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Exposing Seventh-Day Adventism
Exposing Seventh-Day Adventism
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Seventh-day Adventism entices members into it using trickery and half-truths. They tell the unenlightened public one thing and insiders yet another.

Dr. Kelly explains how he was tricked into joining. He then refutes the theological fiasco called the Investigative Judgment which created the sect. Much of the book looks at the Sabbath with fresh insight. The final part reveals the mysterious realms of Sheol and Hades in order to expose SDA error about the soul.

Russell Kelly is also the author of Should the Church Teach Tithing? A Theologian's Conclusions about a Taboo Doctrine-a best seller on Amazon.com under "Tithing" since 2001.

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Exposing Seventh-Day Adventism
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Russell Earl Kelly Ph. D.

A former SDA pastor, Russell E. Kelly has served churches in Georgia, North Dakota and South Carolina. In 2000 he received a Ph. D. at Covington Theological Seminary in Ft. Oglethorpe, Georgia.

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Exposing Seventh-Day Adventism - Russell Earl Kelly Ph. D.

Copyright © 2005 by Russell Earl Kelly, Ph. D.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE: MY TESTIMONY AND INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER TWO: SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISM IN A NUTSHELL

CHAPTER THREE: BIBLICAL INSPIRATION AND ELLEN G. WHITE

THE CULTIC DOCTRINE OF THE INVESTIGATIVE JUDGMENT

CHAPTER FOUR: DANIEL 8:8-14; LAUNCHING SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISM

CHAPTER FIVE: THE SANCTUARY IN DANIEL

CHAPTER SIX: THE 2300 DAYS OF DANIEL 8:14 AND THE YEAR-DAY PRINCIPLE

CHAPTER SEVEN: THE CLEANSING OF DANIEL 8:14

CHAPTER EIGHT: THE OLD COVENANT DAILY SACRIFICE

CHAPTER NINE: THE CONTROVERSY OVER PATTERN-FULFILLMENT

CHAPTER TEN: THE ERROR OF SIN TRANSFER INTO THE SANCTUARY

CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLICAL SANCTUARY

CHAPTER TWELVE: THE BOOKS OF HEAVEN

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: ROOMS IN THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: INSIDE THE VEIL IN HEAVEN

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: LEVITICUS 16: THE DAY OF ATONEMENT AND THE SCAPEGOAT: JESUS OR SATAN?

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: ANTIOCHUS IV (EPIPHANES) AND 164 B. C.

THE SABBATH CONTROVERSY

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: THE SINLESS CREATION SABBATH REST

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: THE WEEKLY SABBATH DAY

CHAPTER NINETEEN: ALL SABBATHS DAYS/YEARS WERE SHADOWS

CHAPTER TWENTY: GREATER AND LESSER SABBATHS

CHAPTER TWENTY ONE: JESUS AND THE SABBATH

CHAPTER TWENTY TWO: THE SABBATH IN ACTS

CHAPTER TWENTY THREE: CHRISTIAN LIBERTY AND HOLY DAYS

CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR: THE UNITED STATES, ROMAN CATHOLICISM AND THE MARK OF THE BEAST

CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE: TWO DIFFERENT THREE ANGELS’ MESSAGES

APPENDIX 1: SHEOL AND THE SOUL

APPENDIX 2: HADES AND THE SOUL

APPENDIX 3: JEWELRY, DRESS CODE AND DECEIT

This book is d

edicated to

Robert K. Sanders

whose web site,

Truth or Fables.com,

is a beacon of truth for

present and former SDAs.

This book is also dedicated to

Jerry Gladson, Ph. D.,

my former professor and pastor

and my eternal brother

in Christ.

CHAPTER ONE 

MY TESTIMONY AND INTRODUCTION

I was born and grew up in a Southern Baptist family. As a small child, I accepted Christ as my Savior. Thanks to a devout Sunday School teacher, I early learned to love the Bible and study it daily.

With an insatiable curiosity to know what others believed, when I was 27 years old, in 1972, I began visiting other churches, studying their doctrines and listening to various radio programs in order to learn more about God’s Word.

