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The gathered celebrate an eternal Passover feast, a banquet of peace in the renewed creation.
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The produce of the earth is abundant, the cup is not mixed with oppression, and no enemy waits beyond the table.
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The book closes by asking the Anointed Master to make the hearers worthy to stand at his right hand and to mingle them with the company of the set-apart ones and the ranks of his friends.
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Those friends are identified by love and by guarding the commands. The apocalypse ends with fidelity, answering the call to covenant-standing at the beginning of Dani’el’s vision. 13