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I. INTRODUCTION
A. Zechariah 7-8 calls us to encounter the zeal of God for His
city Jerusalem, His people, and the supremacy and glory of His Son
who will be worshiped by all nations (8:20-23; 14:16-18). When we
see this as the ultimate purpose and direction of history, it is
logical to fully pursue it now.
B. The whole book of Zechariah is about Jerusalem, including Zechariah
7-8, which beckons us to seek for the fullness of God’s destiny
for her, instead of living spiritually disconnected from it.
C. A primary theme in Zechariah 7-8 is how to respond to the message
of grace in Zechariah 1-6.
The zeal and mercy of God seen in Zechariah 1-2 reach great heights
in Zechariah 3-4 when He freely and fully cleanses Israel’s
leadership and promises to anoint and give them supernatural resources
to lead a national and international revival to remove their enemies
(Zech 5-6).
D. The two chapters of Zechariah 7-8 go together in a special way
much like the other two-chapter units (Zech. 1-2, 3-4, and 5-6).
Again, Zechariah 7-8 informs Israel how to respond to the grace
of God that freely and fully cleanses and anoints them as described
in Zechariah 3-4, so that they walk in the fullness of God’s
promises as set forth in Zechariah 1-2, and in the final removal
of all their enemies as seen in Zechariah 5-6. This results in all
nations worshiping Jesus (8:20-23).
E. The Lord gave Zechariah a message about His zeal, burning desire,
for His people and purpose. Zechariah was to motivate the people
with this revelation of God’s heart (8:2), with promises of
full restoration if they obeyed (8:3-23) and warnings of judgment
(7:12-14) if they refused Him.
F. He wants us to see His zeal for us and respond with a zeal that
loves Him with all our heart (Mt. 22:37). The revelation of His
heart and blessings are meant to woo us into wholeheartedness.
G. Eighteen years earlier, Israel returned from Babylonian captivity
to walk in her national promises, specifically related to rebuilding
the temple, or house of prayer, which the Lord had designated as
a place of worship and encounter with Him. Within two years they
became discouraged and quit building the house of prayer for 16
years. After this long delay, the Lord raised up two prophets, Haggai
and Zechariah, to inspire them to commit themselves to God and His
purposes with zeal.
H. Israel repented and recommitted to work on the temple on September
22, 520 BC (Hag. 1:14-15).
By November that year they were already drawing back, so Zechariah
called them to repent
(1:3). They responded quickly (1:6). Then three months later (Feb.
15, 519 BC), Zechariah
received eight visions in one night (1:7-6:8). About two years later
(Dec. 518 BC), he gave his third message (Zech. 7-8). This was 16
months before the temple was completed (Mar. 516 BC).
I. They were near the end of the four-year period that it took
them to rebuild the temple and
establish animal sacrifices and the singers and musicians necessary
to keep the temple sanctuary.
II. THE CONTEXT FOR ZECHARIAH 7-8
A. The context for his third message (Zech. 7-8) was the visit
of two men from the city of Bethel. They came to Jerusalem with
questions about the necessity of fasting. They asked if they had
to continue to honor the annual fasts, which had been initiated
in response to the tragedies surrounding the destruction of Jerusalem
and the Babylonian captivity (586 BC). They reasoned that since
these fasts were not required in Moses’ law and since the
Jews were back in Jerusalem in a new season where God’s promises
were being fulfilled, they should not have to keep fasting.
B. With the temple nearly finished, and in a new season of blessing,
they felt that it was time to stop mourning over what they lacked
and just to rejoice in what they had gained. This was one of the
primary questions being asked throughout all Israel (7:3). It is
the same question that is being asked by many in the Church today.
C. God’s answer came in four messages each indicated by,
“The word of the Lord of Hosts came” (7:4, 8; 8:1, 18).
His complete answer is found in combining all four exhortations
(Zech. 7-8).
1. The first two messages are negative (Zech. 7), calling them
to repent, with warnings.
2. The last two messages are positive (Zech. 8), giving them glorious
promises that will
cause the fasts to be turned to feasts when Israel is restored and
Jesus lives in Jerusalem.
