Inspiration:

After 4,000 years of teaching and preparation for the unveiling of His kingdom, the Servant King finally descends from His throne in the heavens and chooses to dwell on this rebellious earth.

Almost the very first announcement Jesus makes is this: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.” (Mat. 4:17 in part)

Why does Jesus give such a blunt message in His first approach to the human heart?  The answer is that right away He comes to grips with the fact that the matter which called God’s rule into question at the beginning, was human insistence on the right to rule one’s own affairs.  We must reverse this decision and admit to God’s rule as being absolute.

The desire to resist God’s sovereignty is deeply ingrained within each one of us.  And it is this which makes us aliens to the kingdom of God.  The heart is indeed a rebel and before we can discover what life is really like in God’s kingdom we must repent of this innate desire to have our own way.

Peace is acknowledgement to His right to reign in our lives.  We come into the kingdom not through evolution but by revolution; not through better birth but by new birth.

Technique: 
   Types, parables, miracles, and similes are all interlaced together like links in a chain.  So inseparably are they united that they can only be severed at the expense of some of the links.  The chain of truth needs them all, and though very different in form and pattern, and enriched and beautified with varying gems and ornaments, they combine to make one perfect whole.  Viewed in its completeness this shows a unity of design running throughout the entire WORD of GOD, proving that HE HIMSELF inspired it.

    In this monochromatic black and white/brown and gold pastel, the artist demonstrates man’s prideful battle with creation:

     “How is it that the factuality of Genesis is now universally questioned, whereas a century ago it was generally accepted in large portions of the world?  Many people today are Evolutionists.”  (Kang)

     “Every engine of destruction that human wisdom, human science, human philosophy, human wit, human satire, human force and human brutality could bring to bear against a book has been brought to bear against the Bible, and the Bible still stands.”  (Torrey)

     “The Bible has had to sustain the assaults of the greatest talent, the sharpest wit, and the acutest intellects.  To make it appear a cunningly-devised fable, philosophers have sought arguments amid the mysteries of science, and travelers amid the hoar remains of antiquity; for that purpose geologists have ransacked the bowels of the earth, and astronomers the stars of heaven; and yet after having sustained the most cunningly-devised and ably-executed assaults of the eighteen hundred years, it still exists.”  (Guthrie)

     “All things that threatened to extinguish HIS WORD have only aided it; and it proves every day how transient is the noblest monument that man can build, how enduring is the least word that God has spoken.”  (Cumming)

    The use, therefore, of the black and white for the Evolutionist is to reflect his limited understanding of creation.  To understand creation, man must seek beyond black and white.