"Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” (Genesis 8:20-22)
The whole earth was under the flood because men was wicked. The intention of men's thoughts were only evil continually; therefore, every creature that took a breathed and was not on the ark, died. God's continuing mercy prevailed men's continuing evil. God kept life on earth through Noah and by stating that the major flood will never be repeat. At some point, his continuing mercy will only have to stop and continue in heaven.
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