@JJ04 The entire story of the Bible, of the World, is of God's children being harassed, persecuted, and throttled by the agents and temptations of Sin. God, being the merciful maverick He is, will not let that happen forever. What existence is and has been from Creation until Judgement Day is a test, placing His children in a fallen World to see if they will stick to His Word and remain pious until death. When Judgement Day comes, God will free us from this cycle of testing and finally make the final call: who is holy, who is unholy, who goes to Heaven, who goes to Hell; the ultimate lesson of the entire cosmos is taught.
God will not *destroy* everything, any actual destruction will be wrought by us and Satan. God will simply step back and let Hell come in, sifting out the hearts of men and finding who is able to handle the worst punishment and able to remain faithful. God's only role in Armageddon is to rebuild, by stepping in at the very end and defeating Satan, rebuilding the World, and merging Heaven and Earth again in one fell swoop. That is the basis and central idea of Christian theology and eschatology.
Regarding signs and stuff: that shit is a bunch of malarkey. There is absolutely zero signs that anyone can interpret, and when you look into the textual background of Revelations the most conservative estimate of how it originated was as an anti-Roman mushroom trip by John of Patmos. Eschatology was already firmly established in the Gospels, and Revelations is just an unnecessary addition. This is why I never dable in eschatology, and why I firmly roll my eyes at people who do: it's not just stupid, but not worth it.
