Coming Upon The Clouds

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Michael

The dove descending breaks the air

With flame of incandescent terror

Of which the tongues declare

The one discharge from sin and error.

The only hope, or else despair

Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre-

To be redeemed from fire by fire.

Who then devised the torment? Love.

Love is the unfamiliar Name

Behind the hands that wove

The intolerable shirt of flame

Which human power cannot remove.

We only live, only suspire

Consumed by either fire or fire.

(LITTLE GIDDING, IV)

— T.S. Eliot

Michael

Where death fulfills, where time itself must break.

The fire of which I speak has brought salvation,
I find in it new powers of restoration
Although I seemed already with the dead.

Since by fire nature reaches up to heaven
I may, through it, be reconciled, forgiven,
For it must surely bear me overhead.

Last seven lines from Michelangelo’s 59th sonnet

Ellen McFarland

What an awesome, majestic picture — very powerful!

Fred Hayden

😀

Kees

Hi Skip,

Could you give us your vision on the socalled ‘rapture’ sometimes? I have a hard time fitting in what Paul says about meeting the Lord in the air with a future here on earth. Maybe it’s good to explain: untill recently I believed in a future in ‘heaven’ after the rapture. But since my Greek way of thinking changed into a Hebrew way of thinking, I cannot believe we would leave this earth to go to heaven and be there with Christ, while His kingdom will be set up here below, on this earth.

I now believe to be grafted into the olivetree (Romans 11), which I believe to be the believing (remnant of) Israel. This would mean we are part of the coming kingdom on earth.

Does this mean we will meat our Lord in the air to welcome Him to the earth (somewhat like the Roman brothers went out of the city to welcome Paul and bring him in)? Could you share your opinion on this please?

Kees

B.t.w.: you’re an early bird! Over here it’s my lunchbreak! 😉

Chris Thompson

How can something so imperfect look so beautiful? God!!

Jan Carver

THE COLOR OF FREEDOM – ORANGE!!! GORGEOUS PHOTO

Donna Levin

That’s an amazing photo and it really looks like a painting to me. Ah, I suppose it is “painted” by the Great Master. Thanks for sharing it Skip–you have quite an eye and skill with the camera.

Christine Hall

What a magnificent picture – where did you take it? As an artist I have over the years taken many pcitures of the sky and found it to be one of the most inspiring aspects of God’s creation because it is like he just pulls out a huge paint brush and splashes colour every where and the clouds just clap their hands! Thanks for sharing it. Wow

Christine

Judith Jeffries

WOW! others used all the wonderful descriptions of this picture and mine would be more of the same
Would this framed and hanging Orange is one of my favorite colors

Judith Jeffries

Should have been ‘would love this framed’ sorry!

Rich Pease

GLORY!!!
I second the request to get your thoughts and insights on the rapture.
Blessings to all!

Davison

Shalom to you all and shalom to all those you love.

This “coming upon the clouds” once you shoot this arrow back to the two witnesses (torah and prophets), it will change your view of it forever. This is a beautifull picture and so also the true meening of the Hebrew meening of the phrase”coming upon the clouds”.

Shalom Shalom

Davison

Godwin Ude

Simply awesome!

God has revealed Himself in everything He made, including in the glory of clouds.

Shalom!