Highly recommended

Get this book and read it as soon as you get it.
I can't remember a book that has opened the Scriptures to me as comprehensively. Along with that, it has driven me TO the Scriptures, to actually go open a Bible and read, which few books do, these days. Here is a sample:

"Just as God brought animals to Adam to teach him about society and his kingly task[Gen 2:19-20], so also He brought an animal to Adam to teach him about holiness and his preistly task [Genesis 3:1].... With God's permission (cf. Job 1,2), Satan used the dragon to challenge Adam and Eve.... What should Adam have done? He should have led Eve away from the serpent to the Tree of Life.... He would have taken the fruit and given it to her (as Jesus, the New Adam, feeds His Bride)....

"Instead,... Adam and Eve... were disqualified from guarding the Garden, and new cherubic guardians were set up in their stead (Genesis 3:24).

"During the Old Covenant, God set aside men to fulfill the office of priest in a special way. These men led others to the door of the Garden (Tabernacle, Temple, etc), but not inside.... These exclusions pointedly reminded the people that access to the Garden had been lost due to sin, and only the work of the Messiah would give them renewed access." (pg 137-38).


And that isn't a highlight; the whole book is like that. Many in my denomination have been influenced by this guy, and now that I've finally read something by him (!), I know why.