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The Garden of Eden
There's this distinction between earthly cities, they're created by humans, and then there's this heavenly ideal. And there's one city in the biblical story where those two merged together for the time, the Jerusalem. For that season, especially in the biblical narrative, it's presented as a heaven on earth opportunity and season for Jerusalem. But slowly as the kings from the line of David do what they do, do what humans do, they turn the garden city back into another city of Cain and a new Babylon. You just added an idea out of nowhere, which is Heavenly Jerusalem.