Then why did he do it? The Bible answers that when God brought such judgments against ungodly people in times past, he was “setting a pattern for ungodly persons of things to come. ”
يتضح من الكتاب المقدس ان الله انزل العقاب بالاشرار في الماضي « واضعا للكافرين نموذجا لما سيأتي » .‏