1. My friends, this is the second letter I have written to you. I wrote both letters to you to help your honest minds remember something.
2. I want you to remember the words that the holy prophets spoke in the past. And remember the command that our Lord and Savior gave us. He gave us that command through your apostles.
3. It is important for you to understand what will happen in the last days. People will laugh at you. They will live following the evil they want to do.
4. They will say, “Jesus promised to come again. Where is he? Our fathers have died, but the world continues the way it has been since it was made.”
5. But these people don’t want to remember what happened long ago. The skies were there, and God made the earth from water and with water. All this happened by God’s word.
6. Then the world was flooded and destroyed with water.
7. And that same word of God is keeping the skies and the earth that we have now. They are being kept to be destroyed by fire. They are kept for the day of judgment and the destruction of all people who are against God.
8. But don’t forget this one thing, dear friends: To the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like a day.