This vignette was written in response to Elle Griffin’s September prompt to “Write an Afterlife!” Though the aspect of utopic paradise was lost once pen hit paper, at least from a certain point of view.
This painting had a profound impact on me and the scripture its from, i want to say revelation 6, is harrowing to the bone! Had to comment up front, but im reading now!
Re-read Revelation 6 and you're right, especially 12-14. "The heavens were torn apart like a scroll being rolled up." There's something in the sky itself vanishing that terrifies me, and the choice of the word 'heaven' implies something worse.
The term “great day of his wrath” comes from revelation--maybe its revelation 4. “They cried out to the mountains to fall on us and hide us, but the great day of his wrath is come, who shall be able to stand” something like that.
Imagine being so terrified of judgement that you fell mountains on top of yourself?? It feels so relatable and so inescapable
Thank you! Pleased to hear it worked and that expanding cyclical history to a cosmic level worked. I suppose that is the paradise part, that the world isn't ash forever, that there is hope of a new world.
I've often thought about the Afterlife and the End Times. Though we hear talks about 'we live in the End Times' (at least I do), I don't think we really understand how it must feel to be the last people to live before the universe is absolutely destroyed.
This painting had a profound impact on me and the scripture its from, i want to say revelation 6, is harrowing to the bone! Had to comment up front, but im reading now!
Re-read Revelation 6 and you're right, especially 12-14. "The heavens were torn apart like a scroll being rolled up." There's something in the sky itself vanishing that terrifies me, and the choice of the word 'heaven' implies something worse.
The term “great day of his wrath” comes from revelation--maybe its revelation 4. “They cried out to the mountains to fall on us and hide us, but the great day of his wrath is come, who shall be able to stand” something like that.
Imagine being so terrified of judgement that you fell mountains on top of yourself?? It feels so relatable and so inescapable
Incredibly well done!!! You really captured the terror, and i like the wheel of time bringing it round again.
Thank you! Pleased to hear it worked and that expanding cyclical history to a cosmic level worked. I suppose that is the paradise part, that the world isn't ash forever, that there is hope of a new world.
I've often thought about the Afterlife and the End Times. Though we hear talks about 'we live in the End Times' (at least I do), I don't think we really understand how it must feel to be the last people to live before the universe is absolutely destroyed.