Merry
08-06-2007, 08:22 PM
I did a dumb thing this weekend. I watched all three episodes of ABC Family's mini-series, 'Fallen.' See, I wrote a novel about a nephilim, (half-angel/ half-human) and that's what the main character of Fallen happened to be, so I was curious.
I had the feeling whoever wrote this story was a secular Humanist who picked up the book of Enoch and decided it would make good TV. There were a number of angelic things they got correct and MUST have pulled from Enoch, but then Enoch isn't part of the canon.
In the story, this teen age nephilim is supposed to be the redeemer of all Fallen angels...I thought, okay, pretty lame, but maybe they were trying to say something...but what they were trying to say...who knows?
Anyway, they treated the audience to scenes like where the teenage nephilim had a human come to him begging for redemption, asking to have his sins washed away, and 3 or 4 more angels are also standing around, and the name of Jesus Christ never comes up. The man dies in his sins.
Nastiest little trick they used was pulling out actual names from the record in Enoch. I studied a lot before I wrote Mike Malone (my half-angle character) and one thing I found out was that according to at least three different Jewish traditions you are not supposed to say the names of the angels that caused the flood. Reading is okay, but don't say it. Even in my story, I made up a name, similar to stuff in Enoch as a name for Mikes father, but it's not a ringer by any means. I know this can be chalked up to superstition and certainly God is greater than any name, but I've found when a lot of these old Jews said things it was not a bad idea to humor them and go along with what they had to say. I mean, if the universe could be spoken into existence, then words are very powerful things.
So this show featured as a character, Azazel, a fallen angel. (Of course, thanks to ABC family little kids now know how to pronounce his name perfectly.) According to Enoch, he was the one who instigated having the angles come to earth to mate with human women in the first place. There are pronouncements against him left and right, he's with the other fallen who caused the flood, in chains right now, waiting for the end of days.
So ABC portrays him as this British rock star type and his name was said constantly. It got to be like hearing fingernails on a chalk board after awhile. And I'm sure that was God trying to say, 'Turn the dumb thing off!'
When it was over I thought the whole production needed a giant boost of Christian doctrine, otherwise it was just ridiculous and put it out of my head.
Last night, I woke up at 1:30 am and there was something in my house. I could feel a presence as nasty and hateful as anything. I walked into my living room and saw a the outline of a shadow moving along the wall. I prayed, told it to go away in the name of Jesus Christ and everything was fine. But stuff like that doesn't happen unless you open a door for it to and in the past 24 hours the most occult happening in my home was that stupid show. While this was going on, my son started speaking rapidly in his sleep. He often carries on conversations in his dreams about cars and airplanes, boy stuff, but this was so fast, I couldn't understand him. When it was over he settled down and slept peacefully.
I just wonder how many other households had problems like that last night. New catch phrase- 'ABC Family: Introducing your family to the demonic world!'
Pray for those guys.
I had the feeling whoever wrote this story was a secular Humanist who picked up the book of Enoch and decided it would make good TV. There were a number of angelic things they got correct and MUST have pulled from Enoch, but then Enoch isn't part of the canon.
In the story, this teen age nephilim is supposed to be the redeemer of all Fallen angels...I thought, okay, pretty lame, but maybe they were trying to say something...but what they were trying to say...who knows?
Anyway, they treated the audience to scenes like where the teenage nephilim had a human come to him begging for redemption, asking to have his sins washed away, and 3 or 4 more angels are also standing around, and the name of Jesus Christ never comes up. The man dies in his sins.
Nastiest little trick they used was pulling out actual names from the record in Enoch. I studied a lot before I wrote Mike Malone (my half-angle character) and one thing I found out was that according to at least three different Jewish traditions you are not supposed to say the names of the angels that caused the flood. Reading is okay, but don't say it. Even in my story, I made up a name, similar to stuff in Enoch as a name for Mikes father, but it's not a ringer by any means. I know this can be chalked up to superstition and certainly God is greater than any name, but I've found when a lot of these old Jews said things it was not a bad idea to humor them and go along with what they had to say. I mean, if the universe could be spoken into existence, then words are very powerful things.
So this show featured as a character, Azazel, a fallen angel. (Of course, thanks to ABC family little kids now know how to pronounce his name perfectly.) According to Enoch, he was the one who instigated having the angles come to earth to mate with human women in the first place. There are pronouncements against him left and right, he's with the other fallen who caused the flood, in chains right now, waiting for the end of days.
So ABC portrays him as this British rock star type and his name was said constantly. It got to be like hearing fingernails on a chalk board after awhile. And I'm sure that was God trying to say, 'Turn the dumb thing off!'
When it was over I thought the whole production needed a giant boost of Christian doctrine, otherwise it was just ridiculous and put it out of my head.
Last night, I woke up at 1:30 am and there was something in my house. I could feel a presence as nasty and hateful as anything. I walked into my living room and saw a the outline of a shadow moving along the wall. I prayed, told it to go away in the name of Jesus Christ and everything was fine. But stuff like that doesn't happen unless you open a door for it to and in the past 24 hours the most occult happening in my home was that stupid show. While this was going on, my son started speaking rapidly in his sleep. He often carries on conversations in his dreams about cars and airplanes, boy stuff, but this was so fast, I couldn't understand him. When it was over he settled down and slept peacefully.
I just wonder how many other households had problems like that last night. New catch phrase- 'ABC Family: Introducing your family to the demonic world!'
Pray for those guys.