The Hunger Games is a 2008 young adult dystopian novel written by Suzanne Collins. The book is the first of a trilogy, the others being Catching Fire (2009) and Mockingjay (2010). The books became best-sellers and spawned The Hunger Games movie franchise. This essay will only focus on the story and character development in the series’ first book.
The story takes place in the fictional dystopian North American country of Panem. What used to be the United States, consisting of 50 states, is now 13 districts, each in a state of poverty. The plot revolves around a yearly televised battle royale called the Hunger Games in which each of the 13 districts randomly selects one boy and one girl ranging from ages 12 to 18 to fight to the death. The story is told through the novel’s main character, Katniss Evergreen, an 18-year-old young woman who volunteered to participate after her younger sister was randomly selected for the games.
The Hunger Games is not going to be a book that leads you to Christ. There is no mention of God, Jesus Christ, or religion. This should be no shock, as The Hunger Games was written for a teenage audience with more action than a thought-provoking philosophy. With this in mind, one should not go into the novel thinking they will get big-brained material that they would find in other dystopian novels such as A Handmaid’s Tale or Brave New World. But as a young adult fiction novel, the book is well-written and solid page-turning entertainment that paces itself very well and does not have a dull moment. There is no LGBT butt-stuff being promoted. There are no overtly subversive elements or a pushing of sexual perversion. The main character is not an obnoxious femoid. The plot is simple to follow, and the action and survival sequences are gripping. Because it is a young adult novel, I doubt The Hunger Games will end up on the same level as other dystopian literature with heavier themes and deeper vibes. But as a young adult novel, it will wind up being in the same league as classics such as The Maze Runner where action and passion take precedence over brains and soul-searching. Despite this, there are many themes and character studies to ponder from The Hunger Games, especially for those who study scripture.
It is tough to find what Suzanne Collins’ beliefs are when it comes to Jesus Christ. According to a lost Washington Times article, Collins is Roman Catholic. Besides that, Collins is a complete mystery regarding her actual faith. Born on August 10, 1962, Collins was born into a military family, with her father being a U.S. Air Force Officer. After a decade in academia, collecting a cache of theater and writing degrees, she began her career as a writer for children’s television shows. Some shows she worked on include golden age Nickelodeon shows Clarissa Explains it All, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, and Little Bear. This would explain the writing style of The Hunger Games, as the novel feels very much like a Nickelodeon show in the 90s with a brave female protagonist, midwit male protagonist, and some cringy teen romance drama in between.
According to Collins, her inspiration for The Hunger Games is the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. As punishment for displeasing King Minos of Crete, the Greek legend tells that Athens had to send seven young men and women each year to be thrown in the maze-like labyrinth to be devoured by the Minotaur. The cycle did not stop until Theseus, son of Aegeus, decided to participate and try and slay the beast.
While I do not doubt that the pagan myth may have inspired Collins, critics speculate it is more likely that the 1999 Japanese dystopian novel Battle Royale inspired her book. Written by Koushun Takami, Battle Royale tells the story of a high school class who are forced to fight each other to the death in a military program run by a fascist government. Like The Hunger Games, Battle Royale became a popular media sensation, spawning a manga series and movie. But unlike The Hunger Games, Battle Royale is much more gritty and much more brutal, with the contestants being high school students in the same class, making the slaughter and games much more personal with the methods of survival being much darker with characters using any methods to survive, including using their sexuality.
Born on January 10, 1969, Koshun Takami was a journalist for the news company Shikoku Shimbun, reporting on various topics, including politics and economics. He left the news company after Battle Royale was published in 1999 and has not released new work since. There is no evidence or source on his opinion of Jesus Christ. It seems as if Takami disappeared into the aether after Battle Royale became a controversial hit in his native Japan, where he received much harassment and backlash from the Japanese government. The Battle Royale movie, released in 2000, also became an infamous hit and gained a cult following in large part due to the graphic nature of the film. Notorious smut peddler Quentin Tarintino even calls it his favorite film of the 90s, and you know, if Tarintino likes your movie, it probably has no substance in the film whatsoever.
(1) Battle Royale Official Blu-Ray Trailer – Cult Classic Movie (2000) – YouTube
The structure of Battle Royale is unique in that, unlike The Hunger Games, each of its forty characters gets development to breathe life into its narrative. But Battle Royale also suffers from gratuitous violence that ranges from demented to absurd. The Hunger Games is about survival in a young adult novel written for the polite masses with a plucky female protagonist and a simp willing to sacrifice life and limb (literally) for her. Battle Royale was written for the unclean masses. A piece of media just to shock your system with the violence, sex, perversion, and filth overshadowing the more prominent themes. The Hunger Games movie franchise was made for a mass audience, while the Battle Royale franchise was made just to appease freaks looking to watch shock material. One is all about the action and heroics, and the other is about the dread and horror of the game.
There are big differences, however. The game in Battle Royale is a military experiment to control juvenile delinquency while The Hunger Games is a hybrid of punishment and pageant. The participants in Battle Royale are all 9th grade students with all but one character having no experience in fighting while some districts in the Hunger Games have “Careers”. Young teenage children who have trained specifically for the games to take the place of others to win and gain fame and money.
One can point out that The Hunger Games is nothing more than a Nickelodeon version of Battle Royale, having been very popular among otakus in the very early 00s. But the concept of the “deadly game” and survival trope has been around for a very long time. For every Swiss Family Robinson (1812) there is Lord of the Flies (1954). Battle Royale itself can be looked at as a derivative of such works as The Most Dangerous Game or Stephan King’s The Long Walk. There are also plenty of movies that have the deadly game trope way before the advent of The Hunger Games franchise. Some examples are the 1987 Arnold Swatchnegger movie The Running Man and Rollerball. Horror also has the deadly game trope that includes the cult movie The Cube and in more modern times, the Saw franchise. Still, The Hunger Games, Battle Royale, and The Long Walk are unique in that the novel was written for high-school-aged kids in the liminal space between childhood reaching young adulthood. A space where they are on the edge of the protective bubble they have been around and about to enter harsh reality. Collin’s and Takami’s audiences are on the proverbial edge of the game called life and about to step off into the real world where life is not Harry Potter, Star Wars, or Marvel movies.
The novel’s dystopian setting takes place in the totalitarian dictatorship of Panem. Taking place in most of North America, Much of Panem is modeled after ancient Rome. Each of the 13 districts in Panem has to answer to the Capitol that controls them all and each district is expected to provide a significant amount of resources in exchange for protection provided by the Capitol’s army. Or in layman’s terms; Panem are gangsters extorting the district’s resources. This is much like how Rome bullied Israel and other vassal states to pony up shekels or face the wrath of a Roman Legion armed with gladiuses and wooden crosses.
