Where will the earth end according to the Bible?

Answer 1

The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved at Judgement Day - Psalms 75:2,3.

The elements burning with heat shall be dissolved with the heavens and the earth and its works in it, all will melt and dissolve - 2 Peter 3:10,11,12.

Answer 2

Human kind came to be in the Middle East in the southern part of Turkey near the middle eastern rivers near the fertile crescent. The earth will ironically end in the middle east according to scripture.

Answer 3

Contrary to popular beliefs by the various world religions [including most of the hundreds of denominations of modern professing Christianity]... The Bible speaks of "the end of the AGE"... not the world or the end of life on planet earth. That is, it provides evidence of "the end of a God-allotted period of time" that He's given to man. An allotted time dispensation that is even now [still going... and] running down to its "last or final days."

This "end" to which the Bible refers is the end, or completion, of the plan of God, of which so few people seem to be aware.

The Bible does prophesy of the time at the "end of the age" called "The Day of the LORD" [when Christ will return to earth, to remove man's governments; and to rule over it for a thousand years with His saints - see Rev.20:4-6]. It's conclusion will be punctuated by "Judgment Day" -- the "Last Great Day" of God's 7000-year plan of Salvation for His creation, man

[the 6000 year, six-day work-week allotted to man, to do his generations of wicked deeds as he experiences life for the first time and learns its "ins and outs" -- learns about "good and evil." Hopefully, where man learns to "choose" the good and "reject" the evil. At the end of which will follow Christ's return and His thousand-year, Sabbath Day of man's "rest from all his sins," and wicked, Godless ways {with the influences of Satan and his demons in the spirit realm removed}. It will be a total of a 7000-year, 7-day week... the Perfect Plan of God... in which time, God plans for each of His future Immortal Children to have developed their own unique characters and personalities].

In that Last Great Day of God's plan, the Bible reveals that the earth will be "completely consumed by fire" [which will certainly result in "TEOTWAWKI"... a modern day acronym for "The end of the world as we know it." But that that fire will cleanse the earth of all its present impurities [which is one of the amazing properties of fire]. It will remove all the impurities from the rarest, most valuable metals like gold and silver... which will only increase their value. All of planet earth, which has been soaking up all the blood of men throughout his generations will be reduced to ashes, and cleansed... and all the sand that covers most of planet earth lying in its oceans' shores and in the ocean depths, will be super-heated to the consistency of "glass"... in the aftermath of the evaporation of the oceans themselves!

This TEMPORARY "end of planet earth" on Judgment Day, at the end of God's plan, will result in a "SECOND REFURBISHING[or creation] OF THE EARTH" as God did in Genesis 1 & 2. Not the "permanent end of the earth," but a NEW BEGINNING!

"Then I saw a NEW HEAVEN and a NEW EARTH, for the old heaven and the old earth had DISAPPEARED. And THE SEA WAS ALSO GONE [totally evaporated]! (Rev.21:1 NLT New Living Translation)

It's at this time that God reveals that "He has a whole new beginning"... and plan... up His sleeve for His Newly-born Family of God: the All-Powerful, Immortal, Divine CHILDREN OF THEIR FATHER!

"Then He who was seated on the throne said, 'I AM RE-CREATING ALL THINGS.' And He added, 'Write down these Words, for THEY ARE TRUSTWORTHY and TRUE.' ... 'To those who are thirsty [for His Holy Spirit of Truth and Life] I will give the privilege of drinking from the Well of the Water of Life without payment. All this shall be the heritage of him who overcomes [the wicked pulls of the flesh and the world; overcome and defeated through Christ], and I WILL BE HIS GOD and he shall be ONE OF MY SONS!'" (Rev.21:5-7 WEY Weymouth's New Testament)

