Jesus and The Fifth Element

Back in the 1997, a movie was released called 'The Fifth Element' starring Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Ian Holm and Gary Oldman, among others. The movie is science-fiction, set in the future a few hundred years, but deals with that age-old dilemma of good vs. evil. This movie is an allegory of created man, and Satan's attempt to stop God's plan to bring about Jesus as the Savior. The following is an excerpt of conversation between the Cornelius the priest and the president. (The priest represents John the Baptist, proclaiming who Jesus was and trying to convince those around him of it: Matthew 3:11~As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.)

CORNELIUS: Imagine for a moment that this thing is not anything that can be identified, because it prefers not to be. Wherever there is life, it brings death... because it is evil. Absolute evil.

PRESIDENT: One more reason to shoot first.

CORNELIUS: Evil begets evil, Mr. President. Shooting will only make it stronger.

PRIEST: Go with God. Be safe from evil.

CORNELIUS: The goal of this thing is not to fight over money or power, but to exterminate life. All forms of life.

PRESIDENT: So what you're telling me there is nothing that can stop this?

CORNELIUS: There is only one thing...The Mondoshawan have in their possession the only weapon to defeat evil. Four elements... gathered around a fifth... A supreme being, the ultimate warrior, created to protect life. Together, they produce what the ancients called the light of creation, able to bring life to the farthest reaches of the universe. But, if evil stands there...

PRESIDENT: Then what?

CORNELIUS: Then light turns to dark... life to death. Forever.

The Fifth Element comes from outerspace (Luke 19:10 For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.) to to save the earth from the evil 'Mr. Shadow' coming to devour the planet of all life. (1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour.)

Meanwhile, Mr. Zorg has made a deal with Mr. Shadow to retrieve the stones needed to give him, Mr. Shadow,the power to grow even more evil, or the Fifth Element to save the world. The stones represent the earthly, human form of Moses, and the devil trying to make use of him. (Jude 9 But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!) Mr. Zorg represents a type of Judas Iscariot, who was 'numbered among them', aligning himself with evil for his own selfish and greedy gain. Mr. Shadow represents the evil that Paul speaks about in Ephesians. (6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.)

In the end, when it is time for the Fifth Element to take her place so that the power can flow through her, she says it is not worth it. She has seen the evil in the human race, and knows they continually hate and kill one another.

Is this how God felt in Genesis 6:5-6? (Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. The LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.)

But the cab driver steps in and tells her that love is worth saving, and helps hold her up so that she is in position to receive the power. (1 John 4:10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.) The cab driver represents the love that held Jesus to the cross.

I'm sure the person/people who wrote The Fifth Element did not have the biblical history of the human race in mind when the words were penned. But it is depicted perfectly, from God repenting for the creation of man to Jesus saying 'It is finished.'

It was love that caused our Savior to come and die-to stop the evil running rampant in the world (John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.) We have to have that same love for our fellow man. (1John 3:16 We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.)

And that is neither science, nor fiction!