restoration
Restoration
Restoration in Scripture is the undoing of Eden's loss — bringing back what was broken, raising what was dead, returning what was exiled. Joel 2:25 promises "the years that the locust hath eaten" restored; John 21 shows Peter restored by the risen Christ beside another charcoal fire; Revelation 21 ends where Genesis began — a garden, a river, a tree — but with nations walking in the light of the Lamb.
Further reading
- Timothy Keller — The Prodigal God, Dutton (2008)
- Michael Wilcock — The Message of Revelation, IVP (1986)
- Herman Bavinck — Reformed Dogmatics, Vol. 4, Baker Academic (2008)