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I have heard a whole lot of talk about Twilight.
I see this book/movie paraphernalia everywhere right now and I decided to do a little researching. I found out that it's a lot more than what it's talked about. Some people might say that they think it's just a romance story. This is what I found. Teenage girl falls in 'love' with a hundred and something year old vampire. Well, let's start out with a few definitions.*Love- To have benevolence or good will for.
*Vampire-In mythology, an imaginary demon, which was fabled to suck the blood of persons during the night.
Now, look at those two definitions and tell me if they look like they could go together. I don't think so. Vampires are
a supernatural being. Even though in today's culture, we are familiar with the vampire ideology, there's a biblical identity that Christians should see right off. If vampires do exist, the translation of 'vampire' for Christians is 'demon'.
This movie goes right along with the culture today. It's called Gothic. Why do people like black, blood, death, and chains so much?
Why is black so cool? The Bible says in Genesis 1:2-4 "2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness." God didn't want everything to be dark, so he created light. He also divided the light from the darkness. The Bible says in
2 Cor. 6:14 "...for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?" Why would we want to have communion with darkness when it is associated with unrighteousness? In the definition of vampire it says 'during the night'. In the dark. Many horrible things happen in the night.
It says in
James 1:17 "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." God is called 'the Father of lights'. If you feel that you have spent to much time in the dark, come to the light. Come to the Father of lights. He will protect you.
My next question was: "Why is blood so cool?"
Why is it that so many girls feel like they need to cut themselves? When I thought about this, it brought someone to mind. The maniac of Gadara. He was possessed with a legion of demons. The Bible says in
Mark 5:5 "And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones." I wonder if he had some emotional problems with, maybe, depression or self punishment of guilt. Maybe the demons thought he was easy prey. He might have already had some problems that the demons wanted to prey on. God loves us and Satan hates us. Since Satan can't hurt God, he sometimes hurts us to get to God. God promised us in
1 Kings 8:57 "The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:" Also in
John 14:18, it says "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you." God wants to comfort us and be with us, all we have to do is obey his commandments and ask.
God loves us, I said that above. He said he would comfort us, I said that too. He does not want us to be in isolation. Sometimes, isolation can hurt us. Broken hearts lead to solitude. Look at the above verse again
"And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs..." He wanted to be alone. Is there a hidden hurt in your life that drives you to want to be alone? You are never alone with Jesus. If you have problems with isolation or cutting, please seek spiritual guidance. God would not want harm to come to you.
He was in the mountains and the tombs. We see by 'tombs' that this man had a fascination with death. Part of this 'gothic culture' is death. Isn't that what a vampire is? It's someone who has, in a sense, died.
Here it is speaking about Jesus when it says in
Hebrews 2:14 "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;"Right here in this verse it says that the devil has power
of death, but Jesus has the power
over death. Therefore, Jesus has power over the devil. If you have developed a fascination with death, Jesus can help you over come that.
"crying, and cutting himself with stones." I don't think that he was crying just because it hurt physically. He probably was going through some serious emotional pain as well. When Jesus came, he helped this man. Jesus can help you too.
Why does today's culture like chains so much? The Bible says in
Mark 5:3-4 (speaking of the maniac) "Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: 4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. Does living in the Gothic life style have anything to do with your spiritual walk? Yes, it does. It says in
Mark 5:6 "But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him," We see here that not only physically was Jesus afar off, but because of the legion of devils, he was spiritually far away. If you have ever been obsessed with the Gothic lifestyle were you seriously studying your Bible during that time?
Mark 5:13 "And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea." I see two things here. One is that the demons did not 'love' this man. As books like 'Twilight' project, the vampire, demon, "loved" this girl. I don't know if the demons told this man that they wanted to help him or that they loved him. But I know, from what happened, that they didn't, because they wanted to go into a herd of swine. They had about as much respect for him as they did for the pigs. Remember that when they entered the swine they ran over the cliff to their death.
>The second thing I see here is that there were 2,000 demons in this one man. When did all this start with him? Before the demons he had friends, we see that in verse
19 "...Go home to thy friends , and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee." It appears that when the demons came into his life, his friends left.
Is this what we want occupying our hearts and minds, even in a fantasy world? Romantic obsession with a demonic being? The Bible says in
Phil. 2:5 " Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:"The idea of a vampire sucking your blood really should concern us. I believe there are spiritual issues involved. Vampires take your blood, and drain you of your life, they don't give their life to save your soul. Jesus gave his life blood for us on the cross, but he didn't ask for ours in return! Here we are with books that focus almost entirely on the heroine's blood. How awful! No fantasy should twist such an infatuation into "love". This sounds a lot more like the invitation to a demonic presence.
I know what many might say- "It's only a story, it's only fantasy." But, have you ever seen teen girls once they become fascinated, even on a fictional character? It does have an effect on them. Today we are being pushed with Harry Potter when we're twelve and vampires when we're fifteen. These interests do shape ideas of the kind of relationship we will seek. We are setting ourselves up to be, at the very least, disappointed with the reality of an ordinary but nice non-vampire-ish guy. At worst, we may tolerate abuse as the normal part of a really “passionate” relationship. I would not want to have a relationship with someone when I am worried if I am going to live through the night. I do not know what was running through the fictional girl's head about this demon wanting to kill her in the night, but I would not feel safe. I would run to my parents and to Jesus as fast as I could for protection.
As it says above, "It's only a story, it's only fantasy." Fantasy has a spiritual aspect to it, which even Christians dismiss in this media time. Wicked, Twilight, Phantom of the Opera, and
Lord of the Rings just to name a few. Spending lots of time fascinated with romance involving demons is not becoming for the Bride of Christ preparing for her Bridegroom's return.
We pray your desire to know Christ and have a deep covenantal relationship with Hm will begin to grow and that you will find the peace that only He can bring.
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