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Then Havilah read, 'The sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven, shall be shaken[1].' 'And I beheld a beast coming up out of the earth: — and he caused all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hands, or in their foreheads[2].' 'If any man shall say unto you, Lo! here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders ; insomuch that (if it were possible) they shall deceive the elect themselves[3].' 'Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places[4].' 'Then (when armies are round about Jerusalem) let them which are in Judea flee into the mountains: let him who is on the house-top not come down to take any thing out of his house: neither let him that is in the field return back to take his clothes. And alas for them who are with child, and for them who give suck in those days ! And except those days should be shortened, there should