Southern Baptists are strong in promoting the Ten Commandments in schools and courthouses. They teach that the Ten Commandments are the eternal unchangeable moral law of God. When I encountered the Seventh-day Adventist’s emphasis on the Ten Commandment Sabbath, I felt unable to remain a Baptist and still strive to obey all of God’s commandments.

Seventh-day Adventism’s strong presentation of the Ten Commandments drew me into a closer look. After (wrongly) convincing me that only the Old Covenant ceremonial sabbaths had been abolished, primarily for that reason I felt compelled to become a Seventh-day Adventist. I learned later that their best evangelistic strategy was to get one hooked on the Sabbath first and teach the other testing truths later. This strategy worked as well with me as it has with millions of others.

At that time, it seemed to me that the logic of Seventh-day Adventism outweighed that of Southern Baptists. This was my reasoning:

One: Since the Ten Commandments are supposedly the unchangeable eternal moral Law of God, as both churches claimed, then they must be observed!

Two: Since the Sabbath was part of the Ten Commandments, then it must not have been changed, because God does not change His own character.

Three: The Sabbath that was abolished in Colossians 2:16 must have only been the ceremonial Sabbath and not the seventh day of the Ten Commandments.

Four: If this were true, then I must become a Sabbath-keeper at all costs.

Five: If this were true, then all churches who insist that the Ten Commandments are still in force, should also become Sabbath-keepers.

Although convinced about the Sabbath, I felt quite uneasy about a lot of their other doctrines. There were several important questions I insisted on having a positive answer to before joining the Seventh-day Adventist church. I asked the evangelist the following questions:

One: Do Seventh-day Adventists believe that the Bible only was their standard for determining doctrine?

Two: Do they believe that salvation was by grace through faith alone?

Three: Do they believe that believers observed the Sabbath because they have been saved and not in order to be saved?

Four: Do they believe that sincere believers of other Christian faiths would also be saved even though they did not know or keep the Sabbath?

Five: Do Adventists think that Ellen G. White is not as equally inspired as the Bible?

I later realized that I had been deliberately lied to and betrayed by the evangelist whom I had grown to trust and respect. The way that my questions were answered satisfied me, but the answers did not really mean what I thought they meant. The evangelist assured me that the answers to all of my questions were definitely yes. As I look back at that time I am still disturbed that a church that emphasizes the Ten Commandments so strongly, can so deliberately and consistently break one of them and lie to honest seekers in order to obtain converts.

Evangelists present themselves as Bible only advocates. The evangelist even showed me the statement on the back of the baptismal certificate that confirmed the yes answers.

As previously stated, I joined the Seventh-Day Adventist Church primarily in order to observe the Saturday-Sabbath. Concerning the other doctrines, I thought, if mainline Christianity were so wrong about the Sabbath, then, perhaps, they were also wrong about a lot of other doctrines.

My early studies revealed that the book, Kingdom of the Cults, by Martin and Barnhouse, did not call Seventh-day Adventism a false cult. The Adventist reply to Martin’s book, Questions on Doctrine, seemed conservative and evangelical. It even de-emphasized Ellen G. White’s influence in determining doctrine. By the time I realized that I had been deceived, I was supporting an evangelistic reform movement within the church which was eventually harshly suppressed. Many leading theologians and teachers were disciplined for their attempts to become more evangelical and more accepted by other denominations. A non-Adventist Australian, Geoffrey Paxton, published The Shaking of Adventism, which hopefully predicted that the righteousness by faith doctrine would reform Seventh-day Adventism. It did not.

Their honest answers to my questions should have been:

One: The Bible only means the Bible and Ellen G. White because the Bible teaches that the true church has a guiding prophet who is just as inspired as Bible prophets.

