Scripture: Psalm 29Amos 5:18-242 Peter 3:8-14

Text: Be zealous to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace. 2 Peter 3:14

If you were an astro-physicist from Kitt Peak Observatory, or a nuclear scientist from the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, how do you suppose you would interpret these words?

With a roar the sky will vanish, the elements will catch fire and fall apart, the earth and all that it contains will be burned up. (New Jerusalem Bible)

You might nod your head in recognition. You might say, "Well, those are the words of an uninformed layperson." But they do represent some reasonable assumptions we have made about a possible scenario for the planet earth.

With a cataclysmic astronomical event, with the predictable death of our local star, the sun, the sky will vanish a…