Before the events of the novel, there was a failed civil war that broke out. The result was a treaty, enforcing harsh peace in the defeated districts that included public executions, severe restrictions on civil rights, and mass surveillance. This included a travel ban to other districts and communication between the states was strictly forbidden. Most of the districts in Panem are extremely impoverished, with starvation quite common. Most of the beginning of the book and various flashbacks take place in District 12, the poorest and smallest of the districts. Located in Appalachia, it is home to the major characters in the novel including Katniss and the lead male character, Peeta. Food is extremely difficult to come by with many dying of starvation regularly. The district’s major economic industry is coal mining, with many of them regularly dying from accidents.
As punishment and a reminder to never make another attempt to rebel, Paneem established the Hunger Games. A brutal competition in which each district selects one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 by lottery (called tributes) to compete in an arena battle royale and fight to the death until one remains. The games are televised to a national audience. The last tribute is declared the winner and receives gifts and gets to live out their life in luxury. The winning district receives parcels of food from the Capitol for a year. The reason the Hunger Games was created by the Capitol was as punishment for the District’s rebellion. The games were designed to be so brutal that the Districts would never forget their sins against the Capitol.
Not much can be said about the Capitol when compared to other governments in other dystopian literature. However, there are some interesting things and quirks that Collins put in that should be of note. The Capitol is located in present-day North America in the western mountainous region, boarded by the Rockies and close to a neighboring body of water, which some suggest that it is close, or set in, Salt Lake City, Utah. This location has significance to contemporary Christianity, as Salt Lake City is the “Mecca” of the Mormon faith.
The society and culture of the Capitol are marked by abundance and luxury to an almost comical and absurd level. Food is plentiful, with automatic food dispensers all around the Capitol that bring out exotic food with different tastes. Food is so plentiful that many citizens drink an elixir that causes them to vomit, to make room for more food. This is in stark contrast to the rest of the districts that suffer from starvation. The Capitol is filled with the most vain people who only care about fashion and the latest pop culture fad. The citizens disfigure their bodies by dying their skin, getting gross tattoos all over their bodies, and piercing their skin with ornaments and jewelry. Plastic surgery is also very common along with wigs. The people of the Capitol enjoy drama and bloodshed, with many taking part in the games by gambling, sponsoring, or spectating.
In layman’s terms: The Capitol in Hunger Games is basically present-day Los Angeles, or your typical gentrified western city with debased and narcissistic human resources. The Hunger Games does not feature the Internet or any World Wide Web of any kind. But thanks to social media and the filthy mainstream media, we are living in a society that is even worse than the Hunger Games with vanity, pride, and hedonism running rampant in many.
From a Christian perspective, the first comparison you could make to the Hunger Games is the Ancient Roman Colosseum. Completed in 80 AD under Titus, the Colosseum was a “gift” for the Roman people and used for often brutal gladiatorial games that went to the death. They were also used for public executions, especially those who followed Jesus Christ. Much stories, lore and legends have been told of persecuted followers of the Way being killed in front of a blood-thirsty Roman crowd in the Colosseum. In a way, the Hunger Games is a “gift” by Panam to the citizens of the Capitol. Like the fruity Romans had their bread, they also must have a circus to go with it. Something that could distract the masses from the moral and civil corruption while also boosting economic activity, hence, let’s give them a massive stadium full of entertainment. Likewise, Panam gave their fruity citizens of the Capitol the circus known as the Hunger Games to go along with their delicacies. At the beginning of the novel, the games were uninterrupted for 74 years before the start of the 2nd rebellion in the other novels.
Now, one would wonder why the districts would not rise up to stop the Hunger Games, considering it is child sacrifice. After all, 74 years while vapor to God, is a long time to man. So why would the districts tolerate such an event? The way societies tolerate such degeneracy should not be a shock or surprise. After all, it only took a handful of decades for the Western World to go from 1950s wholesomeness to glorifying buggery, promoting sex-change operations as holy, porn is good for your brain, getting 6 figures into debt for a piece of paper is the most reasonable thing you can do, divorcing your husband for no reason and taking half of everything he worked for is the greatest act of love you can do and preaching that what is evil is good and what is good is evil.
Something can be said about humiliation, especially on a national level. Humiliation and losing a war have interesting effects on the psyche of tribes and nations. The districts of Panam got their butts kicked by the Capitol, a humiliation that psychologically damaged them into becoming like dogs. Those who win wars also control the narrative and get the glory compared to those who don’t win wars who end up collared and barking like dogs for their masters. It took one world war for France to have the reputation of being a nation full of warriors, to a stereotype that France surrenders every chance they get. It took two atomic bombs to turn Japan from a proud nation with a warrior code of honor to a capitalist dystopian nightmare where the birth rate is plummeting, but the 2-D kawaii waifus is increasing.
There is also something that can be said at the power of the media and who controls the narrative. When radio, TV, movies, magazines, celebrities, politicians, websites, e-celebs, and false prophets constantly promote lies and shape the culture to hate God and love themselves, that too has an effect on the national psyche.
Now, one can blame an evil government along with mainstream media who shape the culture to accept something barbaric as the Hunger Games. And yes, these systems and organizations will be held accountable. But what can be said about the citizens of the districts who not only accept the “new normal” of the games but actually believe it to be a good thing? What can be said about the districts that not only accept the games but embrace them as a method to gain glory or boost that economic system? It’s like Western so-called Christians rolling over for secular culture by not only accepting gay marriage as a good thing but believing in their hearts that it is holy and embracing it completely. After all, it’s the “new normal,” and you are a bigot if you disagree with the culture. In the name of not being humiliated and shunned by culture, so-called Christians accept the degenerate norm pushed by wicked and adulterous controllers of culture.
As Judges points out, it’s a society that is in sin. When society shuns God, and does what is right in their own eyes, He gives them over to their enemies and in turn, their enemies humiliate them. Your enemies end up forcing you to get shots you don’t want, eat bugs you don’t want to eat, suffer through ads telling you to buy pills to cure diseases you don’t have, and watch shows promoting sexual depravity. You end up getting on your knees and become like a dog. Often God needs to call upon the strong man, often a prophet or a judge, to call His people into repentance and/or deliver them from the enemies’ hands.
Proverbs 24 tells us not to ignore those who are walking into the slaughter. But what happens to a society that does not heed the words of the Lord and instead close their eyes to the injustice? These things weigh heavy on the heart of the Lord, but what happens when the citizens themselves have no heart? What happens when society, instead of standing up and calling out the World and its sins, sits down, shuts up and becomes an obedient dog for the oppressors? Why suffer humiliation or persecution to call out the sins of the World? The Hunger Games are only once per year, and odds are it could never be your child that is picked. To the demented, the Hunger Games could be a good thing. It’s fun to watch, and stimulates the economy.
