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Speaker 4: Heyback is coming. God is keeping the records. He knows
Speaker 4: how to not just restore you, but restore the years
Speaker 4: that were stolen, the years that were unfair, the years
Speaker 4: that were lonely, the years you struggled with that depression.
Speaker 4: When God restores the years, you're not going to look
Speaker 4: like what you've been through. Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.
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Speaker 4: I like to start with something funny and one day,
Speaker 4: Jesus and Satan were having a contest to see who
Speaker 4: was better with computers. After six hours of making spreadsheets
Speaker 4: and designing web pages, a thunderstorm knocked the power out.
Speaker 4: When they rebooted their computers, Satan started screaming, it's all lost,
Speaker 4: all my materials gone, while Jesus quietly walked over and
Speaker 4: printed out his turned it in. Satan complained, this isn't fair.
Speaker 4: He must have cheated. How come he didn't lose his
Speaker 4: material God smiled and said, Jesus saves, say it like
Speaker 4: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what
Speaker 4: it says. I am, I have what it says I have,
Speaker 4: I can do what it says I can do today.
Speaker 4: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly
Speaker 4: confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I
Speaker 4: will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.
Speaker 4: I want to talk to you today about time is
Speaker 4: on your side. We've all been through seasons in life
Speaker 4: where it feels like we've lost time. We were in
Speaker 4: a relationship that didn't work out. We've lost those years
Speaker 4: we weren't raised in a healthy environment. It feels like
Speaker 4: we've lost our childhood. We came down with an illness
Speaker 4: or struggled with an addiction. Months past, maybe years. It's
Speaker 4: time that we can't get back. It's easy to think
Speaker 4: that was just a rough season. There's nothing that I
Speaker 4: can do about it. But God said in the Book
Speaker 4: of Joel, I will restore the year, years that the
Speaker 4: locusts have eaten, the years that the canker worm and
Speaker 4: palmer worm have destroyed. It's said that time is the
Speaker 4: one thing that we can't get back. That's true in
Speaker 4: the natural, but we have a supernatural God. He knows
Speaker 4: how to make up for lost time. He's not going
Speaker 4: to just restore you. He's going to restore the years
Speaker 4: that you spent in that relationship that didn't make it.
Speaker 4: It feels like it was a waste of time. But
Speaker 4: God is going to make the rest of your life
Speaker 4: so fulfilling that you don't think about what you've been through.
Speaker 4: He's not going to just bring you out of that illness.
Speaker 4: He's going to restore the years that you spent taking
Speaker 4: the treatment. Your latter days will be better than your
Speaker 4: former days. Now here's how good God is. He's even
Speaker 4: going to restore the years that we've wasted making poor choices,
Speaker 4: running with the wrong crowd. Years you should have been studying,
Speaker 4: but you spent them partying. Years that you should have
Speaker 4: been raising children, but you were distracted doing other things.
Speaker 4: Years you should have been pursuing dreams, but you let
Speaker 4: fear and opposition hold you back. It should be too late.
Speaker 4: You missed your chance. God is saying, get ready, I'm
Speaker 4: about to restore the years. I'm about to make up
Speaker 4: for the time you missed with your children. He's not
Speaker 4: going to just restore the relationship. He's going to restore
Speaker 4: the years. He's going to make it as if you
Speaker 4: never lost that time. That company you spent years at
Speaker 4: they didn't treat you fairly. God is not going to
Speaker 4: just turn it around, but he's going to pay you
Speaker 4: back for what should have been yours. In this passage
Speaker 4: from the Book of Joel, the Israelites planted their crops,
Speaker 4: watered them, did their best to keep the weeds out.
Speaker 4: Everything was going great. The crops took off, but when
Speaker 4: they were about to harvest them, swarms of locusts came
Speaker 4: in like a mighty army and ate up all the crops.
Speaker 4: I'm sure the Israelites were discouraged. It wasn't fair. They
Speaker 4: had worked hard but had nothing to show for it.
Speaker 4: They made it through the winter, believed that God was
Speaker 4: still in control. The next year, they went out and
Speaker 4: planted their crops. They thought that setback can't stop us.
Speaker 4: We didn't have a harvest last year, but God sustained us.
