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Diagram 12.6
The Sequence of Creation

Heaven
I I II

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Heaven as World Heaven as Home Heaven as Sanctuary

and Cain for his sin was excluded from the Edenic homeland as
well (Genesis 4:16). At the Flood, because of the maturation of
humanity’s sin, mankind was excluded from the whole world,
and a new world was begun.
When God made the world, He made the sea first. Then He
drew out the land, and finally He planted the Garden-sanctuary.
Just so, after the Flood, we read first of the Table of Nations
(Genesis 10). Then we find the call of Abraham and the promise
of the land (Genesis 12). With the Mosaic Tabernacle we have
the erection of a provisional Garden-sanctuary. Only when the
land is finally secured under David do we find the full establish-
ment of a permanent Garden-sanctuary under Solomon: the
Temple. Israel sinned, however, and Nebuchadnezzar came to
destroy the Temple and Jerusalem (2 Kings 25:1-21). When the
people continued in their rebellion they were all deported from
the land into exile (2 Kings 25:22-26). Then God rebuilt the
world, first converting the pagan nations and restoring them
under Daniel (Daniel 4, 6), then returning the people to the