1 This is now, beloved ones, the second letter I write to you, in which I stir up your sincere mind, to remember
2 the words previously spoken by the set-apart prophets, and of the command of the Master and Saviour, spoken by your emissaries,
3 knowing this first: that mockers shall come in the last days with mocking, walking according to their own lusts,
4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all continues as from the beginning of creation.”
5 For they choose to have this hidden from them: that the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by the Word of Elohim,