PerryDox – BeJustAChristian

What word describes people, every single individual, all of mankind, maybe more definitely than any other? There are many to choose from such as “sinners,” and “mortal.” Indeed, we all sin and we all die. But one word that comes to my mind is maybe completely unexpected by you, which is very fitting, because that one word is “unpredictable.” As a friend of mine, Fred Shewmaker observed, “Humans are the craziest people on earth.” There is so much unexpected behavior surrounding us, and even by us, both for good and bad. People continue to surprise me. I continue to surprise myself. There are spiritual lessons to be learned which is not surprising; both for good and bad.

The Bible is filled with surprises, not just because of the wonderful actions of God, but also because of the erratic, fickle, contradictory, totally unexpected and therefore surprising behavior of people. People are weird! There are people in the Bible that cause me to shake my head in surprise, in shock and dismay. And although I know the story well, I still have a difficult time fathoming that they did what they did; again, whether positive or negative.

And here is another surprise, this is one of the reasons I can believe that the Bible is true. All of Abraham’s and David’s foibles are listed right alongside with their acts of faith. God’s word is filled with the same kind of crazy people that I personally know, and I personally am. The Bible is as insanely real as my life is. Life is full of surprises, both that build and break.

In the Bible, there are some of these real life stories that we are all familiar with. For example, trying to explain the actions of Adam and Eve is mindboggling. Is there anything they needed that they did not have? Can we blame their bad “life-choices” on a bad childhood? And then there’s Solomon. How could the wisest man on earth make the most foolish, ignorant, dumb, idiotic, stupid, insane, ridiculous – is that enough synonyms – choices again and again? How could the wisest man be deranged enough to marry 3000 women? Yes, I know, it was only 300. But does only 300 make it much saner?

On the positive side of surprises, look at how many of Paul’s contemporaries were astounded that he submitted to the Messiah (Acts 9:21,26). Neither believers nor unbelievers found that easy to accept.

Instead of looking at all these more common examples, let’s look at some that are less familiar, and therefore more personally powerful. Familiarity can breed an emotional disconnect. I hope to share with you some real, insanely unpredictable, examples that are, well, unexpected – for good and bad. Let’s look at Ahab, Manasseh, and Joash.

UNEXPECTED REPENTANCE – AHAB

(1 Kings 21:27-29)

1 Kings 21:27-29 HCSB  When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth over his body, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around subdued.  (28)  Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite:  (29)  “Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? I will not bring the disaster during his lifetime, because he has humbled himself before Me. I will bring the disaster on his house during his son’s lifetime.”

When you think of Ahab, do you think of genuine, sincere repentance? Do you think of sackcloth and ashes humility? In order to grasp how unexpected this is, how “out of character,” we need to frame it with the better known character of Ahab. For example, right before these words of repentance are divinely recorded, before Ahab’s heartfelt humity, the Holy Spirit revealed the extent of God’s ill will towards Ahab,

1 Kings 21:25-26 HCSB  Still, there was no one like Ahab, who devoted himself to do what was evil in the LORD’s sight, because his wife Jezebel incited him. (26)  He committed the most detestable acts by going after idols as the Amorites had, whom the LORD had dispossessed before the Israelites.

Part of Ahab’s problem was not just spiritual, but personal. His character was weak in that he was led around by his wife. He was not a real man, but a wimp. He was henpecked into the most detestable of sins.

Let’s look at the history, before and after this event. Let’s look at some of the sins Ahab repented of.

When Ahab is introduced within the divine record as the new king of Israel, we are given a summation of his entire reign. The beginning tells the end, and most of the story:

1 Kings 16:29-33 HCSB  Ahab son of Omri became king over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Judah’s King Asa; Ahab son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria 22 years. (30) But Ahab son of Omri did what was evil in the LORD’s sight more than all who were before him. (31) Then, as if following the sin of Jeroboam son of Nebat were a trivial matter, he married Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and then proceeded to serve Baal and worship him. (32) He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he had built in Samaria. (33) Ahab also made an Asherah pole. Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

Progressing forward, or maybe more accurately, “digressing forward,” we get more of the sordid details. Because of Ahab’s wickedness, it was during his reign that God sent a famine for 3½ years (1 Kings 17-18; James 5:5:17). During Ahab’s reign we have the epic battle between Elijah and Ahab’s prophets of Baal on Mt. Carmel where prior to this Ahab called God’s great prophet “you troubler of Israel” (1 Kings 18:17). Ahab pits his 450 pagan prophets against the one prophet of God (1 Kings 18). Ahab loses, tells his wife Jezebel, who then proceeds to try and murder Elijah (1 Kings 19:1-2). Ahab does not try and stop her.

This is the same king that God, because the Arameans had blasphemed and demeaned God by saying, “The LORD is a god of the mountain, but He is not a god of the valleys” (1 Kings 20:28), decided to give Ahab grace and rescue him and Israel from Ben-hadad, king of Aram (1 Kings 20). And how does Ahab repay God? He makes a covenant with his enemy king, calling him his brother (20:31-34).

Later on, when Ahab’s friend, king of Judah, was asked to join him in a war against Aram, Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there not yet a prophet of the LORD here, that we may inquire of him?” (1 Kings 22:7). Ahab weakly whines,

1 Kings 22:8 HCSB  The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man who can ask the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies good about me, but only disaster. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” “The king shouldn’t say that!” Jehoshaphat replied.

And when Micaiah prophesies the unflattering truth, what does Ahab do?

1 Kings 22:27 HCSB  and say, ‘This is what the king says: Put this guy in prison and feed him only bread and water until I come back safely.'”

This is the man whose actions in taking Naboth’s vineyard so disgusted God that the Lord promised with a threat,

1 Kings 21:19-26 HCSB  Tell him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Have you murdered and also taken possession?’ Then tell him, ‘This is what the LORD says: In the place where the dogs licked Naboth’s blood, the dogs will also lick your blood!'” (20) Ahab said to Elijah, “So, you have caught me, my enemy.” He replied, “I have caught you because you devoted yourself to do what is evil in the LORD’s sight. (21) This is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you and will sweep away your descendants: I will eliminate all of Ahab’s males, both slave and free, in Israel; (22) I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have provoked My anger and caused Israel to sin. (23) The LORD also speaks of Jezebel: The dogs will eat Jezebel in the plot of land at Jezreel: (24) He who belongs to Ahab and dies in the city, the dogs will eat, and he who dies in the field, the birds of the sky will eat.'” (25) Still, there was no one like Ahab, who devoted himself to do what was evil in the LORD’s sight, because his wife Jezebel incited him. (26) He committed the most detestable acts by going after idols as the Amorites had, whom the LORD had dispossessed before the Israelites.

Shocked by this prophecy, this is the man who then, unexpectedly, surprisingly at least to me, and out of character, impressed even God with his repentance. I do not know what is more surprising – that Ahab repented; or that Ahab impressed God with his repentance. Admittedly, when I read of Ahab’s repentance, I don’t want to believe it is real because it contradicts what I know of the man. And yet God saw it and believed it.

1 Kings 21:27-29 HCSB  When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth over his body, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around subdued.  (28)  Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite:  (29)  “Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? I will not bring the disaster during his lifetime, because he has humbled himself before Me. I will bring the disaster on his house during his son’s lifetime.”

 

There is a perverted part of me that almost gloats, “but it did not last,” because admittedly it did not. And admittedly that darkness within me surprises me. I also learn a valuable lesson about how I judge people. There is part of me that thinks that if a person does not really change, does not permanently alter their character, after repenting, that they didn’t really mean it. That their repentance was lacking, not deep enough to be real. But God said Ahab did repent. And to borrow and paraphrase from another passage, “who am I to argue with God” (Romans 9:20).

