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The dancing and shouting and singing stopped, but much laughter
continued. People still smiled and embraced and looked for the
source of the voice. It was enough, they seemed to conclude, that
they could hear him. The cries of the despairing continued as
well.

"I do not know," Dr. Ben-Judah began, "when God will lift the
curtain of fire and we will be able to see the clear sky again. I
do not know when or if the world will know that we have been
protected. For now it is enough that we know!"

The people cheered, but before they could begin singing and
dancing again, Tsion continued.

"When the evil one and his counselors gather, they will see us on
whose bodies the fire had no power; the hair of our heads was not
singed, nor were our garments affected, and the smell of fire was
not on us. They will interpret this in their own way, my brothers
and sisters. Perchance they will not allow the rest of the world
to even know it. But God will reveal himself in his own way and
in his own time, as he always does.

"And he has a word for you today, friends. He says, `Behold, I
have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the
furnace of affliction. For my own sake, for my own sake, I will
do it, for how should my name be profaned? I will not give my
glory to another.



" `Listen to me, U Israel,' says the Lord God of hosts, `you are
my called ones, you are my beloved, you I have chosen. I am he, I
am the First, I am also the Last. Indeed, my hand has laid the
foundation of the earth, and my right hand has stretched out the
heavens. When I call to them, they stand up together.

" `Assemble yourselves, and hear! `mho among them has declared
these things? The Lord loves him; he shall do his pleasure on
Babylon. I, even I, have spoken.'

"Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am
the Lord your God, who leads you by the way you should go. Oh,
that you had heeded my commandments! Then your peace would have
been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the
sea. Declare, proclaim this, utter to the end of the earth that
the Lord has redeemed his servants and they did not thirst when
He led them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow
from the rock for them; he also split the rock, and the waters
gushed out."