During the Flood, did Mount Arrarat get covered with water?
Yes! It did!
Was Mount Arrarat, Mount Arrarat, before the flood?
Yes! It was!
Was Mount Arrarat, Mount Arrarat, after the flood?
Yes! It was, and it still is?
Why? You don't know!!
But, I did explain it.
Now, when the Lord returns in all His Glory, in flaming fire (2 Thessalonians 1:7-10), the resulting reality then, will be 2 Peter 3:10-12, being the Lake of Fire, engulfing the whole entire earth.
With the elements (dirt and rocks melting), it will be more like a Lake of LAVA!
Will Mount Arrarat still be there afterwards?
Nope! It won't even be a little hill, but rather a pile of lava instead!
So then, what shall appear after this physical earth and celestial heavens are destroyed?
Ans. 2 Peter 3:13, of which will be like nothing that we have ever known, or can imagine!
Why?
Ans. Jesus is the New Heaven, and we who are BODILY resurrected after His Immortal likeness, will be the New Earth!!
Why?
Because, WITHIN EACH OF US, who are of faith in Jesus, IS WHERE the Father desires TO DWELL.
And it best be happening NOW, by us receiving the Gift of His Holy Spirit, otherwise we will be declared to be "none of His" upon His return. Romans 8:8-9.
"Ye must be Born Again [now].
I understand that it's your interpretations you have faith in, so be it, but like I said the scripture at 2Peter 3:5,6 is very clear. I'll believe what's written down, you continue to believe your interpretations. I have no faith in an imperfect persons interpretations. You have a right to your interpretations, I just disagree with your interpretations.
Also the scriptures don't say planet earth is thrown into the lake of fire. It says, the wild beast, the false prophet, Satan and his demons, those humans who worship Satan, death and the grave are thrown into the lake of fire, but nowhere does it say planet earth is thrown into the lake of fire.
Also you're interpreting the scripture at 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10 to mean the planet is being destroyed when it's obvious it's intelligent beings, wicked mankind being destroyed not the planet itself.
I understand that like many others, you believe that 2 Peter 3:10-12 when talking about the elements being destroyed you believe it's the dirt and rocks that being talked about being destroyed. I believe the elements which are destroyed is the spirit that
motivates ungodly mankind to think, plan, speak and act in their God-dishonoring way will be dissolved or reduced to nothingness. (Compare
Acts 9:1; Ephesians 2:1-3.) This will spell the end for all the philosophies, theories, arrangements and schemes that reflect the spirit of mankind alienated from the Most High.
If this text (
2 Peter 3:7, 10 mean that the literal planet Earth is to be consumed by fire, Such a literal view, conflicts with the assurance contained in such texts as
Matthew 6:10, Psalm 37:29 and
104:5, also
Proverbs 2:21, 22. The term “earth” in the quoted text of 2 Peter 3: 7,10 I believe must be understood in a different sense than the literal planet Earth.
At
Genesis 11:1, First Kings 2:1, 2, First Chronicles 16:31, Psalm 96:1, etc., the term “earth” is used in a
figurative sense, referring to mankind, to human society. I believe that's the case at
2 Peter 3:7, 10 and
Revelation 21:1.
Note that, in the context, at
2 Peter 3:5, 6 (also
2:5, 9), a parallel is drawn with the Flood of Noah’s day, in which wicked human society was destroyed, but Noah and his household, as well as the globe itself, were preserved. Likewise, at
2 Peter 3:7 it says that the ones to be destroyed are “ungodly men.” The view that “the earth” here refers to wicked human society fully agrees with the rest of the Bible, as is illustrated by the texts cited above. It is that symbolic “earth,” or
wicked human society, that is “discovered”; that is, Jehovah will sear away as by fire all disguise,
exposing the wickedness of ungodly human society and showing it to be worthy of complete destruction. That wicked society of humans is also “the first earth,” referred to at
Revelation 21:1 (
KJ).
