The Purveyor of Light

By Balthasar Basileia

Heaven has been silent for four hundred years. His name is the joke that proves it.

Amariah - "The LORD Has Spoken" - is a promise his father named him for and God never kept. So the boy everyone calls Mari puts his faith in the one thing that answers when spoken to: the market. Forty jars of beaten oil. A handcart. Three days to get rich.

Instead, the feast takes everything.

To save his family, Mari drives a borrowed donkey named Redemption across the desert into an Egypt at war - and comes back with silver, a promise kept, and something he buries deeper than the fortune he left in the sand: a dream of a figure walking the noon desert, carrying a small clay lamp that outshines the sun.

For seven golden years, he tells himself he got lucky.

Then the fever comes. And in the drowning dark at the bottom of everything he built, Mari hears what four centuries of prophets, priests, and scribes have waited for - a Voice, quiet as a neighbor's, saying his name. Now the richest merchant in Tekoa must stand before the council of Jerusalem with no sign, no wonder, no proof - only a chipped lamp, a jar of beaten oil, and a story every man in Judah has reason to deny.

Set in the hush between Malachi and the Messiah, The Purveyor of Light is a sweeping story of loss, wealth, and calling - for readers of biblical fiction who believe the silence was never absence. It was a held breath.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H94SL8PB
• ISBN13: 9798187511099
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 58 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"