Thematic Bible: The heavens which exist now

knowing this principally, that in the last of the days there will come scoffers, walking after their own lewd passions, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue in the same state as from the beginning of the creation. For this they chuse to keep out of sight, that by the word of God the heavens were created of old, and the earth rising out of the water and subsisting amidst the water; read more.
whence the world then existing, being deluged by water, was destroyed; but the present heavens and earth by the same word are treasured up, reserved for fire at the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But let not this particular be concealed from you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.