The Bible In Paintings: ✝️ PETER'S VISION, AND HIS VISIT TO CORNELIUS ✝️

[Hebrews 11:6]

The
Bible
In
Paintings

~ Encouragement for Applying
and Appreciating God's Word ~

•Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows•

PETER'S VISION
AND HIS VISIT

֎ Featuring 33 Paintings, 3 Reliefs,
1 Statue and 6 Windows ֎

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«Chapter 10»

At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion. He and all his family were devout and God-fearing. One day he had a vision. He distinctly saw an angel of God, who said, “Cornelius!”

Cornelius stared at him in fear. “What is it, Lord?” he asked.

The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God. Now send men to Joppa to bring back a man named Simon who is called Peter.”

When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier. He told them everything that had happened and sent them to Joppa.

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GIOACCHINO PAGLIEI
"Centurion Cornelius"

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JOHN LA FARGE
"Cornelius and the Angel"

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ZANOBI ROSI
"Vision of the Centurion Cornelius"

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GERBRAND VAN DEN EECKHOUT
"Vision of Cornelius the Centurion"

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CORNELIS CORNELISZ. VAN HARLEM
"The Angel Appearing to the Centurion Cornelius"

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"Saint Cornelius and Angel"

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JACOB ADRIAANS BAKKER
"The Appearance of the Angel to the Centurion Cornelius"

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"The Vision of the Centurion Cornelius"

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The following day, Peter fell into a trance. He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air.

Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”

“Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”

The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”

This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.

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DOMENICO FETTI
"Saint Peter's Vision of the Unclean Beasts"

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HARRY STAMMERS
"Peter's Vision"

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GUERCINO
"St. Peter's Vision of Unclean Beasts"

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"Peter's Vision at Joppa"

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PHILIPS GALLE
"The Vision of St. Peter"

While Peter was wondering about the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius called out, asking if Simon who was known as Peter was staying there.

The Spirit said to him, “Simon, three men are looking for you. So get up and go downstairs. Do not hesitate to go with them, for I have sent them.”

Peter went down and said to the men, “Why have you come?”

The men replied, “We have come from Cornelius the centurion. A holy angel told him to have you come to his house so that he could hear what you have to say.”

The next day Peter started out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa went along. The following day he arrived in Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends. As Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet in reverence. But Peter made him get up. “Stand up,” he said, “I am only a man myself.”

Peter went inside and found a large gathering of people. He said: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with a Gentile or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean. May I ask why you sent for me?”

Cornelius answered: “A man in shining clothes stood before me and said, ‘Cornelius, send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter.’ Now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to every thing the Lord has commanded you to tell us.”

Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God accepts men from every nation who fear him and do what is right. You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, telling the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.

“We are witnesses of everything he did. They killed him by hanging him on a tree, but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets testify about him that
EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM RECEIVES FORGIVENESS OF SINS THROUGH HIS NAME.”

While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message. The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles. For they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God.

Then Peter said, “Can anyone keep these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.” So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.

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JULIUS SCHNORR VON CAROLSFELD
"Peter and Cornelius' Men"

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"Peter Receives Cornelius' Message"

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"Cornelius…had called together his relatives
and intimate friends"

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"Peter in the House of Cornelius"

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BERNARDO CAVALLINO
"St. Peter and Cornelius the Centurion"

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"Peter Preaching to the Family of Cornelius"

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GUSTAVE DORÉ
"St. Peter in the House of Cornelius"

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ALBERTO CARLIERI
"St. Peter Baptizing the Centurion, Cornelius"

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MANTE PELKINCK
"Saint Peter Baptizing Cornelius the Centurion"

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"Peter Baptizing Cornelius"

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JOHANNES ZICK
"Baptism of the Centurion Cornelius"

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FRANCESCO TREVISANI
"Peter Baptizing the Centurion Cornelius"

New International Version ©1984, Abrgd, EMPHASES added
Masthead Painting: “THE HAND OF GOD” by Yongsung Kim

[Ezekiel]

Noah didn’t want a myriad of holes poked in his ark, so he just sort of “forgot” to load the unicorns.

