“Incredibly, this past Christmas Season, when Jesus, the Light of the world used to be highlighted by the Church, many Churched and Christian ministries are promoting another light, “Twilight” the movie!
Based on Mormon, Stephenie Meyer’s 4-book “vampire romance” series, the Twilight movie was released last week (Nov 21, 2008) in 3419 cinema theaters across the nation and grossed over $70 million its first weekend. It’s the hottest pop culture phenomenon since Harry Potter mania.
As I stood in line to see a different movie, hundreds of teens around me flooded the movie complex to purchase tickets for Twilight which was showing on 5 of the 15 available screens. It ran to packed teen audiences and the buzz was spellbinding, more disturbing than the accolades I heard when producing our expose DVD Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged.
In only a few short years I’ve watched the occult addiction mushroom amongst teens and develop aggressively into a yearning that they’d even sell their eternal souls for. Think of it, the love of a vampire, a being the Bible describes as demon possessed, musters the longing to remain lost for eternity – the very state Jesus Christ died to save sinners from. How diabolical is Satan’s message to our young innocents luring them, through a lust-filled romance, to spend eternity with him and away from the presence of our God of love?
Twilight takes occult darkness, introduced in Potter, to deeper, decadent fathoms: overt vampirism, acceptable blood-sucking (in this movie its only animal blood – later? Wait and see!) and sexual lust for the possessed soul (made appealing in its fictionalized form!). The books, akin to the Potter’s series, promote and familiarize their audience with magick, Wicca, supernatural powers and demon possession.
But what is beyond alarming is that Christians are seduced by satanic deception and have succumbed to Twilight’s fascination of dark wisdom, a power Scripture warns against – loving evil more than good (Psalm 52:3), and placing what the world admires before what God requires.”
What has me truly alarmed is that the people are rallying for the movies, especially Christians. As I have read blogs and looked at comments people have begun to throw out things like Christian superiorist, and a serious judgement has come upon those who would not embrace the openly evil ideals.
Let me say this, it comes back to who we are. Are we for the principles of the Kingdom of God and what the bible instructs us to do, or are we not? It is that simple. There are many who want to make this a gray issue, but the truth is that when we do not apply the solid facts of the bible to our daily lives we will get led astray.
Frankly the issue is not do I want to go see some vampire movie, the issue is do I want anything to come between me and the presence of God. Am I hungry enough to deny the things that would lead me away from the place where I know that I have access to the relms of heaven and settle for a movie that represents things that are an abomination to the ONLY one that we are to be about pleasing.
I have made my choice and I resolve to not. It is up to you what you will do.
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