and throne;52 revelation still comes from heaven,53 and God is now called the “Father in heaven”.54 The Father initiates the movement which, when consummated, is the arrival of the “kingdom of heaven” or the “kingdom of God” on earth.55 If “every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places” (Eph 1:3) has come down to earth in the Incarnation of the divine Word, we must also reflect on Genesis and the fact that heaven and earth were created and the latter was endowed with its own manifold power of conception
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