What happens at the end of the world?
Scripture pictures the end not as annihilation but as Christ returning, the dead being raised, judgment being rendered, and a new heaven and new earth in which God dwells with his people forever.
The story does not just stop. Jesus will return visibly and bodily, "in the same way you have seen Him go" (Acts 1:11). The dead will be raised — some to life, some to judgment.
Every life will be examined honestly before God’s throne, and salvation will be by union with Christ alone. Evil will be finally judged; God’s people will be finally vindicated.
Then comes renewal: a new heaven and new earth, where "He will wipe away every tear" and death itself dies. The end of the world is not the end of the story — it is the beginning of the world made right.
Original BibleDawn answer · reviewed 2026-06. Drafted with AI assistance and reviewed for accuracy.