For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
If the human race is to survive the known and postulated fate of the terrestrial earth, it can only be by the supernatural intervention of the Creator through the Lord Jesus Christ.  In a film, The Universe, shown repeatedly in May and June, 1977, at the Johnson Space Center, Clear Lake, Texas, top space scientists theorized that there are only three possible fates for any star, including our sun.  These are: (1) it might become a great red giant with a new mass so gigantic as to envelop the earth;[32] (2) it could become a super-nova flaming to a million times its present size, and (3) it could conceivably collapse altogether with a gravitational field strong enough to draw all the solar satellites into a very small and exceedingly dense core with a magnetic field so powerful that not even light could escape from it, in which case a so-called "black hole" would be the result.  Significantly, any of the projected methods of demise that scientists confidently predict, would involve the total "burning" of our earth and everything in it  (2 Peter 3:10ff); and no imagination is strong enough to envision the kind of "cloud" that would follow the instantaneous conversion of all the waters on earth into steam!  Some such cloud, some such noise (who knows?) will signal the moment when the Son of God shall appear and save the redeemed; and it may be postulated that a new heaven and a new earth will by that time have been prepared.  Significantly, the scientific community is as totally unaware of "when" such an event may occur as were our Lord and the holy apostles.  It is most amazing that the old passages long known to refer to the end of the world, at which time, presumably, the Second Advent will be, have at last found the scientific world catching up with revelation that was given nearly two millenniums ago!