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.
Questions and Answers (God being misunderstood)
61-0723E §38
...brews 6, "Thorns and thistles. The rain cometh oft upon the earth to water it, to dress it [see], for its fruit. But thorns and thistles which is nigh unto rejection, whose end is to be burned, to be gathered and burned." I couldn't get nothing out of that. I thought, "Well, thorns and thistles will be burned, when God takes His wheat to the garner. That settles it, so I don't see nothing about that." I was sitting there, I was looking out like that, and a vision came before me. And I seen a world turning like this...
The healing of Jairus' daughter
55-0227E §66
If that was Jesus yesterday, that's Jesus today. Now, what did He say about it when He went? He said, "A little while, and the world will see Me no more." "The world," the unbeliever, "will see Me no more: yet you shall see Me," ye, "for I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world." How long will it be? "To the end of the world," not by the apostle's age, "to the end of the world." Is that right? The Scripture says, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." Jesus said, "Now, these things that I do...
El-Shaddai
59-0416 §64
...the days of Noah," blasphemers and so forth, and "as it was in the days of Sodom..." Sodom is when the fire fell. Fire's going to fall this time. Not water, fire. The fire will fall from heavens, the Bible said so. Those volcanic gasses that's up there... Some of these days, they're going to push one of them missiles through there; it's going to set a chain around like that, perhaps, and that's the way it'll come. It's at hand. We know it can't be much longer. Science says three minutes longer before midnight. The...
Escape hither, come quickly
58-0202 §13
But the oncoming judgments, the world is feeling it. The newspapers... And I've heard that in the Pentagon, I don't know, but they say that they don't know what to do. Well, there's only one book can direct you on what to do, and that's God's Bible. That's the only thing that can tell you what to do: that's lift up your head, look up. There's no way of escape. It's already come into the hands of men that they can destroy this world in an hour if they want to. What would hinder Russia this afternoon, some of those l...
Questions and Answers, Part 2
64-0823E §70
QUESTION: Brother Branham, will there be any children born during the millennium---thousand years---millennium, one thousand years reign of Christ here on earth? Or will there be any sign on earth---any sin (pardon me) on earth during that time; and will there be people on earth in corporal bodies during that time? I'll try to just run through them right quick. Now, in Genesis the 6th chapter, 12th verse, God said all flesh had corrupted... Yeah, that was marriage, divorce, and everything else. The Bible said, "As...