CHAPTER 2
A Paradigm Shift
In the Hebrew account, we are introduced to the Physical realm. We are not told why God made a physical realm. Theologians tell us God made us for his pleasure, but I have my suspicions that is just because they could not find a better answer. As we go on through scripture, we will get a number of hints, especially in the poetic books, that the Physical realm is not temporary but an interim step to a new heaven and earth. By the time we get to Revelation we are told God will roll up this physical realm and roll out a new heaven and earth. On that basis, this physical realm is like a scaffold that enables the dream house to be built.
None-the-less, Genesis introduces the structures underpinning the nature of God’s Kingdom. The same structure that underpins the Spiritual realm underpins the Physical realm. And the same rebellions opposing those structure in the Spiritual realm have carried their war against the Kingdom-of-God in the Physical realm.