God’s creation was supposed to function through human stewardship, and instead it now produces thorns and thistles. Now humans are redeemed, in order to get God’s creation-project back on track; and the word for all that is “reigning,” “ruling,” basileuein in Greek, in other words, “kingdom.”

—John H. Walton, The Lost World of Adam and Eve (Downer’s Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2015) 174.