🤣🤣🤣

You've got a most excellent... point. Those unicorns would have gone all literal on the "go for" wood.

Makes me think that Art Clokey should have made "Pokey" a unicorn.

In any case, the subject of this thread involves Cornelius, so obviously these details are all part of the grand plan.

Kind of like the Great Pyramid. So much mystery and theory about all of its fantastic attributes and purpose, and that nobody can figure out how it was built, yet the big secret is right there in the name.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Kind of like the Great Pyramid

Nobody gets its "point".

[Big Red Badger]

Another Fine Day Dan!

[Hebrews 11:6]

Every day with the Lord is. ♫When we've been there 10,000 years....

[Ezekiel]

Ironic, isn’t it? Everyone wants to know its point, but without a capstone, obviously it doesn’t even have a point!

Yet folks persist.

Good as a wheel-spinning device. 😃

Or a punitentiary.

The reflective casing stones must have made for quite a sight — a massive light beacon. They got stripped away during the... Dark Ages. 🤔

Well I don’t know about anybody else, but I’m sure making good use out of it.

Looks to be the most thought-inspiring, creativity-generating physical object on the entire planet for all of history. So many ideas! It’s the simple meaning, haha.

I’ve long suspected that Joseph had a prime view from his office. Be funny if Joseph’s tomb had been the capstone ‘cause that would mean it got hauled off with the Exodus. Hilarious.

See what I mean about the inspiration capacity of the thing?

It’s always something.

[Hebrews 11:6]

If it sparks your imagination, I’m all for it.

[Big Red Badger]

Twice Jesus was Astounded concerning Believers;
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The Centurion and then
The unbelief of his Apostles.
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Fascinating.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Perhaps the SyroPhoenician woman qualifies, too.

[SisterK]

It would be easier to pick a couple that aren’t fantastic than to pick a favorite today.

totally agree
today there are several uncommonly beautiful pieces

[Hebrews 11:6]

today there are several uncommonly beautiful commenters.

[SouthernClaire]

I think you will greatly enjoy this video, Zeke:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7ocIHPlFTI&list=PLpfXujbjhuThEtt0Zz_XuhL_u3i1MCFaX

Chuck Missler, 10 Prehistoric Monuments

Let me know if you listen and glean some very interesting info from it. I think you will.

Best to you!

[SouthernClaire]

“today there are several uncommonly beautiful commenters.”

Very much agreed, Dan.

Sister K is beautiful and I’m uncommonly.

[Ezekiel]

I looked through the transcript.

I have books for the references (e.g. Adam Rutherford's 4 vol. Pyramidology, which sourced Davidson's work).

I didn't see anything mentioned about the Displacement/Rectification Factor. I'm able to use and build upon previous works because even when their conclusions wander into strange places [due to predetermined "truths"], data is often valid.

From Pyramidology Book II, starting on pg. 249 (formatted text as published)

Chapter II

The Great Pyramid's Rectification Factor

The Mystery of Ancient Messianism Unfolded

If there exists in the Great Pyramid a geometric factor which completely counteracts the Displacement Factor, it means that the Pyramid contains the key to the World's problems, the means adequate to rectify this "displaced" world, and bring it into perfect tune with the Infinite.

A completely compensatory factor must one of necessity be one of precisely the same dimension as that of the Displacement Factor, but with a directly opposite function, thus having the potential of eliminating the displacement. As the Displacement Factor is a minus or negative dimension of 286 inches, an effective rectifying factor would require to be a plus or positive dimension of 286 inches. In other words, the Displacement Factor is -286 inches, so a rectifying factor would require to be +286 inches. (see Diagram, p. 282.)

The secret to the solution of the Great Pyramid's exterior symbolism lies in the discovery of the rectification of the Pyramid's displacement feature. When we have ascertained how this rectification is effected, we will have discovered how that which is out of harmony with the perfect will of the Almighty will be brought into line and how this chaotic world will be brought into tune with the Infinite.

