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.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
53-0215 §11
...we pray. Our Heavenly Father, we have gathered here tonight in the name of Thy beloved Son Jesus, for no other purpose but to glorify Thee. Now, I ask that Your mercy be extended to all of us. We thank Thee for Him who was so lovely to come to the earth, and to remember we poor, alienated Gentiles---cut off, without hope, without mercy. In the world, dead in sin and trespasses, without God, without Christ, going to a sinner's grave, a devil's hell. And Christ came and took our place, taking upon Him the form of a m...
The End Time
54-0307A §37
They can explode one in Reno or somewhere out in Nevada, burst up a little grenade, like that. But what when this wicked enemy we got will break one here, and one there, and those chains of relays will get together, then what will happen? Let the war start. Then, I heard on the radio the other day that the biggest part of scientists of the world give the world ten years to total annihilation. That's not Scripturally speaking; that's scientifically speaking. Ten years for total annihilation. That won't contradict th...
From the beginning it wasn't so
59-1125 §53
"Yet a little while and the world," listen to this, "and the world sees me no more; yet ye shall see me." Now, watch. World, cosmos, means "the world order." "The world will see me no more." Now, if you're of the world, loving the things of the world better than you love the Word of God and Christ, then you'll never see Him no more. Is that right? Yet you may be religious, might belong to a church. "The world will see me no more; yet ye shall see me," that's the church, "for I (I is a personal pronoun; that right?)...
The End-time Evangelism
62-0603 §25
Now we are thinking of evangelism at the end time. And anyone that could read a newspaper, and could read... The sky is black and darkening, and the clouds coming up, and know that we're fixing to have rain, and feel it in the air, and see the great streaks in the far distance and the flash and the pushing of the wind, knows we're going to have a storm, going to be rain pretty soon. Anyone can read a newspaper and see the conditions of the nation, nations, realize that something's fixing to happen. When you see one...
The Expectations
58-0508 §71
...r presence, O eternal God, give to them peace of heart. Speak to them. Give them experiences as You did in the Bible days, for it is truly Bible days are here again, at the end of this Gentile age. Soon we are looking for Jesus to come. Don't know just when it will be, till when the whole world will go into powder from an atomic bomb or some attack that has been prophesied by the prophets thousands of years ago, that the world would rock and burn with fervent heat.