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Ah welll, idle speculations. So much will be destroyed. Sometimes I wonder if God intends to start over with a very aggrarian society world wide. AT least, with Christ in charge, Goodness will abound vs the pollution of evil that now spreads like cancer.

I have a similar thought. When a society gets so far advanced with technology without the morals/ethics of putting it to good use, they tend to self destruct. When you think about it with things like biotechnology, nanotechnology and so on, I think we are getting too cocky and setting ourselves up for a great fall. Also factor in that the world is explored, with maybe a small pocket here and there untouched, so there is really no new land to colonize or run to, the next thing is space exploration to expand. We had a chance in the 1970's with setting up bases and colonies on the Moon but we pulled back, in some ways, we are no further ahead in space than we were in the early 1960's. If you factor all that in, we could have a big fall and adding even more, or decline of morals and standards. I do wonder if God is going to knock us down a peg or two, but if He doesn't do it, we certainly will and we will end up having to start again. Think if it as a "reset button." Myself, I lean towards the belief that we had a couple of technical civilizations in the past that destroyed themselves and we just started up the long ladder again. Think Atlantis and the stories there, I do see some parallels to that.

I do find the ideals for a new capital and it setup fascinating, would be cool to try it in SimCity. On a side note, I always liked the idea of houses partially underground, it would be good to have in places like tornado alley. There were hints at that idea when I read an article from the microfilms of the New York Times a few days after Hiroshima where the writers were speculating underground cities and people "living like Troglodytes."

If you factor all that in, we could have a big fall and adding even more, or decline of morals and standards. I do wonder if God is going to knock us down a peg or two, but if He doesn't do it, we certainly will and we will end up having to start again. Think if it as a "reset button." Myself, I lean towards the belief that we had a couple of technical civilizations in the past that destroyed themselves and we just started up the long ladder again. Think Atlantis and the stories there, I do see some parallels to that.
I grew up under the shadow of "The Bomb," during an era when all the "Bible prophecy teachers" asserted the inevitability of a global soviet takeover. God eliminated that bogey almost overnight.

People I know are studying Turkish and Arabic in preparation for the day when God discredits Islam, and millions of former muslims are desperately seeking guidance on how to structure their lives, now that their underpinnings have been kicked out from under them. (I saw first-hand the psychic bewilderment experienced by disillusioned Ukrainians.)

But, if we are talking about self-avowed enemies of God, consider the state religion of the USA, a vague unitarianism that in practice recognizes no deity above The State. That supports the massacre (through abortion) of millions of innocents around the world.

Will we be ready to respond redemptively to the fall of Islam? And later, to the fall of secular humanism? I pray so.

(Parenthetically -- if Morris and Whitcombe's Genesis Flood hydrology is valid, I wonder if a nuclear exchange disrupted that system, and brought about Noah's flood? There's a novel in there somewhere for the ambitious writer ... )