This planet we live on will be dissolved by the Lord's fire in final judgment
There will be a new creation in a Heaven, Earth, Jerusalem, Revelation 21:1-5 this earth has passed away
2 Peter 3:10-13KJV
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which
the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein
the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
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Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Revelation 21:1-5KJV
1 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.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
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.[/QUOTE\]
It's not this planet that will be dissolved by God's final judgement it will be this wicked world of mankind living on the planet that will be dissolved by God's final judgement. The planet itself will continue to exist.
Hundreds of years before John’s day, YHWH God had said to Isaiah: “For here I am creating new heavens and a new earth; and the former things will not be called to mind, neither will they come up into the heart.” (
Isaiah 65:17; 66:22) This prophecy was initially fulfilled when faithful Jews returned to Jerusalem in 537 B.C.E. after their 70-year exile in Babylon. In that restoration, they formed a cleansed society, “a new earth,” under a new governmental system, “new heavens.”
So the expressions, "new earth" and "new heavens doesn't mean God is destroying the physical universe or the planet earth. It means the new earth will be a cleansed society of people on the planet, and the new heaven will mean a new governmental system, which will be the heavenly Messianic Kingdom with Jesus as king and those in that messianic Kingdom who are the humans chosen from among mankind by God who will be kings and judges and priests with Jesus in that heavenly messianic kingdom.
What I find interesting when you quote 2 Peter chapter 3 is you conveniently leave out the fact that Peter was saying that there was a heaven and earth that passed away during the time of Noah at 2 Peter 3:5-7. The heaven and earth that past away during the days of Noah was not the physical universe or the planet earth. This is the same physical universe of Noah's day and the same planet earth he lived on.
