Is Genesis 1 a mere heading, or the making of a cosmic temple? In this episode of Between Two Realms, Pastor Andre reads "the heavens and the earth" as two registers of one cosmos: the material realm and an invisible realm that is equally real, with everything visible created to point beyond itself and turn our eyes upward to God.

From the three heavens and Paul's third-heaven vision, to Psalm 8 where David moves from stars to man to angels in one thought, to the tabernacle patterned after a heavenly original and Eden as a garden temple meant to fill the earth, this is creation read as one great temple, with C.S. Lewis's warning against chronological snobbery along the way, and an answer to a culture that only asks what the stars are made of, never why they are there.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Cold open: why stars and planets were worshipped

00:24 Title sequence

00:34 Everything visible points beyond itself

03:23 Two registers: material and immaterial

06:33 The three heavens: upward, upward, upward

11:00 Stars point to angels

16:46 Reading the two books: scripture and nature

18:41 The tabernacle patterned after heaven

21:52 The cosmic temple and Eden's commission

26:15 Angels at the dawn of creation

REFERENCED ALONG THE WAY

- C.S. Lewis: chronological snobbery, confusing what a thing is with

what it is made of, and the singing at the dawn of Narnia

- J.R.R. Tolkien: the singing over the dawn of creation in his myth

- Michael Heiser on the ancient and modern views of the stars, and Eden

- Thomas Aquinas on Isaiah 14 and the space where only God is

- Meredith Kline on the archetype in heaven and its ectype on earth

- G.K. Beale on the temple's three divisions

- Scripture: Genesis 1, Job 38, Psalm 8, Proverbs 8, Isaiah 14,

2 Corinthians 12, Colossians 1, Hebrews 8 and 9, Revelation 12

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