The Beginning and the End

A river, too, was in Eden, and at the end of Revelation we read of "a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb." (Gen. 2:10; Rev. 22:1.) In Genesis we see the first man (figure of Him that was to come) and his help-meet, of whom he could say, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh." In Revelation we have presented to us "the bride, the Lamb's wife.... having the glory of God" of whom it has been said, that He "nourisheth and cherisheth it," and that "we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones." (Gen. 2:23; Rev. 21:9, 11; Eph. 5:29, 30.)