Read and See Revelation 12-14; Patient Endurance in War Vol 4
ISBN 978-1-80329-017-1
70 pages.
Published 17/12/2025
£39.00
Hardback in full colour
Having immersed himself over many years in reading every commentary he can find on Revelation, and picking up his teenage hobby of painting, Pieter Kwant here retraces the process whereby John first “saw” Revelation before writing it down, now moving from (biblical) text to image…
In this, Pieter takes his stand on the shoulders of both giant biblical commentators and visual artists over the centuries as he engages Revelation in a personal way that he hopes will make this, often obscure, text approachable even to children! Pieter’s big hope, and the challenge he set himself, is that readers may be emboldened not to shrink from looking deeply into this concluding book of the Bible – reading and hearing (by doing) it!
Pieter Kwant is the former Director of Literature for Langham Partnership International. He has been a theological bookseller, publisher and literary agent for almost fifty years, a lifelong enthusiast for the arts and a keen supporter of Christians in the arts. Pieter is married to Elria. Together they started Piquant in 1999. Pieter and Elria live in the UK and have four married grown-up sons and eleven grandchildren.
Children, we used to be told, should be seen and not heard. The Bible for some people is only heard but never “seen”. Revelation demands both. John oscillates again and again between what he saw and what he heard, and invites our attentive imagination to grasp, wonder, and respond to both, for our adoration, encouragement and warning. Pieter Kwant’s rich artistic engagement, the fruit of many years of saturated study of the book, combines fascinating glimpses of ancient and contemporary renderings of Revelation’s vivid imagery alongside his own richly coloured interpretative paintings of what John invites us all to “see and hear”, as Jesus draws back the curtain and reveals the breadth and depth, challenge and hope of his own Lordship. This is one of those books I enjoyed on first reading, and even more on the second, and doubtless more yet to come.
Chris Wright
Students of the Bible are taught that meaning emerges as they engage both the content and the form of a specific genre. The book of Revelation is a prophetic word which emerges in the form of a vision. There is something to hear and to see. And yet its interpreters, down through the years, have struggled to engage this visionary element. Pieter Kwant puts together what scholars have readily put asunder. Writing in a conversational way, he combines bold, evocative imagery with clear, accessible explanation. The outcome is a book which welcomes the reader into the strange world of Revelation, calming their fears and building their confidence as they journey with it.
Paul Windsor
The images are rough and startling and naive and powerful. And the overall look of the book is something unique and intriguing.—
Betty Spackman, MFAMultimedia installation artist, painter, educator and author
7 Preface
8-15 Medieval Illustrated Apocalypses
16 12:1-2 Story 54 A Great Sign, a Woman
18 12:3-4, 9 Story 55 Another Sign, a Great Serpent
20 12:4-5 Story 56 Enthronement
22 12:6 Story 57 The Woman in the Wilderness
24 12:7-9 Story 58 War in Heaven
26 12:10-12 Story 59 They Conquered: Woe to Earth and Sea
28 12:13-17 Story 60 A Hot Pursuit
30 12:8-13:1-3 Story 61 The Beast from the Sea
32 13:3-8 Story 62 Worship the Beast
34 13:9-10 Story 63 A Call to Endurance and Faith
36 13:11-13 Story 64 The Beast from the Earth
38 13:13-15 Story 65 Worship the Image of the Beast
40 13:16-18 Story 66 The Number of the Beast
42 14:1-5 Story 67 Liturgy of the Lamb
44 14:2-3 Story 68 A New Song to Learn
46 14:6-7, 12 Story 69 The Eternal Gospel
48 14:8 Story 70 Fallen is Babylon
50 14:9-11 Story 71 God’s Judgement Revealed
52-53 The Eternal Gospel Triptych
54 14:12-13 Story 72 Endurance and Blessedness
56 14:14-16 Story 73 Like a Son of Man
58 14:17-19 Story 74 The Vintage
60 14:20 Story 75 Outside the City
62-63 My Understanding of Endurance and War
64-65 Visual Meditations 5
66 Reading and List of Illustrations
67 List of Illustrations
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