Many stories in the Bible follow a familiar pattern: seeing, coveting, taking, consuming, hiding guilt--then exile or death. The pattern slithers beneath the surface of Achan's plunder, David's rooftop gaze, Judas's walk into the dark, and a crowd trying to seize Jesus by force. Starting with the consumption of fruit, it quickly devours treasure and people and attempts to swallow God himself.
See, Take, Consume uses the Jewish framework of good and evil inclinations, Second Temple sources, and close study of Greek and Hebrew to show that Jesus didn't just refuse the pattern--he submitted to it, absorbed it, and emerged as victor over death. His resurrection proclaims the beginning of restoration and the end of the tyranny the powers of death and sin have wielded since Eden. Now the tree of life stands unguarded to anyone who chooses to receive rather than seize. Taking a journey from Eden's fall to a restored creation,
See, Take, Consume shows that the tree of life is sweeter after tasting the bitterness of tears.
This book is for scholars, pastors, or anyone who wants to see how connected the two Testaments are. It's also for anyone who has struggled through Scripture's most difficult passages and doesn't want them trivialized.
