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The Armour of Light: Ken Follett (The Kingsbridge Novels, 5)

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But now is the time not to get drowned in introspection, but to keep awake, to look up and look out, to peer through the darkness and see the light coming. And then actively, positively to ‘put on the armour of light’, to ‘put on the Lord Jesus Christ’. This is the repentance of Advent. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. Ken’s first major success came with the publication of Eye of the Needle in 1978. A World War II thriller set in England, this book earned him the 1979 Edgar Award for Best Novel from the Mystery Writers of America. It remains one of Ken’s most popular books.

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let us therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

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The night is almost gone, and the day is near. Therefore let’s rid ourselves of the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.

the night advanced, and the day came near; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armor of the light; I waited FOREVER for this to come out. I was on the library wait lists as soon as they existed. I also worried this might not live up to the first 3 (or 4) books of the series. After all, The Kingsbridge Trilogy started in 1989 and these last 2 releases were clearly just in response to the fans loving them, there being room is history for a couple more timelines, and the high probability that the book would sell. I'm OK with all that but I was just hoping it'd be good old-fashioned Follett historical fiction and I was not disappointed. The Armour of Light begins in the fictional town of Kingsbridge at the end of the eighteenth century. It tells of a group of linked families whose lives are turned upside-down by the new age of machinery. Follett’s characters are involved in bread riots, strikes, and resistance to forced recruitment to the military. The British parliament meets this with repressive new laws that make it a crime to criticize the government.the night is far gone, the day is near. Let us then lay aside the works of darkness and put on the armor of light; The Armor of Light is more like the first two novels in feel and style than A Column of Fire and The Evening and the Morning, staying mostly within the confines of Kingsbridge and following its citizens through their daily lives. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

There was a new atmosphere since the stoning of the king’s carriage and the food riots: the British ruling elite were in an unforgiving mood. In Kingsbridge, shopkeepers gave no credit, landlords evicted late-paying tenants, and justices handed down harsh sentences."Light can increase or decrease according to what we desire, what we think, and what we do. Nephi taught: Imagine two elders who are home teaching companions. They return home from their separate Friday night activities to each find a message that a sister they home teach had been in an accident and desperately needed them to come to the hospital to administer a blessing. One elder had just returned home from a movie where violence, profanity, immorality, and partial nudity had been part of the film. The other elder had returned from a barbecue with friends. Which elder do you suppose would make an excuse or perhaps delay the hospital visit long enough to petition God for forgiveness to have the proper spirit to give a blessing? Which elder would feel comfortable meeting the challenge of listening to the still small voice of the Lord to pronounce an inspired blessing? An epic continuation of the series that began with The Pillars of the Earth, The Armor of Light heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge, England, where progress clashes with tradition, class struggles push into every part of society, and war in Europe engulfs the entire continent and beyond You shall no longer do the works of the flesh, but through the Spirit, you shall kill the works of the flesh and do the works of the Spirit, which produces life and peace.

In connection with this thought, he asked this question: “Are you living worthy to experience the light that the Lord wishes to bestow upon you?” (“Light, Visions,” 101). Amos is himself a survivor of the vile machinations of another of Follett’s bad actors, the grasping, merciless Alderman Hornbeam, who had hoped to take over Amos’s late father’s woolen-cloth business by calling in a large loan. And thereby lies another tale culminating in villainy foiled. Be that as it may, Amos is far from content, eating his heart out over the beautiful, but ambitious Jane Midwinter, who has set her sights on bigger prey. Meanwhile, Elsie Latimer, daughter of the bishop and his wife, Arabella, is pining over Amos — while Arabella entertains a forbidden desire for a weaver. In the past, Kingsbridge simply throbs with passion, requited and otherwise. It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him! [JS—H 1:15–17; emphasis in original]The new man is clothed with Christ. Therefore, the spiritual transformation of the old man into the new man should become visible in the natural realm in the life of the new man. The new man, who has been made in the image of the Creator, shall put on Jesus Christ; the Word and shall walk in the light; in the truth of God, in the armor of light. Because those, who keep walking in darkness and keep doing the works of darkness and obey and serve sin and death through their flesh, shall not walk in the light.

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