Book Review – The Lord Bless You And Keep You – The Promise Of The Gospel In The Aaronic Blessing By Michael Glodo

I am just did not have a good year (2023) for modern-era theology books. Once again, this book is solid when it comes to the theology. There was nothing heretical or heterodox or anything along those lines. There is some good coverage on atonement and Messianic fulfillment of Old Testament Scriptures.

What caused the nose dive was the organization and the prose. Glodo sets up his premise at the start which is to show the importance of the Aaronic blessing and how it is carried through to ultimate fulfilment of Jesus and His Church. Check. Got it. When I got halfway through the book I found myself lost as to the purpose of the book to the point where I thought I might have skipped over a massive amount of the book that kept tying it back to the purpose. I did not. Glodo seems to want to build off different key points like the importance of God’s face or the name being on God’s people but he zooms in and out of that point to hit on other parts he wants to teach on. Chapter after chapter go on until I was a quarter left where I wasn’t drawn back to the main point of the writing. Again, lots of good and important theology here but he loses the focus or doesn’t seem to want to go back to it as his touchpoint. He even, at times, goes back to various words in the blessing but it almost feels like a word study rather than making the point that it’s the Aaronic blessing that is that origin source.

I will keep the book for citation into points Glodo covers but this is sadly a mess of prose.