The Day After Tomorrow

[mrversatile48]

I'm amazed that there is no thread yet on this fascinating film!

Maybe there was, The Day Before Yesterday...

but it got blown away...

washed out maybe?

Anyway, this daily reading kinda suits it:-

Website: www.AnchorYourLife.com - by permission
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June 9, 2004 Thought for the Day

Rejoice In The Lord Always

. . .yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my
Savior. (NIV) Habakkuk 3:18

It seems like so many bad things are happening all around us.
Terrorism is violence on the home front. We watch as schools,
daycare centers, offices and now, churches are assaulted. Are we
safe anywhere? No. Even the weather seems more active. . . and
our earth. . . three quakes recently. We take cover and hope for
the best.

Please, bear with me I'm not trying to be an alarmist. In the book
of Habakkuk there were similar problems. Life in Judah was filled
with terrible violence everywhere. Habakkuk cried out to the Lord.
He couldn't understand why God allowed so the evil to continue.
God's answer: the Babylonians would rise up and conquer Judah. A
worse evil was about to destroy Judah.

Not knowing when God's wrath would strike, the Jews waited. Habakkuk
became physically ill. He wrote: "I heard and my heart pounded, my
lips quivered at the sound; decay crept into my bones, and my legs
trembled." (Habakkuk 3:16a)

Homes, possessions, cattle and family would be swept away by the evil
force of the Babylonians. The conditions went from bad to worse:
". . . the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines
. . .the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food. . .there are
no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls," (Habakkuk 3: 17,18a).
What does Habakkuk do? What would you do?

Does Habakkuk become bitter and cry "Not Fair"? No, Habakkuk remembers
God is in control. He also remembers the deeds that God had done in the
past. All throughout Habakkuk's prayer, he praises God. . . for His
beauty. . . His deeds. . . His strength. God brought a peace to Habakkuk
that allowed him to wait patiently. (Habakkuk 3:16b)

I hope that you never face such perilous circumstances. But, if you do,
may the Prince of Peace, the Great I AM, give you strength to rejoice in
times of great sorrow. Will you say as Habakkuk said: "yet I will rejoice
in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior. The Sovereign Lord is my
strength; He makes my feet like the feet of a deer, He enables me to go
on the heights." (Habakkuk 3:18b-19)

Written by Tammy Schlesinger used with permission

For more on a relationship with God, visit:
http://www.anchorlife.org/html/why_bother.htm

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For those of you wondering what other Scriptures the film helps you to open up, try Joel 2:30/2

"I will show you wonders in the heavens, & on Earth, blood, fire & billows of smoke: the sun shall turn to darkness, & the moon to blood, before that great & terrible day of the Lord, but whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord will be saved"

As to how, check out the instant airlift of all who love Jesus, before the worst time on Earth comes - see Matthew 24 & 1st Thessalonians 4:14/5:11

For more on the urgency of turning to Christ, see Revelation 6, 8 & 9, that feature quite a few of the phenomena in the film, especially the fascinating cluster of pictures that, put together, sure sound like military helicopters

& "the smoke rising from the abyss"

Rev 16 & Joel 3 & Zechariah 14 have them on the global scale of Armageddon

I'll be back with a feature on the giant hailstones in Revelation

Meanwhile, "now is the day of salvation...today, if you hear God's voice, don't harden your heart"

God bless!

Ian

 

[mrversatile48]

Sorry about that

You can find the feature on www.prophecyupdate.com

It's @ the 4th article in the issue of May 27, titled "Giant hailstones in Revelation 16"

From memory, the "hailstones weighing 100 pounds" are in @ verse 20/21

The article features several more times when God hurled hailstones on Israel's enemies, inc in Exodus, the "plague of hail"

It's worth reading 2 Peter 3 on the present Earth being reserved for destruction by fire, & its call to holiness

Also Revelation 21, the vision ofthe new heavens & the new Earth, "for the former had passed away"

They all underline the Bible teaching to, "Set your love on things above" - (Colossians 3:2/3, I think), & Jesus' own words about laying up treasures in heaven rather than on Earth

So do use conversations about the film to show the need for Christ as the 1-&-only Saviour

God bless!

Ian

 

[mathias1979]

Actually,

http://www.christianforums.com/t690135
http://www.christianforums.com/showthread.php?p=2031441#post2031441

Something is funky with the Search function on the site...seems to be missing old posts and gives them in a wierd text format.

-Matt

 

[Gerry_NY]

In another thread I read that there were some that weren't impressed with the movie. But, I myself think it was a great movie. THe special effects were top notch, and it drew me in. Though the events aren't probable, it makes you entertain the idea.."What if?"

 

[Rev.TJ]

This film is a brain off movie.

That being said, I loved it. Of course, I love disaster movies. When they are meant to be disaster movies. Not ones like Gigi.

 

[Roo6339]

i haven't seen it... but i want to. i doubt it'll be any good storyline wise and acting and that, but the special effects make it look all worth it.

 

[EternalotnemeM]

I'd like to say one thing, heh. I checked this one out last night, and it is without a doubt the WORST film that I have ever seen in my entire life. It make pretty much every mistake that a film could make. I haven't seen a film this poor, in every single aspect, in many years. I am not going to list just why I hated it so much right now, only if people request it, simply because my post would be very very long.