"The Holy Spirit... bears witness, along with our own spirits, TO THE FACT that WE ARE CHILDREN OF GOD; and if Children, then Heirs, too -- Heirs of God and CO-HEIRS WITH CHRIST; if indeed we are sharers in Christ's sufferings [thus, the 'overcoming'], in order that we may also be sharers in His Glory. Why, what we now suffer I count as nothing in comparison with the Glory which is soon to be manifested in us. For all creation, gazing eagerly as if with outstretched neck, is waiting and longing to see the THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SONS OF GOD. For the creation fell into subjection to failure and unreality [vanity] (not of its own choice, but by the will of Him who so subjected it). Yet there was ALWAYS THE HOPE that at last the creation itself would also be set free from the thraldom of decay so as to enjoy the liberty that will attend the Glory of the Children of God. For we know that the whole of creation is groaning together in the PAINS OF CHILDBIRTH until this hour." (Rom.8:16-22 WEY)

Man's physical birth is the "conclusion" of his struggle to be born. But that "conclusion" resulted in a "new beginning." And so are the "struggles" of this life we're living on planet earth -- learning how to live successfully, morally, Righteously, in accordance with the Laws of God... learning about the evils of life, and how to overcome it all in Christ -- coming to a "second conclusion" as we all approach our SECOND BIRTH!

The world isn't going to COME TO AN END... it's going TO UNDERGO A CHANGE! The change that takes place at childbirth. The birth of the Children of the Immortal Family of God -- whom God Himself shall DELIVER!

Jesus tells us that the world WOULD END... if God allows mankind to continue on his present wicked path. But God WON'T ALLOW IT!

"For that will be a time of Greater Horror [Great Tribulation] than anything the world has ever seen or will ever see again. In fact, unless that time of calamity is shortened, THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE WILL BE DESTROYED. But IT WILL BE SHORTENED for the sake of God's Chosen Ones." (Matt.24:21-22 NLT)

The Bible reveals that the world is NOT going to end. GOD WON'T ALLOW IT! The world is going to be "changed"... along with mankind:

"...'Let me tell you a wonderful secret God has revealed to us. Not all of us will die, but WE WILL ALL BE TRANSFORMED. It will happen in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, when the Last Trumpet is blown... For our perishable earthly bodies must be transformed into heavenly bodies that will NEVER DIE." (I Cor.15:51-53 NLT)

God made man to LIVE FOREVER... and He made the earth, to LAST FOREVER. After our change takes place... and after the change that the world will undergo happens.

"For the LORD is God, and He created the heavens and earth and put everything in place. He MADE THE WORLD TO BE LIVED IN, not to be a place of empty chaos..." (Isa.45:18 NLT)

"...we are looking forward to the NEW HEAVENS and NEW EARTH HE HAS PROMISED, a world where EVERYONE IS RIGHT WITH GOD." (II Peter 3:13 NLT)

Answer 4

A couple of things come to mind. One is, that it's mankind, who is in bondage to the god of this world [worshiping and obeying him since the Garden of Eden], is who is destroying the world.

The Bible reveals that it's Satan, whom man worships, who OWNS THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD!

"...the Devil took Him [Jesus] up and revealed to Him ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD in a moment of time. The Devil told Him, 'I will give you the glory of these kingdoms and authority over them - because THEY ARE MINE TO GIVE TO ANYONE I PLEASE." (Luke 4:5-6 NLT New Living Translation)

It's Satan, through spiritually blinded and deceived mankind, who is at work DESTROYING EVERYTHING GOD HAS MADE... including the earth and mankind [if he could].

We're even told that at the end of the allotted time of man's rule on the earth... Satan will appoint two men [the Beast and the False Prophet] to lead a concentrated government-sponsored pogrom against God's servants at work on the earth:

"...the Dragon [Satan - see Rev.12:9] gave him his own power and throne and great authority... Then the Beast was allowed to speak great blasphemies against God. And he was given authority to do what he wanted for forty-two months [3 1/2 years]." (Rev.13:2-5 NLT)

"...the Beast was allowed to wage war against God's holy people and to overcome them. And he was given authority to rule over every tribe and people and language and nation. And all the people who BELONG TO THIS WORLD worshiped the Beast... Anyone who is willing to hear should listen and understand." (verses 7-9)

Jesus, Himself, reveals that the day is coming when God will have to shorten the last days of intense, unprecedented global distress [Great Tribulation]:

"In fact, unless that time of calamity is shortened, THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE WILL BE DESTROYED. But it will be shortened for the sake of God's chosen ones." (Matt.24:22 NLT)

The Bible tells us that the REASON Jesus is returning to the earth is to STOP THE DESTRUCTION OF MANKIND AND THE EARTH!

