God created the universe, man and all animals and then he said all was good. Turns out all was bad and he killed them all In a flood. Did God make a mistake in his creations? Did he 2nd guess himself?

In the sixth day of creation, God said what He created was “very good”… then shortly after that Adam and Eve are kicked out of the garden… it was all good just a week ago.  Although, even with the disobedience of Adam, it wasn’t all bad; there was Noah [Genesis 6:9].

When God saw much of His creation turn to evil and corrupt themselves in various ways He repented (or changed His mind) [Genesis 6:6] about making them.  Most will say, I thought God does not change His mind… well… He doesn’t unless He already said He would change His mind because not changing His mind would be changing His mind anyway.  I know, a little confusing.  

Here’s some Scripture:  In Jeremiah 18:8-9 the Most High, by the prophecy of Jeremiah, tells us that if a nation who He spoke blessings to turns and does evil, He will change His mind of the good that He thought to do them and vice versa. That’s exactly what He did to all that were destroyed in the flood and that why Genesis 6 reads “And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth”.

Many of the parables of the Word explain the plan of God using agriculture.  That’s exactly how this should be viewed.  Adam was a seed planted and a plant made from the dust.  Think of the flood as doing away with the non-edible parts of the plant while harvesting and replanting the parts that God wanted in Noah.  Many times, in fact, the second destruction of the world (the first being the flood) is described as a harvest, in which the “good” are separated from the evil.  The good are usually related to edible parts of a plant like in Matthew 3:12 which compares the wheat being gathered to saints of God and the evil (unrepentant sinners) are related to chaff (inedible parts) that is burned in the fire.  

God didn’t cut any corners or skip to the end.  In all His wisdom, He planted a seed that grew and produced many others seeds.  He purged and filtered throughout history until the True Seed (His Son) was planted [John 12:24].  By His grace, some of us are seeds that will grow good fruit while others will not and in the end God will separate the two [Matthew 13:37-43].

So in summary what God said in Genesis was accurate because “we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose”. Very good.