The average age of the world s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These are the nine stages through which the many great civilizations have gone. Notice the progression from bondage to liberty back to bondage. The first generation throws off the shackles of bondage only to have a later generation, through apathy and indifference, allow itself to be similarly enslaved. Nations most often fall from within, and this fall is usually due to a decline in the moral and spiritual values in the family.
Families are the foundation of a nation.
When economic and spiritual values are not taught in the family, the nation falls because the foundation of character crumbles. That was true in the ancient world and it is true today. How we use our finances reveals our spiritual condition and determines whether we are going to be free or enslaved. In the times of Noah and Lot, there was the idolatry of greed, sexual perversion and promiscuity, anarchy and violence, and finally there was judgment. This progression happened throughout the Bible.