Expert: Patricia Burns - 4/3/2005

Question
assuming you are a pre millenialist how will there be a thousand year reign if the earth will be burned with fire when jesus comes back 2 peter 3  

Answer
Hello Byron:  

Thank you for your question.

The heavens pass away and the earth also (Re.20:11, Dan.2:35, 2 Pe.3:10-13 below) AFTER the Millennium and AFTER the battle of Gog and Magog (Re.20:7-9 below).

Re.20:7   And WHEN THE THOUSAND YEARS ARE EXPIRED, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison (Re..20:2-3),

Re.20:8   And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, TO GATHER THEM (the nations) TOGETHER TO BATTLE: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

Re.20:9   And they went up on the breadth of the EARTH, and compassed the CAMP of the saints about, and  the beloved city (Jerusalem): and  fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

Re.20:11   And I saw a great white throne (Re.7:10), and him that sat on it, from whose face THE EARTH AND THE HEAVEN FLED AWAY; and there was found no place for them (Dan.2:35, 2 Pe.3:10-13 below).

Dan.2:35   Then was the IRON, the CLAY, the BRASS, the SILVER, and the GOLD, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, THAT NO PLACE WAS FOUND FOR THEM: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth (Re.21:1 below).

2 Pe.3:10   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 (Re.20:11, Dan.2:35).

2 Pe.3:11   Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

2 Pe.3:12   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 fervant heat.

2 Pe.3:13   Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for NEW HEAVENS and A NEW EARTH (Re.21:1, Isa.65:17 below), wherein dwelleth righteousness.

  
A NEW Heaven and a NEW Earth and No More Sea -

Re.21:1   And I saw a NEW heaven and a NEW earth (Isa.65:17 below, Re.21:5): for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away (Re.20:11, Dan.2:35, 2 Pe.3:10 above); and THERE WAS NO MORE SEA (Dan.7:3, Dan.7:17, Isa.66:24).

Isa. 65:17   For, behold, I create NEW heavens and a NEW earth (Re.21:1 above): and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.



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