Filmed in the heart of Llandovery, a town in mid-Wales, beneath castle walls and in sight ofthe livestock market, this week’s Word for the Week asks a searching question:

What is the greatest threat facing the church today?

Persecution? Cultural hostility? Economic pressure? Moral compromise?

Filmed in the heart of Llandovery, a town in mid-Wales, beneath castle walls and in sight of a busy livestock market, this week’s Word for the Week asks a searching question:

What is the greatest threat facing the church today?

Persecution? Cultural hostility? Economic pressure? Moral compromise?

Revelation 1 suggests something deeper.

Before Jesus rebukes, warns, or corrects the seven churches of Asia Minor, He first reveals Himself - not as a comforting symbol, but as:

- The Son of Man walking among the lampstands

- The Lord with eyes like fire

- The One whose voice thunders like many waters

- The First and the Last

- And most fundamentally the Living One who holds the keys of death and Hades

This passage (Revelation 1:9–20) teaches that the most dangerous condition a church can enter is not external attack — but a diminished vision of Christ.

When Christ is reduced:

- Compromise becomes reasonable

- Fear becomes decisive

- Endurance fades

- Worship becomes performance

- Doctrine becomes abstraction

But when Christ is seen as He truly is — holy, sovereign, priestly, judicial, merciful, eternal — repentance becomes possible and endurance becomes necessary.

This episode explores:

- The prophetic encounter on Patmos

- The Old Testament background (Daniel 7, Isaiah 44, Ezekiel 1, Exodus 19)

- The theological meaning of “First and Last”

- Why John falls “as though dead”

- Why Revelation begins with vision before correction

- And crucially what this means for struggling churches in Wales — and anywhere

If you belong to a small church or chapel that feels tired, threatened, or diminished…
If your own spiritual life feels numb…
This message is for you.

Filmed on location in Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Text: Revelation 1:9–20
Series: Word for the Week

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