Day 2

Water is one of the primary elements referred to in Day 2.

Recall that waters מים is creation wrapped in the Father and Son. There will be many verses where water represents the Word of God, and that expression derived from the primary metaphor. God created all things by speaking them into existence. All of creation is the manifestation of the spoken word of God.

Previously the Spirit hovered over the face of the waters. There were two waters (above and below) and one face between them. Now the Spirit is made flesh... a firm thing.

The word firmament רקיע is comprised of 'empty' רק and 'flesh' יע . The firmament is the flesh of Christ, having emptied himself. We lose it in English, but the word translated 'of no reputation' is 'ekenwsen' or 'emptied'. This is known as the kenosis of Christ.

Php 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

Greeks argue about the kenosis of Christ, but it is really a very simple concept. When I close my eyes, I do not become blind. I simply choose not to use my attribute of sight. The Son of God 'closed his eyes to deity' when he became incarnate... when he was born of Mary. He chose not to use his attributes of omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence, etc.

Php 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

He chose to live wholly as a man and be tempted in every way that we are in order to be qualified to be our high priest. Had he used his deity to resist sin, he would not have left us without excuse. But having faced the same temptations and resisted them, he put us all to shame.

Jesus is the firmament (the solid expression of the Spirit) who separated Holiness and Love, and reconciled them on the cross. While saying he did not come to condemn the world, he condemned it by his perfect obedience putting all to shame. And then displayed the nature of the Father through the cross.

This is the source metaphor for the waters of Noah's time, the parting of the Red Sea and the Jordan River, and making water into wine at the wedding of Cana.