Dear Marilyn and John,
What a superb job you did, Marilyn, explaining the book of Revelation! I applaud the clarity of your approach.
I
have a special appreciation of your work because the book of
Revelation is where I entered serious study of the Word.
I was a senior in college when I was taken to a
Bible study taught by May Bentley, the wife of a federal judge who was
once offered any position she wanted at Moody Bible. She was a
brilliant woman who took me under her wing and I spent time with her one
on one, two or three times a week while she personally poured her
knowledge into me. She was 70 at the time. I had a deep love of
prophecy as a result.
She likened Revelation to differing accounts of
WWII. There was the description of the air battle, the land assaults
and the sea battle when soldiers talked of WWII but it was all part of
THE battle. This was in the mid sixties when that war was still fresh.
God knew what He was doing in my life. I had
accepted the Lord in a Youth for Christ meeting at 16. Scales fell from
my eyes just as they did from Saul's. I saw my family and my friends
going over a spiritual Niagara Falls and I cried for three days. The
Lord let me see what broke HIS heart. A close friend turned me aside
and said, "Look, I am just as good a Christian as you are, and you don't
need all of this." She has since denied her faith.
I went to what I thought was a Christian university
but I was the only person literally in the chapel day after day. Then
God placed a Christian man in my life and we celebrated fifty years of
marriage this year.
God also allowed me the privilege of seeing a couple
of thousand people come into His kingdom as I was allowed three
pioneering ministries; first founding a Bible Study Fellowship class,
then being on the pastoral staff of a major metropolitan Bible Church
and finally as Executive Director of Portland Metropolitan Crisis
Pregnancy Resource Centers. I personally shared the Lord with about 600
girls and women to give them a basis upon which to choose life for
their unborn babies. My oldest daughter also counseled in the center
during her college years and had women come back and thank her many
years later.
Now, I am writing a book and Bible study after
suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for 20 years. I pray that God
uses it for His purposes, but I strongly suspect that we will be out of
here (raptured) before a publisher ever sees it.
But you, Marilyn, gave the clearest summary of the
book of Revelation that I have ever read. Kudos to you, my friend. Ps.
20 applies to both you and John, as we await the Bema Bench of reward!
Soon and very soon,
Judy Morford