The Garden

The character of the Satan and the way he affects us through what we would refer to as 'magic' is very well depicted in the movie 'The Garden' (2006).

It shows how the Adversary draws us into his prison through seduction of pleasure and pressure of pain.

He sets people up as instruments his hands to create division and strife, seeking to thwart YHWH's purpose for His own by inflicting hurt upon them, especially at the hands of the ones who are supposed to be trustworthy and role models.

In this movie the Creator put a young boy on a ranch for a special purpose.

The artistic boy is troubled by visions he does not know how to deal with, visions which the outside world contributes to an over-active imagination, and he has the gift of being able to see things which others cannot see.

Add to this the fact that he cuts himself and comes from a broken home, having a well-intending but weak father who sets a bad example, and you have the recipe which landed him in a psychiatric hospital.

After his release from the mental hospital the boy and his father end up on a farm where the story unravels.

The ranch owner knows who this boy is, and he does everything in his power to make sure the boy does not get in his way, even to the extent that he turns his own father against the boy.

A father is special, because he is supposed to be the image of our Creator, and if he embodies a wrong representation of what our Creator is supposed to be, then this conflict hurts his children.

The movie shows how the ranch owner almost succeeds in manipulating the hurt to separate the boy  from his father, yet because the boy held on to his faith and the deeper knowing of the reason why he was there, he ultimately triumphed.

I will not disclose the details of the movie because I do not want to spoil it for you, but if you have a chance to see it (I think YouTube shows the entire movie) then I recommend that you do.

Our Life is the garden where the Adversary tempts us to partake of the forbidden through the relentless pressures of pain and pleasure.