Before the Veil — A Free Devotional on the Tabernacle and the Inner Priesthood

A free 108-page devotional walking the tabernacle architecture as the architecture of a praying life. Ten chapters. PDF, EPUB, DOCX.

Before the Veil — A Free Devotional on the Tabernacle and the Inner Priesthood

The tabernacle is a building made of wood and gold and cloth. It is also a building made of a man.

Before the Veil is a 108-page devotional that walks the tabernacle architecture as the architecture of a praying life. Ten chapters. The outer court, the inner court, the laver, the lampstand, the table, the altar, the veil, the ark, the seat where the cherubim look at each other across the place where the blood is sprinkled, and the long slow turning of a believer from a courtyard worshipper into a priest who knows where the veil hangs.

The book is shorter than the others. It is also the most contemplative of the four. It is meant to be read slowly, one chapter a week, with a Bible open and the door of the room closed.

What’s in it

  • Ten chapters, each between 1,500 and 3,000 words.
  • The Melchizedek priesthood as the lens. The book sits in Hebrews 7 the way a chair sits in a kitchen.
  • Closing italicized prayer at the end of every chapter. Many of them are short. They are meant to be prayed more than once.
  • A male composite first-person voice, the same chair as the other three books.

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If it helps you

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I am one of you. I am praying for you.

Brandon