Acrylic on six stretched canvases framed in four separate frames total size is approx 4ft x 9ft.
This painting is designed as four pictures and reads from left to right, starting with Creation the one blue canvas on the left, next is Fall the combination of the blue canvas and the red/black canvas on the middle left, then is Salvation the next set of blue canvas with red/black canvas on the middle right, and finishes with Wedding the blue canvas on the right.
Creation:
This is the Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Sprit) along with Man (Adam) and Woman (Eve) together in the Garden of Eden. All of God's creation is still in a state of perfection at this point.
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”
Genesis 1:26
Fall:
This is the separation mankind experienced after sin entered into the world.
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death; prisoners in affliction and in irons, for they had rebelled against the words of God,and spurned the counsel of the Most High.
Psalm 107:11
Salvation:
This is God sending his son Jesus to die on the cross in our place, to take our sin upon Himself.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16
Wedding:
This is the Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) now reunited with us (followers of Christ), restored once again to a perfect relationship with God.
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away."
Revelation 21:1-4
© Keith Brabender 2017
