#kingstone comics

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Martin Luther

Kingstone Comics' Luther is a pretty darn good biography for as short as it is.

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Kingstone comics, “Esther.”

Based on the Biblical book of Esther.

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HIGHLY RECOMMEND 

Based on a famous message/story Jesus preached on the earth. This is not considered a “parable” by Biblical scholars. 100% worth it. 

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How to avoid hell.

This is the last page of Hell by Art Ayris and Kyle Hotz, published by Kingstone Comics.

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What's Missing from The Remaining

Minor spoilers for The Remaining (both the film and the graphic adaptation). But, really, all these characters look the same, so good luck identifying who the ones on this page are.

The Remaining is an ambitious horror film about the End Times, but my biggest problem with it is that the Gospel it presents is super vague. It basically boils down to, "Believe and have faith in God to be saved, or live selfishly and die." No one explains what faith is or what people need to be saved from. I don't think it's even made clear why the End Times events that happen in the film (the giant hail, the earthquake, the "locusts") are being unleashed on the earth. In fact, the name of Jesus isn't even mentioned.

What's really needed in this movie is for the one pastor character to stand up and give a speech to all the scared people sheltering in his church…

"The reason all these horrifying things are happening all around us is because God is pouring out his wrath. He hates sin, and that's all any of us have been doing with our lives. If you don't think you're a sinner, then ask yourself if you've ever lied or stolen anything, if you've ever lusted after a man or woman, or if you've ever hated someone in your heart. Are you envious of others? Have you ever disrespected your parents? Do you even believe that God is real? And if you do, do you love anyone or anything more than you love him? What do you spend most of your time thinking, fantasizing, or worrying about? These are all crimes against our Creator, the only Holy Being in all of existence. And he's been patient with this world that hates him for so long, but the time has finally come for him to bring the hammer down.

"I pastored this church for years, and I thought I was doing all the right things, checking all the boxes. But my heart was more focused on furthering my own fame. I read and studied the Bible all my life, but I wasn't living by it. I never truly repented, never truly trusted. I was trying to do it all myself.

"Look…there are only two kinds of people who aren't guilty and condemned before God: perfect people and forgiven people. All those people who 'died' right as this craziness started? Their bodies are still here, but their souls are with God now. Each of you probably knew at least one of them. Do you think they were perfect? No. But they were forgiven! Why? How?

"Two thousand years ago, God sent his only Son into the world as a man, and he lived a perfect life. He never did any of the wicked things we all are guilty of. He was absolutely innocent in all things, but he willingly died by excruciating capital punishment as if he were the worst criminal in history. He did that for you! For all of us! He took the punishment we deserved so that we could be pardoned! And then he came back to life so that anyone who knows that they're inadequate to get to heaven on their own and accepts his death in their place can be with him forever in eternal glory.

"That's what they had that we didn't. They trusted that Christ's sacrifice had covered their sins, while we were out there either trying to make up for our sins by ourselves or pretending that we didn't have any sins in the first place!

"I hate to say this, but…the people out there who've died from the earthquakes, the hail, the plane crashes…unless they had a last-minute revelation, it's too late for them. But it's not too late for us! If you hear my voice, you still have a chance. Trust in Jesus! Repent of you sins and give up trying to earn your own salvation! He'll forgive you. If you let him."

Yeah, that would've hit the nail on the head way better than what we got.

From The Remaining

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End Times Horror

lThose aren't locusts…

The Remaining is one of a few faith-based horror films out there. It's about a group of young people trying to survive on earth for a few days after getting left behind by the Rapture of the church. I've got a lot to write about it, but I'll probably do that over on my Letterboxd film diary later.

This picture is from the comic book adaptation of the film, but it features an angle that wasn't actually in the movie itself. These monsters are supposed to be the locust creatures from Revelation 9, I think, though I don't see any crowns or ladylike hair on their heads. In the film, they're never clearly shown - a smart idea considering the film's budget surely wasn't high enough to make them look good. Comics aren't constrained by CG budgets, though, so the artist here got to flesh them out a little better.

The next part is a spoiler, so don't read if you plan on seeing the film. In the book of Revelation, these locust creatures are sent into the world to torment (without killing) anyone who doesn't have the seal of God on them - so basically anyone who hasn't come to faith in Jesus Christ since the start of the Great Tribulation period. But in the movie, they scare everyone, but they actually attack and kill primarily people who exercise faith. They're drawn to it like moths to flame. It's never explained why, but it's definitely not biblical.

From The Remaining

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The Rich Man and Abraham

Here's a bit of an expansion of the conversation between the rich man and Father Abraham from Jesus' parable of the rich man and Lazarus. It's from Luke 16:19-31.

“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’ But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’ And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house— for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’ But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’”

I personally think that this comic is a very good adaptation of the parable. It's one of the better Kingstone Comics books I've read.

From Eternity by Randy Alcorn

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