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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 ... )

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.

I remember those twoo. I remember in college, I read one short story where it took place in a small town, set in the late 1950's or early 1960's where the wrter commented on one of his fellow classmates he went to school with is working at a supermarket and basically that's all he aspired to. He once remarked that he'd still be at that position, perhaps work his way up to manager of (paraphrasing) "the collective by 1992 when the Soviets took over America." There were some who thought we will be run over by the Russians at that time and later, I think though, many of those stories were like a warning where "this could happen unless we get our act together." Again, much like the Moslem stories today although the Moslems do have the manpower if thet kiss and makeup between the Sunnis and Shias. I think here, we are letting them do it because of political correctness.

(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 ... )

Well, there are some stories, rumors, conjucture, and "forbidden archeology" where there is a belief and perhaps some evidence that we might have have an atomic war in the past, some point to Atlantis and another foe, many point to where India and Pakistan (whatever they were called then) had such a war 12,000 years ago and there are claims where they found green glass (glass from sand formed from an atomic explosion, "Trintinite," they call it, from the word "Trinity" when the first atomic bomb was tested) at various sites and skeletons that look like they had the flesh vaporized form them and so on.

As to the story of Noah's Ark and such, I wonder when the date was when that happened? Could be a possible lead there. There is a list on this site maintained by SunkenCiv that shares a lot of such things on subjects like these and others too. Very interesting reading.

I think I made that comment last year and my position is still the same, we need to get our butts in gear and recognize the threat better than we are now, otherwise, we will lose and deserve to, we will have no one to blame but ourselves for falling into the PC claptrap we are in now.