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As I have done = in the way I just did = with a flood. He did not promise never to again destroy every living creature. "Do not add to God’s words, lest you make him a liar " Proverbs.

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What about "as long as the earth stands?" Are we taking away from Scripture by omitting that?

Adding “one of these days I will destroy all living things again, but the next time, I will do it by fire.” Is adding to Scripture.

Was God concerned with methods? Or was God concerned with mercy?

Did God determine right then to change his method of destruction?

Or could it be just like Scripture records. In His mercy, He looked on all the suffering caused by the flood and vowed never again to bring destruction on the earth.

Although He had once destroyed every living creature because of man’s evil, God vowed to never again destroy every living creature, although He knew man would continue to be evil.

If the traditional view of a universal disaster by fire is accurate, that makes it that God has reneged and I don’t believe He did.

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It seems like God is reneging, only because you have interpreted a statement by God in a way that precludes his acting in a way his actual words do not preclude.

Noah had experienced the first ever rain and that was accompanied by a worldwide flood. It might be worthwhile for God to promise that heavy rain from now on would not be the harbinger of total destruction. Noah and descendents would find that reassuring, I think.

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I don’t think I said that God will destroy all living things by fire. That would entail destroying saints and angels.

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Where will the saints be during the annihilation of the universe?

If the heavens literally pass away, what is left? A vacuum. Space is a vacuum. Fire in a vacuum? Good luck explaining that.

To where and in what direction would the billions of stars fall?

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Herein lies the problem with people reinterpreting ancient texts, from ancient languages they never spoke, in modern times:

“I have the right interpretation!”

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There are three heavens: the air we breathe and in which birds fly; space with the planet, stars, comets, moons, asteroids etc.; and the spiritual realm in which God is seen. God can destroy two without destroying all three. The fire consumes what is physical in the two lower heavens. Matter becomes energy, E=mc2
What’s left? Energy is left.

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This can be fully explained by understanding Buddhist Sutras, which in no way contradict, Christian scripture.

The answer refers back to the meaning of the “trinity” and how “Holy Ghost” holds all latent causes in voidness. “'Vacuum” has latent cause and effect. There is no actual duallity.

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God can do that. He is God.

God can also destroy the heavens and the earth the same way He created them. By His word. He spoke and it was so.

Let there be…
Let there not be…

He could speak and they would be gone.

Being earthly, we tend to interpret through our physical senses. We develop our own imagery. To us, the stars have not fallen. The heavens have not passed away, the earth and the works have not burned up etc

Communications from God is through imagery. Hebrew writers often described God’s dealings with men in exaggerated descriptions. We miss the meaning when we interpret literally in physical imagery.

The stars have all fallen. The heaven has been destroyed. The sun and moon have been darkened. The Lord did come on the clouds. But not literally.

Hundreds of years before Jesus’ birth, those things did happen.

Isaiah warned Babylon. Isaiah 13:9 “Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the earth a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it. 10 For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising and the moon will not shed its light. 11 I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant, and lay low the haughtiness of the ruthless. 12 I will make men more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir. 13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place, at the wrath of the LORD of hosts in the day of his fierce anger.”

God’s fury against the nations.

Isaiah 34:3 “Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains shall flow with their blood. 4 the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll.”

9 “And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and her soil into brimstone; her land shall become burning pitch.”

10 “Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up for ever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.”

Isaiah 19:1 “An oracle concerning Egypt, Behold, the Lord is riding on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt.”

There are other declarations in Ezekiel 32:1, Isaiah 7, 18, 19 against Egypt, Damascus and Ethiopia.

These things were fulfilled thousands of years ago when God overthrew orders, systems and nations and those rulers and associated with them.

Were they literal? Was Jesus to come in a literal body riding on a literal cloud, on a horse, with angels, in flaming fire?

The symbolic language in Scripture was not just to appeal to the curiosity of the people to whom Scripture was addressed.

The imagery is about the last days of Judaism. It would confirm the new heaven and new earth which is God’s new and spiritual rule with the New Covenant - the Kingdom which cannot be shaken, that Kingdom where believers now dwell.

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Or, alternatively, if the night sky is obscured fom view but a meteor shower occurs, it would be heavenly lights falling.

It could be figurative, or it could be literal. Rev. 6 predicts a future falling of lights, and the jury is out on whether that is literal or figurative.

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This is a visionary experience. Not figurative OR literal.

One firsts need to understand that the “stars” And space itself, is inside you.

The “falling stars” is how it appears in the mind when the universe is folding and unfolding, rolling up or down, like a “scroll.”

The “stars” are in the fabric.