A Journey Into Scripture

Behold —
The Kingdom of God
is at Hand.

A serious, biblically-anchored study of the Tabernacle of Moses, the body of Christ, and the architecture of the Kingdom.

— By Andries Botha

A robed figure standing at the gate of the Tabernacle of Moses at sunrise
"Have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them." — Exodus 25:8
The Invitation

A picture God drew before the foundation of the world.

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

But God spent more of the first five books of the Bible on the Tabernacle than on any other subject — including creation itself. When you slow down, the measurements start to speak. The materials start to preach. And the story they tell is the story of Jesus.

Take a sheet of paper. Draw the floor plan. Then lay the cross of Jesus inside it — His feet at the bronze altar, His head in the Holy of Holies, His heart at the place of meeting.

What takes shape on that paper is not a theological diagram. It is the map of the Kingdom — the map God drew before the foundation of the world and has been waiting for His people to trace.

The body of Christ laid across the floor plan of the Tabernacle of Moses — His head in the Holy of Holies, His arms outstretched through the Holy Place, His feet at the Brazen Altar, with the gold cross underlying His form
The Body of Christ Laid in the Tabernacle
Book One — Available Soon

The first volume of a four-book series.

Behold lays the body of the crucified Christ across the floor plan of the Tabernacle and walks the reader, piece by piece, through the correspondences. Forty-eight short chapters. Seven parts. One unforgettable picture.

Behold — The Kingdom of God is at Hand · book cover by Andries Botha
174 pages · 48 chapters · 7 parts

What this book offers that no other Tabernacle book does.

Most books on the Tabernacle treat its furniture as a series of separate types and shadows. Behold goes further: it lays the body of Christ across the entire floor plan and walks the reader through every correspondence. His feet at the altar of judgment. His pierced side at the laver of cleansing. His heart at the altar of incense — the precise place God called the meeting place.

  • i.
    Maps the seven I AM declarations to the Tabernacle furniture they fulfil.
  • ii.
    Traces the Hebrew word zeela through Adam, the Tabernacle and the pierced side of Christ.
  • iii.
    Distinguishes salvation at the gate from redemption in the Tent — pastorally and biblically.
  • iv.
    Built for personal reading and for small group study, with reflection questions in every chapter.
The Four Volumes

A coherent series — one revelation, four progressive depths.

i.
Manuscript Complete
at Hand
The Foundation Volume
ii.
Drafted · In Revision
at Heart
The Inward Vision
iii.
In Detailed Outline
is You
The Indwelling
iv.
In Outline
With You
The Capstone
Study Guides

For small groups, leaders & seekers.

Each study guide draws directly from the chapters of the book and is designed to be drawn together — at a kitchen table, in a Bible study, in a discipleship group, or alone with a Bible and a pen.

In Active Development

An interactive companion for the books.

Walk through the Tabernacle on a screen. Ask the study assistant your deepest biblical questions. Lead a small group with structured guides drawn from the book. The application keeps the printed page at the centre — and lets you press deeper when you need to.

Interactive Tabernacle

Explore the floor plan visually. Tap any piece of furniture for in-depth biblical detail.

Custom-Trained Study Assistant

Ask questions in your own words. Receive answers grounded in Scripture and the books themselves.

Interactive Study Guides

Structured guides for personal devotion, small groups and church-based discipleship.

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The Tabernacle app interface — interactive blueprint of the Tabernacle of Moses on a smartphone
The Journal

Reflections from the path.

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Redemptive History

Seven feasts. One pattern. One Christ.

The Lord's appointed times in Leviticus 23 are not merely calendar markers. They form the prophetic skeleton of redemptive history — four feasts fulfilled at Christ's first coming, three still awaiting their fulfilment, and the present age of the Church standing in the gap between them.

The seven feasts of Israel as a redemptive timeline — Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, Pentecost, Trumpets, Day of Atonement, Tabernacles
We are here — the age of the Church
The Pastoral Heart

Two halves of the Christian life. One picture.

"Many believers live their entire Christian life in the Outer Court of salvation, never entering the Tent of redemption. The map has been in the Bible all along."

The Tabernacle of Moses showing the journey from salvation at the gate to redemption in the Tent
— Drawn from Behold · The chapter on Salvation and Redemption
Read the entry on salvation and redemption
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