jehovah's witnesses say that god is going to end the world?

Question

All the good people will have eternal life on earth ,forever without growing old but where will everyone live, will there be enough space on earth for them all?

Answer 1

The Bible says at times that the earth will remain forever, but more often says that it will be destroyed. Certainly in the New Testament Paradise refers to heaven.

Watchtower depictions show those in paradise living with their children in houses separated by many kilometres of parkland. Certainly without death children will be unnecessary. However, an even more critical logistical question is “If all the dead are to be resurrected onto earth will they all fit?”

Watchtower reasoning claims there will be ample room, based on a figure that only 20 billion people lived prior to 1900.

The figure of 20 billion is highly dubious, with the real figure likely to be several times greater than this. To highlight how little effort has gone into using a correct figure note that the Watchtower has been using the same number for over 100 years now. In 1925 The Way to Paradise p.209 stated; “It is very doubtful if there have ever been as many as 20,000,000,000 people born on this earth.”

In 1988 the Insight book was still using the same estimate of 20 billion people, despite 9 billion people having been born during the 1900’s.

Insight on the Scriptures Volume 2 p.792 “A very liberal estimate of the number of persons that have ever lived on earth is 20 billion (20,000,000,000). … The land surface of the earth at present is about 148,000,000 sq km (57,000,000 sq mi), or about 14,800,000,000 ha (36,500,000,000 acres). Even allowing half of that to be set aside for other uses, there would be more than a third of a hectare (almost 1 acre) for each person. As to earth’s potential food production, a third of a hectare will actually provide much more than enough food for one person, especially when, as God has demonstrated in the case of the nation of Israel, there is abundance of food as a result of God’s blessing.”

The Population Reference Bureau at http://www.prb.org/Template.cfm?Section=PRB&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=7421 estimates that over the last 2000 thousand years 106,456,367,669 were born.

Though 100 billion people were born over the last 2000 thousand years the population grew slowly due to the low life expectancy. As discussed in the section on the Last days, prior to the 1900’s child mortality rates were exceptionally high, as were deaths due to war, famine and disease. The global average life expectancy was under 40 years until the 1800’s.

The earth has 148,000,000 km² of land (although only approximately 31,000,000 km² is arable). With 6 billion people the average amount of land per person is 5 acres. With 100 billion people this would be reduced to less than 1/3 of an acre each. This is unsustainable by any ecological model. However the figure is even less, as the entire world can never be arable, as this would entail not only growing crops on the highest rocky mountains, but also clearing all forests. To understand the magnitude of these figures, in 2000 China had 135 people per square kilometer; with 100 Billion people resurrected there would be over 715 people per square kilometer.

It can be readily seen that if 100 billion people are to be resurrected onto earth there would not be a paradise of sparsely populated tracts of land, filled with smiling children living in mansions.

Answer 2

God's original purpose for the earth was to fill it....not overfill it.
Not everyone born will live on earth. Some are not worthy.
But the earth is a vast area. The earth will be inhabitable like the garden of Eden with every sq ft being lived on.
Some say each person will have about 20 acres.
The ones who go through the great tribulation and Armageddon will still have children. Then there are the ones resurrected.
Yes to your answer...there will be enough space for all.

Answer 3

Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe that this planet will be destroyed. Witnesses do believe the bible to teach that righteous humans will never die, but will live upon a restored paradise earth forever.

None of the bible passages that describe the post-Armageddon earth insist that humans will live ONLY upon the earth, and so there seems no reason to believe that mankind will not continue to colonize other planets.


While some Christians will be resurrected to heaven, the vast majority (literally more than 99.9%) of Jehovah's Witnesses expect an EARTHLY hope, the same hope given to Adam and Eve.
(Genesis 1:28) God blessed them and God said to them: “Be fruitful and become many and fill THE EARTH and subdue it [caps added]
(Genesis 2:17) You must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die [so never eating from that tree means never dying]

Interestingly, the Scriptures are full of references to this earthly hope.
(Psalms 37:11) 'the meek will possess the earth'
(Proverbs 2:21) 'upright will reside in the earth'
(Isaiah 45:18) 'God formed the earth to be inhabited'
(Matthew 5:5) 'the mild will inherit the earth'
(Revelation 21:3) The tent of God is with mankind

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Answer 4

It is not just 'good' people that will have the opportunity of eternal life on a paradise earth.But those that remain faithful and do God's will that hope to received the fullfilment of the promise.(Matt.24:13).
Secondly,a very liberal estimate of the number of people who have ever lived on earth is 20,000,000,000.Not all of these will be resurrected.But, even if we assume that they would be,there would be ample room.The land surface of the earth at present is about 57,000,000 square miles (147,600,000sq.km).If half of that were set aside for other purposes, there would still be just a little less than an acre (c.0.37ha) per person,which can provide more than enough food.At the root of present food shortages is not any inability of the earth to produce sufficient but,rather,political rivalry and commercial greed.

Answer 5

First, we don't think God is going to end the world, fix the world, fix the planet, sure, end it, no.

Tonight on 20/20? they said that there is around 4 acres of land per person, currently. Since Jehovah's original plan for Adam and Eve was for them to live forever as perfect humans, and for them to be fruitful and become many, than I assume He has things worked out as far as population concerns.

Answer 6

Consider what we know now about physics and quantum theory. After Armageddon, along with perfect human bodies, we will also have 100% of our mental capabilities. Consider if Einstein is resurrected, what he will be able to figure out. God created all those little dots in the sky, many of which we already know have planets. Who know what we will be figure out in the way of folding space to instantly travel from one part of the Galaxy to another. Or even from one place on the planet to another.

All this humans were created to be able to do. Don't limit yourself. Your brain is capable of so much more, for you to see the farthest star, and beyond.

Answer 7

they also claim that there are only 144'000 places in heaven and these have already been taken up by the first jehovas witnesses so I really dont know where we are all going to go.
Wonder if theres much room in Hell, might be a bit of a squeeze.

Answer 8

We will still physically die and transend to heaven. The rules of the heart will change on earth as it is in heaven. People are not allowed to change other peoples heart for evil intent as what was done in the kingdom of heaven before God poured burning sulphur upon them to rid the heavens of their physical pursuits.

Answer 9

If they think that the world is going to end then there won't be an earth for anyone to live.

Answer 10

the Jehovah's have been preaching this for years, and while Islam, Catholicism et al have also preached their own doctrines the Jehovah's have actually worked out the exact date. Infact they have worked it out twice so far and I have no doubt they are busily working out where they went wrong last time. I would not worry about it. Just live and let live, believe what you want to believe, and no doubt God will sort it out in his own time.