WEEEELLLL....... AS OF THE MIDDLE OF MARCH 2018 FACEBOOK HAS TROUBLES ON HOW DATA IS COLLECTED BY .... WELL WHOEVER, AND HOW THAT DATA CAN BE USED.
I'VE BELONGED TO FACEBOOK FOR ABOUT 8 YEARS NOW AS OF MARCH 2018.
I HAVE GIVEN OUT CERTAIN THINGS ON MY PROFILE, FREELY, ALL I'M QUITE HAPPEN TO TELL THE WORLD OR TELL..... WHOEVER.
I HAVE NOT BEEN GETTING ANY SERIOUS WHATEVERS FROM WHOEVERS...... WHAT I'VE WILLFULLY GIVEN IS REALLY NOT EARTH-SHATTERING TO ANYONE.
I'M NOT INTO POLITICS...... HENCE NO WHATEVERS TO TRY TO INFLUENCE ME THIS WAY OR THAT WAY.
THE DATA I'VE GIVEN OUT IS PROBABLY NOT THAT USEFUL TO ANYONE FROM ANYWHERE, TO SEND ADS TO ME..... SO I GET JUSTY ABOUT NONE!
AND THE FEW I GET I DO NOT READ!
I STAY FOCUSSED ONLY ON WHAT MY "friends" POST AND NOTHING MORE.
SO NOT REALLY SURE ABOUT ALL THIS FUSS.....
THEN AGAIN I SUSPECT SOME "DATA" THAT SOME DIVULGE COULD BE USED BY SOME FOR TRYING TO INFLUENCE THEM IN THIS WAY OR THAT WAY.
BEST TO BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU FREELY GIVE OUT ABOUT YOURSELF!
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For entries of the Meltdown series before December 2010, visit www.keithhunt.com/meltdown.html.
Saturday, March 24, 2018
Saturday, March 17, 2018
CHRISTIANITY......and the SABBATH?
AT TIMES I SIT DOWN AND WATCH YOUTUBE “CHRISTIAN” WHATEVERS.
YOU CAN SEE INTERVIEWS WITH “WELL KNOWN” CHRISTIAN PREACHERS AND CHRISTIAN ENTERTAINMENT PEOPLE.
SOME GREW UP AS “MINISTER KIDS” AND TELL OF TENT REVIVALS AND HOUSE TO HOUSE CALLS TO “COME TO THEIR CHURCH” DOWN THE ROAD.
YOU SEE THE CHRISTIAN MUSICAL SHOWS; PEOPLE GETTING RIGHT INTO IT, EMOTIONS FLYING HIGH.
THEY SING WITH EMOTION, THEY TALK WITH EMOTION!
OH IT’S ALL SO WONDERFUL THEY SAY; ALL SO GREAT GROWING UP IN IT ALL SOME SAY. AND ON AND ON IT GOES.
TO BE EXCITED ABOUT GOD THE FATHER AND CHRIST JESUS, IS CERTAINLY NOT WRONG; I GET EXCITED ABOUT THE TRUTHS OF GOD’S WORD, SALVATION, AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
I GREW UP IN A CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL, AND A LOCAL CHURCH NEAR TO WHERE WE LIVED. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL HAD US LEARN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS BY MEMORY AS IN EXODUS 20. THE LOCAL CHURCH HAD ME MEMORIZE PSLAM 1, 23, AND A FEW OTHERS, AND OF COURSE THE FOUR GOSPELS WERE CENTRAL.
I HAD A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FATHER AND JESUS BY THE TIME I WAS 12 YEARS OF AGE.
I KNEW EXACTLY WHAT THE 4TH COMMANDMENT OF THE TEN SAID, WORD FOR WORD.
IN THE 1950s TOWNS CLOSED DOWN ON SUNDAYS, VERY VERY LITTLE BUSINESS WAS DONE ON SUNDAYS. NO PROFESSIONAL SPORTS WAS DONE ON SUNDAYS.
THAT WAS NORMAL LIFE BACK THEN. I AGREED AND LIKED IT SO, BECAUSE…… WELL THE 4TH COMMANDMENT SAID…… SEE IT IN EXODUS 20.
