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phical allegory. What Ambrose calls the moral sense is there-
fore something entirely different from typology. 1A

Eventually, however, “Christian philosophy freed itself from
an allegorism which artificially tied it to the Bible, and became
an independent approach.” 15
Herbert Schlossberg has written, “All idols belong either to
nature or to history. The whole creation falls into these two cate-
gories, and there is no other place to which man can turn to find
a substitute for God.” 16 The Biblical symbolic worldview an-
swers man’s idols of nature. Only if we allow nature to point us
to the Creator can we avoid idolatry. Just so, the Biblical topo-
logical worldview answers man’s idols of history. God super-
intends history so that events of the past shed light on events of
the future. The key to unlocking the meaning of history lies in
the topological blueprint of heaven, as heaven progressively is
impressed upon the earth, and as the Heavenly Man, Jesus
Christ, is progressively impressed upon His people. 17

Conclusion
When we step outside and look up, what do we see? We see
the blue sky of day, and the black starry sky of night. We see
clouds and heavenly fire (lightning). We see rainbows and falling
stars. We hear thunder. The Bible tells us that these are not
merely natural phenomena. They are pictures of heaven, revela-
tions of God’s glory, dimensions of His home. With new eyes, we
can see this world also as God’s house.