{"id":1352,"date":"2011-07-05T20:25:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T01:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/05\/july-5\/"},"modified":"2011-07-05T20:25:30","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T01:25:30","slug":"july-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/05\/july-5\/","title":{"rendered":"July 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This map gives a graphic representation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparency.org\/policy_research\/surveys_indices\/cpi\/2010\/results\">most corrupt countries<\/a> in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the Middle East peace process wouldn&#8217;t be so difficult if the Jews didn&#8217;t steal Palestine from the Arabs. Except that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielpipes.org\/9931\/palestine-israel-stealing-purchasing\">they didn&#8217;t<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Getting a visa to stay in Israel if you are a Christian is only getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/DiplomacyAndPolitics\/Article.aspx?ID=226871&amp;R=R1\">more difficult<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/justintaylor\/2011\/07\/02\/new-word-to-add-to-the-lexicon-and-to-avoid-in-practice-the-humblebrag\/\">the humblebrag<\/a>. This is a very common creature in evangelical leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Vlach has a <a href=\"http:\/\/mikevlach.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/how-does-historic-premillennialism.html\">helpful summary<\/a> of the differences between dispensationalism and historic premillenialism. It might be worth noting here that in a <a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/16\/piper-and-the-future\/\">recent eschatology forum<\/a> hosted by John Piper, the three views represented were historic premillennialism, amillennialism, and postmillennialism. All of these agree against dispensationalism that (1) there is <strong>no future restoration<\/strong> of national Israel because (2) the church is the <strong>new Israel<\/strong> because (3) the NT <strong>changes the meaning<\/strong> of the OT. No wonder those guys get along so well! The prophets must be wondering, &#8220;How could we have been any clearer?&#8221; The apostles must be apoplectic: &#8220;We would never dare!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This map gives a graphic representation of the most corrupt countries in the world. Maybe the Middle East peace process wouldn&#8217;t be so difficult if the Jews didn&#8217;t steal Palestine from the Arabs. Except that they didn&#8217;t. Getting a visa to stay in Israel if you are a Christian is only getting more difficult. Yes,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/05\/july-5\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}