Behold — The Kingdom of God is at Hand

A book about a picture that has been waiting to be drawn.

Most readers of the Bible eventually hit the same wall — the long descriptions of the Tabernacle of Moses in Exodus and Leviticus. Page after page of curtain dimensions and acacia poles. The bookmark stays for weeks. The reading plan quietly dies.

Behold is built on the conviction that those skipped chapters are not the dull part of the Bible. They are the centre of it.

The book begins with a simple invitation. Take a sheet of paper. Draw the floor plan of the Tabernacle. Then lay the cross of Jesus inside it — feet at the bronze altar in the east, head in the Holy of Holies in the west. What appears on the page is something the Church has had access to for two thousand years and has rarely looked at directly.

• i.
  Lays the body of Christ across the floor plan of the Tabernacle and walks the reader through every correspondence.
• ii.
  Maps the seven I AM declarations of John's Gospel to the Tabernacle furniture they fulfil.
• iii.
  Traces the Hebrew word zeela through Adam, the Tabernacle and the pierced side of Christ.
• iv.
  Distinguishes salvation at the gate from redemption in the Tent — pastorally and biblically.