Zombie horror is in a way revealing what we truly are – the walking dead. Unable to see, hear, or think properly. Mindlessly shambling through the world consuming everything upon our lust. But like the horror genre in general, it presents a world of fantastic events without the presence and power of God.
Zombie horror has a false gospel embedded in its core. In zombie films, people begin alive and when they are infected by a zombie bite they turn into a zombie. And once they die there is no hope. They will become a walker/zombie/undead thing no matter what and there is no curing them once bitten. So in zombie horror we begin originally alive and good and then become dead and evil.
This is all law without grace. In some zombie stories like The Walking Dead for example, victims can stave off the infection if they amputate a bitten limb quickly enough. Does this not remind you of Jesus’ words in Matthew 5?
“And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell…”
But the Bible says the opposite, that we all begin spiritually dead, and by grace some of us are regenerated into eternal life.
Here lies the paradox: all that seek God shall find him when they turn to him with their whole heart (Jeremiah 29:13, Matthew 7:7-8). And yet…none seek after God. (Rom 3:11, Ps 14:2-3).
So how does anyone find that which no one ever seeks?
The Lord asks Ezekiel: Can these bones live?
Can these bones live? Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Romans 10:17)…
Look at what God shows us in Ezekiel 37. In verse 4 he commands Ezekiel to prophesy (which is to say, preach) to the dry bones.
“Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.” (Ezek 37:5-6)
Hallelujah, what a Savior!
The whole world lies in wickedness, and yet these sleepwalking corpses can live and breathe and sing praises to Lord and inquire in his temple forever.
"For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.”
-1st Corinthians 1:-21
Can these bones live?
O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
Selah.
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