Step One: Feminism – Breaking God’s Order
It began in the 60s and 70s, that so-called sexual revolution. Feminism didn’t just “empower” women — it declared war on biblical manhood, womanhood, marriage, life, family, and legacy. All masculinity labelled “toxic.” Pornography, birth control, abortion, and divorce flooded the culture like a plague. They tore at the very foundations God laid in Eden: “Male and female He created them” (Genesis 1:27). “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh” (Genesis 2:24).
This is the Marxist agenda in lipstick and heels — deconstructing God’s design to weaken the home, the first government. Strong fathers? Mocked. Traditional families? “Oppressive.” Millions of babies slaughtered in the womb. Divorce rates skyrocketed. Legacy? What legacy when kids are raised by the state and screens? This wasn’t progress; it was satanic rebellion against the Creator. And the hate for Christianity was baked in — because the Church stood for truth, for life, for ordered liberty under Christ.
Note: I’m talking about the godless feminist agenda, not equality for women in Christ.
Step Two: Rainbow Agenda and Transgenderism – Confusion and the Marginalisation of Strong Men
Now well underway, the next assault: the rainbow agenda and transgenderism. These demonic delusions promote perversion, addiction, and skyrocketing mental health crises, especially among the young. It minimises and marginalises strong, godly men in the home, church, and government. Boys are told they can be girls. Biological reality is “hate speech.” Surgeries mutilate God’s image-bearers. “God created man in his own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them” (Genesis 1:27). Jesus affirmed this: “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female?” (Matthew 19:4).
This chaos weakens protectors. Fathers, pastors, leaders – sidelined while confusion reigns. Free speech? Crushed under “inclusion” mandates. Christians lose jobs, churches face lawsuits, and kids are groomed in schools. It’s a Marxist tool to invert creation, erode the nuclear family further, and produce a weak, divided people ripe for control. But the gospel stands: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28) – unity in truth, not erasure of design.
Step Three: Socialism — Stealing from the Strong to Prop Up the Weak
This is where we are right now, hurtling forward to destruction. Socialism steals wealth, power, and influence from the healthiest and strongest men — the providers, builders, and protectors — to waste it on the weakest and most incompetent. High taxes, redistribution, endless welfare that traps people in dependency. It is envy dressed as compassion, the same spirit that drove Cain to murder Abel.
The Marxist agenda hates the Protestant work ethic, private property (“Thou shalt not steal”), and the fruitful labour blessed by God. “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat” (2 Thessalonians 3:10). Yet governments punish success and reward sloth. Strong Christian men who build churches, businesses, and families see their fruit confiscated to fund agendas that mock God. Freedoms evaporate — free speech first, then assembly, then conscience. Christianity is hated because it produces strong, independent people who bow to King Jesus, not the state. BLM fused feminism, transgenderism, and socialism into one public assault, exposing the roots.
Step Four: Islam’s Rise and the Neutered “Third Way” Compromised Church
Once the West is deconstructed – gender gone, families shattered, wealth seized – the vacuum fills. A brutal, pseudo-masculine, demonic Islam advances through immigration and high reproduction rates. While the “third way” church stays neutral, nuanced, avoiding offence, neutered and worldly, compromise reigns. Lukewarm pastors tickle ears, afraid of “divisive” truth.
Jesus warned: “I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm… I will spit you out of my mouth” (Revelation 3:15-16). No middle ground! “There is no middle with Islam. There is no way between Jesus and jihad… between Jesus and Marxism” (echoing Driscoll’s fire). Islam brings sharia, persecution of Christians, and conquest. The true Church must not yield.
The Gospel Triumphs! Christians Overcome
Satan’s plan is real, but so is our victory in Christ. “The gates of hell shall not prevail against My Ekklesia [My church]” (Matthew 16:18). The power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ — his death for sinners, resurrection conquering death — shatters every chain. Strong men of God, filled with the Holy Spirit, must rise. Pray without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17). Repent. Preach the Word in season and out. Train sons in righteousness. Defend life, marriage, truth.
Australia and the West can turn. Revival fires have burned before and will again. Spiritual truth exposes lies. The Marxist agenda collapses under the weight of reality and the prayers of the saints. Loss of freedoms? We fight for them boldly, but our hope is not in politics alone — it’s in Christ the King.
Stand firm, brothers and sisters. Put on the full armour of God (Ephesians 6:11–18). Overcome evil with good. The same Spirit that raised Jesus dwells in you. Masculinity redeemed, families restored, nations discipled — this is our mandate. No compromise. No neutrality. Jesus is Lord!
The greatest danger today is not the culture — it is a promoted, comfortable, lukewarm Church. A Church that avoids offence. A Church that softens truth. A Church that blends into the world.
Jesus warned the Laodicean church: “Because you are lukewarm… I will spit you out of My mouth” (Revelation 3:16).
Australia does not need a woke compromised Church. Australia needs a Spirit-filled, Bible-anchored, prayer-powered, truth-speaking, demon-defeating, gospel-proclaiming Church.
Fire up your prayer life. Teach your kids the Bible. Speak truth in love but speak it loud. Satan’s steps are visible, but our King has already won the war. “In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).
