I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; And your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured: Yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
This is not meeting God in friendly terms, but meeting God to face His judgment. Heavy, heavy duty. "Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel." It is necessary and important that each of us make preparation, because each of us ultimately, one day are gonna stand before God. "And I saw all of the dead small and great standing before the great white throne judgment of God" ( Revelation 20:11-12 ). All of the dead. Death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them. And every man was judged according to the things which were written in the book. "For it is appointed unto man once to die, and after that the judgment" ( Hebrews 9:27 ). No one can escape it. Inevitably, inescapably, one day each of you are gonna stand before God, and that will be a very awesome experience, because you'll be standing before the very Creator of the universe.