The church has largely failed to see history’s priority over space in the creation account, a gap corrected here through biblical and covenant theology drawn from Exodus 13:8 and Colossians 3. Preaching itself must apply that same eschatological priority.
Against modern seminaries that treat the Bible as too complex for ordinary believers, time and space in Genesis 1 and 2 get worked through directly. God, sovereign over time itself, nonetheless submits to it, exposing our own idolatry of time and pointing toward an eternal sabbath.