Tabernacle: Camping With God

by Stephen F. Olford

View the tabernacle as Israel did. This "tent" in which God camped with His people, revealed His purpose, power, and glory. Every detail pointed to Christ.

Genres: Theology

187 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Stephen Olford was born in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) of missionary parents. His father, an Englishman, was converted through the ministry of R.A. Torrey. His mother, an American from Buffalo, New York, was associated with the evangelistic work of Sister Abigail.

Educated in Britain at St. Luke's College, Mildmay, and the Missionary Training Colony in London, his evangelistic crusades throughout Britain were interrupted in 1939 by the war, when he worked with the troops, and for seven years preached in a Forces Center in South Wales, reaching almost a thousand men a week. After the war, he returned to crusading on a much larger scale in major cities of the British Isles, Canada, and the United States, and was a frequent speaker at Keswick, in England. He held a six-year pastorate in Richmond, Surrey, before coming to New York.

In 1966 Wheaton College conferred upon Stephen Olford the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and Houghton College awarded him the Doctor of Letters degree.

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Stephen F. Olford is well known as pastor of New York's Calvary Baptist Church, radio and television preacher, conference and crusade speaker, as well as author of several books and pamphlets. As pastor of Calvary Baptist Church since 1959, Dr. Olford's leadership has led to an expanded radio ministry, "The Calvary Church Hour" being heard each week throughout the Caribbean, Great Britain, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. He has also pioneered a gospel program on television with the weekly "Encounter," which has a potential audience of some twenty-seven million in the New York area. His conference and crusade ministry has taken him around the world.

Reviews

[Brian · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is a classic case of good doctrine from the wrong text. While there are some occasionally helpful insights, Olford errs in excessive and arbitrary allegorical interpretations, literally seeing significance in every minute detail of the tabernacle. Unfortunately, he misses the larger biblical-theological connections between the tabernacle, the Garden of Eden, and the prophetic hope of the eschatological temple in Ezekiel, culminating in the book of Revelation. Readers would be better served by reading the more recent books by G. K. Beale and L. Michael Morales.

[richard · Rating 4 out of 5]

studies on the tabernacle - Stephen F. Olford* a book that looks at the tabernacle and its meaning to Christ in respect to the work of Christ in salvation of men. A wonderful insite on many things I simply didn't know or had forgotten. Wonderful illustrations from materials used to measurements given and just want that typifies. Excellent read and study - with so much typology you have to be careful in but the author did a great job.