{"id":2586,"date":"2011-05-22T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/05\/cleaning-up-another-apocalyptic-mess-israel-and-the-palestinians-2\/"},"modified":"2011-05-22T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T15:04:00","slug":"cleaning-up-another-apocalyptic-mess-israel-and-the-palestinians-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/05\/cleaning-up-another-apocalyptic-mess-israel-and-the-palestinians-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning Up Another Apocalyptic Mess: Israel and the Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/2011\/05\/22\/cleaning-up-another-apocalyptic-mess-israel-and-the-palestinians\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Over at Patheos I\u2019ve posted a reflection<\/a> on how bad Bible interpretation caused another mess beside the recent one Harold Camping gave us. I\u2019m referring to the situation in Israel. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/2011\/05\/22\/cleaning-up-another-apocalyptic-mess-israel-and-the-palestinians\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Click through<\/a> to read my thoughts on the subject.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4140047298697146036?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Patheos I\u2019ve posted a reflection on how bad Bible interpretation caused another mess beside the recent one Harold Camping gave us. I\u2019m referring to the situation in Israel. 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