DavP
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One of the Bible topics I rarely if ever have heard preached in a Church from Bible Scripture is that of God's River upon this earth. I have heard songs about the waters of Life, like we shall gather at the river, and several kinds of symbolic metaphors about the waters of Life, which are mostly expressions of Christ's Salvation, pointing to that River or the Waters of Life as symbolic only; like it's just a spiritual idea, and not actual.
If that is all you have understood about that River, then hang around here to learn what God's Word actually teaches us about it.
Gen 2:10-14
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
That "Eden"is God's dwelling place, the Garden of Eden. In that time when He formed Adam and placed him in His Garden, we were shown about His River there that flowed from His Garden of Eden into 4 heads, to feed 4 other rivers upon the earth. This places that River in that time upon... this very earth. It means GOD was here, literally living on this earth. That was before Adam and Eve fell in sin by disobeying His commandment to not eat from the tree in the midst of the Garden.
11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
We do not know where those above 2 earthly rivers of Pison and Gihon were located back then. One can only speculate.
14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
KJV
But we do... know where those 2 above rivers of the Hiddekel and the Euphrates are, because they both are still here on earth in the area of modern Iraq. The "Hiddekel" is another name for the Tigris river.
Thus back when GOD had established this present world, and formed the man Adam, and placed Adam in His Garden to till it, GOD's River flowed out of Eden and fed four other literal rivers upon this earth. That points to God's Garden of Eden actually being literally... located upon this earth at that time.
Understanding the above about GOD's River having at one time been upon this earth causes us to better understand the future coming event of the return of BOTH The Father and The Son back to this earth to live among us, literally...
Rev 21:3-4
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
KJV
When Adam and Eve in GOD's Garden broke His commandment and ate the fruit from the tree in the midst of the Garden, then GOD left this earth, and took The Tree of Life AND... His River of The Waters of Life with Him...
Gen 3:22-24
22 And the LORD God said, "Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:"
23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
24 So He drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
KJV
That is when GOD moved His Abode of the Garden of Eden off away from this earth, in the Heavenly dimension, behind a vail that we cannot see. To this day, that is where our Heavenly Father dwells, with His Son Jesus Christ sitting on the right hand of The Father's throne, and all the holy angels with Him. However, He promised to return to this earth.
In the very last verse of Ezekiel 48, the following will then be said at His future return about the holy city on earth...
Ezek 48:35
35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
KJV
(Continued...)
If that is all you have understood about that River, then hang around here to learn what God's Word actually teaches us about it.
Gen 2:10-14
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
That "Eden"is God's dwelling place, the Garden of Eden. In that time when He formed Adam and placed him in His Garden, we were shown about His River there that flowed from His Garden of Eden into 4 heads, to feed 4 other rivers upon the earth. This places that River in that time upon... this very earth. It means GOD was here, literally living on this earth. That was before Adam and Eve fell in sin by disobeying His commandment to not eat from the tree in the midst of the Garden.
11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
We do not know where those above 2 earthly rivers of Pison and Gihon were located back then. One can only speculate.
14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
KJV
But we do... know where those 2 above rivers of the Hiddekel and the Euphrates are, because they both are still here on earth in the area of modern Iraq. The "Hiddekel" is another name for the Tigris river.
Thus back when GOD had established this present world, and formed the man Adam, and placed Adam in His Garden to till it, GOD's River flowed out of Eden and fed four other literal rivers upon this earth. That points to God's Garden of Eden actually being literally... located upon this earth at that time.
Understanding the above about GOD's River having at one time been upon this earth causes us to better understand the future coming event of the return of BOTH The Father and The Son back to this earth to live among us, literally...
Rev 21:3-4
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
KJV
When Adam and Eve in GOD's Garden broke His commandment and ate the fruit from the tree in the midst of the Garden, then GOD left this earth, and took The Tree of Life AND... His River of The Waters of Life with Him...
Gen 3:22-24
22 And the LORD God said, "Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:"
23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
24 So He drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
KJV
That is when GOD moved His Abode of the Garden of Eden off away from this earth, in the Heavenly dimension, behind a vail that we cannot see. To this day, that is where our Heavenly Father dwells, with His Son Jesus Christ sitting on the right hand of The Father's throne, and all the holy angels with Him. However, He promised to return to this earth.
In the very last verse of Ezekiel 48, the following will then be said at His future return about the holy city on earth...
Ezek 48:35
35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
KJV
(Continued...)