Saw an interesting "end of the world" movie lately entitled "Knowing". Nicolas Cage plays the leading role. It has Hollywood production values and good acting. It is not entirely biblical in message but interesting and thought provoking nevertheless. It is sort of in the "Signs" (Mel Gibson) genre.

It asks and answers positively the question "Is everything happening for a reason?" ("destiny or accident"). It has a theme of predictive prophecy being inexplicably fulfilled and even makes several comments about the gift of prophecy, pentecost, etc. The Nicolas Cage character does come to a kind of faith from unbelief in the movie through observing fulfilled prophecy. The movie doesn't mention Christ at all which is a glaring weakness in its message.

I can't recommend it for kids as the movie is a little dark throughout but does end on a pretty solid positive note. There are also graphic disaster scenes. (Pretty good special effects in this movie.) If you have a sensitive nature, this one is not for you. If you are a philosophical type of person, you might enjoy this one. I don't want to give away the ending which is dramatic but not entirely biblical. I would like to discuss the ending but it might ruin the movie for those who want to see it.

Blessings, Roger S@pp

It is hard to discuss without giving it away. So, <<<SPOILER ALERT - DON'T READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU PLAN ON WATCHING THE MOVIE>>>!!!! The ending has a "rapture" feel to it, and also a New World feel to it. Having a 2nd Adam & Eve to propagate an otherwise lost humanity, or a Noah & wife to propagate humanity after God's wrath destroys everything else. Very interesting. I enjoyed it, but my family hated the ending because it involved aliens in the stead of God.

I'm not your standard run-of-the-mill premillennial dispensationalist. So, I'm not attached to some of the most popular apocalyptic views that are portrayed in many Hollywood films & even Christian movies. Primarily, I believe the Kingdom of God is at hand now, in us, and we propagate it through the preaching of Jesus Christ as the only way to Father, and by the demonstration of His Dominion by signs & wonders. Healing, of course, is the most natural and most common expression of Christ's Dominion of Love (i.e. Kingdom Rulership).

Thus, The Knowing, became one of my favorite sci-fi movies! There is a rescue & hope at the end. Plus you have people demonstrating the deepest love there is: to lay down their lives for their friends (John 15:13).

A friend of mine often tells me there is only one story to tell: A Messiah One. He simply means that in every movie there is a hero/heroine who demonstrates Messiah-like character, in giving his/her life for someone else in order to save them.