God’s Mercy-Seat, Jesus and the Mediation of All Creation

Have you ever thought about who Jesus is? I mean, how his person serves as the mediator between God and men (women too ). Paul says it like this:

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6. who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time. ~I Timothy 2.5-6

Or John the Theologian says it like this:

14. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. . . . 19. Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 20. The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” 21. But he was speaking about the temple of his body. 22. When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken. ~John 1.14; 2.19-22

And Thomas Torrance said it like this:

(iv) Jesus Christ is the place where God and man meet in space and time

In order to express this more positively, let us turn back to the incarnation for a moment. Jesus Christ, the man Jesus, is the place in this physical world of space and time where God and man meet and where they have communion with one another. The temple in the Old Testament was the place where God has put his name, where he kept tryst [sic] with his covenanted people and where they kept covenant with him. Jesus Christ is that temple of God on earth and among mankind where God has put his name, and where he has appointed us to meet him. It is the place where heaven and earth meet, the place of reconciliation within our historical existence in flesh and blood. Jesus Christ is himself among us God’s mercy-seat, God’s place in the world where he is really present to us in our place. (Thomas F. Torrance, “Atonement,” 287)

Do you think Torrance’s articulation helps provide further grammar for what the Apostles Paul and John both wrote? It’s interesting, from Torrance’s approach, how all of the liturgy of the Old Testament and creation itself; finds its purpose in a person. I wonder what this implies about heaven, and what it will look like?