Posted on 12/29/2022 6:28:28 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6
~ Encouragement for Appreciating and Applying God's Word ~ |
֎ Featuring 25 Paintings and 3 Windows ֎ CHAPTER 13
1 GERARD DE JODE "The Parable of the Tares" 2 ABRAHAM BLOEMAERT "Parable of the Wheat and the Tares" 3 JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS "The Enemy Sowing Tares" 4 DOMENICO FETTI "Parable of the Sower of Tares" 5 DOMENICO FETTI "Parable of the Sower of Tares" 6 LUCAS GASSEL "The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares" 7 FELICIEN ROPS "Satan Sowing Tares" 8 CORNELIS MASSYS "A Mountainous River Landscape with the Parable of the Sowing of the Tares" 9 Source 10 Source 11 Source 12 JAN LUYKEN "Parable of the Weeds" 13 Source 14 Source 15 Source 16 Source 17 Source 18 Source 19 Source 20 Source 21 JAMES TISSOT "The Enemy Who Sows" 22 PIETER BALTEN "Landscape with Satan Sowing Tares" 23 CRISPIJN DE PASSE The Elder Source 24 JORGE COCCO SANTANGELO "The Wheat and the Tares" 25 Source 26 JACOPO BASSANO "The Parable of the Tares" 27 EUGÈNE BURNAND Source 28 Source |
Hello Dan, and greetings to each of you.
A wonderful life lesson from the Word of God, well portrayed in these choices of art.
#25 (artist unknown)
#27 Burnand
Thank You Dan.
Jesus does all things well.
Happy New Year, Leon!
#27 is best in my view.
#7 by Rops (never heard of him before this) is very thought provoking.
I love this parable, probably because it is so accessible (not as murky as some) and so insightful about life here on this mortal coil.
Sadly, No. 7 by Rops is all too real in today’s world. (Don’t look too closely at the “tare” Satan is spreading over Paris.)
Sadly, Rops was celebrating and not warning against Satan. He did much of that evil sowing himself — pornographic art and blasphemous, deliberately shocking nude and sexual depictions of religious scenes, as well as practicing it himself. Don’t look into him if you don’t want to be disgusted. (Satanism was trendy among certain bohemian types in fin de siecle Paris.) The dude was a degenerate, so we can sum up the painting here as, takes one to know one.
Still, God teaches us through evil. Satan today sows sin through our popular and political culture and the technologies that advance it. Jesus’ parable in today’s world is heartbreaking and so very real. Those who seek him must do so amidst the weeds, literally.
“Jesus does all things well.”
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Indeed He does.
Happy New Year Dan. For you and your household, may 2023 be a year of blessings, and drawing ever nearer to our God of grace.
An apocalyptic view of the end-times harvest.
It is possibly occurring today.
If I publish this again, I will consult the Spirit again whether to include this. He and I never want the art to detract or distract from the Word.
Hubba-hubba! Let’s go!
The personal verse my first pastor gave me was Phillipians 1:6: "...being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." Your lovely hope for me is the hope for all believers.
The personal verse my first pastor gave me was Phillipians 1:6: “...being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
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Great verse of encouragement Dan; Amen and Amen.
I know we are not be threshed yet, but some days it feels like it...
Good evening Dan.
#14 is very dark and very true to the subject
#24 I usually do not like modern art, but this painting also speaks truth to Scripture
#25 is just a good painting
thank you for posting these
I really look forward to this thread
Better, K, thank the good Lord for these threads. They were entirely His idea, and He is responsible for every element you find rewarding.
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