UNTIL I WENT INTO THE SANCTUARY

"Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them." - Job 21:9

You have fasted. You have kept yourself clean when nobody was watching. You have said no to what everybody else said yes to.

And across the road, a man who does none of it is winning.

It is the oldest question the righteous have ever asked - and the church has too often handled it by refusing to let anyone ask it aloud. So the question goes underground. And somebody else answers it. Usually a man with a microphone, explaining that your hands are empty because your seed was too small.

THIS BOOK GIVES THE QUESTION A CHAIR.

Asaph, the worship leader of Israel, wrote that his feet were almost gone. Job asked why the wicked grow old in power. Jeremiah took God to court over it. Habakkuk demanded to know why heaven was silent - and God never gave him an answer.

Until I Went Into The Sanctuary walks the whole of that road. It refuses to shrink the offence in order to make the comfort look big enough. It states the problem at full strength, and only then goes where Asaph went.

WHAT YOU WILL FIND INSIDE

The hidden premise. Every version of this question rests on one silent assumption - and it is the doctrine of Job's comforters, which God rebuked. Discover why the believer who is bitter about the prosperity gospel and the preacher who sells it are standing on one identical foundation.

The wrong page. Asaph received no new information in the sanctuary. Nothing about the wicked changed. What changed was where he was standing in the story.

Two tracks, not one. Some prosperity is a mystery of providence. Some of it is simply plunder - a trap, a cage, a wage crying in the ears of the Lord of hosts. Learn to tell which one you are looking at, and why preaching the wrong answer over the wrong situation does real damage.

The verse turned inside out. Job called it a blessing that the rod of God was not upon them. Hebrews 12 calls it something else entirely - and the hand you have resented all these years turns out to be your birth certificate.

The crown. The wicked are set in slippery places. The believer is given hinds' feet upon high places. Both are on the height. Only one has footing.

WHAT THIS BOOK REFUSES TO DO

It names no minister, no ministry, no building and no city.

It does not preach poverty. Abraham was rich; Isaac reaped a hundredfold; Job's latter end was greater than his beginning.

And it will not sell you a date. There is a chapter here that every instinct in a preacher says to leave out, because it states plainly that some of God's finest servants died without receiving what was promised. It is printed rather than hidden - because a comfort built on a promise God never made will hold a man for a season, then break beneath him at the worst possible moment.

What this book offers instead is what every man in Scripture who asked this question actually received. Not an explanation. A PORTION.

THE QUESTION IS NEVER ANSWERED. IT IS OUTGROWN.

Written throughout from the King James Version, with an appendix of prayer points made to be prayed aloud.

For the believer in the third row who has been carrying this in silence, and calling himself a hypocrite for carrying it.