The Ekklesia [Church] in Australia must return to:
Fervent prayer
Bold gospel preparation
Holiness and godly reputation
Spiritual warfare
Unashamed proclamation of Jesus Christ
When the Church prays, heaven moves. When the Church stands, darkness trembles. When the Church speaks truth, captives are set free.
Faith and FIFA’s 2026 World Cup continue to pair up. So much so, the Financial Times (FT) has confidently declaredthat God is making a comeback. This is evidenced by the undeniable Christo-centric presence in what both the New York Times, The Guardian, and now the FT agree marks an unarguable culture shift. Also tuning in, the FT couldn’t deny that the presence of prayer on the playing field was more prominent, thoroughly unapologetic and mostly Christian.
World Cup and a Christian Cultural Shift
As FT’s veteran columnist and sports journalist, Simon Kuper, wrote, “Religion may have a particular appeal to footballers, but these scenes also reveal broader social shifts.” To make sense of the phenomenon, which is bewildering “God is dead” hard-line secularists, Kuper spoke with Dutch professor of theology, Mariecke van den Berg.
For van den Berg, the social shift is definitely accompanied by the “comeback of religion in the public sphere.” Pointing to the mass importing of Islam into Europe and the counter-cultural rise of evangelicalism in European nations, she determined that “this new religious landscape will look different.” Splitting Christianity down denominational lines, van den Berg explained that soccer was once the domain of Catholicism.
Brought to the game by Latin American players, “that meant the commonest religious gesture over the decades was players crossing themselves.”
Acknowledging the rise of evangelical Christianity since 2002, and Islam’s more pronounced presence since 2022, Kuper, citing van den Berg, said, “The most viable form of Christianity in Europe now is evangelical Christianity.”
Searching for Secular Explanations
Unfortunately, Kuper’s take in the Financial Times took a hostile, far-left turn. Unhinged, the FT journalist implied that Christianity’s influence and impact on the FIFA event were the result of manipulation. Quoting van den Berg, Kuper said the players “manage to connect with youth culture, through short sermons, directed at emotion. And it has a clear story.”
Although Kuper acknowledged that Christianity’s ethical clarity and certainty were a plausible reason for the revival, he put the social shift down to an error within Pentecostalism. “Pentecostal Christianity in Latin American countries,” the FT article asserted, “is often based on the prosperity gospel, which sees wealth as a sign that God blesses you.” Again, appearing to align with the Dutch theologian’s assessment, Kuper reasoned that “many footballers migrate young.” He then insinuated that the public declarations of faith in Christ were an emotional/psychological crutch and nothing more, stating, “Religious faith helps them deal with loneliness, pressure and setbacks like being benched, and it can assuage their guilt about becoming rich while people they grew up with remain poor.”
Expressing a distaste for the Christian cultural shift, Kuper then conflated the gospel groundswell with the so-called “far-right”.
Ghana World Cup Team praying after match with England
While speaking warmly of Islam, Kuper name-dropped Felix Nmecha as an example of why the religious revival was problematic. “Religion in football can spark political conflict.” For example, the FT piece asserted, “Many evangelical Christians hold right-wing views.” Arguing specifics, he noted how the public presence of Christianity might make those who identify as LGBTQ+ feel oppressed.
Calling the late Charlie Kirk a “far-right commentator”, Kuper then recalled how the 25-year-old player with a five-year, 40 million EURO contract was reprimanded for an online tribute to the assassinated TPUSA founder. While Kuper apparently disapproves of Christian soccer players elevating the gospel in between scoring goals, he seems to be more than happy with Muslims quoting the Quran and genuflecting to Mecca.
Kuper especially approves of this when the “‘Islamic expression’ angers Europe’s far right.” By far-right, he means critics of Islam, like Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
Gospel Growth Challenging a Secular Europe
Double standards, whip statements and selective reasoning aside, the FT article’s decidedly clear redemption was van den Berg’s conclusion. “The tournament’s religiosity,” she said, signals “that Europe isn’t as secular as it thought.”
Even though Kuper and the Left’s “God is dead” hegemony might be reluctant to admit there’s a power greater than theirs at work here, FIFA’s faith pair-up is undeniably real. As documented by Ballers in God, and Sports Spectrum, the behaviour, pattern and impact all point to the gospel, not away from it. Despite media misrepresentations,
Ballers reported that they had been flooded with “videos of people doing Felix Nmecha’s ‘crown down’ celebration.” “From stadiums to living rooms,” the ministry said, “people are making one thing clear: The crown belongs to Jesus.”
Elon Musk’s appearance at Davos 2026 raised some serious questions that many people completely missed.
In this video, we look at what Elon Musk said at the World Economic Forum about AI, robotics, consciousness, Mars, humanity’s future, and the coming age of abundance. But more importantly, we examine the deeper spiritual meaning behind this conversation.
Is this simply technology and progress? Or are we seeing the same Tower of Babel spirit rising again — mankind trying to build a future, reach the heavens, and save itself without God?
With Elon Musk, Larry Fink, the WEF, AI, robots, and global elites all discussing the future of civilization, Christians need discernment now more than ever. Along with the prophesied increased earthquakes (Venezuela, Los Angeles and Japan), godlessness, lawlessness are increasing as we approach the time of Jesus second coming. Watch what is happening, be aware of the people who are shaping the future, the appearance of the Antichrist is not too far distant.
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