Mysteries of the Apocalypse (2006) (V)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Sophia Andrews

Writer:

Jennifer Todoroff (writer)

Release Date:

14 maaliskuu 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary

Cast

Chloe Gunther Chung	...	Singing / Church Member
Ken Kamlet	...	Eyewitness News Anchor #1
Rajni Kareer	...	News Anchor
Terri M. Truitt	...	News Anchor
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Seth Buchwald	...	False Jesus
Paige Cooper	...	News Anchor
Dale Evans	...	News Anchor
Susan Foley	...	News Anchor
Shane Foster	...	Apostle
Kira Gurnee	...	News Anchor
Ron Jacobsohn	...	Reporter (archive footage)
Garrett Masuda	...	Church Member
Tere Morris	...	Reporter
Robert Olding	...	Disciple
Michael L. Phelps	...	False Jesus
Steve Sabo	...	Action 4 News Anchor
Lauren Shaw	...	News Anchor (as Lauren Schuchman)
Logan Jay Stern	...	Church Member
Liam Stone	...	Douglas Harrington

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

Big Vision Entertainment

Extremely Irritating

I paid for the on-demand version of this, and it was a major waste of money.

Rather than a theological or historical, this movie is another Born Again Evangelical Christian propaganda movie mascarading as a scholarly documentary.

Many movies and documentary-like (mimics thereof) films are being put forth recently of this ilk. Most people would see this film and think it is a valid view of the subject matter (e.g. the Apocalypse), but in that I have studied religion for 20 years, and was raised a Baptist and was for a time an Evangelical, I spotted their ploys easily.

It is funny (not funny ha-ha, but funny odd) that they attack so-called "False-Messiahs," and "False-Prophets," by saying, "If they are wrong even once, you know that they are false." Well Jesus and the apostles predicted repeatedly that the end of the world was going to happen within their lifetime, and yet, it did not. 2000 years later we are still waiting on the 2nd Coming, and the repeated Evangelical warnings of impending Rapture and the 2nd Coming (millennialism), for which many evangelicals since I was a little boy have predicted was coming any day, even at times setting dates, has failed to materialize. They also speak of cults and cult leaders which make extravagant promises of fame, wealth, and power to their followers, as being false, when many Evangelical Ministers preach Dominion Theology and Prosperity Gospels which do exactly that--promise worldly rewards and worldly power for obedience. Moreover, they quote scriptures that speak of false-prophets and false-messiahs having come from within the flock of the faithful, and going out from them because they never really belonged to the body of the faithful... When the truth of the matter is, Christian teachings are so far from what Jesus taught, especially the Apostate Abomination of American Evangelicalism, that it is a totally different religion altogether. In that it is neither monotheistic, altruistic, socialistic (see Acts Chapter 2: & 4: for how the first Christians lived communally), and promoted democracy as Biblical--when the Bible itself is clearly Theocratic. Moreover, Evangelicals are often very warlike, anti-charity to the poor and the afflicted (every man for themselves is their theory), hateful of non-Evangelicals, judgmental and hypocritical in the extreme, and consistently work counterfeit miracles and give false-prophecies that always support their own apostate doctrines. Their form of Christianity is exactly the opposite of Jesus's teachings and the practices of the Judeo-Christian congregations of Judea in the 1st Century AD. Moreover, they call everyone else a cult, but they themselves employ brainwashing techniques, are seeking world domination, chastise and shun anyone who does not share their views, and are vicious towards those who would dare teach the actual message of Jesus Christ.

The film makers subtly links Terrorism to Anti-Christ, and links Truth to American Patriotism and the war on Terror. It is a blatantly pro-Bush, pro-War, anti-Islamic, anti-Mormon, anti-Whatever is not mainstream or evangelical Christianity.

In short, this film is a Evangelical Sermon mascarading as documentary about the Apocalypse, and by the very criteria of the makers of this film Evangelicalism and even Mainstream Christianity is run by false-prophets and false-messianic messages. I mean the word rapture never even appears in scripture and the Bible clearly states that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven! They are the very thing they want you to fear--they are the 2nd Beast of Revelation 13:, having the appearance of a Lamb, but speaking as The Dragon (Dragons in sheeps clothing). Bush is an anti-Christ, and that the Evangelicals worship his image is proof that they are anti-Christ's followers.

Yes, they make me very angry when they try this stuff--their continuous campaign to brainwash and convert the world to a false-Teaching of worshipping the Mediator, rather than the God who sent him, worshiping Jesus rather than obeying what he taught.