The ‘money’, idols and the non-creating speech remain but the souls are long departed
Somebody made the ‘money’, the gold, bronze or silver stamped with images and incantations of luck to supposedly BE value to be spent on buying protection from what they genuinely were deceived were gods. The only thing that remains is the wall and the money.
And the speech that deceived them all.
They never noticed the speech of mom and pop never aged. It was so common they never thought of it as anything but part of themselves.
Archaeologists unearth Alexander the Great era wall - Yahoo! News
Built into the wall were dozens of fragments from statues honouring ancient Greek gods, including Zeus, Hephaestus and possibly Dionysus, archaeologist Dimitrios Pantermalis told a conference in the northern port city of Salonika, according to the Athens News Agency.
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The wall’s design suggests that it was “inspired by the glory of Alexander the Great in the East,” as the young king sought to emulate grandiose structures encountered during his campaigns, Pantermalis told the conference.
Bronze coins from the period of Theodosius, the 4th-century AD Byzantine Emperor who abolished the ancient Olympic Games, were also found hidden inside the wall.
..and their progeny to this day have not understood what happened or is happening. They still do not get it. They are just happy to say more words.
Ecc 9:5,6 For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy is already perished; neither have they any more for ever a portion in all that is done under the sun.
Psalm 49:13 This their way is their folly, yet they that come after them delight in their sayings. Selah.
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1 John 1:1-4 That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes; that which we contemplated, and our hands handled, concerning the word of life; (and the life has been manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and report to you the eternal life, which was with the Father, and has been manifested to us:) that which we have seen and heard we report to you, that *ye* also may have fellowship with us; and our fellowship is indeed with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. And these things write we to you that your joy may be full.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen
Am I now come up without Jehovah against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it. 2 Kings 18:25
Anti-Christ tried the lie that God had sent him to conqueor Jerusalem through the Assyrians. But God says to the worshipers of demons who hate Jesus Christ and Israel: "But I know thine abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, And thy raging against me." 2 Kings 19:27