Staring at him I felt my lips quiver and my grip on the small Bible intensified. My jaw felt locked and I sat in the agony of wanting to know something.
My rescuer leaned forward and with earnestness said, "I am here to strengthen you. You only in part can understand how trying the trial you just came through was upon your body and soul, but fear not for the Lord both preserves and restores. I am here as an emissary of that peace. No harm will befall you."
Looking around I saw that we were alone for the moment. There were people both ahead and behind the double opposing compartments of the open style floor plan of the train, but nobody was seated across the aisle from us.
Glancing back to him I stared at the angel and as if sensing my inability to speak he commandingly said, "Speak."
My lips opened and I really don't know how he understood what I blubbered out, "You said my body is God's temple. I know and believe that, but………but……."
"How does it seem that you were without power to halt their defilement of you as you are a spiritually preserved woman whose faith is in the Lord?"
I nodded my head vigorously in response to his finishing of my thought.
"In the beginning God made man in His image and out of the man He made the first woman. Now a man's covering is God, because man was brought forth from His image, but as a woman you're covering is from man, because you were taken out of man. You have no husband and so you have no covering in the physical. Do not confuse this with your spirit, which is treasured and kept from above as it is with all believers both male and female."
I nodded slowly. I'd known that, but well, I'd never imagined how literal it could be. In a way right now I was free game to the other side.
"Not so Samantha. Your proof is even in the fact that intervention was made for the steps of a righteous man and in your case, a woman, are ordered of the Lord."
Nodding my head as I stared at my lap I whispered, "Thank you."
"All glory goes to the Father." He replied with simply.
Looking up I asked with dread, "Will they be back?"
"Their time is short. Not only theirs, but many others who chose to live outside the perfect harmony of God's grace and majesty. Their wish is to destroy many and eke out whatever pleasures they can before eternal damnation. The disruption of the final destination of the saints of God is of particular importance to them. It is never safe for one who confesses the redemption of the Father's Son over their life for forgiveness of sins so long as they remain within the world."