Seven days from now I will send much rain on the earth. It will rain for 40 days and 40 nights. And I will wipe everything off the face of the earth. I will destroy everything I made.”
This was before there were plants on the earth. Nothing was growing in the fields. This was because the Lord had not yet made it rain on the earth. And there was no person to care for the plants.
So God said to Noah, “All people have filled the earth with anger and violence. So I will destroy all living things. I will remove them from the earth.
“Understand what I am telling you. I will bring a great flood of water on the earth. I will destroy all living things that live under heaven. Everything on the earth will die.
So the Lord said, “I will destroy all the people that I made on the earth. I will destroy every man and every animal and everything that crawls on the earth. And I will destroy all the birds in the air. Why? Because I am sorry that I have made all these things.”
Get seven pairs (seven males and seven females) of all the birds. This will allow all these animals to continue living on the earth after the other animals are destroyed.
So this is what the Lord says, ‘Soon I will take you from this world, Hananiah. You will die this year. Why? Because you taught the people to turn against the Lord.’”
“I also stopped the rain—and it was three months before harvest time. So no crops grew. Then I let it rain on one city, but not on another city. Rain fell on one part of the country. But on the other part of the country, the land became very dry.
Every person that wins the victory will be dressed in white clothes like these people. I will not take away that person’s name from the book of life. I will say that he belongs to me. I will say this before my Father and before his angels.