Thematic Bible: The heavens which exist now

Knowing this first, that there will come at the end of the days, scoffers, proceeding according to their own desires, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For, from since the fathers became asleep, all things continue this way from the beginning of creation. For this is willfully ignored by them, that long ago there were heavens, and an earth that came together out of water and by water by the word of God, read more.
by which the world then perished, having been overflowed with water. But now the heavens and the earth, which have been stored up by the same word, are being preserved for fire in a day of judgment and destruction of irreverent men. But beloved, this one thing you should not ignore, that one day with Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.