But while the world was blissfully passing by, the ice was steadily building up on vegetation. No way to stop the falling branches and trunks. The damage, once started, could not be stopped. Power lines down, houses damaged. Too late to do that long- overdue pruning.
Sin comes in the same way.
But here a little word is changed in a new Bible translation. Many power lines went down where trees had been neglected and not been pruned properly. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the last.