Shelli Jones Baker of Oklahoma painted a vision she received on July 4, 1987. Beginning on July 9, she spent 1500 hours painting acrylic on four canvas panels totaling 4 by 8 feet. The painting was unveiled on October 11, 1987 at A Glorious Church Fellowship, in Collinsville, Oklahoma.
Mrs Baker also wrote a book to accompany the painting in 1989. Published by New Leaf Press, P.O. Box 311, Green Forest, Arkansas, 72638, the book comes with an 8" by 20" print of the painting (which was scanned in to make this web page.) The book tells in detail the story of how the painting came into being, and discusses God's providence in the creation and progress of our country.
How I came to be acquainted with the painting: In December 1986, I was told in a dream, "I have made a way for you. You are to go to Fort Smith, Arkansas. There, you will do work that will wake up the American people!"
After sending packages of my pamphlets to patriots in the area I had found listed in the Knowledge = Freedom directory, in March 1997, I traveled with a friend to that part of the country, and visited some of the patriots I had contacted. We also visited Branson, Missouri and Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
Eureka Springs, home of The Great Passion Play, is where I found the book and the painting. Anyone planning to vacation at Branson absolutely MUST go the extra 60 miles to Eureka Springs, and see the Passion Play! (Just continue south on US 65, and go west on US 62.) In "The New Holy Land" exhibit, they also have re-created The Temple to the exact specifications given in Exodus, and have the world's largest collection of published Bibles (7000 of them!) in the Bible Museum! They also have a fine book store, where I found this awesome image.
Links to actually see the painting are below. The first one is a version created to fit on the computer screen. This image doesn't even begin to do the painting justice! Most of the details are lost.
Following that are the two .jpg images created by scanning in the print. (The software couldn't handle the entire picture in one scan!) You can see the details quite well in them, but you have to scroll all over to get around to seeing everything. To actually see painting on line in all its glory, you'll need a 60 inch monitor! (Never seen one of them, myself!)
Mucho thanks to Mike Briggs of Howland, Maine, for converting the .bmp image I had posted into the .jpg image formatted to fit the screen! It takes up only 114,003 bytes of memory (the old .bmp image took 869,286 bytes!), freeing up 755,283 bytes for me to keep posting articles! I was down to 72,130 bytes, which means I could have posted only a few more articles.
If anyone knows where the artist, Mrs Baker is now, please let her know that her work has been given a new life! It's such a powerful image, it needs to be made available to as many people as possible!
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