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\"Fulfilling<\/p>\n

This came\u00a0my way via Facebook, and I thought I would share it here. I appreciate the irony that, by speaking falsely about the Book of Revelation and other parts of the Bible, and\u00a0consistently being wrong about the future, many of the\u00a0end-times focused Christians do indeed seem to be fulfilling Biblical\u00a0predictions about the Last Days\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This came\u00a0my way via Facebook, and I thought I would share it here. 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