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Josephus recorded no signs in the heavens at the time of Jerusalem's fall but that of a sword seen in the heavens over Jerusalem, and of the sound of the voices "woeing" it's desolation [but that's off the top of my head without going to look up the fall as he recorded it -but the signs which are to be seen as John reports them in Revelation were not seen, and have not happened in heaven or on earth -yet!

But when John sees the Revelation of the Son of Man/Son of God, Jerusalem is delivered and the enemies of Jerusalem are destroyed and the Millennial reign of His Peace begins on earth.
 
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ProphecyCountdown said:
Now you presume to know what others think? Do you think you have the power of God, to know what people think.

I know that if a person claims to be a futurist then they believe in futurism, and if a person claims to be a preterist then they believe in preterism, and if a person claims to be a historicist then they believe in historicism, etc. I don’t need to be a mind reader nor do I need to be inspired to reach those conclusions; it’s common sense. I’ve never heard of a person who didn’t believe in the eschatological view they claimed to espouse, so I was hardly being presumptuous in my last post.

Your profile says your End Times view is futurism. So how am I possibly “assuming” anything when you, yourself, say you’re a futurist, or when other posters clearly claim a particular eschatological stance? Now I would be making an assumption if I didn’t know your eschatological viewpoint, but that simply is not the case here.

ProphecyCountdown said:
You make presumptions on those that dare scrutinise preterist theories.
No, I have no problem with posters scrutinizing me and challenging what I believe. Jerry Shugart has also been scrutinizing preterism on this thread as well, and I don't have a problem with that in the least. I’ve been wrong before and I’m sure I’ll be wrong again. What I do have a problem with is posters like you breaking forum rules by ridiculing and misrepresenting what I believe.

For example, in your #59 post, you accused preterists of breaking forum rules because we believe Jesus came in AD70. That belief is not a rule violation. You seem unwilling or unable to recognize the crucial difference that separates Orthodox preterism from full preterism, or the fact that Orthodox preterism is allowed to be discussed on this board. I’m ok with you believing that I am wrong in my beliefs, but I’m unwilling to tolerate you telling me I’m violating a forum rule that, in reality, I am not. Simply apologize for your misstep and move on.

I’ve been a regular participant on this forum for almost 5 years now, and not once during that time has any preterist publicly objected to a sincere critique of their beliefs. However, I can’t count how many times I’ve seen Christians of other eschatological persuasions bemoan Preterists for doing the same to them.

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Do you agree with this assumption. Pilgrim. Quote. “Jesus said that Satan was cast out when he was lifted up on the Cross.” Unquote.
I don’t know…I never really thought about it much. There are a myriad of differing viewpoints within Preterism as there is within Futurism. Just because someone is a Preterist doesn’t mean I’ll agree with everything they believe on every subject.

I see Pilgrimer’s statement as being no different than what any other posters says on this forum. “This is what the scripture clearly teaches” can be seen in various forms ad nauseam ad infinium here and elsewhere. Pilgrimer was just stating what she believes, and if you disagree with that then you are free to do so.

I’ll let those posters address those issues with you if they so choose.

I’ll address the rest of your post soon.

In Christ,

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Let's get it all--only certain of those STANDING HERE. Jesus was not including everyone--only some of THOSE who were right there with Him at the time! Therefore, both Matthew 24:34 and Matthew 16:28 are true. They are complimentary. The time of THAT generation would not pass away . . . Some of THOSE standing right in front of Him would not die . . . . Where's the contradiction; where's the plural dilemma?

Furthermore, try as you may, Matthew 16:28 does NOT speak of a certain ONE but CERTAIN OF THOSE--It is PLURAL, yeshuasavedme! Why can't you take the verse the way it is written? Is your system of interpretation so precious to you that you will force verses to say what you need them to say? It is plain English!

