Yesterday's post essentially began with this....Has anyone wondered why they can't listen to the television or the radio news ...and not be hit with one vicious, horrid news event after another? That sentence....as you may read....was composed in February of 1993. And today....the first day of the new year....we wake up to more horror....this time in New Orleans.
I purchased the tickets a few days ago so we went to the theater this afternoon to see the new Angel Studios....(a Christian-themed film distribution company)....production of Homestead. This....I take it....is one of those....see the movie in the theater and then watch the continuation in a series at home through streaming.
So the movie has an ending....sort of....but you see highlights of the next installment. I don't think that this is a spoiler because the movie goer deserves to know that detail in advance.
As for the film itself....it begins with a terrorist nuclear explosion in Los Angeles. A wealthy prepper family on a mountaintop is ready for something like this....and thus it is the setting for things that may....or probably will happen in such a dystopian situation.
Personally....I feel that I have to see movies like this....and read books of this nature....for I need to see what is influencing parts of the evangelical community....or what parts of the evangelical community are calling for from film makers.
This is certainly not the first time that the aftermath of a nuclear war was presented in film. On The Beach....was a 1959 film starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner that revolved around an American submarine in an Australian port as nuclear war broke out around the world....and the November 30, 1983....a Sunday evening....television broadcast of....The Day After....is still today one of the most watched non-sport television shows of all time.
So is this new movie....Homestead....a prepper film....or an anti-prepper film? I don't think that you will know as you walk out. It is definitely informative on how some people are preparing for an apocalyptic scenario. I wouldn't go so far as to say that it is necessary for Christians to see the film....but I do think that it is a dystopian scenario that we all at some time have to at least come to grips with. The cast is good....the cinematography is very good at times....but the storyline every once in a while makes you want to say....OK....I guess that I can believe that.
The biggest problem of the film with me is the Christian aspect of it....which is hardly there at all....a prayer here or there. I suspect that as the series continues that this element will expand considerably....but that is not necessarily good news. Angel Studios produced the series....The Chosen....that I would recommend to avoid at all cost....but it did a great job with Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson's biopic....The Blind.
Folks....brothers and sisters in Christ....God's Word describes a dystopian apocalyptic world. I imagine that we will be meeting in secrecy in each other's homes at some point....or in the woods or on a mountain. This movie will probably move some people to prep more....nothing wrong with that....Joseph prepped for seven years of famine....but the real preparation that we need in in God's Word....and from pulpits. In a way along those lines we are already in a dystopian situation....with a famine of the preached Word. I can't help you with that....but there are storage houses out there with solid food ready for the taking. I'll give you directions here to a few of those storage buildings....
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