Why Heaven Has No Sea

In the last book of the Bible, in its final vision, John is shown a new heaven and a new earth. And before he describes a single street of gold, before the gates, before the throne, he records what the new world will not contain. The first thing on that list is not death. It is not pain. It is not mourning. It is the sea.

In verse one of Revelation 21, the words are plain, and there was no more sea. Notice the order in which John records it. Of all the things the new creation leaves behind, the sea is named first before death itself. Stop. Read it again. The sea is gone and its absence is written down as good news.

I have read Revelation 21 many times. For years, I read past those four words without stopping. The day they stopped me, I went looking for the reason. And the reason was not in Revelation. It was at the beginning of the book. Because to understand why heaven has no sea, you have to go back to the first page to the second verse of the whole Bible where the same word, the same dark water is already waiting.

Scripture opens on water and closes on water, but it is not the same water. And that distinction hidden in the original languages is the entire story. There are two waters in this book. Most readers never separate them because most translations do not. Keep that in mind as we move through scripture from the first page to the last. By the end, one of these two waters will be missing and you will understand why its absence is a mercy.

So we begin where the water begins in the dark before the first morning. The Bible does not begin with light. It begins with dark water. The first verse announces the heavens and the earth. But it is the second verse that shows us the state of things. And it is a scene few people picture when they think of the beginning of everything. The earth without form and void, darkness over the face of the deep, and the spirit of God hovering over the face of the waters.

Notice where God begins. Not in a garden, not in a field of light. He begins over the water in the dark. And here the text leaves its first fingerprint. The word translated deep is in Hebrew tehom. It is not just any word for water. Tehom is the deep water, vast with no floor in sight. The Septuagint, the ancient Greek translation, chooses to render it with a word that will echo all the way to the last page of the Bible. Abyssos, the abyss. Hold on to that word. We will meet it again.

And there is a second detail more delicate. The translation almost erases. The text says, "The spirit was hovering over the waters." In Hebrew, the verb is merachephet. It is a rare verb. In the whole Hebrew Bible, its root appears only three times. And one of those other uses describes an eagle over its nest, fluttering over its young, covering them, sustaining them. So it is not an image of haste. It is an image of brooding, of a living thing hovering over something that does not yet live, about to wake it.

Pause here a moment. Put together the two images the verse sets side by side. Below the dark water without form, the deep. Above the spirit hovering like a bird over the nest. And it is out of this tension that everything else is born.

Because on the third day, God does not destroy the water. Notice this because it is the key to the whole story. He separates it. He gathers the waters into one place, makes the dry land appear, and gives a name to what he gathered. And the name he gives to the gathered waters is seas. Do you see the shape of it? In the first act of order in the world, God does not make the sea vanish. He contains it. He sets it limits. He tells it how far it may come. The sea remains, but it remains subdued, folded back, put in its place.

And here is the common reading, the one almost everyone makes. The water at the beginning is simply water, neutral matter, the raw material of creation. It is a possible reading. But the text read with care suggests something else. It does not give us neutral water. It gives us a dark deep that must be separated, limited, held at a distance for life to appear. The water here is what must be tamed before the world can breathe.

There is an honest debate among scholars about how much weight to give this word tehom. Some see in it only underground water, nothing more. Others hear in it the echo of an ancient chaos, a threat that only the hand of God holds back. I do not need to settle that debate for you to see what matters. Whichever reading you take, the sea at the beginning is not a friend. It is a force God must order. And that is the first of the two waters. Let us call it what it is. The water of the deep, the chaos sea, tehom, the water that threatens, that swallows, that has no floor. The water that God from the very first day divides and contains.

Hold that image because within a few minutes we will see this same water, this same deep open again. And the next time it will not hold life back. It will swallow the whole world.

I told you to hold on to the word tehom, the deep, the deep water of the second verse of the Bible. Now notice where it returns in Genesis 7. When the flood waters come, the text does not only say that it rained. It says something older, more terrible. It says, "The fountains of the great deep were broken up." And the word is the same tehom over which the spirit had hovered in the beginning.

Notice what this means. The flood is not only rain falling from above. It is the deep opening from below. It is the chaos water of the first day, the one God had separated and contained, breaking the limits he had set for it. It is as if creation went into reverse. As if the world returned to the formless dark of the beginning covered in water again. The text is telling us something terrible and exact. Judgment is the undoing of creation. The water that had been put in its place takes the world back.

