In case you missed my first blog on this series, let me say up front that I knew that this would be only loosely based on the actual book of Revelations.For those of you who caught the first critique, I apologize for repeating myself. In any case, this week I felt completely justified and vindicated for making such an observation.This week's offering was so far off the beam from the actual scriptures, I hardly know where to begin,but let's start with the most obvious, and work our way through it from there. In the first place, there is no evidence to suggest that the anti-Christ( or Satan) will be a bloodless child killer.In fact,the opposite will be true.He will be hailed and accepted as the Messiah,who will finally bring about peace in the middle-east, at least until the seven year non-aggression pact is broken.Secondly,Christ will not return as a child.As it says in Acts, chapter 1,vs 11,"this same Jesus,which is taken up from you into heaven,shall so come in like manner as you have seen him go into heaven." He was assumed, bodily, into a cloud, therefore, Jesus will step out of a cloud,the same fully grown man who walked the earth 2000 years ago.From there, it is difficult for one to focus on what came next in the writer's thinking.They took the book of Revelations,threw out st. John, but kept the isle of patmos,threw in a miracle child..of a nun and.. what? Another immaculate conception? Oh,Please!From Genesis to the New testament, the bible painstakingly traces the bloodlines of Adam, and Abraham, up through David,and eventually to reach Jesus Christ of Nazareth.So, now, we get to revelations, and all of a sudden, here is this unknown little nun, without a word of her linage, and she is the new" Perfect vessel"? But, enough about that.We all understand that this is a work of fiction, but wouldn't it be nice to at least have some of it ring true? Simply throwing up bits of scripture, religious icons and smoky churches with stained glass windows, and having another nun, and an unbeliever running around trying to find the miracle child, to "stop the end of the world" from happening, is a poor bastardization of the book of Revelations.Besides which, no true woman or man who believed in God would presume to thwart the plans of the Almighty. It cannot be done, in any case, so what are they doing?I am sorry if that sounds harsh, or like I am cussing, but it is only the truth.This could only have come from scripture if the book was torn to bits, flung on the floor, and then pieces picked up at random, and inserted willy-nilly into an action- adventure script depicting a struggle between good and evil.To be fair,the acting is good,the piece is well cast, and the locations are very attractive,but as far as being a good representation of the book of Revelations, it is not.
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