AS SHOCKING AS IT MAY SOUND TO MANY, I BELIEVED SUNDAY WAS THE 7TH DAY OF THE WEEK. I MEAN IT HAD TO BE FOR ALL CHRISTIANITY I HAD EVER KNOWN WAS OBSERVING SUNDAY AS THE WEEKLY SABBATH. WHEN ABOUT 10 YEARS OLD I LAUGHED AT A BOY IN SUNDAY-SCHOOL WHO SAID HIS DAD TOLD HIM SUNDAY WAS THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK. I REMEMBER SAYING TO THIS LAD, “OH IT JUST CANNOT BE, FOR THE 4TH COMMANDMENT TELLS US TO OBSERVE THE 7TH DAY NOT THE 1ST DAY.” AND I JUST LAUGHED IT AWAY AND PUT IT OUT OF MY MIND.
COMING TO CANADA AT AGE 18, IT WAS MY BAPTIST LAND-LORD WHO TOLD ME SUNDAY WAS THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK; I WAS SHOCKED TO THE CORE OF MY BEING.
I WENT TO THE LOCAL LIBRARY AND FOUND A BOOK CALLED “CHRISTIAN FEASTS AND CUSTOMS” BY SOME CATHOLIC BISHOP [HIS BOOK IS ON THIS WEBSITE]. I TURNED TO THE CHAPTER ON THE SABBATH. RIGHT OFF THE BAT HE SAYS, PARAPHRASING: “THE BIBLE NOWHERE ORDAINS SUNDAY THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, AS HOLY, OR THE NEW TESTAMENT SABBATH.” HE WENT ON TO SAY IT WAS THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH THAT HAD THE AUTHORITY TO CHANGE THE THE SABBATH DAY TO SUNDAY, BEING THE TRUE CHURCH OF GOD.
I WAS SPEECHLESS! I WAS SHOCKED TO MY CORE!
I HAD TO REALIZE THAT SOME HOW AND IN SOME WAY ALL THE CHRISTIANITY I GREW UP WITH WAS WRONG AND WAS FALSE!
I LEARNED MUCH MORE OVER THE NEXT 6 MONTHS ABOUT THE WORLD’S “CHRISTIANITY”!
TODAY HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF CHRISTIAN PEOPLE, DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT THE WEEKLY SABBATH. THEY CAN WAX ELOQUENT ON MANY MORAL ISSUES…… BUT THE WEEKLY SABBATH, IT’S PRETTY WELL FORGOTTEN. IT’S AN ATTITUDE OF: THAT LAW OF THE SABBATH WAS FOR AN AGE LONG AGO, MAYBE THE JEWS, IT’S OUT OF DATE IN THIS MODERN WORLD.
THEY SAY, YOU CAN’T BE SERIOUS IN SAYING IT IS SIN TO NOT OBSERVE IT; OR, SURELY YOUR NOT SERIOUS TO SAY YOU MAY HAVE TO GIVE UP YOUR JOB TO OBSERVE THE WEEKLY SABBATH.
THE VAST VAST MAJORITY OF CHRISTIANS JUST CANNOT BELIEVE SABBATH BREAKING IS A SIN TODAY!
THEY CAN TALK ABOUT SIN, WELL SOME OF THEM; THEY CAN TALK ABOUT “MORAL ISSUES” OF THIS OR THAT; THEY CAN TALK ABOUT 9 COMMANDMENTS OF THE GREAT TEN, BUT THE LONGEST IN WORDS, IS THE COMMANDMENT OF THE 4TH, AND PRETTY WELL NEVER ENTERS THEIR MIND ANY MORE.
THE CHRISTIAN MINISTERS, WELL THEY CAN’T TALK ABOUT THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT, FOR THEN THEY’D HAVE TO PROVE FROM SCRIPTURE IT IS NOW SUNDAY, OR “DONE AWAY WITH” WHICH THEY CANNOT DO, THOUGH SOME TO THEIR SHAME HAVE TRIED. OR, THEY’D HAVE TO TEACH YOU PICK ANY DAY FOR THE SABBATH, BUT YOU SHOULD NOT WORK ON THAT DAY, EVEN GIVING UP A JOB TO SO OBEY THE SABBATH COMMAND. THEY JUST DO NOT, CANNOT, TEACH SUCH THEOLOGY - THERE MAYBE A FEW LITTLE GROUPS HERE AND THERE WHO TEACH OBSERVANCE TO SUNDAY FOR THE SABBATH IS NO SECULAR WORK; BUT 99 PERCENT OF CHRISTIANS NO LONGER THINK SERIOUSLY ABOUT OBSERVING EVEN SUNDAY IN A SERIOUS…. NO SECULAR WORK, GIVE UP A JOB IF NEEDS BE TO OBSERVE A FULL SUNDAY AS SABBATH; THEY CERTAINLY DO NOT TAKE THE WORDS OF THE 4TH COMMANDMENT IN REGARDS TO THE 7TH DAY AS STATED, IN ANY SERIOUS WAY AT ALL.
I MEAN IN ACTUAL FACT WHAT I’VE JUST SAID IS REALLY VERY SERIOUS; MORE SO REGARDING SUNDAY, IT IS THEOLOGICALLY UNSOUND AND VERY FALSE.
THERE IS A WHOLE LARGE SECTION ON MY WEBSITE DEVOTED TO THE 4TH COMMANDMENT AND THE SABBATH QUESTION. EVERY ARGUMENT EVER INVENTED TO SAY THE SABBATH COMMAND IS ABOLISHED, IS ANSWERED.
YES, BUT THE PLAIN TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS: THE SABBATH COMMANDMENT STILL STANDS; IT HAS NEVER BEEN “DONE AWAY WITH”….. AND YES IT IS SIN TO BREAK THE SABBATH COMMAND!
IT IS SIN TODAY AS IT WAS YESTERDAY, AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING, AS IT WAS IN THE TIME OF CHRIST, TO BREAK THE SABBATH COMMAND AS FOUND IN EXODUS 20. JESUS OBSERVED THE SABBATH WITH THE RELIGIOUS JEWS OF HIS TIME. NOT ONE SINGLE WORD CAME FROM HIS MOUTH THAT THE 7TH DAY SABBATH WAS TO BE IGNORED OR NO LONGER OBSERVED UNDER THE NEW COVENANT.
THE JEWS WERE VERY ADAMANT ABOUT SABBATH KEEPING; THEY WERE ALSO VERY ADAMANT ABOUT PHYSICAL CIRCUMCISION. SO MUCH SO IN FACT THE CHURCH OF GOD HAD TO CALL FOR A “MINISTER CONFERENCE” OVER THE MATTER TO DETERMINE THE TRUTH FOR THE NEW COVENANT - ACTS 15. IF THERE HAD BEEN ANY QUESTION ABOUT THE WEEKLY SABBATH, CHANGED TO THE FIRST DAY, OR DONE AWAY WITH COMPLETELY, YOU CAN BE SURE ANOTHER MINISTER CONFERENCE WOULD HAVE BEEN CALLED! NO SUCH CONFERENCE CAN BE FOUND IN THE NEW TESTAMENT!
NOWHERE, NOT ONE SINGLE VERSE ANYWHERE IN THE BIBLE, TELLS US WE ONLY HAVE 9 COMMANDMENTS OF THE 10, TO OBSERVE TODAY, IN THE CHRISTIAN DISPENSATION AGE, AND IN OUR SPACE-AGE SOCIETIES!
THE TRUE CHURCH OF GOD IN THE FIRST CENTURY A.D. WAS BEFORE, WELL BEFORE, JOHN WROTE THE BOOK OF REVELATION, GOING INTO APOSTASY AND FALSE THEOLOGY TEACHINGS.
JUDE HAD TO WRITE AND SAY CHRISTIANS NEEDED TO CONTEND FOR THE FAITH ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS!
YES IT IS SHOCKING FOR MANY TO HEAR ME SAY THAT 99.9 PERCENT OF CHRISTIANITY IS GOING THE WRONG WAY; THAT THEY ARE SINNING BY NOT OBSERVING THE CORRECT WEEKLY SABBATH DAY.
