Do the hundreds of other worlds come to an end when this one does in which we are living? A Subscriber. The expression "the end of the world" in the Bible conveys a wrong idea. The term "world" in such case comes from a Greek word which indicates "age," as for instance in Matt. 28:20, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world;" or Matt. 13:39, "The harvest is the end of the world." In both of these cases, it means the end of the age. The world in the sense of the earth does not come to an end. The earth does not come to an end, as expressed in Eccl. 1:4, "The earth abideth forever." The earth passes through certain changes, or certain ages. The patriarchal age was one; the Jewish age was another; the Christian age is another. Then comes the close of probation, the great age of judgment; then the eternal ages of God. Presumably, wherever God has sentient, intelligent, responsible creatures, they have had a time of probation. These times of probation may already have closed. They may close when it does in this world; but there will be no such time of judgment or calamity come upon these other worlds, in all probability, as will come upon this. These other worlds have not sinned. The great problem of sin is being worked out upon this little planet. Doubtless it has affected all creation, as indicated in the 8th chapter of Romans; and when this earth emerges from its conflict victorious through Christ, other worlds also will receive the blessing which comes with the utter and absolute wiping out of sin from the universe.