What exactly happened to the waters above the firmament?
I can only surmise.
Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
The universe is surrounded by water, the deep. It is where the floodwaters came from.
Genesis 8:2 KV The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
The original creation Genesis 1:1 was not separated from God; He dwelt within his creation and thus shall it be at the end with the new earth and heaven. We will go full circle.
The restored creation (the six days) left it buried under the waters of the deep separating the third heaven, God, from us. That is what baptism is a picture of, being dead, buried under the deep, and being resurrected up through the water to be in fellowship with God.
Job 38:30 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
Revelation 4:6 And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
Revelation 15:2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
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