Thematic Bible: The earth which exists now

Knowing this first, that scoffers will come in the last days, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the time the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as at the beginning of the creation. But this willfully escapes them, that, by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth subsisting from the water, and by water: read more.
by which the world that then was, being deluged with water, perished. But the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured up, being kept for fire to a day of judgment, and destruction of ungodly men. But this one thing, let it not escape you, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.