Speaker 4: We'll have one this year. But when the crops were
Speaker 4: ready to harvest, here came the locusts, just like the
Speaker 4: year before. When they saw them over the horizon, I
Speaker 4: can imagine how their hearts sunk as they sat there
Speaker 4: and watched millions of locusts slowly eat up their crops.
Speaker 4: It was like pouring salt on a wound. This didn't
Speaker 4: happen just one year or just two years, but four
Speaker 4: consecutive years their harvest was completely wiped out. They were
Speaker 4: tempted to think there's no use even planning. It's not
Speaker 4: worth the effort. We know what's going to happen. These
Speaker 4: locusts are going to come right back. Joel. I'm believing
Speaker 4: for my health to improve, but every time time I
Speaker 4: go for a checkup, it's the same negative report. I'm
Speaker 4: being my best at work, but I'm not being promoted
Speaker 4: like them. It feels like your harvest is being eaten.
Speaker 4: You're doing the right thing, but the locusts keeps showing up.
Speaker 4: While the Israelites were discouraged, thinking they would never see
Speaker 4: a harvest, God spoke to them through the prophet Joel.
Speaker 4: He said, in effect, I know it hasn't been fair.
Speaker 4: I've seen what didn't work out, I've seen what's been stolen,
Speaker 4: and I'm not going to just stop the locust. I'm
Speaker 4: not going to just give you a harvest this season.
Speaker 4: I'm going to restore the years that were stolen. I'm
Speaker 4: going to give you this season's harvest plus four more
Speaker 4: harvest seasons. That's how amazing God is He's going to
Speaker 4: make up for the years that you've lost. The scripture
Speaker 4: went on to say, your threshing floor will be full
Speaker 4: of grain, your storehouses will overflow with wheat and oil.
Speaker 4: You will have an abundance and be satisfied. Notice what
Speaker 4: happens when God restores abundance, overflow more than enough. They
Speaker 4: had been in famine, not seeing any increase, and suddenly
Speaker 4: God not only turned it around, but he paid them
Speaker 4: back for the lost years. He made up for what
Speaker 4: should have been theirs. God is keeping a record of
Speaker 4: everything that should have been yours. He knows what you
Speaker 4: didn't get. He saw you working hard, raising those children,
Speaker 4: making sacrifices, but they haven't turned out like they should.
Speaker 4: He saw you taking the treatment, keeping a good attitude,
Speaker 4: praising him when it wasn't improving, thanking him when you
Speaker 4: didn't feel well. He saw you struggling with the addiction,
Speaker 4: trying to beat it, going to counseling, quoting the promises.
Speaker 4: But it hasn't changed. Your harvest hasn't come. Don't worry,
Speaker 4: it's on the way. God is not going to just
Speaker 4: free you, just heal you, just turn your children around.
Speaker 4: He's going to restore the years that you've lost, You're
Speaker 4: going to still get a harvest from all those years
Speaker 4: you prayed, those years you believed, those years you did
Speaker 4: the right thing, You worked hard, you helped others. That
Speaker 4: harvest has been stored up. The enemy may think he
Speaker 4: took it, but God has the final say. He has
Speaker 4: blessings stored up for you. When he restores the years,
Speaker 4: you're going to be more fulfilled than you've ever been.
Speaker 4: You're going to be healthier, stronger, more energy. You're going
Speaker 4: to have better relationships than you've ever dreamed. You're going
Speaker 4: to overflow with blessings, overflow with joy, overflow with favor.
Speaker 4: A man I know was married at a young age
Speaker 4: and they struggled as a young couple and had some
Speaker 4: rough years, but he was determined to make it work
Speaker 4: out and he went overboard to love, to forget, to
Speaker 4: go the extra mile. They had two children, but at
Speaker 4: one point the wife checked out she was done. This
Speaker 4: man kept being his best, raising the children basically by himself.
