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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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
Watching His Star
59-0411E §27
...the answer to these signs and wonders, the Word of God's got the answer. If your pastor hasn't got the answer, God's Word's got the answer. If you're hungering for it, God will show it to you in the Word. God keeps His Word. And as soon as they found out the place where that this was to take place, they left the city and the council sitting, thinking what would they do. They'd have to get rid of this. This couldn't get breezed around amongst the people. They'd have to stop this, because it would break up their tra...
The End-time Sign Seed
62-0319 §53
...hat the work would have to be cut short (the scriptures cannot lie) for the elected's sake---for the elected's sake---or there'd be no flesh saved. Then we see we're at the end-time. The seventh is the Sabbath, which is the millennium. That's the ... that will take place during that time---the millennium reign. Now. But the six days is fulfilled. Man has got in his hand right now a weapon that he can destroy himself. He can destroy the world, could blow the world into bits in one second. He can shoot a man into orb...
The End-time Sign Seed
62-0319 §52
Now, the first two thousand years the world cosmos (order of world) come to its end, and God had to send something---the judgments from heaven---and judge the earth in judgment, and save the righteous Noah and his family. The second two thousand years, the same thing taken place again. Cosmos, world order, even the church was polluted. The days of Noah, they mocked and made fun of him, and he preached 120 years in the door of the ark. And in the second thousand years the church went into captivity, committed whored...
Fellowship through the reconciliation of the blood
55-0605 §55
He's made everything, pointed everything up to this great time. In the end time, where we're living now, when the shadows are falling... Just think, a few weeks ago... The church has been preaching for years that the Lord was coming; the end time was in sight. Everything ... everything that I know of as a minister of the Gospel is pointing to the end time. We're right now at the end. The great pyramid... You who study that.) points to the end time (the one that Enoch made). The zodiac: It's started off with a virgi...
The door of the door
57-1212 §31
...ht of the revival---a hundred and fifty people in the audience. Do you know, I wonder, what should happen if our eyes could see what our Lord did last night? To see what He will do any night? Each Christian should be so zealous and so full of fire of God, his eyes open to see the coming of the Lord; for these are signs and mileposts of His soon appearing. And we see it. And the Gentile world is just about at the end. And we see those things, and we yawn, and pat our mouth, and go to sleep and, "Why did he preach so...