Lessons Learned:

• Sometimes people have to hear the plain, unfettered truth to instill a heart of repentance.
• Anyone can repent, regardless of their spiritual heritage, personal history, or character flaws.
• It is not right for us to judge another person’s repentance by how long it lasts.
• Repentance, in order to have an eternal effect, must continue to have a temporal effect.
• God’s grace can extend to the most despicable of sinners and characters.

UNEXPECTED REPENTANCE – MANASSEH

(2 Chronicles 33:12-13)

2 Chronicles 33:12-13 HCSB  (12)  When he was in distress, he sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.  (13)  He prayed to Him, so He heard his petition and granted his request, and brought him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom. So Manasseh came to know that the LORD is God.

If there was a king who matched Ahab in wickedness, and maybe surpassed him, it was Manasseh. For 55 years he reigned, longer than any king before or after in either Judah or Israel; longer than the best of the best, including his father and grandson.

We can divide Manasseh’s reign into four parts:

• According to Edwin Thiele, the first part of his reign included the first ten years as co-regent with his father. This would have started around when he was 12 years old. The same age of Jesus in the temple about His Father’s business. This training period would have been a reign of righteousness.
• The second part would be when he filled Judah with his idolatries and atrocities, having done wickedly more than all the Amorites did who were before him, and has also made Judah sin with his idols (2 Kings 21:11).
• Part of his reign was spent in a Babylonian prison under the dictates of the Assyrian monarch, Esarhaddon (681-669 B.C.) or Ashurbanipal (668– 627 B.C.).  How long this lasted I do not know. I read somewhere 12 years, (Herbert Lockyer, All the Men of the Bible, p.227), but do not how he came to this conclusion.
• The fourth and last part is surprisingly marked by his repentance and spiritual revitalization. In this he did not go as far as his father or grandson, but he made great inroads into eroding his own past and the sins of the people. 

 

Personally, I have always been surprised God allowed him to reign so long because I cannot think of anyone who committed more and worse sins than Manasseh. But a deeper research reveals that we do not know how many years were good or bad. All we really know when he was bad, he was the worse.

Unlike Ahab, part of the disappointment and despair of Manasseh is that he was raised right. Ahab’s father was Omri who did evil in the sight of the LORD, and acted more wickedly than all who were before him” (1 Kings 16:25). Manasseh’s father was Hezekiah of whom it was said, “He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel; so that after him there was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among those who were before him” (2 Kings 18:5). Concerning this disappointing son, Charles Spurgeon points out a disappointing trend,

“Now, it is a notorious fact, that men who do go wrong after a good training, are the worst men in the world…. You shall find among the greatest champions of the camp of hell, men who were brought up and educated in our very ranks…. And such men actually make the very worst of infidels; while the best of Christians often come from the very worst of sinners…. Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance; if parents sin, their children will follow them, without much doubt; but when they repent and turn to God, it is not easy to lead a child back in the way which it has once forsaken.” (Charles Spurgeon, Manasseh, November 30, 1856)

Spurgeon also commented as to the contrast between these two men, between father and son:

“And yet Manasseh pulled down what his father had built up, and built up the idol temples which his father had pulled down.” (Charles Spurgeon)

Alone I do not stand in my opinion of Manasseh as despicable. Charles Spurgeon called him, “a loathsome monster of guilt” in his sermon called, “A Miracle of Grace.” More importantly, the divine witness declares, Manasseh seduced them to do evil more than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the sons of Israel (2 Kings 21:9). What were the sins of Manasseh?

• Rebuilt the high places which his father destroyed
• Erected altars for Baal
• Made an Asherah and placed it in the temple
• Worshipped all the host of heaven
• Built altars for idols in the temple
• Sacrificed his sons in fire
• Practiced witchcraft, used divination, practiced sorcery, dealt with mediums
• Shed innocent blood until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another

 

These sins were blatant. They were in the face of God in that Manasseh even committed these sins in the temple of God. This was not a man who was interested in only sinning secretly. He sinned before all, and led all others in sin, and led all others into sin.

