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149. IT isn't real. No one can "hasten" anything, because no one knows when the Second Coming will come, not the angels,

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Tue Mar 3, 2026, 08:22 PM

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of heaven, not even the Son the Father first sent -- no one but God the Father knows. Humanity can't do one single thing to speed up the actions of the God of the Eternal Now.

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