The Earth and the Heavens in Genesis 1

The sea was a terrifying place to Israelites, right? And maybe had something to do with the passage through the Red Sea. It just freaked them all out after the Exodus and they never wanted to make boats again after that. John knows this because he grew up on these scriptures. So what God is going to do is invite the world of Jesus into a new kind of existence by creating land and garden in Genesis 1.