Will the World End Soon?
1) Direct Answer
Yes and no. The present world system is coming to its end soon, but the earth itself will not be annihilated. The Bible shows an end of the age, a judgment by fire, and then a renewed earth under Jesus Christ’s rule.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Jesus spoke of “the end of the world” as the consummation of the age (Matthew 24:3). He said we would know the season by clear signs: deception, wars, pestilences, earthquakes, and lawlessness; like the days of Noah and Lot—violence, immorality, and perversion (Matthew 24:4–14, 37; Luke 17:26–30). He said, “When you see these things begin to come to pass, look up… your redemption draws near” (Luke 21:25–28).
- No man knows the day or the hour (Matthew 24:36), but we are told to watch and be ready (Matthew 24:42–44; 1 Thessalonians 5:1–6).
- Scoffers will say, “All things continue as they were,” but the Word says the world that once perished by water is now reserved for fire (2 Peter 3:3–7). The elements will melt, and God will bring a new heavens and new earth wherein dwells righteousness (2 Peter 3:10–13).
- Yet the earth itself abides; God laid its foundations so it would not be removed forever (Ecclesiastes 1:4; Psalm 104:5). The “end” is the end of the present order, not the extinction of the planet.
- God once cleansed the world by water in Noah’s day; this time it will be a purification by fire, followed by Christ’s reign and the final renewal (Revelation 19–21; Romans 8:19–23).
- Before the wrath, the true Bride is caught up to meet the Lord (1 Thessalonians 4:16–17). Then come the judgments, and finally the new creation.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- The Bible distinguishes between the end of the age and the endurance of the earth. So the “world” that ends is the present sinful order.
- The signs Jesus gave line up with our day. That tells us the season is near, even if the exact day is unknown.
- God is consistent: water judgment once, fire judgment next; not to annihilate His creation, but to cleanse it and set it back under Christ.
Short reinforcing statement
Now notice, the call is not to calculate dates but to be ready. Repent, be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and receive the Holy Spirit as God’s seal (Acts 2:38; Ephesians 4:30). Walk in the light, watch and pray. The coming of the Lord is at the door.
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Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
The End Time
54-0307A §4
...ry. I believe every Christian is obligated. Now, not so much that you have to go over in the old countries and preach or something. But if you can't go, you can what? Help send somebody else, you see, see. What you do to send somebody else... And did you ever think what Jesus said, about when the disciples asked Him when He would return again? Why, He said... "Show us the sign" that when He would return; He said, "You'll hear of wars and rumors of wars." That'll be all right. "You'll hear of fathers against mothers...
Questions and Answers, Part 1
64-0823M §104
Now, in here, I believe with all my heart I---we are, or this days... If we're not, somebody is; it's got to be. Time has run out; we're at the end! Every ... the world. God made the world in six thousand years, and the seventh thousand He rested. He said a man will never live that time out---a year---or day. "... day you eat thereof, the day you die." Adam---or Methuselah was the oldest man that ever lived in the Bible, and he was 969 years old; and he never lived that thousand years. But the man that's going to l...
Watchman, what of the night?
60-0722 §67
But as soon as Jesus begin to tell them the truth about the gospel, what happened? The seventy went away; the others went away. And Jesus' popularity continually fell, until finally they crucified Him. But His ministry growed deeper and deeper, lasted... Made this bread (as I talked of the other night) and the fish; turned right around and put sockets... A man's eyes with nothing but sockets, put eyeballs in. Now, there was a crowd followed just for the fishes and loaves. They say, "We will see what He does tomorro...
Have faith in God
54-0900 §19
And Thou has said there would be some ... the world would never see You no more, but there would be some that would see You through every age to the end of the world. "A little while and the world seeth Me no more, yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you even in you to the end of the world." We thank Thee, tonight for the 'ye's, and pray that more of the world will become 'ye's.
The Great and Mighty Conqueror
57-0421M §30
His people are having a jubilee. Tens of thousands of them, around the world, are shouting the victory. I have watched this old cold formal church-joining. I can imagine someone saying... I will show you the discord of it. Here, as soon as the First War was over, a message was coming down the road here, come into a Greyhound bus. They said, "What's all the noise? What's it all about?" And one of them said, "Looky here, here's the paper. The war has just ceased." And everybody crying and shouting. But one woman said...