Artist Information
Name: Stanger, Will
Location(s): United States
Gender: Male
The Pleasing Bar of the Great Jehovah
by Stanger, Will
Dated 2024
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The Pleasing Bar of the Great Jehovah
by Stanger, Will
Scripture
Moroni 10
Copyright
Will Stanger. Used with permission.
Date
2024
Citation
Will Stanger, The Pleasing Bar of the Great Jehovah, 2024. The Book of Mormon Art Catalog, [URL].
Insights
Technique & Style
Figurative, Mixed media
Figures
God, Indistinguishable, Jesus Christ
Symbols
scale, staff, sun, throne
Animals
bird, goat
Additional Info
Notes
Artist statement: "I often think about the concept of meeting with the savior face to face at the end of this mortal life to give an accounting. I think of those Book of Mormon witnesses who say they will be waiting for the reader, to testify of their words. I think of Moroni, who in his last written witness gives his promise that he will see us again. I often wonder at his words “ I soon go to rest in the paradise of God, until my spirit and body shall again reunite, and I am brought forth triumphant through the air, to meet you before the pleasing bar of the great Jehovah, the Eternal Judge of both quick and dead.” I hope that I can stand as such a witness of Christ, both in life and in the eternity to come."
Commissioned Status
Submitted to the 2024 BYU Book of Mormon Art Contest.
Church Affiliation of the Artist
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints