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

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We are the good men and women of the house, and Lucifer is the thief who is diligently, patiently, and carefully seeking to break up our house—or to destroy our souls. May we always watch and be ready. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.t (Galatians 3:26-27) Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. savor...it's been hard to leave it on my TBR for just the right week to read it. Now I learn there's another one coming! I'm quite tempted to read the prequel and then re-read the trilogy to end with this one later in the year. I probably won't, but I'm tempted. :D 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."

The characters are so well-crafted that they become like friends. Some characters you fall in love with, some you find despicable. I loved Sal! Her no-nonsense attitude and resilience were so heartwarming! I would like to close with an observation by Elder Glenn L. Pace of the First Quorum of the Seventy: The night is far spent, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.Stars. Having read and enjoyed all earlier books in the Kingsbridge series, I regret I was disappointed with The Armor of Light. I did not care for Follett's previous standalone novel, Never, and this was only slightly better, in my opinion. The Kingsbridge series followed significant historical events through the ages, entertainingly informing the reader about politics, religion, and history engagingly reflected through the main characters' lives. This same truth can also work in reverse. People lose light line upon line or sin upon sin—here a little and there a little. Although each ray of lost light can be almost imperceptible to a person at the time, the aggregate or cumulative loss that has taken place over time puts one in grave danger. The spiritual immune system becomes depleted, and when the going gets tough, the once tough cannot get going because there is little to reach down and draw upon for strength and power.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created Him (Colossians 3:5-10) Night is almost over, and day will soon appear. We must stop behaving as people do in the dark and be ready to live in the light.One of the most horrific aspects of this book were the press gangs-- an appalling and entirely legal corner of history that I had forgotten about --where men were set upon, kidnapped, and forceably enlisted in the military or navy. Horrific for the men, and often devastating for the families left behind. 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 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.

Through the love for God and by faith in God and His Word, the person shall obey the words of God and apply His words in his or her life and walk after the words of God and abide in the Word. Through obedience to God, the person shall walk in love after the will of God. Sanctification The armour of light is such that it can enable us to face both inner and outer darkness, and give us the courage and strength to respond appropriately. I love it when Follett uses Kingsbridge as a microcosm of English society and politics at the time. Here, the Industrial Revolution and late-Enlightenment ideas influence the lives of the Kingsbridge people, as well as ideas of revolution and human rights after the French Revolution.Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God (Romans 6:12-13) Ken’s new book, The Evening and the Morning, will be published in September 2020. It is a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth and is set around the year 1,000, when Kingsbridge was an Anglo-Saxon settlement threatened by Viking invaders. The night is nearly over, and the day has drawn near; therefore we should cast off the works of darkness and should put on the armor of light.

And just like Jesus, the sons of God should also walk in obedience to the Word and the Holy Spirit, to resist the devil and don’t give into his deceptions and temptations, which lead to sin. The night is far spent, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

An helmet the hope of salvation." It defends the head, the very vital part. Despair chills exertion.