Theses sins of religious syncretism place Manasseh in the Southern Kingdom as the spiritual equivalent of Ahab who reigned in the Northern Kingdom.  Manasseh imitated the worst of both Jeroboam and Ahab. Jeroboam and Manasseh led their nations into idolatry, and Ahab and Manasseh led their nations into the worst of idolatry.

“The popular religion of Judah became a medley of Assyrio-Babylonian cults, Canaanite fertility cult Baalism and Yahwism….The most degraded aspects of this pagan cultus was human sacrifice….” (The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopdia of the Bible, vol.4, p.64)

The wickedness of Manasseh recorded in 2 Kings 21:1-18 and 24:3-4, which

 “emphasizes three degrading aspects of the regime of Manasseh: upon his accession to the throne he led in a reaction against the reforms instituted by his father Hezekiah; he accelerated the development of heathenism in the country; he instituted a bitter persecution of the prophetic party which opposed the popular syncretism led by the king.” (The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, vol.4, p.64)

And although Manasseh repented, there were consequences to his sin beyond his life.

“Why did Yahweh determine that Judah had to be punished after the reign of Manasseh? Other kings of Judah, beginning with Solomon, had promoted idolatries of various sorts. Manasseh was uniquely evil, but there is another factor. Throughout 1-2 Kings, the narrator reports that the Kings of Israel followed the ways of Jeroboam who “made Israel sin” (1 Ki 14:16; 15:26, 30, 34, 16:2; etc.). The phrase is used with reference to Jeroboam’s influence some 20x in 1-2 Kings. Throughout the whole of Kings, however, no king (so far as my search has revealed) “made Judah sin” – until Manasseh (2 Ki 21:11, 16). Every dynasty that made Israel sin was destroyed – Jeroboam, Omri, Jehu. And when Manasseh leads Judah astray, the Davidic dynasty is also interrupted. Just as Jeroboam’s dynasty was not rescued by the comparative goodness of his son Abijah, and just as Ahab’s dynasty was not rescued by his repentance, so the reforms of Josiah will not rescue the dynasty of David from the discipline of exile once a Davidic king has “made Judah sin.” When a Davidic king, who is supposed to be a shepherd to Yahweh’s people, turns into an enemy of the people of God, then the dynasty has to be disciplined.” (Peter Leithart, Made Judah Sin, www.leithart.com)

Josephus described Manasseh as a blood thirsty tyrant who,

‘barbarously slew all the righteous men that were among the Hebrews; nor would he spare the prophets, for he every day slew some of them, till Jerusalem overflowed with blood’ [Antiquities 10.3.1].

The most notable of the prophets probably murdered by Manasseh was Isaiah. According to an account recorded in the apocryphal story, The Martyrdom of Isaiah, Manasseh caused the prophet to be sawn in two which some believe is referenced in Hebrews 11:37:

 

Hebrews 11:37 HCSB  They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they died by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, and mistreated.

God’s law stipulated punishment for these sins stated hundreds of years before:

Deuteronomy 17:2-5 HCSB  (2)  “If a man or woman among you in one of your towns that the LORD your God will give you is discovered doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and violating His covenant  (3)  and has gone to worship other gods by bowing down to the sun, moon, or all the stars in the sky–which I have forbidden–  (4)  and if you are told or hear about it, you must investigate it thoroughly. If the report turns out to be true that this detestable thing has happened in Israel,  (5)  you must bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing and stone them to death.

But there was no one with the power and authority to punish Manasseh. So God took matters into His own divine hands. God grew so disgusted at Manasseh, that He did something that had to surprise the proud king.

 

2 Chronicles 33:11 HCSB  (11) So He brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria. They captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

This is even recorded in secular history in the “Prism of Esar-haddon” which mentions Manasseh’s captivity and tribute. The hooks are literal. Hooks either through the nose, or cheeks, to lead the captive as if he were nothing more than an animal.