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Why are you ignoring the facts of only John seeing the Kingdom come with power? and that John gave us the report of seeing that?
Not one Apostle of the LORD believed he was promised to not taste death until he saw the kingdom come, and that one was John.
-as John 21 proves.

Only John of the three of the inner circle remained alive to see the Kingdom come with power -and that was seen in the future, from where John was taken to be shown it.

Psalm 37 is about that soon coming day when all the wicked will be removed from the earth -and the children of wrath are one generation as the children of faith are.

Children of the world who will not remain when He comes are one generation, and they are the "This generation" which shall pass away at His coming.

Why are you ignoring that the one generation that will pass away will indeed pass away when He comes?, and that is one generation of the wicked, as all Scripture teaches.

Luk 16:8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

Who is to pass away at His coming, Parousia?

Who is to inherit the earth, Parousia?

who is to be removed from the earth at His coming, Parousia?
 
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And Jesus comapred "This generation" which shall indeed pass away at His coming to the wicked generation of Noah's day, who all perished in the flood.

There is a generation which is promised to perish off earth at the second consumation of sin.

There is a generation which is promised to inherit the earth, and the wicked will not be found!

One passes away at the return of the LORD.
One does not ever pass away.
 
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Caiaiphas was dead before Jerusalem fell. He died about 44 Ad a th age of about 60.
He had been made high priest in 18 AD, and to be so, he had to have been over 30 -and probably was closer to 40.
John wrote the Revelation after Jerusalem fell.

But Caiaphas is guaranteed to see the LORD coming on the Cherubim of His Glory! -with all the wicked, from hell beneath!

 
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All sinners shall pass away when the Son of Man comes on His throne of glory;

from enoch 69
 
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Prophecy Countdown said:
Now your turn. My quoted Bible verses were.
How is that the opposite? Knowing the generation those things would take place in is not the same as knowing the day or the hour.

Prophecy Countdown said:
What do you mean quote.” He could be specific concerning the generation?”
Ok, lets examine your interpretation. Luke 11:29 explains what Jesus meant by the “sign of the prophet Jonas”; he said “For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation”. Jonah spent 3 days of internment in the belly of a whale, while Jesus spent 3 days of internment in the grave. We are in agreement on the definition of the “sign of Jonas” because verse 29 explains it, correct?

Now first of all, you believe Jesus couldn’t have returned in His generation because there was no sign for His generation except the sign of Jonas. But the kind of “sign” Jesus was referring to in Matthew 16:4 has absolutely nothing to do with a sign of the 2nd Coming. The context is clear: the Pharisees & Sadducees were trying to make Jesus perform a miraculous sign to test him, and Jesus replied by saying an evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign (like in verse 1), and a sign (like in verse 1) will not be given to it. Did Jesus perform a miraculous sign for the Pharisees & Sadducees? No, he did not give them what they had asked for. But your interpretation changes “sign” into “sign of the 2nd Coming”, essentially making the verse say “an evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and a sign of my 2nd Coming will not be given to it,” an idea that cannot be gleaned from anything found in Matthew 16:1-4, especially since the Pharisees & Sadducees didn't believe that Jesus was the Messiah's 1st Coming. Please explain how you reach your conclusions.

Secondly, Jesus even verified that there were signs of the times around that the Pharisees & Sadducees were not discerning: “O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?”

Thirdly, if you say all the Jews living in Jesus generation only received the “sign of Jonas”(Christ's burial and resurrection), then you contradict the fact that there were many “signs” witnessed by Jews living in Jesus’ generation as recorded in the New Testament, signs in both the heavens and on the earth that validated Jesus' Messianic claims. In fact, Matthew 16 is sandwiched in between two chapters that contain miraculous signs and wonders that were witnessed by Jews in Jesus’ generation. And even after Jesus’ ministry, the Book of Acts contains the signs and wonders of the Apostles and the Early Church.

