Exodus 15 opens with a song praising Yahweh for his deliverance through the waters and ends with the children of Israel complaining of their lack of water in the desert. God has just led the Israelites to victory over Pharaoh by parting the Red Sea.
#River bible full
In part one (0-11:15), Tim and Jon recap previous episodes in our Ancient Cosmology series and discuss God’s transformation of the chaos waters in Genesis 1-2 into waters full of the potential for life.Īfter the creation narrative in Genesis 1-2, springs and wells represent the blessings of Eden throughout the Hebrew Bible. Joel and Zechariah prophesied the Day of the Lord, when humanity will be plunged back into the Genesis 1, pre-creation condition of chaos and darkness, all in preparation for God’s coming Eden-renewal of the cosmos.The biblical authors expected the re-creation of Eden on earth––that God and humans of all nations would one day dwell again in unity in gardens of beauty and flourishing.After the creation narrative in Genesis 1-2, springs and wells represent the blessings of Eden throughout the Hebrew Bible.Instead of one river going out and splitting and becoming many, the many rivers that are humanity––humans are rivers in this metaphor, divided rivers––will all become one and return to the new Eden. It’s this wonderful depiction of a reverse Eden. But what are the streams? They are the nations. But here gravity will be reversed, and there will be streams going up to the new temple in the new Jerusalem. Now if you have water and a hillside, obviously water’s going to flow where gravity pulls it.
… It’s very clearly not the tallest mountain, so the idea is it will be elevated in cosmic significance. The new Jerusalem, the establishment of the new temple, will be the head of all mountains.
The mountain is Jerusalem and the house is the new temple.
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