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Amos 4:5

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5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

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Isaiah 45:7

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7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

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Cities of Judah

  

In Isaiah 40:9 and Psalm 69:35, this signifies the doctrine of love of the Lord and the neighbor in its entirety as well as the doctrine of the celestial church. (Apocalypse Explained 342, 850[5])