Best of Archive Series – Is the Second Coming of Christ the End of the World?

New American Prophet ^ | March 30, 2025 | Michael Bresciani

[Rev M. Bresciani]

With tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, wars, and calamities of all sorts occurring with ever greater frequency throughout the earth, many people fear the end of the world may be near. Are they right? The answer may surprise you.

[Larry Lucido]

(Excerpt) Read more at

I am sure it will provide clickbait for your blog in any event.

[Red Badger]

No, it is the beginning of a New One!......................

[Big Red Badger]

and I saw A New Jerusalem ..
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[Big Red Badger]

Revelation 21
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Thank You Jesus
Glory to God in The Highest!

[Ken Regis]

No.

[thepoodlebites]

What will end: Islands and mountains as we know them today.
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What if Christ returns with his angels, destroys the Earth, then restores it to a pristine state?

[sasportas]

Just like in the days of Noah, the earth will be judged, renovated, purged of its evil.

“... the earth which he hath established for ever.” Psalm 78:69.

[grumpa]

THE BIBLICAL LAST DAYS: As Defined by Scripture

by Charles Meek

In the New Testament, there are 19 primary texts about the last days/end times (or end of the age). The writers of the New Testament spoke with one voice that THEY were living in the last days. Contrary to popular opinion, the setting and fulfillment of the last days can only be placed within the first century! Here are seven passages, which one can ignore, futurize, or try to explain away―but you cannot do that and deal honestly with the text:

• “The appointed time has grown VERY SHORT. . . . For the present form of the world IS PASSING AWAY.” (Apostle Paul, 1 Corinthians 7:29-31)

• “Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, ON WHOM THE END OF THE AGES HAS COME.” (Apostle Paul, 1 Corinthians 10:11)

• “Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in THESE LAST DAYS He has spoken to us by his Son. . . .” (Writer of Hebrews, Hebrews 1:1-2)

• “He has appeared once for all at THE END OF THE AGES to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.” (Writer of Hebrews, Hebrews 9:26)

• “He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but WAS MADE MANIFEST IN THE LAST TIMES for your sake.” (Apostle Peter, 1 Peter 1:20)

• “The END OF ALL THINGS is AT HAND.” (Apostle Peter, 1 Peter 4:7)

• “Children, IT IS THE LAST HOUR.” (Apostle John, 1 John 2:18)

Here are the other twelve, which I suggest you look up and compare in context to the above: Matthew 13:38-42; 24:2-3; 13-16 (ref. v. 34); Acts 2:14-20; 1 Corinthians 1:8; 15:24; 1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Timothy 3:1-5; Hebrews 3:14; James 5:1-6; 1 Peter 1:5-7; Jude 17-23. It is clear. You cannot push the last days beyond the generation of men who were writing the New Testament without doing violence to the text.

There is only one logical conclusion. The last days are not about the end of the world. In fact, the Bible never speaks about the end of the physical universe, and indeed teaches that the earth abides forever in some sense (Psalm 78:69; 104:5; 148:3-6; Ecclesiastes 1:4; Ephesians 3:21). They are not about a supposed end of the Christian age, which has no end (Daniel 2:44; Isaiah 9:7; Luke 1:31-33; etc.). They are not about a future millennium. Rather, they marked the last days of the OLD COVENANT AGE, which came to a violent end in AD 70 at the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the temple.

This is confirmed by the writer of Hebrews who declared, “In speaking of a new covenant, He makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.” (Hebrews 8:13) So, what was coming to a close in the first century? The Last Days of what? The Old Covenant order!

Let’s put something else to bed. The last days/end times did not just begin in the first century―and continue until now. That would make the end time longer than the period to which it was an end! That is, we have been in the New Covenant era for 2,000 years, which is longer than the Old Covenant era which was 1500 years, beginning with Moses and lasted till the first century (Hebrews 8:5-13). “At hand” and “It is the last hour” cannot be 2,000 years later. The biblical last days were the END OF SOMETHING―NOT THE BEGINNING OF SOMETHING.

The culmination of the last days/end times were in the near future to the New Testament writers:
• Writer of Hebrews―Hebrews 3:14
• Paul―2 Timothy 3:1-5
• Peter―1 Peter 1:5; 1 Peter 4:7
• John―1 John 2:17-18
• Jesus―Matthew 24:14 (ref. Luke 2:1; Romans 1:8; 10:18; 16:26; Colossians 1:6, 23)

AD 70 is when God judged Israel for her sins (Matthew 23:35-36), her refusal to accept Jesus as Messiah (Matthew 23:37-39), and for her participation with the Roman authorities in Jesus’ conviction and crucifixion (Matthew 27:24-25). This was the end of biblical Judaism. No longer would the temple be the focus of faith, but rather Jesus became the focus (John 2:19-21; Revelation 21:22).

Where do you suppose that these writers of the New Testament got such an idea? Well, from our Lord himself, of course, in such passages as Matthew 21-24. In these and many other passages, Jesus placed the “end” at the time of the destruction of the temple, during his own generation (Matthew 24:1-3, 14, 34).

For more detail on the end-times passages, see the section on the Last Days/End Times at my website:

https://prophecyquestions.com/category/last-days

[JesusIsLord]

...many people fear the end of the world may be near.

Depends on your definition of ... 'end of the world.'

[SaveFerris]

The 7 years of ‘Peace and Security’ must run first

[ealgeone]

You're still pimping your false blog???

The most anticipated event in human history....the second coming of Christ....and you honestly believe it has already happened???

You are the biggest false prophet on the entire forum.

Your comments are not wanted here.

[Ezekiel]

The good news is that it’s going to be a big Christmas-themed surprise:

“If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn’t be more surprised than I am right now.” ~ Clark Griswold

[Peter ODonnell]

End of the world system, I believe is the intended meaning.

[daniel1212]

Yes, while a worthy read, but why not include even some meat vs. an appetizer?

What will end at the second coming of Christ?

Satan’s rule of the earth and his deceiving the nations. Revelation 20:2

Democracies, monarchies, dictatorships and all other forms of rule by men. Revelation 11:15

Sorrows, warfare, sickness, hunger, misrule, crime, hospitals, prisons, police forces, fires, accidents, disasters, and barriers of all kinds between nations. Revelation 7:17

Cities as we know them today. Revelation 16:19

Islands and mountains as we know them today. Revelation 16:20

What will begin at the second coming of Christ?

Judgment of the earth and its inhabitants. (Not the final judgment) Revelation 20:2

The physical and bodily resurrection of all the believers throughout time. Revelation 20:6

Beginning of not only Christ’s rule but the co-rule of his redeemed men and women for a period of exactly one thousand years, then eternity begins in a New Heaven and a New Earth. Revelation 20:4

Nature at rest and in perfect harmony for the first time in history. Isaiah 11:6-8, 65:12

Permanent rewards given to believers in accordance with their faithfulness. Isaiah 57:13

The full knowledge of God throughout the entire globe. Isaiah 11:9

[Z28.310]

A seventh day Adventist perspective.

Boring!

[conserv8]

One shall say, I am the LORD'S; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob Christ;