I've been watching Ghostbusters incessantly over the last 4 years, and now I think I know why...
The film beloved by millions and myself has an appeal unlike many other top films, why is that?
Is there something deeper to the writers intent in the fun comedic ghost filled movie? Or did Dan Ackroyd and Harold Ramis (Script and Screenwriters) just accidentally touch on something much deeper?
How deep one might say? I say, prophetically and biblically deep and here's why...
As millions of us fans know Ghostbusters entails the trio of supernatural Ghost hunters played by actors Bill Murray as Peter Venkman, Dan Ackroyd as Ray Stantz, and Harold Ramis as Egon Spengler, later joined by a fourth character Winston Zeddemore played by Ernie Hudson.
The trio are scientists at a University and not very good scientists as they get fired and kicked out of their college mostly because Peter Venkman is a sort of Con Man who seems more interested in finding young college girls to chase than working on his scientific experiments.
Call it Fate, call it Luck...
The trio of parasychologists get kicked out by the dean but Venkman realizes it's meant to be, he understands there's something bigger at play than just the Dean of the College rejecting their "Theories of the worst kind of popular tripe"
Peter Venkman whether he realizes it or not already believes in something bigger than himself, perhaps fate, or luck or possibly even a belief in God.
We are given hints of what the Ghostbusters believe throughout the film but we'll get to that later.
So, taking a leap of faith, the trio take the plunge and start a business using Ray Stantz's House as collateral, Egon Spengler the smartest and most truly scientific of the three delares, "The interest rate alone comes to ninety five thousand dollars in five years"
I heard a voice say Zuul...
Enter the female love interest and one of the key players in the film Dana Barrett played by the accomplished and beautiful Sigourney Weaver who's been dubbed by many as "The Queen of Sci Fi"
Dana's character encounters a being of some kind in her refrigerator named "Zuul" which looks somewhat like a Demonic dog and the filmakers even named these beasts "Demon Dogs"
"Not your typical behavior for a major appliance"
The bizarre encounter by Dana takes her to see the Ghostbusters who do a few tests on her declaring they will begin to investigate the strange being in her refrigerator. Peter Venkman instantly is attracted to the beautiful Ms. Barrett and investigates Dana's NYC apartment but finding nothing to Dana's consternation and aggravation where he admits "I'm madly in love with You"
I'm going to completely change gears here and reveal what I feel are some very interesting if not down right creepy parallels between Ghostbusters written produced and filmed way back in 1984 and what we in this Country are right now experiencing in September of 2020.
Anyone that's alive today understands we are in unprecedented unchartered territory, with the Corona virus pandemic, racial and civil unrest not seen in 5 decades, and a spring and summer of unrest and violence from riots or so called Protests that have engulfed America this year, as well as massive fires in several western states from Calif. to Colorado which have caused apocalyptic orange skies over much of California and other western states, and these things don't seem to be going away.
In Ghostbusters, some very strange things are happening, ghosts or some sort of spirits are appearing all over New York City which is why the Ghostbusters are becoming so busy. In one scene where Winston Zeddemore their new hire and Ray Stantz are riding in the car Winston who reveals he believes in God, and "Loves Jesus' Style" asks Ray if he believes in God, which Ray says "He's never met him" meaning, no, he doesn't really believe in God.
Winston responds "Ray, do you remember something in the bible about the dead rising from the grave?" But by the end of the conversation Ray, who apparently had some Bible knowledge at some point quotes the book of Revelation (actually misquoting the wrong verse number, it's Rev. 6:12 not 7:12) "And I looked, and He opened the sixth seal, and the Sun turned black as sackcloth, and the Moon became as Blood..."
To which Winston responds "And the Skies fell and the seas boiled" both saying "Judgment day"
Ray however still not believing says "Every ancient religion has it's own myth about the end of the world" To which Winston the Christian says "Myth? Ray, has it ever occurred to you that the reason we've been so busy lately is because the Dead HAVE BEEN rising from the grave." And Ray suddenly and alarmingly realizes that perhaps Winston is right wanting "A little Music" as a comfort...
Winston in this one scene convinces Ray previously agnostic that perhaps the reason they are very busy is because the biblical notion of the Dead rising from their graves is what is causing the "Ghosts" showing up all over Manhattan. Interestingly, this scene ends with a long and wide shot of the car going over a bridge with the Two Towers in the direct background which as we all know were completely destroyed 17 years later killing 3,000 people, the most deadly attack on the United states since Pearl Harbor.
Nineteen years after that deadly attack, and a war that has stretched on since America is now facing what I and several other Biblically literate observers are seeing that can only be described as the prercursors to Judgment, yes, that's what I said. A Pandemic that cannot be stopped or a cure found (yet), civil strife and unrest and violence this year (2020) that I have not witnessed since the early 1970's Vietnam protest era, a complete lockdown or stalling of the American economy for millions (including myself, I have not played a Music job or band gig or Church gig this year), Churches being told they cannot have more than 50 people in some states and in California, Churches have been ordered to NOT SING and some are facing fines or even possible jail time just for having church indoors. The U.S. Government, the Congress is no longer working, no longer operating because the two political sides are at each others throats. Millions of Americans are at each others throats arguing politics on social media.
