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The Sequence
Ahhhh, water. For all life, it’s a necessity,
Playing key roles at the start of creation,
Perfectly orchestrated by The Almighty,
And featured as a prime, end-time attraction!
Throughout The Bible, He gives us many clues.
Connecting some dots between these two ends,
He desires us to imagine and muse,
What He has planned for us whom He calls, ‘Friends’. 1
He asked Job about the wombs of the sea and ice.
Voila! That’s a missed perspective on things so mundane,
Raising our imaginations to brand new heights,
And inviting us to think on a much higher plane. 2
In His plan, water features distinctively.
This He’s revealed to us sequentially.
Yet we are prone to miss it instinctively,
Failing to perceive His analogy.
Here’s the sequence:
Our intro to God is catalogued,
As over the face of the dark deep, He hovered.
Earth was then formless and waterlogged,
Like babies in the womb by water are covered. 3
First…
He delivered and brought forth Earth from its watery pit,
Then He picked a spot to plant a garden.
There He created a river that into rivers split.
Thus, parts of Earth were watered …from Eden. 4
Then…
The global flood was waters’ next major scene,
Out of deep fountains much water gushed,
And rain from Heaven poured as was never seen.
In death, all but a few souls …were flushed.
Then…
In His lengthy, strident cross-examination of Job,
God asked him about the wombs of the sea and ice, unknowable!
To Ezekiel a futuristic vision He showed:
Temple water flows, then a healing river that’s uncrossable. 5
Next…
One day, Jerusalem will be raised up, physically.
And from it, living waters will then flow across the lands.
This is the vision Zechariah saw, prospectively!
That’s when Jesus will issue His …Millennial commands! 6
Next…
To John, two water-like views in Heaven were shown:
--The first, a sea of glass, appearing like crystal,
Before which The Lord God Almighty is enthroned.
--Then a crystal-like river flowing, unequaled. 7
A sea of glass?! Now that’s quite a conundrum!
That’s what he saw in his ‘Throne introduction’.
Rivers flow when there is no key restriction.
And that’s what he saw in his ‘tour conclusion’.
Interestingly…
Both of John’s views are connected to God’s Throne.
The first was then current; the second futuristic.
To perceive the meaning, to speculation we are prone,
But could there be clues that are highly pedagogic? 8
What if the sea of glass is simply the dry riverbed,
In which the spirits of saints will one day stand,
Becomes the flowing river, with God’s Throne as waterhead??
Connect the dots and see what you understand.
Yep, God is telling us a story about water,
Water physical and spiritual, that we’ve ignored.
About water, He desires us to be much wiser,
From creation, to sinfulness, to righteousness restored.
Stay tuned for Part 3, The Conclusion
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1 God’s friends are saints who are born-again into His Kingdom through faith in, and obedience to Jesus Christ.
2 See: Job 38:8,29
3 See: Genesis 1. In the womb, human babies float in amniotic fluid, composed of water from the mother, and urine from the baby. As they develop, they drink this fluid.
4 See: Genesis 2:10-14
5 See: Job 38:8,29 and Ezekiel 47. God conveys sources of water that are unique to our thinking.
6 See: Zechariah 14:8-10
7 See: Revelation 4:6, 15:2 and 22. Interestingly, Ezekiel 1:22-26 and Exodus 24:10 are similar references to a crystal expanse during Jesus’ pre-incarnate visits to Earth.
8 Pedagogic, relating to teaching, e.g., a teachable moment
