Letter to Sardis: Part 2

New Clothes (2012) (11" x 14")

collage and acylic on canvas

Each of the seven churches in Revelation 2-3 is given a promise, contingent upon their future behavior. For Sardis it is the wearing of white robes. There are other groups in the book who wear white rainment, a symbol of purity:

     Rev. 3:18    the congregation at Laodicea if they repent

     Rev. 4:4      the 24 elders in heaven

     Rev. 6:11    the Christian martyrs

     Rev. 7:9      the multitude of saved in heaven

     Rev. 19:14   Christ himself