Fim do mundo
A Bíblia fala sobre o fim do mundo como evento certo e definitivo. Céus e terra passarão, mas as palavras de Jesus jamais passarão. A questão não é se, mas quando.
Os céus passarão
Os céus e a terra passarão, mas as palavras de Jesus permanecerão para sempre. O mundo presente é temporário.
heaven and earth shall pass, but my words shall not pass.
And anon after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be made dark, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the virtues of heavens shall be moved [or stirred].
But of that day and hour no man knoweth, neither [the] angels of heaven, but the Father alone.
But of that day or hour no man knoweth, neither angels in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
O dia do Senhor
O dia do Senhor virá como ladrão. Os céus passarão com grande estrondo, e os elementos se dissolverão no fogo.
For the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which heavens with great rush, [or fierceness], shall pass, and elements shall be dissolved by heat, and the earth, and all the works that be in it, shall be burnt.
But the heavens that now be, and the earth, be kept by the same word, and be reserved to fire into the day of doom, and perdition of wicked men.
Therefore when all these things shall be dissolved, what manner men behooveth it you to be in holy livings and piety,
abiding and hieing into the coming of the day of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom heavens burning shall be dissolved, and elements shall fail by burning [or heat] of fire.
But, brethren, of times and moments ye need not that I write to you.
For ye yourselves know diligently, that the day of the Lord shall come, as a thief in the night.
For when they shall say peace is, and secureness, then sudden death [or suddenly perishing] shall come on them, as sorrow to a woman that is with child, and they shall not escape.
But, brethren, ye be not in darknesses, that that day as a thief catch you.
For all ye be the sons of light, and sons of [the] day; we be not of night, neither of darknesses.
But, brethren, ye be not in darknesses, that that day as a thief catch you.
For all ye be the sons of light, and sons of [the] day; we be not of night, neither of darknesses.
Therefore sleep we not as others; but wake we, and be we sober.
For they that sleep, sleep in the night, and they that be drunken, be drunken in the night.
But we that be of the day, be sober, clothed in the habergeon of faith and of charity, and in the helmet of hope of health.
For God putted not us into wrath, but into the purchasing of health, by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Destruição e renovação
O Dia do Senhor trará juízo sobre os ímpios, mas também novos céus e nova terra onde habita a justiça.
Nigh is the great day of the Lord, nigh and swift full much; the voice of the day of the Lord is bitter, a strong man shall be in tribulation there.
That day is a day of wrath, day of tribulation and anguish, day of neediness and wretchedness, day of darknesses and mist, day of cloud and whirlwind,
day of trump and of noise on strong cities and on high corners.
And I shall trouble men, and they shall walk as blind, for they have sinned against the Lord; and the blood of them shall be shed out as earth, and the bodies of them shall be as turds.
But the silver of them, and [the] gold of them, shall not be able to deliver them in the day of wrath of the Lord; in fire of his fervor all earth shall be devoured, for he shall make end with hasting to all men inhabiting the earth.
Lo! the day of the Lord shall come, cruel, and full of indignation, and of wrath, and of strong vengeance; to set the land into wilderness, and to all-break the sinners thereof from that land.
And I saw, when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo! a great earth-moving was made; and the sun was made black, as a sackcloth of hair, and all the moon was made as blood.
And the stars of heaven felled down on the earth, as a fig tree sendeth his unripe figs, when it is moved of a great wind.
And that dragon was cast down, the great old serpent, that is called the Devil, and Satan, that deceiveth all the world; he was cast down into the earth, and his angels were sent with him.
And tokens shall be in the sun, and the moon, and in the stars; and in the earth overlaying of folks, for confusion of the sound of the sea and of floods [or of waves];
for men shall wax dry for dread and abiding, that shall come into [or on] all the world; for virtues of heaven shall be moved.
Therefore wake ye, praying in each time, that ye be had worthy to flee all these things that be to come [or that shall come], and to stand before man’s Son.
And I saw new heaven and new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth went away, and the sea is not now.
And I, John, saw the holy city Jerusalem, new, coming down from heaven, made ready of God, as a wife adorned to her husband.
And I heard a great voice from the throne, saying, Lo! the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them; and they shall be his people, and he God with them shall be their God.
And God shall wipe away each tear from the eyes of them; and death shall no more be, neither mourning, neither crying, neither sorrow, shall be over; which first things went away.
And he said, that sat in the throne, Lo! I make all things new. And he said to me, Write thou, for these words be most faithful and true.