Unearthing Genesis 1:1 | Conclusion

The Sapphire Review Vol. 2 | No. 27 • May 27, 2025

May 27, 2025

A Pit of Darkness or a Fountain of Life?

Illustration

When Jesus rested at Jacob’s well in the city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, thereunto came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Unto her Jesus said, “Give me to drink.” By this request the woman was perplexed, proceeding to inquire of Him why He, being a Jew, should ask water of her, a Samaritan, with whom the Jews had no dealings? To this, Jesus answered, “If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink: thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.”

The woman responded, saying, “Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then has thou that living water? Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us this well, and drank thereof himself, and his children and his cattle?” Now here is the important part: Jesus answered her, saying, “Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”

Application

Jacob’s well was unto the Samaritan woman as a deep pit of darkness, and she considered the living water which Jesus offered her in like manner: as a deep, dark watery abyss. She esteemed this living water as nothing, for she did not believe. But in truth, this water was not drawn from a deep, dark (bottomless) pit, but was to be in her a fountain of living water springing up into everlasting life. It was a gift of God.

There will be many who behold this understanding of Genesis 1:1 and will count it as nothing, and a deep, dark, bottomless pit. But others shall behold, and they shall see that it is a gift of God, and shall drink the living water thereof, and it shall be unto them a fountain springing up into everlasting life. Yet even those who now consider it nothing and darkness, and do not believe, are still able to receive of this living water as the Samaritan woman did, who came to believe the promise of Jesus, the Word of life. And in that day, the one who once esteemed it a pit of darkness shall go to the people of his city, saying, “Is this not a fountain of living water?” For the time is at hand for us to cry with a loud voice,—

Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
Revelation 14:7

These fountains of waters are not to God’s people of the deep, dark watery abyss, but are of living waters, abundant in life and blessing from Heaven. They speak of the eternal life given unto all those who fear JEHOVAH, and give glory to Him. Even those who worship Him as CREATOR of the firmament called Heaven, and the dry-land called Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called Seas. And not of these only, but as Creator of all things that have life—of things physical and spiritual, temporal and eternal, seen and unseen, and of things come to pass and things not yet come. For all things are by the Word of JEHOVAH, who in the beginning created the heaven and the earth by His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ.

And now, brethren, considering all these things which we have learned throughout this series, there is only one question left to ask:

When you read these words:—

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth…
Genesis 1:1

shall this understanding of the Genesis 1:1 Summary (of the whole beginning in six days) be unto you as a fountain of living water springing up into everlasting life, as it has been to us? Or shall it be unto you as a deep, dark watery pit, and esteemed as nothing?

Let God be true, but every man a liar.1

God bless,
Brandon