Solomon on âwoke capitalismâ
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Solomon on âwoke capitalismâ
Solomon on âwoke capitalismâ
Courtesy of Mark Horne
Those of us who appreciate the free market in a free economy, where the civil leaders are restrained to enforcing fair and predictable rules that everyone can operate by, might be tempted to think that the wise should tend to succeed. If so, then our present situation of Leftist Corporate culture and advocacy is hard to understand.
But it wasnât something Solomon felt was unlikely. Many read what Proverbs says about the wise succeeding and fools failing and think the virtuous naturally rise to the top in society. But Proverbs actually spells out other possibilities.
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Rededication of temple / Year 4000 (164 b.c.e)
One: Nowhere in the Old Testament books do we read that the Temple was to be rededicated after the Maccabean revolt 4000 years after the creation of Adam. Yet scribes appear to have edited the chronologies of the books in order to make the beginning of the new Israel in 164 CE to occur a neat 4000 years after God began his project with the creation of Adam. For some reason those editors did not feel a need to explicitly advertise the presence of this remarkable chronology but there it is. (For an explanation of this chronology which is taken from Thomas Thompson’s