Reading for April 7th

Read Ezekiel 47.1-12 Once the Temple is reestablished, water streams up from below the threshold of the Temple to the east to water the land of Israel. This indicates the role of the Temple as the center of creation (the Garden of Eden, Gen 2.10-14; Ps 46.4). The course of the water refelects that of the Gihon spring (compare the Edenic river, Gen 2.10, 13), and emerges eat of the city of David where its waters flow south into the Siloam pool (see 1 Kings 1.32-40; Isa 7.3; 2 Chr 34.4). The water flows into the Jordan Valley and eventually into the Arabah (the Jordan rift where the Dead Sea is located ) to transform the waters of the Dead Sea into fresh water that supports fish and fruit trees (see Gen 2.1-14). Comments or Questions..