LOST TRIBES
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OVERVIEW PART ONE
This is going to be an overview today and next week will just be an overview of a very large and on going study area that’s mainly concerned with the history of the biblical nation of Judah and Israel. As we go along, we’ll take a few side trips for the philosophy and things like that. But this going to be the main stay for a while anyway and today I just want to give you the over view of this whole long story. [[Care to listen while you read?]] This a long over view and contains a lot of information that if you don’t let your mind stay a little bit open, you’re going to want to argue with a lot of the things that I say in this over view, but you know you can’t teach from an over view. You give the over view and then you go into the individual subjects in more detail and so forth. So just let this stuff wash over you and take a look and see where it all adds up to and maybe there’s something interesting there.
The study that we’re going to do takes in everything from marriage to
monarchy. Again, this is about the kingdoms of Judah and Israel and the amazing occurrences and I didn’t use the word “amazing” loosely. Some of these things we’re going to talking about are amazing. Just incredible occurrences in history and the time span, the rough time span involving this whole study is approximately 3,500 years. And it’s a tapestry that’s so intricately woven that a body would be hard-pressed to try and disprove or discount what seems to be a conscious willful control of the very elements of history itself. It’s just amazing. I mean I can’t tell you how it affects me but maybe you can hear how it affects me. I will get as far through this over view this week as possible. Maybe next week, we’ll finish up and start on the detail things if there’s time to start next week.
Intellectuals, through the centuries, have studied the biblical accounts that are verifiable historically. A lot of people have rejected Christianity because they concluded that the God of the Bible didn’t keep his word to his “chosen people,” the nations of Judah and Israel. Now it’s important that we understand right from the beginning that Judah and Israel wind up being two separate nations be just like the United States and Canada. Although the United States was founded by people that came from the British Isles and northwest Europe and Canada was pretty much the same way, they’re two very distinct countries and so were Judah and Israel distinct countries even though at one time, they were all one nation. There was a split that occurred with those particular people or the “chosen people.” Tom Paine, for instance, Tom Paine looked around at the biblical evidence and said, “This is a bunch of garbage. This God that’s in the Bible can’t exist and if he does, I don’t want anything to do with him because he can’t keep his word. Anybody who is touted to be the creator of the world and can’t keep some simple promises to somebody, I don’t think I want anything to do with. And he totally lost his faith. And a lot of people have done that who have given the Bible a very serious look and try to do -- checking up on history and in figuring out -- have lost it completely because they can’t find, they couldn’t find, at that time at least, evidence to prove, they did not -- to their own satisfaction, at least, that the God of the Bible was real and that he could keep his Word. I mean if somebody can’t keep his word to them, what good are they – God or human, you see.
Now there’s some very pivotal promises that were made to Abraham. This is way back, 2000 years back before Christ. You may want to get your Bible and if you need to and check out some of these things. We’re not going to do too much referencing today, maybe a few. I’ll mention some things. we’re not going to do a lot of [ ] or anything like that because again this is an over view. We’ll get into this other stuff in a lot of detail later on and just pile up the evidence in each little category, but you might want to check these out.
But most of these promises – that people haven’t been able to check out or understand or put together or make sense out of, what they’re doing, especially the traditional church has made these promises on the Jews, the Christian church itself or Christ. And many, many -- we’re not talking about one or two things that are listed in the Bible as what God of the Bible has promised to several different people, not just Abraham. He’s just where it all started. But He’s promised these to men and women throughout the Bible concerning the kingdoms of Judah and Israel. And you can squeeze a few of those promises into the categories of the Jews, the church and Christ. But a whole raft of them just don’t even fit at all, don’t make any sense. ,You can’t find who it is that this applies to in history. Let me give you just four of these promises to start out with.
