Zeitgeist: The Movie (2007)

[Lavender] posted an audio file a week and a half ago that contained a sermon by Reverend Joey Faust on the [Zeitgeist Seduction].  If wasn’t for how much harder this kind of preaching makes it for the lost and confused to want to truly accept what our Heavenly Father actually says is absolutely true, I would have considered it to be hysterically funny, and even with the dire ramifications, it is still a hoot.

Nonetheless, the sermon helped raise my curiosity over the [Zeitgeist movie].  It turned out that three of them have been produced so far, and a fourth in the works.

This is about the first one, and it has to be like a gift from the universe to any devout conspiracy-theorist.  For it starts out seeking to prove that our Heavenly Father’s Holy Bible (in general) and Christianity (in particular) are nothing more than obvious plagiarisms of other religious beliefs, with all of them being based upon astrology in one way or another, and it ends with banking interests being at the heart of the war on terror, which was facilitated to make it easier for them to gain more control over everything.

Sandwiched in between is this and that about how we have been led like sheep to the slaughter since the Romans created Christianity to help maintain order in their empire to that 9-11 was not the brain-child of Osama bin Laden.  All of which I found quite fascinating, much to my chagrin.

Yes, an incredibly brilliant mind produced this film.  After all, Satan was the most celebrated amongst the angels before his fall, but this is not to imply that everything in the movie is a lie.  What do you think?

Zeitgeist: The Movie - 2007 by Peter Joseph from ZeitgeistMovie.com on Vimeo.

Link: [ZeitgeistTheFilm]

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No Rapture for You

Image via WikipediaLike most Saturday nights I was scheduled to deliver pizza from 5pm until midnight or until it slows down enough that I can leave, usually around 11pm. I was kind of bummed that I was working seeing as how Harold Camping said the world would end at 6 pm. That really is something you would want to be with your family should it occur.

Technically, Camping predicted that the Rapture would occur which consists of Jesus returning to take his follower to heaven in the twinkling of an eye. Still, I have read enough of the Bible, end times theology, and Left Behind books to know you wouldn't want to be out driving around when the Rapture occurs. All of those suddenly unoccupied cars could cause some major traffic headaches.

The Last Days According to Jesus

This will be my first post here at The Tribulation Times Herald-Exhorter.  I would like to thank FishHawk for inviting me to be a contributor to this effort.  I can regularly be found at Dickster's Random Thoughts.   


In college, when I was still a fairly young Christian, I was fascinated by Biblical prophecies of the end times.  Mostly the types of books I read and seminars that I attended on the subject were centered around the interpretations of Hal Lindsey and his book "The Late Great Planet Earth," and others of that ilk.  At the time, it was fascinating to me to study their explanations of how 1st century writers like John the Revelator would describe weapons of our day.  It all seemed perfectly logical and plausible to me at the time.  That was in the late 1970's to early 1980's.


Over the years, I looked at just about every rumbling in the Middle East as evidence that we were rapidly approaching the era leading up to the last days.  I held on to that view for some time.  When Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins began producing their "Left Behind" series of books beginning in 1995, I found myself devouring them.  Sure they were fiction, but they were based on Biblical truth as I knew it.  As time passed, with each new Hal Lindsey update assuring us we were on the verge of his interpretations coming to fruition, and with each new "Left Behind" book being released, I started to look at their work as a cottage industry to sell more books.

A Theological Soundbite on Theology

As I was reflecting on a conversation I had today, I realized there are a great many people (particularly Christians) who don't know what theology actually is. Some view it as an ivory tower activity reserved for the academic elite, other's seem to think that any semi-spiritual idea counts.

The word "theology" comes from the joining of the Greek words "theos" which means God, and "logos" which means word, study, or logic. So "theology" is "The study of God." In broader terms, it is the systematic study of religion and/or religious teaching.

Lest you think this only relates to academics, let me make my case for why you should care about theology. Christianity is a knowledge tradition. Our faith is one rooted in teaching, in the truth of certain facts about reality. These facts are susceptible to two sorts of attacks: Denial and Distortion. Some people (say, Stephen Hawking, Michael Ruse, and Richard Dawkins) deny the truth of religious teachings. Other people (false teachers like Mary Baker Eddy) distort certain religious teachings (and may deny others).

As Christians, it is vital for us to understand what we believe and why it is worth believing. Only when we do this can we stand against attacks of the sort mentioned above. Additionally, as Tozer said, we will never live above our conception of God. The vibrancy of our Christian life will be tied to our understanding of the teachings of Christ as revealed in the Bible. As Tozer also said, nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

Know thy doctrine.

God bless!
Josiah