Throughout the Bible, we find references to this river and its implications. Humankind has forgotten the Source, the fountain of living waters, of what not only nourishes us but participates in our peace and prosperity.
Spiritually, our world today may live beside rivers and the sea, but the magnetic force of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil still attracts us. The trees, not the river, drew Adam and Eve. O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters. God does not leave His creation unprepared, having to face and fight evil unarmed.įor my people have committed two evils they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. We have already seen why hardship is necessary (1 Corinthians 3:13), but the very next verse reveals how to withstand this enmity. As some have surmised, God was bored and took pleasure in seeing His created beings in pain. When we add the ingredient of God allowing the Serpent into the Garden to tempt Eve, from such a plot, we could conclude God is devious, cruel, and masochistic. It is a resume of the entire plan of God. We have seen that this scenario is not only the physical reality of Paradise but the spiritual path to either Eternal Life or Death. In its midst were two trees, pleasant to the sight and good for food. God has planted the magnificent Garden of Eden.
Here’s why a continual flow of living water is vital. A river of flowing water issued from Eden, nourishing the bodies and souls of humankind.Ī river of water flowed out of Eden and the Garden it is a significant and essential element in this description of the first home of humankind.
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