And then Manasseh did something equally shocking, something surprising:

2 Chronicles 33:12 ESV  And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

And what did God do? Did God say, “Too late!” No, and although it was too late for the nation of Israel (2 Kings 24:3-4), it was not too late for any individual Israelite.

What did God do? God gave this great sinner great grace.

2 Chronicles 33:13 ESV  He prayed to him, and God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.

Manasseh’s prayer is not written within the inspired writings, but was written in the “the records of the Hozai” (2 Chronicles 33:19), which is lost within history. While not part of the canon, and assigned to apocryphal writings, I present to you for your consideration the Prayer of Manasseh that no doubts captures some of the truth.

Lord, Almighty God of our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and of their righteous seed; who hast made heaven and earth, with all the ornament thereof; who hast bound the sea by the word of thy commandment; who hast shut up the deep, and sealed it by thy terrible and glorious name; whom all men fear, and tremble before thy power; for the majesty of thy glory cannot be borne, and thine angry threatening toward sinners is importable: but thy merciful promise is unmeasurable and unsearchable; for thou art the most high Lord, of great compassion, longsuffering, very merciful, and repentest of the evils of men. Thou, O Lord, according to thy great goodness hast promised repentance and forgiveness to them that have sinned against thee: and of thine infinite mercies hast appointed repentance unto sinners, that they may be saved. Thou therefore, O Lord, that art the God of the just, hast not appointed repentance to the just, as to Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, which have not sinned against thee; but thou hast appointed repentance unto me that am a sinner: for I have sinned above the number of the sands of the sea. My transgressions, O Lord, are multiplied: my transgressions are multiplied, and I am not worthy to behold and see the height of heaven for the multitude of mine iniquities. I am bowed down with many iron bands, that I cannot life up mine head, neither have any release: for I have provoked thy wrath, and done evil before thee: I did not thy will, neither kept I thy commandments: I have set up abominations, and have multiplied offences. Now therefore I bow the knee of mine heart, beseeching thee of grace. I have sinned, O Lord, I have sinned, and I acknowledge mine iniquities: wherefore, I humbly beseech thee, forgive me, O Lord, forgive me, and destroy me not with mine iniquites. Be not angry with me for ever, by reserving evil for me; neither condemn me to the lower parts of the earth. For thou art the God, even the God of them that repent; and in me thou wilt shew all thy goodness: for thou wilt save me, that am unworthy, according to thy great mercy. Therefore I will praise thee for ever all the days of my life: for all the powers of the heavens do praise thee, and thine is the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

And because God offered grace, we see what Manasseh did:

2 Chronicles 33:15-16 HCSB  (15)  He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the LORD’s temple, along with all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the LORD’s temple and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.  (16)  He built the altar of the LORD and offered fellowship and thank offerings on it. Then he told Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

Herbert Lockyer comforts us by his observation,

“It will not be possible to doubt God’s grace in heaven in the ages to come if we can but catch a glimpse of Manasseh – godly reared, apostate, idolatrous, devilish, stricken, humbled, repentant Manasseh!”  (Herbert Lockyer, All the Men of the Bible, p.228)

And here is a valuable lesson for us. As already stated, his sins were atrocious. And yet he came back to his childhood faith, he repented of his personal sins, and he received the greatest gift God can give – the grace of forgiveness.

Lessons Learned:

• No matter what I have done, how evil I have acted, I can repent.
• No matter what I have done, how evil I have acted, I can be forgiven.
• Grown children gone astray can return to the Lord.

Before leaving the examples of Ahab and Manasseh, let’s point out another comparison between the two.

“The story of the Bible is the death and resurrection of the Christ, but often there is an important nuance to this story-line.

The house of Ahab is not destroyed during the reign of Ahab, but during the reign of his son Jehoram, the best of the Omrides (2 Kings 3:2). After the death-reign of Ahab and Jezebel, Jehoram might look like the beginning of new life. But that new life is not enough. Before Israel is restored, she must go through the deeper death of Assyrian conquest.