In Ghostbusters, the Quartet of Spiritual soldiers get thrown in jail as a sniveling micro managing control freak agent from the Environmental protection agency decides he will turn off their protection grid that keeps all the ghosts and spiritual entities locked up which unleashes literal hell into NYC.
I submit to you dear reader that we, the people of God, the church, the followers of Jesus are the equivalent of the Ghostbusters holding back and keeping in check the dark demonic spiritual forces that are right this very day threatening to completely tear apart and destroy America...and just like in the movie there are a large number of completely unaware, spiritually dead government officials unwittingly starting to release dark, destructive demons or "ghosts" by their stupidity and lack of spiritual discernment in this nation. And they have no clue that they're aiding and abetting this...
How odd, In the Movie an incompetent Government official goes after a small business trying to shut them down, and in 2020 in America we have Hair salon Owners being railroaded and thrown under the bus by a powerful government official named Nancy Pelosi who used her powerful position to get her hair cut and blow dried while NONE of us little people can do the same. In Denver a racetrack wanting to open for their drag racing season but mandated they cannot, has been sued by the state of Colorado and Jefferson County as they had an event for about 2,000 3,000 people. Simultaneously the Governor has allowed the Glorified NFL Denver Broncos to have 7,500 people at an NFL game, just nobody like myself can play a gig in a club in the city of Denver.
As the Ghostbusters are taken from jail to the NYC Mayors office as he's in a bind trying to deal with Ghostly (or Demonic) entities that are causing havoc all over NYC. Our heroes declare "A disaster of biblical proportions" is about to be unleashed upon NYC unless something is done...The Catholic Bishop shows up and declares " personally Lenny, I think it's a sign from God, but dont quote me on that" revealing that the Bishop of NYC is not willing to put his religious career and high position in jeopardy by speaking the truth.
Meanwhile, the would be girlfriend of Peter Venkman has been literally possessed by the entity from her refrigerator Zuul. If you've read the Bible at all you know that it deals with the reality of demons as if they definitely exist. Jesus cast numerous demons out of several people including a boy that threw himself into the fire, and a man so demon possessed that he would break chains and run naked through the countryside. Oddly, the town where this possessed man came from were so freaked out by what Jesus did putting the man in his right mind again that they made him leave.
Dr. Venkman witnesses Dana's possession as she attempts to seduce him into a sexual encounter thinking he is the other possesed human needed to complete the sexual ritual and thus bringing the larger demon entity Gozer, the destructor. In many ancient religions and even in ancient Israel the reason God judged those nations was because they had adopted the demonic, false god worshiping religions like Baal worship, and the most hideous of these religions Molech worship, which entailed the parents of a first born child "sacrificing" the baby to the god Molech which was a huge brass Idol that was heated to thousands of degrees, and then the abomination of putting the first born child into this fiery Idol would burn the child alive. In many of these ancient religions temple worship included perverted orgies that they believed pleased their ( false) gods.
I have written before about how today in so called modern America we have now gotten to the point of sacrificing our own children to the god of "Choice" which of course is the holocaust of modern abortion. 60 million babies made in God's image (which He states in Psalms and other places) have been sacrificed in this manner thinking "Life will be better and easier"
In a well known ceremony last year New York's governor Cuomo signed a bill surrounded by abortion proponents that would enable the destruction and killing of an unborn baby right up until the day it would have been born, and it was CHEERED by the onlookers...We are no further along than the ancient Pagan nations religious rituals that sacrificed children that the Israelites adopted...
In one scene in particular Dana Barrett now possessed by Zuul, is seen after her apartment is blown apart sitting in a chair, her legs spread wide open as if she were a whore, and she is sitting in front of the blown out wall behind her which looks a whole lot like a cutout of the shape of the United States. in the distance is the skyline of New York City. After looking at this scene hundreds of times I've deduced that the writers of the film were either purposefully or unintentionally showing Dana Barrett as the Biblical Whore of Babylon in Revelation, waiting in a sexual pose for the other Possessed character Vinz Glortho (Played by Rick Moranis) and visually saying here's the Biblical Whore of Babylon, New York City, and America, which is about to be judged and visited by Demonic forces of Immense power, and possibly destruction, because she loved her sexual demonic perversions and blood spilling child killing more than she loved God.
Here's hoping that I'm wrong, and some Ghostbusters like spiritual heroes and prayer warriors can arrive in 2020 as we watch not just New York City which has become a "Ghost Town" and numerous other American cities that are struggling under an actual pandemic, violence, and fires of biblical Proportions before the REAL Stay Puft Man destroys New York City and America for good.
Don't shoot me, I'm just the Sax Player.
