Finding Rivers

Perhaps the four rivers talked about before don't bother some of you. But to me they do. See, there's a problem with trying to create a map from such little information. We don't even know the major land boundaries, do we? Then too, when a bunch of waters get together, does it even have a name? Perhaps, we've been looking at this all wrong. We've got the last part of Genesis 1:9-13 down pat don't we, except for that little bit about the ordering of a day. So, let's look at that first. Determining the sun's moving direction can sometimes do much in determining where you are. It says that the evening and the morning were the first day. Except that's a little backwards, is it not? There's the evening when the sun goes to bed and of course it rises in the opposite sky first thing in the morning. It's pretty much the most dependable thing in the world so far. If a day is measured by the night, do you have any sense of time? For me, where I'm at is on the other side of the world from some of you. It's across some seas and passed all the big fish and well, that's a topic for another day. Therefore, my day would be night for you and vice versa. So, I think that wherever this is sounds somewhat opposite from what you all are thinking.

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

Alright, now that we've taken a look at that, there's some waters and some seas. The waters then form the boundaries of the dry land. Then when the waters all get together, that's the seas. Sounds straightforward, right? Except it isn't. Then verse eleven and twelve, that's pretty easy. We've got all that no problem. But see, the problem is where the dry land has been termed by nature earth. A lot of us have got into this rather nasty habit of calling the whole thing earth altogether regardless of whether it's water or sea. Earth refers to the dirt and dust of the ground and rightfully so. It is terra firma, or earth, to borrow a phrase. So then wherever is dry land, that should be earth and then the meeting of the waters the seas. Because, you know when they all get together like that, you cannot tell them apart. Next time we'll finally be able to start mapping out the shape of the rivers.