in context Peter is retelling the story of the flood, and in the paragraph right before this one he uses the exact same language. He says that in the flood, the earth was “destroyed” by water. But we all know that story. The earth wasn’t destroyed in the sense of wiped out or ceasing to exist; it was destroyed in that the slate was wiped clean. It was a global restart. That’s why Peter goes on to say the earth and all the work done in it will be “laid bare.” In Greek it’s the word heurisko, which means “exposed” or “seen for what it really is” or “discovered.” Usually the word is translated
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