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According to the Bible, it was when God had had enough of human wickedness and violence that he sent a message to Noah, telling him to build an ark.
For Richard Gamble, his message from the Lord Almighty came as he lumbered through the village of Burbage – carrying a wooden cross – on a 77-mile tour of Leicestershire to spread the word of Jesus.
“I felt a flash through my mind from God of an idea to build a wall of a million bricks by a motorway,” Mr Gamble, aged 56, said. “Every brick [was to] represent an answered prayer, a testimony, a miracle. It was the beginning.”
It was an ambitious idea, even knocked down as “utter bonkers” by some. But after a decade of praying about it, he decided to quit his job to make the vision a reality, kick-started by another message from God, that there was some “heavenly land prepared”.
“You go deeper and it gets weirder,” the former Leicester City Footb
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