Jon Collins

And that grand unification is something out there yet in the future.

That's what he means by eschatological.

The final sunset.

Yeah.

And eschatos is the Greek word.

Eschatos means the end or the completion.

So eschatological means that the seventh day narrative is actually...

a way of thinking about the end of history, the completion of history.

Yeah, about all creation coming back into rest, a state of rest within the generous love of God.

And that definitely seems to be how later biblical authors understood the meaning of the seventh day.

That's why Isaiah, at the end of Isaiah's scroll, will talk about God creating a new skies and a new land and all the nations coming to the mountain of God to celebrate all of these patterns of rest and Sabbath.

This is how the end of Isaiah.

Yeah, actually what he says is you won't even need the sun and the moon anymore because God's light will be brighter than the light of seven days.

Yeah, so you don't need the lights of day four anymore, because you've got the eternal light of day one, which is God's light, you know, shining.

It's pretty cosmic.

It's pretty cosmic.

Yeah, so the end is like the beginning, where the beginning is like the end.

So the Genesis 1 narrative is trying to teach, I think, teach us to think about all of history,

as being on this journey of we're laboring towards this great day of unity and rest and completeness and blessing and sharing in the harmony and shalom that is God's own essence.

And what if...