The Hunger Games, at the core of it, is child sacrifice. Now, lots can be said about abortion which is the modern-day version of offering your child to Molech. But as followers of Jesus Christ, we have to think deeper and open our eyes to the Western world’s condition and the times we are living in. Whether we like it or not, there is a war on the children and it is a winner-take-all situation. Is there any difference between the districts of the Hunger Games willing to sacrifice their own kids for the games and the way we willingly give up our children to the World? Is there any difference between abortion and willingly giving up your children to be taught in secular schools run by some of the most godless heathens imaginable? We give up our children to mainstream media promoting and glorifying every filthy perversion and sin. We give up our children to social media, training them in the arts of buggery and tranny penis-cutting. We send our children to college and universities where they are taught to hate God. Is there any difference between a Hunger Game or Battle Royale when compared to the minefield kids these days have to endure?
We can blame evil governments and media for the way they attack and try to indoctrinate the young. But really, we should be blaming society itself for turning our backs on God. Instead of fearing God, we fear men. Instead of fearing the Creator, we fear being humiliated by the World. Instead of Jesus Christ being King over the hearts and minds, we instead listen to talking heads, professors, e-celebs, movie stars, so-called “experts” and other people who don’t matter. Just like in Judges, God has handed us to our enemies.
Much of the first part of the book introduces the audience to the main character of the novel; Katniss Everdeen. Katniss is a young woman who is stern, responsible, serious, hardened, intelligent, resourceful, impulsive, motherly, and genuine. She also proves to have sacrificial love as when her little sister was chosen at the reaping to participate in the games, Katniss instinctively offers herself to be in her sister’s place, knowing and expecting to be killed in the games. This is one of the few biblical symbols as many point to Katniss as a Christ figure. But while Katniss putting herself on the sacrificial altar instead of her sister can be a reflection of Christ’s sacrifice for humanity, comparing the two is eye-rolling at best and blasphemy at worst. There is no real comparison when Collins lets the audience know that Katniss’s sister is universally loved in town. It is more compared to Judah offering himself up to a disguised Joseph in exchange for Benjamin’s life. But unlike the feel-good ending of Joseph and Judah’s saga in Genesis, the same cannot be said about Katniss as she and Peeta are swept up and taken to the Capitol where they will briefly train and then participate in the games.
I find District 12 being in Appalachia fascinating considering the actual real-life Appalachia has a history of impoverished conditions. The region is often the butt of jokes by Gaystream Media, even though the conditions and hardship of the region are no laughing matter. And often Appalachia gets little to no federal government help. This is not shocking in the least, as the region has very little economic power, nor is it a powerful voting block to be exploited by wicked and adulterous politicians. It is treated much like Nazareth. After all, what good can come out of it? But God often uses the weakest regions and the least likely of men to shame the prideful. In this way, Katniss is much like Gideon, considered the most renowned of the Judges in the Bible. Gideon’s clan was the weakest in Manasseh, and himself the least in his family’s house. Yet God chose him to lead a rebellion and drive out the Midianites from Israel. Gideon used unusual tactics and trickery ordered by God to defeat his much more formidable foes, just like Katniss uses trickery and ambushes to win the games. Katniss makes fools of the more well-fed competitors and the fruity Capitol.
The Hunger Games: Katniss Explodes the Supply Cache (Jennifer Lawrence Scene)
Katniss is very much just some mountain girl from the Smoky Mountains facing off against degenerate society and its norms. It’s like the Mennonite woman from the countryside who has never seen a furry or a drag queen in her life suddenly plunged into the depths of a western city where evil is good and good is evil. It is very much like the good Christian girl with no student loans, no tattoos, and a virgin is dumped into the middle of the cesspool known as the college, where women can become men and men can become women. Where ENM is normal and being a virgin is evil. Where you can pay the dorm’s rent by twerking your behind on a livestream while studying for a degree in pornography history.
Katniss cannot stand the people of the Capitol or their degenerate way of life. But just like a moth to the flame, Katniss cannot help herself but indulge in the fine food she receives while preparing for the games. Much in the same way the mennonite in the big city can’t help but indulge a little when receiving a blunt or twerking their behind at a rave concert. Collins does not go to these depraved lengths in the novel. After all, food is very different from the vices of pills, booze, blunts, and butt-lifts. Katniss is no Brave New World character John the Savage who is naive about the degenerate norms of the World State, but she knows full well how evil Panam is and their society.
Katniss had a strong father in her life. Throughout the novel, Katniss often thinks of her father and dreams about his death. Katniss’s father taught her to hunt, trap, use a bow, and other survival techniques that she uses throughout the story. I found this portion of the story very refreshing as you rarely see a strong father figure in current mainstream entertainment. Often the father in many media is portrayed as an oof or a simp ready to be verbally abused by a nasty harpie. But since this was written in 2008 before Donald Trump opened that portal to hell and trans-testicles started running the editing departments, Collins got away with it. The Bible often talks about a father’s love and Katniss has been heavily impacted by him and takes his death very hard. Her mother became despondent after his death, and Katniss became the provider of the family.
Due to the death of her father, Katniss’s family is now broken, and must assume the role of provider for the family. Now, modern feminists will prop up Katniss as an icon of the feminist worldview and an example of a powerful female. But this ice-cold take is wrong and most people analyzing Katniss are missing the point. Katniss and her family are poor. They are starving. There is no time for BS, someone has to take charge and they have to eat. Life is difficult and often full of shades of gray and full-blown brokenness. Fathers pass away and make orphans and widows. Dads become injured and often the mother has to work. Parents get injured, and often the kids need to pick up the slack. This is not about a power trip or sticking it to the patriarchy, but survival. Katniss is not out there trying to prove a point, get clout, or have a chip on her shoulder. It is out of survival and the needs of her sister and mother and her own well-being that she needs to provide.
Katniss can be looked at as an anti-feminist. Because unlike the radical feminists of today who are shallow, vain, have enormous amounts of tattoos and piercings, hate men, hate family units, hate children, are well fed, and have too much time on their hands for social media twerking and vanity (much like the women of the Capitol in the novel), Katniss has none of those luxuries. Katniss has no time for BS. She is a woman who lives in reality and has to deal with the real world with big boy, grown-up stuff such as trying to feed her family and survive. She has no time for female power trips, or sticking it to the “patriarchy.” Or any of this trite nonsense pushed by the world. Katniss is not some power-mad Jezebel but just a young woman trying to survive the harsh reality and the bad hand she was dealt in life. Katniss is the girl who is made out of tougher stuff, one that is authentic and real. Katniss does not have the delusions of a HR Harpy and lives in reality. She realizes that she is physically weaker than the grown-ass men she is facing and that if they get a hold of her, she will be torn to pieces. There is no time to be a Captain Marvel or a snarky Karen. It is only to kill or be killed.