One in Genesis 48: 10. Genesis 48:10 says the scepter or the right to be ruler, the kingship, if you will, and the making of the laws are going to be promised to and handed down to the son of Jacob called Judah who is the name sake of the kingdom of Judah later on. And Judah was supposed to be the one who was the ruler. Well have you known a Jewish king see. Even Herod wasn’t Jewish see. Herod was the Edomite; he wasn’t Jewish unless you count his going along with his toleration and so forth of the Jewish religion, but he wasn’t a Jew. He wasn’t from the tribe of Judah. He was from Esau, Jacob’s older brother, who wasn’t even under the line of Jacob. For he wasn’t a Jewish king and he’s the one that we knew a lot about because of Jesus’ birth and the slaughter of the innocents when he tried to kill every all the little kids to make sure that this prophesied king of the Jews wouldn’t come on the scene. So in genesis 48 the scepter and the Law goes to Judah so there’s got to be this king of Judah and you can’t find anywhere where the Jews had this king. You know once we get out of the – into A. D. at least, and even before that some, the kingdoms split up and lived separately. As mentioned before like the United States and Canada for some 200 years. And they were at war many times during that period of time. 200 years is as long as this country’s been in existence. And look at all that’s happened to us in 200 years. Well, history wasn’t any different back then. Two hundred years go by and a lot of things go on under the board. And when the kingdoms split up, there was a king of Judah over the southern kingdom of Judah, but the person who ruled as king over the northern kingdom of Israel wasn’t from the line of Judah. So that promise wasn’t kept because the promise to the son of Jacob, Judah, was that he or his descendants would always be the ones that would rule over all of Israel. Well, see, God must be a liar because that didn’t happen.
Here’s another promise. In Genesis 17:46, God promises Abraham that he’ll become the father of many nations. That never happened. Even in the Biblical, all of the biblical history that’s listed, there is nowhere any more than two nations. Now, two is not many. So what does that mean? Well that means it’s the Christian church is when that promise was fulfilled because there’s lots of different nations. No, that isn’t the way it works, see. Any intelligent person reading the facts and using just their common sense will [______] if you try to twist that around and put that on the Christian church cause it doesn’t work. In Isaiah 54: 17, it says that no weapon formed against this whole nation of Israel, Judah and Israel, the whole nation will ever prosper. See, that may be for the kingdom of Israel. I think I have to amend that. “No weapon.” In other words, they will never be conquered, completely defeated, okay. Wars and they’ll lose battles and maybe some of their territory might be occupied, but they’ll never be completely conquered by anybody. All through history. You see, it doesn’t say for the next 20 years or for the next 200 years, it says no weapon formed against you will prosper. Period. Well, that hasn’t happened with the Jews. The Jews have been wiped out. They’ve been thrown out of their own land. It hasn’t happened to the church; it doesn’t apply. It doesn’t apply to Christ, so God must be a liar about that one. You know, why bother listening to him.
In 2 Samuel 7, it talks about King David who was the king that welded the nation together and kept it together for about 40 years or so while he ruled, and they became very prosperous and ruled the other land. A promise was made to David that God was supposedly going to establish David’s Throne, his kingship forever. Well today is part of forever, right? And do you know any place where there’s some descendant of David is sitting on the throne ruling? Not as far as the Jews are concerned or the church. That doesn’t apply again, unless you twist it around and make it some allegorical thing or some metaphor or something like that. Christ? Christ is not on the scene today. “ Oh, He was the son of David and he’s ruling up in heaven, you know.” Well no. You start to twist stuff out of shape like that and people aren’t going to believe you.
Now those are four promises. There’s 60, 70, 80 promises that I could read off to you that are like that. And absolutely, in 1948 the nation of Israel today, who we know as the nation of Israel, the Jews. Which really aren’t Jews anyway, when you get into the history of what makes up a Jew today, they’re not from the tribe of Judah. There’s a lot of extra, extraneous population groups that got in there and just the same as most of the places in the world, you know, there’s a lot of intermingling. But when Israel today got back to the Promised Land in 1948 and we started up the nation of Israel, the one we have today, that does fulfill some prophesy. But what about all these other things. Just the things I mentioned don’t even fit into that. That does fulfill prophesy. They returned to the Promised Land. The promises and prophesies that are in the Bible – – they do cover some of those people, like the Israel today, but not everybody. And most of these promises we’re talking about were supposed to cover all of the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Not just the children of Judah, see, which is where the Jews came from.
