#bamberger apocalypse

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miniature from the "bamberg apocalypse", reichenau, c. 1000-1020

source: Bamberg, SBB, Msc.Bibl.140, fol. 73r

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The angels accompanying St. Michael attack the dragons, facsimile of the Bamberg Apocalypse

German School

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Dragon and the Woman clothed with the Sun, Bamberg Apocalypse, Reichenau, about 1010

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Last Judgment from the Bamberg Apocalypse, 11th century

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You Gonna Have to Serve Somebody: Thoughts on Christ the King

Does Christ’s kingdom exist only in the future? Or is it somehow breaking into the here and now, even in the killing fields of history, where you need the faith of a dying thief to see it?  #ChristTheKing

The Enthronement of Christ (Bamberg Apocalypse, early 11th century). The extremists in American politics say that God is on their side, but such statements are lacking in content. Their “God” is not really expected to supply any concrete assistance, such as plagues or angelic legions, to carry them to victory. “God-on-our-side” language is just a dramatic way to say that “we are right and you…

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“AND THE SHAPES OF THE LOCUSTS were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. They had tails like unto scorpions, with stings: and their power was to hurt men five months.”

The attack of the apocalyptic locusts. Saint-Sever Beatus, commentarium in Apocalypsin ~ ca.1070 BnF  • via Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

Enjoy below a gallery of terrifying medieval miniatures depicting the episode of Rev. 9

Falling star and locusts. The Val-Dieu Apocalypse. France, Normandy ~ ca.1320 British Library

Charming deadly locusts in the Bamberger Apocalypse, Reichenau ~ ca.1010 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Locusts of the Apocalypse. French Prose Apocalypse  ~ ca.1315 Bodleian Libraries.

Abaddon and the locusts (Revelation 9:7-11). Saint-Sever Beatus. Saint-Sever Abbey, Landes, France ~ 11th century

Scene from the Apocalypse, the release of the deadly locusts from the Bottomless Pit ~ ca.1290; France

The locusts of the Apocalypse in action! Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale  ~ 15th century

The Locusts. Apocalypse flamande ~ ca.1410 BnF

Devil's army: plague of locusts, from Commentary on the Apocalypse of Saint Sever, France ~ 1060

The fifth angel sounds his trumpet. Korenya Book of Apocalypse. Russian illumination ~ ca.1692

Woodcut from the Nürmberg Chronicle ~ 1483

Giant cloud of locusts over Cairo in the springtime of 2004. Reuters • via Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

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The Apocalypse in Germany - Week 14

Algermissen: Desinfectant and handicraft tools stolen from daycare

Viersen: Burglars steal 21 rolls of toilet paper and 5 kitchen rolls

Face masks mandatory in the city of Jena

Bad Kreuznach: Burglars steal 40 rolls of toilet paper from the hallway of an apartment building.

Cologne: A drunk customer in a drug store complains that he’s only allowed to buy one pack of toilet paper. Police sent him off, he returns and continues to complain. Police comes again and take him into custody.

Monheim: Drunk guy beats an employee of a fast food restaurant because he’s not allowed to eat his food in his car.

Flights from Iran banned.

No new episode of the daily podcast with Christian Drosten (the virologist all of Germany is stanning at the moment) on April 1 because he had a cold (he’s fine though, he tested negative for Corona)

Gelsenkirchen: Plainclothes policemen see two men loading a cardboard box from one car into another car. Turns out there were 1600 face masks in it. The policemen confiscated them.

Over 1,000 deaths

Increased demand for puzzles

Schleswig-Holstein closes sausage stands

Bamberg: Man invites his friends to drink alcohol in his apartment. After police had to come for the fifth time in one week, they took him into custody for two weeks.

Admission stop in nursing homes and homes for the disabled in Bavaria

Weinheim: Man arrested because he announced a protest against the curfew on the Internet.

Berlin: Police breaks up actual protest where 40 people protested against the curfew.

Wilhelmshaven: Guy throws a party. Police has to come and breaks it up. Guy doesn’t stop party. Police has to come again. Guy moves party to another apartment in the same house. Police has to come for the third time and takes two people into custody.

