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Granting fully that God is God and the Second Coming could be at any moment, still and all I think that Christians who spend overmuch time speculating and forecasting His return are, well, hoping to call it quits at 10 AM and knock off for the day when there is still a huge amount to be done.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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