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A pesar de ser un ladrillo de casi 900 páginas, como siempre Follett consigue que sea rápida, amena y divertida su lectura. This book follows the same pattern from 1792 to 1824. Unfortunately, I found its focus on the Industrial Revolution, with descriptions of the inventions of steam-powered machines for manufacturing cloth. There was too much detail about how the new inventions worked, and I struggled to follow. I looked up pictures and information about the spinning jenny, its improvements, and new machinery for weaving and printing patterns on cloth.
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. Light can increase or decrease according to what we desire, what we think, and what we do. Nephi taught: The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. The night [this present evil age] is almost gone and the day [of Christ’s return] is almost here. So let us fling away the works of darkness and put on the [full] 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.When we lose light, Satan has effectively neutralized us. He has taken us out of the battle—or we have allowed ourselves to be taken out of the battle. The armies of the Lord cannot be defeated, but they can defeat themselves. For example, in the Old Testament there is a story about a man named Achan whose disobedience brought defeat to Israel’s army (see Joshua 7; 22:20). In the victorious battle against Jericho he had taken an object from the enemy that God identified as accursed. The next battle against the city of Ai was supposed to be easy, yet Israel met with a humiliating defeat. In response to Joshua’s plea to know why they had been defeated, the Lord revealed the disobedience of this Israelite soldier in taking from the spoils of Jericho a forbidden or accursed object. This disobedience robbed the Israelites of the power needed to stand against its enemies. This story has universal application, for just as Israel lost power and protection, we also lose power and protection when we entertain forbidden thoughts, harbor evil desires, or engage in activities prohibited by God. 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.
My model for how a long book should be structured is Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope. It's a courtroom drama, and it's a very long book. We don't actually get to the courtroom until about seven-eighths of the way through. There's a circle of characters and every time there's a development in the story, he goes around the circle showing how the development affects each character, and it's just perfection. When I started to write long novels with The Pillars of the Earth I thought, that’s how you can have a big cast: you've always got to include them all and the best way to do that is in a logical, structured way. You can’t write a long novel with multiple characters and just play it by ear. It’s got to be structured, and Trollope’s plan for Orley Farm was a perfect example of a plan for a long novel. In previous interviews you’ve said that you were actually quite bored by history at school. What changed? There is no little loss of light that is insignificant, and there is no little loss of light without the potential of becoming a major breach to the brightness of our armor. As Latter-day Saints we are blessed with the glorious light of the restored gospel. We have no excuse, as the scriptures state, to walk “in darkness at noon-day” (D&C 95:6). In the Doctrine and Covenants we are warned: “He who sins against the greater light shall receive the greater condemnation” (D&C 82:3). 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] For behold, thus saith the Lord God: I will give unto the children of men line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little; and blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts, and lend an ear unto my counsel, for they shall learn wisdom; for unto him that receiveth I will give more; and from them that shall say, We have enough, from them shall be taken away even that which they have.[2 Nephi 28:30]The main reasons for the increase of darkness are: the increase of apostasy, lawlessness, and the lukewarm state of people, who claim to be Christians. 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. Only if you are born again in Christ and love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength and stay obedient to the Word and the Holy Spirit and walk by faith in righteousness after the will of God, you shall be able to: But, exerting all my powers to call upon God to deliver me out of the power of this enemy which had seized upon me, and at the very moment when I was ready to sink into despair and abandon myself to destruction—not to an imaginary ruin, but to the power of some actual being from the unseen world, who had such marvelous power as I had never before felt in any being—just at this moment of great alarm, I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me. Strong's 3696: An instrument; plur: arms, weapons. Probably from a primary hepo; an implement or utensil or tool.
They shall not be able to deliver others from the power of darkness, nor to teach them in the truth of the Word, since they are blinded and walk in darkness and sin still reigns as king in their lives. Now, as international conflict nears, a story of a small group of Kingsbridge people – including spinner Sal Clitheroe, weaver David Shoveller and Kit, Sal’s inventive and headstrong son – will come to define the struggle of a generation as they seek enlightenment and fight for a future free from oppression . . .The night has passed and the day has arrived, therefore let us strip off the works of darkness from us, and let us put on the armor of light. Light is like a protective shield that can withstand the fiery darts of the adversary. The Apostle Paul wrote to the Romans: The night is almost over, and the day is near. Let's therefore put aside the actions of darkness and put on the armor of light. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light (Ephesians 5:11-13)
Augustine realised that what he was seeking was being held out to him, not as a result of his tortured self-analysis, but as pure gift, that he was to take what was given and put it on, or rather put him on, to put on the Lord Jesus Christ, as clothing, as armour, as protection, as light. The least interesting part of The Armor of Light for me was when the book steps outside of Kingsbridge and takes us to the battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars. I have exactly zero interest in warfare, so thankfully this was only a relatively small portion of the book. I much preferred reading about how the war and Bonapartist feeling influenced the lives of the little people in Kingsbridge. Ken has been active in numerous literacy charities and was president of Dyslexia Action for ten years. He was chair of the National Year of Reading, a joint initiative between government and businesses. He is also active in many Stevenage charities and is President of the Stevenage Community Trust and Patron of Home-Start Hertfordshire. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God (Romans 12:2) 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.
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Living in an environment of light will have many advantages for you at this time in your life. You are searching for important answers to critical questions. It is always easier to find what we are looking for when the light is on. Doctrinally it is as simple as this: The closer we are to the light, the more we can see. The farther we step away from the light, the less we can see. And we need to be able to see clearly. A tyrannical government is determined to make England a mighty commercial empire. In France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his rise to power, and with dissent rife, France’s neighbours are on high alert. And that’s only feasible, if you love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and know His will and yield yourself to His will, just like Jesus, Who loved His Father with all His heart, soul, mind and strength and knew His Father’s will and yielded Himself to the will of the Father. What is the will of God?
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