"...'The whole world has now become the Kingdom of our LORD and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever' ... We give thanks to you, LORD God Almighty, the One who IS and who ALWAYS WAS, for now you have assumed your Great Power and have begun to reign. The nations were angry with you, but now the time of your Wrath has come. It is time to Judge the dead and reward your servants. You will reward your prophets and your holy people, all who fear your name, from the least to the greatest. And YOU WILL DESTROY ALL WHO HAVE CAUSED DESTRUCTION ON THE EARTH." (Rev.11:15-18 NLT)

That is "one" of the things that comes to mind. The other thing occurs on the day of Judgment... when the Lake of Fire will consume the wicked who have embraced the iniquity of this world's god... and the god of this world and all of his demons, in utter disembodied torment, will see all their work "go up in flames! "

"...And death and the grave were thrown into the Lake of Fire. This is the Second Death. And anyone whose name was not found recorded in the Book of Life was thrown into the Lake of Fire." (Rev.20:14-15 NLT)

Then, we discover in the very next verse of the originally inspired manuscript... unfettered by the translators' "chapters and verses":

"Then I saw a NEW HEAVEN and a NEW EARTH, for the old heaven and the old earth had DISAPPEARED. And the sea was also gone." (Rev.21:1 NLT)

Jesus and Peter tell us that this earth is being held in reserve for a SECOND FLOOD! Not a flood of WATER... but of FIRE!

Jesus says:

"When the Son of Man returns, it will be like it was in NOAH'S DAY... People didn't realize what was going to happen until the Flood came and swept them all away. That is the way it will be when the Son of man comes." (Matt.24:37-39 NLT)

Peter says:

"This will be their argument: 'Jesus promised to come back, did He? Then where is He? Why, as far back as anyone can remember, everything has remained exactly the same since the world was first created [evolved]. They deliberately forget that God made the heavens by the Word of His Command, and He brought the earth up from the water and surrounded it with water. Then He used the water TO DESTROY the world with a mighty flood.

"And God has also commanded that the HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WILL BE CONSUMED BY FIRE ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, when the ungodly people will perish... The LORD isn't really being slow about His promise to return, as some people think. No, He is being patient for your sake... But the Day of the LORD will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and EVERYTHING IN THEM WILL DISAPPEAR IN FIRE, and the earth and everything on it will be exposed to JUDGMENT. Since everything around us is going to MELT AWAY, what holy, Godly lives should you be living! You should look forward to that Day and hurry it along - the Day when God will SET THE HEAVENS ON FIRE and the elements will melt away in the flames.

"But we are looking forward to the NEW HEAVENS and NEW EARTH He has promised, a world where EVERYONE [who is left, following Judgment Day] IS RIGHT WITH GOD. And remember, the LORD is waiting so that people have time to be saved..." (II Peter 2:4-15 NLT).

This "destruction of the earth by the hand of God" will result in that which fire does best: it DESTROYS ALL THE IMPURITIES IN EVERYTHING. The gold and silver and every precious metal in the earth will be made 100% PURE... PERFECT! All of the water on the old earth will EVAPORATE... and all the "sand" on the former seashores and on the sea bottoms around the world will become PURE GLASS!

God's "destruction of the earth" will result in a "New Earth" and a "New Beginning." The end of God's "old plan"... and the beginning of ETERNITY for the Newly born Family of God:

"...'LOOK, I AM MAKING ALL THINGS NEW! ' ...for what I tell you is Trustworthy and True.' ...All who are victorious [who overcome - KJV] will inherit all these blessings, and I will be their God, and THEY WILL BE MY CHILDREN." (Rev.21:5-7 NLT)

Those are a couple of things the Bible says about the destruction of the earth.

Answer 5

Mark's Gospel mentions the end times at least twice, at verse 9:1 and in chapter 13, with Jesus telling his listeners that they would live to see him return in clouds of glory, within their own lifetimes. Mark does not describe total destruction of the entire world, but does say that the sun and moon would be darkened and the stars would fall down. This did not happen as prophesied, so the later gospels emphasised that no one knows when the end will be.