3 Elijah was afraid [a] and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, 4 while he himself went a day's journey into the desert. He came to a broom tree, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. "I have had enough, LORD," he said. "Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors." 5 Then he lay down under the tree and fell asleep. ...
And the word of the LORD came to him: "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
10 He replied, "I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too."
Last night, Richard Alpert sounded just like Elijah to me.
“I’ve devoted my life, longer than you can possibly can imagine, in service of a man who told me that everything happened for a reason. That he had a plan a plan that I was apart of, and when the time was right he would share it with me… and now that man is gone. So why do I want to die? Because I just found out my life has no purpose!”
I mean, Doc was probably closer when he compared Richard, Ilana, and Ben to the disciples of Jesus the day after he died. But I thought my LOST-obsessed family would like to hear my observation :-)
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I have got to start watching LOST...especially if it counts as Bible study. :)
It seems to get more and more likely that Jacob is an actual Christ figure and the "good guy." Last night's episode was pretty convincing in that regard, and I haven't even read Doc Jensen yet. But Ben's (beautifully delivered, poignant) line, "I'm going to Locke, because he's the only one who'll have me" sounded a lot like someone who can't believe that he really is forgiven, so he's just going to go to Satan. And his reunion with the rest on the beach seemed redemptive.
But I'm holding out that LOST isn't going to make it that simple. After all, one of Smokey's biggest beefs with Jacob seems to be that he is manipulative and doesn't tell the truth, which is in perfect accord with the meaning of the word "Jacob." And LOST reference Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now a lot, in which one of the major devices is the Conradian Reversal, in which white (Jacob's color) doesn't have all the connotations of goodness that we've come to associate with it.
Basically, I have been rooting for Terry O'Quinn's character since season one, and I don't want him to be wrong.
John, you and Elliott both.
I'm Team Ben. Not as a Christ-figure. Just as the best character on the show.
Alpert sounded like a disciple to me too. But I can see the Elijah as well. I like it.
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