The LOST on TV
John 3:7-12 Do not wonder that I said to thee, It is needful that *ye* should be born anew. The wind blows where it will, and thou hearest its voice, but knowest not whence it comes and where it goes: thus is every one that is born of the Spirit. Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said to him, Thou art the teacher of Israel and knowest not these things! Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that which we know, and we bear witness of that which we have seen, and ye receive not our witness. If I have said the earthly things to you, and ye believe not, how, if I say the heavenly things to you, will ye believe?
The TV show LOST involves an island which over time displays various anomalies both concerning itself and its effect on those and through those on it. The inter-island and extra-island conflicts the characters go through are standard lie of free will driven issues. Nothing new there.
But the occult twist on the whole, besides the lie of free will and the rote “inevitable” conflicts played out in the lie of free will are fairly new for TV.
The unspoken “thing” about the island is that it represents living in anti-Christ’s version of what the Word of God is ( they are going to deny Jesus Christ, so at best they would say generic “sacred texts”, “sacred speech”, “divine light”, etc. as they ditched the even nominal Christian character long ago..) as “strangely miraculous” when that Word has come unbeknownst to those He overtakes and without revealing His identity to them: in short, grace has been given to them against their free will and against all their former notions of what reality is or can be. He blesses them for no reason they can discern while they worry over what is happening to them within their own notions of identity and morality as coming from non-creating speech, yet want to understand “it” to control it to keep the good strange going. They see strange results in the nature around them, are protected from things they no longer wish to be a part of and try to repent concerning, are threatened by those who want what they have been given from within and without as if they control Him and even had the power to give Him to whomsoever wanted Him; both want to leave as “going home” to Familiarity ( back to Egypt) and want to stay as “making a new life” and of course, ‘maintain’ ‘free’ will the whole time to drive the conflicts and supposed sweet resolutions.
And as far as the very world in which they grew up in non-creating speech is concerned, they are LOST/DIVORCED/DEAD from it –and have yet to understand that and want to hop back and forth on que per perceived advantage. Those still in the old speech don’t know them; don’t know how to take them; don’t know any other speech exists but non-creating speech and so must deny that anything strange is taking place at all ( and so seem to themselves to have encapsulated all of reality within the one non-creating speech as a standard feature of that speech as supposedly being truly able ‘explaining everything’ within itself.. ) and so give a partial blindness to the saved ones as to the reality of what is happening to them and through them because the recipients of grace have no understanding of the distinctions in the two speaks or in fact that two speaks exist at all. They see differences, but never attribute those differences to Word/Jesus Christ because false distinctions are constantly being heaped on them as an emotional treadmill …which is part of God’s plan to confound the unbelievers ( based on the apparent weakness of the recipients of grace towards the world’s threats..) .
Minus the Law and sacrificial system they are Israel pre-Incarnation of Jesus Christ trying to get along in the world with no understanding of what they have been given, pride as if they did and in detail, but having a loose form of arrogance over being chosen at all coupled with a desire to give what they have been given to others to buy off the anger of the others who lack that grace ..coupled with a hatred of prophets and those sent to them because the prophets expose them to the rest of the world in that they are sent to speak to them as opposed to the rest and to remind them they have no free will but have received grace.
The islanders have been given grace, think of that grace as “personal power” as a supposed engine for the ‘free’ will and immediately sense that is a danger to their physical existence because of the lack of grace in others. They came from the same poverty of soul of the whole world and are now the rich kid in street clothes trying to do yesterday’s pre-grace, pre-born again common sense ( though perhaps more “conservatively”) to stay hidden and survive.
Which of course, never works. There is no free will. Grace is most excellent in Jesus Christ. But it will get your flesh killed in this present earth.
Jeremiah 12:9 My heritage is unto me as a speckled bird of prey; the birds of prey round about are against her. Go, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour.
2Thess 1:3-10 We ought to thank God always for you, brethren, even as it is meet, because your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all towards one another abounds; so that we ourselves make our boast in you in the assemblies of God for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations, which ye are sustaining; a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that ye should be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for the sake of which ye also suffer; if at least it is a righteous thing with God to render tribulation to those that trouble you, and to you that are troubled repose with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with the angels of his power, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who know not God, and those who do not obey the glad tidings of our Lord Jesus Christ; who shall pay the penalty of everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his might, when he shall have come to be glorified in his saints, and wondered at in all that have believed, (for our testimony to you has been believed,) in that day.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen