Pierced to the Very Soul

Reading:   Helaman 4-5

When the earth shakes and the skies darken and all the elements seem at odds what type of voice would you expect to resonate from the heavens?  A booming, brain rattling, body quaking, mega phonic thump of a voice or something else?

A scenario of this very kind takes place in Helaman 5 - Two servants of The Lord (Lehi and Nephi) have been captured by the Lamanites and have been imprisoned and starved and are about to be executed when a circle of fire engulfs them without actually harming them.  The quaking and shaking of the earth follows, along with darkening of the skies, and ultimately a voice from heaven speaks three times...

HELAMAN 5:30

30    And it came to pass when they heard this voice, and beheld that it was not a voice of thunder, neither was it a voice of a great tumultuous noise, but behold, it was a still voice of perfect mildness, as if it had been a whisper, and it did pierce even to the very soul- 

Not the voice you would expect, is it?  Everything has gone crazy for the poor lamanites.  Buildings shaking, dark clouds rapidly overshadow the area, they are unable to reach their prisoners do to a protective flame and then the voice kicks in, like a whisper, with perfect mildness amidst the chaos, and it pierces them, each one, to the very soul!

Sometimes the quietest voice can be the most effective!  The Lamanites saw the miraculous happenings round about, their captives glowing within the flames and speaking to unseen beings (angels no doubt) but the real kicker, the thing that will forever stay with them, was the mild piercing voice that shook their core and "very soul."

Got to love the workings of a true master! 300+ Lamanites witnessed and experienced the event and each, in turn, told others and many laid down their weapons of war, and hatred, never to take them up again...

~Kipling