Ted Porter,
I find this interesting that you would choose the two
examples that you did and I'll explain why below but
here is what you said:
So, how did you happen to say "shepherd" and "Dances
with Wolves"? Many years ago God showed me a very
interesting thing about that movie and it has to do with
sheep and shepherds so I find it interesting that you
put those right together like you did. It also has to do
with your subject in general which is the "Bride theft"
or our rapture and the separation that takes place when
it happens.
God showed me that messages are often hidden in the
themes of movies as a subtle programing mechanism that
goes into the subconscious and right unnoticed unless it
is pointed out to the conscious mind, which I will do
now. First let me point out that the movie "Dances With
Wolves" is linked through this subliminal thing with
another movie which came out many years earlier called
"Apocalypse Now". I could describe both movies' plots in
general terms using exactly the same words as follows:
A military officer is stationed in a
remote location and becomes friendly with the
natives of that area and slowly switches his loyalty
away from his own command center and must be
considered "renegade" and an enemy by his own
commanders and dealt with accordingly.
That is the basic premise of both movies although
told from two different perspectives, are you with me?
Well, the subliminal message that goes into the viewing
audience is this: In the first movie, we are watching
the story from the perspective of the US military having
to go after this renegade officer and "terminate the
Colonel's command with extreme prejudice" or whatever it
was, meaning they send a secret agent in to kill him.
We, as the viewing audience are in complete sympathy
with the side of the US military, correct? But not so in
the second movie where our loyalty as a viewing audience
is completely reversed to the side of the military
officer and against the US military, who are now seen as
the "bad guys". What is the meaning of all of this? Well
it's right in the names of the two movies: When the
Apocalypse is Now, will the SHEEP that Jesus stationed
in a remote location far from the heavenly home base,
here on earth while He is in heaven, will those sheep
remain loyal to the command center that is far away,
Jesus in heaven? Or will the SHEEP that have been sent
out among the WOLVES be Dancing With the Wolves when
Jesus comes and the Apocalypse is Now?
The subtle subliminal message in the second movie is
that bad is now good and good is now bad, so it is
"good" to be friendly with the wolves and not loyal to
the "evil" commander who is just going to cause harm and
destruction of our "good" dancing with nice wolves. Many
Christian "sheep" (and shepherds) have made friends with
this world and are dancing with the wolves that Jesus
sent us out among but never intended us to become
friendly with. Friendship with the world is enmity with
God.
By the way, Ted, I assume your full first name is
Theodore? Which sounds to me like it also could be
looked at like Theo (of God) and "door" thereby linking
both your first name and last name to that of a person
at the doorway to God...? I would rather be a doorkeeper
in the house of the Lord than to dwell in the tents of
wickedness.