So to wrap this part up, you need to explain to me why Matthew 16:4 is referring to signs of the Second Coming (like in Matthew 24), rather than signs and wonders like the Pharisees and Sadducees had described in verse 1. And you also have to explain why the 1st Century Jews would only receive the "sign of Jonas" despite the fact that the NT explicitly lists scores of miraculous signs and wonders that were witnessed by Jews during that same time period.

Now I believe that the “evil and adulterous generation” Jesus was referring to in that particular passage was the unbelieving Pharisees & Sadducees of the First Century (because they were the ones testing Jesus, provoking him to perform a sign in the heavens). He did not perform any signs for them to prove his Messianic office other than providing the “sign of Jonah”, but there were many signs given to other Jews in the 1st Century, as our Heavenly Father directed. Of that fact there is no doubt (we have the testimony of the scriptures to prove it), so you cannot possibly say that your interpretation of "no sign" in Matthew 16 is valid because the unbelieving Jews, Pharisees, and Sadducees were around at a time when other recorded signs were performed. However, the signs weren’t for them. Jesus said He hadn't come for those who were healthy (or those who thought they were), but He came for those who were sick. Jesus' signs and wonders weren't meant for the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Scribes, the unbelievers; the signs were meant for those who would heed the call to repentence.

I believe you are the one making statements contrary to those of the Lord’s in this instance, however I would love to hear your explanation as to how you come to your conclusions. I do not believe the Pharisees & Sadducees were given any signs except the sign of Jonah, but the signs which were present during their lifetime were meant for those the Father was drawing to His Son. There were miraculous signs and wonders present in Jesus' generation and there were signs of the times present in Jesus' generation (v.3), but they were not given to the “evil and adulterous” Jews, nor could they discern them.

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Why do you, (just like the Jews), reject the words of ‘no sign’ clearly stated by Jesus?
Because there were many signs present, as per the scriptures, but not for the Pharisees & Sadducees, not for the unbelievers. Jesus was not a carnival act and He did not perform for them. The sign of Jonah was all they would receive. However, the New Testament testifies of a myriad of signs given within Jesus’ generation. The onus is upon you to show that Jesus was referring to “signs of His Second Coming” in Matthew 16:4, and that the “evil and adulterous generation” in verse 4 were people other than the unbelieving Jews, first and foremost being the Pharisees & Sadducees who had requested a sign. Obviously not all of the Jews in the First Century were evil and adulterous since the original Church was entirely Jewish.

When did I ever say that knowing the “generation” meant knowing the “year”? I never said that, nor do I believe that. I simply believe that when Jesus said “this generation” in Matthew 24 He meant His generation. And that meant His return could have been in 4 years or in 40 years - there was no specific year alluded to, unlike the Adventists’ prediction. So Jesus didn’t have to know the second, minute, hour, day, week, year, or decade to know that it would happen within His generation. A generation is a long time.

Besides, I don’t normally care if others agree with me or not. This isn’t a popularity contest and I don’t base my beliefs on what "others say". I expect people of other eschatological persuasions to disagree with me.

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So your argument suggests you are like Parousia, and erroneously believe that Jesus, came in 70AD which is not the case.
My argument suggests that, like Parousia, I believe that Jesus could know that He would return within His generation without knowing the second, minute, hour, day, week, year, or decade of that return. And I do believe that Jesus is coming again.


I think you meant Acts 1:6. But anyway, it was for them to know “when will these things be, and what shall be the sign of thy coming and the end of the age(Matt 24:3)”. Jesus did spend time instructing them on that. These Disciples were to be led into “all truth” and the Spirit of Truth would be given to them to show them the “things to come” (John 16:13). It is the reason why Paul could say that the Romans’ salvation was closer than when they first believed (Romans 13:11), that he had no reason to write to Thessalonians concerning the “times and seasons” because they already knew that the day would not overtake them like a thief in the night (5:1-4). It’s the reason John could tell the original recipients of his letter that this was the last hour (1John 2:18).

