forging connections for their readers. They are leaving us “theological breadcrumbs” to lead our minds back to Eden. The books of Romans and Revelation are telling us that just as our bodies will be raised as living flesh and blood, our heaven will need to accommodate such a corporeal identity. Thus, although missed by too many readers, the New Testament is teaching us that “heaven” is this very earth resurrected, healed of its scars, and washed clean of its diseases. As Gregory Beale states, it