3 First of all you must understand this: In the last days mockers will come and, following their own desires, will ridicule us
4 by saying, "What happened to his promise to return? Ever since our ancestors died, everything continues as it did from the beginning of creation."
5 But they deliberately ignore the fact that long ago the heavens existed and the earth was formed by God's word out of water and with water,
6 by which the world at that time was deluged with water and destroyed.
7 Now by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire and are being kept for the day when ungodly people will be judged and destroyed.