What is interesting in the novel is that many male figures help her out. Katniss’s father is obviously one. Gale, a fellow hunter, has a complementarian relationship with Katniss and they help each other out. Peeta helps Katniss out because he genuinely loves her. Haymitch helps her because he is tortured by his past and does not want to see another young person from District 12 get slaughtered. These are not examples of patriarchy or male ego trips. This is not some damsel-in-distress fantasy. These are men who care about Katniss and want to see her survive out of love and respect for her character.
On the flip side, The Hunger Games is not anti-feminist and it’s not trying to argue a complementarian or egalitarian worldview. So-called Christian conservatives can preach about the ideal family unit. There is wisdom in promoting what a Godly household should look like, but there is also a strange obsession by many boomer preachers in going back to the imaginary world of the 1950s where the woman wore an apron and spent 6 days, 6 hours and 6 minutes at home each week. But what many preachers miss is that this “ideal” is next to impossible because the world is broken and many people are just trying to survive. If complementarians and egalitarians keep bickering and fighting for their worldview, both are missing the point that many need to focus on Christ’s kingdom and His righteousness first.
Katniss’s main weapon and skill is in archery and hunting. This is quite fascinating as there are characters in the Bible that also practice with the bow and hunt. The first of these mentioned in scripture is Nimrod. However, Katniss is no world leader and hardly an anti-christ figure like Nimrod is. Ishmael is another character who practiced archery. At the start of the games, Katniss’ first priority was to find water much like Ishmael and Hagar had to find water when they were sent away by Abraham. She nearly died of thirst until she stumbled upon a pond. Much like Hagar almost died until God gave her assurance that Ismael would grow into a great nation, then Hagar saw the well.
One character that did practice both archery and hunting is Easu, the firstborn son by mere seconds of Issac and the twin brother of Jacob, who would later be the father of the 12 tribes of Israel. Esau famously traded his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of soup. He is also an example of someone who is godless to the author of Hebrews. The descendants of Esau, the Edomites, were notorious pagans and did not get along with the Israelites. Now, one might think that Katniss has nothing in common with Esau other than their skills of hunting and archery, and you would be correct. But in some regards, Katniss can be looked at as the anti-Esau, because Katniss knew how to be hungry and knew what to do in a situation that is dire where starvation is on the table. You have to think if this is a clue of why Easu traded in his birthright in the first place. After all, what is an eternal blessing from God when your flesh is demanding subsistence? Could it be that Easu feared being hungry and decided to give the blessing to Jacob just to feed himself carelessly? Did Esau experience famine in his lifetime? What are eternal blessings to an earthly man who only craves earthly things?
Esau was godless because his god was his belly instead of the god of his father and grandfather. But just like how Esau did not know how to be hungry, so too is this wicked and adulterous generation. Most of America and parts of the Western world are obese. As Greg Giraldo points out, it’s an obesity epidemic, like polio. We will be telling our trans grandchildren about the pork chops and cheesecake everywhere. But it is not just bread we do not know how to live without. Many, yes many, cannot go one day without popping pills, drinking booze, indulging in porn, gambling on sports ball, buying electronic junk, buying frivolous trinkets, and indulging in the degeneracy of all types.
Lazyboy – Underwear Goes Inside The Pants
Food and hunger is a common theme in Hunger Games. Starvation is such a problem, especially in District 12, that many, including Katniss, sign up for voluntary food rationing called a Tessera. If a family was struggling for food, and had children between the ages of 12 and 18, they could sign up for Tesserae. For the cost of putting up your child’s name into the reaping of the Hunger Games an additional time, you could get a year’s supply of grain and oil for one person for a year. In a twisted way, this reminds one of the story of Elijah and the widow at Zerephath.
Katniss often lamented the plight of her family and their never-ending quest to stay alive and not die of starvation. Thanks to her skills as a hunter, Katniss provides for her family by trapping and hunting outside the borders of District 12 and scavenging for berries, nuts, and other plants. This is not as festive or wholesome as it sounds; oftentimes she is capturing critters such as rabbits and squirrels, animals that are not kosher but disgusting and the equivalent of eating rodents. But then again, famine has a strange way of morphing the diets of many nations and tribes. Hence, so many cultures have strange delicacies. When you are hungry, you will eat anything. Many of the meat Katniss captures she trades in the black market for other gear and supplies to survive.
Now, famine and hunger are next to impossible for the Western man to comprehend because thanks to supply chains and industrial farming, it is next to impossible for a Western man to starve truly. What is starvation in the United States, or the feeling of starvation, is not really starvation. There are indeed people living in poverty, but thanks to modern social programs, it is next to only possible for someone in the West to truly starve if they put serious effort into it. This is one of the modern blessings of the 21st century but not so in Biblical times, when famine was common.
The physical causes of famine in Biblical times varied. But the Bible indicates that God is in control, even in times of scarcity. And God often used famine as a tool of judgment or a call for men to repent and turn to him. Famine is what caused Abraham to move to Egypt for a time. Abraham’s great-grandson, Joseph, administered through a severe famine in Egypt. Moses spoke of blessings and curses depending on whether Israel obeyed or disobeyed the Lord. This included bringing famine to the land.
Real hunger is a powerful and painful feeling. It is visceral in the human experience. Adam ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil because it looked good to eat. And because Adam ate the fruit, sin was brought into the world, and the Earth has been cursed ever since. Indeed, many wars and calamities have happened in human history because of starvation and the desire for resources such as arable land to grow crops and raise cattle. Hunger has a way of cutting all the BS of your life and focusing on what matters. A man can have 99 problems in his life, including that one special problem, but that pales in comparison to the feeling you get when you starve. Relationship issues, problems with parents, work issues, car trouble, your sportsball team losing, and other white people problems are no match for when you truly feel hungry or thirsty for something to drink. Fortunately, (or unfortunately), in the United States, it is easy to satisfy just the faintest of hunger pains by going to the nearest gas station and purchasing a Snickers bar and Mountain Dew compared to the Israelites wandering the desert on their way to Cannan where they had to survive on the manna God gave them from heaven.
Panam controlled the citizens by controlling the food supply. This is not unprecedented in world history, as many governments have ruled by controlling the food and the supply chain. Joseph Stalin’s rule over Ukraine and its food supply killed roughly 3.9 million people, commonly known as the Holodomor. Mao Zedong’s policies over China’s food killed nearly 30 million people. The Great Potato Famine of Ireland would not have been severe if not for the policymakers in the country exporting food out of the country, causing mass death and immigration to America.
