Rapture - the end time has been signed - like thieves in the night

Richard L. Armitage, signatory to the PNAC creed, deputy U.S. Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005, exposer of Ambassador Wilson's wife as a CIA operative to the Press, delivered the 23rd annual Rev. Thomas J. Furphy Lecture 7:30 tonight at DeSales University's Billera Hall.

Don't cut and run in Iraq was his message .... more like a leisurely stroll to the exit ..

"We notify the Iraqis that we're going to be drawing down a reasonable but careful percentage of our troops over a reasonable interval of months -- just for example, 5 percent of troops every three months."

"This will show seriousness of purpose, I think. It will give our population some hope and enthusiasm that this is not a never-ending affair. And also it will put the heat on the Iraqis, because ladies and gentlemen, we can't win this militarily. By the way, we can't lose this militarily."

"A lot of us, including me, are going to have a lot to answer for" , Armitage said.

So that's the message good Christian folk. We fucked up big style, we fucked over a nation , we fucked over it's people ... killing some 650,000 on the way, 1 million citizens have fled the country we "liberated". Now like the second coming , like a thief in the night, we will quietly steal away.

I Thessalonians 5:4,9-10 "For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night."

This is how the end time followers believe the rapture will come , rapture (in Greek harpazo, in Latin rapere) means to be caught up or taken away suddenly. The rapture refers to the sudden removal of all of God's people on the earth. In the twinkling of an eye, born again Christians will suddenly be transformed out of our human bodies and will rise up into the air to join Jesus Christ.

PS This has nothing to do with the Richards / Jagger "Thief in the Night" on Bridges to Babylon which is basically about creeping up into the bedroom of his babe and shagging her senseless.