“A thrilling read. Highly recommended”
(Review written for 'Exodus For You (ebook)')
Reading this book has been a thrilling experience for me. Coming from a practising Jewish background and having been a Christian for almost 50 years I thought I was pretty familiar with Exodus. I must have studied it countless times over the years but through this book Tim Chester has opened my mind to explore and understand new depths, fed my spirit and developed my relationship with God in ways that I could never have imagined.
The application is helpful and powerful, such as when writing about The Ten Commandments, Tim Chester sensitively by firmly demonstrates how we are all guilty of all ten. Equally, a particularly valuable feature for me has been the way in which Tim Chester places the book so clearly in it canonical context. He helps the reader see the echos of earlier times, as far back as the Creation. Then he shows how the book points forward to Jesus in profound and meaningful ways. Again The Ten Commandments is a good example where he methodically demonstrates how Jesus fulfilled them all.
Yet for all that, this is no theological tome. Nor, even though the book goes chapter by chapter through Exodus, is it a commentary in the strict sense. The whole book is highly readable for a lay person with no theological training with invaluable application which helps to bring the text alive.
I cannot recommend it highly enough.