Now, those who study scripture know that God is the ultimate authority when bringing famines and uses them in many ways to further His will. Sometimes God used famine to motivate people to change their lives or move, as happened with Abraham, Issac and Jacob. Sometimes God used famine to address an injustice and to seek a resolution, such as when David avenged the Gibeonites. But what about government-caused famines? What does that say about King Ahab and his reign when, during the famine in his time, he doubles down and continues his rebellion instead of getting rid of the Baal worship. Could the policies Ahab (and Jezebel) enforced in his reign contribute to the drought and famine in his time? Ahab was a weak man-baby ruled by women. I guess there is nothing new under the sun.
For a normie midwit, It’s hard to imagine in the 2020s a government like Panem that ultimately controls the food. But is it more that the United States is more like the Capitol where every good American is stuffing their mouths with Wendy’s and KFC while the 3rd world is more like the districts, slaving away to make sure our iPhones, Nikes, and Gucci Bags are $6.66 cheaper? Maybe we are the bad guys? Then again, this is a common stereotype for anyone outside the boundaries of the United States to envision the average American. But the truth is that many Americans are themselves, victims of awful policies, demented corporations, and demonic scientists with bad intentions with their studies. The food supply issue is vast and complex, too big for one article to cover. But every year, the food gets more expensive, unhealthier, and the quality is nose-diving. Beef and fresh orange juice are becoming more costly while Doritos and Pabst Blue Ribbon are getting cheaper. Farmers are continually harassed by government policies created by mentally ill femoids who have no idea how to grow basil, let alone make policies regarding farming. Even worse, farms are getting bought out by mega corporations or ghoulish creeps such as Bill Gates. Henry Kissinger said best: “Who controls the food supply controls the people.”
In the Old Covenant, God controlled what Israel ate and drank with the Kosher laws. This was to make Israel unique among the nations and to promote health and general well-being. To an equal extent, prevent pagan worship regarding pork (Pigs were the most common meat sacrificed in pagan rituals). Now, according to the New Covenant, we are free to eat whatever we want so the Gentiles can enjoy their ham sandwich. But still, even if the kosher laws are archaic to a gentile audience, there is wisdom to watching what you eat. Does God really want humanity to lower themselves by eating rodents such as squirrels or consuming flies and fleas like some uncultured Philistine? Why do so many corporations, governments, and sodimite media personalities push us to eat bug meat? Why does Burger King push us to eat the bugs? Why does KFC want us to eat the bugs? It’s almost like a humiliation ritual among Satan and his demons. There is a war regarding nutrition and what people put in their bodies. Instead of beef, which is nutritionally dense, why not push people to eat the bugs? Instead of drinking raw milk, they make the unclean masses drink soylent, which has so much estrogen that a man can grow voluptuous DDs man-breasts. The result is a docile and feminine people. We went from a nation of square-jawed, healthy men who ate steak rare to a country of soy-boys, crying about Star Wars while eating takis. We went from a nation that ate protein to become men to Twinkies to become Twinks. We went from Burger King, to Bugger King in more ways than one.
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Collin’s father fought in Vietnam and many times as a kid she would turn on the TV to see footage of the warzone, which became another inspiration to write the novel. Vietnam is unique in that it was the first war that was regularly broadcast through Satan’s magic stupid box known as the television. It’s one thing to create comic books, movies, books, radio programs, and songs talking about the glory of war and victory, but it is another to broadcast what war actually looks like, especially when the 20th century warfare technology is insanely brutal compared to warfare of antiquity. And largely because of the media’s portrayal of Vietnam, the war became polarizing and unpopular the more it dragged on and the more bloodshed was shown. One might think that mainstream media were showing the horrors of war because of an anti-war stance or were doing it for a moral purpose. But then again, we cannot give mainstream media that much clout, after all, it’s all about the ratings. After all, it’s all up to the show-runners and who controls behind the camera’s lens what is good and what is evil. The show-runners build the narrative of who the “good guys and bad guys” are depending on what agendas are at play. The mainstream news does not live on the news alone but the drama they craft around it. Fox News will promote the Iraq war and our quest to bring the wonders of democracy (aka demon-acracy) to the Middle East in contrast to CNN, who condemns the Iraq War in one breath while bashing Christians and promoting homo-mania, abortion, and debased Kardashian nonsense every chance they get. Sports are not about the sports anymore but the drama. Hence, all the low IQ sports talk shows with low IQ hosts talking about trite low IQ sports, trying to anger and provoke normie America. The one thing all these media companies have in common is the quest for the eyeballs so they can get the advertiser’s dollar. The gods that Mainstream media bows down to are big pharma, Coke, and Ford.
The Hunger Games themselves have show-runners, also known as Gamemakers, to coordinate the games and make sure the bloodbath is as entertaining as possible. This makes the hunger games like reality TV in a way. Reality TV, is in fact, not really based on reality at all and is more akin to professional wrestling than anything legitimate. The participants are usually middle-of-the-curve dups who are hungry for fame. But in the end, it is the showrunner, the gamemaker, who decides the narrative and who controls the agenda.
Reality TV has a long and storied history in television with one of the first success stories being Survivor. Then there are the reality competitions such as American Idol, where men and women sing in front of three judges and a crowd with the winner of the competition getting a music record deal. The selling point of many of these shows is that they are “real” and legit. But the first rule of television is never to put something in front of a camera that you do not control or at least control the narrative. Survivor and American Idol might seem like reality but are all tightly controlled by directors with planned good guys and planned bad guys like Simon Cowell. In this way, most reality TV is like professional wrestling where the outcome is predetermined or tightly controlled by higher-ups who have the power to edit footage and craft their own story and narrative.
As TV is luckily dying a slow and miserable death, the internet age has given rise to a new breed of reality TV. An audience’s hunger for more legit drama has given rise to the streamers, broadcasting every part of their life for better or worse. Reality TV is no longer good enough for the average American’s media diet as many are waking up to the fact that most reality TV is boorish, fake dribble. Americans want less controlled TV programming, and more “reality.” They want the drama and watch the carnage from the safety of their laptops and smartphones.
We have to ask ourselves what draws us into these reality programs in the first place. But just like the rise of parasocial activity, we all desire to be a part of the show, to feel like we are in it, or at least envision ourselves in the show. It is part voyeur, part spectacle. It’s like the Kramer, it’s a foul, lonesome, offensive program, but we cannot look away. It’s like a little kid sneaking behind the corner and listening to the drama unfold as his brother gets a tongue-lashing by his parents. It’s like a more screwed-up version of Stand by Me where a group of kids go on an adventure to see a dead body. It’s the excitement of watching something you are not supposed to watch, something forbidden and something dangerous.
