Please explain through the columns of your valuable paper the Scripture text, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away," especially the first clause.
All that is meant by the expression "heaven and earth" is simply these present conditions which we now see,—the atmospheric heavens, pertaining to this earth, as in Rev. 6:14, "And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together." The earth itself will melt with fervent heat, and its cosmos, or arrangement, completely change. The things which to all human minds seem the most stable shall pass, but God's word shall stand forever. We have local illustrations of that in great earthquakes and in mighty conflagrations, before which human buildings melt like wax, but the word of God stands and will stand. The text does not refer to the heaven where God dwells, nor to the sidereal heavens.
