You begin to persuade me, but I still need a little more help to understand -- I hope you can indulge me for a few more questions:
1. Genesis 2: 5-6 seem conventionally to be taken that streams rather than rain were watering the ground. Are you saying that the rain started in verse 10?
2. Genesis 2: 8-9 describes the Garden of Eden as being in the east with a number of trees besides the tree of life. Is "east" somehow equivalent to the third heaven? Do you think like the third heaven was some kind of divine horticultural space station. possibly geocentric? Or do you think there was some kind of like 5th dimensional gate in the clouds, that God and those with Him could disappear into or emerge out of?
You begin to persuade me, but I still need a little more help to understand -- I hope you can indulge me for a few more questions:
1. Genesis 2: 5-6 seem conventionally to be taken that streams rather than rain were watering the ground. Are you saying that the rain started in verse 10?
2. Genesis 2: 8-9 describes the Garden of Eden as being in the east with a number of trees besides the tree of life. Is "east" somehow equivalent to the third heaven? Do you think like the third heaven was some kind of divine horticultural space station. possibly geocentric? Or do you think there was some kind of like 5th dimensional gate in the clouds, that God and those with Him could disappear into or emerge out of?
3. Why is Gihon chosen to be the atmospheric river?
4. Are the Tigris and Euphrates in Genesis essentially the same rivers, in roughly the same place as they are now?
5. What about the Pishon? Any idea where Havilah is?
Yes, there was rain.
The atmospheric river that came out of Eden became the source of four river heads on earth
below.
Yes, the rivers are the same, but the earth was divided after Babel, which began at Babel and continued until we have the great waters separating the continents, basically, for that is what we are taught in the Word and in Jasher and in Enoch.
In Genesis 1, the waters were commanded to be gathered together in "one place".
There were streams and currents in the waters, but they were all one navigable ocean. Then the land was called into being, out of the waters, and it was one land, with one great island, as Enoch speaks of.
Only at Babel was the one mother tongue [Hebrew] divided into 70 -plus the remaining Hebrew mother tongue for Shem and his descendants. The 70 then spread out to over 5,000 today, as the tribes spread out and populated the earth.
The spreading out of the tongues began at Babel, and continued over time. In the same manner the land began to be divided at the time of Babel, and continued to divide til it settled into what is, over the globe, today. Eber named his two sons prophetically for the events that would happen at Babel, for all names in the line from the beginning are prophetically given, and lining them up from the beginning, they tell, in Hebrew, the story of the fall and the redemption, going through the flood, even, up to the Christ come in flesh.
Someone has that on youtube video, to go through for yourself.
Mount Eden, God's heavenly Mount, where His Paradise is, and the Tree of Life is, in His own "planted" Garden, is still right up there in the outstretched "breadth of the earth", in the third heaven, where it has always been, from the beginning.
It is veiled to our eyes, but He opens the eyes of certain persons at certain times "to see" into the opened heavens. -That is in many places in Scripture.
It is veiled since the rebellion at Babel, IMO, but will be unveiled in the millennial reign, just as the mother tongue will be restored to all the earth in the millennial reign, as Scripture teaches.
The vail covering the temple Holy of Holies represents that vail, and it is destroyed for all who are born again in Christ's one living Spirit, since the Atonement; but for our spirits, only, for we are seated with Christ in the heavenlies in that "One Spirit of Adoption"; but the eyes of our flesh must be opened to see in, and it can be, at times, but only when He alows it for His purposes, as Scripture teaches.
When we are changed into the image of the New Man,bodily, then we enter in and go out, in our flesh bodies, and there is no more "door", or Vail, to blind us or keep us out.
For now, our eyes are blinded and we cannot see what is plainly there, and more real than "the ground we stand on", as one preacher used to say; but just like the angels smote the men of Sodom with blindness so that they had to search for the entry of Lot's house all night, in vain, though they could "see" perfectly, and could not find the door, so we cannot see the Door of entry into Heaven's Holy Mount -or into the other mounts Enoch visited, in heaven.
BTW: Enoch also saw one great river there, larger than all the rivers on earth [below].
Enoch visited the Garden of Eden in Paradise and described it as populated with many varrying birds and beasts....it is still God's Garden, and Christ come in flesh is the Only Door open to us, which we can "go through" to "enter in".
Is 25:7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all.
I did locate "Havilah" on Google earth, once, it is very small, and poor, now, but it is located in what is Pakistan, now, but was ancient Persia/India.
I wrote on a board, maybe this one, the location of the rivers from research that I did, once, but I have not got the same computer nor do I know where I wrote that....maybe I can find it without doing it again....