The last stars of morning
This is the sky of Genesis 2 — sunrise; the stars are fading but not gone. Its first drawn figure is the River of Eden: one spring rising in the garden and parting into four heads, traced from Genesis 2:10 through the psalms and the prophets to the throne of Revelation 22. Because verses share words, stars here also stand in other skies — the four skies interlock. Rest on any star and its verse opens; the bright gold stars open their word studies.
Because Genesis says the water rises in Eden and flows out — and the Bible never forgets it. A river gladdens the city of God; waters issue from under Ezekiel's temple door, eastward; and at the end, the river of life proceeds from the throne. Wherever the river from the sanctuary goes, things live.
Genesis 2 — the sanctuary · The facing pages · The night sky of Genesis 1