Why will God end our world?

[Marty fox]

Back in Genesis we see that shortly after the faithful conformed to the world that God destroyed the world with a flood. Below we read that Peter says that at the end of our world God will destroy the world by fire.

2 Peter 3:3-7
3 Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” 5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water. 6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. 7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

This is also confirmed in Revelation

Revelation 20:7-10
7 When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. 9 They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. 10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

I believe that the reason that God will destroy the world in our future is the same reason that God destroyed the world in the past when the faithful conform to the world.

Could we be in the time of satans release as the church is conforming just before God destroys the world by fire as mentioned in the verses of Revelation above?

Why else would God end our world if the gospel is still spreading?

Jesus did say that the gates of hell would never overcome the church.

I believe that Jesus will save the faithful church and Judge the world before it fully conforms like He did with Noah.

 

[Timtofly]

Back in Genesis we see that shortly after the faithful conformed to the world that God destroyed the world with a flood. Below we read that Peter says that at the end of our world God will destroy the world by fire.

2 Peter 3:3-7
3 Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” 5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water. 6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. 7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

This is also confirmed in Revelation

Revelation 20:7-10
7 When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. 9 They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. 10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

I believe that the reason that God will destroy the world in our future is the same reason that God destroyed the world in the past when the faithful conform to the world.

Could we be in the time of satans release as the church is conforming just before God destroys the world by fire as mentioned in the verses of Revelation above?

Why else would God end our world if the gospel is still spreading?

Jesus did say that the gates of hell would never overcome the church.

I believe that Jesus will save the faithful church and Judge the world before it fully conforms like He did with Noah.

Fire does not destroy the world in Revelation 20:9. Read it again.

"And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them."

Fire only destroyed those who marched across the earth, nothing else.

The fire of 2 Peter 3 is here in Revelation 6:12-17; the Second Coming:

"And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?"

Notice that no humans were consumed by fire, yet this is the time when all mankind's works are burned up. Heaven dissolves like a scroll being rolled up. All the stars come to earth. The only place to hide are in caves or under all the rubble. Only intense fires all over the earth can cause the sun and moon to appear that way.

"But the day of the Lord will come"

Jesus comes to earth to start the Day of the Lord. That day with the Lord known as the Millennial Reign.

"And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory."

They are hiding out like Revelation 6 declares, not consumed by fire, but mourning. Now back to your so called "second coming" where only humans are consumed by fire, and nothing else. This is two separate and unrelated events. They do not even have the same outcomes. One has all those humans being burned up, the other only man's works are burned up, no humans at all.

 

[Aunty Jane]

Back in Genesis we see that shortly after the faithful conformed to the world that God destroyed the world with a flood. Below we read that Peter says that at the end of our world God will destroy the world by fire.

Fire in the Bible is a symbol of complete destruction, but it is not the world that will be destroyed, but rather as it says in 2 Peter 3:3-7...
"the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly."
So just like Noah's day, it was not a destruction of the world but of the ungodly.

This is also confirmed in Revelation

Revelation 20:7-10
7 When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. 9 They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. 10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

This is a picture of what happens at the end of Christ's 1000 year reign. Satan is released for a short time to test out redeemed mankind. Many of those have not had their faith tested as we have in this "time of the end". They will have been resurrected during that period and given opportunity to learn the truth about God and the redemption offered by his son. This is the final test before God throws satan and his hordes into the "lake of fire", never to be seen again.
Again, it is only the ungodly who will perish.

I believe that the reason that God will destroy the world in our future is the same reason that God destroyed the world in the past when the faithful conform to the world.

In the days of Noah, circumstances warranted the drastic action that God took to rectify the situation. Angelic sons of God had materialized and taken "the daughters of men" and bore children to them. These gigantic freakish humans (Nephilim) were violent and licentious like their demonic fathers. The whole world was influenced by their errant conduct and in order to correct the situation, God caused a global flood that destroyed all the wicked humans and in having nothing above the waters to ground the materialized angels, he forced them back into the spirit realm where he stripped them of their ability to materialize, and kept them in a condition of dark spiritual restraint called "tartarus".

Could we be in the time of satans release as the church is conforming just before God destroys the world by fire as mentioned in the verses of Revelation above?

We are in the "last days" of satan's world...the critical times that Paul spoke about (2 Timothy 3:1-5) and the devil is angry, because his time is getting shorter. Confined now to the vicinity of the earth, he is wreaking havoc wherever he can to cause as much trouble for humanity as he can. (Revelation 12:7-12) His sole aim is to distract and detract from the global preaching of God's Kingdom, as the only hope for peace and security on this earth. (Matthew 24:14) He has humans looking to other failed humans to fix things, but it is impossible....it just keep getting worse by the day...

