He had said he would come back one day, but how? Mahalel didn't know. Fiery eyes and fiery demeanor wrapped in coarse camel hair with sandals right at the very spot the prophet had departed. Mahalel waited his turn there listening intently to the men ahead of him. The fiery one talking earnestly to a younger man.
It happened fast. One moment they were talking then torrents of water spouted upward as the younger man flew up out of the water. Light and sound trembled the air. A Voice and Light descended. Mahalel quaked as his old life ended.
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