The Architectural Bookends
Genesis asks what comes forth; Revelation asks what it meant. Garden becomes Garden-City, Tree of Life returns, river becomes River of Life, serpent becomes defeated Dragon, Fall becomes restoration, curse becomes no more curse, exile becomes homecoming, night becomes eternal light, death becomes Life, separation becomes marriage, and creation becomes new creation. Revelation is therefore not merely chronological termination. It is the disclosure of telos: the seed revealing itself in the flower.