Contemplative Bible Reading

Zechariah 14:12 (New Living Translation)

And the Lord will send a plague on all the nations that fought against Jerusalem. Their people will become like walking corpses, their flesh rotting away. Their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

As I read this, it hit me—this is a description of zombies or the walking dead. So this is where all the mummy, zombie, etc. literature originates. Where else?

Much of Western and other cultures on earth come from the Bible. We don’t read the Bible enough to recognize these things as they come and go and come and go in their endless cycles.

People are creative and innovative and all that. Still, much of the creativity that we admire among people comes right from God. It’s just that we have forgotten God and what He put in our minds.