The promises start, like I said, with Abraham and it’s not really by chance. It’s when you get into the study of the Bible and Abraham and these promises and prophecies, it’s always is if he was singled out. Okay. Not only does Scripture, but there’s other ancient writings that indicate that he had a qualifying background. Very quickly, his background. Biblically, God comes to Abraham and tells him different things. He supposedly is in the – – and I shouldn’t say “presence.” His father worked for the Babylonian emperor or king, whatever you want to call him. And his name was Nimrod. And you know he found out through his soothsayers that there was this prophecy of this person who was supposed to come on the scene. It’s just like the Christ story. This person was supposed to come on the scene and cause a lot of trouble or cause his kingdom a lot of trouble somehow or other. So he tried to find out who it was and his counselors came up with this name of Abraham. His father Terah was working for the king in certain capacities and he happened to be an idol maker. He made different kinds of idols. Well, Nimrod told him to bring in his kid, so he could kill him. He’d give him value for his kid, you know give him, so much money or whatever, a couple of horses or whatever. And so Terah brought in somebody else’s kid and Nimrod the king killed him, see.
Well, they hid Abraham for about ten years and then they sent him to Noah -- remember him –- Noah and his son Shem, who happened to be at that time living in the same place. And he stayed there for about 40 years. It’s almost 40 years that he stayed with Noah and Shem. Then later on, another son of Noah, named Ham, who was the father of all the black races the black race, if you will, the black peoples of Africa.
He was living in Egypt. And he and his son, Cush were mainly responsible from the development of the Nile Delta, the river delta, the Nile that made the delta a viable agricultural area. They built dikes and rolled back the water and things like that. That’s why they call it the – – sometimes it’s called the land of Mizriam, which means “Driver back of the sea” -– Noah
[____] to Ham.
Well, Shem came and conquered Ham and became what’s known in history as the first wave of the Hyksos, Hyksos rulers of Egypt. And Hyksos means shepherd. They were shepherd-kings, they called themselves shepherd-kings. Later on, another wave of Hyksos ruled Egypt. We’ll get into that a little later on, too. We’ll find when we study the mythology and history of Egypt that most of the Egyptian mythology comes out of Shem and Ham and those things that happened back in those days.
Well, eventually, Shem leaves Egypt and he goes to Jerusalem. And then we have a biblical account of Abraham fighting in a war with some people – – some kings that came. And he went and conquered them, took all the spoils and was on his way back home.
And he meets a person called, a king called Melchizedek, and this Melchizedek blesses him and gives him some bread and wine and so forth. And Abraham pays him a tithe of all the things that he got in the war. He gives him a tenth of everything. And this is just Shem, of course, see? And Abraham is only following the, biblical principal of tithing to the teacher of God’s word. That’s all it is. That’s what happens there. So there’s a little bit of background for Abraham. So, Abraham, after all of this happens, then God starts talking to Abraham and tells him to go here and do this and do that. So this was a bit of the background now.
Abraham – let’s see – there’s these – most of these promises, the initial promises, were made to Abraham and passed along through the birthright law to the first–born son. A lot of people are familiar with that. The first born son is the one that inherits everything, at least back then. That’s mainly the way it was, unless something happened to him and then they went down the line. Interestingly enough, if all of the sons were out of the picture, then God provided in his law to Moses that the birthright could pass on to a female in the same family if all of the males were killed in a war or died for some reason or whatever. So, it all led by birthright and that’s extremely important in this whole overview, in this whole topic, that all of the things – the headship of the family. When Abraham died, everything -– all the rights, all the land, everything, the right to rule the family and be the patriarch, the king of the family, so to speak, go to the first-born son, Isaac. And then Isaac has some kids, but the only one that gets the birthright is the first-born.
Now, that switches around a little bit with Isaac and Jacob because Jacob obtained the birthright from his older brother, Esau. They were twins and Esau came out first, but Esau sold his birthright to Jacob. So, Jacob had the right it get all the good stuff, all the land, all the money, all the cattle, and the right to rule the family. The right of primogenitor is what we’re talking about here. These are birthright promises -– a lot of birthright promises involved in Abraham and Isaac and their wives, Sarah, and Rebecca and Jacob. For instance, Abraham was promised by God that God would give his descendants the land of Israel, the Promised Land, the Palestinian area – – so many different names over there – – the Holy Land, if you will. So, I’m going to give this to your descendants. Period. I’ll give it to you, actually, and then all your descendants forever will own this land. Well, when Abraham dies, Isaac now owns the land and his descendants.
Abraham was also promised by God that, the number of his descendants would be so vast, would be such a great multitude that you wouldn’t be able to number them. They’d be like the stars in the heavens or the sand of the sea. If you can number those, you can number the descendants.
