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Sanctification – Images (Interstellar)

This will be broken down into parts on images portrayed in the movie Interstellar and what I saw when comparing it to Scripture.

Part I

“The wheat had already gone extinct seven years prior”

Reminder of Exodus 9:32

But the wheat and the spelt were not ruined, for they ripen late.)

This verse, I interpret as a reminder of God’s kindness despite his severity towards things not fully mature. The testimony that the wheat had already gone extinct I then interpreted as what we are dealing with is past maturity.

Testimonies in the beginning were a reminder of other real-world disasters, and though each time it may have seemed like it was over then, here we are now, so is the answer really to abandon the planet?

Ecclesiastes 1:9 says,

That which has been is that which will be, And that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun.

So the question is, what about the rest of the galaxy?

As it says in Revelation 5:10

You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon the earth.”

Part II

“The LORD will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish. (Deuteronomy 28:22)

This is a warning given if people do not obey the LORD God, observing His commandments and His statutes. (Deuteronomy 28:15)

And though that was said originally to Israel, in Jeremiah 12 God says He would eventually hold all countries to the standard He gave Israel. (Jeremiah 12:14-17)

So, knowing that the crops were being cursed with blight, and Deuteronomy 4:19 says,

And beware not to lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, those which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

I do not believe space exploration was the correct answer.

Part III

Wisdom is in the presence of the one who has understanding, But the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth. (Proverbs 17:24)

Cooper’s daughter Murphy is able to decode riddles, has discernment, is able to comfort and provide counsel, and speaks to a “ghost” which ends up being her father. Her father sends messages through morse code with a method resembling either a piano or other stringed instrument. So as Elisha prophesied when the minstrel played (2 Kings 3:15), she saw the answer to the problem when her father did. Yet despite all this, he searched for answers past the ends of the earth because he had no understanding. After he enters the black hole, fear of God meets him and he begins to see.

Further evidence of his daughter’s wisdom is also her obedience in being fruitful and multiplying as well as all of them being around her table greeting Cooper at the end. During this encounter I believe she was portraying the church greeting someone who did not attain the resurrection of eternal life as evidence by his son is not there. This is symbolic of standing before the judgment without Jesus. Cooper is then cast out into darkness during this scene by “the church” where he fulfills the passage in Jude speaking of false believers saying they are like

wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever. (Jude 13b)

Part IV

For if a woman does not cover her head, let her also have her hair cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her cover her head. (1 Corinthians 11:6)

When Brand comes into the movie she is exercising authority over a man. The short hair is the identifier, and she feels a love connection with a man that we later find out is dead. Concerning wisdom,

“All those who hate me love death.” (Proverbs 8:36b)

The question to what then will be the outcome of her planet? As Cooper steals a ship to go after her we can remember

“Stolen water is sweet; And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.” But he does not know that the dead are there, That her guests are in the depths of Sheol. (Proverbs 9:17-18)

So in conclusion, this seemed to be the answer to what may have happened to Demas after he had left Paul, an old man. But what did Paul say?

for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me (2 Timothy 4:10a)

So there is nothing new under the sun, because the stars are under the greater light.

References

Part I

Exodus 9:32

Ecclesiastes 1:9

Revelation 5:10

Part II

Deuteronomy 28:22, 15

Jeremiah 12:14-17

Deuteronomy 4:19

Part III

Proverbs 17:24

2 Kings 3:15

Jude 13

Part IV

1 Corinthians 11:6

Proverbs 8:36

Proverbs 9:17-18

2 Timothy 4:10

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. (Romans 12:2)

143 Formerly called a seer

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