Another reason could be our obsession with violence and watching violent acts. We are a society that has been marinated by violence with increasingly violent video games, movies, TV shows, and music. And it seems like the thirst for real violence never ceases. This is what made truly vile sites like Liveleak became popular because it is both the thrill of watching something forbidden and also a cathartic bliss for those who crave to see violent acts on one another
Often things that are most real can range from the absurd to demented, to hilariously comical. With the rise of payment processors like Superchats, we too can be a part of the show. This is what made Jason Goldstriker’s Fish Tank so compelling. It is the perfect example of a neo-reality show. Gather a bunch of misfits, the mentally ill, and the attention whores into one house and let the chaos insure. With many of the audience donating superchats to harass the competitors, or give them gifts, or allow them permission to use the restroom. Thanks to the internet, we can be a part of the show, or debate. With a couple of clicks of the button, we can harass or support the streamer we love to watch or love to hate. We went from My Strange Addiction and Hoarders to truly vile internet content like IP2 with degeneracy and drug use in full swing. It’s no longer about the illusion of chaos. Showrunners now just flat-out harness chaos itself. Or they just let chaos run wild and free.
Sam Hyde’s Psychotic Reality Show | Fishtank S1
But then again, what does this say about the streamers who often have to debase themselves to get the Beezel-bucks? What does this say about the Ice Posidians, Destinys, and Baked Alaskas of the world who willingly stream themselves doing embarrassing stunts to make money? What does this say about the Internet Bloodsports crowd that has to participate in the spectacle just to get clout and end up demeaning or making themselves look like an ass? Prostitution used to be a private business, one that was dirty and low-key. But thanks to Onlyfans, Twitch, and Patreon, every female has the opportunity to shake their booty on camera just to get some of that cheddar and the world calls it very good. We went from Rahab hanging the red cord out of Jericho to the western woman plugging in the red cord in their smartphones to debase themselves online for $6.66 an hour.
The Hunger Games itself is a reality show that is a mixture of military war games, pageant, game show competition, and parasocial streaming event. It’s like American Gladiators only with the Gladiators actually fighting to death instead of hitting each other with pillows. And much like the modern-day streaming sites, the viewers at home could support the competitors by sponsorships which allowed the mentors to send useful tools to tributes. These gifts were sent with donations from sponsors which included rich citizens, family, and friends of the tribute’s district. So like with many streamers of the Twitch era, Katniss has to rely on donors and sponsorships to survive the games.
Now, many critics will point out that the sponsorship angle Collins wrote in the story is nothing more than a deus ex machina gone haywire. But this can be forgiven if one looks at it from the angle of mainstream media, social media, streaming sites, and the thirst for the advertiser’s and donors’ dollar bills. Everyone who is red-pilled will know that advertisers control the world and Gaystream media’s lifeblood depends on the advertisers. It is the same thing with Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Google, and other technology and social media companies. This is why so many good solid content creators of the Lord have been shadow-banned or exiled to broken websites like Gab, because many in the mainstream cannot afford to have so-called offensive material online aka calling out the world’s sins.
This is where the mentor of Peetra and Katniss, a drunkard by the name of Haymitch, comes into play. With the help of Peetra, Haymitch concocts this narrative that both Peetra and Katniss are “star-crossed lovers’ ‘ in order to get sponsors. Peetra does have legitimate feelings for Katniss and revolves many of his actions around keeping her alive. This is in contrast to Katniss, who does not know what to think about this plot and is stuck in the whirlwind of the games. Throughout the novel, Katniss struggles with being authentic and calling out the BS that is the games. In a pre-game interview, Katniss struggles with the questions and ends up giving BS answers. In a sense, Katniss is a real person stuck in an unreal situation with gamemakers and showrunners deciding the narrative of the games. The showrunners of the game just want a violent show and further push the agenda of punishment and pageant, while Katniss just wants to survive but also not submit or sell her dignity to the fruity government of Panem.
The Hunger Games (6/12) Movie CLIP – Star-Crossed Lovers (2012) HD
Katniss does her best to fight in the games on her own terms. She only kills two people in the entire novel, one by self-defense, and the other a mercy killing, never engaging in the bloodbath for bloodbath’s sake. When Rue, a 12-year-old female tribute that Katniss befriended, gets murdered in the games, Katniss covers her body with brightly colored flowers and gives her a farewell salute to show the Capitol that Rue was more than just a tribute for their games. Still, Katniss has to play “fake it until you make it” at times to get much-needed supplies from sponsors.
Rue’s Death and District 11 Uprising | The Hunger Games
Katniss wants to be authentic and call out the BS of the government but cannot due to fears from her teammates about what the government might do to them. In the same way, the visible church has an authenticity crisis because so many preachers fear the world and what the world might do to them if preachers call out the world and their sins. It is no laughing matter when hard preachers get censored off the internet, or lose their bank account over preaching the truth. No one wants to lose a job or have their life ruined by vile, hate-filled creeps that run the Gay Disco World Order when it is just easier not to preach anything that might offend someone. But this is why Jesus Christ warned us that there is a cost to following Him that could include your comfortable life. If we cannot bear the trite persecution, what will happen when it’s a matter of life and death?
In some ways, Katniss is like David being hunted by Saul. Due to Saul’s jealousy over David’s successes in battle, Saul goes insane and tries to kill David. The matter spiraled into one of life and death, and David flees from Saul which starts a cat-and-mouse between the two. David, while he is exiled and hunted, is put to the test physically and spiritually. This is in many ways, reflective of Katniss’s journey to survive the games while also being authentic and true to herself.
The Careers are very much like Saul as their hunt for Katniss is out of jealousy. In one of the earlier chapters, while the contestants are being ranked and judged by Capitol authorities, Katniss angrily shoots an arrow through an apple one of the judges was holding due to her frustration with being ignored while trying to get much-needed sponsorships. Due to her impressive skills in archery, she was given the highest ranking before the games, winning her a chance at sponsorships. This, in turn, angered the Careers who trained their entire life for the games and were upstaged by a lowly mountain girl. One would think that the fruity capitol gave Katniss the grade out of spite, knowing she would be primarily hunted. Or maybe it’s like the classic media technique of building a starlet up only to sacrifice her with scandal and watch her fall. After all, who doesn’t enjoy watching the Britney Spears of the world being sacrificed on the altar of TMZ? Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.
