9 Apr 2013
Revelation 1:13-16
Revelation 1:13: “And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.”
This picture of Jesus is completely different from the one that we see in Christian bookstores, isn’t it? Just look at it: Jesus has white hair, fiery eyes, and bronze skin. This is nothing less than a Biblical description of the appearance of Christ.
Amazingly, this description has been almost universally disregarded. The mental picture that most people have of Jesus is not remotely Biblical. Instead of accepting the Bible’s picture of Christ, people have instead gone out and drawn pictures of Jesus that are designed to make people think that Jesus looks like them.
I am against pictures of Jesus on general grounds – I think they are dangerous and misleading. At the very least, though, if you’re going to draw pictures of Him, you should at least remember that Jesus is a Jew from the Middle East – not a tall, white, blue-eyed, blond-haired guy from Norway. Can’t we at least get His ethnicity right? Is that too much to ask?