and saying,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Where is his promised return?<n id="2" /> For ever since<n id="3" /> our ancestors<n id="4" /> died,<n id="5" /> all things have continued as they were<n id="6" /> from the beginning of creation.&#8221;

But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, by being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.<n id="1" />p>

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; when it comes,<n id="1" /> the heavens will disappear<n id="2" /> with a horrific noise,<n id="3" /> and the celestial bodies<n id="4" /> will melt away<n id="5" /> in a blaze,<n id="6" /> and the earth and every deed done on it<n id="7" /> will be laid bare.<n id="8" />

speaking of these things in all his letters.<n id="1" /> Some things in these letters<n id="2" /> are hard to understand, things<n id="3" /> the ignorant and unstable twist<n id="4" /> to their own destruction, as they also do to the rest of the scriptures.<n id="5" />