Once upon a time there was a great civilization with numerous cities and probably inhabited by millions of people.
Today nothing is left but the hollow shells of buildings. No names, not a word of their language, nothing to tell us of their gods…
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This was the Indus Valley Civilization, circa 2,000 B.C. The ruins are spectacular, suggesting an efficient, skillful nation. But we can’t read a single word of their language; we don’t even know what language it was. All those people–and we don’t know the name of a single one of them. Not one.
How thoroughly can we and our works disappear!
Truly one of the great mysteries of history.
The Bible tells us the history of creation, and then the path to the Messiah. The nations mentioned in the Bible are fairly close to Israel, geographically. But God was aware of what was going on everywhere on earth. I suspect that there were nations whose sins came to His attention, and if they were egregious enough, it’s certainly within His power to pull the plug on them.
It is believed that the Americas were highly populated at one time, and a number of different civilizations disappeared. By the time of Columbus, the population of the Americas had drastically decreased. Archaeological sites tell us that there was human sacrifice, and our Maker does not approve of such things. It is said, in scripture, that the land vomited the Canaanites out. It may have happened in other places, as well.