a quick, Compelling Bible study Vol. 62: What the Hebrew Bible Says About Water

writer's word: fascinated readers can locate all previous volumes of this sequence here.

Thanks for joining our two-part study about what the ancient testament says about water. Then, subsequent week we can determine the new testament.

lifestyles, as we understand it in all types, is unsustainable without water. Correspondingly, after receiving the water of Baptism, believers in Jesus Christ who do the need of the father   are given everlasting lifestyles. Jesus stated, "Whoever drinks the water I provide them will by no means thirst. certainly, the water I supply them will become in them a spring of water welling up to everlasting life" (John 13-14).

The Hebrew Bible records the fundamental position of water in the physical and spiritual realm, millennia before Christ's instructing. Then, at dramatically pivotal junctures, God utilized water to achieve His preferred influence.

The Bible first mentions the notice "water" in the 2d sentence of Genesis: 

"Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God turned into hovering over the waters" (Genesis 1:2).

Water is a fashionable point in God's introduction plan: He "made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it"  and "God known as the vault 'sky' " (Genesis 1: 6-eight). 

subsequent, the Creator organized the earth's foundational infrastructure as only HE may:  

"And God talked about, 'Let the water under the sky be gathered to at least one region, and let dry ground seem.' And it become so. God referred to as the dry ground 'land,' and the gathered waters he known as 'seas' " (Genesis 1: 9-10). 

here is how God's advent of water translates into scientific facts:

according to the USGS (u.s. Geographical Survey), "About seventy one % of the Earth's surface is water-coated, and the oceans hang about 96.5 percent of all Earth's water."

Then agree with these stunning information about how much water is inside us. (click "overview" to see the facts in each these USGS hyperlinks): The human grownup physique is "60 percent water." Our "brain and coronary heart are composed of seventy three percent water, and the lungs are about eighty three p.c water. The skin contains 64 % water, muscles and kidneys are 79 percent, and even the bones are watery: 31 %."

it is miraculous to trust that humans and the planet we inhabit are predominately constituted of the substance that God created on the "second day."  

These verses illustrate how God unleashed the vigor of water, making a flood to cleanse the earth of its evil inhabitants. in the meantime, God used that identical water to store Noah, his family unit, and the animals after Noah became obedient to God.  

"The waters flooded the earth for 100 and fifty days. but God remembered Noah and the entire wild animals and the farm animals that have been with him in the ark, and he despatched a wind over the earth, and the waters receded" (Genesis 7:24 - 8:1). 

In Exodus, God employed water to aid the Israelites escape from Egyptian bondage: 

"LORD drove the ocean lower back with a powerful east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters have been divided, and the Israelites went throughout the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left" (Exodus 14:21-22). 

Then, God's vigour over water was weaponized against Pharaoh's military as they pursued the Israelites:

"The water flowed again and lined the chariots and horsemen—the complete military of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the ocean. not certainly one of them survived" (Exodus 14: 27-31).

Later, God, via Moses, supplied water to store His Israelite people in the desolate tract:

"Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank" (Numbers 20:11).

Now we read about water as a non secular purifier within the Hebrew Bible, that believers in Christ think foreshadows Jesus:

The Lord declares: " 'i will sprinkle clean water on you, and you'll be clean; i will cleanse you from your whole impurities and from your entire idols. i will be able to provide you with a new heart and put a brand new spirit in you' " (Ezekiel 36:25-27).

"'Behold, God is my salvation; i will believe, and should not be afraid; for the LORD GOD is my energy and my music, and he has develop into my salvation.' With pleasure you'll draw water from the wells of salvation" (Isaiah 12:2-three).  

This next water-connected cleansing verse is in Zachariah and "happens" to follow a Messianic prophecy about mourning "the one they've pierced":

"On that day a fountain will be opened to the apartment of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity" (Zachariah 13:1).

What follows is an additional verse with water as a religious thirst quencher for those with faith in the Lord. may this passage be an extra Messianic foreshadowing?:

"Come, all you who're thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and devour! Come, buy wine and milk devoid of money and with out can charge" (Isaiah 55:1). 

next, we review verses that seek advice from God as "living water."

" 'O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you can be put to shame; those that turn faraway from you might be written within the earth, for they have got forsaken the Lord, the fountain of dwelling water'" (Jeremiah 17:13).  

Zechariah prophesizes about when "the Lord my God will come": 

"'On that day residing water will move out from Jerusalem, half of it east to the dead Sea and half of it west to the Mediterranean Sea, in summer and in iciness' " (Zechariah 14:8). 

Having been born and raised Jewish, i will attest that, often talking, those who follow Judaism do not examine the brand new testomony. for this reason, they miss how the new fulfills the ancient testament. Water is only one example. Jesus teaches: 

"Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, 'rivers of residing water will move from within them'" (John 7:37-39).

seeing that water is a vital element for sustaining existence, then Jesus's connection to water ought to be construed as part of God's remarkable and everlasting plan of introduction.

i'm hoping you have got loved this analyze and will tune in subsequent week when we dive deeper into the relationship between water and Jesus. 

Myra Kahn Adams is a media producer and conservative political and non secular author with a lot of national credits. She is additionally government Director of www.SignFromGod.org, a ministry committed to teaching people concerning the Shroud of Turin. Contact: MyraAdams01@gmail.com or Twitter @MyraKAdams.