D. The Lord never answered their question directly, but left them
to decide, after giving them His perspective that they only fasted
to make their life more comfortable, rather than to encounter Him
in deep relationship (7:5). He warned them that their fathers had
approached Him that way too (7:7-14), with their focus on receiving
circumstantial blessing without growing deep in their relationship
with God. In the end they had drawn back in their relationship with
God, becoming offended when the blessing didn’t come in the
way they thought it should. The Lord was asking them if it troubled
them that they were asking the wrong question just like their fathers
had.
E. The message was a call to wholeheartedness (7:4-10) in response
to God’s zeal for them (8:1-2), and commitment to bless them
(8:3-23), yet with warnings of judgment for rebellion (7:11-14).
This message parallels Zechariah’s first message when he
called Israel to repentance (1:3),
followed by an emphasis on God’s zeal and blessing, yet with
warnings of judgment (1:4-21)
F. Zechariah told them that the main point of fasting was to be
sorry for their sins as they prayed for God’s glory to be
released in a greater measure in Jerusalem and, through them, to
the nations.
G. The Lord did not answer their question on fasting directly but
answered it by asking a question to highlight the principle that
activities like fasting are effective only with a spirit of obedience.
Fasting is nothing in itself if the one fasting does not have a
genuine desire to know, love, and obey the Lord. Zechariah 7-8 highlights
promises for the prayer movement and addresses the need for radical
dedication to the Lord. God is restoring the grace for fasting with
prayer.
III. ISRAEL’S FOUR NATIONAL FASTS (8:19
A. The Jews in exile had instituted four fasts (8:19) to remember
four tragic events related to the destruction of Jerusalem and the
temple in 586 BC (2 Kgs. 25). The only fast that the Law of Moses
required was on the Day of Atonement (Lev. 16:29; 23:27-32). The
other four annual fasts were voluntary responses because of the
tragic situation of the Babylonian captivity.
Observant Jews have kept these four fasts since the fifth century
BC and especially since the destruction of the temple in 70 AD;
most non-Orthodox Jews know about the Ninth of Av.
B. Fast in the fourth month: Jerusalem’s walls were breached
by Babylon’s army on the ninth day of the fourth month (Tammuz;
2 Kgs. 25:3-4; Jer. 39:2). The fast is remembered on the 17th day.
C. Fast in the fifth month: The Temple in Jerusalem was burned
(2 Kgs. 25:8-9). The most tragic day for Israel is the day the Temple
was destroyed. According to the Talmud, on the very same day, the
ninth day of the fifth month of Av (August), Solomon’s temple
was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC, and Herod’s temple
(Zerubbabel’s) by the Romans in 70 AD.
D. Fast in the seventh month: This was to commemorate the assassination
of Gedaliah (2 Kgs. 25:25; Jer. 41:2). Nebuchadnezzar made Gedaliah
governor of Judah (2 Kgs. 25:22-25). Gedaliah respected and cared
for Jeremiah (Jer. 39:11-14; 40:5) just as his father had done.
He only reigned for two months, before he was killed by Jewish zealots
led by Ishmael.
E. Fast in the tenth month: This was to remember the start of the
siege of Jerusalem (2 Kgs 25:1).
IV. QUESTION FROM THE DELEGATION FROM BETHEL (7:1-3)
A. Men from Bethel come to Jerusalem to ask a question about the
necessity of fasting (7:1-3). Four fasts had been instituted related
to events (586 BC) that occurred about 70 years earlier.
1 In the fourth year of King Darius [518 BC] it came to pass that
the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, on the fourth day of the
ninth month, Chislev, 2 when the people [from Bethel] sent Sherezer,
with Regem-Melech and his men, to the house of God, to pray before
the LORD,
3 and to ask the priests who were in the house of the
LORD of hosts, and the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in
the fifth month and fast as I have done for so many years?”
(Zech. 7:1-3)
1. Fourth year: This corresponds to December 518
BC; Chislev is a Babylonian name.
