2 peter 3:8-10 reads "but, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the lord one day [is] as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. the lord is not slack concerning [his] promise, as some count slackness, but is long suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. but the day of the lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up."