Thematic Bible: The world that exists now

Of this, first, taking note - that there will come, in the last of the days, with scoffing, scoffers, after their own covetings, going on, and saying - Where is the promise of his presence? For, since the fathers fell asleep, all things, thus remain, from the beginning of creation. For this they, willfully, forget - that there were, heavens, from of old, and, an earth, on account of water and by means of water, compacted, by God's word, - read more.
By which means, the world that then was, with water being flooded, perished; While, the heavens and the earth that now are, by the same word, have been stored with fire, being kept unto the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly men. But, this one thing, forget not, beloved, - that, one day, with the Lord, is as a thousand years, and, a thousand years, as one day.