Grace Bomer

Babylon Burning

40 × 55 ″ Oil and wax, gesso, charcoal on photograph of Brooklyn Bridge

For Sale

USD 4500

A manipulated Ikea photograph of New York’s Brooklyn Bridge is turned up-side-down. The Tower of Babel painted over the city of New York is a symbol for the “city of man.” It is burning -a reference to the doom of Babylon found in Revelation 17-18. Babylon is portrayed as the Great Prostitute or The Harlot, who prostitutes her love for the true God. Those who follow the Beast will make Babylon, “desolate and naked and devour her flesh and burn her with fire.”

The other “city” of Scripture is the everlasting city, eternal in the heavens, a city that cannot be shaken,” (Hebrews 11:13, 12: 27-29).