How do nations disappear? There must be many ways by which they might achieve extinction. Certainly many nations have achieved it.
Once upon a time the Thracians were well-known, numerous, sometimes feared, sometimes admired, a nation to be reckoned with. And now there aren’t any.
You can’t just keep on trashing your civilization and still expect it to survive and prosper.
[And yes, I know I’m late today! I will try to catch up.]
What do all these nations have in common?
Edomites, Elamites, Philistines, Lydians, Phrygians, Lycaonians, Bithynians, Seleucid Empire, Ptolemaic Empire, Sabaeans, Carthaginians, Carians, Lycians, Phoenicians… and believe me, the list could be three or four times longer.
But what do they all have in common?
They were all contemporaneous with Israel/Judah–enemies, allies, competitors.
And today they’re all gone. Wiped off the map. Their DNA is still floating around, but their cultures, their languages, their traditions, have vanished.
But Israel is still here. Most of those nations, at one time or another, were much richer, much stronger, than Israel or Judah. Some of them created empires. But they’re all gone.
Did God say He would preserve a remnant of Israel?
Did God say He would plant them back in the land that He had given them?
Cimmerians, Mysians, Moabites, Chittim, Perizzites, Dardanians…
