Archive for September, 2008
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 6)
Monday, September 29th, 2008Elkanah’s voice was surprisingly clear and powerful, for a man of his age and slender build, and the sound of the Old Characters, read at first in the Ancient Tongue itself, struck Mishael as the most powerful, beautiful, rich and somber tones he had ever heard in all his life. It was almost as if [...]
Images of the Savior (36 — The Formation of the Kingdom)
Friday, September 26th, 2008And they set out from the Mount of Yahweh, on a journey of three days; and the Ark of the Covenant of Yahweh set out before them on a journey of three days, to seek out for them a resting place. And the cloud of Yahweh was over them by day, whenever they set out [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 5)
Monday, September 22nd, 2008Mishael followed the young woman to the center of the camp, and looked around. At first glance, he was a little surprised at the bare simplicity of the little gathering that had just wielded such an astonishing power, turning wyrm-fire to harmless smoke, and stopping a squadron of terrifying sanguinors dead in their tracks. To [...]
Images of the Savior (35 — The Covenant Blessings and Curses)
Friday, September 19th, 2008If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them, then I will give your rains in their season, and the land shall give its produce, and the trees of the field shall give their fruit….But if you will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments, and if [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 4)
Monday, September 15th, 2008When Mishael awoke, daylight was already streaming in from the little window above the nightstand. He had no idea what time it was, he only knew that he had been sleeping for a very long time. He was still a little groggy, and insufferably thirsty. He slowly stretched and rubbed his eyes, then got up [...]
Images of the Savior (34 — The Year of Jubilee)
Friday, September 12th, 2008And you shall count for yourself seven weeks of years, seven years seven times; and the days of the seven weeks of years shall be to you forty-nine years. And you shall sound forth the trumpet blast on the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month; on the Day of Atonement you shall [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 3)
Monday, September 8th, 2008The wildesteed carried its rider closer to Mishael, until it stood at the very foot of the cliff above which he was stranded. Looking up intently for a few seconds, the rider finally broke the silence, crying out, “Are you he for whom the trumpet has summoned aid?” Mishael, still not sure what or whom to [...]
Images of the Savior (33 — The Holy Feasts of Israel)
Friday, September 5th, 2008And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying, “Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, ‘These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh which you shall proclaim as my holy convocations; they are my appointed feasts’”. – Leviticus 23:1-2 In many ways and at many different places in the book of Leviticus, we have encountered [...]
On the Birth of Our Daughter
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008At 10:32 P.M., on Labor Day, September 1st, 2008, God interwove his covenant faithfulness and mercy with the miserable effects of the ancient curse on the woman (see Genesis 3:15-16), and miraculously changed the tortured cries of birthpangs into the joy and triumph of new life. This was both a shadow-reminder of what he had [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 2)
Monday, September 1st, 2008What Mishael had realized, when he glanced at the portrait overhanging the entrance to the gameroom, was that the interstices between the wyrms’ writhing bodies were not at all random or accidental, as they at first seemed to be; but they were in fact carefully designed to form a map, showing a very tortuous, winding, [...]