What does the last line of Revelation 11:18 mean?

Hello,
I'm very, very interested in the last sentence of Revelation 11:18. And I’d like to hear from anyone who would like to comment on what I’m about to write. There it says that God will be, “destroying those who destroy the earth." I checked three translations on line: New International Version, New Jerusalem Bible and King James and they all use the same phrase.

Now, looking at different news article and websites it’s easy for all of us to see what’s going on with the earth. Apparently the human race is trashing the planet on a never before possible scale! For instance, we are simultaneously: melting the poles, burning up the rain forests, frying the air, driving the wild life to extinction, fishing the oceans dry, growing the deserts…could it be any worse? Well, I guess so, because I just read about a swirl of plastic out in the Pacific that’s the size of Texas! (Just Google, “Plastic Spiral”) It would seem that over the years we have been dumping so much plastic waste into the oceans it is now collecting into this monster swirl. Some people say it’s just hype. Wrong answer, actually all you have to do is go to any beach anywhere and you’ll find more plastic then seashells these days. I know this to be fact because I live at the ocean.

So it’s safe to say that we are living in the time when God will have had enough of the earth being ruined and call a halt to it. That being said I’d like to see what you think about a comment I read on one of the sites I visited. Apparently the woman commenting read or heard of that last line in Revelation 11:18. Her comment was wonderful, scary and right on point if you ask me. She said, “The thought of an outraged God having enough is a lot more frightening to me then never being able to drive my Volvo again!”

Now, what about that statement? It seems to me that the woman making that comment wasn’t worried about the ‘earth’ being turned into a smoking cinder, no, she was worried about being ‘personally’ turned into a smoking cinder! Fearful that she would be reckoned by God as one of the ‘destroyer’ of His property, ‘His’ earth.

So then, why is it taught that God is going to destroy the earth by fire? That’s not what that scripture says. And I’ve read other scripture that refute that as well. What about, “The meek will inherit the earth”…(I read that, but can’t remember where it is in Psalms). At any rate, an inheritance is something valuable; something that the person who left it for you felt you would appreciate receiving…a, ‘burned out cinder’ is not a heritance!

Also, it’s the ‘meek’ that get left the inheritance and sense I’ve never heard of greedy, destructive people referred to as, ‘meek’ I’d have to conclude that God allows the meek to inherit the earth because he can trust them as thoughtful caretakers of the inheritance.

What about this: There’s another scripture that says something like, “God didn’t form the earth simply for nothing…He meant it to be inhabited.” So then, final question…why would God say on one hand that he’s going “to destroy those destroying the earth” and then turn right around and…DESTROY THE EARTH?

So then, what I’m getting out of that last line of that verse is that God will get ride of the greedy, selfish destroyer types and give the earth a chance to recover with the help of meek conservationists who are not destroyers but instead, ‘restorers’.

I’d love to hear any response that’s logical…Sorry, ”Devine Mystery” doesn’t work for me as a logical answer. Besides, He gave us the best selling book of all times to use as reference. That means, ‘please’…make a comment, back it up by two or more ‘scriptural’ references and then, and only then, move on to your next comment. In the meantime I’ll do the same. I’ll find the ‘Meek’ scripture in Psalms and the, “earth meant to be inhabited” one as well. Also, I read that if all ‘destroying’ of the earth stopped today the earth would completely recover in about100 years. I’ll find where I read that and post it too.

Look forward to discussing,
Sammie