2 Peter 3:1-7

1Dear friends, this is the second letter I’m writing to you. In both letters I’m trying to refresh your memory.

2I want you to remember the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and what the Lord and Savior commanded you through your apostles.

3First, you must understand this: In the last days people who follow their own desires will appear. These disrespectful people will ridicule ⌞God’s promise⌟

4by saying, “What’s happened to his promise to return? Ever since our ancestors died, everything continues as it did from the beginning of the world.”

5They are deliberately ignoring one fact: Because of God’s word, heaven and earth existed a long time ago. The earth ⌞appeared⌟ out of water and was kept alive by water.

6Water also flooded and destroyed that world.

7By God’s word, the present heaven and earth are designated to be burned. They are being kept until the day ungodly people will be judged and destroyed.