The Hunger Games (4/12) Movie CLIP – Shooting the Apple (2012) HD
Katniss and David both had to make grave choices. Would David kill Saul and would Katniss kill Peeta? The world would tell David to kill Saul, but David refused. David would not kill God’s anointed and would not lower himself to the level of a heathen warlord attacking the king he serves. In a way, David was rebelling against the way the World would handle his problems. But David feared God first and had too much respect for the position of Saul as God’s anointed not to strike him down. Katniss, on the other hand, was sticking it to the Capitol and refused to kill Peeta when Peeta nearly died protecting her and especially after the Capitol double-crossed both of them, revoking a new rule allowing the tributes from the same district to win as a pair. The end of the games has both Katniss and Peeta attempting a suicide pact, forcing the gamemakers to declare both of them the winners. This is an allusion to Samson killing himself to kill the Philistines. Samson was sticking it to the Philistines who paraded him around after gouging his eyes out, so too was Katniss sticking it to the fruity Capitol. She refused to play by the Capitol’s rules. At this point in the story, Katniss starts to develop respect and feelings for Peeta and Peeta himself flat out refuses to kill Katniss. So what is the out in this situation? Now whether it is the right thing to do from Katniss and Peeta’s point of view is up to debate. But because Katniss refused to play by the narrative or bow before the Gamemakers, the government sees this as an act of rebellion and Katniss unwillingly starts a revolution that continues on in the next two books.
The Hunger Games (12/12) Movie CLIP – Rule Change (2012) HD
Of course, one can see a little bit of Jesus Christ in this narrative. Christ refused to play by the Pharasies’s rules nor was he going to bow down to the gamemaker of this world. Jesus wasn’t going to do a dog and pony show before Herod, or entertain Sadgasiees. He wasn’t going to play by the rules of the world, but do the will of God. And yes, even if it meant He would die on the cross. Jesus Christ proved His way was the only way because the Heavenly Father raised Him from the dead on the third day. Now because of these things, the prince of this world was cast out, and all authority in Heaven and on Earth has been given to Christ.
From an outside perspective, it is mind-boggling how some Jewish preacher from the middle of nowhere who only did ministry for three and a half years then died a brutal death became the center of all human history and ignited a wildfire that spread throughout the world. Now Katniss is no Christ. But in the story, some country bumpkin mountain girl from Appalachia who said no to the fruity government of Panam and her simple act of refusing to kill someone she respects ignited the other districts to stand up to the Capitol.
So, what do we make of all this? The fact is that so-called Christians in the Western world are in huge trouble. If we cannot get our flesh under control, if we do not know how to “starve,” how the hell can we stand when the real challenges and real persecution arrive and it is a matter of life and death? The fact is that we have an entire multi-generational group of believers who have never starved one day in their life. We consume pornography like it is water. We consume every social media lie from talking heads and celebrities. We cannot capture every thought and instead make our minds wander and believe every lie godless heathens tell us. Is it any wonder when the hunger games of our lives comes, many fall spectacularly?
I guess as followers of The Way, we need to learn how to starve. Maybe as followers of Christ, we need to learn how to fast, maybe skip a meal, put down the Michelob Ultra and hotdog. Maybe we need to get out of the drive-through line and let the ushers guide you to your church’s parking lot. Instead of Little Debbie Zebra Cakes and Monster Ultra Zero, we need communion crackers and grape juice. We need to be more grateful for the food we have. We need to learn more self-control and to discipline our bodies. There is a reason why Jesus Christ fasted for 40 days and nights. Even the Son of God needed to train his body. As it is written; Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.
But this is easier preached than done because it takes enormous risks and discipline to address all these issues. And everyone will face persecution and trials differently. I think what is important as the tribulation approaches, that the church addresses these issues. If Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, and other ungodly world leaders in history can control the food supply and wreak havoc on their populations, what makes us think that the Western governments, who would make the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah blush, wouldn’t do the same? What is going to happen when you need to stamp a special number on the back of your hand or on your head just to get some food stamps? What is going to happen when you are required to bow down to the gay idols of the 21st century just to get a bag of Cheetos? Of course, this is facetious. But what we should open our eyes to is that so many things control us and we are enslaved to modern technology, and mass production of consumer goods like food. Our idol worship makes us very vulnerable to the enemies of God, who would love nothing more than to toss us in a ring and watch us kill each other or turn us into obedient dogs.
Society is dark and cruel, and it feels like every year we are inching toward the actual Hunger Games. Society already hates children and is constantly trying to subvert and pervert the young and the adults are becoming more infantile and complacent. But even darker than that, we live in a wicked and adulterous age where people have no self-control. Could Collins and Takami have foreseen some type of future where an event like the Hunger Games would be accepted? Or is it a metaphor for the trials and tribulations that children have to go through before becoming men and women? That children must play the hand that life dealt them, for better or worse, regardless is the outcome is fair or just. And even beyond childhood, how will a grown man or woman play the cards of life they were dealt? Will they bicker and moan, will they become bitter? Or will they play them regardless?
Many willingly participate and allow the modern-day hunger games to happen because they simply do not care and are without a soul. Indoctrination is powerful. What happens to a society that tells them they are worthless and weak? Just like Adam in the Garden, humanity will believe the lie instead of the truth as said by God. It is the same with individualism. Instead of recognizing that the system is rigged and broken, parents will be hellbent on making sure their kids get worthless degrees and be a part of the system instead of redpilling them about the truth. Preparing children for the world outside is a good thing because the world is evil and full of danger. But if you are not training your children in the ways of the Lord and giving them the truth and instead feeding them BS all because you do not want to be embarrassed, then you are in sin and preparing to set your children up for major failure. The Careers did not know how to be hungry or prepare them for judgment. They were trained and indoctrinated into being winners instead of surviving and completing the marathon. Then when Katniss sabotaged their cache of food, they started to panic. It is the same way for so-called Christian parents who do not train their children in the ways of the Lord or the teachings of scripture.
You can train your children in all the ways of the world by teaching them the wonders of capitalism, being a “rugged” individual, pushing them into sportsball, gymnastics, college, IT degrees, and keeping up with the Joneses, but it does not matter if your children grow up to be heathens. If you do not teach your children the ways of the Lord and instead bow down to the idol of the college degree, then those children will believe everything their perverted college professor will tell them. Next thing you know, they will come back believing good is evil and evil is good. Good Christian boy Timmy comes back as Betty and your little angel of a daughter starts wearing a skimpy outfit, cat ears, and playing Pokemon on Twitch.