While I did hate the movie, there were a few things about the experience that I actually enjoyed. One, it was quite possibly my favorite theater going experience. It had already been moved out of the huge theaters, into the smallest one, so those of us who were in there together, it was something of a more personal experience since we were so close together. Pretty much everyone in the theater were making cracks about the film through the entire thing. It was just great, laughing at this and that, making fun of lines, and on and on. It was just one great big joke of a movie.

The sad thing, the "comic relief" that was put into the move on purpose, wasn't amusing at all. The funny parts, some of which made me laugh just as hard as I ever have, were the very serious moments, the moments that were meant to be the dramatic and suspenseful moments.

Simply put, what was meant to be funny was just sad...and what was funny wasn't meant to be. When the DVD comes out, a huge quote should be on the front saying "The greatest unintentional comedy in years!".

SFX do not a "good movie" make.

 

[Rev.TJ]

I see you left your brain on for this. See, it helps too turn off the brain before you watch a film like this.

That way, you don't think too much, and can just enjoy the goofy movie.

 

[mrversatile48]

Just another quick thought or 2 on evangelistic opportunities in talking about the film:-

"Here, we have no continuing city, but we seek 1 to come, whose Architect & Builder is God"

Could also lead to contrasting the folly of man's false wisdom with the Almighty God as the 1 true source of wisdom, as per 1st Corinthians 1

 

[JPPT1974]

I went to saw it in the movies today. It was a disater movie. But what happened though fiction if for real there come a REAL, REAL, ice age. It is about a meteoroligist, Dennis Quaid who is married to his work as he is separated and/or divorce from his wife, Sela Ward(loved her is Sisters and Once and Again) as their only child, Jake Gylanhall(hard name to spell) is in New York for an Academic finals as not just there are tornados in rarely, rarely Los Angeles, then snow storms like over more than 100 foot of snow, people are over dying(like about out of the six billion living in the world, at least one to two billion), and a major world leader(will not say who for the fear of spoiling the film for those who have not seen it) dying near the end of the film. And the meteoroligist who is doing his best to warn everybody is laughed at and people look at him as a madman, in particular the Vice President of the United States.

But other than that, it is a movie if people like diaster films, they will love this movie. It is like the movie, Independence Day with Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum. But it is even much more takes a darker approach and though fiction has caused quite a controversy because what happens if the world were to end like that. Like snow storms, blizzards, tornados, about fifty feet of rain, the world is going to end like the Lord says like a cloud of fire with the Lord and the Angels coming like a thief in the night.

 

[EternalotnemeM]

I see you left your brain on for this. See, it helps too turn off the brain before you watch a film like this.

That way, you don't think too much, and can just enjoy the goofy movie.

No, I went into it with no expectations at all, as I knew what I was getting into when I went to see it. I saw it only because my cousin wanted to check it out, and I figured it would be good for a laugh...which it was.

I just couldn't enjoy such a movie that was so obviously trying to come across as serious, to get people to believe that this is the way that it is and will be. Not to mention that it was trying way too hard to get a political message across.

A film like this, it shouldn't take itself serious at all, yet this one did. That's why it's a big joke...and not in the ha ha way.

 

[mathias1979]

I just couldn't enjoy such a movie that was so obviously trying to come across as serious, to get people to believe that this is the way that it is and will be. Not to mention that it was trying way too hard to get a political message across.

Um...the director was not trying to say that at all. It was based on a very very unlikely scenario and the director even admits it's mostly a work of fiction. At no point has the director said that he believes this is what is going to happen...he was just exploring the question of "what if" it happened. Only a handful, if even that many, of whacko people in the world believe that this is the way things will happen.

I posed my question in another thread on the movie and I'll pose it here as well. Why are movies like these expected to portray a realistic story line? The radical climate change portrayed is meerly fantasy, so shouldn't we expect some fantasy (or unrealistic situations) in the rest of the plot? All these popular super hero movies are coming out. For instance Spiderman, not many people watch that movie and come out saying: "there's no way any living human could pull off those stunts." Same goes for a lot of popular movies out there. So why do we expect so much realism out of fantasy-based disaster movies?


-Matt

 

[EternalotnemeM]

Um...the director was not trying to say that at all. It was based on a very very unlikely scenario and the director even admits it's mostly a work of fiction. At no point has the director said that he believes this is what is going to happen...he was just exploring the question of "what if" it happened.

The film from start to finish is more concerned with making the right look like morons and making the left look like those who will save the world. To think that this film is not out there in order to make people scared to death that what happened in the film might happen in reality, is just being blind. I can't remember the last time that a simple film (not a docu.) was such a blatant political statement. The timing of the film, the way that it was used in promotion, etc... was all done for a reason.

 

[mathias1979]

perhaps I am biased as I have a B.S. in Meteorology. Perhaps the general public is not as easily able to determine what is realistic and what is just complete fantasy and fiction.

-Matt

 

[Ovda]

The movie was great. You kept rooting for the people to make it through the insane cold weather.