Thematic Bible: The earth which exists now

To begin with, you know that mockers will come with their mockeries in the last days, men who go by their own passions, asking, "Where is His promised advent? Since the day our fathers fell asleep, things remain exactly as they were from the beginning of creation." They wilfully ignore the fact that heavens existed long ago, and an earth which the word of God formed of water and by water. read more.
By water the then-existing world was deluged and destroyed, but the present heavens and earth are treasured up by the same word for fire, reserved for the day when the impious are doomed and destroyed. Beloved, you must not ignore this one fact, that with the Lord a single day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a single day.