Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
Genesis 8:22 ... While the earth remaineth, seedtime and
harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night
shall not cease.
As long as the earth remains ... shows us the time will come the earth will not remain.
Peter describes it as follows:
II
Peter 3 ... 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last
days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the
promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things
continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 5
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the
heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the
water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water,
perished:
These
"scoffers" think the professed coming of Jesus to be false because they
see creation as never changing from beginning of time. They forget the
flood where God destroyed all creatures except for Noah and his family
and the animals in the ark.
Peter goes on to tell us the current heaven and
earth are being "held in reserve" against the time to come when the
wrath of God will come upon the present earth and then the present
heaven and earth will be destroyed by God. Until that time, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. (Gen. 8:22)
II Peter 3:7... But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
The apostle Paul tells us we are not appointed to wrath as the world and the people of this world are.
I
Thess. 5 ... But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no
need that I write unto you. 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day
of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction
cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not
escape.
4
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake
you as a thief. 5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of
the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not
sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that
sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the
night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the
breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
We are told in the Bible what to expect.
-The dead in Christ will rise first. (I Thess. 4)
-Then
those in Christ who are still alive on this earth will be changed in
bodily form and rise to meet Jesus and all others "in the air". We will
not be on this present earth which will be destroyed. (I Cor. 15)
-
The period known as the Great Tribulation will begin. Terrible woes and
plagues will come upon the earth and upon those remaining on the
earth. (Revelation 8 & 11)
- After the appointed time of the woes and plagues, this heaven and earth will pass away. (II Peter 3)
Until the removal of those who are in Christ, things will continue on this earth about like we have known them before... summer, winter, seedtime, harvest
Several years ago, God gave me the following dream: The earth slipped on it's axis. People were terrified. The government officials all over the world were meeting with scientists and religious leaders to see what might be done. A TV newscaster was trying to tell of this happening but he was so frightened he stopped speaking, unable to finish the newscast.