Claim. When II Peter 3:12–13 and 1 speak of the heavens and earth being destroyed and replaced by “a new heaven and new earth,” the language is political-providential, not cosmological. To destroy a nation is to overthrow its sovereignty; to create a new nation is to establish a new sovereignty. The Last Days “destruction” is the overthrow of Satan’s rule.
Elaboration. Per 3.2. Bible Verses Concerning the Signs of the Last Days: “To destroy a nation is to overthrow its sovereignty, while to erect a new nation is to establish a new sovereignty. Likewise, the prophecies that heaven and earth will be destroyed mean that the tyranny of Satan will be overthrown. To create a new heaven and new earth means to restore heaven and earth to God’s sovereignty founded on Christ.”
DP supports this with the prior providential pattern: God told Noah He would “make an end of all flesh,” but the earth was not destroyed when Noah’s day came and went. The created earth is eternal because God created it as His object partner; the “destruction” language must therefore be addressed to something other than the physical world. The thing destroyed is the satanic sovereignty established by the fall (dp-fall-established-satan-centered-four-position-foundation).
This is the structural template for the rest of the symbolic readings: catastrophe-language in the Last Days texts refers to the change of whose rule the world stands under, not the world’s annihilation.