Behold, his mighty hand…
I’ve just finished reading a post about the movie – and the background story on the novel – “Ben-Hur”. The author’s point was that this movie was a techno-pop blockbuster of it’s day with exciting, glamorous folks and wild chariot races – but it was really supposed to be about Jesus. The novel had a different emphasis than the movie – to put it lightly. But we (the movie lovers) may not have known just how much.
On this Easter Sunday, that message appealed to me as I was just thinking a little earlier about how I grew up watching “The Ten Commandments” every year on Easter. It took me years to realize all that movie was really about and how it explained Passover. As a kid, I thought it was in some way connected to Easter. Age and wisdom gave me a better context for what it was truly saying. Or, maybe it’s just that both are two of my all-time favorite blockbusters staring Charlton Heston. Hard to say for sure.