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The Last Superhero


We are seeing the twilight of superheroes. Every genre is having an upheaval, from the Last Jedi transforming Luke Jedi paladin to heretic, Optimus Prime becoming a villain in The Last Knight, Jurassic Word making humans the villains and the dinosaurs who devoured people the victims. There is a concerted effort to destroy heroes and mutate them into a post-modern progressive nihilism. Recently, in the new Avengers film, fans watched their favorite heroes perishing, including Spider-Man whose suffering has scared some children. While it certainly is likely Disney will ‘ressurect’ these heroes in the next installment in the Avemger’s saga, it will be only to fill their coffers and keep their revenue streams strong. Despite this, it is evident heroes are falling and fans from and themselves  boycotting and retreating to their hermitages where Luke still believes The Light Side is stronger, Optimus Prime still punishes Decepticons, and dinosaurs arn’t an animal rights sermon but “genetically-engineered-theme-Park monsters, nothing more and nothing less.” (Alan Grant, Jurassic Park III). 

As the “heroes of old fall,” (Genesis 6:6), Christ stands tall. Our Lord and Savior is the Last Superhero and nothing, not even Disney can make Him change, “Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” (Hebrews 13:8). While the Disney, Universal, Fox and other companies topple their heroes and feed them to the Post Modern Cerberus, Jesus stands with his cape and robe ready to ride and reign on earth as He does in heaven. Our God and hero, with red stained cape (Revelation 19:11-16) will make His way to Jerusalem to cut to pieces the wicked with His sword and to smite the evil nations with a rod of iron. Then He shall surpass Kal-El (Superman) and burn the entire planet with his wrath (2 Peter 3, Revelation 21:1-4). We await our Lord and God Jesus to come, and until then we preach that He wore a different cape, one of scarlet (John 19:5) and bore our sins and opened the way to eternity and immortality through His blood and death on a cross (Roman wooden pole with a cross beam horizontally that people are fastened to with nails through their hands). 

While I believe the fall of heroes and moral guides for children is part of the “lawlessness at work,” and a sign of birth pangs of the Antichrist’s censorship (2 Thessalonians 2:4), I also believe it to be a boon from above. As secular people find their fictional and mythological heroes defrocked and cast down, they may be open to hearing about the One and Only hero that exists and is real, one who has died for them to enter heaven and know God’s love, and offers them real superpowers (1 Corinthians 12:4-11) providence  via The Holy Spirit. It may surprise these desolate and depressed fans that major elements of what they loved about their favorite heroes and their canon, borrowed heavily from The Holy Bible. This season of hero slaying by studios is an opportunity to share the True Hero and Son of God, Jesus Christ. 

As people decline to support the sacrilege and desecration of their favorite stories, tell them the True Story, the Good News of what Jesus has done for them and how He yearns to save them and know them in a close and intimate friendship. While stories of super empowered beings has consumed much of these fanboys and fangirls’ time, tell them of the war in heaven (Revelation 12:7-12) l, how Christ walked on water (Matthew 14:22-23), battled and defeated death (Hebrews 2, Revelation 1:17) and all the feats of our Lord from Bethlehem to Calvary and beyond. Share Christ, who is not some god or hero invented by man, but is Jesus Christ the God of the Universe who became incarnate (took on a human body as a baby and was born and then grew to adulthood) and one with the Father and Holy Spirit Godhead. Let those who prided themselves of navigating the deep labyrinth of their favorite heroes, open themselves to the lovely and vast labyrinth of the Lord! Let them not remain concerned to say, “I know in so and so obscure book that Logan (Wolverine) or Luke Skywalker is..,” and instead say “I know Jesus and this obscure and confusing passage in scripture is now plain to me.”  Let us hunger for the Lord Jesus as we do those heroes and expanded universe tales that aquatinted us with them. As the heroes of Marvel, DC, Lucasfilm, and beyond fall, let us become enthralled with the Last and only superhero who exists, Jesus Christ very God of very God and Son of God. Amen. 

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