God told Adam that he was dust and that is what he would return to be. Non existence. When the first two sinned it did not change what God had planned for this planet. He has waited this long to get enough righteous people to fill the earth. In Noah's day most or everyone was so wicked he would never get enough people so he started over and until today there has not been enough good people to make a descent earth full of people. So soon once again he will destroy the majority of people and put the planet back into a cleaned up state. But what would be the purpose of keeping all the wicked alive anywhere? that doesn't make any sense. Why would he want to keep wicked people alive?
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