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The Bible In Paintings, #33: Mt. Sinai #1 – GOD SHOWS OFF
Bing Images ^ | c. 2000 BC -- c. 90 AD | Father, Son & Holy Spirit

Posted on 07/24/2020 4:21:45 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6

ARE YOU IN A HURRY? I’M NOT, NOR WAS GOD:
After all, He kept Moses on that mountain-top for forty days. Now I’m not going to take anything like forty days in telling the story, obviously; but what I will endeavour* to do is to tell the story completely and unhurriedly. Really, it all just depends upon how much art I can find. As it happens, I found plenty on just the mountain itself, so today I present to you

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GOD SHOWING OFF:
MT. SINAI ON FIRE!

E X O D U S . . 1 9
New International Version, emphases added
Abridged – the complete text is in your Bible

1 On the first day of the third month after the Israelites left Egypt they entered the Desert of Sinai, and Israel camped there in the desert in front of the mountain.

3 Then Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain and said, “This is what you are to tell the people of Israel: 5 ‘Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession, a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’”

8 The people all responded together, “We will do everything the Lord has said.” So Moses brought their answer back to the Lord.

9 The Lord said to Moses, “I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear me speaking with you and will always put their trust in you.”

10 And the Lord said to Moses, “[T]he third day, the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. 12 Put limits for the people around the mountain and tell them, ‘Be careful that you do not approach the mountain or touch the foot of it.’”

16 On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled. 17 Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. 18 Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the Lord descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently.

24 The Lord replied, “[B]ring Aaron up with you. But the priests and the people must not force their way through to come up to the Lord, or he will break out against them.”


by BRACHA LAVEE
“Mt. Sinai”


by NAOMI JACOBS
“Smoke on the Mountain”


You may have noticed that a work need not be a masterpiece to make the cut here;
it just needs to tell the story or, frankly, tickle my fancy. Thanks for understanding.


By AVNER MORIAH


I'll take BLUE FLYING SAUCERS for $600, please, Alex.
No, I don't have a clue, either, why this artist modified the painting just above.
Think it's kind of Close Encounters-ish? Who has a phone number for Spielberg or Dreyfuss?
Now, let's return to moving Thru the Bible--I'll take J. VERNON McGEE for $2,000, Alex!


by YORAM RAANAN
“Mount Sinai Aflame at the Giving of the Torah”


Moses' 5 books: Genesis-Exodus-Leviticus-Numbers-Deuteronomy


* E N D E A V O U R
American fans of the brilliant British detective series Endeavour will be heartened to learn that its seventh season is upon us at last! Look for it on your PBS station on three consecutive Sundays, beginning August 9th. (First, baseball resumes--GO DODGERS!--and now this: God is good! LOL) Between now and then, I'll be gearing up by rewatching Morse, Fred, Win, Reggie and Jim in the first six seasons. Bring back Trulove; and you tell him, Joan!


Again, here is the Bing page
"GOD ON MT. SINAI IN SMOKE AND FIRE”,
showing various painters' conceptions.
Several are serious works worthy of interest,
by unknown artists except as noted.

Also, here are links to compendia of three masters
who painted Biblical scenes prolifically:

REMBRANDT van RIJN

GUSTAV DORÉ
(241 wood engravings for
La Grande Bible de Tours)

JAMES TISSOT

Finally, here are links to the
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SPECIAL THANKS
to FReeper left that other site,
who allowed God to make her His conduit
for incomparable enthusiasm, encouragement,
education, advice and technical assistance!


SNEAK PEEK: Next time,

MOSES CLIMBS
MT. SINAI



TOPICS: Apologetics; General Discusssion; History; Theology
KEYWORDS: art; bible; paintings
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At the Holy Spirit's prompting, I am surveying "Bible art" to give God glory, as many of these artists have done, and for my own amusement and learning; and I thought others might enjoy it and be blessed by it, too. My plan is to proceed methodically from left-to right, Genesis to Revelation, as the Lord wills. Back soon with another.

The Bible encourages us to meditate on it (Ps. 1:1-3, 119:11-16, etc.); these artists have done so, and their works can assist us and enrich our own thoughts about biblical characters, incidents and concepts, and increase our faith in He who is behind it all. As you encounter and consider these images and the related Scriptures and the Spirit enlightens your understanding, please share it with us!

But it is not only oil-on-canvas that can so help us; I refer to the astonishing video series The Chosen, which strolls through the four Gospels at the most leisurely pace. The eight episodes of Season 1 are finished, and the second of a planned seven seasons is coming soon. I say "leisurely" because after an entire year’s viewing Jesus still has only seven of the apostles (although He's preparing to call up Thomas from the minor leagues--but Thomas is skeptical, of course). Anticipating a canvas of fifty-plus hours instead of a movie's paltry two hours, The Chosen turns the characters (especially including Jesus!) into three-dimensional humans and brings the Gospels alive--you have never seen anything even remotely like it! Here is the Official Trailer.