Two: Salvation by grace through faith does not mean salvation by grace through faith alone. In actual practice, salvation is by grace, but retaining salvation is through obedience to such things as Sabbath-keeping and avoiding unclean foods. They go far beyond their early Methodist influence in denying the perseverance of the saints. Absolute assurance of salvation is not possible until Jesus closes the books on each person usually long after they die. When Jesus comes, active Sunday worshipers will not be saved. For an Adventist, EGW’s statement settles the argument and further scholarly research cannot proceed. Other doctrines such as soul-sleep and no continuing hell-fire are stressed, but these lack the importance of Saturday worship and unclean foods.

Three: Sabbath-keeping is just as important as conversion. The Great Controversy, Ellen White’s most promoted book (under many titles), repeatedly stresses that Saturday worship is THE SUBJECT around which all church history revolves. The book teaches that all other Christians will eventually hunt them down and try to kill SDAs because they refuse to worship on Sunday. They are told to stockpile food and be prepared to flee at a moment’s notice when the U.S. government issues a death decree on all those who do not worship on Sunday. Such paranoia makes Sabbath-keeping a work and a necessity of salvation. The convoluted explanations of their theologians cannot explain away such clear teaching from Ellen White. Instead of defending the Bible, they spend much time discussing her inspiration and defending her interpretation.

Four: Non-Adventist churches are Babylon the great, the harlot church. The fall of these churches began shortly after the spring of 1844 and they are still falling from truth. SDAs view other Christians as ignorant and deceived. Sunday-worshipers will receive the mark of the beast and be lost. SDAs are the only true church. Many Adventists teach that Christ will not return until the SDA Church produces 144,000 perfect sinless members who prove to the world that God’s Law can be perfectly kept.

Five: Within the church family Ellen G. White is quoted as much as, if not more than, the Bible to prove their points. When pressed extremely hard for a straight answer, SDA leaders will often admit that their doctrines cannot disagree with the inspired interpretation of the Bible by Ellen G. White, their prophetess. They cannot move away from what she has plainly written about a subject. When their theologians do bend, they do so over her often-contradictory statements, and not over her plain teachings. Regardless of what the Hebrew, Greek or their own Bible research might indicate, if it does not agree with Ellen G. White, then it is not truth and must be rejected. Real scholarship is severely limited.

Personally, I have concluded that Seventh-day Adventism is a false Christian cult. Two major things make them into a cult. First is their doctrine of inspiration. In Ellen G. White’s writings, they have added other writings to the Bible and treat them with equal reverence and inspiration. Second is their exclusive-ness. They teach that they are the only true church and totally disdain other Christians who do not observe the Sabbath and who will be lost if Jesus comes and finds them worshiping on Sunday. Their appointed committee that provided Martin and Barnhouse answers in the early 1960s was later ridiculed as not representing true Adventism. Questions on Doctrine is not recommended. The church is controlled by those who elevate Ellen G. White to the Bible level.

SDA basic doctrine has not changed and will not change because of the stagnating effect of Ellen G. White. Recent visits to the Adventist college from which I graduated were very discouraging because of how Ellen White’s writings reign even in Bible classes. Their own Bible version, Sabbath School literature and in-house literature still support almost every paragraph with EGW quotations. To me at least, they have retreated farther into a cultic shell and away from true Christianity.

Yet today they are sharing church buildings and hospitals with their archenemies, the false Babylonians. Their ministers are joining more and more ministerial associations and are pretending to be just another part of the evangelical group. They are sitting on both sides of the fence in order to proselytize other churches.

It is my hope and prayer that this book will rescue many of my sincere Godfearing friends from the fear and uncertainty of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and lead them to the assurance of resting in God’s true Sabbath, the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

I also hope that Protestant evangelical ministers and Roman Catholic priests will begin questioning Adventist ministers who pretend to be so normal, yet inwardly fear and despise other clergy at ministerial meetings.

CHAPTER TWO

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISM IN A NUTSHELL

A Summary of What Seventh-day Adventists Teach

The Disappointment: It is October 23,1844 and Jesus had not returned yesterday as William Miller and the other Adventists had predicted. These Sunday-worshiping, pork-eating, immortal-soul believing Adventists had suffered their second wrong guess in a year. Most churches had laughed at them for date-setting and Miller had called the other churches fallen Babylon. Now most of the Adventists, including William Miller, had given up trying to guess the date of Jesus’ return and had decided to go back to their former churches.

