The Appointed Signs

Every year, ancient Israel kept a sacred calendar-seven appointed meetings with God, spread across the agricultural seasons and set into the Law of Moses. Centuries later, a different writer built his own sequence of seven: the signs recorded in the Gospel of John, each one chosen and arranged to answer a single question-Who is the Messiah?

The Appointed Signs sets these two sequences side by side in careful, sustained detail. Chapter by chapter, it traces Passover into the unbroken bones of the cross; the firstfruits offering embedded within Unleavened Bread into the raising of Lazarus; the water and light of Tabernacles into the healing of a man born blind.

Written for the serious student of Scripture, this book restores the appointed calendar of Israel to its proper place at the center of John's Gospel-not background material, but the very grammar the evangelist wrote in.