While this world -- with its wars and diseases, greed and broken relationships, inhumanities and personal vanities will end, the Scriptures teach it will be replaced with the perfect world God intended and, in fact, originally created.
Writing in Revelation 21, John the Apostle says "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first earth had passed away..."
The rest of that passage is a beautiful song, like the promise of the first day of spring, because on this new earth "(God) will wipe away every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death, or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."
So, the "world" will not end. It will be transformed, even re-created.
That is a far better hope than the lesser hope many place in politicians and the next election.
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