You can scratch your head all day pondering the spiritual truth behind a supposed metaphor, or you can take it literally and deduce that the Earth above the waters refers to the crust and mantle.
The Earth Above the Waters
The Beams of His Chambers
"The beams of his chambers" isn't poetry. Well, yes it is poetry, but it's not poetry for poetry's sake. This describes the pillars of the
The Antediluvian World
A word that ties together a developing theory for the interior of the Earth is tehom, the deep. The deep is first mentioned in Genesis 1:2 as a body of water which predates creation.
March 24th
The deep, of Genesis 1:2 became the great deep, the deeps and the depths of the created world. The deep became creation. The word became flesh.