Albert Einstein predicted relativistic time dilation: the faster we go the slower time passes. At the speeds that humans travel it's inconsequential. It's a diversion away from the more significant gravitational time dilation.
Time Dilation
Venus
Venus may have been the source of the fire and brimstone which destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. It may also have been the source of the hail mingled with fire in the Exodus. Any time fire fell from heaven, that's what Venus is for.
What do we Need to be Saved From?
The Lord is obviously doing a work in our time, COVID-19 and it's still unknown ramifications are proof, the question is: what is it?
Longsuffering
Hell is the default outcome. The entire world is going to be destroyed. God has offered us a ticket off this doomed rock to be with him for eternity in a new heaven. All we have to do is believe in Jesus Christ.
One Life to Live
Adam and Eve were created to populate the earth with their offspring, until there was a body for each soul that God had created. This is why God is longsuffering: every soul has not been given a body yet.