Ok, so this may be super earl lee, and I'm sure a lot of you have realized this already, but I was thinking about this today, and wanted to break it down further.

THE JESUS IS KING COVER WAS INTENTIONAL

To start, lets take a look at these two covers:

YEEZUS

JESUS IS KING

Now, as we all know these two album covers are quite similar, but is this a coincidence?

I think that Kanye West knew and wanted to acknowledge the fact that Jesus Is King is the antithesis to Yeezus

Now lets took a look at the main differences of these two covers:

• Yeezus is a CD, JIK is a vinyl record
• Yeezus main color is RED, JIK's is BLUE

Now lets break this down further:

As I mentioned, Kanye wanted to acknowledge the fact that JIK was the antithesis to Yeezus, and as we can see, JIK is a vinyl record.

I think is is a symbol of his "return to his roots" - his Christian roots. The vinyl record is a symbol of him stepping back from Yeezus - vinyls were a way to listen to music before the CD was invented. This vinyl record symbolizes the return to a more pure and simple time in his life (going back from the CD to vinyl).

Yeezus features a bright red tape on some of the cover. Red is a loud, angry, hostile color.

JIK features a blue as the main color. Blue is calming, peaceful, and welcoming. Yeezus was dark, loud, and vulgar, and JIK is bright, soft, and clean.

Red VS Blue

All in all, I think this cover wasn't just some random thing someone designed without any meaning anymore.

I think this was intentional.

If Kanye was in his own hell during Yeezus, he has reached heaven is his head for Jesus Is King.

AS A MATTER OF FACT....

I think Kanye had always planned to make the antithesis to Yeezus.

Enter Yandhi:

This cover is even MORE similar, also featuring a softer toned color (purple - achieving the same effect as the blue on JIK)

I think Yandhi was going to be the successor to Yeezus as well, just different subject matter to JIK.

I've always thought of it being in the same vein as the yeezus cover (obviously) but never considered the record (Jesus) being the root of the cd (Yeezus)

that totally makes sense and kind of genius. Good work OP

I just wish JIK vinyl was on black background, the blue and black combo would contrast the white and red on Yeezus nicely

I think JIK has nothing to do with Yeezus tbh.

Great post. This is exactly what came to my head when I saw the cover.

also a reference to gospel records
also him saying that he has pledged himself to the Real God and is distancing himself from calling himself God

in addition to the great points raised in OP:

"The color blue in many cultures is significant in religious beliefs, brings peace, or is believed to keep the bad spirits away."

bourncreative.com/meaning-of-the-color-blue

"The circle is a universal symbol with extensive meaning. It represents the notions of totality, wholeness, original perfection, the Self, the infinite, eternity, timelessness, all cyclic movement, God ('God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere'"

umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/C/circle.html

You’re onto something for sure

God Is a circle

It's like Charizard vs Blastoise

it'd be cool af if the sleeve was transparent wow

f***ing genius mate

I know that’s all I can think about now lol

i feel like this revelation deserved more attention tbh

At the Chicago JIK listening party he said he regretted calling himself a god and making Yeezus

this further supports his need to make the antithesis, JIK

now i'm becoming more convinced this theory has some inkling of truth lol

I think you're spitting facts, OP

yeah i felt this too

yes it is 100% true