Olives & Crosses
Content: Visualize the church and olives. Background: Church of All Nations built by the Italian architect Antonio Barluzzi between 1919 and 1924. The church, known also as the Basilica of the Agony, in reference to the night that Christ spent there on the eve of his Passion, blends the architectural lines typical of the Christian basilica (the facade) with the…
Jesus
This painting is very special and unique. There are five pieces with character and drawing. When you combine five of them, you can see Jesus in Jerusalem.
Wild Olives
Content: Gentiles are wild olives. Non Jew Christians are like the wild olive branches and so akin to the olive roots. The city, olive trees and Gethsemane become my focus of expression. I have actually fallen in love with the land and everything in it. Background: A traditional reason for grafting olive trees is the belief that the wild olive…
Olives Crushed and Pressed
Content: Inspiration from art teacher Kwok. Olives are crushed and pressed through the curing process to produce olive oil. Olives are crushed and pressed to extract the impurities of vegetative extract liquid and solid material. Olive oil, which symbolizes purity, is monounsaturated and can act as antioxidants. Like many believers, we are being crushed and pressed especially in our infant days…
Olives & Church
Content: Tour in the Garden of Gethsemane. How do you relate church and the olive trees? Christians are like the wild olive branches and are akin to their roots. The city, olive trees and Gethsemane become the focus of expressing the indwelling love of the land and everything in it. Background: In Romans 9 – 11, Paul describes God’s relationship…
Old city of Jerusalem
Content: Looking closely toward the wall parallel…Overlooking from the Mount of Olives across the Kidron valley, one can sense Jesus second coming…any time on any date..in a broad daylight just like this one in the old city. Background: Mount of Olives, a flat-topped ridge with steep rocky sides, is 830m (2794 ft) high and is believed to have been the…
Olives and Olives
Content: Olives in rainbow colors. Background: Olives are of many colours, varying from yellow green to black as they ripe. Olive leaves are narrow and sharply pointed, grey-green on the upper surface and white on the underside owing to a complete covering of minute white scales, which help to keep down water loss from the tree. Psalms 52:8 says, “But…