Now, it is true that teaching children the ways of God is not a sure thing that they will be saved. As there are countless stories in the Bible of good men having wicked children. But like an archer, shooting the arrow, it is the archer’s responsibility to pull the arrow out of the seath, and aim it with the bow. The bull’s eye is not always a guarantee because you do not know where the wind and forces will take the arrow, but you are giving the arrow the opportunity to hit the mark. You cannot rely on youth groups, so-called hip pastors and The Chosen to teach your kids the Bible. It is up to the fathers to teach their sons and daughters the ways.
I guess these leads us to the only thing a man truly can grasp on, and that is faith. Faith that we can hold on to the hope of the new heavens and Earth, that though we are hungry now, we will be full-filled. That we are thirsty now, but in a future time, we will drink from the fountain of life. That though the things such as sex, movies, video games, music, dramas, and the things that make up the human culture will fade like dust in the wind, the new Heavens and new Earth will have a new culture. One that is not plagued by the curse of sin, but filled with Christ’s light.
But the good news is that God is in control of all things, and even better news is that God is good, and He is holy. The only way out of this mess is to wake up to our spiritual condition and repent of our madness. We have got to have faith in God and the perfect work of His one and only son, the Lord Jesus Christ. If we place our faith in Christ, we will receive the armor of faith. We will have a mighty warrior with us in the Holy Spirit to reveal all truth and expel all lies. When a true, bonafide believer has faith in Jesus Christ and seeks His kingdom first, he will never have to worry being hungry, thirsty, or what to wear. Birds do not reap, sow, or store any products in their fridges. Yet God feeds them. If God feeds the creatures of the air, land and sea, how much more will He feed the children of God? Katniss thought her being in the Hunger Games was a death sentence and had zero faith she would survive. But as she journeyed on and remembered the skills her father taught her, little by little her faith grew until she was confident she had a fighting chance to win the game.
Now, the World views life as a game where there are winners and losers. It is a game of rich and poor, power and weakness. But to followers of the Way, life is more like a marathon where it is a test of endurance by the individual and his relationship with God. Life is not a game, but a journey. Some have chosen the broad path and pursued the things of the flesh. But others have chosen the narrow path, and chase after the heart of God.
It is a wonder if life is just one giant hunger game? Is this life nothing but a giant spectacle to God and the angels? In Job, Satan challenges God to test Job to see if he really loved Him and God allowed the trials and tests to happen. Now, a heathen might look at Job and accuse God of unjustly bringing harm to someone who loves Him. But in some perverse way, Satan does ask a simple but profound question; Do we really love God despite hardships? Its one thing to talk the talk and proclaim that you love God, but do you walk the walk? Every man knows that when someone boasts about there skills, there will come a time when the talk to turns to walk and things get very real. Talk about how you are a tough guy long enough, and you eventually will have to prove it through fistcuffs. A wife will proclaim she loves her husband with her mouth. But when the time comes to submit and respect her husband’s decisions and choices, will she respect him or will that obnoxious Jezebel spirit nag and demasculate him? Talk is cheap, and oaths often backfire for a man because man’s mouth has no credibility (which is why Jesus commanded his followers not to swear or make oaths). This is not to say our words have power, because they very much do. But to those who boast, is there action to back them up? This is what James argued when it came to faith without works. Now, works do not save us or earns us salvation. But works are evidence that we are saved. We talk about how Jesus Christ is our savior, but do we walk the walk and endure the hardships and trials? You can claim you follow Jesus Christ, but do you have that cross on your back when you follow Him?
Now, no one likes to be put to the test or face hardship in their life, but the Godly know better. David sought the testing of God, to examine his heart and his mind if they were true to Him. There will come a time in a believers life when they have to ponder if they actually have the faith in Jesus Christ and the strength to endure. This is, of corse, very healthy for a follower of Christ to ponder. Worldly men like Esau do not care about their spiritual condition or the things of God. They only care about the flesh, eyes, and pride of life. The child of God will be concern about Godly things. Are we living a clean life? Do we love God? Do we love others? How can we deal with our sin problems? Are we slipping away from the faith? Are our words edible and uplifting, or destructive and evil?
With trials, we can prove that our faith is real. We develop perseverance, which leads to maturity. To do this, God has to put us out of our comfort zones and onto the arena known as life. Putting gold in the refinery will get rid of impurities and come out shining brighter than ever, so to is our faith. When we stood the test, our faith comes out stronger. And what is more precious than gold but our faith in God and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ?
I should note that the Bible does have one more archer of great importance like Katniss and that is God himself. In Genesis, God waged war agansit violent men, and used the Great Flood to wipe away humanity due to its great wickedness that plagued the Earth. God saw favor in Noah, and through him and his family, preserved the human race. God made a covenant with Noah, to never destroy the Earth with a flood again. The symbol that all these things are true is none other than the rainbow. The rainbow, as commonly potrayed, is in the shape of an arch, or a bow. The bow is a weapon of war, and God used His bow to wipe away humanity. But just like Jesus Christ laid down His life for the sins of humanity for peace, so too did God put away his bow. As a peace offering to humanity, the “rain” bow is placed in an arch where it is shooting towards the sky and not at the Earth.
Now we live in the age of the New Covenant, where God offered the ultimate peace offering, that being the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. God sent His only Son on Earth to show us the way back to the Father and to die for humanity’s sins to usher in reconciliation and forgiveness of sin. This peace offering by the Creator is to all those who repent of the world’s madness and believe this good news. But as Christ said, just as in the days of Noah, the people of the Earth were indulging in Earthly pleasures such as eating, drinking, and having sexual intercourse without a care in the world. Then the flood came and drowned them out with only righteous Noah and his family being sparred. But so too will be the messianic age we live in. People of this age are eating, drinking, and fooling around. But what will happen when the judgment comes and people start to starve, start to thirst, and start to be deprived of all the world’s pleasures? When these things occur, God’s image bearers will turn to animals, and eventually turn to monsters. We live in a generation where people are so vain and prideful, that they cannot go one day without things as cellphones, what will happen when they starve?
What will happen is we will see which side people are exactly on. Hunger is going to expose who the children of God are and who is on the side of Satan. Hunger will expose who has the love of God in their heart and who has the spirit of this wicked age. Hunger will expose those who rely on God as our provider and those who rely on the government as their god. The government might not feed you but make sure you get your hormone blockers and SSRIs.
But in a way, famine will show the power of God, because for the sinful man, only by trials and hardships can we get close to God and truly experience His power and blessing. It is easy for a man to have everything he wants and praise God. But will he praise God when his belly is grumbling? Will we be like the Israelites who grumbled in the desert despite being sent the manna from heaven? Or will we be like the widow from Zarephath, who in faith, gave the last of her oil and flour to the prophet Elijah only for the jug to not run out of oil or flour for the rest of the drought Israel was experiencing during the reign of King Ahab? Will Christ find faith on Earth?
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