The house of David is destroyed not during the reign of Manasseh, but after the reign of Josiah, among the best of the Davidic kings. After the death-reign of Manasseh (and some of his predecessors – Ahaz), Josiah is definitely new life for Judah. But that new life is not enough. Before Judah can be restored, she must not only go through the death of apostasy, but the deeper death of exile.

Jesus is opposed by the Pharisees and scribes, but at the beginning of Passover week things seem to be on the upswing. Cheering crowds greet Him as He enters Jerusalem, and He silences the Pharisees in debate in the temple. One can imagine Peter musing that all that talk about the cross was greater exaggerated. But the death of rejection must be followed by the deeper death of the cross.

Resurrection is not merely an upswing after a period of decline. Resurrection is not merely improving fortunes, a kind of spiritual upsurge in the GNP. Resurrection is resurrection, new life after a death deeper than decline.” (Peter Leithart, Death, Deeper Death, Resurrection, www.leithart.com)

UNEXPECTED FALL – JEHOASH/JOASH

(2 Kings 12; 2 Chronicles 24)

The surprises listed above are encouraging; this surprise is disheartening. This story is just as real as the ones before. This is a real story of a child saved from the murderous carnage of his own grandmother who tried to kill all of her son’s children just so she could be queen. That most evil of all women was Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel. That most innocent of children saved was Joash. The heroes were Jehosheba and Jehoiada. This married couple was both regal and priestly. She was the aunt of Joash. He was the High Priest.

Just as the word unpredictable describes the repentance of Ahab and Manasseh, the word ungrateful is the perfect word to describe Jehoash (Joash). His ungratefulness was uncalled for, unforeseen and totally unpredictable.

To appreciate the fall, we need to understand the story. Joash’s father was Ahaziah. His grandmother was Athaliah. His great-grand parents were Ahab and Jezebel.  On the other side of the family tree, the great grandfather was the godly king Jehoshaphat. His grandfather was Jehoram who, when he became king,  killed all his brothers with the sword…and walked in the way of the kings of Israel, juast as the house of Ahab (for Ahab’s daughter was his wife), and he did evil in the sigh of the LORD (2 Chronicles 21:46).

The wife of Jehoram (Joram) followed the example of her husband. He killed his brothers. She killed her grandchildren. All of them, except one saved by the grace of God.

2 Chronicles 22:10-12 HCSB  (10)  When Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs of the house of Judah.  (11)  Jehoshabeath, the king’s daughter, rescued Joash son of Ahaziah from the king’s sons who were being killed and put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Now Jehoshabeath was the daughter of King Jehoram and the wife of Jehoiada the priest. Since she was Ahaziah’s sister, she hid Joash from Athaliah so that she did not kill him.  (12)  While Athaliah ruled over the land, he was hiding with them in God’s temple six years.

Let’s read how Jehoash (Joash) ascended to the throne (2 Chronicles 23).

Now let’s read of his spiritual strength and restoration of the temple (2 Chronicles 24:1-14). What did we notice? His spiritual strength depended upon his relationship with Jehoiada, the husband of the sister who rescued him. And when Jehoiada dies (2 Chronicles 24:17-22)?

How could a man kill the son of the woman who rescued him? How could a lifetime of service to God be destroyed so quickly and so easily by others?

Lessons Learned:

• We cannot take for granted the faithfulness of anyone, including ourselves.
• A lifetime of good influence can be wiped out by new evil influences.
• Good influences can be more important to our faithfulness than we realize.

Conclusion – Final Lessons Learned:

• Peoples’ unpredictability can cause a basic lack of trust in others.
• Peoples’ unpredictability can cause a hope that extends beyond reason.
• We have to decide how we are going to live – in distrust or in hope.
• We cannot predict the behavior of anyone, including ourselves. Some people will fall although “reason” would have dictated otherwise. Some will repent, although “reason” cannot explain why.

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