Category: Michaelangelo saw the reality of men trying to control the conscience of others with power to literally kill and destroy those who disagreed with them..

Michaelangelo’s judgment on the two Medici Tombs whose lives exposed their crimes . . .

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"As men rejoice in the freedom which the truth brings them, they are inclined to extol those whom God has employed to break the chains of error and superstition. Satan seeks to divert men's thought and affections from God, and to fix them upon human agencies; he leads them to honor the mere instrument and to ignore the Hand that directs all the events of providence. Too often relgious leers who are thus paised and reverenced lose sight of their dependence upon God and are led to trust in themselves. As a result they seek to control the minds and conscience of the people, who are disposed to look to them for guidance instead of looking to the word of God. The wok of reform is often retarded because of this spirit indulged by its supporters. From this danger, God would guard the cause of the Reformation. He desired that work to receive, not the impress of man, but that of God. The eyes of men had been turned to Luther as the expounder of the truth; he was removed that all eyes might be directed to the eternal Author of truth. In MIchaelangelo's day the Medici Family, ruled what he paint and carve out of stone, but when you think of how the message comes out through the stone, of own persecution, and judgment of God, above their Tombs, it is in somber reflection by the real God above, that exposes the statues without clothes. The humility of man bowing down to the dictates of man exposes the truth that God would rather have us covered with His Robe of His Righteousness, in how we treat others, either below and higher than us, without caste, or bias.
“As men rejoice in the freedom which the truth brings them, they are inclined to extol those whom God has employed to break the chains of error and superstition. Satan seeks to divert men’s thought and affections from God, and to fix them upon human agencies; he leads them to honor the mere instrument and to ignore the Hand that directs all the events of providence. Too often relgious leers who are thus paised and reverenced lose sight of their dependence upon God and are led to trust in themselves. As a result they seek to control the minds and conscience of the people, who are disposed to look to them for guidance instead of looking to the word of God. The wok of reform is often retarded because of this spirit indulged by its supporters. From this danger, God would guard the cause of the Reformation. He desired that work to receive, not the impress of man, but that of God. The eyes of men had been turned to Luther as the expounder of the truth; he was removed that all eyes might be directed to the eternal Author of truth.” Great Controversy p. 168-170 by Ellen White.
In Michelangelo’s day the Medici Family, ruled what he could paint and carve out of stone, but when you think of how the message comes out through the stone, of his own persecution, and judgment of God, above their Tombs, it is in somber reflection by the real God above, that exposes the statues without clothes. The humility of man bowing down to the dictates of man exposes the truth that God would rather have us covered with His Robe of His Righteousness, in how we treat others, either below and higher than us, without caste, or bias.

I like the finger of the Judge above with his hand on his mouth. As if to silence what judgment he might voice if not contained by his self control. Perhaps when you see me put my hand near my mouth, it will be cause of I fear of what might come out . . .lol

“He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;  Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.” (Proverbs 7:22,23).

Walking away from the protection of TRUTH, is like a bird running into the snare, and knows not, that it is for his life. Luicfer dares you believe, “Ye shall not surely die.” “She” the prostitute will tell you, she can change the times and laws of God.  How did that work in the Garden of Eden.

The Medici Family initiated the death of her son, and his wife, because he married a convert a Christian, who kept the 7th Day Sabbath.

The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy in French) in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations, followed by a wave of Catholic mob violence, both directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants), during the French Wars of Religion. Traditionally believed to have been instigated by Catherine de' Medici, the mother of King Charles IX, the massacre took place five days after the wedding of the king's sister Margaret to the Protestant Henry III of Navarre (the future Henry IV of France). This marriage was an occasion for which many of the most wealthy and prominent Huguenots had gathered in largely Catholic Paris. The massacre began in the night of 23–24 August 1572 (the eve of the feast of Bartholomew the Apostle), two days after the attempted assassination of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, the military and political leader of the Huguenots. The king ordered the killing of a group of Huguenot leaders, including Coligny, and the slaughter spread throughout Paris. Lasting several weeks, the massacre expanded outward to other urban centres and the countryside. Modern estimates for the number of dead across France vary widely, from 5,000 to 30,000. The massacre also marked a turning point in the French Wars of Religion. The Huguenot political movement was crippled by the loss of many of its prominent aristocratic leaders, as well as many re-conversions by the rank and file, and those who remained were increasingly radicalized. Though by no means unique, it "was the worst of the century's religious massacres."[2] Throughout Europe, it "printed on Protestant minds the indelible conviction that Catholicism was a bloody and treacherous religion".
The St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre (Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy in French) in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations, followed by a wave of Catholic mob violence, both directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants), during the French Wars of Religion. Traditionally believed to have been instigated by Catherine de’ Medici, the mother of King Charles IX, the massacre took place five days after the wedding of the king’s sister Margaret to the Protestant Henry III of Navarre (the future Henry IV of France). This marriage was an occasion for which many of the most wealthy and prominent Huguenots had gathered in largely Catholic Paris.
The massacre began in the night of 23–24 August 1572 (the eve of the feast of Bartholomew the Apostle), two days after the attempted assassination of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, the military and political leader of the Huguenots. The king ordered the killing of a group of Huguenot leaders, including Coligny, and the slaughter spread throughout Paris. Lasting several weeks, the massacre expanded outward to other urban centres and the countryside. Modern estimates for the number of dead across France vary widely, from 5,000 to 30,000.
The massacre also marked a turning point in the French Wars of Religion. The Huguenot political movement was crippled by the loss of many of its prominent aristocratic leaders, as well as many re-conversions by the rank and file, and those who remained were increasingly radicalized. Though by no means unique, it “was the worst of the century’s religious massacres.”[2] Throughout Europe, it “printed on Protestant minds the indelible conviction that Catholicism was a bloody and treacherous religion”.
Michelangelo could have nothing but hatred towards the Medici Family, who brought the blood and treacherous religion of those who destroyed life, by their cruel blows of hatred to those whose “whose thoughts” were not their own.

This hand of “men” wishing to control the “thoughts” of others, and judge “their souls,” as something unworthy to live in the eyes of God who creates life, to give a blessing to others, is crime that reminds of the DAYS WE ARE LIVING IN!