The Edenic Pattern

Chapter 1 - The Garden Within the Gates

The thesis of this book is that God created the Heavens and the Earth using a certain method, and then put Man upon the Earth, and gave him a law and a set of methods to imitate by taking dominion over the entire Earth.

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” ²⁷ So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. ²⁸ Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

— Genesis 1:26-28

Within a week of the completion of Creation Week, the primary mission of Mankind was frustrated by the Fall into Sin and the entrance of evil into the world. However, the mission of Man was never rescinded. Through God’s redemptive work in human history leading up to the Incarnation of God the Son as Jesus Christ, the primary mission of mankind has been redeemed and restored. As Christ defeated Satan to accomplish His mission, His redeemed people are called to rule with Him as kings and priests in history to complete Adam’s mission upon the Earth.

Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
— Revelation 20:6

The Division of the Cosmos Into Sacred Spaces

Genesis records that God created the Heavens and the Earth by successively dividing three spaces into rooms over the first three days of creation, and then populating those rooms with living beings on the next three days. The division of the cosmos into spaces and then populating them was one of the primary tools given to mankind.

In the first chapter of Genesis, we are given the first of two creation accounts, this one from God’s perspective (Genesis 1:1 - 2:6).

In the Creation Week, God successively created five spaces: Light, Darkness, Sea, Sky, and Land, and then populated them with Sun, Moon, Stars [Angels], Fish, Birds, land animals, and Man