The Insistent: A small group refused to admit that they had been wrong about October 22, 1844. They asked themselves, What about Daniel 8:14? ‘Unto two thousand and three hundred days, then shall the sanctuary be cleansed’? Something must have been wrong with Miller’s interpretation. They re-affirmed that the 2300 days were 2300 prophetic years and that Miller’s calculations ending in 1844 were absolutely correct. Next they reaffirmed that Miller’s connection of ‘cleansed’ to the Day of Atonement on October 22 that year was also certainly correct.

The Heavenly Sanctuary: Where did we go wrong?, they asked themselves. To their great delight, a fellow believer told the group that Christ was not coming back yet but had only moved from the Holy Place in the heavenly sanctuary into the Most Holy Place in the heavenly sanctuary just as the high priest had done in Leviticus 16 on the Day of Atonement. This small group then decided that Miller had been wrong about the ‘sanctuary’ in Daniel 8:14—it was not the earth itself, but God’s dwelling place in heaven!

The Investigative Judgment and Annihilationism: God soon began sending the truth and one doctrine after another changed. If Christ had only begun to investigate the records of professed believers in 1844, then the doctrine of the immortality of the soul must be wrong because nobody could be in heaven yet! Therefore, they decided that, at death, the soul ceases to exist until the resurrection. Thus, the doctrine of the immortality of the soul must be wrong.

The Sabbath: When a Seventh-day Baptist told them about the Sabbath, a young Adventist named Ellen (White) confirmed the new truth with visions. They concluded that God had given all mankind every seventh day, every Saturday, as a memorial that He was the Creator and that the creation seventh-day had not been lost on the calendar since Adam. They had become Seventh-day Adventists.

The Spirit of Prophecy: They eventually interpreted Revelation 12:17 and 19:10 as descriptions of themselves as the only true last-day remnant church which kept all ten of the commandments and also had the Spirit of Prophecy through Ellen White. This meant that all other churches which did not agree with them were now fallen Babylon. Ellen White guided the church as a prophetess until her death in 1915. She wrote many books and also taught SDAs to observe the old covenant food laws and strict dress codes.

Prophecy: Roman Catholicism was blamed for changing the Sabbath to Sunday and was described as the little horn of Daniel and the Babylonian beast of Revelation. Other Sunday-worshiping churches were declared to be the daughters of fallen Babylon. The 1260 years, 42 months, and 3 V2 times of Daniel and Revelation were limited to A. D. 538 to 1798 which ended when Roman Catholicism was wounded to death in France after it had killed the two witnesses, the Old and New Testaments.

The United States of America: All three will be revived just before Christ returns. The Seventh-day Adventist church will be God’s instrument in the revival of the Old and New Testaments by teaching the truth in the last days. The United States government will restore the Roman Catholic Church in the last days when its Sunday-worshiping Protestants will enforce national Sunday-observance laws.

The Great Controversy: God and Satan are locked in a great controversy. Satan has charged God with unrighteousness because His Law cannot be obeyed. God will prove that He is righteous by demonstrating that 144,000 Seventh-day Adventists will stand before Him without a mediator immediately before Jesus returns.

The Last Days: As the second coming approaches, Jesus will finish investigating the records of all those who professed faith since Adam and will make His final decision to determine who is qualified to be resurrected. He will close the books in the Most Holy Place, will stop mediating as a priest and will be in the process of returning. In the meantime, the United States government, in alliance with the Roman Catholic Church and apostate Protestants, will set a date for Seventh-day Adventists to be put to death because the last day devastation is blamed on them. At the last moment, Jesus will return, destroy all non-Seventh-day Adventists who have the mark of the beast (Sunday worshipers) and take his remnant church to heaven.

The Millennium: For 1000 years the earth will lay desolate during its Sabbath millennial rest. At the end of the 1000 years, all of the wicked dead will be re-created for resurrection and then judged before finally being cast into the lake of fire to be soon burned out of existence.

