Jesus Cries for Africa
by Kathleen Luther
Title
Jesus Cries for Africa
Artist
Kathleen Luther
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas Board
Description
This is a prophetically revealed painting, one I did not plan but that
developed as I worked into something I never would have done. Acrylic on 8 x 10 canvas board. Done as a demo for a lady student, later, the changes came.
So it needs interpretation.
It started out as a nativity scene of a baby in a manger.
As I worked, I saw faces behind the child, one obviously Mary who showed a white cross in her face. Not joy but sorrow, Mother of Sorrows, Mater Dolorosa.
The baby started out as Jewish but His features became of the African race.
Another opposite, white becomes black.
Then the blankets covering the child turned into the hill of Golgotha with 3 crosses at the top and the empty tomb in the base of the hill. Another opposite, birth becomes death and then death becomes resurrection, new life. Why 17 steps lead up to the cross? Not sure of symbolism there.
Then the straw around the baby in the manger became a side view of a crown of thorns next to His head.
There is another woman next to Mary as well as two men.
At first I assumed it was others who stood at the foot of the cross like Mary Magdalene or the sister of the Virgin. Or St. John who we know was there.
But the faces do not show that it is these, they have a haughty or disdainful look.
Neither is it those at the birth of Christ like Joseph, or shepherds who are usually in a nativity scene.
I am an end time artist and the Lord works thrrough me to reveal many end time scenes with messages in them.
This painting with Jesus as a child of the African race has a message.
Jesus weeps for the persecuted race of people of African origin, even as He weeps for Jerusalem.
He weeps for the ones who were disdained and made into slaves by haughty and arrogant white 'masters'.
He was born to carry the burden of suffering and pain. He lived and died with a great love for the downtrodden.
He arose from the grave victorious over all sins of hate, racial pride, contempt, arrogance, persecution and torture of others.
He lives today to be the Champion of the Poor, the Widow, the Orphan, the Defender of the Downtrodden, the Bondage Breaker.
To be like Christ, Christians must walk that Via Dolorosa or Way of Sorrows, die to self, and take up that cross, that burden that Jesus carried for all mankind.
His burden was for Jews, for Africans, for the arrogant persecutors as well.
This painting is a challenge to follow Jesus and bear that terrible burden.
Use this photo to remind yourself to be like Him and truly love others,
really see Christ in others.
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October 3rd, 2013
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