Where Is Your Nation on the Time Line?

In my lifetime of study the ten phases illustrated above have consistently marked every great nation that has ever been. As with men, so is it with societies: what has been is what will be, with only the technology changing. Once a nation-civilization returned "to the dust," it was replaced rather than being revived.

The sole exception I have identified has been the state of Israel, reborn in a single day-- May 14, 1948. Even their "dead" language was reconstructed, one of a continuous string of seemingly impossible happenings evidencing the loving hand of God upon the nation and bloodline [Ezekiel 37].

The arc can be broken until point nine has been reached. From there the end result is essentially a given. There remains a little time to turn the Titanic away before it strikes the iceberg, yet the door of opportunity is closing rapidly. [2 Chronicles 7:14]