Heavensgateway
About
The painting Heavensgateway hints at the indivisible moment after death just before the entry into everlasting life. In this picture the entrance of Heaven is depicted as a sort of sluicegate. Each step into this bridging of the final divide is cleared in the suffering of the Man that payed back the ultimate thing He had not stolen himself. Who choose to be crucified innocently and bear in replacement the curse of God-forsakeness, redeeming fallen man and cosmos all at once.
Therefore it is written in the New Testament:
"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be in him made the righteousness of God in him."
(II Corinthians 5: 21; King James Version of the Holy Bible)
The inner sides of the gateposts symbolize the ultimate ransom that Christ payed to reconcile the cosmos as a whole (with man in it!) through his voluntary, replacing death. The blood-red beams allude to the crucifixion of God´s only begotten Son. In a palpable sense, this "sluice" absorbs every abhorrence of sickness, pain or death, when making the passage. The blood-red beams remind also at Exodus 12 in the Old Testament were the Israelites had to strike blood of a lambs on the door posts of their houses. The blood on the posts was the token for the lord´s angel of death to pass over the houses of Israel in Egypt, when he smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast (Exodus 12, Old Testament in the Holy Bible).
The geometric entrance masks the heavenly world that lies behind. We perceive a glimpse of a spacious panorama composed by a sheet of water preceding a mountain range. The inner reddish-pink rhomboid symbolizes a further passage. This inner pane symbolises the immense meeting place with God´s being and personality. It´s the place were the glorified man shall be immersed in the inexhaustible creativity and love of his Creator. This painting announces a voyage of discovery in a double sense: a) The entry and exploration of the land of infinite, abundant life (of which we are shown glimpses of a lake and mountain range), and b) The encountering of God´s Personality (In this painting blue symbolises the Father and red stand for the Son).
This voyage of discovery will be continuous because of God´s inscrutable and unlimited creative dynamics. In that place man will find abundance on abundance, newness on newness. The heavenly realm will uprise us continually. It will enclose the ultimate delight of adventure. We are talking about out-of-the-box explorations full of dynamics. Yet at the same time we will betransported in realms of perfect-restfulness. The Bible writes:
"And if children {of God}, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together untill now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit , the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for what we see not, then do we with patience wait for it."
(The epistle of Paul the apostle to the Romans 8: 17-25; King James Version of the Holy Bible)
This painting Heavensgateway looks forward to the earthly-and-heavenly realms of paradise in the secure hope that neither death nor powers will be able to separate us -who love the Father- from His encompassing love.
About
The painting Heavensgateway hints at the indivisible moment after death just before the entry into everlasting life. In this picture the entrance of Heaven is depicted as a sort of sluicegate. Each step into this bridging of the final divide is cleared in the suffering of the Man that payed back the ultimate thing He had not stolen himself. Who choose to be crucified innocently and bear in replacement the curse of God-forsakeness, redeeming fallen man and cosmos all at once.
Therefore it is written in the New Testament:
"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be in him made the righteousness of God in him."
(II Corinthians 5: 21; King James Version of the Holy Bible)
The inner sides of the gateposts symbolize the ultimate ransom that Christ payed to reconcile the cosmos as a whole (with man in it!) through his voluntary, replacing death. The blood-red beams allude to the crucifixion of God´s only begotten Son. In a palpable sense, this "sluice" absorbs every abhorrence of sickness, pain or death, when making the passage. The blood-red beams remind also at Exodus 12 in the Old Testament were the Israelites had to strike blood of a lambs on the door posts of their houses. The blood on the posts was the token for the lord´s angel of death to pass over the houses of Israel in Egypt, when he smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast (Exodus 12, Old Testament in the Holy Bible).
The geometric entrance masks the heavenly world that lies behind. We perceive a glimpse of a spacious panorama composed by a sheet of water preceding a mountain range. The inner reddish-pink rhomboid symbolizes a further passage. This inner pane symbolises the immense meeting place with God´s being and personality. It´s the place were the glorified man shall be immersed in the inexhaustible creativity and love of his Creator. This painting announces a voyage of discovery in a double sense: a) The entry and exploration of the land of infinite, abundant life (of which we are shown glimpses of a lake and mountain range), and b) The encountering of God´s Personality (In this painting blue symbolises the Father and red stand for the Son).
This voyage of discovery will be continuous because of God´s inscrutable and unlimited creative dynamics. In that place man will find abundance on abundance, newness on newness. The heavenly realm will uprise us continually. It will enclose the ultimate delight of adventure. We are talking about out-of-the-box explorations full of dynamics. Yet at the same time we will betransported in realms of perfect-restfulness. The Bible writes:
"And if children {of God}, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together untill now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit , the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for what we see not, then do we with patience wait for it."
(The epistle of Paul the apostle to the Romans 8: 17-25; King James Version of the Holy Bible)
This painting Heavensgateway looks forward to the earthly-and-heavenly realms of paradise in the secure hope that neither death nor powers will be able to separate us -who love the Father- from His encompassing love.
Copyright Artborne Erdeborn