KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

SEVENTEEN The New Earth or a New Age?

[T]he earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved. . .the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we according to his promise look for new heavens and a new earth. II Peter 3:11-13 G enesis 1 marked the beginning of earth's time. The hands of humanity sweep across the face of the earth hastening a halt to creation's clock. Mankind's sin has seeded the planet with land mines making its terrain a time bomb. Revelation 20:11 reveals earth's explosive end. A contrary scenario is presented by the other religions of the world. They present a cyclical view of life in which reincarnation of the individual and evolution of the species provides the needed 'time' for their works-based salvation to bear fruit. Confucius confuses many saying, "The process of change is cyclica l."145 Buddhism teaches that time progresses in a series of cycles. 146 Hinduism's god Vishnu commences each cycle and Shiva closes it. The Mayans will mark the end of their recent "great cycle" in A.D.2012. Tracing this twisted pattern, Luciferian