Survival, Seeds, and Salvation in Furiosa [Video]

The human story is a story of beginnings and ends: paradise to fall and flood, Abraham to slavery, Red Sea to wilderness, promised land to exile, Messiah to apocalypse. Like George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, it’s a wild ride. But what Scripture’s story tells us—and what the new Mad Max movie might also be getting at—is that the grueling process of ends and beginnings is leading somewhere—and that somewhere is salvation.

In Furiosa, we begin at the end. The earth, except for a few warring tribes, is known simply as “the Wasteland.” Food and water, society and family, animals and plants, music and art, joy and tenderness—nearly all are lost.

Oh, but there are cars. Big ones. And guzzoline. And bullets and guns. It’s a hyper-masculine world of end-times nightmare for men and women alike. It’s Eden …