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It is pretty common knowledge even upon its release that the newest entry to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “The Eternals,” is full on WOKE. This review will reveal just how badly WOKE it is.

There are 10 Eternals in the film. Two Caucasian men. Two Caucasian women and six non-Caucasians.  The Eternals are each a type of Demi-god who are created to serve the purposes of Arishem, who is a Celestial and godlike character.  Interestingly enough the prefix “Ari,” etymologically means gatherer or best. Just as interesting the suffic “shem” is the father of a particular tribe in Biblical lore. So, placed together Arishem, the god featured in the film, “The Eternals,” means literally, “The best Shem.”

Arishem is a kind of god but he is a god who can’t seem to control his creation. First, he created a group of creatures that was supposed to protect human life by devouring creatures that devoured humans. However, these “Deviants” got out of Arishem’s control. It is the same with the Eternals. Arishem creates the Eternals but the main plot of the film is that the Eternals (except for Ikaris and Sprite) decide to revolt against the purpose for which they were created by Arishem. It seems Arishem is not a sovereign Celestial as his created beings violate their reason for being as falling from the hand of Arishem. This is a story where the creatures rise up to frustrate their creator’s will and they are to be saluted for doing so. Sound familiar?

The theme of “free will” is toyed with a great deal in this film as it is constantly examined whether the Eternals should submit to (by their perception) the irrational will of their creator (Arishem) or whether they should follow their own “free will” by doing what they perceive to be the best. Phostos (an Eternal we will consider below) is a sodomite, who in the film has  a line, “I would not change a thing about who I am. I don’t exist for Arishem. I exist for my family.” Clearly the Eternal Phostos has decided to exercise his will against Arishem’s will. In the end the viewer is convinced that it was wise of the Eternals to not follow the will of their creator. The creature must create his own purpose and meaning independent of his creator in order to frustrate the evil purposes of Arishem. This is underscored by the line,

“Every time innocent lives have been sacrificed for the greater good (Arishem’s plan) it turns out to be a mistake. We have to stop (Arishem’s) Emergents.”

Of the two Caucasian men in the Eternals (Ikaris & Druig) Ikaris is the strongest of the Eternals and like all white men everywhere ends up being the treasonous bastard villain who has to be defeated by the combined efforts of the rest of the Eternals. Ikaris ends up committing suicide when his plot to foil the rest of the Eternals in saving planet earth fails. He also is guilty of breaking the heart of one of the non-Caucasian Eternals who he married (polyglot marriage). He is portrayed in the end as selfish.

Druig (the other white Eternal) ends up being cast as someone who doesn’t play nice with the rest of the Eternals. He splits from them and spends his time in a isolated rain forest where he controls the minds of the natives to do his bidding.

The two white females are “Sprite,” and “Thena.” Sprite ends up joining with Ikaris and goes all traitorous burying a knife through the body of the non-Caucasian Eternals hero — Sersi — in an attempt to foil saving earth. She is later forgiven and brought back into the Eternals fold. The other white woman (Thena) is a demigod Amazon type woman. She is cast like Athena in ancient mythology as a goddess of war. However this Thena is afflicted by the equivalent of PMS and she goes nuts trying to kill sundry Eternals. She kills the #2 villain in the film thus doing what no other male Eternal had been able to do.

Of the non-Caucasians the females Ajak is the initial leader. She has the super-hero gift of healing and serves as a kind of motherly spiritual leader for the Eternals. She provides a bridge between Arishem (the God) and the Eternals (the Demigods). She is eventually treacherously murdered by the white male Ikaris because she won’t go along with him in obeying Arishem in destroying all human life so that new life can come forward.

Sersi, the next non-Caucasian female then becomes the nominal leader of the Eternals. Sersi is a gentle soul that has empathy for humans though she carried a torch for thousands of years for no good Ikaris who broke her heart. At the end of the film this women discovers she has powers that she never realized that she had. She single-handedly stops the destruction of planet earth. Her downfall seems though to be for white men as her new love interest is also a white male. In future films that white male will also probably do Sersi wrong. You know how white men are that way.

