History is not very sentimental – if you make enough mistakes of enough gravity, your culture simply will not survive. We have ample reason to believe, however, that whatever is on the coast we are approaching, driven by the storms of the moment, they will be fertile places for the proclamation of Christ and Him crucified.

So, what happened to Solomon? We may never know. So, why did God allow all that to happen? It has been suggested that sometimes a period of deconstruction is necessary, a diminishment of religion and its influence, so that a new generation can arise that looks at religion with fresh eyes.