Revenge of the Fallen
June 24, 2009 at 2:08 PM 2 comments
My son and I just returned from watching the new Transformers movie. In spite of the panning that some critics gave it, the movie was actually very good. I could not help but pick up on some of the biblical references. In fact, the phrase “revenge of the fallen” reminded me immediately of the fallen angels briefly highlighted in Genesis 6. From these fallen angels (which the Book of Enoch calls “The Watchers”), came a hybrid race known as the Nephilim; this after successfully co-mingling with human women. Yeah, it sounds like something out of a Sci-Fi novel, but according to Scripture, there is an excellent chance that this is what actually occurred, which would explain how the entire civilized world of humanity became so corrupt and so evil (except for Noah).
In the movie, there is something (no spoiler) that is the “fallen” that becomes extremely important for the Decepticons to acquire. As can be imagined, there is a good deal of transforming robot fighting , chasing and mayhem, with many twists and turns throughout the movie. In many ways, this entire scenario is very much like the coming Armageddon. It is very possible that, as it was in the days of Noah, with the Nephilim and all the evil which arose from their presence on the earth, this same type of situation has begun to occur now, in our day. Though Christ emphasizes the apparent normalcy of Noah’s day (married and being given in marriage), we know because of Genesis 6, there was a good deal more to it than that. We know that due to evil, God found it necessary to destroy the entire world. We know also that due to the incessant, non-stop perversion of Sodom and Gomorrah, God also felt it necessary to destroy those twin cities.
With the world seemingly making strides toward a one-world planetary government and the ever-present threat of nuclear warfare looming more real on the horizon, it does not seem like it would take all that much to start a war that would only be ended by the physical return of Jesus to this planet. Fittingly, that very last phrase referencing Jesus’ return seems so antiquated in today’s vernacular. It sounds like a fairy tale; unbelievable.
This is exactly the point that Jesus was making in His Olivet Discourse (cf. Matthew 24). The End Times would be very much like the days of Noah, in numerous ways:
- life would go on as normal with people involved in the regular, mundane events of society
- evil would increase
- people would make fun of the return of Christ saying “Where is the promise of His coming?”
- things will take all those who are not prepared, by complete surprise, as they did in Noah’s day
Noah preached for 120 years, while he built the Ark. He warned people of coming judgment. He gave them every opportunity to join him on the Ark, but there was not one person besides his family that took that opportunity. Everyone perished, because they did not believe the global flood would take place. When it did, they had no place to go, except to higher ground. Yet, the flood waters eventually covered the highest mountain, removing all chance of survival.
This world is headed to disaster. Far from being a pessimistic outlook, this is actually a very bright and optimistic one. The Bible does not end with the destruction of the earth. It ends with a new earth and a new heaven. This earth will be destroyed only when the time that God destroys it and that time was decided in eternity past, in the council of the Godhead. Man can certainly damage the earth, as he has done, but he will not destroy it. That is reserved for God’s pleasure and it precedes a newness that this earth and the people living on it will have never known.
The latest entry in the Transformers franchise is a very good movie. Unfortunately, its ending is left open, with other enemies to battle. The fight is never over for the Transformers. It will continue. Not so for Christians because of God. He has created a line of demarcation that separates this present evil world, from the future perfect world. The fight is technically over now, having been won at the cross of Christ. In reality though, the time for the winner to actually take the spoils is yet future, but it is a guarantee; one that all Christians should long to see.
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James McCarthy | July 17, 2009 at 7:30 AM
1. How can a “tree of knowledge” exist literally?
2. How could everyone in the world be evil except for Noah and his family? Also, what’s with the people at the time living to be impossibly old?
This is just a few examples displaying the superstitious side of religion. I will always be a theist based on science, not magic. I believe in the God of reality, not fantasy. I suggest you google Peter Forrest’s book “God Without the Supernatural”.
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modres | July 17, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Hey James,
Thanks for stopping by and leaving your comments. I appreciate it.
So, you are saying that a “tree of knowledge” could not possibly exist? If that’s your opinion, that’s fine. Explain to me, if you can then, why (if God exists at all, as a Personal, knowable Being), why He might NOT make a “tree of knowledge of good and evil.” What possible reason do you have for deciding that a “tree of knowledge” is too much of a fantasy?
Regarding Noah and his family, the answer is a bit complex, but I’ll try to make it short. In Genesis 6, we read of the Nephilim, which are purported to be hybrid species from the co-habitation of angelic beings with human. Because of Satan’s desire to thwart God’s redemptive plans (cf. Genesis 3), he chose to corrupt the human race. Apparently, the only ones not affected were (in their GENERATIONS) Noah and his family. What this means is that their DNA was not adversely affected by the hybridization no of the human race. What is fascinating about Genesis and this account is the idea that CLONING was something that was routinely done during the anti-deluvian age. Science has just NOW found ways to do this. Christ said, “As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be the days of the Coming of the Son of Man,” (Cf. Matthew 24).
You find this incredibly difficult to believe. I don’t. But then again, you say you are a theist and you recommend Forrest’s book “God Without the Supernatural.” Sounds like an extremely boring book, but I will check it out. How can you have God, who would have to live outside of our fourth dimension of time; who is infinite, all knowing, all powerful, yet YOU would like to remove the supernatural from? This is not God that you are left with; it is simply a human being.
Because YOU have a difficulty believing some of the things purported to have occurred in Scripture, you decided that it was fantasy, and therefore superstitious. Where is your proof of that? Are you aware of the FACT that over the centuries, human skeletons have been found ranging in size from 9 feet to 25 feet tall? These have been documented. But you won’t believe this, because it goes beyond the realm of your belief.
Regarding the length of time human beings lived, that is extremely easy, yet you will reject it because it involves something that at the outset appears supernatural, but really is not. I believe God created the perfect paradise, and then planted a garden called Eden, then took two individuals He made (and we’re assuming that physically and physiologically, they were perfect), and placed them in it to rule over it. At that point, the Laws of Entropy would obviously not have been in effect yet and likely did not come into effect until the fall. So there were no negative forces that would work against the perfection of their physical bodies.
Once Adam and Eve fell through sin, they BEGAN to physically die. They also spiritually died immediately. Spiritual death is the lack of fellowship with God; being estranged from Him. If they began to physically die, from a perfect physical state, then it is safe to conclude that it took hundreds of years for their perfect physical bodies to finally give out, resulting in death. This is exactly WHY as we progress through Scripture, the length of time people lived became less and less.
You say that you are a theist based on science, yet the Bible is FILLED with science! Around the 1100s A.D., a rabbinical sage called Moses Maimonides, also known as Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon or the acronym the Rambam, discovered from the first chapter of Genesis that our universe is made up of 10 dimensions, however, only four of them are “knowable” or able to be experienced. Science has just recently corroborated that.
Science has also come to the conclusion that our universe is merely a digital reality WITHIN a much, much larger universe. You want to talk about Laws of Thermodynamics, or other scientific laws? It was already described in the Bible.
The Bible has nothing to do with magic. It would appear that your view of God (if you have a view of God) is such that this God has NO ability beyond yours. In that case, It/He is not God. Why do you look at the Bible through the eyes of doubt? IF God exists at all, and made everything that we experience (including ourselves), then obviously this God would be capable of doing things that were to God, very NORMAL, however to us, they appear to be something unexplainable.
IF aliens exist, but you have personally never seen one, then according to you, they don’t exist. However, what if they exist, but you have simply never seen one?
You’ll have to tell me your understanding of the “God of reality.” I’d be interetested in hearing about that. Thanks by the way, for your comments.
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