IDK if the director's intent is to foreshadow, but anyone else aware of what happens to spermatozoa after it enters the ova (ie "egg")?
Good catch. The humans are to enter the 'egg' at 18 hour intervals, and this 'entry' does seem to evoke the insemination of an egg.
I hadn't really thought about what happens to the male part, but it would seem to be akin to what generally happens to the male Black Widow spider at the macro level. It gets consumed. In this case, so that the male DNA can be joined to the female DNA already inside. Is this what you are referring to?
Thanks, Jerry for posting this. I have been curious as to what the Postflavian crew thought the next world religion might be based on?
You're welcome. Richard
Joe's analysis in
Caesar's Messiah that the (first) Second Coming was in 70 AD with the Jewish War is obviously correct. That is, if you count Jesus's narrative as a First Coming whether or not it is fictional or factual. With the advent of the Protestant movement, in reaction to their 'papacy is the AntiChrist' argument, the Jesuits simultaneously forwarded two completely different and mutually exclusive schools of thought on the End Times. One was the Preterist School which posited that the End Times of the Bible really referred to Constantine's endorsement of Christianity. The other was the Futurist School which posited that the End Times were yet to come at an unknown time in the future ... and we're still waiting.
Obviously this is a problem of creative accounting. If the Jewish War was the First Coming (with Christ Titus), because it was a real event (it seems), then a Second Coming is possible subsequent to that. It might also help(?) to note that in the eyes of many, such as messianic Jewish Christians of the time, that Jesus (Yeshua) would have been seen as a Second Coming 'manifestation' of Joshua (Yeshua -- aka the pharaoh Seti I), the military 'savior' that ultimately brought the Yahud - Hebrews to the Promised Land. Ooops ... a Third Coming?
In addition to the Jesuit Futurist School, the evangelicals and Pentecostals began positing a Futurist type of Second Coming. This was best formulated by Cyrus Schofield in his annotated
Schofield Reference Bible in the late 1800's. BTW, this bible is published by the Oxford University Press. As Joe correctly pointed out, the word 'generation' used in the Matthew prophecy about the destruction of the temple, meant a period of 40 years. This led to the perfect perceived fulfillment of the Matthew prophecy in the year 70CE, and was crowed about by early Church Fathers. What Schofield did then, at the behest of his elite sponsors, was to redefine what the term 'generation' meant, so as to mean an indeterminate time in the future. Sound familiar?
I was raised in the Presbyterian tradition and this Second Coming business was never brought up until about the time I left home for technical school. It was brought up by evangelical infiltrators, outsiders.
As I have mentioned in another thread, if one takes a closer look at the Daniel prophecies, they explicitly state that the imagery is to be interpreted as the formation and collapse of (Western) empires and nations, pretty much in the order that history states. I had an evangelical point this out to me and it was rather shocking, as this had never been a focus in my church time.
With the efforts of the Evangelicals and Pentecostalists (aka the Low Church) this is a significant and massive investment in social effort over a long period of time, and is strangely in accord with the High Church (the RCC and Anglican - as evidenced by the Oxford association).
An so, if one wants to allow that creative accounting in interpretation is possible, then I suggest that we are arriving sooner or later, so to speak, at yet another Second Coming. Either a second Second Coming or a third Second Coming.
As such, I am having some trouble convincing anyone that the Jesuits are serious about their LUCIFER telescope on Mt. Graham. At least, being serious about using this as a vehicle to prime the 'critical masses' (Get it? Or should that be the 'uncritical masses'?) that the next manifestation of the Messiah would indeed appear to the whole planet as coming from somewhere in outerspace. And since we all still have so much race and cultural sensitivity, that this time, the savior will have some element of other-than-humaness to hisself.
Remember that in End Times theology, the Messiah must necessarily kick some serious ass. So maybe his job is to kick the uncritical masses' asses, but I doubt it. Maybe we'll find that indeed the "lion will lay down with the lamb", but I think that even this is suggestive in its metaphors and what is left unstated. Will the meek really inherit the Earth. I am yet too cynical, based on the real story of past saviors and how they really treated the meek.