And the Seventh-day Adventists will live happily ever after.

CHAPTER THREE

BIBLICAL INSPIRATION AND ELLEN G. WHITE

1976: "That the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament were given by inspiration of God, and contain an all-sufficient revelation of His will to men, and are the only unerring rule of faith and practice." Seventh-day Adventist Church Manual, 1976, page 32.

—compare with—

1980: "The Holy Scriptures, Old and New Testaments, are the written Word of God, given by divine inspiration through holy men of God who spoke and wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. In this Word God has committed to man the knowledge necessary for salvation. The Holy Scriptures are the infallible revelation of His will. They are the standard of character, the test of experience, the authoritative revelator of doctrines, and the trustworthy record of God’s acts in history." From the 27 Fundamental Beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists.

1989: "Seventh-day Adventists recognize in Ellen G. White an authority in doctrine and life that is second only to that of the Scriptures….The Seventh-day Adventist church holds the writings of Ellen G. White in the highest regard as a source of doctrinal understanding….Some Adventists have inferred that in Dr. [Desmond] Ford’s view Ellen White’s authority does not extend to doctrinal issues. On this point the Seventh-day Adventist position is that a prophet’s authority cannot justifiably be limited in that way." Doctrine of the Sanctuary, Biblical Research Committee, 1989,223-224.

The first two statements above would be accepted in almost any conservative Christian church. They read very well. They appear to place Seventh-day Adventism securely within the boundary of orthodox Christianity and away from false Christian cultism.

However, when comparing the two statements, an obvious, not-even-very-subtle, change has taken place. SDAs have deleted their older statement that the

Scriptures are the "all-sufficient" revelation of God’s will. They have also deleted their older statement that the Scriptures are "the only unerring rule of faith and practice." Next, they have added the statement that the Scriptures are given by divine inspiration through holy men

There is a subtle, yet obvious, reason for these changes! And that reason is Ellen G. White, the prophetess of the Seventh-day Adventist Church who died in 1915. When SDAs state that the Scriptures were "given by divine inspiration through holy men of God" and are "the infallible revelation of His will" (1980 statement), they include Ellen G. White because they hold her writings in the highest regard as a source of doctrinal understanding and because a prophet’s authority cannot justifiably be limited to exclude doctrine (1989 statement). They regard her as a full-fledged prophet on equal standing with biblical prophets. The Biblical Research Committee represents the unofficial highest level of leadership within the church. When it rebutted Dr. Ford, it was forced to admit that Ellen White’s prophetic authority extended to doctrinal correctness.

"One of the gifts of the Holy spirit is prophecy. This gift is an identifying mark of the remnant church and was manifested in the ministry of Ellen G. White. As the Lord’s messenger, her writings are a continuing and authoritative source of truth which provide for the church comfort, guidance, instruction and correction. They also make clear that the Bible is the standard by which all teaching and experience must be tested" [#17 of the 27Fundamental Beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists].

The above statement sounds like First Timothy 3:15-17. SDAs try to have it both ways as is clear from the last sentence of the statement. When Ellen White is quoted, she has a rubber nose and this helps Adventist leaders who take a Roman Catholic approach which discourages personal interpretation. They often seem to convey the idea that they are the only ones qualified to properly interpret her writings. When non-Adventists and ex-Adventists quote Ellen White, their quotations are usually passed off as out of context.

Ellen G. White has a rubber nose inside and outside of Seventh-day Adventism. She has written so much that statements can be found from her that can be made to either support or oppose many positions. This is especially true about her level of inspiration. Read her following quotations and decide for yourself whether or not she considered herself on the same level with the prophets of God’s Word.

The following quotations are from Ellen White’s own words from the Introduction to her book, The Great Controversy, the most prolific book distributed for free at evangelistic meetings.

GC v God has communicated with men by his Spirit, and divine light has been imparted to the world by revelations to His chosen servants. (Quotes 2 Peter 1:21)

GC vii Yet the fact that God has revealed His will to men through His word, has not rendered needless the continued presence and guiding of the Holy Spirit.

