"Christ the Lord" to Join Hollywood's 'Year of the Bible'

[Mark]

"Christ the Lord" to Join Hollywood's 'Year of the Bible'

 Ocean Blue Entertainment will begin production of another Christian movie this September. Christ the Lord is based off of a novel by Anne Rice, the author who is most commonly known for her monster series, The Vampire Chronicles.

Rice penned Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt during a time when she embraced the Catholic Church. The story follows the journey of Jesus and his family travelling from Egypt to Nazareth reports the A.V. Club.

Cyrus Nowrasteh will direct the film adaption. Enzo Sisti, who produced The Passion of the Christ will serve as executive producer.

Hollywood’s so-called “Year of the Bible” has already seen the films Son of God, God’s Not Dead, Heaven Is for Real, Noah and the forthcoming Ben Hur remake.

http://www.christianheadlines.com/blog/christ-the-lord-to-join-hollywood-s-year-of-the-bible.html

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It's based off of an Anne Rice(whose written all of those vampire books) novel??

What's next? Wes Craven writes/directs one of these "bible" movies?

Yeah, this world has REALLY turned upside down!

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Rice penned Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt during a time when she embraced the Catholic Church. The story follows the journey of Jesus and his family travelling from Egypt to Nazareth reports the A.V. Club.

Brothers and sisters in Christ - this is ALL you need to know from scripture!

Matthew 2:12  And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
Mat 2:13  And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
Mat 2:14  When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:
Mat 2:15  And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
Mat 2:16  Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
Mat 2:17  Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying,
Mat 2:18  In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Mat 2:19  But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
Mat 2:20  Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.
Mat 2:21  And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.

[Kilika]

Rice penned Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt during a time when she embraced the Catholic Church

So, in other words, it's a lie. I expect nothing less from the RCC minions.

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HBO is coming out with a tv series called "The Leftovers", which is about the aftermath after the rapture happens.

1) The entertainment media continues to telegraph their punches over this event - yes, even THE MINIONS KNOW this will happen.

2) I saw the preview on YT - do NOT even watch 1 second of it, as it's filled with vulgarity, violence, fornication, etc.(and there was one scene where 1 group of those left behind, the rapture witnesses, were put in white jump suits and hauled off somewhere to get reprogrammed or whatever)

[FervorForFaith]

HBO is coming out with a tv series called "The Leftovers", which is about the aftermath after the rapture happens.

1) The entertainment media continues to telegraph their punches over this event - yes, even THE MINIONS KNOW this will happen.

2) I saw the preview on YT - do NOT even watch 1 second of it, as it's filled with vulgarity, violence, fornication, etc.(and there was one scene where 1 group of those left behind, the rapture witnesses, were put in white jump suits and hauled off somewhere to get reprogrammed or whatever)

My wife and I saw a trailer on YouTube for a "Left Behind" movie starring Nicholas Cage. It was ridiculously anti-God and anti-scripture... And yes, it is based off of those Tim LaHaye novels. Yeah, they seem to be prepping everyone for it. Coincidentally, I went on BibleGateway.com and this was the verse of the day today:

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17)

Amen!

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http://news.yahoo.com/fever-dream-t-wake-034639445--politics.html
6/29/14
So, The Rapture Happened. What Now?

For several centuries now, artists of one sort or another have been depicting the Biblical event that has come to be known as The Rapture—you know, that thing where all of the believers on Earth suddenly rise up to Heaven and the rest of humanity remains here, awaiting its eternal judgment.

These depictions tend to be rather, shall we say, pyrotechnic. Jan Luyken's One in the Field shows lightbeams shooting down from the sky and a winged angel pointing the way toward heaven as peasants cower nearby. Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins's Left Behind novels revolve around a team of godly Green Berets hell-bent on saving the world from a Romanian politician who also happens to be the Antichrist. And then there's whatever this is.

But imagine if The Rapture actually happened. It wouldn't be all fireworks, would it? Sure, the initial poof would seem pretty spectacular—car crashes, mothers sobbing over their strollers, that sort of stuff. But the real drama would develop during long slow burn that came next. Many would believe that God had beamed up the righteous. Others wouldn't know what to believe. There would be arguments. Factions. Congressional hearings. So-called "experts" on CNN. And all the while, in family rooms and bedrooms and breakfast nooks around the world, ordinary people wouldn't have any choice but to go on living: to grapple every day with the unbearable repercussions—a missing father, a missing lover, a missing friend—of a mystery that refused to explain itself.