Speaker 4: The wife was still there, but she wouldn't have anything
Speaker 4: to do with him. He kept praying, believing, asking God
Speaker 4: to turn it around. But on his twenty fifth wedding anniversary,
Speaker 4: she left a note saying that she was leaving. This
Speaker 4: man was so heartbroken. When I saw him, it looked
Speaker 4: like he had aged twenty years. He was normally so upbeat, fun, positive,
Speaker 4: but it was like all the life had been drained
Speaker 4: out of him. I tried to encourage him, let him
Speaker 4: know that there were good days up ahead, but he
Speaker 4: was so down. He said, I've invested all this time.
Speaker 4: I poured my heart and soul trying to make my
Speaker 4: marriage work, and it was all for nothing. God sees
Speaker 4: the years you've lost. He knows the pain, the hurt,
Speaker 4: what wasn't fair. The beauty of our God is he
Speaker 4: doesn't just heal the wounds. He restores the years. He
Speaker 4: makes up for what wasn't fair. You may feel like
Speaker 4: you're in one of those lost years. The pandemic has
Speaker 4: slowed your business, put your dreams on hold, you're dealing
Speaker 4: with an illness. A child is off course. You've invested
Speaker 4: so much, but it looks like it was wasted. The
Speaker 4: locusts came and ate up your harvest. Stay encouraged. Payback
Speaker 4: is coming. God is keeping the records. He knows how
Speaker 4: to not just restore you, but restore the years that
Speaker 4: were stolen, the years that were unfair, the years that
Speaker 4: were lonely, the years you struggled with that depression. When
Speaker 4: God restores the years, you're not going to look like
Speaker 4: what you've been through. When he makes up for what
Speaker 4: should have been yours, nobody is going to know that
Speaker 4: you had the illness. Nobody will know you went through
Speaker 4: the breakup. You'll be so blessed, so happy, so healthy,
Speaker 4: nobody will be able to tell. Over time, my friend
Speaker 4: began to get his joy back, his passion back, his
Speaker 4: vision back. Instead of living defeated, he started thanking God
Speaker 4: that there were beauty for those ashes, and that what
Speaker 4: was meant for harm, God was turning to his advantage.
Speaker 4: Three years later, he met a beautiful young lady. They
Speaker 4: fell in love and ended up getting married. I'll never
Speaker 4: forget what he told me, he said, Joel, I have
Speaker 4: never been this happy in all my life. I never
Speaker 4: dreamed I could be this fulfilled. I didn't know what
Speaker 4: a healthy relationship was. What was that God was storing
Speaker 4: the years that were lost. God knows how to make
Speaker 4: up for what should have been yours, And just because
Speaker 4: it hasn't happened doesn't mean that it's not going to happen.
Speaker 4: God is storing up what belongs to you. I believe
Speaker 4: he's about to release some of those stored up blessings.
Speaker 4: When he restores the years, you'll see increase that you've
Speaker 4: never seen, blessings that will catapult you ahead, divine connections,
Speaker 4: people better than you've ever imagined. Those locusts may have
Speaker 4: eaten up your crops, so to speak. They may have
Speaker 4: taken your harvest. The good news is it's only temporary.
Speaker 4: Everything that belongs to you is coming back. The health,
Speaker 4: the freedom, the promotion, the joy, the victory. It's not
Speaker 4: coming back like it was. It's going to come back,
Speaker 4: press down, shaken together, running over. When God restores the years,
Speaker 4: like with my friend, your joy will overflow. You'll have
Speaker 4: an abundance of opportunity, an abundance of resources, and abundance
Speaker 4: of good health. The Israelites had been in slavery many years.
Speaker 4: They were mistreated, forced to work long hours, given quotas
Speaker 4: that were impossible to meet. Despite how unfair it was,
Speaker 4: they kept working hard, being their best, but not seeing
Speaker 4: any increase, no harvest. They thought it was permanent. They
Speaker 4: had already accepted that they would never be free, but
Speaker 4: God sees when you're being mistreated. He sees when you're
Speaker 4: doing the right thing, but the locusts are eating your harvest.
Speaker 4: It may feel like God has forgotten about you. You've
Speaker 4: accepted that you'll always struggle, always be at a disadvantage,
Speaker 4: always have that trouble at work. Now your time is coming.
Speaker 4: God said in Exodus, I have seen the affliction of
Speaker 4: my people. I have heard their cries, and I am
Speaker 4: coming down to deliver them. God was saying an effect,
Speaker 4: enough is enough. There will be a time where God says,
Speaker 4: that's it. I'm coming down to vindicate you, to heal you,
Speaker 4: to promote you, to pay you back for what you're owed.
