Review: Red Sea Miracle
Posted on Feb 11, 2020
Recently, I received a personal invitation from Ken Ham to come and watch a movie with him; as well as about 1500 other people (the orange arm band was my admittance). I accepted the offer and spent 2 days also attending the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter.
The reason people were invited to the premier of the movie was so that they could talk it prior to its release this Friday. Of course they assumed that everyone would like, and I believe that most everyone, if not everyone, did.
I thought I would take a moment and give my review of it. And following in a few days, reviews of the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum, though I had been to the museum a time or two but not since its remodel. So watch for them soon.
The movie is actually a two parter, and the 3rd set in a series. I don’t recall about the first four but this one and the next, part 2 which comes out May 5th, 2020 and plays in theaters for one night only.
These types of ‘films’ appeal to me but not as movies. It isn’t something I would enjoy watching in a theater or a conference hall, which is where we all watched it last Friday. I might best refer to it as a slow Indiana Jones or National Treasure with pretty much no action. Yes, it’s a documentary of sorts and a nice reprieve from those that have become as liberal on PBS as of late. However, it’s of a technical nature and not a tear jerker, so it played to my likes.
Knowing that it is a documentary, I suspect that you have deduced that the movie is in search of where the Red Sea Crossing took place by Moses and Israelites and not a show of them running from the Egyptians and crossing the sea. Several other people in search of antiquities, and mostly non-believers, aided in the search and understanding of the times. **Note – many of these unbelievers aren’t un-believers that the Israelite's left Egypt but they doubt the miracles and the numbers of people that left.
Anyhow, I doubt that I would attend this or another movie like it, Christian or secular, at a movie theater because I would be able to relax at home with a bowl of ice cream and my shoes off when watching a documentary. Yes, I know, you can get ie cream at a theater now days, and you could take your shoes off, but I don’t recommend it. Being able to stop a documentary and discuss it as it goes is something I would prefer as to having to watch it all the way through.
The only portion of the movie that I found unbelievable was at the beginning. They were using remote control airplanes to help them look at the landscapes and terrain. They were able to take the planes off and retrieve them without incident. Being a skilled RC pilot I know for fact that it takes at least 3 crashes between 10 and 35 feet away from the pilot, 2 of which has to be nose down augers, before he gets a feel for the plane and the location and can successfully fly to the end of the runway before crashing 2 more times. At that time, the RC pilot than has his flying legs and will perform admirably the remainder of the day, assuming he brought enough planes to continue flying after all of the unfortunate incidents. It’s those kinds of special effects and lies that give us Christians a bad name.
As I said, I myself wouldn’t go to a theater to see it. Many church people will say shame on me for not supporting them but that’s my opinion. However, I would recommend that churches, whether their members theater it up or not, purchase a couple of the DVD’s for families and small groups to view.
I won’t spoil the ending for you. But I will say…..