In this light, the Scriptures are a progressively apocalyptic revelation from God concerning the culmination of history in the day of the Lord, which exorcises sin and death from the heavens and from the earth, restoring to creation its original glory. As such, the Bible is also theologically symmetrical—as it begins in Genesis, so it concludes in Revelation. In the beginning there is the creation of all things by the hand of God, the planting of the garden of Eden with the tree of life, the marriage of Adam and Eve, the victory of Satan through human sin, and the subsequent entrance of death and suffering. In the end, however, there is the new creation of God, the restoration of Eden and the tree of life, the marriage of Jesus (the “last Adam”) and his bride (the redeemed), the overcoming of Satan through the final judgment upon human sin, and the subsequent eradication of death and suffering. The Judeo-Christian faith is set within this broad structure. Protology and eschatology are not parts or aspects of biblical theology; they are, rather, the framework within which all theology is understood. - John P. Harrigan