Speaker 4: The pharaoh that was holding them captive was very powerful.
Speaker 4: He had a huge army, the latest equipment, chariots, skilled warriors.
Speaker 4: The Israelites had none of that, no chance in the natural.
Speaker 4: They were slaves. But God is not limited by what
Speaker 4: you don't have, by who's against you, by how powerful
Speaker 4: the sickness looks, by how long you've struggled, by how
Speaker 4: far that child is off course, nothing can stand against
Speaker 4: our God when he comes down to deliver you. All
Speaker 4: the forces of darkness cannot stop in don't focus on
Speaker 4: how big your obstacles are. Focus on how big your
Speaker 4: God is. He flung stars into space, he spoke worlds
Speaker 4: into existence. He's saying to you what he said to them.
Speaker 4: I'm coming down to deliver you. I'm coming down to
Speaker 4: make things happen that you couldn't make happen. I'm coming
Speaker 4: down to restore the years that you've lost. God sent
Speaker 4: plague after plague on Pharaoh and his people. He was stubbed,
Speaker 4: but he finally agreed to let them go. I'm sure
Speaker 4: the Israelites were thrilled to be free. It was a
Speaker 4: day they never dreamed what happen. They were satisfied to
Speaker 4: just be leaving. But God wasn't satisfied. He doesn't just
Speaker 4: bring you out. He restores the years that were stolen.
Speaker 4: He pays you back for what should have been yours.
Speaker 4: On their way out, the scripture says God caused the
Speaker 4: Israelites to have favor with their oppressors, and they gave
Speaker 4: them their gold, their silver, and their clothing. One version
Speaker 4: says they left loaded down with blessings. What was that
Speaker 4: God paying them back for four hundred and thirty years
Speaker 4: of working as a slave. God is keeping the records
Speaker 4: of what you're owed. Those times you've done the right thing,
Speaker 4: but the locusts ate up your harvest. You did your best,
Speaker 4: but you didn't get promoted. The loan didn't go through,
Speaker 4: the anxiety didn't go away. Despite all you kept believing, praising,
Speaker 4: being good to others like these people. Your time is coming.
Speaker 4: God is storing up the harvest that should have been yours.
Speaker 4: It seems like the locusts are eating it. The truth is,
Speaker 4: what God has for you is still on the way.
Speaker 4: The joy that should have been yours those years you
Speaker 4: were dealing with depression, it's still coming. The resources that
Speaker 4: should have been yours those years you were overlooked, they're
Speaker 4: still on the way. The healing, the good relationships, the
Speaker 4: victory you missed out on, it is still in your future.
Speaker 4: Our daughter, Alexandra, was born a month and a half
Speaker 4: before my father went to be with the Lord, and
Speaker 4: during that time he was on dialysis. Many times I
Speaker 4: would take him up to the clinic. It was a
Speaker 4: very busy season. Then when he went to be with
Speaker 4: the Lord, our whole life changed. I was thrust into
Speaker 4: this position. I was doing my best just to stay afloat.
Speaker 4: I don't remember very well. The first couple of years
Speaker 4: of Alexandra's life. We were in such transition. I was
Speaker 4: learning how to minister, try to figure everything out. It
Speaker 4: consumed me. Several years later, I realized I didn't have
Speaker 4: the same memories of Alexandra's first few years like I
Speaker 4: did our son Jonathan's. I said, almost in passing, God,
Speaker 4: I'm asking you to restore those years that I lost
Speaker 4: by being so busy and so preoccupied with other things.
Speaker 4: Alexandra was eight years old when I prayed that all
Speaker 4: she wanted to do was to be with me. She
Speaker 4: would rather go out in the backyard and let me
Speaker 4: watch her do cartwheels than go over to her friends.
Speaker 4: Sometimes I needed a break. I say, why don't you
Speaker 4: go swimming with your cousins, Why don't you have your
Speaker 4: friends over? She said, no, Dad, I want to stay
Speaker 4: here with you. She'd come up to me all through
Speaker 4: the day, put her arm around me, walk around the house.
