Martyrdom of the Harpist
KRS James Cline
Pencil on Museum Mount Board
45”x 36”
Private Collection
Offset Lithograph on velum paper
23”x 29” Price $175
S/N limited edition of 300
In Jan Van Eyck’s famous painting GIOVANNI ARNOLFINI AND HIS BRIDE, Christ’s presence is embodied as a candle flame residing upon a chandelier hovering over the nuptial couple. It seems only fitting that if He is present over the wedding, alluding to His own with the awaiting Church, then He is present in the same manner in her worldly persecution. If someone were to be hung by her words literally, then she has been. And though it seems that by a Satanic hand that she has been stricken, yet none of this may occur without His Divine sanction.
The woman Israel sits before a Trinity of windows awakening from a slumber to find a plumb line hanging over her head derived from the book of Amos. The picture of the picture is prophecy. And the Antichrist rides out on a white horse, first of the Four Horsemen, dressed as a politician. I’m sure no one will have trouble with that.
But who is a better antichrist than the “vicar” of Christ? An office not found in Scripture to fill in for the Author of Scripture should be troubling. I need Christ, not someone who resembles Him. Out of the Revived Roman Empire a leader will come. I submit Rome has never fallen, it simply changed clothes and its Caesar followed by a pantheon of gods joined the opposition.
Not that I believe the papacy itself is the Antichrist, but that of a great antichrist. The Scripture calls that single coming leader “The Assyrian“ whom I believe is a Muslim, and the office of the ecumenical papacy will serve as his prophet for a time until The Great Whore, the Holy See, be tolerated no more and The Beast’s empire turn and slay her too. A-la Islam.
And now the Harpist has finished her song and must make her exit to clear the way for what many call The Apocalypse, the Seventieth Week of Daniel... the climax of world history, for it is time for her to attend a wedding.
Detail, The Plumb Line, The Harpist and The Four Horsemen with the Harpist
Detail, the prophet before Van Eyck’s painting.