And here the second pattern appears and this one will repeat across all of scripture. So I ask you to see it clearly now because we will meet it again. The same water that destroys is the water that saves. Think of the ark floating on the flood. The waters that drown the whole world are exactly the same waters that lift the ark and carry it. The water does not change. What changes is the side you are on. Under the water, death. Above the water, inside the ark, life. And it is the same water doing both things at the same time.

Eight souls, the text says, were saved through the water. Not in spite of the water, through it. They had to pass through the water of death to reach the new world on the other side. And when the waters go down, notice the detail because Genesis wants us to see it. God makes a wind pass over the earth and the waters recede. It is the same sequence as the first chapter. The wind, the breath over the waters. The waters put back in their place. The flood ends like a second creation, a new world washed, rising out of the water again.

There are two ways to read water in the Bible. The first treats it all as one thing, a symbol of life, of blessing. I confess I read it that way for years, but the text resists that reading. I hold to the second that scripture carefully distinguishes two opposite waters and the flood is the first place where you see it without disguise because there is yet another witness to call here and this one comes from the New Testament.

The Apostle Peter looks back at the flood and makes a connection that is easy to read too quickly. He says those eight souls were saved through water and then he adds an extraordinary word. He says that water was a figure. In Greek, the term is antitype, an antitype, a pattern, a shadow that points to a greater reality, a figure of what? Of baptism.

Notice what Peter is doing. He is saying that the flood, that water which at once drowned a world and saved a family, was an advanced design of what happens in the waters of baptism, a death and a salvation. In one act in the same water. And Peter is careful to explain that it is not the water itself that saves, not the removal of dirt from the body. It is what the water points to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The water is the sign, but the sign is exact. To go down into the water is to go down into death. To come up out of the water is to come up into new life.

Hold on to this too because the pattern is now complete. The first water, the deep, the tehom has returned and it brought with it a law we will see again and again and again. To reach new life, you must pass through the water of death.

Next time it will not be a family in a wooden ark. It will be a whole nation trapped with an army behind them and a sea in front. A whole nation at the edge of the water. Behind them, the most feared army in the world. In front of them, the sea. There is nowhere to go. And it is precisely there in the place with no way out that God chooses to act. Not over the sea, through it.

Notice the tool the text records to open the sea. God sends a wind in Hebrew, ruach. It is the same word as in Genesis. The same breath that hovered over the waters in the beginning, the same wind that drove back the flood now blows over the Red Sea and splits it in two. Notice the signature. Whenever God masters these waters, it is his breath that forces them back. And the sea splits. The waters rise up on each side. And the text uses a remarkable word for the shape they take. It says, "The waters stood like a heap." In Hebrew, ned, a wall of water standing against its own nature. Water which only knows how to fall stands up. Hold on to this word too, ned. The water raised like a heap. We will meet it again in another river with another generation.

And then the nation crosses. Look closely. They walk through a dry corridor opened in the middle of the deep with the water standing like a wall on either side. Where there was only sea, there is now a road. Death has opened to let life pass. But here the second pattern returns, and this time in full force, because the same water has two faces at once. For Israel, those walls of water are a road of salvation, a dry corridor in the middle of the deep. But when the army of Egypt enters behind them, the walls fall, and the water that had been a road becomes a grave, the same water. On the same day, salvation for one people, death for the other.

The text closes the scene with an image you do not forget. The next morning, Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. The water gave the bodies back. The deep which in the flood had swallowed a world now swallows an army. And the people who passed through are alive on the other side looking back.

Stop and see the full design. It is exactly the flood again on a larger scale. A water that kills and saves in the same gesture. Some go down into it and die. Others pass through it and live. And between death and new life there is always the water.

Because once more there is a second witness to call and it comes again from Paul. Writing to the Corinthians, Paul looks back at this crossing and says something that should stop any reader. He says, "Our fathers were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea." Baptized in the sea. Notice what Paul is doing. He is reading the crossing of the Red Sea as a baptism. The whole nation going down into the water of death and coming up the other side as a new people free with a new identity. They passed through the water and on the other side they were no longer slaves.

There is an irony here. The text does not hide and it is worth noticing because it shows this is not about literal immersion. Israel was baptized in the sea and yet crossed on dry ground. Paul's point is not the water covering them. It is the passage. It is going down into the place of death and coming up alive on the other side, transformed. The water that separates the old from the new, Egypt behind, freedom ahead.

And now you begin to see with growing clarity what this first water always does. The deep, the sea. It divides. It separates one world from another, the old from the new, death from life. It is the water you must cross. But cross to reach what? A desert. And in the desert with no water, a whole nation dying of thirst will discover that there is a second water. A water that does not kill. A water that flows from a rock.

So far we have seen only one water, the deep, the sea. The water that drowns, that judges, that separates, the water you must cross. But in the desert everything is reversed. Because in the desert there is no sea. There is the opposite of the sea. There is the absence of water. A whole nation under the sun dying of thirst. And the problem is no longer too much water threatening to swallow. It is too little. The total absence of the thing that gives life. And it is precisely here in the place where there is no water at all that the Bible shows us for the first time the second water. The other water, the one that does not kill.

In Exodus 17, the people murmur on the edge of revolt, and God gives Moses a strange command. He tells him to go to a rock and to strike it, to hit the stone with the staff. Moses obeys, he strikes the rock, and from the dry stone in the middle of the dead desert, water flows. Living water, running water, water that gives drink to a whole nation. Notice the complete reversal. At the sea, the water was there and had to be driven back for the people to live. Here at the rock, the water is not there and it has to be released for the people to live. One water driven away, another water bursting out.

Begin to hold on to the difference because it is the heart of this whole video. But the text is not finished with us because there is a second time. Almost 40 years later in Numbers 20, the scene repeats. Again the desert, again the thirst, again the people murmuring and again God sends Moses to a rock. But look carefully at the command God gives this time because it changes everything. This time God does not tell Moses to strike the rock. He tells him to speak to it, only to speak. And Moses, worn out, furious with the people, does not speak. He lifts the staff, calls them rebels, and asks, "Must we bring water out of this rock for you?" And then he strikes the stone, not once, twice. The water flows all the same. God in his mercy gives the people drink in spite of everything. But the consequence for Moses is tremendous. Because of that act, God tells him he will not enter the promised land. The man who brought Israel out of Egypt, who opened the sea, who led the people 40 years, will die at the door of the land without entering it.

And here the common reading hesitates, and rightly so. It seems a punishment out of all proportion, to strike the stone instead of speaking to it, and to lose everything. Stop and read it again because the text is treating this with a gravity that must have a reason. The reason the book of Numbers itself gives is direct. Moses did not believe, did not honor God as holy before the people. He took to himself a gesture that was not his. "Must we?" As if the water came from him. That is the explanation the text states, and it is enough.

But there is a second reading older that the Christian tradition saw beneath this one. And I confess it is the one that holds me. To see it, you have to hear the last witness. And it is the most important of all. Because Paul writing to the Corinthians looks at this rock in the desert and says five words that open the whole case. He says, "The people drank from a spiritual rock that followed them." And then he adds, "And that rock was Christ." That rock was Christ. Let it settle. The stone struck in the desert from which flowed the water that gave life to a dying people was a figure of Christ.

And suddenly the two episodes stop being confusing and become exact. The first time the rock is struck once and from the struck rock flows the water of life. Just as Christ would be struck once on the cross so that from him would flow the living water over a world dying of thirst. He was struck once only, once for all, says the letter to the Hebrews. And that is why the second scene is so grave. Because God had told Moses only to speak to the rock. The rock had already been struck once long before. It could not be struck again. The word was enough. And Moses by striking it again and twice ruined the design. He showed the people a false picture. A rock that needs to be beaten over and over to give water. A Christ struck again and again.

Notice that this second reading is a layer the tradition sees beneath the text, not the reason Numbers declares out loud. But the first water and the second water are now at last both on stage. And look at the contrast because it is perfect. The first water, the sea, kills in order to save. The second water, the water of the rock, is pure life flowing from a wound. One is the water you cross. The other is the water you drink. And the second water has a name we will hear louder and louder from here on.

But before we drink it, in a conversation beside a well, there is still a river to cross, the last river. And it will be crossed by two men with the same name. 40 years of desert come to an end and between Israel and the promised land stands one last barrier of water, the River Jordan, and it is not calm. The text makes a point of saying the river was overflowing its banks in the season of harvest. It was at its worst for crossing.

And see what happens because you already know the shape. The priests carrying the ark step into the edge of the water and the river stops. The waters coming down from above halt and rise up and the text says they stood like a heap. You have heard this word ned, the very same word from the Red Sea. The waters raised standing against their nature. The Holy Spirit is signing the page. What you are seeing at the Jordan is the same thing you saw at the sea. The chaos water mastered again, forced to open a road, and the people step into the riverbed that stopped in the middle of its flood, and they passed to the other side, into the land of the promise.

There is even a detail the text keeps, like someone leaving a clue on the ground. The waters halted beside a city called Adam. I build no doctrine on this, but I record it because the text did not have to name the city, and it did. And now we come to the greatest fingerprint in this whole video. It is in a name. The man who leads Israel through the Jordan into the land is called Joshua. But Joshua is the English form of the Hebrew name Yahoshua which shortens to Yeshua. And Yeshua when it passes into the Greek of the New Testament is written Iesous, which in English we say Jesus.

Stop. Read it again. Joshua and Jesus are the same name. Yeshua. The man who opens the waters of the Jordan and brings the people into the promised land has exactly the same name as the man who centuries later will go down into the waters of the same river. Because it is precisely there at the Jordan that the New Testament truly opens. It is in that river that John the Baptist is baptizing. And it is to that river that Jesus comes and goes down into the water.

See the design the spirit is tracing. The first Yeshua, Joshua, crosses the Jordan to open for the people the entrance into the land. The second Yeshua, Jesus, enters the same Jordan to open for the people the entrance into the kingdom. One leads through the water into a land. The other enters the water to open a heaven. And when he comes up out of the water, notice the scene because it is full of echoes. We have already seen the heavens open. The spirit descends in the form of a dove and hovers over him. A dove over the water. Where have we already seen a bird hovering over the waters? In the second line of the Bible, the spirit hovering like a bird over the deep. And where have we already seen a dove over the water of judgment, over the ark at the end of the flood, the dove returning with the leaf, the sign that a new world had risen.

Everything comes together in that river. The spirit as a bird over the waters from the beginning, the dove over the water from the flood, and the name Yeshua of the man who opened this same river. Everything converges on one point, on one man in the water. And over that water, this time the heavens do not pour out destruction as in the days of Noah. They pour out a voice. "This is my beloved son."

Notice too, who is baptizing? John, son of a priest of the line of Aaron, standing in the river echoes the priests who stood in the bed of the Jordan in the time of Joshua. That river is the river of the crossings. It was there the mantle passed from Moses to Joshua and later from Elijah to Elisha and it is there it now passes from John to Jesus. But it is also the river where the two waters begin at last to touch. Because until now the Jordan was water to cross, the first water, the barrier. And now it becomes the place where the bearer of the second water, the living water, enters in person. And it is he who in the next step will sit down at the edge of a well, tired from the journey, and offer a woman a water she had never heard named.

Midday heat. A man tired from the journey sits down at the edge of a well. It is an old well, the well of Jacob, deep dug into the rock. A woman of Samaria comes with her jar to draw water, and the man asks her for a drink. The conversation that follows seems on the surface a conversation about thirst and about a bucket. But notice the word Jesus introduces because it is the word this whole investigation was waiting for. He tells the woman that if she knew who was asking her for water, she would have been the one to ask him and that he would have given her living water.

Living water in Greek, hudor zōn. Now pay close attention because there are two meanings working at the same time here and translation lets you see only one. In the common usage of that land, living water simply meant running water. Spring water, water that moves as opposed to the still water of a well or a cistern. It was an everyday distinction. Living water runs. Dead water stands still. And the woman hears only this meaning. So she answers with practical logic. She looks at him and asks, "Sir, you have no bucket and the well is deep. Where would you draw that running water?" And then she throws down the challenge. "Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us this well?" It is the right question. And the answer of the text from the beginning of the chapter to the end is one word. Yes.

He is greater because Jesus takes the common meaning running water and lifts it to a second meaning which is the true one. He says, "Whoever drinks of the water of this well will thirst again. But whoever drinks of the water I give will never thirst again. The water I give will become in him a spring of water leaping up to eternal life."

