Gary,
please try to read all of this as I have hope you can understand it. Others are too blind to ever get it:
What the Destruction of Heaven and Earth REALLY means:
If a nation is conquered and destroyed by a foreign army, the Bible frequently portrays this tragic event as the destruction of heaven and earth. There are several examples of this in Biblical history. In the sixth century B.C. several kingdoms were conquered and destroyed by foreign nations and in each case the Bible expresses this conquest as the destruction of heaven and earth.
The first example is found in Jeremiah 4:23-26. Here the destruction and conquest of Israel by the Babylonians in the sixth century B.C. is presented as the destruction of heaven and earth itself:
I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone. . . . I looked, and there were no people; every bird in the sky had flown away. I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert; all its towns lay in ruins . . .
In these verses, the destruction of Judah at the hands of the Babylonian army is painted in the image of the destruction of heaven and earth. Notice in v. 23, the earth, representing Israel, is dark, formless and void as it was in Genesis 1:2. This day of darkness for Israel is painted in such a way as to imply that heaven itself had also been destroyed since all the lights of the heavens are said to be gone in v. 23. Furthermore, there are no living things to be seen mirroring the desolate state of the earth prior to its creation in Genesis 1. In Jeremiah 4:23-26, the prophet pictures the destruction of the kingdom of Judah at the hands of the Babylonian army in the sixth century B.C. as the destruction of heaven and earth.
The destruction of heaven and earth is also depicted in Ezekiel 32. Here the prophet addresses Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, with a warning concerning Egypt’s imminent defeat and subjugation to Babylon which also came to pass in the sixth century B.C. Concerning the military conquest of Egypt by Babylon, Ezekiel 32:7-9 states:
When I snuff you out, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light. All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you; I will bring darkness over your land, declares the Sovereign Lord. I will trouble the hearts of many peoples when I bring about your destruction among the nations, among lands you have not known.
Here the destruction of the heavens portrayed by the darkening of the heavenly lights occurs simultaneously with the destruction of Egypt by the Babylonians in the sixth century B.C. Similar imagery is present in Isaiah 13:9-13 concerning the fall of Babylon in 539 B.C.:
See, the day of the Lord is coming—a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger—to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it. The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light. . . . Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the Lord Almighty, in the day of his burning anger.
Hebrews 12:26 says,
“At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, ‘Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.’ The words ‘once more’ indicate
the removing of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.”
The "once more" implies it has happened before and will again!! Hebrews 12:26 indicates that what has been shaken will be removed. Thus the fact that heaven and earth are shaken in Isaiah 13:13 implies that heaven and earth were removed or destroyed when Isaiah 13:9-13 was fulfilled at the fall of Babylon in the sixth century B.C.
The destruction of heaven and earth is also predicted at the destruction of Edom in Isaiah 34:4-5. This prophecy was also fulfilled around the time of the Babylonian conquest of Judah in the sixth century B.C:
All the stars in the sky will be dissolved and the heavens rolled up like a scroll; all the starry host will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like shriveled figs from the fig tree. My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; see, it descends in judgment on Edom, the people I have totally destroyed.
Similar imagery is found in Revelation 6:12-14 concerning the destruction of heaven and earth at the time of the end of Israel in 70 AD. In Revelation 6:12-13, John foresees the shaking of heaven and earth also seen at the fall of Babylon in 539 B.C. according to Isaiah 13:13. In Revelation 6:14 the sky recedes like a scroll and the stars of heaven fall to the earth as it had in Isaiah 34:4 at the destruction of Edom in the sixth century B.C. As shown above, the destruction of heaven is linked to the destruction and conquest of a nation. The next nation to fall was Israel in 70 AD and that is what all of this was about. Rest assured, the planet is not going to be utterly destroyed.
It should also be noted that there is covenantal significance to each incidence in which heaven and earth were destroyed throughout Biblical history and Biblical prophecy but I won't get into that here.