But they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water,
These men willingly blind themselves to what Scripture plainly records: the world once perished by water, yet water was the very substance from which it was made. The power to sustain and destroy rests not in nature itself but in God's word alone; water obeyed Him in creation, and obeyed Him again in ruin.
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They wilfully shut their eyes to the flood, the very parallel to the coming judgment by fire. Before the deluge, men could have argued with equal plausibility that things had always continued the same, yet God brought it to pass. So shall He bring fire.
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These scoffers claim nature keeps its course unchanged from the beginning, but God has already shattered that claim once through the deluge. The same omnipotent power that created and preserved the world will destroy it by fire at the last day, and the mockers shall perish utterly.
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