Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand. Every moving
thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things,
even as the green herbs." Before this time God had not given
permission to eat animals for food; but now that every green thing
had been destroyed, He allowed them to eat the flesh of the clean
animals that had been preserved in the ark.
The entire surface of the earth was changed at the Flood. Dead
bodies lay on the ground everywhere. The Lord would not permit
these to remain to decompose and pollute the air. A violent wind,
which was caused to dry up the waters, moved them with great
force., In some instances it even carried away the tops of mountains
and heaped up trees, rocks, and earth above the bodies of the dead.
By the same means the silver and gold, choice wood and precious
stones, which had enriched the world before the Flood, were
concealed. The violent action of the waters piled earth and rocks
upon these treasures and even formed mountains above them. God
saw that the more He enriched and prospered sinners, the more they
would corrupt their ways before Him.
The mountains, once beautiful, had become broken and
irregular. Ledges and ragged rocks were now scattered on the
surface of the earth. Where once earth's richest treasures of gold,
silver, and precious stones had been, the heaviest marks of the curse
were seen. And on countries not inhabited and those where there had
been the least crime, the curse rested more lightly.
More terrible manifestations than the world has yet seen will be
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