If the Disciples and Apostles weren’t meant to know about the “times and seasons” of Christ’s coming then they wouldn’t have instructed the Church on such matters, but the NT record shows that they did.

I’ll address the rest of your post soon.

In Christ,

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What do we know what offends? There is no salvation beyond the grave. That implies salvation exists for all until the grave. Where then is the offense if a man is justified by turning to Christ? What do we know about it? A man can be evil and be redeemed. Are they in offense if they will repent? Our ends happen at different times but Christ was the true judge and it was when he went to glory that all judgement could be made.
Have you considered that until Christ no facility for final judgement even existed? All things that require judgement go to our courts but in due time.

This verse?
Daniel 12

This implies that those who sleep are judged. The whole of one's life is to be judged.
2: And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.


Matthew 27

Notice it is only those who sleep that come to judgement? It seems reasonable that there is room to consider that no judgement was rendered until Christ and it is only when the harvest is ready(when we sleep). Eitherway your absolute position is called into question as being sufficiant to prove the point or at least should suffice enough to abandon your hubris.
The interpretation that is reasonable is no man alive can be ultimately judged. Consider good and evil in our eyes. Is it good to to work at a factory and have an accident and loose a finger? Had it resulted in time off work the day before a gas explosion what would you say about it then? What do we know about it other than any man live may be justified by Christ and ONLY the dead are judged as the verses indicated.
 
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Prophecy Countdown said:
Acts6:5, quote. “Everybody thinks their own eschatological view is right - even you think your End Times position is right.” Unquote.
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Well you are flat busted wrong on that notion wrong as well.

I’m always searching, running to and fro over the Bible, looking and studying and praying to find better understanding.
PC, I’ll make this as simple as possible. You are a futurist. Your profile icon says you believe in futurism. You’ve being trying to refute preterism on this thread using futurist interpretations. Your interpretations of Daniel are futuristic. You post excerpts from futurist authors. You obviously believe that futurism is the most correct eschatological position for you or else you wouldn’t espouse it.

When I say “you think your End Times position is right”, it’s obvious from your posts that you believe your views are correct, as opposed to preterism or any other eschatological view. I was not inferring that you are unwilling to change your beliefs or that your views are locked in stasis; I was simply stating that you, as a futurist, believe that futurism is correct. In the same way, I believe preterism is correct. Now, I’m certainly open to other interpretations, and I believe I could be as wrong in my position as anybody else, but I certainly do believe that preterism is correct.

So no, I wasn’t wrong. At this time you do believe that futurism is right. Are you studying, praying, and open to “better understandings”? Sure, you have made that clear. But that doesn’t change the fact that you believe in futurism and believe it is the most correct view. You are not coming to this forum as a newbie Christian, having never heard of eschatology before, and just trying to formulate a fledgling position. You are a firm believer in futurism, and although I respect that, please don’t try to tell me that your willingness to pray and study keeps you from believing that futurism is the right eschatology.

Not true. I’ve grown far more in my scriptural understanding after having changed to preterism then I had when I was a futurist. The “done deal” you’ll get from Orthodox preterists is that God destroyed the husbandmen and gave the vineyard to others in AD70 (Luke 20:9-19). We believe Christ will come again, so no, everything is not a “done deal”.


I’ve found that when people accuse others of “ignoring what the Bible says” it usually just means they simply have different interpretations than you do.

So you’ve studied Hebrew and Greek? How extensive is your knowledge of those tongues?

Miss out on what, exactly? Salvation? The rapture? What? I think futurists have things in common as well, but I would never liken you to the Pharisees and Sadducees. I think it’s just a veiled insult on your part and not conducive to constructive debate. It’s rather lowbrow, really.

