back to the tapestry, the lead figure on the white horse no longer has a crown on his head, and, as a result, something important has been taken away. Each book of the Old Testament (and in some ways, the Old Testament as a whole) is something like a tapestry. Too often we think we are studying it when we pull out the threads (individual verses or stories) and conduct all of our tests on them. And in the end we have a huge pile of threads on the floor at our feet and we know nothing of the tapestry.