Prepping
Generation To Accept Nephilim As
"Redeemer"
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Sue
Bradley
For
we wrestle not against flesh and
blood, But against
principalities, against powers, Against
rulers of the darkness of this world,
Against spiritual wickedness in
high places. Ephesians 6:12.
It
seems to be becoming characteristically
prescient that Tom Horn's careful
examination of often obscure
Biblical topics and text once
again synchronizes with an
unusually scripted and interestingly
timed media 'event,' ABC Family's
second season of "Fallen."
From
a series of four teen novels, “Fallen” focuses
on angels who have fallen from grace and
the one being who can help them back to
heaven. Author Thomas E. Sniegoski said
he did quite a bit of Biblical research
about angels before he wrote the novels,
rather then using pop culture
references. "I think I
drew my ideas from all kinds of sources,
but my main source were from the tons of
research books on angels and various
mythologies that I'd collected over the
years. It was really cool to read all
this stuff and slowly build my own
angelic mythology."
Mr.
Sniegoski's background work in this area
suggests little familiarity except
possibly a vague concept of western
culture in the area of angelology.
Thomas Horn, author of The
Gods Who Walk Among Us, The
Invisible Invasion, the
bestselling Ahriman
Gate and the recently
released Nephilim
Stargates,
The Year 2012 and the Return of the
Watchers would likely find
pieces of truth in Mr. Sniegoski's
"angelic mythology," but would
caution that the spirit world is a
subject to be taken very seriously.
Dr.
Horn, an experienced pastor and veteran
exorcist, has had first hand experience:
speaking the horror and the reality of
involvement with such activities,
“These are real. I’ve seen
things I hope I never see again…and
that no one else ever does.”
Apart
from framing the script with Hebraic
sounding names, the Judeo-Christian
concept of a primal angelic rebellion
and the subsequent hybridization
described in Genesis chapter 6,
“Fallen” gives no references to
specific theological traditions but
does designate the lead, Aaron Corbett
as a ‘nephilim’ hybrid who is on
Earth to fulfill a prophecy and meet his
destiny: as the chosen Redeemer of the
mutinous angelic domain.
This
is where the fantasy blurs, the
positions reverse, the menace begins.
As
Dr. Horn notes in Nephilim
Stargates, "Given the
abundant and universal prophecies that
the end times will witness what we have
been calling a 'reopening of the gates
of heaven' and the descending of a
'savior,' it is important to note that
from the Middle Ages forward, many
church leaders have believed that the
Antichrist would ultimately represent
the return of the Nephilim - the union of
a demon and a human."
According
to Catholic Online, “the program's
pop-culture theology bears little in
common with the Christian understanding
of angels." Executive
producer Pete Donaldson, said that the
goal was to make the story ‘more
secular,’ so there's no explanation of
where God stands on the battle between
the angels.”
But
how can such a topic, the subject of
centuries of rigorous academic study and
analysis be represented as “family
entertainment?”
With
a distribution that includes nearly 90
million homes, ABC Family boasts,
"A new kind of family."
"We're not for families, we're
about families," says ABC Family
president Paul Lee, about his network's
summer success. "We're not family
television as it was in the 1950s.
We're television about families that's
relevant to today's 18-34
audience." There would be no
trace of what he calls "your
grandfather's 1950's Ozzie & Harriet
television."
The
"family," he asserts, "is
not what is was 30 years ago. And by the
way, let's reclaim that word. Family.
Let's not look at it through the narrow
prism of politics and religion. Let's
reclaim it for what it's really all
about. 'My step-mom.' 'My friend Josie.'
'My dog.' It's not just different shades
of families. The changing demographics
of the United States make it a very
different looking family than in the
past."
And
so, as it is with the reversal of the
status of the previously (and
admittedly) “fallen” angels that the
word “family” has need of
‘reclamation’ as well? Has the
position of theological scholarship for
millennia and generations of
conventional family life at last been
correctly discerned and clarified in the
21st century?
For
those who find themselves drawn to
remote spirituality characterized by an
amorphous shadowy 'Creator,"
an entrance to an "alternate
reality game" to the "world
beyond" is available online.
Mr. Lee explains, “Our millennial
audience is on the move and our content
needs to move with them and this real
time online experience will do just
that.”
Though
the concept is intriguing, and the
scenes of winged angels battling with
swords of fire are eye-opening, casual
interaction with the unseen or even
‘fantasy’ world can be seductive –
and dangerous. By relegating the
visible and the invisible to
‘fantasy/science fiction’ status,
the desensitization of two generations
has been enormously successful.
It
is without question, an alarming
prospect. But of far greater
concern, American ‘families’ who
look to sensational television
programming for spiritual insight will
be terrifyingly ill informed and gravely
unprepared.
Woe
unto them that call evil good, and
good evil; that put darkness
for light and light for darkness. Isaiah
5:20
“My
people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge….” Hosea 4:6
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BIOGRAPHICAL
BACKGROUND
Sue
Bradley is a freelance political
writer and researcher. Her
articles have appeared in The
International Jerusalem Post, The
Electronic Telegraph, Jane’s
Intelligence Group, Raiders News
Update in addition to several
private subscription intelligence
newsletters.