All of those promises – that’s the birthright promises that passed to Isaac and then passes down to Jacob and then to his first-born and, and right down the line. So, that’s mainly the way these promises went, from father to son, from father to son. What are the – one of the things that we have to look at --
Now, any of you out there who are Bible students already and don’t know about this – I’m going to say something that’s going to open the whole Bible to you, practically the whole Bible, not just the Old Testament. Lot of stuff in the New Testament that’s involved in this. It’s one of the crossroads of Scripture. Okay?
Chapters 48 and 49 of Genesis are involved in the division of the birthright. Now, Abraham had a lot of promises from God. Many nations would come out of him, multitude of people, not being able to be numbered, that kind of thing. All of that will pass to Isaac, and all of that from Isaac to Jacob, right, and there’d be some additions along the way. And when Jacob goes to pass on his promises -- all the things that he’d gotten from Isaac and Abraham, he’s going to pass them on to his first-born, except that, in the case of Jacob, the primogenitor got mixed around. And in Genesis 48 and 49 where you find all this information, you find that there’s a division of the birthright.
And as I mentioned earlier, Jacob’s son, Judah, who wasn’t his first-born –– he was the fourth-born. The first-born, named Reuben forfeited his birthright. The second and third people in line forfeited their right to the birthright, and it passed by the first three into the fourth person of Judah, but only part of it. When you read Genesis 48 and 49, you find that Judah only received the kingship, and the ruling, and the lawmaking part of birthright. He didn’t receive any of the land, any of the money, any of the cattle. He didn’t receive any of that stuff, the material things. All he received was the right to rule and make the laws.
If you read the chapters I mentioned, you’ll find that the blessing, not the ruling and the law making, but the blessing – – the land, the cattle, the money, all the good stuff – – all that to Joseph, who was the eleventh in line. Jacob had 12 sons, so the fourth son, Judah, got the right to rule and all of the rest of the birthright, all of those promises about the great nation, about the – – there’s one promise about a multitude of nations, a multitude of descendants, the a “no weapon will prosper,” “these people will possess the gates of the enemies” is a another promise that comes in later on -- all of those birthright promises go to Joseph and any of his sons that come after him. They all go to Joseph. All right?
And if you’ll notice, in the, in the passages, Joseph has two sons that are half-Egyptian because when he was ruling Egypt--the Vizier–– when he was ruling Egypt, he had two sons by a wife. And that’s what these two passages, two chapters are about where Jacob is passing on all the promises and the birthrights and he passes to Judah the law and the scepter, but Joseph’s sons get their blessing. You can also cross-reference that in I Chronicles 5:1. It says Judah is to reign, and Joseph is to prosper.
Now, at this particular point, this is where it’s a crossroads of history and biblical interpretation. From this point on, where Jacob divides the birthright, these two sets of people – – the people of Judah and the people of Joseph become just that, two separate people. And they’ll always be talked about in the Bible as two separate groups of people even though right after this time, they go into bondage in Egypt, and they have the thing about the ten plagues, and the Passover, and Pharaoh’s dying in the Red Sea, and they all come out as one group of people. And they all go into the Holy Land as one group of people. And they’re all one nation under King David as one people, supposedly. That’s what it looks like from history. And that’s what it looks like from the Bible.
But again, because of this division of the birthright, they’re viewed as two separate entities. And they’re talked about in every one of the prophets. There were prophecies of what’s going to happen to these certain people. It’s always talked about as the kingdom of Judah and the kingdom of Israel or other names to be given to them. And there’s lot of different names that have been applied to these two different kingdoms.
So, if you don’t keep it in mind, you’re going to be hopelessly confused and not know who’s being talked about. And that’s one of the reasons why many people have tried to assign some of these promises that weren’t to
Jews, to the Jews. And then they said, “No, the Jews didn’t do that. Look here. It says here that Abraham’s seed would be a multitude of people that you can’t number. But there aren’t that many Jews in the world. Only, you know, there’s pockets of them here and there, but you can’t find that many that you can’t number them all. There’s certainly not as many as the Chinese, or the Slavic race or the black race. Now, there, you got a multitude of people. Give me a big, by a large population group like them and then maybe you can say, “Yeah, that promise works for them, but it sure doesn’t work for the Jew.” Well, more than it does for the Eskimo, you know,which is pretty analogous. That’s because the fact of this division of the birthright isn’t taken into consideration, and all of the promises to Israel or Joseph’s sons don’t apply to the Jew. And they can’t make or fit, see?
So, you gotta keep that division in mind. A good placed to study the division of, of the two kingdoms is in Ezekiel chapter 23. There’s a story that we’ll get into later on. It’s a dirty story is what it amounts to -- talks all about two sisters, two sisters that are in Egypt, one named Aholah and one named Aholabah and some of the activities they’re going through in Egypt. Now this is in Egypt with the ten plaques and when they were slaves and when they were making the bricks and the picks and all that stuff, see? It appears in history as that they are one people, but here Ezekiel is talking about Ahola and Aholabah as if they were two separate entities. Ezekiel 23.
There’s another place you can study the split in the kingdoms is in the prophecies concerning a guy named Jeroboam. When the kingdom split -– we find this is in 1 Kings 11 -- when the kingdom split, Solomon died, and the successor to the throne was Rehoboam. The kingdom split up at that point, and there was a prophecy like I said, the prophet Ahijah comes and he meets this guy Jeroboam on the road, and it’s a real interesting story, rips his clothes off, and tears it up into twelve pieces. And he hands Jeroboam ten of them back. See? And he says, “Now, you are going to rule these ten tribes as a kingdom.” And that’s when the kingdom started to split. See?
So, now, what we have is the house of Judah because those are the two, the two tribes that were left down on the south end of the whole nation, of the whole area, geographical area, and the northern kingdom of Israel. It’s called Israel, because Jacob’s name was changed to Israel, and he gave his birthright, all the blessings and stuff to the older, not the older, but the younger son of Joseph, called Ephraim, and he said, “They will be my name now.” So that’s why they were called the nation of Israel and the southern kingdom was called the nation of Judah. Excuse me.
And it just so happens that this guy Jeroboam was of the line of Ephraim. He was a direct descendant of Ephraim. So, the person who got the blessing out of Jacob, Ephraim, wound up with a descendant ruling as it should be. That should be. And the rulers of the southern kingdom always came out of the tribe of Judah, you know. And this was the way it was for 200 years, 200 years, not just 40 or 50, 200 years. King after king after king came and went, see. And they spent all this time apart.
So, you can find that, that story about the prophecy of the kingdom splitting, and they have the wars now. One thing that we have to mention along in here, too, is that the Jews – and this is another kind of a crossroad of understanding, so to speak. Now, Jews never were the people of the northern kingdom. They were always the people of the southern kingdom of Judah. You see, after the kingdom split, the first time they went to war, the northern kingdom of Israel went to the Assyrians and said, “Hey, come on down here and help us fight with these guys.” And they came down and from then on, they were calling them Judahites, and they made that a little a little simpler by calling them Jews. And if you look in 2 Kings 16:6, you find the very first time that the people of the southern kingdom are ever called Jew. Abraham wasn’t a Jew. Even King David wasn’t a Jew. Jacob’s son, Judah, whose tribe ruled the southern kingdom of Judah who were all Jews -– Judah wasn’t a Jew. Nobody was a Jew until the kingdom split. They went to war, and they started calling the southern kingdom “Jews.” From the northern kingdom, they never were called Jews and all Jews. And that’s one of the reasons again why this misinformation is being disseminated, and people don’t know who these promises are supposed to go to, “Oh, wow. the Jews are supposed to get those promises, aren’t they?” No. The house of Israel. The kingdom of Israel. Now, we gotta find them. That’s what this is all about.
The sixth king of Israel – his name, the house of Israel, the kingdom of Israel, the northern kingdom, Israel, was called Omri, O-M-R-I, but it’s got a harsh aspirant mark over it, like an umlaut. It’s pronounced “Khoomri,” like Khomaini. You got to cough it out, so to speak. And he changed all the laws, made up his own laws, like Hammurabi, the Code of Hammurabi, and he put it into effect with, changed the capital to Samaria. And from then on, the kingdom of Israel was known as, sometimes, Samaria, Judah and Samaria, the two kingdoms. Sometimes, it was known as Ephraim after Jacob’s adopted son, Ephraim, the house of Ephraim, the kingdom of Ephraim, the kingdom of Israel, – – had a lot of different names, okay.
