What Is God’s Purpose for the Earth? How has God been challenged? What will life on earth be like in the future?

To properly answer your question there is both good news and there is bad news.

Consider the world today. At 2 Tim 3:1-5, 11 a view is given that correctly portrays the days in which we live. The passage starts by telling us we live in critical times in my Bible. That same word could very well be translated as vicious. And v. 11 points out the wicked and imposter Christians would advance from bad to worse. Hypocrite is another word for imposter here. All in all an apt description.

The bad news first using an analogy. If a house you own and want to use in the future is infested with vermin and undesirable insects, what do you do? Burn it down and build a new one? No. The practical owner will employ a firm who can totally rid the house of all infestations. Do you see how this fits with the verses you used in Isaiah? Then once the house is really clean the owner can allow good tenants to take over the home.

But the bad bugs and vermin fight back. They want to live. So they band together and employ a really strong force to inhibit the owner from cleaning the house. This strong force calls on all the bugs, mice, rats and snakes to organize themselves into a (they think) formidable force to keep the house full of their corruption. In the Bible this is pointed to at Revelation 16:13-16.

But there is one small problem facing the owner. There are a few people still in the house who he considers worth saving. He calls them by a name, 'my people'. So he instructs these 'my people' to get out to a place of safety while he brings ruin to the vermin. See Rev 18:4 in your Bible.

After these ones have taken shelter in a place of safety the owners hired firm unleashes destruction of all the vermin. Then these dead ones serve two final purposes. One. The left over dead bodies serve as a world source of bird food. See Rev 19:17, 18. Anything left by these 'birds' will become manure on the ground. See Jeremiah 25:33.

Now the good news. In a conversation Abraham had with Jehovah about the coming destruction of Sodom, this question was asked and answered, "Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked?" See Genesis 18:23 and the rest of the chapter. The answer from Jehovah God was no. Actually there was in Sodom six people who God authorized to survive. Lot, his wife, their two daughters and two young men who were to marry Lots daughters. When Lot warned to two men they refused to believe him, thinking he was joking. And we all remember Lots wife when she disobeyed. So three survived that destruction. God allows us to choose. Interesting.

Applying this information to today's world leads to the conclusion that God is warning the world today much as the angels instructed Lot to warn his wife and the two young men. There was not spectacular bull horn from the heavens. Just a man. But a righteous man imploring these to actually listen and take positive action.

Those who survive the coming destruction of this world along with all the ones God chooses to bring back to life for a second chance at life will be able to live in a world free from corruption, hunger disease and war. They will have the wonderful work of making the whole world into a paradise. At the same time the ones God has put in place to clean this world will have the job of rehabilitating mankind back to perfection. But, like Adam & Eve, all of these will subjected to a testing to allow them the choice as to whether they want to remain close to God or strike out on their own. Also Satan the devil will be released to mislead them if they choose to be misled. Those that really want to be vermin will be destroyed.

Now the really good news. Rev 31:3-5 tells of the blessings God will bestow on all living men. The really important point is found in verse 7 of Rev 21. All who conquer any desire in conflict with the purposes of God will become children of Jehovah God.

That is the incredibly bright future the human family has in its future. And that future is open to all who heed Jesus words at John 13:34 and never stray into the thinking we can reliably guide ourselves. (Jeremiah 10:23).

That is the future I see in the Bible. Who wants to join me?

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