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“I will make you a pillar in the temple of my God; you will never go out of it. I will write on you the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem that comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.” Revelation 3:12
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O Morning Star,
ReplyDeletesplendor of light eternal and sun of righteousness:
Come and enlighten those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death.
This is taken from Luke 1:78,79. "Because of the tender mercy of our God, With which the Sunrise from on high will visit us, TO SHINE UPON THOSE WHO SIT IN DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH, To guide our feet into the way of peace." Here Zachriah, when seeing Jesus begins to prophesy with joy that the Messiah has come referencing Isis 6. which we would all recognize from Handle's Messiah. Zechariah recognized that the kingdom that Christ the King would reign would be one of a different sort than the Jews were expecting. Yes, the government will be upon his shoulders and there will be no end to his government, or the peace that results from it. However Zechariah began to foreshadow the type of kingdom was one that would set people free from their enemies but by removing the power of the enemies over his children. His Kingdom would start in our hearts and would guide our feet in the way of peace instead of overthrowing empires to achieve it.
This image is predominately a silhouette of Nebucadnezer the king of Babylon. Babylon was not only a nation that oppressed the israelites but is a Biblical symbol of oppression and a way of life that is Godless. There are bomber plains in the silhouette and skull eyes to further emphasize the dark end of those who follow a way that is apart from the giver of life. The bird is perched atop looking curiously at the deathly figure. It has no similar ways with it, it is simple, care free, full of peace and would find it strange that others would be otherwise. This embodies the spirit of the Kingdom as far as I can see it. All that is sinful in me or at me, and all that is corrupted from eden is tossed aside in simple self death and life in our new King. The creation of the fraternal community, on the margins of society over which king and coin hove no power begins in our hearts, and is of such attraction that nations cannot help but flock.