Claim. The Bible itself frames history as the restoration of Eden with Christ — the True Father of humanity — standing at its center as the tree of life. Eden was never confined to a small geography; it included the entire earth. History closes when humanity is reborn through Christ and re-enters the restored garden.
Elaboration. Per 2.3. Human History Is the History of the Providence of Restoration: “The purpose of human history lies in the restoration of the Garden of Eden with the tree of life standing at its center. The Garden of Eden does not refer to a specific geographical location… but includes the entire earth.” Limiting Eden geographically would contradict the blessing to “be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.”
Revelation 22:13–14 frames history with its alpha-and-omega bookend: “the right to the tree of life” is what fallen humanity has lost and what restored humanity must approach. DP reads the tree of life as Christ himself — “the True Father of humanity who, as we have seen, was to have been Adam had he perfected his character.” Building on dp-tree-of-life-symbolizes-perfected-adam and dp-jesus-as-last-adam-and-tree-of-life-second-coming, DP frames history as humankind’s “search for Christ, the True Father of humanity, the one who can give us rebirth.”
The “new heaven and new earth” of Revelation is therefore not annihilation followed by replacement: the existing creation is “made new by being restored to their original position under their rightful masters.”