Speaker 4: We were the best of friends. She's twenty one years
Speaker 4: old now, doesn't know who I am. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 4: We're still the best of friends. You know what that
Speaker 4: was God restoring the years, making up for lost time.
Speaker 4: God is going to do that for you. He's going
Speaker 4: to restore opportunities that you missed. He's going to restore
Speaker 4: relationships that are not what they should be. He's going
Speaker 4: to restore the years you lost not making good decisions,
Speaker 4: giving in to compromise. You don't have to live in
Speaker 4: regrets thinking you missed your season. It's too late to
Speaker 4: accomplish your dreams, too late to have good relationships with
Speaker 4: your family. There's too much water under the bridge. God
Speaker 4: knew we would make mistakes. He's not going to just
Speaker 4: redeem you. He's going to redeem the time. He's going
Speaker 4: to give you another chance. Don't believe those lies that
Speaker 4: you're too old who made too many mistakes. You wouldn't
Speaker 4: be hearing this if God wasn't about to restore the years.
Speaker 4: He's about to make up for that heart travist that
Speaker 4: you missed. I have a digital clock on my bathroom
Speaker 4: counter at home. It gets his information from the satellite.
Speaker 4: Unlike older clocks that rely on their own software to
Speaker 4: keep time, these digital clocks come from a master clock
Speaker 4: that's transmitted from a satellite. Now while back, I was
Speaker 4: about to get in the shower one evening, and I
Speaker 4: noticed that it was nine thirty. A few minutes later,
Speaker 4: when I got out of the shower, I looked at
Speaker 4: the clock and it read nine twenty two. I thought
Speaker 4: that strange. I know it was just nine thirty. I
Speaker 4: thought I must be seeing things while I was watching it.
Speaker 4: The clock went back to nine eighteen. In a few seconds,
Speaker 4: it went to nine oh seven. It kept backing up.
Speaker 4: I realized it was getting bad reception. But I'd never
Speaker 4: seen that happen before. What's interesting is that day I'd
Speaker 4: had a very busy schedule. I had a lot to do,
Speaker 4: but I hardly got anything done. I had interruptions, delays,
Speaker 4: things that didn't work out. I was kind of frustrated,
Speaker 4: thinking what an unproductive day. When I saw the clock
Speaker 4: go backwards, it was as if God was saying to me, Joel,
Speaker 4: quit worrying about what you didn't get done. I control time.
Speaker 4: I can back things up. I can make up for
Speaker 4: lost time. You may have missed opportunities, missed relationships. They
Speaker 4: were there, but you were distracted, you weren't focused. They
Speaker 4: passed you by. Don't worry. God can turn back time.
Speaker 4: He's about to bring things across your path that should
Speaker 4: have been yours years ago. You missed it the first time,
Speaker 4: like I did with Alexandra. But God's about to give
Speaker 4: you another chance. He's about to turn back time. I
Speaker 4: was at a book signing years ago I met this lady.
Speaker 4: She and her daughter were estranged. They hadn't spoken to
Speaker 4: each other in years. She had reached out to her
Speaker 4: daughter many times with no success. Now she was discouraged,
Speaker 4: feeling guilty. She heard me talking about how God can
Speaker 4: restore the years that were lost, even when it was
Speaker 4: our fault, How he can turn back time and give
Speaker 4: us another chance. Faith rose in her heart. She said, God,
Speaker 4: do that for me. She kept trying, but the daughter
Speaker 4: wouldn't have anything to do with her. Months later, she
Speaker 4: came to that book signing. Out of the hundreds of
Speaker 4: people there, she noticed that her daughter was in line.
Speaker 4: She hadn't seen her in person in years. She went
Speaker 4: over to her. It was a divine appointment. They embraced
Speaker 4: held on to each other while they wept. Healing was
Speaker 4: taking place. When they came up to the table, they
Speaker 4: were both still weeping. The mother told how she didn't
Speaker 4: know her daughter watched us on television. She had no
Speaker 4: idea she'd be at that book signing, But that was
Speaker 4: a turning point. Today they're the best of friends. They
Speaker 4: do everything together. God knows how to turn back time.