JESUS SAID BEFORE HE CAME AGAIN, MANY, MANY, NOT THE FEW BUT MANY, WOULD COME SAYING THAT HE JESUS WAS THE CHRIST, WAS THE MESSIAH, WAS THE SAVIOR, BUT WOULD DECEIVE THE MANY, NOT THE FEW!
ALL OF THAT EMOTION, ALL OF THAT DECEPTION; ALL OF THAT SABBATH BREAKING, WILL NOT GET ANY WHO PRACTICE IT INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AT THE COMING OF JESUS TO USHER IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH.
OH, I DID NOT SAY THEY ARE LOST AND HEADING FOR HELL-FIRE.
AGAIN THE VAST VAST MAJORITY OF CHRISTIANS ARE SPIRITUAL BLINDED, THEY JUST ARE NOT IN THE KNOW. THEY WILL COME UP IN THE SECOND RESURRECTION - “THE GREAT WHITE THONE JUDGMENT” [HAVE A FULL IN-DEPTH STUDY ON IT], AND HAVE THE BLINDNESS REMOVED, DECEPTIONS TAKEN AWAY. THEY WILL SEE THE WONDERFUL TRUTHS OF GOD; THEY WILL BE OFFERED SALVATION, THEY WILL BE OFFERED TO WALK THE TRUE WAY OF THE LORD, AND PUT AWAY ALL THE DECEPTIONS THEY WERE FED BY FALSE PROPHETS AND FALSE MINISTERS.
MANY OF THESE FALSE MINISTERS KNOW BETTER, THEY KNOW ABOUT THE TRUTH OF THE 4TH COMMANDMENT; THEY WILL NOT TEACH THAT TRUTH; THEY WOULD LOOSE THEIR JOB, LOOSE THE ADULATION OF PEOPLE - GOD WILL JUDGE THEM IN DUE TIME.
IF YOU HAVE READ THIS, YOU NOW HAVE IT BROUGHT TO LIGHT - I HAD IT BROUGHT TO LIGHT WHEN I WAS 19 IN SASKATOON, CANADA. I KNEW IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE THAT THE LONGEST COMMANDMENT IN NUMBER OF WORDS IN THE GREAT TEN COMMANDMENTS, COULD BE CHISELED OUT AND THROWN AWAY.
IT IS STILL SIN TO BREAK THE 4TH COMMANDMENT; IT IS STILL SIN TO NOT OBSERVE THE 7TH DAY WEEKLY SABBATH!
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Friday, March 16, 2018
BLESSED IN GOD'S SERVICE....
I AM BLESSED GREATLY!
I HAVE LOOKED BACK ON MY LIFE FROM 1982 WHEN I WAS ORDAINED TO THE MINISTRY OF JESUS CHRIST, TO TEACH, TO PREACH, TO SERVE IN HIS WORK IN THE CHURCH OF GOD, AND TO EVANGELIZE VIA THE WRITTEN WORD, FIRST IN ARTICLES AND THEN IN A FEW BOOKS. THE LAST 20 YEARS VIA MY WEBSITE TO ALL THE WORLD.
SOME THINGS AT THE TIME I AFTERWARDS THOUGHT I COULD DO BETTER, OR DIFFERENTLY, NOT REALLY KNOWING GOD HAD A MORE EXTENSIVE WORK IN HIS CHURCH ACROSS NORTH AMERICA FOR ME, IN THE DIFFERENT LOCATIONS I ENDED UP LIVING IN. EACH HAD ITS OWN UNIQUE CHALLENGES; SOME WERE TOUGH CHALLENGES; EACH BROUGHT A FULLER EXPERIENCE IN WORKING FOR THE CHURCH OF GOD. ALL HELPED, FOR ME TO SEE THE MANY ISSUES AND PROBLEMS THAT CAN ARISE IN THE CHURCH OF GOD. SOME PROBLEM I WORKED THROUGH TO BETTER RESULTS; SOME I HAD TO LEAVE IN THE HANDS OF THE LORD JESUS TO SETTLE HOW AND WHEN, AS HUMAN CARNALITY GETS IN THE WAY, MUCH MORE THAN WE OFTEN REALIZE. THE CHURCH CAN HAVE ITS INFIGHTING, ITS PERSONALITY PROBLEMS, IT CLICKS; IT IS NOT EASY TO SORT OUT SOME OF THOSE PROBLEM.
