The 2nd Epistle of Peter contains one of the most important Prophecies in the Bible, one that identifies our days as the Last Days

Here is the prophecy:



"Know this first of all, that in the last days scoffers will come to scoff, living according to their own desires

and saying, 'Where is the promise of his coming? From the time when our ancestors fell asleep, everything has remained as it was from the beginning of creation.'

They 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, 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: 3-10



This prophecy identifies the reigning Heresy of the Last Days with the reigning Heresy of our own present times, summed up in the verse: 'From the time when our ancestors fell asleep, everything has remained as it was from the beginning of creation."

This is the Heresy of Evolution and Our Lord knew it would be so destructive and effective at achieving Ataraxia that He gave Peter this prophecy thousands of years beforehand in order to warn us and prepare us for its emergence in our own days. The prophecy states that in the Last days scoffers (think Richard Dawkins and his ilk) will come mocking the Word in Genesis and saying that Nature has always been the same since the beginning of Creation. But this is a lie from the pit of Hell. Nature has not been the same since the beginning of Creation. The Natural processes that scientists study today cannot be extrapolated back to the beginning of Creation. The Earth (and Universe) is not millions of years old.

On the contrary, the Fiat (aka Supernatural) Creation of the entire material universe and of all of the different kinds of creatures for man at the beginning of time less than ten thousand years ago constitutes the common doctrine of all of the Fathers of the Church from the time of the Apostles in their authoritative teaching. The Early Church held that the Fiat creation of all things at the beginning of time less than ten thousand years ago was an indisputable fact contained in Divine Revelation and one that had to be maintained in the face of the scorn of the Graeco-Roman intellectual elite, most of whom believed in some form of evolution over long ages and who heaped scorn on the Church Fathers. The Fathers of the Church rejected these long-age evolutionary phantasies as illogical, absurd, and totally contradictory to God’s revelation to Moses in the sacred history of Genesis and Saint Peter in his 2nd Epistle identifies the reemergence of this ancient Heresy with the Last Days.

The Fathers taught that, contrary to the Evolution Heresy, things have not always been the same from the beginning of Creation. They taught that the entire work of Creation, in the beginning, was Supernatural and when God finished creating Adam body and soul, and Eve from Adam's side, He stopped creating new kinds of creatures, the work of Creation was finished and only then did the Natural order (the Order of Providence) begin. Of course, when the original sin took place the entire Natural Order was changed and made subject to a bondage to Decay. This means that according to the Early Church Fathers, it is impossible to study the world as it exists today and extrapolate to the beginning to determine how the World came to be.

Saint Peter says that modern Scoffers will ignore two facts, not just one. The first is that it was through God's supernatural Word, not any Natural process, that the World came into existence. Secondly, these Scoffers will ignore the fact that there was a Divine Judgment on the World at the time of Noah that totally destroyed the face of the Earth such that Saint Peter says that the World that then was perished totally in the Deluge: "the world that then existed was destroyed, deluged with water." So we can't even look at the Earth today and understand what it looked like before the Deluge.