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Glory to Jesus!
The magnificent Easter is again at hand. The pivotal moment of that historic and thoroughly proven event - Crucifixion - has been one of the favorite subjects of great painters, sculptors and movie-makers for millennia. There must be millions of high-quality artwork depicting this glorious moment out there, so the average True Christian™ can have difficulties when he chooses the most fitting Easter decorations for this year. To help our Brethren and Sisters in this task, I post here my favorite crucifixion scene and the others in our fellowship can do the same.
Glory! Praise God!
I chose my favorite based on both artistic quality and Spiritual content. A good depiction of Crucifixion includes the most significant emotions that Jesus Christ our Lord must have felt during this initially quite unpleasant event. At first, Jesus was slightly skeptical:
Matthew 26:42
He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
Eventually, He (He was and IS God for God's sake; John 10:30; so He must have known that it is only temporary) resigned and received the blessing of Him as God and the nails pierced His unblemished skin! This apparently caught Jesus by surprise. The pain must have been relatively severe, as He cried out:
Matthew 27:46
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
But this moment of insecurity did not last: As we know, He raised Himself from Death and resides at the moment in Heaven waiting for us True Christians™ to join Him (1 Thessalonians 4:17). A good piece of art can present all this - and more - in one striking image. That painting can be seen below!
Song of Solomon 5:14
His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
The slightly swollen eyelids remind us of the unpleasantness of the situation. However, Jesus's face is calm and manly. He is in control. He knows He'll be resurrected by Himself in a few days. The acute pain of penetration is over. Now it's just some boring hours until He can take a two-day vacation (the first and last one He ever had, it breaks my heart to think about this, how He toils for our Salvation and how few actually listen to Him, it must be worse than the Cross
Matthew 7:14) followed by the miracle of Easter. Jesus is no wussy. He's got wiry, strong musculature, His beautiful belly shows His strength. He can take sinners and Satan any minute, even when hanging on the Cross. The regular people by the Cross are small and insignificant. They may feel sorrow now but Jesus knows it does not matter. Salvation matters. Jesus matters. What a beautiful piece of art!
I know, it could be from Grease. The painter must have been of the Grease Orthodox cult. However, even if the painter fails to understand Jesus and ends up in Hell (Daniel 3:11), the picture can provide us hope and consolation in the midst of the sodomite swarm. And the text is written in American, exactly as Jesus meant it to be!
Yours in Christ,
Elmer
The magnificent Easter is again at hand. The pivotal moment of that historic and thoroughly proven event - Crucifixion - has been one of the favorite subjects of great painters, sculptors and movie-makers for millennia. There must be millions of high-quality artwork depicting this glorious moment out there, so the average True Christian™ can have difficulties when he chooses the most fitting Easter decorations for this year. To help our Brethren and Sisters in this task, I post here my favorite crucifixion scene and the others in our fellowship can do the same.
Glory! Praise God!
I chose my favorite based on both artistic quality and Spiritual content. A good depiction of Crucifixion includes the most significant emotions that Jesus Christ our Lord must have felt during this initially quite unpleasant event. At first, Jesus was slightly skeptical:
Matthew 26:42
He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
Eventually, He (He was and IS God for God's sake; John 10:30; so He must have known that it is only temporary) resigned and received the blessing of Him as God and the nails pierced His unblemished skin! This apparently caught Jesus by surprise. The pain must have been relatively severe, as He cried out:
Matthew 27:46
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
But this moment of insecurity did not last: As we know, He raised Himself from Death and resides at the moment in Heaven waiting for us True Christians™ to join Him (1 Thessalonians 4:17). A good piece of art can present all this - and more - in one striking image. That painting can be seen below!
Song of Solomon 5:14
His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
The slightly swollen eyelids remind us of the unpleasantness of the situation. However, Jesus's face is calm and manly. He is in control. He knows He'll be resurrected by Himself in a few days. The acute pain of penetration is over. Now it's just some boring hours until He can take a two-day vacation (the first and last one He ever had, it breaks my heart to think about this, how He toils for our Salvation and how few actually listen to Him, it must be worse than the Cross
Matthew 7:14) followed by the miracle of Easter. Jesus is no wussy. He's got wiry, strong musculature, His beautiful belly shows His strength. He can take sinners and Satan any minute, even when hanging on the Cross. The regular people by the Cross are small and insignificant. They may feel sorrow now but Jesus knows it does not matter. Salvation matters. Jesus matters. What a beautiful piece of art!I know, it could be from Grease. The painter must have been of the Grease Orthodox cult. However, even if the painter fails to understand Jesus and ends up in Hell (Daniel 3:11), the picture can provide us hope and consolation in the midst of the sodomite swarm. And the text is written in American, exactly as Jesus meant it to be!
Yours in Christ,
Elmer
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