That's the premise of The Leftovers, HBO's flawed but fascinating new series: what would The Rapture—the upending trauma of it—really feel like for all the folks who didn't vanish into thin air? How would it change them? How would they cope?

It's difficult to imagine anyone better equipped to dramatize these questions than the show's creators. The Leftovers was originally a novel by the talented Tom Perrotta (Election, Little Children), who serves here as a writer and executive producer. His partner is showrunner Damon Lindelof, the brains behind Lost, perhaps the finest series to date about a group of human beings trying to make sense of—and survive in—an enigmatic, inexplicable new world. And the first two episodes were directed by Peter Berg of Friday Night Lights, who is a master of small-town pathos. 

The small town, in this case, is Mapleton, N.Y. Three years ago, two percent of the world's population—good guys, bad guys, "Garyfucking Busey"—abruptly vanished. No rhyme, no reason. Now Kevin Garvey (a taut, tense Justin Theroux) is Mapleton's chief of police. He didn't lose anyone in "The Sudden Departure," but his family has splintered anyway. 

The only Garvey who still lives at home with Kevin is his daughter Jill (newcomer Margaret Qualley), a smart but sullen high-school senior who is beginning to rebel: pot, booze, sex, holding her hand a little too close to the Bunsen burner in chemistry class. Jill's brother Tom (Chris Zylka), meanwhile, has run off to Nevada to join a cultish movement led by a black Brit named Holy Wayne who claims he can hug people's pain away. And then there's Laurie (Amy Brenneman), the Garveys' mater familias. She too has joined a cult of sorts, only this one is headquartered, rather uneasily, right there in Mapleton. They're called the Guilty Remnant: a small but growing cabal of locals who refuse to let the rest of the town "forget" what happened. They wear white. They don't speak. Basically, they just stand around chain-smoking—why bother having faith in the future at this point?—and antagonizing their fellow Mapletonians.

At the center of this eerie emotional maelstrom is Kevin: struggling to be a single dad; struggling to let go of his wife; struggling to stay in touch with his son; struggling to hold Mapleton together after violence begins to tear the town apart; struggling with the dark visions that come to him in the night; struggling to figure out what the heck is up with the sardonic bald dude who keeps appearing out of nowhere to gun down runaway dogs. "They're not our dogs," the bald dude likes to mutter. "Not anymore." Kevin is skeptical at first. Soon he starts to agree.

In terms of what happens, at least in the first four episodes—well, that's about it. But The Leftovers is the kind of show that's more about what doesn't happen than what does. Perrotta's apocalypse isn't global; it's personal. The planet's usual routine has resumed. There are no zombies to contend with. No cyborgs. No hollowed-out metropolises. No charismatic antiheroes, even. Just millions and millions of people, all dealing with their own individual end times. Thanks to Lindelof and his sensitive, subtle cast, we get to know a handful of them, and through them, we get to imagine how we might fare if their shock were our own. Brenneman is especially affecting as the mute but conflicted Laurie; she transforms what could have come off as a cold, writerly conceit into a believable, even identifiable, human being.   

Despite the parallels to Lost, The Leftovers isn't a potboiler; you aren't desperate, by design, to watch the next episode as soon as the previous one ends. But over time, the show's uncanny mood begins to take on its own momentum, and the weird details begin to pile up: Holy Wayne's wild eyes; hands that burst into flames; the vacuous faces of the Guilty Remnant. It feels like a fever dream that you can't quite wake up from, even when you turn off the TV. And I mean that as a compliment.

Don't get me wrong. The Leftovers isn't perfect. At times it can seem too proud of its virtuous noncommerciality; its slowness can seem shallow, its artiness willful. I'm still not sure what kind of show it wants to be; there's a meandering, even flailing quality to the narrative that won't sit well with viewers who don't have the patience for, say, an entire episode about a strident local minister's Job-like attempt to scrounge up the cash to save his church. But I'm going to stick with it. Why? Because I think Lindelof and Perrotta's vision is coming into focus. As sci-fi as the whole "Sudden Departure" premise is, The Leftovers is ultimately about two things that happen to all of us: mystery and loss. People disappearing is no more or less mysterious than the fact that people even exist in the first place. The latter is just a mystery that we're used to. Grief forces us to recognize it for what it is.