The next non-Caucasian female Eternal is Makkari. Makkari is played by a deaf actress thus giving the film more WOKE points. Makkari has super human speed. Her main role in this film is that she ends up roughing up the white male Ikaris pretty good as he is trying to stop the earth from being saved.

Of the non-Caucasian males, Phostos is the genius who invents all kinds of things to advance civilization and then to help the Eternals defeat the Celestials.  There is a kissing scene where he plants a passionate kiss on his non-Caucasian significant other sodomite. The film culturally appropriates normal family life thus suggesting that two sodomites can raise a little boy just like Ward and June Cleaver raised the Beaver.

Gilgamesh is another non-Caucasian male Eternal. He has the gift of strength. The actor pursued the role in order to be an inspiration to the younger generation as the first Korean superhero. He ends up being killed in battle defending the white female Eternal Thena who was going through one of her PMS crazy moments.

Kingo is an Indian (from India) Eternal. He is a star in Bollywood. He, along with his non-Eternal valet provides the comic relief in the film.

The film is not flattering toward the white Eternals while at the same time lifting up the non-Caucasian Eternals as being virtuous characters without fault.

Another attack on white people is seen in the scene where the 16th century Conquistadors are ravaging the Aztecs Tenochtitlan, pillaging, and murdering the poor innocent Aztecs. There is nothing in the film to suggest that the Aztecs were a demonic possessed, drug-addled, tribe who made routine the sacrifice of countless numbers of their neighboring tribes. Nope, it is just the evil white Europeans.

It is interesting that this film pursues the same plot in term of looming disaster as the plot in the Avengers “Infinity Wars.” In both plots there is the danger of the extinguishing of either a majority of humans (Avengers) or in “The Eternals” the extinguishing of all humanity so that new life can come forth. What is it about this Malthusian population reduction theme? Word is the next film will pursue this same theme by some villain releasing a virus from a secret lab causing untold death on planet earth from both the virus and the vaccine developed from Tony Stark labs.

In both films mentioned in the paragraph above the idea is that by pursuing chaos (widespread destruction) order will arise. This is called the “return to chaos” theory and is exemplified by evolution theory in the real world.

Turning to some incidental observations;

1.) The city of Babylon is portrayed as bliss
2.) One marriage and one funeral both accompanied by Hindu prayers
3.) Hints of the Occult in the “Tree of vision,” and the idea of becoming one
4.) Twisted theme of importance of franken-family
5.) Most hilarious dialogue;

Sersi — “I wonder if I did the right thing”
Kingo — “But you followed your heart. We all did”

The historical theology supporting Kinism with the book by Achord & Dow — Who Is My Neighbor — is now indisputable. There is no longer any room for denying that the Christian church until 1950 or so has believed everywhere at all times in every place the truth of Kinism. The Biblical theological case continues to be built that Kinism is just as certain.  Today we take a biblical theological look that strongly teaches kinism.

Ezekiel 47 Then he [a man whose appearance was like bronze — Ez. 40:3] brought me back to the door of the temple; and there was water, flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east, for the front of the temple faced east; the water was flowing from under the right side of the temple, south of the altar….  

 ⁶ He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen this?” Then he brought me and returned me to the bank of the river.

⁷ When I returned, there, along the bank of the river, were very many trees on one side and the other. ⁸ Then he said to me: “This water flows toward the eastern region, goes down into the valley, and enters the sea. When it reaches the sea, its waters are healed. ⁹ And it shall be that every living thing that moves, wherever the rivers go, will live. There will be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters go there; for they will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river goes. … ¹² Along the bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food; their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for medicine.”

Ezekiel 47:1, 6-9, 12

Here we see that like the rivers in paradise (Gen. 2:10-14) which were a life giving force in Eden, Ezekiel prophesies that a day is coming that healing waters will flow from God’s temple. The consequence of this temple river will be life and healing. This is made all the more startling when one realizes that the sea that this temple river which brings life is emptying into is the Dead sea. The dead sea will teem with fish and upon the banks of the river will grow fresh fruit bearing trees which have leaves that will themselves be used for healing.

