4. and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? After all, nothing has changed—not since the beginning of creation, nor even since the ancestors died."
5. But they fail to notice that, by God’s word, heaven and earth were formed long ago out of water and by means of water.
6. And it was through these that the world of that time was flooded and destroyed.
7. But by the same word, heaven and earth are now held in reserve for fire, kept for the Judgment Day and destruction of ungodly people.