1993m_Second_Coming_Turner.txt Division 3. Epilogue. Owner: H. Roice Nelson, Jr. Chapter VII. Words View: 45, 90, and 180 degrees Type: Landscape, Building, and Portrait Location: St. George Temple Perspective: 3 Season: Spring Family: Second Coming Scales: 3 Time: Pre-Dawn Concept: Rapture Interval: Time ranges from geologic time to human time to a moment This painting is self explanatory. It is three views of the second coming of the Savior. The telestial view shows the St. George valley from a distance, where one knows what is happening by the pillar of light, and yet is not able to participate. Paul Hafen's farm and home town of Santa Clara are shown on the far left. Pine Valley Mountain is in the background overlooking Calf Springs Ranch (the Hafen summer grazing ground) to the north-northwest, Cedar City (Dad's and my hometown) to the northeast, and St. George (Mom's hometown) to the south. Noticed the guitar case is open in order to sing the songs of joy at His return, and it symbolizes that "as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." The snake is dead in the road, showing that Satan shall be bound. This is similar to Jan Vermeer's Allegory of Faith, painted in 1672, where a stone fell on the snake's head. The jet trail divides the telestial from the terrestrial, or the landscape from the close-up of the St. George Temple, where Marti and I, where Andrea and Rick, and where Andrea and I were married. The two views are connected by an Old Testament pillar of fire. In the terrestrial view, the jet trail becomes a sidewalk for the activity of the crowds of people coming to meet the Savior. There are angels ascending from and descending to the temple. The St. George Tabernacle spire to the right is at the same scale as the temple. This view of the temple is from the roof of the Dixie Medical Center. The "D" on the Black Hill to the west is for Dixie College and the Dixie High School Fliers. Grandpa Hafen was on the first Dixie Fliers basketball team. The trees form a type of apron for the temple, and the starburst highlights the power of His return. In the top-center of the painting is a close-up of the north entrace to the temple, where the Savior has come to welcome His saints, usher in the millennial reign of peace, and where we can meet Him face to face. Christ is filled with light. It is an interesting thought that when moves a fast as light, time has no meaning, and impurities catch on fire. The artist's son, Matthew, told him that the top figure is too bright to look at. Of course paint is never too bright to look at, since paint can not even reach an 80% range of what we see. the idea is that it is a light beyond brilliance, which brilliance is beyond the glory of the sun. the painting shows a flip-flopping of images that are in one place sky and in another ground; from one perspective a wall, and another light. And this is the Epilogue, where our thoughts turn to words, our words become an example, and our example leads to new thoughts.