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Down and Dromore Bible Week

Teaching in Revelation draws hundreds

Down and Dromore Bible Week

The Book of Revelation holds a fascination for many Christians who for two millennia have sought to understand the often confusing and difficult imagery.

It was, therefore, no surprise that many hundreds attended the Down and Dromore Bible Week at the end of August to hear a series of teachings on the book’s ‘throne visions’.

As one person who came along each night said: “So much of it fitted into place. It’s like a jigsaw puzzle. The more times you study Revelation, the more the little pieces start fitting in till you have the whole thing.”

The speaker was Bishop Grant LeMarquand, a Canadian missionary and academic who until recently was Area Bishop for the Horn of Africa. He and his wife Wendy were based in Gambella, Ethiopia, before ill–health forced a return to ministry in the United States.

He said: “The throne is the central image of this book and the fact that God is on the throne helps us to understand that God is sovereign, that God is in control, no matter what’s going on in the world.”

“It was written to a group of people who were facing oppression and suffering – a group of people whose faith was being challenged by the authorities and by those within the church, so it’s a book that has so much to say to us today.”

Willowfield Church in East Belfast hosted the event which drew people from the diocese and beyond for worship, teaching and ministry.

If you would like to hear Bishop Grant’s exposition of the throne visions, please visit www.downanddromore.org and download or listen online. There are four talks: A Vision of God (Rev 4–5); A Vision of the Church (Rev 7); A Vision of Judgement (Rev 20) and A Vision of the New Heaven and the New Earth (Rev 21–22).

 

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