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It may be that he knows that there is an armed resistance,
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and it's a little bit of help, but he doesn't believe, himself,
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that the answer to Antiochus IV is going to be an armed revolt,
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he believes it's not going to ultimately succeed.
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Why?
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Because God's going to be the one who will intervene,
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not Judas Maccabeus.
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"The king shall act as he pleases
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He shall exalt himself andconsider himself greater than any god,"
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remember Antiochus Epiphanes?
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"God manifest"?--"And shall
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speak horrendous things against the God of gods.