EARTH Just A Testing Ground?

An Earth Swept Clean

"The heavens are my throne, and the earth is my footstool," God said. (Isaiah 66:1) Being the very acme of holiness, God will not allow his "footstool" To be soiled by evil indefinitely. (Isaiah 6:1-3; Revelation 4:8) Just as he purged the heavens of wicked spirits, so he will rid the hearth of all wicked people, as the following Bible passage show:

"Evildoer"s themselves will be cut off, but those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth." -Psalms 37:9.

"The upright are the ones that will reside in the earth, and the blameless are the ones that will be left over in it. As regards the wicked, they will be cut off from the very earth; and as for the treacherous, they will be torn away from it." -Proverbs 2:21, 22.

"It is righteous on God's part to repay tribulation to those who make tribulation for you, but, to you who suffer tribulation, relief along with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels in a flaming fire, as he brings vengeance upon those who do not know God and those who do not obey the good news about our Lord Jesus. These very ones will undergo the judicial punishment of everlasting destruction from before the Lord and from the glory of his strength." -2Thessalonians 1:6-9.

"The world [of wicked mankind] is passing away and so is its desire, but he that does the will of God remains forever." -1 John 2:17.

Next time: Will the Earth Remain Peaceful?

Watchtower, 2000