The Bible calls God "Spirit" and "truth," "the author . . . of peace."See John 4:24; I John 5:6; I Cor. 14:33. God's voice—so often mentioned in Scripture— must be the peace-giving revelation of Truth. This revelation is fully audible to spiritual sense.
Moses said, "Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice."Deut. 4:36. And Christ Jesus said, "As my Father hath taught me, I speak these things."John 8:28. But while Jesus consistently heard Truth as peace and healing, people in Moses' day conceived of God's voice as infrequent and occasionally associated with violence.
The belief that God speaks only occasionally, and then only through turbulent so-called material forces, was still predominant in the time of Elijah. This prophet, afraid for his life after standing for his God before the idolatrous King Ahab and Queen Jezebel, fled into the wilderness. There, while the prophet was in a cave on a mountainside, the Bible says, "The Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains . . .; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: and after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice."I Kings 19:11, 12.