Speaker 4: It's not too late for you to have good relationships.
Speaker 4: It's not too late for you to accomplish your dreams.
Speaker 4: God is about to put you at the right place
Speaker 4: at the right time. He's going to make things happen
Speaker 4: that you couldn't make happen that time you lost being
Speaker 4: at odds with people you love. God's about to restore
Speaker 4: those years, that time you spent fighting the illness, not
Speaker 4: able to go to work, not pursuing dreams. God is
Speaker 4: going to turn back time. He's going to make up
Speaker 4: for what should have been yours. The locusts may have
Speaker 4: eaten your harvest, they may have delayed some things. The
Speaker 4: good news is God is going to pay you back.
Speaker 4: He's going to restore those years of harvest that you
Speaker 4: missed out on. One time, Joshua and the Israelites were
Speaker 4: battling five armies. God told Joshua that he was going
Speaker 4: to win. The problem was they were running out of time.
Speaker 4: It was about to get dark, and the enemy forces
Speaker 4: would escape. They could regroup and come against Joshua again.
Speaker 4: He knew he needed to finish them off. He just
Speaker 4: needed more time. But instead of being discouraged thinking it
Speaker 4: was too late, Joshua was bold. He looked up in
Speaker 4: the sky and said, Sun, stand still, Moon, stay where
Speaker 4: you are now. I can imagine people looking at Joshua thinking,
Speaker 4: are you crazy? You think you can stop time. You
Speaker 4: can pause the solar system so you can finish this battle.
Speaker 4: The scripture says, the sun stopped in the middle of
Speaker 4: the sky. It stood still until the Israelites defeated their enemies.
Speaker 4: It may feel like it's too late for you to
Speaker 4: accomplish dreams, too late to get your degree, too late
Speaker 4: to write that book, too late to overcome that obstacle.
Speaker 4: If you just knew back then what you knew now,
Speaker 4: then you would have stayed in school. You would have
Speaker 4: raised the chi differently, you would have started that business
Speaker 4: if you just had more time. God is going to
Speaker 4: do for you what he did for Joshua. He's going
Speaker 4: to freeze time so you can finish what you started.
Speaker 4: He's going to help you accomplish what you could have
Speaker 4: accomplished in an earlier season in life. He's not going
Speaker 4: to let you missed your destiny you're not running out
Speaker 4: of time. Time is on your side because God is
Speaker 4: on your side. He controls time. He's not limited by clock,
Speaker 4: by calendar, by age, by year. This is your chance
Speaker 4: to step up to a new level, your chance to
Speaker 4: break the addiction to go back to school, to make
Speaker 4: your marriage great. God is going to cause you to
Speaker 4: accomplish more in less time. He's going to make you
Speaker 4: more effective, more productive, more focused, more skilled. There's going
Speaker 4: to be a greater favor on your life. Now. Don't
Speaker 4: sit back and think I waited too long, I'm too old,
Speaker 4: I don't have the experience, the training, the discipline. No,
Speaker 4: this is a window, like with Joshua, where God is
Speaker 4: going to freeze time. He's going to give you the
Speaker 4: opportunity to finish what you started. I met a lady
Speaker 4: after the service. She was one hundred and three years old.
Speaker 4: Her mind was as sharp as can be. She had
Speaker 4: a great sense of humor. She told how she promised
Speaker 4: her mother that she would get her college degree, but
Speaker 4: she got married and spent years raising her children. Then
Speaker 4: she worked in an office at this large company. After
Speaker 4: she retired, she was busy with her grandchildren, but in
Speaker 4: the back of her mind It always bothered her that
Speaker 4: she didn't keep her promise. She kept putting it off.
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Speaker 4: spending a couple of months in the hospital. Didn't look
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Speaker 4: one hundred and three, was the oldest person to ever
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Speaker 4: may feel like you're running out of time, but God
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Speaker 4: I wonder what would happen if you would do like
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Speaker 4: time to spend with my children. I didn't know back
Speaker 4: then what I know now. I need more time to
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Speaker 4: said he would restore years that you've lost. You're not
Speaker 4: running out of time. Time is on your side. I
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Speaker 4: come to pass. What the locusts have eaten, all those
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