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Bamberg Apocalypse 1000-1020 A. D. Reichenau Island, Lake Constance

The Last Judgement

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The Seven Trumpets, from the Bamberg Apocalypse

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the locusts from the bottomless pit

"The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were crowns of something like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men. They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle. They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months." - Revelation 9:7-10 (NKJV)

miniature in the "bamberg apocalypse", illuminated manuscript, lake constance region, c. 1000-1020

source: Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Msc.Bibl.140, fol. 23r

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Friday: Preparation for the Seventh Sunday of Easter

Hebrew Scripture Torah Lesson: Exodus 24:15-18

Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. The glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days; on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the cloud. Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel. Moses entered the cloud, and went up on the mountain. Moses was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.

Psalm 47

Clap your hands, all you peoples;  shout to God with loud songs of joy.

For the Lord, the Most High, is awesome,  a great king over all the earth.

He subdued peoples under us,  and nations under our feet.

He chose our heritage for us,  the pride of Jacob whom he loves. Selah

God has gone up with a shout,  the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.

Sing praises to God, sing praises;  sing praises to our King, sing praises.

For God is the king of all the earth;  sing praises with a psalm.

God is king over the nations;  God sits on his holy throne.

The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham.  For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted.

New Testament Lesson: Revelation 1:9-18

I, John, your brother who share with you in Jesus the persecution and the kingdom and the patient endurance, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. I was in the spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet saying, “Write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

Then I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the lampstands I saw one like the Son of Man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash across his chest. His head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; his eyes were like a flame of fire, his feet were like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters. In his right hand he held seven stars, and from his mouth came a sharp, two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining with full force.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he placed his right hand on me, saying, “Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last, and the living one. I was dead, and see, I am alive forever and ever; and I have the keys of Death and of Hades.”

Year B Easter 7 Friday

Bible verses from The New Revised Standard Version, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All right reserved. Selections from Revised Common Lectionary Daily Readings, copyright 1995 by the Consultation on Common Texts. Image credit: The Son of Man and The Seven Lampstands from the Bamberg Apocalypse, folio 3, via Wikimedia Commons. This is a public domain image.

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discardingimages: the Dragon and the Woman clothed with the… discardingimages: the Dragon and the Woman clothed with the Sun Bamberg Apocalypse, Reichenau ca. 1010 Staatsbibliothek Bamberg, Msc.Bibl.140, fol. 29v

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the woman of the apocalypse and the seven-headed dragon

in the "bamberg apocalypse", illuminated manuscript, lake constance region, c. 1000-1020

source: Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Msc.Bibl.140, fol. 29v and 31v

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The Four Hoursemen of Apocalypse. Bamberger Apokalypse ~ ca.1000 AD • Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

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Tuesday: Reflection on the Twenty-forth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Roman Catholic Proper 24 Revised Common Lectionary Proper 19

Complementary Hebrew Scripture from The Twelve Prophets: Jonah 3

The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying, “Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.” So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large city, a three days’ walk across. Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's walk. And he cried out, “Forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” And the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and everyone, great and small, put on sackcloth.

When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. Then he had a proclamation made in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: No human being or animal, no herd or flock, shall taste anything. They shall not feed, nor shall they drink water. Human beings and animals shall be covered with sackcloth, and they shall cry mightily to God. All shall turn from their evil ways and from the violence that is in their hands. Who knows? God may relent and change his mind; he may turn from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish.”

When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them; and he did not do it.

Semi-continuous Hebrew Scripture from the Latter Prophets: Jeremiah 5:18-31

But even in those days, says the Lord, I will not make a full end of you. And when your people say, “Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?” you shall say to them, “As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours.”

Declare this in the house of Jacob,  proclaim it in Judah: Hear this, O foolish and senseless people,  who have eyes, but do not see,  who have ears, but do not hear. Do you not fear me? says the Lord;  Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,  a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail,  though they roar, they cannot pass over it. But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart;  they have turned aside and gone away. They do not say in their hearts,  “Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives the rain in its season,  the autumn rain and the spring rain,  and keeps for us  the weeks appointed for the harvest.”¹ Your iniquities have turned these away,  and your sins have deprived you of good. For scoundrels are found among my people;  they take over the goods of others. Like fowlers they set a trap;  they catch human beings. Like a cage full of birds,  their houses are full of treachery; therefore they have become great and rich,  they have grown fat and sleek. They know no limits in deeds of wickedness;  they do not judge with justice the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper,  and they do not defend the rights of the needy. Shall I not punish them for these things?    says the Lord,  and shall I not bring retribution  on a nation such as this?

