He said, No; but [as] prince of the host of Yahweh am I now come. Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said to him, What says my lord to his servant?
The glorious man whom Joshua saw, was  on his side. The day shall come when the ungodly shall see this man with his sword drawn; but in answer to their question, “Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?” they shall find him to be the fiercest of their foes. In the midst of His church, Christ carries a sword only for the purposes of love to them. Oh, how blessed it will if you can know that out of His mouth there goeth a two-edged sword, like unto a flame of fire, and if you dare to bring your heart near to that sword, that it may cut and kill in you everything obnoxious to the divine will, and then can bring your children and kinsfolk, and those that sit in these pews side by side with you, and say, “O Master, let thy sword of fire go through them according to thy word, ‘I kill and make alive, I wound and I heal,’ O kill, that they may live; O wound, that they may be healed.”
