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Seraphic Destiny: Understanding the Final Judgment

Ferran Cabrera i Cantó (1866–1937), The Abyss (1906), oil on canvas, 415 x 330 cm, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Wikimedia Commons.
3–4 minutes

 “Whoever sheds human blood,
    by humans shall their blood be shed;
for in the image of God
    has God made mankind.

 As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”

Genesis 9: 6-7

The Hall of Justice

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Jacopo Tintoretto (c 1518-1594), The Entombment (E&I 313) (1592-94), oil on canvas, 288 x 166 cm, Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy. Wikimedia Commons.

What is Within the Fiery Altar?

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Jacopo Tintoretto (c 1518-1594), Dream of Saint Mark (Pax Tibi Marce) (E&I 305) (c 1591), oil on canvas, dimensions not known, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, Italy. Image by Didier Descouens, via Wikimedia Commons.

My Deific Instruction

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Frans Francken the Younger (1581–1642), Mankind’s Eternal Dilemma – The Choice Between Virtue and Vice (1633), oil on panel, 142 x 210.8 cm, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA. Wikimedia Commons.

The War of Ancients

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Jacopo Tintoretto (c 1518-1594), The Last Supper (E&I 310) (1592-94), media and dimensions not known, Duomo, Lucca, Italy. Image by Mongolo1984, via Wikimedia Commons.

Arte e Spiritualità: Sant’Antonio Abate

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Frans Francken the Younger (1581–1642), Mankind’s Eternal Dilemma – The Choice Between Virtue and Vice (1633), oil on panel, 142 x 210.8 cm, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA. Wikimedia Commons.

This is the description of the apocalyptic events leading up to the day of judgment, which elucidates that everyone will meet the consequences of their deeds. This is a close emphasis on God‘s revealed word, and that the messenger is not insane– as others would like to believe.

When the sun is extinguished, and when the stars burn out, and when the mountains are demolished, and when pregnant horses are left untended and when wild animals are gathered together, and when the seas are evaporated, and when the spirit and their bodies are paired once more, and when baby girls buried alive are asked for what crime they were put to death, and when the records of these gates open, and when the sky is stripped away, and when the hellfire is fiercely flared up and when paradise is brought in on that day, each soul will know what deeds it has brought along.

 May those who seek my life
    be disgraced and put to shame;
may those who plot my ruin
    be turned back in dismay.
 May they be like chaff before the wind,
    with the angel of the Lord driving them away;
 may their path be dark and slippery,
    with the angel of the Lord pursuing them.

Psalm 35: 4-6

I swear by the receding stars which travel and hide and the night as it descends and the day as it ascends, indeed, this prophecy is the word of God delivered by his angel, a noble messenger. Full of power held in honor by the Lord of the throne obeyed, bear in heaven and trustworthy is your fellow man. I am not insane and I did see that angel on the clear horizon, and I do not withhold what is exposed to me of the unseen, and this prophecy is not the word of an outcast devil, so what other path would you take? Surely this prophecy is only a reminder to the whole world, to whoever of you will to take the Straight Way, but you cannot will to do so, except by the will of God, the Lord of all Worlds.

‘The Wedding Party’ by Mike Davis. (Mike Davis/111 Minna)

When the sky splits open, and when the stars die out, and when the seas are evaporated and wind, the graves spill out, then each spirit will ascertain what it has set for or left behind. O, humanity! What a bold trespass you have against your Lord, the most generous who created you, fastened you and perfected your design and molding you in whatever form I will. But no, in fact, you deny the final judgment when you are certainly observed by vigilant, honorable angels recording everything. They know whatever you do, indeed the virtuous will be in bliss and the wicked will be in hell, burning in it on judgment day- and they will have no escape from it. What will make you realize what judgment day is again? What will make you realize what judgment day is? It is the day no soul will be of any benefit to another whatsoever, for all authority on that day belongs to God entirely.

You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit[a] of truth and the spirit of falsehood.

1 John 4: 4-6

The Wisdom of Understanding

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Jacopo Tintoretto (c 1518-1594), The Last Supper (E&I 309) (1592-94), oil on canvas, 365 x 568 cm, Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy. Wikimedia Commons.

La Omnipotencia

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The Paradise by the Italian Renaissance painter Tintoretto (1518-1594 CE), commissioned for the Doge’s Palace n Venice. Completed 1588 CE.

Llamamiento de Realidad

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Hans Memling (c 1433–1494), The Last Judgment (panel from triptych) (1467-1471), oil on panel, 223 x 72 cm, Muzeum Narodowe w Gdańsku, Gdańsk. Wikimedia Commons.

The Eternal Truths: Insights from Scripture

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Jacopo Tintoretto (c 1518-1594), The Archangel Michael in Combat with Lucifer (E&I 287) (1580s or early 1590s), oil on canvas, 318 x 220 cm, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany. Wikimedia Commons.

The Great Deceiver

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Featured image: Peter Paul Rubens – The Fall of Phaeton, c. 1604-1605. Oil on canvas, 98.4 x 131.2 cm (38.7 x 51.6 in). The National Gallery of Art. Image via Creative Commons

Preparing to Conquest

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Unrecorded artist, Virgin of The Rosary of Pomata, c. 1730–60, oil on canvas with gold leaf applications (Pedro y Angélica de Osma Foundation)
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