The Assyrians came down 760, -30, -50, down into -21, 721 B.C. and conquered all of the northern kingdom and a lot of the southern kingdom. They couldn’t conquer Jerusalem and a lot of Jews were left. But a lot of Jews, hundreds of thousands of Jews were taken away along with the northern kingdom, and they were deported to a buffer state between the Medes which is northern Iran, and the Assyrians, up along the south end of the Black Sea along Lake Van. Well within 50 years, they became mercenaries and joined up with the Medes and broke the Assyrian bondage and moved out. They moved out of that area, and then Nebuchadnezzer moved in and conquered Assyria and he became the ruling empire at the time.
But now if you go to the Apocryphal scripture of Esdras, 2 Esdras, which is really just another name for Ezra, you’ll find that these same people –- now, these were millions of people, 5 million people plus, were taken away in bondage. They consulted among themselves and they decided to go some place where they could live the way they wanted to live, just like the Americans did. And they moved north, mainly north, through the Caucasus mountains to a place called Arsareth, which just means “a place of rest,” up around the top of the Black Sea. That’s from 2 Esdras 13:40–46 and 2 Ezra 2:33. You’ll find some of that in there.
Now, Greco-Roman history has always called the Celts barbarians until the archaeological digs at Hallstatt and Le Tien showed that they were really a very advanced, highly developed culture. The whole world believed this barbarian story that, that anybody that wasn’t Roman was called barbarian just out of hand. It wasn’t that they were barbaric, I mean the Romans were barbaric. Look at what they did with the lions in the Roman circus, feeding people to the lions. That’s pretty barbaric, but it wasn’t that they were barbaric. It was that they weren’t Roman or they weren’t Greek and everybody comes to think that they were a bunch of, you know, barbarians running around.
Well, it just so happens that the Celts in history begin mostly, recent history has qualified this somewhat, carried it back a little back farther, but mostly we read that the Celts begin just on top of the Black Sea, just north of the Caucasus mountains and the Black Sea at the same date as the disappearance of the house of Israel. These millions of people. So, these – what they’re called is now “the lost tribes”- These lost tribes had the biggest war, or the biggest collision in history happened with the Celts, or they’re the same people. And that’s a part of this whole thing, the Celts are the lost tribes of Israel. We’ll get into that.
Mainly, we find a lot of evidence in the Assyrian tablets, okay. Archaeology has dug up the royal library of the Assyrian empire in Nineveh. There’s 21,000 clay tablets, merchant reports, border reports by the guards between the nations, letters back and forth to the high officials in the government and stuff. And what we find is that in the Assyrian tablets, the house of Israel, the kingdom of Israel – – that they weren’t called Israel by the Assyrians. So, in effect what happened was that the tribes didn’t get lost, the names got lost. They were called a lot of different other things, different names besides the house of Israel. They might have called themselves that or the house of Isaac, as we know they did. But the other people around didn’t call them that at all.
Now, the Celts, then, if the Celts are the lost tribes or the kingdom of Israel, then that’s who we have to look for to see if they qualify as recipients of their promises. One of the promises says in Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy, that they would push the people to the ends of the earth, that they’ll be colonizers. Well, don’t we know that the Celts, the Spanish, the Dutch, the English, the French were all colonizers? Another promise is listed in Genesis 23, 23 and 24. These people, the kingdom of Israel would possess the gates of their enemies, or the gateways of the earth, and don’t you know who controls the straits of Gibraltar and Hong Kong and Singapore and up until recently the Panama Canal. The Celtic nations, the people who descended from the Celts control those areas. Right there, you got evidence that shows you that the Celts must be this kingdom of Israel.
Well, we’re going to continue, but we got next is a dilemma, a real dilemma because we named one promise already that said that some, some place in the world forever, a king of David, David’s line, would be ruling over the whole nation of Israel, Israelites descendants. Well, that House of Israel is taken away by Assyria and put into bondage and 120 years later, Nebuchadnezzer comes and takes away the southern kingdom and cuts off the line, kills the king and his kids. Now, we got a real dilemma because who’s going to rule over these lost tribes? Who’s going to provide the king? Judah’s in bondage. All of line was cut off. And next week, we’ll get to that.
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