Sunday, October 4, 2026

Book Review: A Divine Design

Title: A Divine Design

Author: Doug Batchelor et al.

Date: 2019
 
Publisher: Amazing Facts

Length: 48 pages

Quote: "What does the Bible uncover about this sanctuary?"

Seventh-Day Adventists don't try to build temples with sanctuaries as described in the book of Exodus, nor do they collectively observe the Jewish holidays, but they do find spiritual meaning in the discussion of the Temple (and its calendar) in the Bible. In this glossy, beautifully illustrated little book Batchelor explains that meaning from a Christian point of view. 

This book was part of a series that appeared at regular intervals. Though each short book was written mostly by one person about one topic, their regular appearance and glossy paper caused some to call them magazines. Both words seem to me to suggest something that looks different from A Divine Design. (Buy it and see which you'd call it.) It's a sort of hybrid between book and magazine. 

If you've always wondered what the descriptions of the tabernacle and temple, their furniture and decor, and the priests' vestments would have looked like or why it mattered, this book is for you.

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