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ChatGPT Prompt:
"I'm imagining what the second coming of Christ would look like. Help me with a description with relevant Bible passages, from a Seventh-day Adventist perspective"
"A vast, apocalyptic yet glorious scene of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, depicted exactly as described in the Bible. Jesus appears in the clouds of heaven, radiant with overwhelming light and glory, not touching the earth, surrounded by countless angels arranged in ordered ranks. His expression is majestic and solemn, not gentle or sentimental.
"Angels are blowing large golden trumpets, their sound implied visually through motion and power. From the earth below, graves are opening as resurrected saints rise bodily—men and women of all ages and ethnicities—clothed in incorruptible, radiant garments.
"Living believers are being caught up into the air, ascending joyfully to meet Christ, reunited with resurrected loved ones. Their faces show awe, relief, and reverent joy, not casual happiness.
The earth beneath is darkened and trembling—cities in the distance silent and broken, nature unsettled—contrasting sharply with the brilliant glory above. No depiction of hellfire, no eternal torment, no secret rapture imagery.
"The sky is split with light as if heaven itself has opened. The scene conveys divine authority, finality, and cosmic justice. Cinematic realism, high detail, dramatic lighting, epic scale, reverent tone, biblical accuracy.
ChatGPT: New Chat
"Create this image in wide cinematic realism:"
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Notes
Critique: Beautiful
Jesus looks "Catholic"
Everyone is white -- no diversity
ChatGPT: New Chat
"Create this image in wide cinematic realism. Jesus should appear like a real-life middle-eastern man, darker complexion, regal, with white hair and shining robe. The people should be from diverse ethnic backgrounds, men and women."
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Notes
Critique: Jesus is darker. My argument: still the same but white hair, looks like he's still white just really shadowed.
Biggest thing: Where the man's hand is. I know he's helping her--beautiful, but that's distracting.
Sparkles on his robe: different
We could probably work with this image, redo the part with his hand etc.
Let's try again but refine the top of our prompt.
ChatGPT: New Chat
"Create this image in wide cinematic realism. Jesus should appear like a real-life middle-eastern man, regal, with white hair and shining robe."
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Notes
Critique: Color is good
Has diversity in the graveyard
Love the emotion of the newly-reunited couple
Could certainly work with this.
The camera angle and the proximity to the ground makes it look like a local event. Like Jesus isn't coming to the city, just to this one graveyard. Let's see if we can punch the camera up higher. Let's also edit the whole prompt, git rid of unnecessary info which might complicate the picture
Create this widescreen image from a high viewpoint, showing the global scale of Jesus' return.
"A vast, apocalyptic yet glorious scene of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, depicted exactly as described in the Bible. Jesus, as a middle-eastern man with white hair appears in the clouds of heaven, radiant with overwhelming light and glory, not touching the earth, surrounded by countless angels arranged in ordered ranks. His expression is majestic and solemn not gentle or sentimental.
"Angels representing different ethnicities are blowing large golden trumpets, their sound implied visually through motion and power. From the distant earth below, graves are opening as resurrected saints rise bodily—men and women of all ages and ethnicities—clothed in incorruptible, radiant garments.
"Living believers are being caught up into the air through the clouds, ascending joyfully to meet Christ, reunited with resurrected loved ones. Their faces show awe, relief, and reverent joy, not casual happiness.
The earth beneath is darkened and trembling cities in the distance are silent and broken, nature unsettled —contrasting sharply with the brilliant glory above. No depiction of hellfire, no eternal torment, no secret rapture imagery.
"The sky is split with light as if heaven itself has opened. The scene conveys divine authority, finality, and cosmic justice. Cinematic realism, high detail, dramatic lighting, epic scale, reverent tone, biblical accuracy.
Notes
Critique:
Definitely more global. Love the angel choir.
Don't have the strangeness in the graveyard. Sort of liked the intimate reunions in some of the other takes, but overall ths captures the scene I was going for.
Diversity: still a lot of white saints but we have the black angel trumpeters so that's good. We can work on some more diversity in the editing.
Jesus does look really old, and white.
But of everything we've done, this one wins in terms of overall layout and color in my opinion.
Image Generation Platforms
and Models
- ChatGPT (OpenAI)
- Gemini (Google)
- Facebook / Instagram / Whatsapp (Meta)
- Photoshop (Adobe)
- xAI
- TikTok (ByteDance)
- MidJourney
- Ideogram
-Ideogram V3
- Black Forest Labs
- Stability AI
- Leonardo.ai (Canva)
- Phoenix 1.0
- Lucid Origin
- Lucid Realism
GPT 1.5
- Photographic Realism
- Strong prompt coherence
- Limited to 1.5MP, only 3 aspect ratios
Nano Banana 2
- Strong prompt coherence
- Up to 4K
- Limited Complexity
Notes
Prompt:
A vast, apocalyptic yet glorious scene of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, as he comes in the clouds of heaven with all the majestic holy angels. Jesus should appear like a real-life middle-eastern man, darker complexion, regal, with white hair and shining robe. His expression is majestic and solemn. The people should be from diverse ethnic backgrounds, men, women and children.
Angels are blowing large golden trumpets. From the earth below, in a beautiful cemetery, graves are open and the resurrected righteous rise.
The righteous believers, including those from the cemetery, rise up to meet Jesus in the clouds. All are clothed in radiant garments.
Beyond the cemetery, the earth is broken, cities crumbled, contrasting sharply with the glorious beauty above where Jesus is coming with all his angel choir.
Notes
Prompt:
A vast, apocalyptic yet glorious scene of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, as he comes in the clouds of heaven with thousands of majestic holy angels. Jesus should appear like a real-life middle-eastern man, darker complexion, regal, with white hair and shining robe. His expression is majestic and solemn. The people should be from diverse ethnic backgrounds, men, women and children.
Angels are blowing large golden trumpets. From the earth below, in a beautiful cemetery, graves are open and the resurrected righteous rise.
The righteous believers, including those from the cemetery, rise up to meet Jesus in the clouds. All are clothed in radiant garments.
Beyond the cemetery, the earth is broken, cities crumbled, contrasting sharply with the glorious beauty above where Jesus is coming with all his angel choir.
Epic, cinematic, photographic style
Character Consistency
Notes
Problem: All the characters look a little bit alike, and a little bit different.
Notes
Solution:
Use Image-to-Image prompting
ChatGPT: Continue in the same thread (not too far)
Provide Character References
Styles
Notes
Choose the model that best fits your style
Nano Banana 2
Create an illustration of Moses leading the children of Israel through the red sea on dry land, in the style of a pixar movie cover (no text, widescreen 16:9)
Nano Banana 2
Create a photograph of Noah's ark built out of legos, with Noah and the animals. The overall picture should have a futuristic, transparent shine. Widescreen (16:9)
GPT 1.5
(via ChatGPT)
Create this epic, photo-realistic widescreen image: Moses leading the children of Israel through the red sea on dry land. Look at the Bible and make it bionically accurate
ChatGPT to the rescue
I'm making a presentation to compare different generative AI models and prompts to get different styles. What other styles and models can you suggest?
Ideogram
Illustration for a children's Bible storybook: Moses leading the Israelites through the Red Sea, bright colors, friendly characters, soft watercolor illustration style
Notes
Here's our best output so far from ChatGPT. But it's far from good. Because we prompted for lots of angels, people, etc, it didn't have enough calculating power to make each one good. No amount of prompt refining on this model will improve that.
Other leading models like Nano Banana 2 overcome this by limiting the number of characters in any output. That prevents weird distortions, but it makes the images look more like illustrations and less like epic cinematic photos. So our best option with this image is to take it piece by piece. First, let's widen it to 16:9. We'll use MidJourney for this, although you could easily use something like Leonardo's Canvas tool. This is technically known as outpainting.
Notes
Here's the same image, out-painted on each side and also upscaled with MidJourney. Now we'll crop and zoom on the right-hand side to see some of the roughness in this image.
Notes
At this scale, you can see how rough the image is. The foreground angels are OK, but the people ascending are distorted. The angel choir faces are really just blobs. Upscaling with normal upscalers at this point generally just increases distortion. So let's use this as an image prompt in ChatGPT and see if we can generate some fresh details
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