The last time it was like that, the most horrific incident ever known to man occurred. And, almost no one survived it. Sadly, few believed it ever happened.
Genesis 6:11 Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Immediately after this, we have the great flood.
Genesis 6:5 - 6:11
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Luke 17:26
“And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28“It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; 29 but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30“It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed