Will be the planet Earth destroyed by Jesus?

[ElieG12]

One idea that heavily influences some believers' interpretation of passages that refer to the future is the idea that planet earth will be destroyed by Jesus when he comes to judge this human system of things that is being run by Satan and his spirits.

BUT: Does the Bible really say that the planet will be destroyed by Jesus at his so-called "second coming"?

 

[ElieG12]

One first question to start thinking rationally about the topic:

The dead that will come out of their graves according to Jesus here:

John 5:28 Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, and those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment.

... Will they "come out of their graves" in the Kingdom of Christ, on the planet? Or else, when and where?

 

[ElieG12]

Jehovah's Witnesses go very deep in our study of the inspired Scriptures, because they help us correctly understand the truth on many matters. That is the reason why God has blessed us with his holy spirit, and he has sent us to teach the world (Rom. 10:13-15).

Perhaps in your study of the Bible you have not realized one of the things that will happen when the current system of things is judged. But we have ... and I am going to share it with you so that you understand that the planet earthwill not be destroyed by Jesus as some people who are in error may have told you:

Rev. 11:18 But the nations became wrathful, and your own wrath came, and the appointed time came for the dead to be judged and to reward your slaves the prophets and the holy ones and those fearing your name, the small and the great, and to bring to ruin those ruining the earth.

The Greek word used here for the planet EARTH is γῆ.

If you meditate on the details of that Biblical text, you will understand why the Bible cannot really be said to teach that the earth will be destroyed by Jesus. Just express the idea to yourself in your own mind, and convince yourself of what the Bible really teaches about the future of this planet and its future inhabitants.

 

[Tommy Cool]

Revamped or overhaled might be a better word

 

[rwb]

Jehovah's Witnesses go very deep in our study of the inspired Scriptures, because they help us correctly understand the truth on many matters. That is the reason why God has blessed us with his holy spirit, and he has sent us to teach the world (Rom. 10:13-15).

Perhaps in your study of the Bible you have not realized one of the things that will happen when the current system of things is judged. But we have ... and I am going to share it with you so that you understand that the planet earthwill not be destroyed by Jesus as some people who are in error may have told you:

Rev. 11:18 But the nations became wrathful, and your own wrath came, and the appointed time came for the dead to be judged and to reward your slaves the prophets and the holy ones and those fearing your name, the small and the great, and to bring to ruin those ruining the earth.

The Greek word used here for the planet EARTH is γῆ.

If you meditate on the details of that Biblical text, you will understand why the Bible cannot really be said to teach that the earth will be destroyed by Jesus. Just express the idea to yourself in your own mind, and convince yourself of what the Bible really teaches about the future of this planet and its future inhabitants.

Who are Jehovah's Witnesses that we should pay any attention to anything you teach as biblical? How can JW's possibly know the things of God that must be spiritually discerned. As I've said already JW's have no Saviour because you deny the deity of Christ. If Christ is not God you cannot have His Spirit in you to teach you the things of God. If God has blessed you with the Holy Spirit as you say He has, why do you deny that Jesus Christ is God?

The book of Romans doesn't help you! How can you call upon the name of the Lord to be saved, since only God can save man? You say you have truth and ability to teach of Him whom you have NOT believed! You don't preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things, you come with false doctrine denying Christ our Lord and Saviour is God. Why would your preaching the gospel be of peace and glad tidings, for your doctrine has not a Saviour?

Romans 10:12-15 (KJV) For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

 

[ElieG12]

Among all the good promises of God on earth converted into a paradise where human beings who have been approved by God and his Son will be able to live forever, we have these:

Mat. 5:5 Happy are the mild-tempered, since they will inherit the earth.

Psal. 37:10 Just a little while longer, and the wicked will be no more;
You will look at where they were,
And they will not be there.
11 But the meek will possess the earth,
And they will find exquisite delight in the abundance of peace.
(...)
29 The righteous will possess the earth,
And they will live forever on it.

Prov. 2:20 So follow the way of good people
And stay on the paths of the righteous,
21 For only the upright will reside in the earth,
And the blameless will remain in it.
22 As for the wicked, they will be cut off from the earth,
And the treacherous will be torn away from it.

It is not necessary to be a scientist to realize that the Earth turned into a paradise is the promise that Jehovah has given to humanity in general. Some confused believers have not realized that biblical truth. Think about this passage:

Rev. 21:3 With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: “Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his people. And God himself will be with them. 4 And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”

Where are tears, outcry, pain, death? In heaven or on earth? So then: where will these changes occur?

When Jehovah's Witnesses show those confused believers God's words on the matter with the Scriptures, many are amazed at these Biblical truths because no one had taught them before.

 

[rwb]

Among all the good promises of God on earth converted into a paradise where human beings who have been approved by God and his Son will be able to live forever, we have these:

Mat. 5:5 Happy are the mild-tempered, since they will inherit the earth.

Psal. 37:10 Just a little while longer, and the wicked will be no more;
You will look at where they were,
And they will not be there.
11 But the meek will possess the earth,
And they will find exquisite delight in the abundance of peace.
(...)
29 The righteous will possess the earth,
And they will live forever on it.

Prov. 2:20 So follow the way of good people
And stay on the paths of the righteous,
21 For only the upright will reside in the earth,
And the blameless will remain in it.
22 As for the wicked, they will be cut off from the earth,
And the treacherous will be torn away from it.

It is not necessary to be a scientist to realize that the Earth turned into a paradise is the promise that Jehovah has given to humanity in general. Some confused believers have not realized that biblical truth. Think about this passage:

Rev. 21:3 With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: “Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his people. And God himself will be with them. 4 And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”

Where are tears, outcry, pain, death? In heaven or on earth? So then: where will these changes occur?

When Jehovah's Witnesses show those confused believers God's words on the matter with the Scriptures, many are amazed at these Biblical truths because no one had taught them before.

When will the tabernacle of God be with man? Will it be on this earth, that is destined to fiery destruction, or on the new earth after this first earth has passed away?

Revelation 21:1-2 (KJV) And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

 

[ElieG12]

Many people believe that this planet will be destroyed, and that God will create a new planet to put there the people he saved from the old planet Earth ... kind of EARTH2 .

Where does the Bible teach that?

Jehovah's Witnesses know that the phrases "new heavens and new earth" and "destruction of the world" do not mean that the planet will be destroyed.

When Jehovah promised "new heavens and a new earth" to the Israelites, he was not saying that he was going to destroy the land where they lived, but that he was going to make it rest the sabbath rests that they had not given it with their bad behavior, but then, later, he would inhabit it with new population and with a new government (new heavens and new earth)...

Is. 65:17 For look! I am creating new heavens and a new earth;
And the former things will not be called to mind,
Nor will they come up into the heart.
18 So exult and be joyful forever in what I am creating.
For look! I am creating Jerusalem a cause for joy
And her people a cause for exultation.

That was fulfilled after 70 years of exile in Babylon. But the land was never destroyed; but they came back to it.

2 Chorn. 36:20 He carried off captive to Babylon those who escaped the sword, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia began to reign, 21 to fulfill Jehovah’s word spoken by Jeremiah, until the land had paid off its sabbaths. All the days it lay desolate it kept sabbath, to fulfill 70 years.

About the "destruction of this world", Peter said:

2 Pet. 2:4 Certainly if God did not hold back from punishing the angels that sinned, but, by throwing them into Tarʹta·rus, delivered them to pits of dense darkness to be reserved for judgment; 5 and he did not hold back from punishing an ancient world, but kept Noah, a preacher of righteousness, safe with seven others when he brought a deluge upon a world of ungodly people
... 3:5 For, according to their wish, this fact escapes their notice, that there were heavens from of old and an earth standing compactly out of water and in the midst of water by the word of God; 6 and by those [means] the world of that time suffered destruction when it was deluged with water. 7 But by the same word the heavens and the earth that are now are stored up for fire and are being reserved to the day of judgment and of destruction of the ungodly men.

So although the planet suffers some effects, in reality God's punishment is on the wicked men, while he protects the righteous so that they survive. If you were the owner of a house, and the tenants you rent it to destroy it, what do you do? Do you destroy the house, or do you expel the tenants and repair the house to rent it out to better people?

Hasn't the earth been fixed by the laws that God put on it, every time that man has ruined it? How is it that the Bible says that God is going to ruin the people who are ruining the planet and humanity, and at the same time he himself is going to finish destroying it?

Rev. 11:18 But the nations became wrathful, and your own wrath came, and the appointed time came for the dead to be judged and to reward your slaves the prophets and the holy ones and those fearing your name, the small and the great, and to bring to ruin those ruining the earth.

Meditate on the Scriptures and use logic from what they say. There are many people who cannot reason correctly... but if you, the reader, can, do not let someone who does not reason properly tell you what to believe.

 

[Bob Estey]

One idea that heavily influences some believers' interpretation of passages that refer to the future is the idea that planet earth will be destroyed by Jesus when he comes to judge this human system of things that is being run by Satan and his spirits.

BUT: Does the Bible really say that the planet will be destroyed by Jesus at his so-called "second coming"?

I'm not aware that it does, and I haven't heard it said that he will.

 

[MatthewG]

No @ElieG12

If God destroyed this planet

No one would be able to enter into the kingdom of God

And Jesus words would never last forever

 

[Davy]

No, Lord Jesus is not... going to literally destroy this earth into some asteroid belt on the day of His future coming. God's consuming fire will simply destroy man's works off the surface of this earth, just as God did with the flood of Noah's day.

We easily... know this because of so many Bible Scriptures showing future events upon this earth after... Jesus' future return. Even the Zechariah 14 chapter reveals events on earth after Jesus returns to the Mount of Olives east of Jerusalem, on earth, as written there.

And one does not... have to be Jehovah's Witness member to understand those Bible Scripture evidences. So no stupid denominational arguments please, stick to God's Word as written.

 

[Johann]

As I've said already JW's have no Saviour because you deny the deity of Christ. If Christ is not God you cannot have His Spirit in you to teach you the things of God. If God has blessed you with the Holy Spirit as you say He has, why do you deny that Jesus Christ is God?

Very quick to judge-aren't you?
Are you doing what stands written in Scriptures?

 

[DJT_47]

One idea that heavily influences some believers' interpretation of passages that refer to the future is the idea that planet earth will be destroyed by Jesus when he comes to judge this human system of things that is being run by Satan and his spirits.

BUT: Does the Bible really say that the planet will be destroyed by Jesus at his so-called "second

Ephesians 3:21

“Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.”

Rev 21:5

“And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.”

 

[gpresdo]

Remember His kingdom will be here on earth. A cleansed earth by fire .....the Bible says.

 

[Ronald Nolette]

One idea that heavily influences some believers' interpretation of passages that refer to the future is the idea that planet earth will be destroyed by Jesus when he comes to judge this human system of things that is being run by Satan and his spirits.

BUT: Does the Bible really say that the planet will be destroyed by Jesus at his so-called "second coming"?

The Bible says it will not be. Much of the surface of the earth will be devastated by the tribulation. when Jesus comes, after He judges the nations, He will restore most of the surface to an Eden like state for the 1,000 year kingdom. It is after this kingdom that God destroys the current creation and makes it new.

 

[Meditation]

When will the tabernacle of God be with man? Will it be on this earth, that is destined to fiery destruction, or on the new earth after this first earth has passed away?

Revelation 21:1-2 (KJV) And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

So, Heaven passes away? Where will the Trinity and angels GO?

 

[Ronald Nolette]

So, Heaven passes away? Where will the Trinity and angels GO?

God existed for eternity before He created the material universe. He does not need the material heavens for a habitation.

 

[Meditation]