Chapter 9 is titled 'The Seven Days of Genesis 1 Related to the Cosmic Inauguration'. This chapter develops further the argument made in Chapter 7 and chapter 8. This chapter specifically tells about the significance of the temple inauguration.
God resides in a temple. But to settle down in a temple, there is a process. And the process involves construction and inauguration of the temple. Exodus records about Moses making the Tent of Meeting. And when all the preparation about the Tent of Meeting is done, the tabernacle is inaugurated. This process of inauguration is also the process of creation of the tabernacle... because unless the tabernacle is inaugurated, it just remains a constructed tent. The constructed tent becomes a tabernacle after it was inaugurated. And inauguration is completed by the glory of the Lord filling it! This duration about the inauguration is not quite certain but it does take time...
Genesis 1 gives the description of the inauguration of the cosmic temple. And it says that here the duration for the inauguration of the cosmic temple is done over 7 days.
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