Okay, I got some feedback.
First I will like to thank all of you very much for sharing, and my fellow student thank you as well.
Here is what some has said:
If the burning of the earth is literal, then the burning of the heavens is literal. So since God has already clensed the heavens, of Satan and all other evil, why would he need to burn it. Similarly, since he promised to remove the wicked from the earth, the is no need to burn it. It will be refurbished, made new. If the heavens is symbolic, as 2 Peter 3:5, 6 shows, the earth must also be symbolic.
2 Peter 3:
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Other scriptures used were:
Psalm 37:
29 The righteous shall inherit the land and dwell upon it forever.
34 Wait for the Lord and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land; you will look on when the wicked are cut off.
Proverbs 2:
21 For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,
22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
Revelation 11:
18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.