2. People of Bethel sent: A delegation from Bethel
was sent to Jerusalem to ask a question about fasting. Sharezer
and Regem-melech were Babylonian names. This suggests these men
were born in Babylon in captivity. Bethel was about ten miles north
of Jerusalem.
3. Almost all translations include the phrase “of Bethel”
which is omitted by the KJV and
NKJV—The people of Bethel had sent…(NIV); The town of
Bethel had sent…(NAS);
The people of Bethel had sent…(RSV); and The people of Bethel
had sent (ESV).
V. THE LORD'S REBUKE (7:4-7)
A. The Lord rebuked the people and did not give them a direct answer
to their question (7:4-7)
5 Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests:
“When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months
during those seventy years, did you really fast for Me—for
Me? 6 When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink
for yourselves? 7 Should you not have obeyed the words which the
LORD proclaimed through the former prophets when Jerusalem and the
cities around it were inhabited and prosperous?” (Zech.
7:4-7)
1. Seventy years: This refers to the seventy years
of the Babylonian captivity (606-586 BC).
2. All the people: The Lord directed this message
to all the people in Israel, not only to the
delegation from Bethel; it was one of the primary questions in Israel
in that day (7:5).
3. Did you really fast for Me: The Lord answers
that they had fasted in self-pity because of
how difficult things were, not because of their distance from His
heart and purpose.
4. The Lord’s response makes it clear that their question
was not based on a genuine desire to understand God’s heart
and to please Him, but merely to avoid fasting. The Lord asked them
who they were fasting for. Were they fasting to see more of God’s
glory in their life and nation or only because they wanted their
circumstances to improve?
5. An important question being asked today concerns how we are
to respond to His grace.
Some are asking how little do they have to give to God because they
have received grace.
Others are asking how much they can give back to God because they
have received grace.
This question represents two very different approaches to our relationship
with Jesus. In
other words, how far do I have to go in my relationship with Jesus
because of free grace?
Or, how far will He empower me to go in my relationship with Jesus
because of free grace?
6. Does Jesus’ work on the cross cancel my need to love and
pursue Him with all of my
heart, or does it empower me to love and pursue Him with all of
my heart?
7. A foundational premise of the Christian life is to seek to love
God with all our strength.
To love God this way means to seek and serve Him with all our strength.
We continually
seek to give Him more, until we are confident that we love and serve
Him with all our
strength. God’s grace empowers us to give “all”
our strength to Jesus; this is the most
reasonable response we can give to His worthiness. (Rev. 5:9-12).
8. A key issue today is the nature of grace and how it works in
us and what it produces in
us. It includes defining the nature of “the rest” that
He gives. He calls us to rest from
seeking to earn his love and to cease striving to live with agendas
outside His will. By
His grace we rest from these two things—we rest from our own
works of seeking to earn
God’s love and from pursuing fleshly activities in our life
that are outside His will.
9. Eat and drink: In both their fasts and feasts
they focused on themselves without regard for their relationship
with the Lord or His larger purposes for their nation. Whether in
times of fasting with mourning or in feasting with celebration,
the same issue is key.
a. Their national feasts were to be a time to
remember God’s goodness with gratitude.
Their holy days became merely holidays where they enjoyed food and
recreation
without taking time to rededicate themselves to God.
b. Fasting and feasting are both to be based on
the same value of desiring a deeper relationship with God. Fasting
was not just about obtaining blessings to make their
life easier and feasting was not just getting time off for more
recreation. They viewedthe feasts as time off from God, instead
of it being a day to draw closer to Him.
10. Should you not have obeyed: They should have
obeyed the words of the prophets that were given to Jerusalem in
times of prosperity. Their forefathers did not understand that
the season of prosperity had been given to them to motivate them
into wholeheartedness. They were perpetuating the same error for
which the prophets corrected their forefathers.
VI. THE COMMAND TO REPENT (7:8-14)
A. Zechariah summarized the message of the prophets, calling for
justice, mercy, and compassion, and for Israel to never oppress
the weak nor make plans to do evil. We express our love to God by
loving people. The Lord calls for fasting that is rooted in obedience
and results in loving people. He describes the life that agrees
with seeking God in fasting and prayer for breakthrough.
