{"id":9402,"date":"2006-07-14T11:15:28","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T18:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/07\/14\/i-think-id-rather-be-left-behind-than-be-with-these-callous-idiots.html"},"modified":"2006-07-14T11:15:28","modified_gmt":"2006-07-14T18:15:28","slug":"i_think_id_rath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/14\/i_think_id_rath.html","title":{"rendered":"I think I’d rather be Left Behind than be with these callous idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Les reports<\/a> on a particularly disgusting (the only word I can think of it) page<\/a> of people cheering the escalating bloodshed in the Middle East (along with sundry other disasters).  Why?  Because, well, heavens to Betsy, it must mean the End Times are upon us and the Rapture is at hand!<\/p>\n

\n

Is it time to get excited? I can\u2019t help the way I feel. For the first time in my Christian walk, I have no doubts that the day of the Lords appearing is upon us. I have never felt this way before, I have a joy that bubbles up every-time I think of him, for I know this is truly the time I have waited for so long. Am I alone in feeling guilty about the human suffering like my joy at his appearing some how fuels the evil I see everywhere. If it were not for the souls that hang in the balance and the horror that
\nstalks man daily on this earth, my joy would be complete. For those of us who await his arrival know, somehow we just know it won\u2019t be long now, the Bridegroom cometh rather man is ready are not.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, a shame about all that collateral suffering — but, glee!<\/em><\/p>\n

Disgusting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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