The word "near" is not used in 2 Peter 3:8.
Do not add to scripture. Don't add to Peter's epistle things he's not actually stating. The fact is Peter is quoting from Psalm 90. He is quoting from Psalm 90 to address the expectations of his first century readers, not readers in the 21st century. Peter plainly said he and his readers were living in the last days. He'd appealed in his first letter to Christ having been revealed "...in these last times" (1 Pet. 1:20). He said "these last times," not "those last times coming in the future." The "last times" existed when he wrote his two epistles! His readers were wondering when the promises of God going to come.
Look at what he states in the letter from which you just quoted,
2 Peter 3:3-16
Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation." For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water, through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water. But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat! But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells. Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
Peter appealed to Psalm 90 to say God wasn't reneging on his promises but that they were soon going to occur because the thousands of years they'd already waited were like a day for Him and He is faithful. The "you" and the "we" are the original readers, not people who weren't living when the letters were written. Notice he appeals to the letters from Paul they'd also read. Paul once wrote,
1 Corinthians 10:11-12
Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.
The ends of the ages had fallen on them, on those living in the New Testament era. It was not the beginning of the ages, but its ends! The things that had been written in the past were written for them, those upon whom the ends of the ages had come. It's quite common for modern futurists to appeal to 2 Peter 3:8 to defend a non-literal reading of Revelation's temporal markers, especially those written at the beginning and the end of the revelation. If they can explain away the "soon" "quickly," and "near" or redefine them so they mean something different than what those words normally, ordinarily mean then they can make Revelation say any number of things (like the mark is a computer chip). The facts are 2 Peter 3:8 does not contain the word "near," and IF the word "near" is studied elsewhere in the Bible it will be learned God uses that word with 100% consistency - there are no exceptions to the rule - the word "near" always means near in either space or time, geographic proximity or temporal proximity. Always. So... when Peter writes about time from God's perspective, he is not in any way arguing an exception to the rule. There are no exceptions to the rule for God's use of the word "near."
I encourage you to do that study. Look up the word "near" in scripture. It's used about 30 times in the New Testament, so it doesn't take long to examine their uses. You'll note there are a few examples where conditional statements are made, as in "When X happens then Y is near," but otherwise the word is an unqualified nearness in either space or time and it never means "2000 or more years from now."
Watch and listen for those who try to make 2 Peter 3:8 dismiss what God explicitly said in Revelation 1:3 and 22:10. Scripture never contradicts scripture and Revelation is not to be added to or subtracted from.
