Another great change came about two thousand years later. The windows of heaven were opened and the waters prevailed upon the face of the earth, sweeping away all wickedness and transgression—a similitude of baptism for the remission of sins. The earth was renewed in a measure, not fully, as it still retains the effects of the sin that came upon it. But, alas! the earth has again become corrupted and wickedness has again accumulated upon its face; but, as it was cleansed from all wickedness by the deluge, so it must again be purified before it can become a fit abode for immortal man. It must be cleansed from "all the proud and they that do wickedly," all that are corrupt and disobedient, for "the day that cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord of Hosts, that it shall not leave them neither root nor branch."