Prophecy Countdown said:
As far as my quote ‘end time position being right’ unquote, is not the issue.
I have never claimed that at all.
But you made it an issue because you were the one who originally claimed in your 2/16 post that the Jews thought they were right and that preterists think they’re right. My only point was to say that everyone who has an eschatological viewpoint (whether Pharisee, or preterist, or futurist, or histocist, or idealist, etc) believes their viewpoint is right, so it makes no sense for you to act like having strongly held beliefs is a Pharisiac/preteristic phenomena. Most of the people who frequent this board firmly believe their views as much as any preterist does. If you don’t like the word “right” then I’ll say “most correct”, so maybe that wording will better convey my meaning.

You’re as firmly entrenched in your futurist beliefs as I am in my preterist beliefs, however I recognize that your not being“prideful” in this and I would never compare you to Scribes or Pharisees, but you however cannot seem to discern “strongly held beliefs” from “pride”, and you make unwarranted accusations toward your fellow brothers in Christ that are unnecessary and inaccurate.

Prophecy Countdown said:
Either Christians support the Bible, or they don’t and when they don’t and indoctrinate others, I and many others then step in, using the Bible, to show why I don’t agree.
“Either Christians support the Bible, or they don’t” = either Christians support Prophecy Countdown’s interpretation of the Bible, or they don’t.

Hey PC, how is it that preterists are here “indoctrinating” others when this thread has been the first real debate on preterism in this forum in over a year? Gal328 is not a preterist and he’s the one who created the thread, not preterists, so we wouldn’t even be having this discussion right now if a futurist hadn’t brought it up. Jipsah and I are the two most active preterists on this forum and we rarely even mention preterism. So where is the indoctrination?

Tell me, where were you when MindonFire was using this forum (among others) as his personal website so he could preach at us on a weekly basis? Where are you when DanJudge creates threads simply so he can cut n’ paste book chapters from some guy he admires? If you're on the hunt for indoctrination, you're barking up the wrong tree.

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If I find something in the Bible that proves me erroneous, then I will retract.
Great, glad to see that you are open to change. I am as well (obviously, because I was once a futurist). The difference is, you find preterist doctrine to be erroneous while I don’t.
 
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Prophecy Countdown said:
Nobody is ‘right 100%’ not even the Disciples, Peter and Paul argued certain points.
I never said “100% right”, as if I meant everyone’s views were locked and unmovable. I just said everyone thinks their views are right, in the normative sense of the word. Man, you are certainly splitting hairs and parsing words here.

And Peter and Paul didn’t stoop to likening the other person to evil unregenerates, like you have been doing. Learn to disagree with other Christians respectfully, PC.

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Likening a preterist to the evil generation of Jews is dead right!
Because preterists are too proud to admit error, even when it is put right in front of them from the Bible and you have just proven that.
It’s not pride, PC. We simply have different interpretations than you. That’s all. It’s the reason Pre-tribs disagree with Post-tribs. Or Pre-wraths with Post-wraths. Or Premillenialists with Amillenialists. The disagreements have absolutely NOTHING to do with pride, and everything to do with the simple fact that we all approach the scriptures differently.

Again, it’s all about differing opinions, not indoctrination. Just because you think your opinion on a particular scripture is obvious and true doesn’t make it so to somebody else. I responded to your “no sign” interpretation on my #93 post, so I will not address it further here.

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Nobody said it was the futurist site so don’t exaggerate! I said it was an eschatological site. I suggest you get a better dictionary.
But in your 2/16 post, you asked why preterists come to a place called eschatology if they erroneously claim that Jesus came in 70AD, and my response was because preterism is an eschatological position. So if you know this is an eschatological forum (and not just a forum for your futurism views), and if you know preterism is an eschatological position, then there was no need for you to even ask why preterists post here, because the answer is obvious - preterism is a part of eschatology.


I’ll let Parousia handle her own gems.

