Description

A young copyist of the Scriptures climbs a tower at the edge of town to ask an old scribe whether the ledger he keeps of his own failures will ever balance — and is shown instead the one word that runs through every page of the Book he has spent his life transcribing: kaphar, to cover. From the coats of skins in Eden, through the crimson thread of Passover, to the mercy seat and the robe of righteousness, each chapter is a night in the tower — a journey into the scenes of Scripture or the testimony of the saints, braided with teaching and grounded in the King James Version throughout.

The book’s doctrinal spine comes from the documented angelic visitations and throne-room encounters of Pastor Roland H. Buck (1918–1979) of Central Assembly of God in Boise, Idaho — compiler Timothy Holt’s own great-uncle — whose teaching on the priorities of God centered on one insistence: the sacrifice of Jesus is the nearest thing in the universe to God’s heart, and the atonement is everlasting. Every other witness woven through the book — the desert fathers, the mystics, Sundar Singh, and teachers of our own day — is weighed against Scripture first and against that message second, with the text always disclosing where a testimony is quoted, paraphrased, or original to the story.

The 8-chapter, 77-page PDF closes each chapter with a “Meditate on the Covering” section — the chapter’s Scriptures gathered, the type or shadow stated plainly, and one or two questions meant to be taken slowly, Bible open. A full Sources and Bibliography is included for readers who want to trace every reference back to its origin.