See the contrast because it is perfect and it is the contrast of the whole video set in a single scene. On one side the well of Jacob, deep, ancient, valuable, but still water you must go and fetch. Lower the bucket, pull it up, and which quenches thirst for an hour. On the other side, the water Jesus gives, a spring inside the person, leaping on its own, that never runs dry, that gives life without end. The first is water you go and fetch. The second is water that comes to live inside the one who drinks it.

This is at last the second water with its name spoken aloud. The living water, not the sea you cross, not the deep that drowns, the spring that bursts out and gives eternal life. The same water that flowed from the struck rock in the desert, now offered to a woman at midday at the edge of a well. And so you do not think this distinction is something I invented, hear the witness that seals it. It comes from the prophet Jeremiah, and it is the lexical fingerprint of this whole investigation. Centuries before that well, God speaks through the mouth of Jeremiah and says his people have committed two evils. Notice both because they are the two waters set face to face by God himself. The first evil, they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters in Hebrew, mayim chayyim. Exactly the same idea Jesus offers the Samaritan woman. God calls himself the fountain of living water. And the second evil. And they have hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

Stop and see what God has just done. He has set the two waters against each other in his own words. On one side himself, the fountain of living water that runs and never dries. On the other, the cisterns man digs for himself, still cracked, holding nothing, where the water rots. Living water against dead water, the fountain against the broken cistern. I did not invent the two waters. God distinguished them and left the distinction written, waiting for the one who knew where to look.

Notice what just happened. One Greek word, hudor, opened that verse in two. Then one Hebrew word, mayim, sealed it shut. That was not a sermon. It was the word itself once someone opened it. And this is what has quietly escaped most readers for years. Not faith, not intelligence, but access to the word beneath the word. So I built a method, a simple way to do exactly what we just did in any verse in Hebrew or Greek with no training. It is called the word beneath the words and I left it in the description.

Now let us see where these two waters finally meet. And now that we have the two waters, both with a name, we have left to see the place where they run together for the first and only time. Not in a well, not in a river, but from the open side of a man nailed to a cross.

Before the well, there was a conversation at night. A man named Nicodemus, a teacher in Israel, comes to Jesus in the dark. And Jesus says to him a sentence that has been argued over for 2,000 years. He tells him that unless someone is born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. Of water and the spirit. And here I am honest with you because the investigator does not hide his hesitations. This sentence has more than one possible reading. Some hear in water the natural birth, the body. Some hear baptism. Both readings carry weight, and I will not dismiss them lightly. But there is a third reading, and it is the one Jesus himself seems to demand.

Because notice what he does next. He rebukes Nicodemus. "You are a teacher in Israel, and you do not know these things." In other words, what I am telling you, you should already know. You should have read it. It is in the scriptures you teach. And where is it? It is in the prophet Ezekiel. God promises through the mouth of Ezekiel a day when he will say to his people, "I will sprinkle clean water on you and you shall be clean. And I will put a new spirit within you." Clean water and the spirit side by side in the same promise. The water that purifies and the spirit that renews. Not two things but one single birth from above. It is the second water again, the living water now bound inseparably to the spirit to be born of water and the spirit is to be born of that spring leaping up to eternal life.

But Jesus said that spring would have to be opened and at the rock in the desert we saw how the rock had to be struck for the water to come out. We have left to see the wound. And the wound is on the cross. Jesus is already dead. The text is clear. The soldiers come to hasten the end of the crucified. But when they reach Jesus, they see he has already died. And then one of them, without need, almost as a gesture, lifts the spear and pierces his side. And John, who was there, records what he saw with an insistence beyond the ordinary. He says in plain words that he saw it with his own eyes and that his testimony is true because what came out of that wound was not expected. Two things came out. There came out blood and water.

Stop. Read it again. From the pierced side of Christ flowed separately blood and water. Look first at what this proves on the level of fact because it matters. That flow of blood and a watery fluid separated is a sign of real death. Blood once the circulation stops separates. Water does not separate from blood in a living body. That water coming out with the blood is the forensic proof that Jesus was truly dead, not fainted, dead. John is closing the door on any doubt about that.

