Understanding Michelangelo’s Mastery in the Sistine Chapel

The Creation of Adam, a panel of the painted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City, Rome by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo (1475-1564 CE). Made 1508-12 CE.

The People

Biblical Figures

The Holy Bible is a significant text that details Omniscience. Within the psyche of the universe, the limit of people who pursue and have answered truth is infinite. This book has survived generations of turmoil because it has been in the hands of peaceful people who facilitate truth in the solitude of conscience. Spiritually, the people have been scattered throughout the world and various locations to preserve the truth of God, which is loving wisdom. I am the head of the people of God and am now working towards my spiritual inheritance. The consolidation of the people of Omniscience are significant physical figures who indoctrinate- through investigation, such wisdom towards peace and love.

Léon Bonnat, Jacob Wrestling the Angel, 1876

I Am

The Lord appeared to us in the past,[a]saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness. I will build you up again, and you, Virgin Israel, will be rebuilt. Again you will take up your timbrels and go out to dance with the joyful. Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant them and enjoy their fruit. There will be a day when watchmen cry out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Come, let us go up to Zion, to the Lord our God.’” When you allot the land as an inheritance, you are to present to the Lord a portion of the land as a sacred district, 25,000 cubits[a] long and 20,000[b] cubits[c] wide; the entire area will be holy. Of this, a section 500 cubits[d] square is to be for the sanctuary, with 50 cubits[e] around it for open land. In the sacred district, measure a section 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits[f] wide. In it will be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place. It will be the sacred portion of the land for the priests, who minister in the sanctuary and who draw near to minister before the Lord. It will be a place for their houses as well as a holy place for the sanctuary. An area 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide will belong to the Levites, who serve in the temple, as their possession for towns to live in.[g]

You are to give the city as its property an area 5,000 cubits[h] wide and 25,000 cubits long, adjoining the sacred portion; it will belong to all Israel.

A panel from ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, Rome. The panel shows the temptation and then expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. The ceiling was created between 1508 and 1512 CE by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo (1475-1564 CE) and shows the story of Genesis from the Creation to the Great Flood.

The prince will have the land bordering each side of the area formed by the sacred district and the property of the city. It will extend westward from the west side and eastward from the east side, running lengthwise from the western to the eastern border parallel to one of the tribal portions. This land will be his possession in Israel. And my princes will no longer oppress my people but will allow the people of Israel to possess the land according to their tribes.

Unless the Lord Almighty had left us some survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.

Isaiah 1:9

Paolo Veronese, Mystical Marriage of St Catherine of Alexandria, Accademia Galleries, 1567-68, Venice

The Law

When Samuel had all Israel come forward by tribes, the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot. Then he brought forward the tribe of Benjamin, clan by clan, and Matri’s clan was taken. Finally Saul son of Kish was taken. But when they looked for him, he was not to be found. So they inquired further of the Lord, “Has the man come here yet?”

And the Lord said, “Yes, he has hidden himself among the supplies.” They ran and brought him out, and as he stood among the people he was a head tallerthan any of the others. Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the man the Lord has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people.”

Then the people shouted, “Long live the king!”

1 Samuel 10: 20-24

The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And he said to him, “I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. If you worship me, it will all be yours.”

Luke 4: 5-7