Prophecy Countdown said:
Check your own eyes for splinters are you sure you are not a Scribe with their pompous always right attitude?
You can’t even apologize for wrongly accusing Orthodox preterists of breaking forum rules. Amazing. You rarely participate on this forum, so you have no idea what my “attitude” is like. And I can’t recall even talking with you in the past, so we don’t have any history upon which to make such a judgment. I simply asked you to apologize and watch your attitude, and yet you say that I have a “pompous always right attitude”? Go ask Big Mouth Nana about me if you want to gauge my attitude; we’ve sparred on numerous issues several years ago, including preterism, but she’ll vouch for my attitude and character. I’ve even apologized to her in the past, and despite our disagreements, we still like each other.

I ‘m not the one who refuses to apologize for falsely accusing posters of breaking forum rules. I’m not the one who likens brethren in Christ who disagree with me to Pharisees and comes dangerously close to calling posters the unbelieving tares of Matthew 13. You chastised me for “presuming” to know what people think, but then you, youself, presume to know that pride is the reason Preterists don’t acquiesce to your interpretations, as if you have the “power of God, to know what (preterists) think”. Now that’s pride and hypocrisy for you.

I gladly admit I’m not perfect, and I certainly believe I have much to learn about eschatology. I’ve been wrong before and I’ll be wrong again. If you’ve had run-ins with preterists on other boards who haven’t changed their beliefs, despite all of the “proofs” you’ve presented, then just consider that, instead of pride, they probably just don’t agree with you. It’s the same reason you hear preterist arguments and don’t come away convinced either. It’s not pride, just differing opinions. To each his own.

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I’ll let Parousia handle her own gems.

Acts6:5

Sorry, Acts 6:5, I am not allowed to "handle" my "gems." I've been told to shut up. Apparently, wild speculation, twisting of Scripture, ripping it out of its context, and redefining simple words is acceptable here but taking words at face value is not--(e.g. "The coming of the Lord is AT HAND", or "The end of ALL things is AT HAND.")

I do not understand my crime in taking "THIS generation will by no means pass away till ALL these things take place" literally. Yet people are free to find Antichrists everywhere and to CLEARLY see modern cities in the pages of the Bible (e.g. Russia, Iran, etc.). That's perfectly okay!

Yet, I'm the heretic! What have I ever done except take Jesus at His word and the inspired writers at their word? Doing so makes me a terrible threat on this board!

Now again, I have probably said too much and will incur the wrath of the moderator. I just wanted to let everyone know that I am not refusing to answer--I have been forbidden to answer.

But let me get in trouble once again by simply quoting another Scripture:

"For yet a LITTLE while, and He who is COMING will COME and will NOT tarry."

It says what it says!

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Not knowing the Day or the Hour of the return of the LORD means He is not coming on a Feast Day, which beginning of each Feast Day was determined by the going down of the sun..

The Rapture of the Church is the catching away of the perfected sons of God [made whole/holy in the completion of the adoption body, 'put on' as a garment for glory to the adoption Spirit which the cleansed souls "wear" forever, when the Father tells the Son it is "Time"; and the Son calls the Gathering together unto Him of the entire congregation, gathered from "the ends of heaven" and from earth below Psalm 50;

The call is given by the sounding of the two heavenly trumpets which are expressly made for that purpose of calling and ordering the congregation, Numbers 10:1-7;

and the dead bodies of the Saints in heaven rise from the graves translated from the elements of this creation first, then the living are translated elementally in their bodies and rise to meet the LORD at His door, in the air, all together, and He invites the entire congregation to come into their rooms and shut their doors behind them until the indignation be past, Isaiah 26:19-21;

and they all go in together, shut their doors, and remain behind the closed doors of the Holy of Holies in the created heavenly temple and celebrate their consecration as priests, clothed [perfected] in garments of glory and beauty, "standing before the Son of Man" for seven days -while seven years pass, on earth, Leviticus 8.

The Father is waiting only for the number to be filled which must be filled, of born again souls who answer the call to come to the "wedding" of the Son, for His "house" will be "filled", as the parable of the wedding feast teaches.
 
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