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A Biblical Theology of the New Creation from Genesis to Revelation. In the beginning, the perfectly good God created a perfectly good universe. However, through the sin of Adam and Eve, this creation lapsed into a fallen state—yet God promised to bring restoration. In this addition to the Short Studies in Biblical Theology series, Frank Thielman traces the theme of the new creation through the...

words, a word count that is equal to five times seven.1 Seven, then, is clearly the number that in some way corresponds to God. Seven, as it turns out, is also the number that corresponds to God’s creative activity, the story of which appears sandwiched between the first sentence and the last paragraph. Seven times, God’s creative word (“Let there be light.… Let there be an expanse.… Let dry land appear.… Let the earth sprout vegetation.… Let there be lights.… Let the earth bring forth living creatures
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