GC vii Great reproach has been cast on the work of the Holy Spirit by the errors of a class that, claiming its enlightenment, profess to have no further need of guidance from the Word of God.

GC viii "In harmony with the word of God, His Spirit was to continue its work throughout the period of the gospel dispensation…. And mention is made of prophets in different ages of whose utterances nothing is recorded. In like manner, after the close of the canon of the Scripture, the Holy Spirit was still to continue its work to enlighten, warn and comfort the children of God. GC ix [quotes prophets Paul, Peter and Joel] In all ages the wrath of Satan has been manifested against the church of Christ; and God has bestowed His grace and Spirit upon His people to strengthen them to stand against the power of the evil one."

***GC x At this time the special endowment of divine grace and power is not less needful to the church than in apostolic days.

***GC x "Through the illumination of the Holy Spirit, the scenes of the long-continued conflict between good and evil have been opened to the writer of these pages. From time to time I have been permitted to behold.. ***GC xi As the Spirit of God has opened to my mind the great truths of His word, and the scenes of the past and the future, I have been bidden to make known to others that which has been revealed—to trace the history of the controversy in past ages, and especially so to present it as to shed a light on the fast-approaching struggle of the future."

GC xi Regarding them [her collection of history] in the light of God’s word, and by the illumination of His Spirit, we may see unveiled…

In this introduction Ellen G. White carefully and slowly eased into her declaration that she is an essential last-day prophet. She wrote that God had illuminated her and opened her eyes with scenes of the past and future. God has instructed her to present the content of this book, The Great Controversy (with scores of quotations from non-SDA church historians).

Seventh-day Adventists believe that Ellen G. White was inspired by God in exactly the same way that the biblical prophets were inspired, and, as such, her writings are exactly as authoritative and unerring as those of God’s Word. In their reasoning, since the Bible authorizes the continuing prophetic gift, especially in the last-day, or remnant church, then that is why they added that the Word was given by "divine inspiration through holy men" However, they do not normally admit this to new converts, such as myself or to the inquisitive.

Isa. 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Rev. 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Rev 19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

SDAs call Ellen G. White’s writings the Spirit of Prophecy. The three texts, Revelation 12:17; 19:10 and Isaiah 8:20 are quoted by SDAs to prove that the last-day remnant church must also have last-day prophetic guidance. However, there are several problems caused by using these texts.

First: Isaiah 8:20 is only a test for Old Covenant prophets because it refers to all of the Mosaic Law, or Old Covenant. However, like most Christians, even SDAs teach that the ceremonial worship statutes (ordinances) and civil legal judgments are no longer valid for their church. Therefore, they disqualify themselves by rejecting two thirds of the entire Law. Yet SDAs use this as a proof text to demonstrate that EGW is a true prophet—and her writings are strongly defended as being essentially without error. However, they will not give audience to those who desire to point out her many errors!

Second: Keep the commandments in Revelation 12:17 does not refer to the Ten Commandments, but to love and obedience to what Jesus taught specifically for His New Covenant church. The Apostle John did not use commandments in the narrow sense of Ten Commandments (Compare John 14:21-23; 15:10-12; 1 Jn. 2:3-10; 3:22-24; 2 Jn. 6:5-6.)

Third: Many believe that 12:17 refers, not to the church, but to the believing Israelites of chapters 7 and 14. The remnant is the remnant of restored national Israel.

Fourth: The phrase testimony of Jesus is also applied by SDAs as an unofficial title for Ellen G. White. Many of her writings are called Testimonies. However, it merely refers to the fact that the biblical prophets testified, or gave witness, to Jesus Christ.

Fifth: If it is essential for the last-day remnant church to have (to quote their own article #17) a continuing and authoritative source of truth, then why has there not been a successor to Ellen G. White? She died in 1915 and has not been replaced. In fact, the infamous late David Koresh of the Branch Davidian, Seventh-day Adventists (an unrecognized

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