A Zombie Apocalypse?

It's been a while since I've posted a blog, but this has been reeling in my mind for the past four days, and I finally had time to put it down on paper. I recently went and caught the new World War Z movie starring Brad Pitt. It's funny how we can walk into the movie theater and simply plan on being amused (a- meaning opposite; muse-meaning to think; amuse-not to think) for a few hours by awesome action sequences, great jokes, or the always awesome little yellow guys that I love to call minions, that everyone now wants as a "pet." It's also funny how that never happens to me. If you know me I absolutely love movies. I'll quote them all day long, and I know quite a few references to a vast amount of movies of all genres. Even though the whole idea of a movie is to entertain an audience from an hour and a half to upwards of 3+ hours, I still find myself to be a thinker. No not a thinker that's trying to figure out who the real bad guy is, or how the hero's going to stop the villain. A thinker in the spiritual realm. 

Let's start with a basic movie; Tangled. Remember the scene with all the lamps that were released for the lost princess? Ya? Well, I cried. Yes, I'm a man who cried at a movie marketed to little girls. Why? Because when you listen to, "I See the Light," you can parallel it with our relationship with God. She talks about seeing the light, the sky becomes blue, there's hope, and that the whole world is different when she's with this guy. Likewise, Rider sings about trying to find fulfillment, and that he couldn't until he met her. When you parallel those words to our relationship to God, and that Christ is the light, and now that we see Christ, we see the world differently, and that the fog is lifted, and there's hope, there's lasting fulfillment rather than temporal fulfillment, you can't help but to let out a few waterfalls.

Now back to World War Z! The man version of Tangled is essentially what it is. I'm not going to review the whole movie, but just take a few points that I found extremely interesting. If you haven't seen the movie and really want to, don't read any farther because I will ruin it for you. At least I'm nice enough to admit it, right? Ok, so to start there's this infection of people that are called Zombies. They're strong, vicious, wild, and multiplying. They end up literally everywhere in the world, and not one city is immune from the attack. It's Brad Pitt's job to find both the source of the infection, and any possible cure for it. In the beginning you're introduced to a doctor who on the plane to Korea says this about how to find a weakness in the virus to find a cure. "Mother nature loves to disguise her biggest weakness as her biggest strength." So after the doctor makes a fatal error and kills himself, Brad is left alone to figure it out. The whole movie you see people getting destroyed but some continue being passed over. The elderly, crippled, malnourished, and even a man with a small limp but enough to notice. Brad finally realized that the zombies won't attack a sick person, so he ends up injecting himself with a deadly disease that has a known cure, and confirms his prediction by walking through a zombie infested hallway unscathed. 

So here's the parallel, you ready? The zombies are demons, and the infection is sin. Sin has infected the whole world. Romans 5:12 says, "Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned." Now demons love to feed on a healthy host. Why? Jesus says, "It's not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick." When we hold ourselves to be healthy, there's nothing a doctor can do for us. It's not until we admit that we're sick that the doctor can go about his procedures into providing us a way to get better. Likewise, with God, if we act and believe as if we can do everything on our own, God is going to let us have at it. Jesus says, "It's easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to get into heaven." Why? Because rich men don't need anything. They don't need to be provided with a doctor that will tell them the real issue, they can buy one that will tell them everything that they want to hear. It's not until they are poor that they realize just how wrong they were. So the world finally admits there's a problem and now the doctor can go to work. In this movie Brad Pitt's character is a type of Christ. He injects himself with a deadly disease in order to show the world the way to get to safety. The Bible says that, Christ became a curse for us, meaning he took on our iniquity and infirmity, and gave us a way out by showing us how we should live, and then taking on the penalty for our sins. This was the cure for our sin, or the spiritual version of the "zombie invasion."


Movies are plastered with spiritual truths that the world has mistaken for simply entertainment. Did you know, that Paranormal Activity admits that there are no ghosts, but in fact demons? Yes, in the movie the home owners call on a medium, who, upon entering the house says, "I can't be here. This isn't a ghost, it's a demon, you need to call a priest." Don't believe me? Look it up for yourself. Hollywood's not trying to be sly anymore, but showing us right to our faces what's going on and the world still claims, GHOSTS! I encourage you to look for the spiritual things in everything that you watch, listen to, or do. It will give you a great understanding of Romans 1 where Paul writes that God has made Himself known in the plainness of the world we live in so that men are without excuse. From something as simple as an egg to the ingenuity and complexity of the design of the universe, God's invisible qualities are clear to all people. Be encouraged to have fun at the movies, and to find God in all that you do.