Mat 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled

At least we know the release dates of the coming stream of movies....

It was interesting to read Matthew 24 in light of the coming of these blockbusters.

Mat 24:36    But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Mat 24:37    But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Mat 24:38    For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

Mat 24:39    And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Mat 24:30    And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Mat 24:31    And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shallgather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Mat 24:22    And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

Mat 24:23    Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe itnot.

Mat 24:24    For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

Mat 24:25    Behold, I have told you before.

The first part of chapter 24....fortunately relates to the destruction of the temple and Jerusalem, I am surprised the have not planned a movie on that and the temple rebuilding....or at least another Left Behind series on the book of Revelation.

BTW Perhaps we should keep an eye on visitors to Jerusalem......

Mat 24:1    And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.

Mat 24:2    And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

Mat 24:3    And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

Mat 24:4    And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

Mat 24:5    For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

Mat 24:6    And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

Mat 24:7    For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

Mat 24:8    All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Mat 24:9    Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

Mat 24:10    And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

Mat 24:11    And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

Mat 24:12    And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

Mat 24:13    But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Mat 24:14    And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Mat 24:15    When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

Mat 24:16    Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

Mat 24:17    Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

Mat 24:18    Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

Mat 24:19    And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

Mat 24:20    But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

Mat 24:21    For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

Mat 24:22    And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

Superheroes are being elbowed out by Noah and Mary as Hollywood makes 2014 year of the biblical epic

By Nick Allen, The [UK] Telegraph, December 25, 2013

 

• The saint-like image of a hooded woman looms out from the movie poster, her arms outstretched as a divine light bursts from the sky.  So goes the promotional campaign for the forthcoming Hollywood blockbuster Mary Mother of Christ….whose title character will be played by Odeya Rush, a 16-year-old Israeli-born actress, is one of a series of unashamedly Christian biblical epics due to appear next year, marking an unprecedented overture by Hollywood to America’s evangelical heartland. 
• In March audiences will be treated to Noah, a $150 million special effects-laden extravaganza, in which Russell Crowe will build an ark and rescue mankind from the Great Flood. Harry Potter actress Emma Watson will play his adopted daughter, and Sir Anthony Hopkins is portraying Methuselah. The ark was built on Long Island, New York. 
• Noah will be followed by Sir Ridley Scott’s Exodus, in which Christian Bale,   as Moses, will part the Red Sea. Scenes from ancient Egypt have been   reconstructed in southern Spain, with Bale wielding a bow and arrow and   Sigourney Weaver playing the Pharaoh’s wife.
• Another movie of Moses’s life called Gods and Kings is also planned. Steven Spielberg was due to make it but has been replaced by Ang Lee, who won the Best Director Oscar this year for Life of Pi.
• Meanwhile, Son of God will tell the story of Jesus’s life, with Portuguese actor Diogo Morgado in the lead role.
• Will Smith is said to be planning a film based on the story of Cain and Abel.
• Brad Pitt is rumoured to be playing Pontius Pilate in a eparate project.
• There will also be Resurrection, in which a Roman soldier is sent to investigate Christ’s death. It has been likened to “Gladiator, with a mystery bent.”

Phil Cooke, a film-maker and media consultant to Christian organisations, said Hollywood’s epiphany had financial, not spiritual, origins.

“What’s happened is they’ve understood it’s very good business to take Christians seriously, and this is a real serious market,” he said. “For years Hollywood bent over backwards to reach special interest groups, be it feminists or environmentalists. It has finally realised that there are 91 million evangelical Christians in America.”

For their part, studio executives have taken something of a leap of faith that films in which religious figures save the world will bring big box office   receipts. 

That faith is based in no small part on the success of The Bible, a television mini-series shown on the History channel earlier this year, which averaged 11.4 million viewers and became America’s most watched cable show of 2013….

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