Royal Priests of Eden

Did you know that Israel’s tabernacle tent was designed as a symbolic garden of Eden? And did you know that Adam and Eve were proto-priests who lived and worked in the sacred space? In this video, we explore God’s plan for humanity to serve as royal priests over all creation and how the story of Jesus brings this priestly drama to its ultimate resolution.

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Did you know that Israel’s tabernacle and temple were designed as a symbolic garden of Eden? The designs of both of these sacred spaces (see Exodus 25-31 and 1 Kings 6-8) are full of hyperlinks and imagery that connect back to Eden. The gold (see Genesis 2:11; Exodus 25:3, 11; 1 Kings 6), the specific jewels (Genesis 2:12 and Exodus 25:7; 28:9), the flowering trees (Genesis 2:8-9; Exodus 25:31-35; 1 Kings 6:18, 29), and, of course, the guardian cherubim (Genesis 3:24; Exodus 25:18-22; 1 Kings 6:23-28) all appear only in sacred spaces in the Bible.

There are also three tiers of sacred space in each one of the places. An outer space that surrounds the sacred (the land of Eden in Genesis 2:8, the courtyards in Exodus 27:9-19 and 1 Kings 6:36), then the inner holy space of the sanctuary (the garden of Eden in Genesis 2:8; the holy place of Exodus 26:33-35; the main hall of 1 Kings 6:17), and then the holy of holies where God’s presence took up residence (the tree of life in the garden’s center in Genesis 2:9; the ark of the covenant in the holy of holies in Exodus 25:10-22 and 1 Kings 6:19-22). And last but not least, there is the high priest who alone walks in and out of these sacred Eden-like spaces. The rituals and worship of these priests are called ‘abodah (“worship, ” “service”) and mishmeret (“guarding, ” “keeping”) in the Torah (see Numbers 3:5-10; 8:19-22).

These are the same words used to describe the activity of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden (see Genesis 2:15). All these parallels make it clear that the biblical authors want us to see that God’s ideal calling for humans is to serve as royal priests who mediate God’s presence in a united Heaven-on-Earth space. This vocation is what humanity sadly forfeits through their rebellion in Genesis 3. And the rest of the biblical story is about God’s plan to restore humanity to their role as royal priests, so that the Heaven-on-Earth blessings of Eden can flow out to the rest of the world. This is the story Jesus saw himself fulfilling and bringing to its climax, and it’s what we’re going to explore in our series on the Royal Priest.

This question, it turns out, isn’t that hard to answer. They viewed the world as a three-tiered house, with “the skies above, the land beneath, and the waters below the land” (Exodus 20:4). And the land is prevented from sinking back down into the waters by means of “pillars” that form a “foundation’ (Psalm 24:1-2, Job 38:4-6). And what are these waters in the first place? This refers to the chaotic waters of the pre-creation state described in Genesis 1:2: “The land was wild and waste, and darkness was over the deep waters.” In other words, the biblical authors envision creation as an act of the divine will, facing the non-reality of darkness and water and carving out realms of stability and order, so that life can safely flourish on the dry land.

If this all sounds a bit strange, there’s a good reason for that. The biblical authors didn’t view the universe the same way you and I do! Their language shows no awareness that we live on a huge globe or that we’re revolving around the sun in a solar system that’s part of a massive galaxy. That’s how we imagine the cosmos, which is great! But the biblical authors saw things differently. If we want to understand what they’re trying to tell us about the purpose of creation and about the character of the Creator, we need to put all our cosmic ideas on hold. When we do so, we open ourselves to see reality from a whole new perspective, and that’s what we aim to do in our new video on Genesis 1.

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