Why else would God end our world if the gospel is still spreading?

The gospel was to be preached right up to "the end" to give everyone an opportunity to come on board the 'spiritual ark' and survive the end of this wicked world like Noah and his family survived theirs. They followed God's instructions to the letter, and came out of the ark onto a cleansed earth, ready to start again. This is what will happen again in our time, only with more survivors this time, because there will not be a global flood, but a more direct and individual way for God to eliminate the wicked and the disobedient. (Matthew 24:37-42)

Jesus did say that the gates of hell would never overcome the church.

I don't think that means what you think it does. "Hades" is the word for "hell" in that verse and according to the Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew scriptures, "hades" is the Greek equivalent to the Hebrew "sheol" which the Jewish Tanakh translates as "the grave". It means that death will not overpower the church because God will preserve his truth in spite of satan's attempts to build a counterfeit church and fill it with lies. (the wheat and the weeds)

I believe that Jesus will save the faithful church and Judge the world before it fully conforms like He did with Noah.

Jesus will come with his angels to judge all of us.....those he finds "doing the will" of his Father will live....whereas those found making excuses for why they didn't, will perish. (Matthew 7:21-23)
That is what the Bible says to me....

 

[Marty fox]

Back in Genesis we see that shortly after the faithful conformed to the world that God destroyed the world with a flood. Below we read that Peter says that at the end of our world God will destroy the world by fire.

2 Peter 3:3-7
3 Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” 5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water. 6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. 7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

This is also confirmed in Revelation

Revelation 20:7-10
7 When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. 9 They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. 10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

I believe that the reason that God will destroy the world in our future is the same reason that God destroyed the world in the past when the faithful conform to the world.

Could we be in the time of satans release as the church is conforming just before God destroys the world by fire as mentioned in the verses of Revelation above?

Why else would God end our world if the gospel is still spreading?

Jesus did say that the gates of hell would never overcome the church.

I believe that Jesus will save the faithful church and Judge the world before it fully conforms like He did with Noah.

How can you think they are not the same event read them again?

2 Peter 3:7
. 7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

Now look what happens right after the fire in Rev 20:9-14
9 They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. 10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur,where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
The Judgment of the Dead

11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15 Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

Yes the judgement day just like Peter said.

As for the people hiding in rocks and wanting them to fall on them when did Jesus say that would happen?

Luke 23:27-31
27 A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him. 28 Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ 30 Then

“‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!”
and to the hills, “Cover us!”’

31 For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

Jesus said that it would happen in that generation and it did in 70AD

 

[bbyrd009]

the world is passing away is likely not exactly “the world, ending”

 

[GEN2REV]

Fire does not destroy the world in Revelation 20:9. Read it again.

"And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them."

Fire only destroyed those who marched across the earth, nothing else.

The fire of 2 Peter 3 is here in Revelation 6:12-17; the Second Coming:

"And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?"

Notice that no humans were consumed by fire, yet this is the time when all mankind's works are burned up. Heaven dissolves like a scroll being rolled up. All the stars come to earth. The only place to hide are in caves or under all the rubble. Only intense fires all over the earth can cause the sun and moon to appear that way.

"But the day of the Lord will come"

Jesus comes to earth to start the Day of the Lord. That day with the Lord known as the Millennial Reign.

"And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory."

They are hiding out like Revelation 6 declares, not consumed by fire, but mourning. Now back to your so called "second coming" where only humans are consumed by fire, and nothing else. This is two separate and unrelated events. They do not even have the same outcomes. One has all those humans being burned up, the other only man's works are burned up, no humans at all.

The world is destroyed by fire.

Plain as day.

 

[Timtofly]

How can you think they are not the same event read them again?

2 Peter 3:7
. 7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

Now look what happens right after the fire in Rev 20:9-14
9 They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. 10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur,where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
The Judgment of the Dead

11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15 Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

Yes the judgement day just like Peter said.

As for the people hiding in rocks and wanting them to fall on them when did Jesus say that would happen?

Luke 23:27-31
27 A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him. 28 Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ 30 Then

“‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!”
and to the hills, “Cover us!”’

31 For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

Jesus said that it would happen in that generation and it did in 70AD

2 Peter 3:7 is talking about people on earth doing wicked things on earth.

Do you think God cares what people do in sheol? Certainly you don't think sheol is a place of purgatory where sinners are working off their evil deeds from living on earth.

Why would God punish stuff people do in sheol? Sheol is already the place of torment. Doing bad is all they can do. Revelation 20 is not about living people from earth. It is the dead from sheol and Death.

There is a difference between those physically alive and those in sheol, right?

2 Peter 3 is the Second Coming where those on earth are judged for their wickedness. All their works will be burned up. There will be no billionaires or millionaires after the Second Coming. Do you not understand that the works are burned up, not the people?

There are no works nor living people at the GWT. Only the dead from sheol:

"And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works."

They were judged according to their works. Not that their works were burned up.

"the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up."

See no dead people mentioned nor living. Only man's works. No humans are said to be burned up in 2 Peter 3. Not sure how Amil can get away with making stuff up and adding to God's Word. Amil are constantly complaining that is what pre-mill do. In fact you started a thread for lack of 1,000 being mentioned in the Gospels. People burned up is missing as well, even dead people are missing from the OD. Yet Amil have no trouble inserting all that made up stuff to bolster their eschatological bias. The last 1992 years are not mentioned either. 40 years is not even mentioned. Yet many insert those numbers into the OD.

 

[GEN2REV]

Fire in the Bible is a symbol of complete destruction, but it is not the world that will be destroyed, but rather as it says in 2 Peter 3:3-7...
"the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly."
So just like Noah's day, it was not a destruction of the world but of the ungodly.


This is a picture of what happens at the end of Christ's 1000 year reign. Satan is released for a short time to test out redeemed mankind. Many of those have not had their faith tested as we have in this "time of the end". They will have been resurrected during that period and given opportunity to learn the truth about God and the redemption offered by his son. This is the final test before God throws satan and his hordes into the "lake of fire", never to be seen again.
Again, it is only the ungodly who will perish.


In the days of Noah, circumstances warranted the drastic action that God took to rectify the situation. Angelic sons of God had materialized and taken "the daughters of men" and bore children to them. These gigantic freakish humans (Nephilim) were violent and licentious like their demonic fathers. The whole world was influenced by their errant conduct and in order to correct the situation, God caused a global flood that destroyed all the wicked humans and in having nothing above the waters to ground the materialized angels, he forced them back into the spirit realm where he stripped them of their ability to materialize, and kept them in a condition of dark spiritual restraint called "tartarus".


We are in the "last days" of satan's world...the critical times that Paul spoke about (2 Timothy 3:1-5) and the devil is angry, because his time is getting shorter. Confined now to the vicinity of the earth, he is wreaking havoc wherever he can to cause as much trouble for humanity as he can. (Revelation 12:7-12) His sole aim is to distract and detract from the global preaching of God's Kingdom, as the only hope for peace and security on this earth. (Matthew 24:14) He has humans looking to other failed humans to fix things, but it is impossible....it just keep getting worse by the day...


The gospel was to be preached right up to "the end" to give everyone an opportunity to come on board the 'spiritual ark' and survive the end of this wicked world like Noah and his family survived theirs. They followed God's instructions to the letter, and came out of the ark onto a cleansed earth, ready to start again. This is what will happen again in our time, only with more survivors this time, because there will not be a global flood, but a more direct and individual way for God to eliminate the wicked and the disobedient. (Matthew 24:37-42)


I don't think that means what you think it does. "Hades" is the word for "hell" in that verse and according to the Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew scriptures, "hades" is the Greek equivalent to the Hebrew "sheol" which the Jewish Tanakh translates as "the grave". It means that death will not overpower the church because God will preserve his truth in spite of satan's attempts to build a counterfeit church and fill it with lies. (the wheat and the weeds)


Jesus will come with his angels to judge all of us.....those he finds "doing the will" of his Father will live....whereas those found making excuses for why they didn't, will perish. (Matthew 7:21-23)
That is what the Bible says to me....

The world will be destroyed by fire.

The very elements, that everything is made up of, will melt away.

 

[GEN2REV]

the world is passing away is likely not exactly “the world, ending”

It's the world ending and coming to a complete stop on the Day of God's Wrath when it will be utterly destroyed along with all the wicked sinners.

 

[GEN2REV]

How can you think they are not the same event read them again?

They are the same event and there's actually a third rendering of the event found in 1 Corinthians 15:21-27.

They're all the same event at the exact same time.

 

[Timtofly]

The world is destroyed by fire.

Plain as day.

If you are talking about Revelation 20, no. Only humans are consumed by fire.

If you are talking about 2 Peter 3, no. Only the works are burned up. Revelation 19 is not the Second Coming. No fire is mentioned at all.

Keep making stuff up and other Amil will start calling you a pre-mill.

 

[GEN2REV]

Keep making stuff up and other Amil will start calling you a pre-mill.

Because Pre-Mil people are always making things up.

You're right. I'll be careful.

 

[Ronald D Milam]

I believe that the reason that God will destroy the world in our future is the same reason that God destroyed the world in the past when the faithful conform to the world.

Could we be in the time of satans release as the church is conforming just before God destroys the world by fire as mentioned in the verses of Revelation above?

Why else would God end our world if the gospel is still spreading?

Jesus did say that the gates of hell would never overcome the church.

I believe that Jesus will save the faithful church and Judge the world before it fully conforms like He did with Noah.

No, you are reading it all wrong. The Church is Raptured Pre Trib so that can't be the case to start with, but then after the 1000 year reign God lets Satan out of the bottomless pit, he again is able to deceive the nations, and at that same time New Jerusalem has been readied and is descending, I see it more as we GO TO New Jerusalem, just like at the Rapture we go to Heaven, because this Universe/Earth is goin g to be set ablaze.

So, Satan is left in charge of his prize, earth, his followers are left, and the Dead were RAISED at the Second Resurrection, so they are on earth, which is set on fire. Sounds like Hell to me. I believe this earth is set ablaze and Satan is bound by God to this earth, he wins his prize, LOL. But it has nothing to do with the Church conforming to the world. In Genesis there were no faithful per se, the whole world were barbarians, God only ever reached out tp a few men. The problem was the rest of the world became ultra wicked in nature.

Jesus just ruled for 1000 years, the Gospel is not still "Spreading" these people have lived under Jesus Christs reign for 1000 years, they do nit need to be Preached unto, they lived it.

 

[Ronald D Milam]

"And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them."

Fire only destroyed those who marched across the earth, nothing else.

The fire of 2 Peter 3 is here in Revelation 6:12-17; the Second Coming:

This is what is called not being able to put the factoids together. Of course the Fire that destroys the world in Peter's Epistle happens after the 1000 year reign, and is the same one mentioned in Revelation 6. The Holy Spirt doesn't have tp spell everything out to the nth degree else the bible would have been to big to read.

 

[bbyrd009]

It's the world ending and coming to a complete stop on the Day of God's Wrath when it will be utterly destroyed along with all the wicked sinners.

ya, i get that we (are probably being encouraged, even, to) tend to imagine some corporate, mass event there, “Secretly everyone is waiting for the end of the world,” but i suggest that passing away is a diff mechanism than we imagine, and today might be the day
for someone at least

 

[GEN2REV]

ya, i get that we (are probably being encouraged, even, to) tend to imagine some corporate, mass event there, “Secretly everyone is waiting for the end of the world,” but i suggest that passing away is a diff mechanism than we imagine, and today might be the day
for someone at least

What mechanism is this?:

"... the Day of the Lord will come ... in the which ... the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved ..."
2 Peter 3:10-11

What is 'at?

Is 'at more o' dat Hyper Bowl mekanisim at werk 'ere?

 

[ScottA]

Back in Genesis we see that shortly after the faithful conformed to the world that God destroyed the world with a flood. Below we read that Peter says that at the end of our world God will destroy the world by fire.

2 Peter 3:3-7
3 Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” 5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water. 6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. 7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

This is also confirmed in Revelation

Revelation 20:7-10
7 When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. 9 They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. 10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

I believe that the reason that God will destroy the world in our future is the same reason that God destroyed the world in the past when the faithful conform to the world.

Could we be in the time of satans release as the church is conforming just before God destroys the world by fire as mentioned in the verses of Revelation above?

Why else would God end our world if the gospel is still spreading?

Jesus did say that the gates of hell would never overcome the church.

I believe that Jesus will save the faithful church and Judge the world before it fully conforms like He did with Noah.

The purpose of God's creation is salvation for the lost and justice against those who prefer evil.

When "It is finished " then comes the End, whom is Christ.

All this comes during "a time, times, and half a time", which is all of time divided into two different times: the times of Israel and those born of the flesh, and the times of the gentiles and those born of the Spirit.

Then comes the end.

 

[Ronald D Milam]

This is what is called not being able to put the factoids together. Of course the Fire that destroys the world in Peter's Epistle happens after the 1000 year reign, and is the same one mentioned in Revelation 6. The Holy Spirt doesn't have tp spell everything out to the nth degree else the bible would have been to big to read.

Edit, not Rev. 6, but in Rev. 20:9

 

[bbyrd009]

What mechanism is this?:

"... the Day of the Lord will come ... in the which ... the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved ..."
2 Peter 3:10-11

well, we know that will happen in a few billion years i guess, sure

 

[GEN2REV]

well, we know that will happen in a few billion years i guess, sure

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