Page 141 - 2nd Sword of Gilead Interior

The Sword of Gilead & The Book of Angels

looking at you directly, piercing your being with
grace and beauty.
As you imagine this, look to his arms and
legs as polished bronze. Bronze is an amazing
metal. - In the Bronze Age, it made everything
from needles, drinking cups, and mirrors to body
armour, swords, and shields.
In the 1959 epic movie, “Solomon and
Sheba” there is a scene where pursued by the
Egyptians who were sent to finish him off,
Solomon devises a plan. - He lines up the
remnants of his army on a hill, prompting the
enemy to charge.
The Israelites, who are facing east, use
their highly polished shields to reflect the light of
the rising sun into the Egyptians' eyes. Blinded,
the Egyptians cannot see the chasm in front of
which the Israelites have positioned themselves,
and the entire army rushes headlong over the
edge and falls to its death. - The shields so
polished became like mirrors reflecting the full
bright sun.
“The voice of a multitude” indicates a
massive crowd, and the nearest we can identify is
a football crowd that even when singing they have
sounded like a rush of wind. In Biblical terms, this
voice of a multitude indicates enormous authority.
I imagine this has nothing to do with volume, but
rather with power - a power that is impossible to

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