Emphasis Preaching Journal

Christians throughout the centuries have been bold to depict Jesus in art as the "ruler of the cosmos," the "fair and balanced judge of all," the "judge of the living and the dead." To convey this visually, the artist positioned a sitting Christ upon a rainbow that stretched across the canvas over the earth. In other portraits, Jesus is sitting on the rainbow with a sword extending out of his left ear and a lily out of his right ear. The sword represented judgment and the lily, mercy.