This prophecy reverses a sub-theme that we find often (not universally) in Scripture where waters (often seas) are symbolic for the presence of chaos (cmp. Genesis 1, 6, Exodus 15, Pslam 46, 65, 96, etc.). Here instead the temple river communicates the bringing of life and order. Ezekiel is being promised here, just as he was promised in Ezekiel 36 via the resurrection of the valley of dead bones, that a future day will arrive when the promised land will be returned to paradise. The sons of Jacob will once again live and have life and life abundantly.

The New Testament in the Apocalypse of John picks up this theme again in chapter 22. However, the restoration in Revelation is intensified and broadened to include the whole cosmos and all the nations therein.

22 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. ² In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

The point that we want to especially elucidate is that the promised land that is to experience the vibrancy of life has moved beyond Israel and is now the whole cosmos and the benefactors of this has moved beyond provincial Israel to all the nations. All the nations as nations will be the recipients of abundant life and healing.

Of course this provides just one block in the Scriptural foundation for Kinism. Clearly the Bible, by the prophetic connection between Ezekiel and Revelation, is teaching here the continuance of the nations in their nations. The Holy Spirit connecting Ezekiel with Revelation is clearly and indisputably establishing the fact that all of the variegated nations as nations will be present in the New Jerusalem. If this is true (and it is) then how can we support any kind of program from the erasure of borders, to polyglot marriages, to transracial adoptions which serve as an attempt to destroy the nations as nations? To support such programs is to do battle with God.

This only underscores yet another block in the Biblical foundation for Kinism as recorded by Dr. Martin Wyngaarden where he notes of Isaiah 19;

¹⁹ In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord at its border. ²⁰ And it will be for a sign and for a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the Lord because of the oppressors, and He will send them a Savior and a Mighty One, and He will deliver them. ²¹ Then the Lord will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the Lord in that day, and will make sacrifice and offering; yes, they will make a vow to the Lord and perform it. ²² And the Lord will strike Egypt, He will strike and heal it; they will return to the Lord, and He will be entreated by them and heal them.

²³ In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian will come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians will serve with the Assyrians.

²⁴ In that day Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing in the midst of the land, ²⁵ whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, “Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.”

“Now the predicates of the covenant are applied in Isa. 19 to the Gentiles of the future, — “Egypt my people, and Assyria, the work of my hands, and Israel, mine inheritance,” Egypt, the people of “Jehovah of hosts,” (Isa. 19:25) is therefore also expected to live up to the covenant obligations, implied for Jehovah’s people. And Assyria comes under similar obligations and privileges. These nations are representative of the great Gentile world, to which the covenant privileges will, therefore, be extended.”

Martin J. Wyngaarden, The Future of the Kingdom in Prophecy and Fulfillment: A Study of the Scope of “Spiritualization” in Scripture (Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2011), p. 94.

And again,

“More than a dozen excellent commentaries could be mentioned that all interpret Israel as thus inclusive of Jew and Gentile, in this verse, — the Gentile adherents thus being merged with the covenant people of Israel, though each nationality remains distinct.”

“For, though Israel is frequently called Jehovah’s People, the work of his hands, his inheritance, yet these three epithets severally are applied not only to Israel, but also to Assyria and to Egypt: “Blessed be Egypt, my people, and Assyria, the work of my hands, and Israel, mine inheritance.” 19:25.

Thus the highest description of Jehovah’s covenant people is applied to Egypt, — “my people,” — showing that the Gentiles will share the covenant blessings, not less than Israel. Yet the several nationalities are here kept distinct, even when Gentiles share, in the covenant blessing, on a level of equality with Israel. Egypt, Assyria, and Israel are not nationally merged. And the same principles, that nationalities are not obliterated, by membership in the covenant, applies, of course, also in the New Testament dispensation.”

Martin Wyngaarden
The Future of the Kingdom in Prophecy and Fulfillment: A Study of the Scope of “Spiritualization” in Scripture — pp. 101-102.

Of course the implication of all this is the Church has to cease supporting untrammeled immigration — both legal and illegal — from non Western nations as well as polyglot marriages into the “once upon a time” West.