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Preparing to Reshape Earth
On August 15, 2026, as I prayed about and pondered the dramatic increase in glacier melt over the past few decades, I asked The Lord whether/how that development might relate to the GREAT earthquakes predicted in Revelation 6:12-17 and 16:17-21. Eleven days later, on August 26, a catastrophic slope failure involving a glacier along Nepal’s border with China triggered a massive debris flow and flood that traveled nearly 62 miles down the mountain, swelling into a tsunami-like wave as it swept through riverside villages in both countries. Sadly, many people were caught in the flow, and broad areas were destroyed.
Only after I recovered from the shocking news did I remember the question I had asked The Lord 11 days earlier. Mind you, I am not inferring that crisis was His answer to my question! Rather, as I continue to study The Book of Revelation in context of the entire Bible, I regarded that crisis as an opportunity and challenge to explore my question more deeply.
The Bible affirms The Lord’s plan for a substantial reshaping of Earth for His Millennial Reign age—the 5th of 6 Biblical ages of our history, after which He promised to destroy this current Earth and universe, and reveal a MASSIVE, new, eternal Earth. (See: Earth’s Next Versions (Series), and Ephemeral then Eternal Earth (Series)) As we transit what I understand is this 3rd Biblical age, my studies lead me to conclude the following:
• Ages-wise, our history very likely pivots on the mid-point of the number of ages He has planned for us; BUT
• Years-wise, according to the relatively few yet-fulfilled Bible prophecies, we may have passed the mid-point of the number of years He has planned for us! (See: Mid-ages Musings (Part 1))
This has peaked my interest to understand, according to The Bible:
1. What will lie ahead during the relatively short remaining 3 ages,
2. What current and future developments might indicate the successive arrival of the last 3 ages, and
3. What role(s) I might play in encouraging The Lord’s saints to prepare for what lies ahead for us.
As Apostle Paul’s writings serve as a quasi-roadmap through the end of this 3rd age, Apostle John’s Book of Revelation serves as a quasi-road map through the last 3 ages—the indicated 7-year tribulation age, the Millennial Reign age, and the ‘little while’ post-Millennial Reign age. In Daniel 7:25, an angel revealed to the prophet that what we now understand will be the tribulation age, will be divided in half of 42 months each. It will end with the apocalypse erupting during the second half. It will end with this awful scenario:
Earth Utterly Shaken
Then the 7th angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, “It is done!” And there were noises and thunderings and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the Earth. Now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath. Then every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. And great hail from heaven fell upon men, each hailstone about the weight of a talent. Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since that plague was exceedingly great.
This scenario strongly indicates Earth’s surface might become a global plain. Moreover, since other prophecies across The Bible indicate life on Earth will return to conditions before the global flood that ended the first age, I ponder whether Earth’s surface back then was a plain; and whether mountains may have been created during the flood, to open spaces for flood waters to drain—creating the surface we have today? If so, that presents a massive problem lying ahead for humanity. During the flood, there were no people on the surface, but there will be a relatively few people on Earth when all mountains and islands COLLAPSE!!
I originally imagined that awful scene with the highest snow-capped mountains, and glaciers in their full strength. BUT climate change is gradually melting both the glaciers and that snow! Thus, if my scenario about draining the flood waters may be right, then The Lord perfectly knows how to undo what He did during the flood! Thus I ponder whether allowing some snow-caps and glaciers to melt BEFORE that future event, might, in His Grace, account for the fact that, this time, there will be people on the surface of Earth. Of course no one knows. Thus, I intuit allowing some or all melting now, might attenuate the impacts of the collapse then.