So does The Leftovers. In the pilot, Kevin visits the break room at City Hall. He puts a bagel in the conveyer toaster, but it never comes out the other end. He's baffled. He asks the mayor if she swiped his snack. She looks at him as if he's crazy. This must be some sort of sign, he seems to be thinking. And then, about a day later, it hits him. He returns to the break room. He unscrews the back of the toaster. He reaches in—and pulls out the charred bagel, one half at a time.   

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Posting this here b/c this is the upteenth time the MSM has pushed this "John Darby and Margaret MacDonald made the whole thing up..." LIE - again, Darby NEVER met McDonald(in his 100s of pages of writings, NOT ONCE did he mention her - funny, eh?). And McDonald had a "vision" of a POST-TRIB rapture.

And for that matter too - why did they throw Rick Warren's name into this list? Warren has completely scoffed at end times prophecies!

Ultimately - when they push this propaganda, look what they're NOT telling you(and covering up) - the whole 501c3 "church" system that's blown to rotten fruition(and is prepping their pews to accept the Antichrist). The leaven of these modern-day perversions that's endorsed abominations like sex outside of marriage and denies the blood atonement/OSAS. And for that matter too, how the RCC has denied the rapture doctrine since the 5th century.

No wonder why the rapture of the church has all but faded away from churches in America(and around the world to boot).

As for dispensationalism - just look at some of these non-dispensational preachers like Steven Anderson and Mike Hoggard(and the rotten fruits that come out of their mouths). Nuff said on this.

http://news.yahoo.com/theology-behind-hbo-leftovers-021231808--politics.html
The Theology Behind HBO’s ‘Leftovers’
7/5/14

In the opening moments of The Leftovers, the new apocalyptic drama that debuted last week on HBO, a crying baby vanishes into thin air from his car seat. As his mother frantically searches for her missing child, screaming his name over and over again, a few feet away a unmanned shopping cart rolls across a parking lot and a young boy, all alone, yells “Dad! Where’d you go? Dad!” A block away, a car without a driver speeds through a red light and crashes into oncoming traffic. Over the next few minutes, as the narrative moves to three years later, we learn that two percent of the world’s population—about 144 million people—disappeared that day in Rapture-esque fashion, an unexplained tragedy that befuddles scientists, theologians, pundits, and politicians, and leaves everyday people at a loss on how to move on. 

While watching The Leftovers’ opening scene, I felt déjà vu, amazed at how closely the narrative resembled how I once imagined the end of the world would one day—in a twinkling of an eye—begin. Raised in a Baptist church and a firm believer in the Rapture—an event that many evangelical Christians believe will begin with the sound of a trumpet, climax with a heavenly sighting of Jesus Christ, and conclude with the mass disappearance of millions of people, souls that God deemed true believers and worthy of spending eternity in heaven—I spent the better part of 30 years believing, dreaming, hoping, and anticipating that, at any moment, Jesus would invade Earth like a thief in the night and I would vanish into a cumulus cloud with my savior. Believing in the Rapture never felt odd, mostly because nearly everybody I knew believed the exact same thing; in fact, my friends and I planned to disappear together and meet up on the other side.

Though believing in the Rapture seems to be a fading craze among Americans—even among Americans identifying as evangelicals, the Rapture has lost a bit of its spiritual thrill—the Rapture-ready faith is nowhere close to dying out in the United States. In fact, in 2011, the Pew Research Center found that 41 percent of “people in the United States believe that Jesus Christ will either definitely or probably return to Earth before 2050.” Come October, Hollywood is banking on those Rapture-believing Christians filling up theaters to see Nicolas Cage in Left Behind, a reboot of 2000’s Left Behind: The Movie that starred Kirk Cameron.

The only thing that might be crazier than 100 million-plus Americans believing in the Rapture and Hollywood catering films to fit their beliefs is the Rapture’s strange and surprisingly short history.

Believe it or not, the Rapture, as many evangelicals understand it today, is an idea that’s less than 200 years old, one part of an eschatology invented in the 1830s by John Nelson Darby, a British Bible teacher and devout member of the Plymouth Brethren. As a theologian, Darby constructed an entire Biblical interpretation known as Dispensationalism, an evangelical futurist expounding that, among other things, suggested that God’s relationship with humanity varied according to dispensations, or periods in history. According to Darby, God’s epic timetable—from Adam and Eve to the apocalyptic end—is spit up into seven non-uniform eras. For instance, Darby’s first era—the dispensation of innocence—started with Adam and Eve and lasted only as long as the first biblical pair lived in the Garden of Eden. The second era—the dispensation of conscience—began right after God evicted Adam and Eve from the Garden and ended when  Cain murdered Abel. Darby said the sixth era—the dispensation of grace—started with the crucifixion of Jesus and would not end until Jesus rescued all Christians from earth, making the way clear for the Great Tribulation—seven years of torment and pestilence—to begin.