So we must explore the Pyramid in search of a factor of 286 inches associated, not with contraction, deficiency, eccentricity and imperfection, as is the Displacement Factor, but with the opposite, that is, with expansion, enlargement and uplift. When we find this, then we shall know by what power the evil in this World can be completely removed and how the Lord's Prayer shall be answered and God's will done on earth as it is in Heaven.

[snip]

How appropriate indeed that the lofty north wall of the Grand Gallery at its entrance should rise to such great height to reveal the Rectification Factor in the masonic symbolism portaying the resurrection and ascention of Christ, revealed in the Pyramid's prophetic chronograph as occurring in A.D. 33.

Thus, according to the Great Pyramid, Jesus is the Saviour of the World, THE CHRIST, and Jesus Himself said he was, as recorded in Matthew 16:15-17, wherein it is written that Jesus asked, "But whom ye say that I am?" Peter replied, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God" and Jesus said, "Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona; for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in Heaven". Similarly, Jesus said He was THE MESSIAH (Hebrew equivalent to the Greek Christos and Latin Christus) as recorded in John 4:25-26.

Also,

From the book Pyramid Quest, pgs. 219-220 (emphasis mine):

The hollowing in of the sides of the Great Pyramid alters the length of the perimeter of the structure, and the amount by which it is altered was referred to as the "displacement factor" by Davidson [references]

Davidson utilized his so-called displacemant factor in interpreting the Great Pyramid as encoding all sorts of scientific dat, from the exact length of the year and the precessional cycle to the dimensions and shape of the earth's orbit [references]. For Davidson, the displacement factor was also important in his prophetic interpretations of the Great Pyramid: "The Great Pyramid's Displacement Factor, 286, is the Key Number to the understanding of the Great Pyramid's Prophecy." [references]

On the basis of an interpretation that the hollowing of the sides of the Great Pyramid was relected in the final casing limestone, in September 1935 Pochan [references] introduced the concept that has seen become known as the "flash" phenomenon or effect.

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The meaning of the 286 will become evident soon enough, out from the infallible proofs pile which will serve to distinguish between the actual Messiah who is the one presented in the Bible, and the Establishment's version. The difference is like day and night. Day as in the sudden flash of light from massive lightning strike. There's no competition.

[SouthernClaire]

Very interesting, Zeke. Thanks for taking the time to post it.

Did you catch the part regarding an important number from the Great Pyramid (from all the numbers given by CM) that is equaled in the Isaiah passage regarding the altar and the pillar, “...in the midst thereof and on the border thereof,” by Hebrew numbering of the passage?

There are just so many fascinating things about that it takes time to align any new information in my mind. Me slow. You fast.

Thank you again, Zeke.

[Ezekiel]

I saw that it had been mentioned. It’s commonly-referenced. I don’t know if he provided the number, though. It’s the stated height measurement (in pyramid inches) from the base to the platform as-is, without the capstone, 5449. The sum of

Isa 19:19-20

19. In that day there shall be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at its border to the Lord:

20. And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry to the Lord because of the oppressors, and he shall send them one who shall save them and plead for them, and he shall save them:

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Regardless of what has been claimed or theorized out there, information has been revealed in obvious ways no one would suspect, in the names, simple analogies, the chosen wording of the authors own descriptions, on and on. There’s even a pattern reflected in the first letters of the Torah going all the way to the top, capstone and all. The very Point.

You fast.<<<

Not at all. I’ve been weaving in and out of various study topics (whatever shows up on any given day) for ~ 25 years. And that’s just since the Internet. It adds up.

Plenty of people might be certain that I post OCD pointless nonsense most of the time. Eh, all part of the process, which is never boring. Always something fun to discover.

One of the things I’ve discovered is that a lot of experts, respected personalities and their devoted followers are...

in for a big surprise.

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