God’s Relational Presence: The Cohesive Center of Biblical Theology (Biblia.com)

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Two leading biblical scholars and bestselling authors offer a fresh approach to the question of the unity of the whole Bible. This book shows that God’s desire to be with his people is a thread running from Genesis through Revelation. Duvall and Hays make the case that God’s relational presence is central to the Bible’s grand narrative. It is the cohesive center that drives the whole biblical...

associated with the tabernacle and the temple, and especially with the very presence of God.34 In both the future tabernacle of Exodus and the future temple of 1 Kings, the entrances face the east. Thus the mention of cherubim stationed at the eastern entrance to the garden of Eden implies that they are guarding the way back into the garden/temple wherein lies the tree of life and the presence of God. The continued eastward movement throughout Genesis 3–11 (Gen. 3:24; 4:16; 11:2) perhaps is suggestive

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