THE CHURCH OF GOD TODAY IS IN SOME AREAS NOT A LOT DIFFERENT TO SOME OF THE CHURCHES THE ORIGINAL APOSTLES OF THE FIRST CENTURY HAD TO DEAL WITH. READ THE LETTERS OR EPISTLES OF PAUL AND YOU WILL SEE THAT PRETTY DARN QUICKLY.
THE LAST 20 YEARS FROM 1998 WHEN I STARTED UP MY WEBSITE, HAS GONE VERY SOOTHLY, AS FAR AS THE WEBSITE….. HUNDREDS UPON HUNDRED OF STUDIES, AND DOZENS OF WHOLE BOOKS, ARE FOUND ON THAT WEBSITE; COVERING JUST ABOUT EVERY CHRISTIAN TOPIC YOU WANT TO NAME.
FROM 1982 AT AGE 40 TO TO THE DECEMBER OF 1995 I WAS A SOMEWHAT WANDERING MINISTER. ONTARIO; KELOWNA, B.C.; FLORIDA FOR 3 AND 1/2 YEARS, TO NEW BRUNWICK; TO PENTICTON - B.C. THEN FINALLY OVER TO CALGARY, ALBERTA. THE LAST MOVE PROBABLY MY BEDDING DOWN ROOTS MOVE. 20 YEARS IN CALGARY WITH A 20 YEAR WEBSITE. MORE PEOPLE FINDING IT EACH AND EVERY DAY; A USE OF ANYWHERE FROM 2 - 7 THOUSAND OR MORE EACH USING IT EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR.
I FAITHFULLY WORK VERY VERY HARD TO UPLOAD WHAT YOU FIND ON MY WEBSITE - IT’S DONE ENTIRELY BY MYSELF; I’VE PUT IN THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF HOURS, OVER THAT 20 YEAR HISTORY.
I HAVE WORKED HARD FOR THE LORD; WELL IT IS, CONSIDERED BY MYSEF AS MY FULL TIME JOB, WITH SECULAR WORK, AS SECONDARY - TO PAY MY LIVING EXPENSES. I RECEIVE NO MONEY FROM ANYONE - I WILL NOT RECEIVE IT - DO NOT SENT IT TO ME; GIVE IT TO A WORTHY CHARITY. I DO NOT NEED YOUR MONEY. AND THIS WAY I’M ABLE TO BE UPFRONT AND AT TIMES VERY BOLD IN MY WRITINGS; NO ONE OWNS ME; I CAN GIVE IT LIKE IT IS; AND AT TIMES I SURE DO THAT.
AT AGE 60 A SMALL VOICE SAID TO ME, “YOU HAVE SERVED ME WELL; YOU ALWAYS ENJOYED HORSE BACK RIDING - IT’S TIME TO DO THAT AGAIN. SO I DID; IT WAS NOT LONG BEFORE THE SKILL CAME BACK TO ME. I WROTE MY “DIARY OF WRANGLING ON THE RANGE” WHICH TOOK TWO YEARS TO WRITE.
AFTER THOSE TWO YEARS, A SMALL SILENT VOICE SAID, “YOU ARE READY TO FIND YOUR CHILDHOOD DREAM HORSE, AND I GOD, WILL HELP YOU FIND IT.” SO I WAS AWAY LOOKING FOR MY “TRIGGER” - FROM AGE 7 ALWAYS WANTED MY TRIGGER HORSE. A MARE ABOUT 15 HANDS, YOUNG, DARK GOLD COLOR……TRYING FINDING ONE, VERY VERY RARE TO FIND ALL OF THOSE REQUIREMENTS I HAD SET TO BE MY DREAM HORSE.
