A Question for All. - No. 7 - "How Will the World End?"

From: The Beacon Light By: Unknown Author

• 2 min. read • grade level: 6

The end of the world is a matter often spoken about, and some are wondering when it will take place. "The world" as it is—the " present evil world "—may very soon come to an end. I do not mean the earth, but man's busy world with all that is in it. Satan, the devil, is the god of this world, and he gives all kinds of pleasures—the " pleasures of sin "—to keep man away from God.

The Lord Jesus was not of this world, as He has told us, and He is going to bring in another kind of world which will be perfect. No sin will be in it. It is called " the world to come." This He will do when He comes again.

The rulers of this present world crucified Jesus, so the world, with its pleasures, commerce, and governments, are to end, and the Lord Jesus is to reign here. The world is to end in judgment. " The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ."1 " The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night."2 Satan will then be bound and Jesus will reign a thousand years.3 All things shall be placed under Him.4

After it has been shown how happy it is to have the Lord Jesus as King, Satan will be allowed once more to test men, some of whom will listen to him. Such is man's foolish heart! but God will bring judgment on them.5 After this "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." He who created the present heavens and earth will remove them; indeed He will change them and there will be a "new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness."6

M. W. B.

1. Thess. 1:7, 8

2. 1 Thess. 5:2²For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. (1 Thessalonians 5:2)

3. Rev. 20:2-4²And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, ³And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. ⁴And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (Revelation 20:2‑4)

4. Heb. 2:6-9⁶But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? ⁷Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honor, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: ⁸Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. ⁹But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. (Hebrews 2:6‑9)

5. Rev. 20:7-9⁷And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, ⁸And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. ⁹And 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. (Revelation 20:7‑9)

6. 2 Peter 3:10-13¹⁰But 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. ¹¹Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, ¹²Looking 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? ¹³Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. (2 Peter 3:10‑13)

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