Bøger af Bill Spencer

Standing with his arms upraised, holding the crowd hushed and silent by the sheer power of his voice, Elijah was an awe-inspiring figure. His voice filled the clearing and rolled down the mountainside. "Hear my prayer Oh Lord!" Elijah implored. "Hear me that this people may know that thou art the Lord God and that thou hast turned their hearts back again to thee." The crash of thunder accompanying the flash of lightening jarred the whole mountainside and threw people to the ground by the sheer force of its impact. The whole altar burst into flame and the smell of burnt flesh mingled with the sharp odor characteristic of the passage of lightening. Miraculously, Elijah was not touched by the bolt, and above the moan of pure terror that swept the crowd his voice rose in an exultant shout: "The Lord, He is God! The Lord, He is God!"

The setting is in Rome 64-68 AD. Onesimus is a runaway slave from Colosse. The roar of the Romans could be heard at a great distance down the Tiber River. For thunderous was the applause, the stopping of feet of thousands of impatient spectators in the Arena.Now Nero gave a sign, and an old man walked slowly to the iron gate amid silence and struck three times on the door. The iron gate creaked as it opened. What new way of slaughter of Christians had Nero thought of now.