What You Absolutely Need to Know about the movie Knowing

I could not think of a better way to spend a Saturday morning than to veg out on a good, entertaining sci-fi movie. I have loved doing that very thing a long time, so why stop now. I loved movies like Forbidden Planet with Robbie the Robot and The Day the Earth Stood Still. I had seen the trailers and it looked fast paced and exciting which it turned out to be but the reaction to the movie by the critics (it was panned) and the general public (it was #1 at the box office) as well by me turned out to be not what I was expecting. I guess that I have matured over the years and now have more discernment. With all the talk nowadays of science fiction movies like the Race to Witch Mountain “acclimating people to the idea of alien disclosure and preparing us all for the new realities dawning in the 21st Century” and “being a wonderful way to indoctrinate the masses by being a great piece of propaganda”, Knowing seemed to wrap up all those assumptions in one apocalyptic fireball. The movie had mysterious Watchers (fallen angels aka extraterrestrial beings) who the writers wanted to roar like God did in Job 37:4-5 when they talked, but who actually sounded more like the devil who prowls about like a roaring lion seeking someone to devourer (1 Peter 5:8) and their UFOs were wheels within wheels like the Prophet Ezekiel saw. These alien Watchers wore black suits but were revealed later to masquerade as angels of light just like Satan (2 Corinthians 11:14).

In spite of this lame attempt at biblical imagery, the theme of this movie, in my mind at least, seemed more centered around the dichotomy between determinism and randomness. And even in this area which caused many critics to pan the movie because God forbid there be any meaning to the universe lest anyone judge, they still got it totally wrong.

A review of this movie which appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Friday, 3/20/09 by Christopher Borelli symbolizes this distaste for the movie by high browed, atheistic, literary critics. Borelli wrote that the movie had an “evangelical fervor of a movie made during W’s first term.” He said that it was a “potent slice of disaster porn like the Left Behind movies and that it dabbled in faith and doubt and had no patience for fence sitters.” “It slipped off of the tracks into self righteousness”, Borelli concluded by saying that “if you believe in determinism then we are all just cogs in an unraveling cosmic joke.”

To show you the ridiculousness and narrow minded bigotry of men like Borelli towards anything religious (i.e. determinism), let me briefly explain that this movie has nothing to do with the Bible or the word of God. This was not a Christian gospel message but was entirely an alien gospel message. If you want to call this determinism as well fine, but please make the distinction between a God centered determinism and an alien centered one. The only evangelistic fervor in this movie was for the alien mindset and maybe as well for an alien disclosure before the apocalypse.

In the movie, a school fifty years ago (1959) wanted to put children drawings of the future into a time capsule to be dug up in 2009. On of the young children goes into a trance and channels a long list of numbers onto a piece of paper. She appeared to be a little peculiar and ends up in a closet bloodied and was obviously not doing anything of God. When the capsule is dug up in the present, a MIT astrophysicist’s (Nicholas Cage) son opens the letter with all the strange numbers. The father who is a random type cosmological scientist stumbles onto the fact that these numbers are really predictions of disasters and accidents both past, present and future which rocks his world. Also, his father is a Pastor who he has not spoken to since his wife accidentally died in her sleep in a hotel fire. Although his father the Pastor believes that everything including his son’s wife’s death happens for a reason, this does not make this movie religious determinism.

First of all, channeling or divination of information from God only knows where or from whom, is not of God. It is witchcraft. We find out later that it probably was from these alien Watcher gods who are ultimately trying to warn all us earthlings of impending apocalypse. Remember, this was not from God but was from what I would call fallen angels of Satan so to set up this straw man of randomness and knock him down in the name of (alien) determinism is nonsense at best. Thus, Borelli’s critical review about “evangelical furor” and “self righteousness” was misguided. There was no God or Christian morality within a million miles of this movie so to speak.

Cage, the astrophysicist discovers that everyone on earth will be annihilated by a mass solar ejection in the near future. This sounds very much like all the hysteria about 2012, when according to the Mayan Long Calendar our solar system will intersect the galactic equator and will coincide according to NASA with a terrific solar storm greater than anything ever before Cage goes to the isolated trailer of this former girl of 50 years ago with his son and her daughter and granddaughter to learn more. He finds a picture of a sun with the name of the Prophet Ezekiel underneath.

Maybe the writers were trying to refer to:

“And when I extinguish you I will cover the heavens and darken the stars I will cover the sun with a cloud” (Ezekiel 32:7).

There were all kinds of religious symbolism in this syncretism of alien religion, science and the metaphysical. They finally find the safest place on earth from the impending apocalypse which Cage has verified will indeed happen with his colleague friend at MIT. His son and the crazed woman’s granddaughter are rescued by alien Watchers in UFOs which are just like Ezekiel’s wheels within wheels (Ezekiel 10:10). These two children are transported by the alien saviors to another new planet to begin the human race anew. They run through fields which reminded me of the Elysian Fields of the Greeks which was the final resting place of the blessed as chosen by the Greek gods and ruled over by Rhadamanthys.

As the movie ends, these supposed Adam and Eve wanabees move towards a silver tree which could have been the biblical Tree of Life (Genesis 2:9) or the mystical Tree of Life of Kabbalah symbolizing the ten sephiroth or kundalini energy points or maybe it was supposed to be the Sacred Tree of the Mayans which was symbolic of 2012 or the center of the universe revealed as the solar system passes through the galactic equator. Who knows for sure but it was mystical at its best.

Look, the word of God speaks of a time when the earth will be destroyed by fire like so many fear happening in 2012 or in 2009 as n this movie.

“Heavens pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat and the earth and its works will be burned up…and the heavens will be destroyed by burning and the elements will melt with intense heat.” (2 Peter 3:10, 12).

But unlike the pseudo alien gospel presented in this movie it will be a time when

“According to His (God) promise, we are looking for a new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells (2 Peter 3:13).

This gospel of the Lord promises salvation to all who repent and believe not just two small children.

“But the Lord is not slow about His promises as one counts slowness but is patient towards you not wanting any to perish but for all to come to repentance” (2Peter 3:9).

Thus, this movie, despite what the secular critics say, is not about the difference between a determinist (religion) model of the universe and a random (scientific) model. Unlike what the movie critic Borelli alleged, it was not evangelistic and judgmental. It compared randomness with an evolved alien model which surely was not determined by God. His was a specious argument. The real question is what this movie has to do with alien disclosure. It is telling us that no matter what happens to the cosmos, these intelligent Watcher gods have our best interests in mind and will save humanity for a new future.

These aliens Watcher gods are really fallen angels and roam around like Satan who is a roaring lion seeking someone to devourer.

Sure, the universe was not random to the writers of the movie Knowing but it was rather determined but it was determined by alien demonic beings.

The only alien disclosure that this movie alluded to is to the reality of an alien gospel which will lead you straight to hell. As I have stated many times before, UFOlogist Trevor James Constable had it right when he wrote that “the battle with UFOs is not for the planet of man but for the soul of man.”