Today's Gospel in Art - I watched Satan fall like lightning from heaven

Fallen Angel, by Geostal, Digital Art, 2010, © 2019 Geostal

Gospel of 5th October 2019 - Luke 10:17-24

The seventy-two came back rejoicing. 'Lord,' they said 'even the devils submit to us when we use your name.' He said to them, 'I watched Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Yes, I have given you power to tread underfoot serpents and scorpions and the whole strength of the enemy; nothing shall ever hurt you. Yet do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you; rejoice rather that your names are written in heaven.'

It was then that, filled with joy by the Holy Spirit, he said:

'I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children. Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.'

Then turning to his disciples he spoke to them in private, 'Happy the eyes that see what you see, for I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see, and never saw it; to hear what you hear, and never heard it.'

Reflection on the Digital Artwork

The first words Jesus tells to His disciples in today's Gospel are: 'I watched Satan fall like lightning from heaven'. That fact that Jesus says that He actually watched Satan fall, refers to Jesus' pre-existence. Jesus, though He came into our physical world, is not bound by space or time… So, the fall of Satan that Jesus saw, occurred after Lucifer's sin (and before Adam and Eve's temptation in the Garden of Eden). Lucifer in his lack of humility, ungratefulness and pride had lifted himself up, but God had cast Lucifer out of Heaven. In our digital artwork of today we see that moment of Lucifer falling out of Heaven, smashing through the heavenly floor so to speak.

What I like about the digitally generated art image of today is that Lucifer is depicted as just a normal man. He isn't depicted with a tail, hoof feet, monstrous head…To read on see: www.christianart.today/daily-gospel-reading/194