Posted on 11/13/2022 6:18:00 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6
Satan is not tempting Christ now, he is too busy working to destroy civilization across the earth and particularly in this country.
How wonderful it will be to join our glorified Lord beyond Satan's reach!
Dan, can we imagine what it will be like to lose all of those Worst Parts of Us !
To actually behold the Light of God !
"[He] is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power..." Ephesians 3:20Hugh Ross has two sons. When they were young he and Kathy, extrapolating on this verse, encouraged them at each meal to expand their imaginations by thinking up new features of heaven. They had a two-story home and a backyard pool, so one of them imagined that in heaven every second-story window has its own slide into the pool.
There are numerous reasons why God leaves us on earth for an extended period, more or less, after our salvation moment. One is to grow our faith through experiences (thereby gaining heavenly blessings) and, as a corollary, to expand our imagination.
I’m back, after a break.
I do not recall these images in the previous thread; perhaps I missed them.
I was intrigued by the various depictions of Satan. As usual, I’m partial to William Blake’s. Paul says Satan can appear as an angel of light, so there’s no need for him to be hideous.
The picture that ‘got me’ was Tissot’s depiction of the angels ministering to Jesus. Aside from his usual artistic mastery, the utter exhaustion of Jesus is authentic; he appears close to death. Then the depiction of the angels, each with a tongue of fire, the Holy Spirit directing them is original and apt.
Thanks for posting these treads very informative. Particularly like Tissot.
Absolutely but not looking to go right this minute!
the utter exhaustion of Jesus is authentic; he appears close to death
It is unstated in the narrative, but surely it is implied: forty days of utter physical deprivation, followed by the unprecedented stress of the three most severe temptations anyone ever experienced, undoubtedly left him at death's door and in desperate need of angelic room-service. That is what I find unparalleled in Tissot: again and again he finds the central point and presents it to us.
As I posted immediately above: That is what I find unparalleled in Tissot: again and again he finds the central point and presents it to us.
No? He can take me this very second. "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain."
♫ This world is not my home, I'm just a-passin' through
♫ My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue
♫ The angels beckon me from heaven's open door
♫ And I can't feel at home in this world anymore
This is the only time, iirc, that I could choose just 1: That is, #4 by Ivan Kramskoy. I think it’s because He has a look on His face that we’ve all known a time or three in our lives and so can identify with it. (Much, much worse in His case, of course and however.) That is in addition to the grand beauty of the painting itself.
Nicely reasoned and expressed, Claire.
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