But now look at what it means because this is where the whole investigation converges on a single point. Do you remember the rock? The struck rock from which flowed the living water for a people dying of thirst. Paul told us who the rock was. That rock was Christ. And here is the true rock struck at last on the cross once. And from the wounded side flows the water. And it does not flow only water. It flows blood and water. The two streams together from the same open side. The blood that redeems, the water that cleanses and gives the spirit. The two waters of all scripture, the one you cross into death and the one you drink into life, meet here for the first and only time in one place, the wound of Christ.

And this too was written. The prophet Zechariah had said two things that this moment fulfills at once. First, "They shall look on me whom they pierced." The spear fulfills it to the letter. And right after in the verse that opens the next chapter, Zechariah says, "On that day, a fountain shall be opened for the house of David for the cleansing of sin and uncleanness." A fountain opened for cleansing. The pierced side of Christ is the opened fountain of Zechariah. The spring of living water opened at last in the wounded body of the Son. The second water has here its final source. Not in a well, not in a river, not in a rock in the desert, in a wound.

And now, with the fountain opened, we have left only to see where that water flows. We have left to see its destination. And to see it, we must return to the place we started from, to the last page of the book, to the sea that disappeared. It is time to solve the anomaly we began with.

We have returned to the end, to the last page, and now we carry with us everything we have seen. John in his final vision is led to see the final state of things. And he is shown a river, not a sea, a river. The text calls it the river of the water of life, clear as crystal. And it says where it flows from, from the throne of God and of the Lamb.

Stop and see what is in this image. The second water, the living water, the one we saw burst from the rock, leap up for the Samaritan woman, flow from the wound in the side of Christ, has now reached its source and its destination. It no longer comes from a rock in the desert. It no longer comes from a well. It comes from the very throne of God. The spring of living water is in the end God himself. Exactly as Jeremiah had said, the fountain of living waters. And it is not a new image. It is the fulfillment of something the prophet Ezekiel had seen centuries before. A river flowing out from under the temple, running and growing deeper to the point of healing even the dead waters it passed through with trees of life on its banks. John sees that river reach its end. Only at the end there is no longer a temple because he says, "The Lord is the temple." And so the river flows now directly from the throne. The second water has won. The living water has its kingdom.

But the first water is missing. And this is where we solve at last the anomaly this video began with. Go back to the verse at the beginning of the end. Revelation 21:1. John sees the new heaven and the new earth. And before he describes what is there, he records what is not there. And the first thing on the list before death, before pain, before mourning is this. And there was no more sea.

Now you know how to read this sentence because now you know what the sea is in scripture from beginning to end. The sea is the tehom, the dark deep of the second verse of the Bible that had to be separated and contained for the world to live. It is the water that opened in the flood and undid creation. It is the deep that swallowed the army at the Red Sea. It is the place of chaos, of threat, of death. The thing that always had to be mastered, crossed, held at a distance by the hand of God. And now at the end, God does not contain it. He does not divide it. He does not send a wind over it to put it in its place. He takes it off the map, and there was no more sea.

See the greatness of what is written. From the beginning of the Bible to the end, God mastered that water. He put it in its place on the first day. He drove it back in the flood. He opened it at the Red Sea. He raised it like a heap at the Jordan. He always controlled it. But to control is not the same as to end. And only at the end in the new creation does he take the final step. The chaos water which all through the story needed to be held back ceases to exist. Not because it was beaten in a battle because there is no longer any place for it where everything is life. That is why the sea is the first thing named on the list of what disappears before death. Because the sea was the symbol of all that death is: the chaos, the separation, the deep that swallows. To take away the sea is to say in one image that the chaos is over.

For years I read "no more sea" as a loss, as if something were missing from heaven. Today I read it the other way. Nothing is missing. It was removed. The last water that threatens man was taken out of the world and only the water that gives him life remained. It took me a long time to see this and the clue was there all along in plain sight. And this is why heaven has no sea.

The Bible tells one single story of water from beginning to end. But it is two waters. The chaos sea which God folds back, crosses, and at last abolishes. And the living water which flows from the rock, from the wound, from the throne, and which in the end runs forever free. Scripture does not end with all the water restored. It ends with one water destroyed forever and another running pure. The invitation the whole book closes with is about that second water. "Let the one who is thirsty come and let the one who wishes take the water of life freely." The whole story from the dark deep of the first morning was walking toward this single sentence. The thirst has an end. The fountain is open and it is free. From the deep to the river. Heaven has no sea. It has a river.

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