Another interpretation of 2 Peter 3

[Blev]

Quick over view;

Heaven & Earth passing away= The Old Covenant, which Jesus said would pass away in Mat 24:35 "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away".

New Heavens and Earth = New Covenant. As mentioned first in Iisaiah 65: 17 “Behold, I will create
new heavens and a new earth.

rrom Article, [In reference to the "Elements" being melted away in 2 Peter 3. The word elements (stoicheia) is used several times in the New Testament, but it is never used in connection with the physical universe ie..,earth,wind,fire,water. Throughout the New Testament, the word “elements” (stoicheia) is always used in connection with the Old Covenant order (Gal. 4:3, 9–10, Col. 2:8, 20–21, Heb. 5:12. These citations from Galatians, Colossians, and Hebrews comprise all the other occurrences in the New Testament of that word “elements” (stoicheia). Not one refers to the “elements” of the physical world or universe; all are speaking of the “elements” of the Old Covenant system, which, as the apostles wrote just before the approaching destruction of the Old Covenant Temple in A. D. 70, was “becoming obsolete and growing old” and “ready to vanish away” (Heb. 8:13).]

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This has made me do a lot of thinking about 2 Peter 3, which I always took for granite was talking about the 2nd Coming and the destruction of the Earth by fire, and a new Earth being made or this one redone. If the interpretation I mentioned above is about Jesus coming in destruction of Jerusalen in 70 A.D. and not the 2nd Coming, then it would leave almost no information in the Bible about where our resurected bodies will spend eternity. From Rev 21 & 22 though, I believe it will be on this Earth, as in the symbolic description of the New Jerusalem.

[benstenson]

I don't know. I just read 2 Peter 3 to see how it sounds. Peter sounds about as literal as you can get in that chapter. I think I'll play it safe and expect a fire version of Noah's flood that cleans up the whole planet.