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Beautifully presented and many favorites but I am so glad you used the Mironov portrait of Jesus as your opening.
Thank you, Dan, always.
Never imagined I would replace the Kim as the masthead, until Someone supplied the inspiration yesterday.
On the last picture(Stain glass window) Who is the fellow in the bottom left wearing a crown? Is it the King at that period of time and place where the cathedral was built.
Good Morning Dan, and happy greetings to all!
A complex scene... agreement on what to portray, but how to do so? But the actual event must look something like these works.
Thank You Dan, for finding these, and bringing them to us.
Wondered that myself. Yours is a good guess, methinks.
Only, I suppose, much, much grander.
‘Much,MUCH GRANDER !’
GLORY to God in the Highest!
Lifting Up the Lamb of God
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Hallelujah!
Every aspect of God that I see or learn about is tremendously greater than anything I can anticipate or imagine.
Same for me!
Amen 🙏🏻!!!!
Which leads inevitably to great anticipation of the day we shall join Him in His heaven.
The New Jerusalem will be our
New Home which some say is just above the
Old City.
indeed
we cannot even comprehend the glory, majesty, perfection and brilliance of heaven
agree
the opening Mironov portrait of Jesus standing at the door is a powerful image
sometimes we want to throw the door open wide and joyfully welcome Him with open arms
sometimes we are hesitant, fearful, or hard headed and this painting reminds us that He knows all our deepest thoughts and desires, He knows why we are reluctant to take the door off the hinges
You picked four wonderful qualities--yet however we imagine it, it will be so much greater, because HE will be there.
Great selection of one of my favorite chapters and scenes in the Bible. I’m glad to see Pat Marvenko Smith’s artwork here.
Great question about how close these depictions come to reality. My thoughts: 1) Far vaster than we can imagine. Picture the Grand Canyon filled with angels and plated with gold and adorned with jewels. 2) Far greater power emanating from God’s throne than we can imagine. The angels around God are the most powerful God created. They cower and quake before God. Lightning comes from the throne. My electrical engineer son pointed out, “Of course there’s lightning. Electricity goes from a greater source to a lesser source. So it comes from God to anywhere else.
Hugh Ross has observed that once God has finally conquered evil, not only will He dispense with this earth but also he will no longer employ our current laws of physics:
* electromagnetism evidently will be unnecessary, because our light will emanate from the Godhead
* gravity, too, will no longer function, as evidenced by the New Jerusalem: under the current law of gravity, no object that large can be cubic, because gravity would have rounded its corners
I agree with Hugh that the physical laws will change. We have no idea how they will change, so I can’t go along with his categorical statements about electromagnetism and gravity. But he might be right.
There is so much we don’t know about physics, let alone the spiritual realm, what we don’t know alone could explain everything.
Then there is Jesus’s statement, ‘Behold! I am making all things new!” An eighth day of creation, after the sabbath of rest that began with Adam and Eve. The phrase ‘all things’ is comprehensive, including all laws and physical constants.
Who knows? Aside from God.
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