The present world is passing

1Samuel 2:8  .....  For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and on them he has set the world.

1Corinthians 7:29, 31  This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. ....31 ......  For the present form of this world is passing away.

Job 14:18-19 "But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place;

  the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; ......

2Peter 3:8-12  But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. ...10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed. ...
12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!