I’d rather wait for Joe Bardwell’s version of Noah. God is not Dead is a good movie, in fact I suspect it must have been made in England or Canada or some place, it’s almost too good to have come from Hollywood.
I won’t go see Noah. Why give the creator of this nonsense any sense of credibility? God’s Not Dead was not exactly a Hollywood piece, according to what I read. It was produced by a small company that does pictures for people of faith, much like Fireproof and a couple others. Small company, small budget. Not Hollywood, because if Hollywood had ANYTHING to do with it, it would have been compromised in some way to fit their agenda.
God Is Not Dead really is unique in that it touches on real and current issues in Christianity today, not a story from the past. In fact, if anything, it brings to light the issue that we are in a spiritual battle DAILY and that the Enemy has been winning quite handily because MANY Christians are sitting on the sidelines, not engaged, unaware that we ARE in a spiritual battle, and obviously unprepared for this battle. A basic reason for this unpreparedness is this: the insistence by American scholars that the Pre-trib Rapture Theory is the Biblical one. It is the latest, from a dream of a nonbeliever who was considered demon-possessed. At the time it was propagated because of some part of that dream that appeared to come true. Then it was heralded by Scoffield, who included it into his notes in his notorious Scoffield Bible. Since then, it has been viewed as Scripture. This is insane.
If people really read their own Bibles and not commentary, they would understand that Jesus told of the signs that would precede His coming and they are playing out exactly as He said, and if you read Daniel, Ezekiel, and all the NT references, you will see that the NT scriptures actually give more detail (especially REV) to the OT prophecies, which were sealed until “that day”...and which we are seeing “unlocked” and revealed. The Pre-trib rapture makes people feel that they are safe from Antichrist and will not be here to know who he is. That is wrong. To believe that there will be a rapture, then a huge evangelistic outreach bringing millions of the left behind to Christ has no basis whatsoever in Scripture. One of the problems is that most American scholars do not differentiate between Antichrist’s fury and God’s wrath, which is the Trumpet and Bowl judgments. I could go on here, but I am needing to get back to my Kay Arthur study on Noah and the flood, as my class is tonight.