Thematic Bible: The earth which exists now

knowing this first, that at the last days mockers will come forth in scoffing, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the day when the fathers fell asleep, all things remain as from the beginning of creation. For they willingly forget this, that the heavens were in the olden time, and the earth standing out of the water and through the water, by the word of God; read more.
by which the world at that time, being flooded with water, perished: but now the heavens and the earth have been kept according to the same word, being reserved for fire in the day of judgment and the destruction of the ungodly people. But let not this one thing be forgotten, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.