The End

as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away

with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent

heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be

burned up”

(2 Pet. 3:10, KJV).

We who have studied physics, and many others, see these

“elements melting” as atomic fission.

Elemental matter (the

earth and its atmosphere) is converted into energy, and disap-

pears—releasing “fervent” heat. This elemental disappearance

of the earth after the 1,000-year Day is yet a different end. Its

destructive end leads to judgement for those in Hades, who did

not bow their knee to God while they were alive (Isa. 45:23).

These damned ones under the earth will bow their knees be-

fore God/Christ (Phil. 2:10), and will be judged after the earth

disappears—at which time they are exposed and resurrected in

preparation for the “second death,” which is explicitly de-

scribed in scripture:

“…all they that go down to the dust shall

bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul”

(Psalm

22:29, KJV).

“And when the thousand years are expired…the devil that

deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone,

where the beast and the false prophet are… And I saw a great

white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth

and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for

them…and hell delivered up the dead…and they were judged

according to their works. And whosoever was not found writ-

Nuclear fission is a reaction in which an atomic nucleus splits into frag-

ments, usually two fragments of comparable mass, with the evolution of

approximately 100 million to several hundred million electron volts of ener-

gy. (American Heritage Dictionary.)