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dreadful visions (Job 4:13; 33:15; Daniel 8:18; 10:9). During “deep sleep” God
cut His covenant with Abram (Genesis 15: 12). The church fathers regarded
Adam’s deep sleep and the birth of Eve from his side as a very important type of
Christ’s death and the birth of the church from His side. See the discussion in
Jean Dani610u, From Shadows to Realip: Studies in the Biblical fipology of the Fathers,
trans. Wtdstan Hibberd (Westminster, MD: Newman Press, 1960), pp. 48-56.
4. On the priests’ duty to guard the sanctuary boundary, see James B. Jordan,
“The Death Penalty in the Mosaic Law: Five Exploratory Essays” (available
from Biblical Horizons, P.O. Box 132011, Tyler, TX 75713), chap. 3.
5. “Create” in Hebrew does not carry with it only the idea of making out of noth-
ing, but primarily carries the idea of a new and wondrous work.
6. Adam was encouraged to eat of the Tree of Life. God had singled it out (Gen-
esis 2:9), and had told Adam to eat freely of every tree except the Tree of
Knowledge. It is an unsupportable speculation to maintain, as some have, that
Adam was not supposed to eat of the Tree of Life. See the discussion of this in
Gary North, The Dominion Covenant: Genesis. Economic Commentary on the Bible
I, 2d ed. (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, 1987), pp. 102-106.
7. I have discussed this phenomenon of exclusion at length in my books, The
Sociology of the Church (Tyler, TX: Geneva Ministries, 1986), chap. 3; and Sab-
bath Breaking and the Death Penal@: A Theological Investigation (Tyler, TX: Geneva
Ministries, 1986), chap. 2.
8. The need for a robe of authority, to deal with Satan, is implied by Adam’s
nakedness. For a full discussion, see James B. Jordan, “Rebellion, Tyranny,
and Dominion in the Book of Genesis ,“ in Gary North, ed., Tmtics of Chriktian
Resistance. Christianity and Civilization 3 (Tyler, TX: Geneva Ministries,
1983); and also James B. Jordan, Primeval Saints: Studies in the Patriarchs of Genesis
(available from Biblical Horizons, P.O. Box 132011, Tyler, TX 75713).
9. Abraham J. Heschel, The Prophets, 2 vols. (New York: Harper and Row, 1955)
1:21.
10. See Jordan, “Rebellion.”
11. George Vandervelde, “The Gift of Prophecy and the Prophetic Church,’ ZCS
Academic Papem (August 1984), p. 10. Distributed by the Institute for Christian
Studies, 229 College St., Toronto, Canada M5T 1R4. I owe Vandervelde a
debt of thanks for many of the insights in this section. The allusion to Heschel is
to his Prophets 1:22.

Chapter 12 – Eden: The World of Transformation

1. Solomon’s Temple proper: 1 Kings 5-7 plus 2 Chronicles 2-5 equals 178 verses.
Temple personnel (the man in the Garden): 1 Chronicles 22-28, for 168 verses.
The Mosaic Tabernacle is described in Exodus 25-31, 35-40, for 459 verses.
The animals of the new Garden (sacrifices) and the new Adam (priest) are de-
scribed in Leviticus 1-9, for 255 verses. Restrictions on access to the Garden oc-
cupy 238 verses in Leviticus 11-16. The symbolic organization of the nation of
Eden around the Garden takes up 188 verses in Numbers 1-4. Other passages
from the Pentateuch could be added in as well.
2. On the Abyss, see David Chilton, The Days of Vmgeance: An Exposition of the Book
of Revelation (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press, 1987), p. 244.
3. For additional thoughts on water, see James B. Jordan, “Hexameron: Theologi-
cal Reflections on Genesis One (A Syllabus)” (available from Biblical Horizons,
P.O. Box 132011, Tyler, TX 75713), chaps. 15-16.