place · Old Testament

Eden

Genesis 2

A garden sanctuary where God walks with the people he has made.

DwellingCreation

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Dwelling

Echo

points forward to · a garden sanctuary

Eden's features reappear in the tent: gold, cherubim guarding the way in, an eastward entrance, a tree of light. The tabernacle is a portable attempt to get back to the garden.

Echo

points forward to · a tree of gold

The lampstand is described in botanical language — branches, buds, blossoms — a tree of life standing in the holy place.

Creation

Direct

grows out of · the garden returns

Revelation closes with the tree of life, a river, and the curse undone — Genesis 2 restored on the scale of a city.