Though Darby is credited for popularizing and theologizing the Rapture, taking one or two vague biblical references to Christ’s appearing and embellishing them into one grandiose premillennial exit, it’s unclear whether or not the Rapture was originally Darby’s idea. Many believe the Bible teacher stole, borrowed, or was inspired by Margaret MacDonald, a Scottish 15-year-old who, in 1830, received a vision from God. Or at least that’s what she believed. Others claimed MacDonald’s dreamlike message actually came from demons. Nonetheless, the prophetess’s first person account, published ten years later in Memoirs of James and George MacDonald, Of Port-Glasgow, details an event that sounds an awful lot like Darby’s Rapture: I felt this needed to be revealed, and that there was great darkness and error about it; but suddenly what it was burst upon me with a glorious light I saw it was just the Lord himself descending from Heaven with a shout, just the glorified man… Jesus wants his bride. His desire is toward us. He that shall come, will come, and will not tarry. MacDonald saw a lot that day, including gold candlesticks, the Kingdom of Heaven, and lots of violent judgment for the wicked. She even saw the prophet Elijah. Still, without Darby’s theological expounding, MacDonald’s Rapture would have likely died away.

Thirty years later, a Presbyterian minister named James Brookes from St. Louis, Missouri, became obsessed with Darby’s Biblical philosophies, so much so that the two met on at least couple of occasions during Darby’s visits to the United States. Upon meeting his eschatological idol, Brookes became a chief American promoter of the premillennial message, using his Christian conferences and influence in the publishing world to spread the Darby gospel. Brookes’s most influential offering was his introduction of Darby’s theology to Cyrus Ingerson Scofield.

Scofield fell in love with Darby’s Dispensational God; not only did he write The Rightly Divided Word of God in 1888, Scofield eventually published his own King James Version “study Bible” in 1909, which was basically God’s Word with Dispensational and Rapture-readied footnotes, timelines, cross-referencing, and commentary. The Scofield Reference Bible sold millions of copies worldwide, and was one of the best selling books of the 20th century. That combined with William E. Blackstone’s multimillion copy seller Jesus is Coming, set the foundation for the Rapture and Dispensational theology to spread like wildfire among America’s believers. Dispensational-thinking evangelists like D. L. Moody and Billy Sunday also helped to deliver Darby’s soon-coming Jesus to millions.

During the 20th century, America’s Dispensational God turned into a multimillion dollar spiritual empire, a Christianized multi-faceted business that included books (fiction and non-fiction), pamphlets, prophesy conferences, radio and television shows, movies, trilogies, DVD series, and the careers of folks like Billy Graham, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Rick Warren, and a multitude of others. America’s Rapture craze didn’t simply affect the spiritual lives of its believers, the Dispensational worldview slowly seeped into nearly every aspect of the American lifestyle, including politics, science, education, foreign affairs, tourism, and media. Scofield once said that Christians shouldn’t be concerned with “the reformation of society… what Christ did not do, the Apostles did not do. Not one of them was a reformer.”

Few ideas have affected American culture and society more deeply than Darby’s thoughts on the Rapture, Dispensationalism, and the end of time. Though his theological understandings are seemingly on the decline among believers today, the power of belief should never be underestimated. A second coming of Rapture-minded evangelicalism is always one catastrophe, book, revival, or Nicolas Cage movie away.

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http://www.christianpost.com/news/gods-not-dead-actor-says-hollywood-is-waking-up-to-christian-films-126565/
'God's Not Dead' Actor Says Hollywood Is 'Waking Up' to Christian Films
9/17/14

One of the lead actors in the hit Christian film "God's Not Dead" recently shared his opinion on why Hollywood tends to make relatively few Christian-themed films.

Kevin Sorbo, an actor who played the skeptical professor in the blockbuster film, recently talked with Peter Heck on his radio program about "God's Not Dead" and Hollywood movies.

Observing the success of "God's Not Dead," Heck noted that there "is a market" for Chrsistian films and asked Sorbo when he thinks Hollywood will "get it."

