Posted on 04/13/2005 5:34:42 PM PDT by Momaw Nadon
HOUR 1 - Series Premiere 9pm 2005-04-13 ALL NEW!
COULD THE END OF DAYS BE NEAR? -- From executive producer Gavin Polone ("Panic Room") and writer/creator David Seltzer ("The Omen") comes "Revelations," a six-hour event series starring Bill Pullman ("Independence Day") as Harvard professor Dr. Richard Massey, an astrophysicist who is certain that all worldly events can be explained by Science. In the series premiere, Dr. Massey is dealing with the tragic murder of his 12-year-old daughter by a maniacal murderer, Isaiah Haden (Michael Massee, "24"), who was captured and imprisoned. After a strange course of events, Massey is challenged by a nun, Sister Josepha Montafiore (Natascha McElhone, "Solaris"), who leads him on a journey through the unfamiliar world of faith. Drawn together by personal tragedy, these unlikely partners -- one who worships God and one who worships Science -- are propelled into a deepening mystery, finding evidence that the world, as predicted by The Book of Revelation, has reached The End of Days. Also starring, Chelsey and Brittney Coyle, Tobin Bell and John Rhys-Davies. TV-14
10 minutes was all I could stand.
I did get a chuckle when the Satanic guy in prison said he doesn't bleed so when Dr. Massey lopped off his finger in the tiny door, the Satanic guy held his hand up to show no blood gushing out of the chopped off finger.
How does an Italian nun have an English accent? Even more unbelievable are all those scenes in Miami without a single Hispanic. More realistic would be all those scenes in Miami without a single Anglo.
I'll give the show one more shot ;-)
How is that possible?
We still have wars, disease, famine, fear, anger, hate, suffering and innumerable other horrors on Earth.
How can the time we are living in possibly be "the golden age of Christ’s reign."
Well done. Although I'm not a Roman Catholic, we do the Nicene Creed too. I scaned through your post very fast, but it looked good to me.
Once a week for 6 weeks. There may be more episodes if enough people watch and enjoy it.
I watched from my TiVo late this afternoon. I thought it was a great sci fi! I'm glad I watched it and look forward to more episodes.
Also, that was a good point about the spelling of the title.
I still haven't gotten a chance to watch it...maybe tomorrow!
Good question. I should have posted the paragraphs that followed.
Some may think that the current age doesn’t seem very golden, but this is due to a problem of perspective. The proper frame of reference for judging the quality of the current age is not how paradisiacal we can imagine the world to be. It is what the world was like before the Christian age. Before Jesus, the world was swallowed in pagan darkness, with only the Jewish people and a few "God-fearers" attached to the Jews having reliable knowledge of the true God. Everywhere else, men were in spiritual darkness.But the prophets foretold that "the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea" (Is. 11:9; cf. Hab. 2:14). This prophecy was fulfilled by the coming of Christ and the inauguration of the Christian age. Today a third of the human race is Christian, and fully half of the human race worships God in one way or another. The remainder has—with few exceptions—at least heard of the true God, and by the standards of biblical history, knowledge of the Lord does indeed cover the earth like the waters cover the sea. The light has dawned, and the darkness been dispelled. The biblical prophets would have wept for joy at the unimaginable prospect that so much of the human race would have embraced the worship of God. This was simply unthinkable in their time, and they would have regarded the current age—for all its problems—as unquestionably golden.
But notice what this quality consists in: It is a spiritual goldenness of men knowing and worshiping God in a way unheard of in pagan times. It is not an economic or a socio-political goldenness, which was not what Revelation promised. John writes:
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years were ended. After that he must be loosed for a little while. (Rev. 20:1–3)The promise is not that the world will be free of temporal problems but that the Devil will be bound in such a way that he cannot deceive the nations. That has happened. He has been bound in such a way that he cannot stop the proclamation of the gospel. As Jesus himself said when reflecting on the results of the disciples’ ministry, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven" (Luke 10:18).
The depiction of doctors as hovering like vultures to harvest the organs for financial gain. There are strict firewalls between the organ-harvesting team and the hospital and surgeons who do (and get paid for) the transplant to prevent such things, and reinforcing peasant superstitions to the contrary is offensive.
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