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The end of times...

posted 8 years ago by songod-95003
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Any minister (since he was married he was not a Catholic Priest) or man of God knows the end of times are coming no matter what we do. It is prophesied in Daniel and in the Apocalypse of St. John (which means the Revelation of St. John. Not an event).

So the whole message this man was getting was nonsense and he should have discerned that. And if he could not, the older minister should have told\reminded him.

The fine acting from all saved this from being a complete disaster and kept me engaged as I wondered how it all would end up.

As for the final scene that was a coincidental black out. Darkness as in what was depicted will not cover the earth when the end of times begin. So that was another false message Bram was getting.

While Revelation is hard to put onto linear events; the darkness described is not the power grid failing but rather the moon turning to blood and stars falling from the sky. The sun "becomes like sack cloth".

Plus a whole bunch of things happen... the Horsemen, the trumpets, the bowls of wraith, the Beast, the False Prophet, the Fall of new Babylon; THEN Christ returns on the clouds of Heaven with the Hosts of Heaven and rules for a 1000 years of peace. THEN the real end times kick in when Satan is loosed to fight one more battle against God (which he looses) So... poor Bram was wrong in every sense of the way one can be wrong about the biblical God.

[–] danevansjr 8 years ago

Oh god...shut up. If you'd pour the same amount of energy into "understanding" a science book, the world would be a better place.

[–] songod-95003 8 years ago

Was that the topic? Science Vs Religion? I was talking about THE MOVIE and the CHARACTERS. Wtf are you babbling about a-hole??

[–] tle_mgr 8 years ago

I don't know of a single priest who believes this to be anymore than metaphors and allegories.

[–] songod-95003 8 years ago

What I believe is irrelevant. I am going by the story and the characters.

Even if one discounts Revelations as impenetrable metaphor; a tenet of the Christian faith is that the Christ died for our sins once and for all; meaning no more animal sacrifices (as the Jews had been instructed by Moses to do and did for centuries) God would not ask for another animal\human sacrifice to "save" the world as His Christ already did that. AND by saving we believe He means spiritual lives not our mortal lives. If that were the case then all believers in Christ would never die (or have died)! No, Eternal Life = salvation whereas Death = damnation. The belief is we all live\go on forever, just where we spend our eternity is the question.

So the minister in the movie should have known these things and known God was not speaking to him. His beliefs were weak and so was His faith. Worse, the older priest should have known better. But the scene where he is alone talking to himself and speaks in the "demon voice" shows he was not truly a man of the Christian God.

Don't know if any of you are understanding this and indeed I may have wasted a bunch of time. But I am a fast writer so it wasn't that much time...