A Mist Went Up
The Hydrology of Eden Deduction 6
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
(Genesis 2:7) KJV
In the six hundredth year of Noahโs life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
(Genesis 7:11) NKJV
During the third day Earth’s surface rose out of the ocean at Rosh, the beginning. The ocean drained into Earth’s interior through the fountains of the deep, which were then sealed somehow.
This is also when the deep begins to be referred to as the great deep. They’re both rendered from the Hebrew tehom. It’s helpful to understand the fountains of the great deep as part of the creative process. Their use in the time of Noah to flood the Earth is secondary, it wasn’t their primary function.
We’ve deduced a process for the creative act of the third day that accounts for all of the physical features of the Earth mentioned in the Bible. The process allows the deep to drain through the crust and mantle of the Earth into a great gulf of open space between the foundation of the earth and the mantle.
It begins as a solid lump until the potter’s hand presses a thumb or finger into the clay. In the Biblical narrative this point is known as rosh, the beginning. The outer diameter of the clay increases, but the volume of clay material doesn’t change. As the potter works to stretch out the clay the volume of material is constant, so the larger the vessel the thinner the wall of it will be.
Taking all of these things into consideration we’ve deduced the hydrological cycle of the original Earth.
The Hydrological Cycle of the Original Earth
- Water from the great deep upwells at Eden,
- it splits into four rivers,
- these spill over four waterfalls on the North, West and South of Eden,
- four rivers water the whole land,
- the water enters the sea,
- then returns to the great deep in the interior of the Earth,
- the water is heated by hell, the fire kindled in Deuteronomy 32:22,
- it expands and upwells again at Eden.
The question that we’re left to ponder arises from the description of how the fountains of the great deep were employed when the Earth was flooded in the time of Noah. We’re told that they were broken up or they burst forth, so how had they been closed?
Read through the Bible in a year
| Reading plan | March 8 | |
| Linear | Judges 13-15 | |
| Chronological | Numbers 31-32 |
Salvation
- Call upon the name of Jesus Christ,
- believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,
- confess your sin.
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