3 Knowing this first, that during the acharit hayamim there will come leitzim (mockers, scorners) mocking, going after their own ta’avot (lusts), 4 And saying, "Where is the havtachah (promise) of the Bias HaMoshiach? From the time Avoteinu fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of HaBri’ah (Creation)." 5 For this is hidden from them (but they want it that way): that the Shomayim existed from long ago and ha’Aretz out of mayim and through mayim BIDVAR Hashem NA’ASU*3:5 Ps 33:6 (By the word of the L-rd were made). 6 Through this very mayim, the tevel (world) of that time perished in the mabbul (flood). 7 But the present Shomayim v’ha’Aretz are being reserved by the same Dvar Hashem, being kept for Eish (Fire) for Yom HaDin and for the destruction of anshei resha (men of wickedness).