I've watched this movie starring Dennis Quaid a few times before and I must admit what first drew me to the film was seeing my old hometown New York City (its always like a main character in any film that uses it as its backdrop). With its spectacular visual effects its definitely the type of movie for the big screen. Just imagine NYC under so much water and then, snow so high and iced over that you can walk on top of it, The Statue of Liberty covered up to her eyeballs. So my initial attraction was visual but upon my most recent viewing I found a few lessons of the spiritual kind sort of buried underneath no pun intended.
Consider this: what may actually be happening to the world and its climate may not global warming but global warning what the Lord describes in Romans 8:22 as a moaning and groaning of the whole creation. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans%208:22&version=9
It never ceases to amaze me how God can provide a lesson in whatever way He chooses however He chooses. This movie about the effects of global warming on the environment tells a story that has the world moving back to the so called ice age. What also struck me was a scene that I think all active and up and coming evangelizers can certainly relate to. We see throughout the movie several different changes in the climate throughout the world and as mentioned before we come to a climax of sorts where the film’s second hero Sam leads his friends to higher ground and they wind up in the Public Library on 42nd street. (an aside when Sam told his parents where he was at he only said the public Library now that might work in a small town but there are way too many libraries in New York, just an observation :)).
Anyway Sam and his friends are in the library with many others who have just escaped a massive tide that came in and drowned millions of people. He talks to his mom and dad on the phone and his father as we are told at the beginning of the movie is a climatologist. His dad tells him to stay put, stay inside because this unusual storm is about to get even more unusual. Temperatures will drop drastically and all those who are outside will freeze to death. At this time we see a vagabond and his dog, who are also among the library survivors, who decides to take his dog outside to relieve himself and he sees a group of people crossing the ice packed-snow which was water only a few hours ago. So he rushes back inside to announce his sighting to a police officer and the group. The officer then tells everyone that they should follow suit because shortly they will be out of water and food and eventually starve and or be covered by snow. Okay this is where the correlation begins....Sam says to his friends this is a big mistake "We shouldn't go" and one friend responds "why not Sam everyone is leaving" then Sam responds "When I talked to my dad he said we should stay inside the storm will kill anyone that goes outside " and his other friend says "You have to say something" and Sam says "I know". Sam then proceeds to talk to the officer and also to the crowd at large and tells them if they go outside they will die and one observer asks him what makes you so sure and he says my father told me then he gives his father’s credentials but the cop is not going for it and he convinces most of the crowd to follow him.
That’s us guys we have to speak up even if we look foolish even if only a few will listen, we have to warn others of the dangers and perils that lie ahead outside the will of God that the wages of sin is death and if they do not heed to the word of God they will surely die and we like Sam, even better than Sam, have the credentials of our Father, God Almighty who has given his word to us as evidence.
We see later in the film that all the people that Sam tried to warn but did not take heed did indeed die, did indeed freeze to death, and so shall it be for those who do not listen to our urgent pleadings and warnings. So let's at the very least warn them about this day for we don't know what tomorrow holds.
God Bless You
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