So many movies so little time, so I only went to one. And even going late I was treated to so many previews as to forget what movie I actually went to. Let’s see, maybe you can help me. One movie was about the redemption of a small part of God’s earth. It involved reconciliation with family, a willingness to repent and go a different way. It involved reconciliation with one’s community, coming to love all the things that pride had led you to hate. It was about facing difficulties, that you turned tail and ran away from in the past. It was about swallowing your pride and entering a place of brokenness. Brokenness discovered in the pursuit of justice, and debts paid, instead of the pursuit of money. Justice was served, the debt was paid and a small corner of this world and a man’s soul were redeemed. It was not perfect, but the common man was vindicated in his humble position, and loved.
The other movie was, about a fantastic escape from the problems of this world. Certain special people are whisked away from all that ails them only to leave total disaster in their wake. Responsibility was shunned on a huge scale and every thread of the civil fabric was torn. But who cares if everything burns, I’m going on eternal vacation. But one man, will maintain sanity, and save the world, or at least a few people. So, some people manage to stave off immediate destruction, but thousands more die horrible deaths. All in vivid fake violence, with slow-mos and everything.
It is amazing how un-Christian Christians can be. The themes of the gospel are blatant in one movie and completely absent from the other, yet it is praised as being a breakthrough Christian movie. Gosh we are dumb. And I love that word, ‘without speech’. God created by speech, and we show ignorance in silence. And it’s right there in the Lord’s Prayer, “Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven”. Which movie sounds like that? Jesus says “the meek shall inherit the earth”. So does that mean the scorched earth after everyone is taken away and burned up? And how meek is it to latch on to this type of doctrine? Sounds very pretentious to me? Thank you Lord I am going to be taken up on high so I don’t have to deal with this rabble on this cursed rock. Oh yeah and matter is also bad, floating in heaven good. Because no one ever called that a heresy before. It wasn’t like that was exactly what Plato and his followers believed for 2400 years. And I’m really apt to devote my life to bringing his will on this earth when I have a magic pass to exempt me from any consequences and it’s all going to burn anyway. Do not be deceived, we reap what we sow. If you throw a bar from a lamppost into the narnian soil you reap a lamppost. What is bound on earth is bound in heaven. What we do here matters.
But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly. -II Peter 3:7
The image of the Earth being burned is not the fire of total destruction, it is the fire of testing the fire of a smelter. The gold and silver will pass the test of fire and be made into crowns for our glory. The chaff shall burn.
Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire. -I Corinthians 3: 12-15
His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire. -Luke 3:17
Our task is not to hasten the destruction, or advocate the destruction of everything as a sign of eschatological progress. We ought to be holy and godly and the new earth will come.
Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. – II Peter 3:10-13
As you probably already know I am against the modern judge-not movement, I say go for The Judge.