"I don't think it's an 'us vs. them' sort of mentality. But I live in this world. I'm out here, so I see what's going on," said Sorbo.

"I think they're finally starting to wake up. With the success of 'Son of God,' 'Heaven is for Real' and certainly 'God's Not Dead.'"

Sorbo also described Hollywood as an "opposite land" and commented that "everything we do" is different than what they should do.

**But these 99% 501c3, government-runned churches in America get a free pass?

"I hope they get it," said Sorbo, regarding the demand for more Christian films as seen with the commercial success of the aforementioned faith-based films. "It is called show business after all."

This is not the first time Sorbo has been critical of the ideological climate in Hollywood, which he said he considers to be problematic.

**Oh really? Then why in the world are YOU, Kevin Sorbo, WORKING IN Hellywood? You SHOULD know scripture says believers can NOT yoke with unbelievers!

In a March 2013 interview with the anchors of the television program Fox & Friends, Sorbo called the Hollywood entertainment industry the "least tolerant people" in America.

"I certainly get into trouble in Hollywood for some of the things I say, but I am one of the true independent voices in Hollywood," Sorbo said. "I look at both sides of the aisle, look at who's going to really help this country. … Things aren't going that great right now; I think that's very obvious to most people."

Sorbo's remarks come weeks after the film "God's Not Dead" was released to DVD and made available for viewing online through websites such as Amazon.

Also starring Shane Harper and Willie Robertson, the film had a $2 million budget and made over $60 million at the box office.

The film centered on an intellectual debate between an atheist professor, played by Sorbo, and a Christian student, played by Harper.

"'God's Not Dead,' dollar for dollar, has been the most successful movie this year by far and the most successful faith-based movie," added Sorbo.

"My hat's off to all those people out there that watched it and promoted it by telling their friends to go see it."

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https://www.yahoo.com/movies/special-unbroken-dvd-will-be-marketed-to-114495145507.html
Special 'Unbroken' DVD Will Be Marketed to Christian Audiences
3/24/15

When director Angelina Jolie left out Louis Zamperini’s Christian epiphany from her movie Unbroken, publications like Religion News Service and the Christian Post, as well as myriad bloggers, wondered whether the faithful would show up at theaters. While the movie did fine — $161 million worldwide on a $65 million budget — it appears Universal Pictures is belatedly addressing the concerns of the faith-based audience by releasing a DVD version of the movie exclusively for them.

The home video release is set for Tuesday at all the usual outlets, but a special “Legacy of Faith” edition includes both the movie and 90 minutes extra material that focuses on Zamperini’s life after his near-death experiences in a rickety lifeboat and at a brutal Japanese prison camp during World War II. Universal has taken the unusual step of making the “Legacy of Faith” version available only at Christian outlets.

After the war, Zamperini suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder that included nightmares of him exacting revenge on The Bird, the nickname given to the guard who abused him most while he was a POW. He turned to drinking and fighting after his release, and his wife was set to divorce him until he agreed in 1949 to attend a sermon in a tent delivered by a young preacher named Billy Graham. That event and what came next make up nearly a third of the Laura Hillenbrand book on which the movie was based, though it’s not addressed in the film.

"I loved the movie. It was beautiful and brutal at the same time. Angie got all the scenes right," Zamperini’s son, Luke Zamperini, tells The Hollywood Reporter. “But the biggest criticism we got was from people in the faith-based community who read the book and said, ‘Well, it left out the whole Billy Graham scene.’ “

The “Legacy of Faith” disc includes a description of what happened that day and the next, and shows lots of footage of Graham and Zamperini together in the 1950s, as the two became good friends. Luke Zamperini, his sister Cynthia Zamperini Garris, Hillenbrand and others appear in the bonus material.

A clip of the bonus material embedded below also shows Louis Zamperini shaking hands with his former captors, taken when he visited them years later to tell them he had forgiven them — though The Bird refused to see him.

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment seems to have largely outsourced the marketing and distribution of the product and wasn’t available for comment. It partnered with Pure Flix, which will distribute the “Legacy of Faith” version of the home video through Family Christian Stores, Mardel Christian Stores, Parable Christian Stores and ChristianBook.com. Faith Driven Entertainment is handling much of the publicity.

"The Christian world has embraced Louis Zamperini’s story as one of their own," Luke Zamperini said. "But I’m hoping for a wider release for the ‘Legacy of Faith’ version so that people who don’t shop at Christian stores can get their hands on this."