9 Execute true justice, show mercy and compassion everyone to his
brother. 10Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless…let
none of you plan evil in his heart against his brother. (Zech. 7:9-10)
B. Their forefathers neglected to obey and it resulted in God’s
judgment (7:11-14). Since they refused to listen when the Lord called,
so He refused to listen when they called (Jer. 11:11).
11“They refused to heed, shrugged their shoulders,
and stopped their ears so that they could not hear…13They
would not hear, so they called out and I would not listen,”
says the LORD of hosts. 14“But I scattered them with a whirlwind
among all the nations…Thus the land became desolate after
them…for they made the pleasant land desolate.”
(Zech. 7:11-14)
1. The Lord scattered them: God released His judgment
on the people by scattering them among all the nations.
2. The land became desolate: God released His
judgment on the land, making it desolate.
C. God judged them by refusing to answer their prayer as the crisis
increased. It started with the Babylonian siege and escalated to
the capture of Jerusalem. For twenty years the Babylonian
oppression steadily increased, eventually resulting in the destruction
of Jerusalem.
VII. THE FULLNESS OF BLESSING COMING TO JERUSALEM (8:1-17)
A. Zechariah continues the message that was started in Zechariah
7. In Zechariah 8, the Lord set before Israel their future destiny
and restoration in the millennial kingdom. The restoration in Zechariah’s
day was a foreshadowing of a future greater blessing to come to
Israel.
B. The message of Zechariah 7 was to repent, seek God, and live
godly to avoid judgment.
The message of Zechariah 8 was to repent, seek God, and live godly
to receive future blessing.
C. In Zechariah 8 we see two main messages with ten distinct themes,
each introduced by “Thus says the Lord" (8:2, 3, 4, 6,
7, 9, 14, 19, 20, 23).
D. God’s promises for Israel and all His people are rooted
in revelation of His zeal (8:2). This is one of the most powerful
self-revelations of God in Scripture. The revelation of His zeal
relates here to restoring the grace of fasting with prayer for the
full blessing on Israel. When we see God’s emotions, it motivates
us to pray with fasting for the fullness of His purpose.
2 I am zealous for Zion with great zeal; with great
fervor I am zealous for her. (Zech. 8:2)
1. Zechariah had been commissioned with a specific message to proclaim
about God’s zeal (1:14). Now, two years later, he repeats
it for emphasis in Zechariah 8:2.
14Thus says the LORD of hosts: “I am zealous
for Jerusalem…” (Zech. 1:14)
2. Jesus has zeal for Jerusalem. Thus, we engage our hearts with
His purpose for this city.
Jesus wept over Jerusalem because of her rebellion again God (Mt.
23:37) In Ezekiel’s day, God spared the intercessors who mourned over Jerusalem’s
sin (Ezek. 9:4-6).
The Lord promises to prosper any who will love and pray for Jerusalem.
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they
prosper who love you…” (Ps. 122:6)
3. God promises to bless the godly by comforting and restoring
Jerusalem. He exhorts the Gentiles to rejoice with Jerusalem and not be disengaged, critical,
or envious (Isa. 66:10)
Rejoicing or engaging with her is essential to participating with
her blessings (Isa. 66:11)
10Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all
you who love her; rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn for her; 11that you may feed and be
satisfied with the consolation of her bosom… be delighted with…her
glory. (Isa. 66:10-11)
4. The revelation of God’s zeal was Zechariah’s core
message. God’s burning desire is for His people and purpose. It is manifest in Jesus as an affectionate
Bridegroom, powerful King, and righteous Judge who intervenes to remove everything that
hinders love.
5. The message of God’s zeal is given to awaken our zeal
for God. Jesus told the church of Laodicea that they must repent and be zealous because He loved them.
He pointed back to Zechariah 8:2, linking His love, zeal, and repentance
just as Zechariah preached it.
19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore
be zealous and repent. (Rev.3:19)
E. The Lord will live in Jerusalem (8:3) just as Zechariah prophesied
earlier (1:16; 2:10). Jesus referred to Jerusalem as the city of
the great King (Mt. 5:35). The nations will call Jerusalem the City
of Truth, and the temple mount will be called the Holy Mountain.
Jesus’ throne will be there, making Jerusalem the epicenter
of God’s activity throughout the millennial earth (Isa. 2:2-4).
3 “I will return to Zion, and dwell in the midst
of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called the City of Truth, the Mountain
of the LORD of hosts, the Holy Mountain.” (Zech. 8:3)
F. Jerusalem will be a city that is perfectly safe without any
fear, crime, or war (8:4-5). Elderly people will sit in the streets,
and children will play in them without fear. Isaiah described people
living to a great age, even for hundreds of years, being as “old
as a tree” (Isa. 65:20, 25).
4 “Old men and old women shall sit in the streets
of Jerusalem, each with his staff in his hand because of great age.
5The streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing
in its streets.” (Zech. 8:4-5)
G. These blessings seemed too good to be true to the people of
Zechariah’s day (8:6). This is a parenthetical statement describing
how the people found it hard to believe Zechariah’s words.
6 “If it is marvelous [too good to be true] in
the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, will it also
be marvelous in My eyes?” says the LORD of hosts. (Zech.
8:6)
H. The Lord promised to bring His people back to Jerusalem (8:7-8).
This will be a total reversal of the scattering that Israel has
suffered. Israel’s national conversion will result in the
people enjoying covenant relationship with Him as His people. The
Jewish exiles coming home from Babylon and Assyria returned mostly
from the east or north. It was only after Israel’s dispersion
by the Romans in 70 AD that they returned from the west. This greatly
accelerated in 1948.
7 “Behold, I will save My people from the land
of the east and from the land of the west; 8 I will bring them back,
and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. They shall be My
people and I will be their God, in truth and righteousness.”
(Zech. 8:7-8)
I. The promises in Zechariah 8:1-8 gave them motivation for wholehearted
obedience (8:9-10). The phrase “these days” (8:9, 15)
“this people” (8:11b, 12e) refers to the people in Zechariah’s
generation who were asking the question about fasting.
9 Let your hands be strong, you who have been hearing
in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, who spoke
in the day the foundation was laid for the house of the LORD of
hosts, that the temple might be built. 10For before these days there
were no wages for man nor any hire for beast; there was no peace
from the enemy for whoever went out or came in; for I set all men,
everyone, against his neighbor. (Zech. 8:9-10)
1. Be strong: The prophets Haggai and Zechariah
called them to be strong so as to finish building the temple (Hag. 2:4). Zechariah told them three times
to be strong (8:9, 13, 15).
2. The foundation was laid: Israel laid the foundation
twice, 18 years apart. The first time was in 536 BC (Ezra 3:8-10). But hindrances came and they quit working
on the temple for 16 years. This verse (8:8) refers to the second time the foundation
was laid in 518 BC.
3. No wages: During the 16-year delay, the Lord
sent an economic crisis with a drought (Hag. 1:6-11; 2:15-19). He told them to compare their economic condition
before they began working on the temple to their present condition. They were
in a new season in which the Lord promised “from this day will I bless you”
(Hag. 2:18-19).
6 “You have sown much, and bring in little…and
he who earns wages, earns wages to put into a bag with holes…9
You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you
brought it home, I blew it away...because of My house that is in
ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house…11I called
for a drought on the land.” (Hag. 1:6-11)
4. No peace: There was no peace from the enemy,
including foreigners (Ezra 4:1-5) and fellow Jews (their neighbors). There was civil strife as
men stood against their neighbors.
J. God promised to bless the economy and agriculture and stop the
drought (8:11-12; Hag. 2:19). Zechariah both rebuked (7:5) and encouraged
(8:9-12, 14) the people in his own generation.
11“But now I will not treat the remnant of this
people as in the former days…12For the seed shall be prosperous,
the vine shall give its fruit, the ground shall give her increase,
and the heavens shall give their dew—I will cause the remnant
of this people to possess all these.”
(Zech. 8:11-12)
K. God will save Israel and Judah and cause them to be a blessing
to the nations (8:13, 7; Gen. 12:3). There will be a worldwide reversal
of the curse in the Millennium.
