Messiah Series on Netflix

Messiah Series on Netflix

on J​ anuary 25, 2020

With great enthusiasm a friend copied for me all 10 episodes of the Netflix series Messiah.

A puny dry Texas town is ravaged by a tornado, and out of the overcast there appear a young runaway woman and a curious man of slight, trim build with long flowing dark hair and trimmed beard. The only building left standing is the clapboard church fallen upon hard financial times. The girl is the daughter of the church pastor. He is immediately impressed with the demeanour of the stranger and the apparent miracle. Messiah rumours begin. The media pick it up and the motor home pilgrims start to arrive in large number.

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Security forces such a s CIA and FBI see threats to internal security in this and want to treat the stranger as an illegal alien. White House staff have the same problem and are prepared to use wicked means to discredit or remove it/him. The President is a Mormon and quickly comes under the Visitor's spell. Their undercover interview is fascinating. The spell of the Visitor very compelling. Even official guards and monitors will come over to his side.

Back in the Middle East a group of Palestinian refugees camp out in stressful condition at the Israeli border. They walked here following the silent Visitor.

Subsequently he flew mysteriously to the USA. There had been a shooting in a gathering at the Dome of the Rock Temple in Jerusalem. The young victim was revived and the gut wound eliminated by "Messiah". The whole world is talking.

We see a female CIA officer deployed and she is gathering the stranger's more human background. Finding his real brother; his influence under an illusionist uncle; his studies in the US with a radical nihilist now classified as traitor and living in exile; his time spent in psychiatric care with delusions of grandeur and Godlike status.

Back in the Texas town the Pastor is getting restless; his play-acting wife more doubtful; his mega-church father-in-law lusting for television rights

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and the Visitor remaining mostly silent. He asks the Pastor what he would like to do; where he would like to go; just lean upon his faith.

The mangy motorcade begins; suddenly with police escort and media vans galore. Providence leads them highway upon highway and eventually to Washington DC.

What follows is the Lincoln Monument, the speech and the walking upon water. Wow the supernatural before all eyes. The message is saying now is the time, no more waiting, no more endless strings of Bible verses recited.

Just look at the face on either side of you. Do you find love? Give it.

Meanwhile overseas and through many painful physical privations another Messiah figure is emerging. He had spent precious time with the Visitor in their desert march. He is present at a suicide mosque bombing episode. Dies.

Comes back to life. What is this but a confirmation of the Visitor's status? Or God stepping in to bless and utilise seriously obedient, prayerful ones? Or is it even from God?

Meanwhile American evangelicals are made to look foolish and presumptuous at the mega-church where Messiah is scheduled to state his intentions. He totally stiffs them; stands them up and quietly leaves in a dark limo sent by US officialdom. The actor Beau Bridges does an excellent job as the "big" televangelist.

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Lady CIA agent is going nuts trying to unravel all this and gain access to Messiah. She doesn't believe in him but her aging widowed Father does.

The plane flight under classified cover; the engine fires; the crash. Off the radar. The White House Chief of Staff appears smugly pleased and defiant.

Final scene at the crash site. Somewhat dream like. Red flowers everywhere in this desert. Messiah up and moving. Israeli handler the same. Is it Heaven or what?

Hope you enjoyed it all folks. Now discuss and argue whydoncha.

Is this anything like the sudden complete, supernatural overthrow of Bible images on the Second Coming of Jesus? Nope. Is it dangerously syncretic on the question of who are the ones selected, endorsed by God? Probably.

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Take another look at 1 Samuel 28. King Saul under heavy pressure from his enemies concludes that he is no longer entitled to the counsel of God. His prophet Samuel has been dead for approximately two years.

He panics and decides that, God’s prohibition notwithstanding, he will seek out a woman with a familiar spirit and will entice her to call out the spirit of Samuel. She is a witch, a practitioner in dark divination.

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There appears unto this woman the impression of an old man, asking why Saul has called for him and reinforcing the sad news that Saul is out of God’s favour and going to join that spirit in the place of the dead, the Kingdom being torn from him and his sons. Could this visitor be Samuel?

Sounded authentic. Definitely supernatural and miraculous. Having nothing to do with the righteous agenda of God. But how do we know? First the laws of Moses condemned such a practice. Second the King knew by reputation that the woman was a witch. Third it was clear that God was offering no answer by prayer or by the oracles of Urim and Thumim or other prophets. Fourth this spirit said that Saul and his sons would soon join him in the afterlife. But consider most assuredly that rebellious and unbelieving Saul was not going to end up in the bliss enjoyed by the real Samuel. This messenger was a spirit of darkness having some knowledge of the situation and intent upon tormenting the pathetic Saul even before the time.

Now carry this information over into religious services fraught with a frenzy for the arrival of the miraculous. They often get what appears to be their

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heart’s desire, but only darkness and deception are at the bottom of it.

Christ is ​not​ lifted up.

It was to a very young church that the Apostle Paul issued the timeless and worthy admonitions ​“Quench not the Spirit. Despise nor prophesyings.

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil.”

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DROPPED ONE​ ​MISSIONAL​ ​MISUNDERSTOOD​ ​SAD OR WHAT?​ ​SERVING PUBLIC

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