Genesis Lecture 50 (The Four Big Rivers) Eng.
Bible passage: Genesis 2:11-14
[11] "The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. [12] The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there. [13] The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the whole land of Cush. [14] The name of the third river is Tigris; it flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates."
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
This is the 50th lecture on Genesis. God Himself created the four big rivers on Earth. The water that formed these rivers came down from Eden in the second heaven. God opened the windows of second heaven and poured the water down to four different places on Earth to form the four big rivers. As the time went by after the 6-days of creation, other rivers were formed naturally, too.
But what is the reason that God Himself specifically made these four rivers- It is because these four rivers would become the main stage for human cultivation serving as the cradle of human civilization. From now, let me briefly explain the spiritual meanings and rough location of those four rivers. In the commentaries and other books, they interpret the meanings of the names based on the meanings of the Hebrew, the original language of the Bible.
Of course, we can take into consideration the meaning of Hebrew words. But we can say we know the complete meaning only after we understand the spiritual meaning that God gave to these rivers. Also, there are some people who try to find the Garden of Eden or the source of these four rivers on Earth. But the Garden of Eden and the source of four rivers are located not on Earth, but in second heaven. No matter how much research they do with cutting-edge technology, they will never be able to find either of them on the Earth. The spiritual world is in a completely different dimension from the physical world.