13“It shall come to pass that just as you were
a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel,
so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing.” (Zech.
8:13)
L. God’s zeal is seen in His determination to both do good
to and discipline Israel (8:14-15). It is important to see both
expressions of His zeal in order to understand His end-time plans
for Israel.
14“Just as I determined to punish you when your
fathers provoked Me to wrath,” says the LORD of hosts, “and
I would not relent, 15so again in these days I am determined to
do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Do not fear.”
(Zech. 8:14-15)
M. Zechariah emphasized both sides to Israel receiving God’s
blessing in his generation (8:14-17)— God’s role in
determining to do good “in these days” (8:14-15) and
Israel’s in obeying (8:16-17). In light of God’s great
promises, the people should speak with truth, do justice, and bring
peace in their community life. This is a repetition of the exhortation
to godliness given in 7:9-10.
16“These are the things you shall do: speak each
man the truth to his neighbor; give judgment in your gates for truth,
justice, and peace; 17Let none of you think evil in your heart against
your neighbor; do not love a false oath. All these are things I
hate.” (Zech. 8:16-17)
N. He described the lifestyle that agrees with seeking God with
fasting and prayer for breakthrough.
We are to use our resources as an expression of our loyalty and
love for God and His purpose.
We express our love to God by loving people. The Lord calls for
fasting that is rooted in obedience that results in our loving people.
VIII. JESUS WILL BE EXALTED IN THE NATIONS FROM JERUSALEM (8:18-23)
A. The Lord only gave a partial answer to the question about fasting
(7:5). He now returns to this question, thus showing that this was
the subject that He was addressing throughout Zechariah 7-
8. The fast days of the past will be feasts in the
future, as Israel experiences the fullness of salvation. 19The fast
of the fourth month, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh,
and the fast of the tenth, shall be…cheerful feasts for the
house of Judah. Therefore love truth and peace. (Zech. 8;19)
B. Therefore love truth and peace: Truth and peace
will so fully triumph; Our fasting should focus on these and not
just on enriching our personal circumstances (7:5).
C. God’s zeal is for the supremacy and glory of His Son,
who will be worshiped by all the nations from Jerusalem (2:11; 8:20-23;
14:16-18). This will be a result of Jesus living Jerusalem (8:3).
20“Peoples shall yet come, inhabitants of many
cities; 21the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying,
‘Let us continue to go and pray before the LORD, and seek
the LORD of hosts. I myself will go also.’ 22Yes, many peoples
and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem,
and to pray before the LORD.” (Zech. 8:20-22)
D. All will come to Jerusalem to worship Him (14:16-18). This is
what God ultimately desires—the supremacy of Jesus and all
nations loving Him with the zeal with which He loves them. This
is His big-picture purpose that will be accomplished in history;
it makes sense for us to do it now.
16Everyone who is left of all the nations…shall
go up from year to year to worship the King… 17Whichever of
the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship
the King, the LORD of hosts, on them there will be no rain. (Zech.
14:16-17)
E. People from all nations will come to Jerusalem to worship Jesus
and see His glory (Isa. 66:18).
18“I will gather all nations [Gentiles] and tongues;
and they shall come and see My glory… 19I will send to the
nations…who have not heard My fame nor seen My glory. And
they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles. 20Then they [Gentiles]
shall bring all your brethren for an offering to the LORD
out of all nations…to My holy mountain Jerusalem. (Isa.
66:18-20)
F. Jerusalem will be the epicenter of blessing in millennial kingdom.
2 All nations shall flow to it [Jerusalem].
3 Many people shall…say, “Come, and let us go up to
the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; He
[Jesus] will teach us…for out of Zion shall go forth
the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.” (Isa.
2:2-3)
G. Many Gentiles will grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man, not to
persecute them, but to ask to
accompany them because Gods blessing so obviously rests on him.
Jesus’ glory will be so
apparent in Jerusalem that all the nations will go to Him
23“In those days ten men from every language
of the nations shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, ‘Let
us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’ Zech.
8:23)
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