An appalling and horrible thing  has happened in the land: the prophets prophesy falsely,  and the priests rule as the prophets direct; my people love to have it so,  but what will you do when the end comes?

¹This verse is quoted in James 5:7, where he urges patience in suffering.

Complementary Psalm 73

Truly God is good to the upright,  to those who are pure in heart. But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled;  my steps had nearly slipped. For I was envious of the arrogant;  I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

For they have no pain;  their bodies are sound and sleek. They are not in trouble as others are;  they are not plagued like other people. Therefore pride is their necklace;  violence covers them like a garment. Their eyes swell out with fatness;  their hearts overflow with follies. They scoff and speak with malice;  loftily they threaten oppression. They set their mouths against heaven,  and their tongues range over the earth.

Therefore the people turn and praise them,  and find no fault in them. And they say, “How can God know?  Is there knowledge in the Most High?” Such are the wicked;  always at ease, they increase in riches. All in vain I have kept my heart clean  and washed my hands in innocence. For all day long I have been plagued,  and am punished every morning.

If I had said, “I will talk on in this way,”  I would have been untrue to the circle of your children. But when I thought how to understand this,  it seemed to me a wearisome task, until I went into the sanctuary of God;  then I perceived their end. Truly you set them in slippery places;  you make them fall to ruin. How they are destroyed in a moment,  swept away utterly by terrors! They are like a dream when one awakes;  on awaking you despise their phantoms.

When my soul was embittered,  when I was pricked in heart, I was stupid and ignorant;  I was like a brute beast toward you. Nevertheless I am continually with you;  you hold my right hand. You guide me with your counsel,  and afterward you will receive me with honor. Whom have I in heaven but you?  And there is nothing on earth that I desire other than you. My flesh and my heart may fail,  but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Indeed, those who are far from you will perish;  you put an end to those who are false to you. But for me it is good to be near God;  I have made the Lord God my refuge,  to tell of all your works.

Semi-continuous Psalm 94

O Lord, you God of vengeance,  you God of vengeance, shine forth! Rise up, O judge of the earth;  give to the proud what they deserve! O Lord, how long shall the wicked,  how long shall the wicked exult?

They pour out their arrogant words;  all the evildoers boast. They crush your people, O Lord,  and afflict your heritage. They kill the widow and the stranger,  they murder the orphan, and they say, “The Lord does not see;  the God of Jacob does not perceive.”

Understand, O dullest of the people;  fools, when will you be wise? He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see? He who disciplines the nations, he who teaches knowledge to humankind,  does he not chastise? The Lord knows our thoughts,  that they are but an empty breath.¹

Happy are those whom you discipline,  O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law, giving them respite from days of trouble,  until a pit is dug for the wicked. For the Lord will not forsake his people;  he will not abandon his heritage;² for justice will return to the righteous,  and all the upright in heart will follow it.

Who rises up for me against the wicked?  Who stands up for me against evildoers? If the Lord had not been my help,  my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence. When I thought, “My foot is slipping,”  your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. When the cares of my heart are many,  your consolations cheer my soul. Can wicked rulers be allied with you,  those who contrive mischief by statute? They band together against the life of the righteous,  and condemn the innocent to death. But the Lord has become my stronghold,  and my God the rock of my refuge. He will repay them for their iniquity  and wipe them out for their wickedness;  the Lord our God will wipe them out.

¹Paul quotes this verse in 1 Corinthians 3:20, discussing divisions in the Corinthian church. ²Paul uses this verse in Romans 11:2, explaining that Israel's rejection is not final.

New Testament Epistle Lesson: 2 Peter 3:8-13

But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day. The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish, but all to come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and everything that is done on it will be disclosed.

Since all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what sort of persons ought you to be in leading lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set ablaze and dissolved, and the elements will melt with fire? But, in accordance with his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.

Year C Ordinary 24, Catholic Proper 24, RCL Proper 19: Tuesday

Selections are from Revised Common Lectionary Daily Readings copyright © 1995 by the Consultation on Common Texts. Unless otherwise indicated, Bible text is from New Revised Standard Version Bible (NRSV) copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Image Credit: A Bamberg Apocalypse Folio 019, By Deutsch: Auftraggeber: Otto III. oder Heinrich II. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons 0 license (public domain).