Luke 1:30-33 (ESV)

“Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”

The Annunciation
Philippe de Champaigne (French, 1602-1674)

2 Samuel 7:12-13 (ESV)

When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

King David Bearing the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem
Luca Giordano (Italian, 1634-1705)

Revelation 11:15 (ESV)

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.”

The archangel sounding the last trumpet and the resurrection of the dead
Cormaia Monastary, Romania, c. 1461

Daniel 7:13-14 (ESV)

“I saw in the night visions,
and behold, with the clouds of heaven
there came one like a son of man,
and he came to the Ancient of Days
and was presented before him.
And to him was given dominion
and glory and a kingdom,
that all peoples, nations, and languages
should serve him;
his dominion is an everlasting dominion,
which shall not pass away,
and his kingdom one
that shall not be destroyed."

Franciscan Church of Vienna -
Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit
Vienna, Austria
Unknown Artist

1 Corinthians 16:13 (ESV)

Be watchful,
stand firm in the faith,
act like men,
be strong.

A Crusader Knight Baptising a Convert
Johann Friedrich Overbeck (German, 1789-1869)

Jude 1:20-21 (ESV)

But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.

Acryllic, 2014
Gwen Mills

1 Thessalonians 5:5-6 (ESV)

For you are all children of light,
children of the day.
We are not of the night or of the darkness.
So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.

The Lookout, 1882
Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910)

Revelation 16:15 (ESV)

“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”

The Day of Judgement
John Martin (English, 1789-1854)

Matthew 24:42-44 (ESV)

Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

The Siege (Defense of a Church Courtyard During the Thirty Years’ War), 1848
Karl Friedrich Lessing (German, 1808-1880)

Luke 12:37 (ESV)

“Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them.”

Cena in Emmaus (Supper at Emmaus), 1606
Caravaggio (Italian, 1571-1610)

Psalm 27:13-14 (ESV)

I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord
in the land of the living!
Wait for the Lord;
be strong, and let your heart take courage;
wait for the Lord!

Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, c. 1655
Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632-1675)

Hebrews 10:37-38 (ESV)

“Yet a little while,
and the coming one will come and will not delay;
but my righteous one shall live by faith,
and if he shrinks back,
my soul has no pleasure in him.”

Alleluia - Second Coming
Walter Rane (American, 1949-present)

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Habakkuk 2:2-3 (ESV)

“Write the vision;
make it plain on tablets,
so he may run who reads it.
For still the vision awaits its appointed time;
it hastens to the end—it will not lie.
If it seems slow, wait for it;
it will surely come; it will not delay.”

Habakkuk: The Sentinal of God
Frank O. Salisbury (English, 1874-1962)

Mark 13:35-37 (ESV)

“Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning— lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake.”

The Watchman
Moritz von Schwind (Austrian, 1804-1871)

Isaiah 21:11-12 (ESV)

The oracle concerning Dumah.
One is calling to me from Seir,
“Watchman, what time of the night?
Watchman, what time of the night?”
The watchman says:
“Morning comes, and also the night.
If you will inquire, inquire;
come back again.”

The Repentance of Nineveh, 1829
after John Martin (English, 1789 - 1854)

Luke 1:76-78 (ESV)

And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High;
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
to give knowledge of salvation to his people
in the forgiveness of their sins,
because of the tender mercy of our God

St. John the Baptist as a Child, c.1665
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617-1682)

Micah 7:18-19 (ESV)

He does not retain his anger forever,
because he delights in steadfast love.
He will again have compassion on us;
he will tread our iniquities underfoot.
You will cast all our sins
into the depths of the sea.

Clearing Up - Coast of Sicily, 1847
Andreas Achenbach (German, 1815-1910)

John 12:24 (ESV)

Truly, truly, I say to you,
unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone;
but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

Quercus alba, White Oak, Acorn Sprout
Nellie Sue Potter

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Psalm 130:3-5 (ESV)

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could stand?
But with you there is forgiveness,
that you may be feared.
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
and in his word I hope;

The Father's Forgiveness, II
Daniel Bonnell

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Hosea 6:1-2 (ESV)

“Come, let us return to the Lord;
for he has torn us, that he may heal us;
he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
After two days he will revive us;
on the third day he will raise us up,
that we may live before him.”

The Ressurection, c. 1715
Sebastiano Ricci (Italian, 1659-1734)

Ezekiel 36:26-27 (ESV)

And I will give you a new heart,
and a new spirit I will put within you.
And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.

Sacred Heart of Jesus (detail), 1767
Pompeo Batoni (Italian, 1708-1787)

Revelation 7:13-14 (ESV)

Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?”

“These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”

The Four and Twenty Elders
Henry John Stock (English, 1853-1930)

Isaiah 1:18 (NIV)

“Come now, let us settle the matter,”
says the Lord.

“Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.

Detail of the Crucifixion from Isenheim altarpiece; detail of a lamb, c.1512-16
Matthias Grünewald (German, 1470-1528)

1 John 1:9 (ESV)

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

David und Nathan
Anton Robert Leinweber (German, 1845-1921)

Psalm 51:10-12 (ESV)

Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from your presence,
and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation,
and uphold me with a willing spirit.

Christ and the pauper. Healing of the blind man, 2009
Andrei Mironov (Russian, 1995 - )