Thematic Bible: The earth which exists now

knowing this first, that in the last days scoffers shall come with scoffing walking after their inordinate desires, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the world. For of this they are willingly ignorant, that the heavens were of old, and the earth was made of water and by water by the word of God, read more.
by which the world that then was, being overflowed with water, was destroyed. But the present heavens and the earth have been preserved by his word, being kept for fire, at the day of the judgment and destruction of wicked men. But let not this one thing escape you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.