[Scoffers] deliberately ignore the fact that the heavens existed of old and earth was formed out of water and through water^* by the word of God; through these the world that then existed was destroyed,^e deluged with water. The present heavens and earth have been reserved by the same word for fire, kept for the day of judgment and of destruction of the godless. But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years^* and a thousand years like one day. The Lord does not delay his promise, as some regard “delay,” but he is patient with you, not wishing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief,^* and then the heavens will pass away with a mighty roar and the elements will be dissolved by fire, and the earth and everything done on it will be found out.

2 Peter 3: 5-10

But Kate, you say, Peter lived after Christ was born. He can’t be looking for the Nativity!
But you, I say, we’re not longing for the Nativity. We getting ready to celebrate it, while waiting for the Second Coming.

  This whole world will dissolve in fire:
 the earth, the sea, the sky
 will burn like pagans on their pyre
 whose time has come to die.
 And we'll all purify our mire,
 and burn our every lie,
 and nothing be but our desire
 when Christ my Lord is nigh.
 
  We had the flood, long years ago,
 to bear our sins away;
 we're swept around by ebb and flow
 and have been since that day.
 Tumbled by breakers, dragged below,
 and lost beneath the waves
 'til Christ comes walking, calm and slow,
 and reaches out, and saves.
  
 Then let the flames dry out the flood;
 let new dry land appear,
 a new creation God calls good,
 his light made bright and clear.
 And we who drowned will be renewed
 in flames that hold no fear,
 and walk on burning waves of love
 with Jesus walking near.