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solved, and earth and the works in it will be discovered."-2
Peter 3 :7, 10, NW.
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Many religionists argue that because the waters
with which the old world suffered destruction
were literal, the fire with which this world will
be destroyed is likewise literal . But a careful
examination of the prophecies shows the fire is
symbolic just as the heavens and earth doomed to
be burnt up are symbolic . Various prophecies indicate
that Jehovah God by his Warrior King Jesus
Christ will strike the enemy with confusion
and the various elements of Satan's visible organization
will fight and annihilate one another . If
they use their "hell" bombs and atomic bombs and
other explosive weapons of wholesale destruction
there will doubtless be a great deal of literal fire
over great areas of the earth . Besides this, Jehovah's
Executioner Jesus Christ will use supernatural
means to destroy completely as by fire
all the enemies of Jehovah's universal sovereignty
and all their organization invisible and visible .
But no matter how furiously that fiery destruction
may rage, enveloping all the globe and the invisible
neighborhood of the earth where Satan
and his demons have been cast down from heaven,
God can preserve his people alive through it into
the glorious new world .
to When God rained down fire and brimstone
upon Sodom and Gomorrah and nearby cities he
brought Lot and his daughters safely out of it ;
and Jesus used that as an illustration of what is
to happen at this end of the world . When enraged
9. Will the fire of that day be literal? What assurance
have we?
10. What do Lot's and the three Hebrews' experiences
illustrate?