THERE WAS A HALF PAGE AD IN A HORSE MAGAZINE….. HORSES FOR SALE! DID NOT SEE MY DREAM HORSE. EMAILED THE LADY AND ASKED IF SHE HAD….. A HORSE WITH ALL THE ABOVE….. SHE ANSWERED AND SAID, “I HAVE THE VERY HORSE YOUR LOOKING FOR.” AND SHE DID - HENCE MY BOYHOOD DREAM HORSE - FINAL TOUCH HER REGISTERED NAME - MY HORSE GOLDIE!
NOW SHE IS COMING 18 YEARS OLD MARCH 27. SO HAVE HAD HER 13 YEARS! WHAT A FANTASTIC HORSE SHE TURNED OUT TO BE FOR ME.
SECOND GREAT PHYSICAL BLESSING.
MY OLD CAR - FORD TAURUS 2001, SERVED ME WELL, GOT IT WITH ONLY 75,000 KILOMETERS, LIKE NEW; KEPT IT UP BUT SLOWLY DYING WITH NOW 320 THOUSAND KILOM. ON IT.
YOUNG LADY [AUDREY] I’VE KNOWN THROUGH SUMMER HORSE CAMP FOR ABOUT 15 YEARS, SEEN HER GROW UP AND MARRY AND HAVE TWO CHILDREN; AS SHE ALSO SAYS, KINDA ADOPTED FAMILY, WE ARE; SHE HAD A TOUGH SITUATION GROWING UP. HER HUSBAND CHRIS SUPER GOOD FIXING CARS. THEY GOT A LITTLE WHILE BACK A 2005 DOGE CARAVAN; CHRIS DID LOTS OF WORK ON IT TO HAVE IT IN SUPER SHAPE. AUDREY TEXT ME A FEW DAYS AGO, “CHRIS HAS DECIDED TO GET ANOTHER VEHICLE, WE WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO GIVE YOU THE DODGE CARAVAN!”
I’VE BEEN GETTING AROUND WITH MY OLD 1979 DODGE TRUCK [WHICH I GOT 8 YEARS AGO OR SO, AND HAVE SPENT A LOT TO KEEP IT RUNNING GOOD], WHICH I REALLY ONLY LIKE TO USE IN THE SUMMER MONTHS TO HAUL MY HORSE GOLDIE TO NEARBY PROVINCIAL PARK FOR HORSES AND DIRT BIKES. WITH IT BEING A V8 AND 360 MOTOR VERY HEAVY ON GAS CONSUMPTION.
SO FRIDAY MARCH 16 I WILL BE THE OWNER OF A VERY NICE RUNNING AND WELL KEPT 2005 DODGE CARAVAN.
YES GOT IT ALL REGISTERED IN MY NAME AND WOW….. WHAT A WONDERFUL GIFT TO ME, JUST SO VERY WELL KEPT AND MAINTAINED, AND SWEET SWEET ON GAS, A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE FROM MY 79 DOGE TRUCK.
I HAVE BEEN FAITHFUL IN THE WORK OF THE LORD FOR NEARLY 40 YEARS NOW [OH WOW HOW TIME GOES BY], AND IN MY LATTER YEARS OF LIFE I HAVE BEEN TRULY BLESSED IN MANY WAYS.
GOD BRINGING ME TO CALGARY, NOW 20 YEARS, HAS BEEN ALSO A MIGHTY BLESSING; CALGARY AS THEY SAY, HAS BEEN GOOD TO ME, BUT ALL PRAISE GOES TO THE LORD. CALGARY IS THE LONGEST TIME PERIOD OF LIVING ANYWHERE, FOR ME, IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.
TRULY I THANK THE ALMIGHTY FATHER AND JESUS CHRIST HIS SON, FOR ALL THE WONDERFUL BLESSING I HAVE BEEN GRANTED IN MY LIFE; PHYSICAL HEALTH AND STRENGTH IN MIND AND BODY BEING ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT, FOR IN SO HAVING I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GIVE THE WORLD THE TRUTHS OF GOD, AND SERVE PEOPLE IN SO MANY SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL WAYS ALL MY ADULT LIFE.
Keith Hunt
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