Here is a link for free viewing of The Chosen: “Works with your phone, tablet, and you can cast to your Roku or Chromecast.” Last fall I paid $34.98 for DVDs and ongoing internet access—best 35 bucks I’ve ever spent (I don’t recall how much our marriage license cost, but then it was 42 years ago).

1 posted on 07/24/2020 4:21:45 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6
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2 posted on 07/24/2020 4:23:15 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Thanks for posting.


3 posted on 07/24/2020 4:37:46 PM PDT by BipolarBob (The cost of abortion is a human sacrifice.)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

A Dramatic Moment! :-)


4 posted on 07/24/2020 4:44:25 PM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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To: BipolarBob

Glad you saw it.


5 posted on 07/24/2020 4:48:16 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: left that other site

Portraying lightning, fire and thunder is quite an artistic challenge, but somehow implying thunder and “the whole mountain trembled violently” add a whole new and higher hurdle. Saw one or two who seemed to succeed.


6 posted on 07/24/2020 4:53:45 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Hebrews 11:6
To give perspective of what we are and where we are, we're about an inch up and an inch to the right of the bright star in the lower left hand corner. One of those little orange stars is our sun. This is one galaxy out of the billions and billions that are out there and God knows exactly where we are.

Andromeda-galaxy-2

7 posted on 07/24/2020 5:16:26 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Yes. There were a few that were really cool.


8 posted on 07/24/2020 5:51:23 PM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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To: SkyDancer
I certainly agree that God created hundreds of billions of galaxies and that He us in total control of His entire physical universe, especially including us--you're on absolutely solid ground there.

I've taken an active interest in astronomy for sixty years and am Christian astrophysicist Dr. Hugh Ross' friend and biggest booster. That is obviously the Andromeda Galaxy, at two million light-years distance. What took that photo at a distance sufficient to shrink our star to apparent insignificance? Surely not Hubble. Voyager? The specific source of the picture, if you please.

If you answer, I will top your picture and reinforce your point, not that it needs strengthening. And your photo, and mine, fit this thread: this is God's art.

9 posted on 07/24/2020 6:02:01 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

We think that we’re it, but when you pull back and really look you can see how really insignificant we are - but yet God knows us, in all the infinite universe He knows us, individually.


10 posted on 07/24/2020 6:18:57 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Wow! That is my favorite thread topic so far!
Thanks!


11 posted on 07/24/2020 6:31:39 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty (China is ashoe.)
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To: TheConservativeParty

What—God showing off? LOL


12 posted on 07/24/2020 7:01:58 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: SkyDancer
Well, you didn't supply the source as requested, but I'll show my very favorite photograph anyway.

Astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at the darkest patch of sky they could find and left the shutter open for ten days. Their goal was to take a galaxy census sample. The sky area is what you'd see through a drinking straw--about one-twelfth the moon's apparent diameter. There are only three foreground stars in this photo, recognizable by camera-spikes. Every other visible object is a distant galaxy. As a direct result, astronomers doubled their estimate of galaxies in the observable universe, to 400,000,000,000.


13 posted on 07/24/2020 7:23:26 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: SkyDancer
you can see how really insignificant we are - but yet God knows us, in all the infinite universe He knows us, individually.

You make a profound point, but there is a fact which adds yet another depth to it. Under the physical laws God chose in creating this (finite) universe, it requires a universe this inconceivably immense in order to yield just this one planet capable of indefinitely supporting advanced life, and here we are. God created all this cosmos just for us, so of course He knows us.

14 posted on 07/24/2020 9:56:10 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

How can you not be completely humbled by this?


15 posted on 07/25/2020 3:39:04 AM PDT by sgt_lau (Being tolerant to the most intolerant people on the planet is a losing proposition. Reject islam.)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

As a lay person I did a sermon years ago using a similar image (the same image?) as a prop. (Before the screen presentations and had it printed on a large poster).

The sermon was about the love, grace and power of God. And this image shows not only how vast all of creation is - but how vast all of the attributes of God are.

I commented something like “You know how as a parent we tell our child ‘I love you THIS much’ and spread out our arms as wide as they can go? I wonder if God created this immense universe as if spreading His arms wide and saying ‘I love you THIS much!’”


16 posted on 07/25/2020 3:46:39 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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Obviously the image of “our galaxy” is either an artist’s rendition, or perhaps of a similar spiral galaxy to give an idea of where we sit.

One of the Voyager’s did pass out of our solar system a few years ago. IIRC it was still sending back data - but no photos. I think it may have been “shut down” in hopes of booting it up again at some time?


17 posted on 07/25/2020 3:55:18 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

What request?


18 posted on 07/25/2020 5:18:56 AM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: sgt_lau

I assume your question is rhetorical, because I indicated my awe at the immensity of God’s creation, just for us.


19 posted on 07/25/2020 6:16:24 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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20 posted on 07/25/2020 6:18:30 AM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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