3 This first know you, that there will come in the last of the days deriders who will deride, as after their own lusts they walk,

4 and saying, Where is the promise of his advent? for, since our fathers have slept, every thing (abideth) as from the beginning of the creation.

5 Unknown to them is this while they are willing, that the heaven was from of old, and the earth from the waters and through the waters subsisted, by the word of Aloha:

6 those (waters) by which the world that then was, again (was covered) with waters, and perished.

7 But the heaven which is now, and the earth, by his own word are set, being reserved unto fire, unto the day of judgment and the perdition of wicked men.