WHY WILL GOD DESTROY THE EARTH AND HEAVENS?

Jack Van Impe agrees that the earth will be destroyed-but not forever. Like most evangelical Christians, he believes that the earth will be destroyed by fire to cleanse the earth of evil. He goes on to say that when Christ returns to get our bodies, we are going to have bodies and spirits united again for the reign on earth.

Scripture tells us that the earth will be restored. It will be the New Heaven.

Believer’s Bible Commentary explains WHY God will destroy the Earth. We are born in sin as a result of the sins of Adam, and since then the Earth and the first and second Heaven reek with sin. Not so for the third Heaven where God rules.

Why is the second Heaven destroyed?  Because Satan and the demons dwell there. Ephesians 6:12 reads, “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”

Many Bible scholars believe that the words, “principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, and spiritual hosts of wickedness” are referring to some of Satan’s higher-ranking demons who are in these 2nd heaven positions. The reason they believe this is due to the last four words – “in the heavenly places.”