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This animal was once alive, but it is not alive now. Soon it will come up out of the deep hole again but then God will destroy it completely.[a] All these things will surprise many people who live on the earth. Those are the people whose names are not written in God's book of life from the beginning of the world. They will be surprised to see the animal that was alive at one time. It is not alive now, but it will soon appear again.

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  1. 17:8 We read about this deep hole in Revelation 9:1,2.

你看見的那獸,先前在、現今不在、將來要從無底坑上來,然後走向滅亡。住在世上的人,凡是名字在創世以來沒有記在生命冊上的,看見了那先前在、現今不在、將來還要出現的獸,就都要驚奇。

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The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and yet will come up out of the Abyss(A) and go to its destruction.(B) The inhabitants of the earth(C) whose names have not been written in the book of life(D) from the creation of the world will be astonished(E) when they see the beast, because it once was, now is not, and yet will come.

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