ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE

Revelation 20:5-9

Does the Bible, which is God’s absolute truth, prove the existence or the coming of zombies in reality? The Bible has no reference to corpses being reanimated and existing in a continuing state of decomposition. Zechariah 14:12 is often referenced as foretelling an impending zombie apocalypse: "And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.” The word plague, translated from the Hebrew word maggephah, literally means "pestilence"—a sickness. Given today’s war tactics, it is entirely plausible that this verse describes biological warfare, or it could be a special plague designed by God just for this circumstance. Whatever the case, a judgment that rots the living flesh from the bones and the fluid from the eyeballs is horrifying, but it does not indicate a zombie apocalypse.

Long before the introduction of “The Night Of The Living Dead”, there was the zombie. The word zombie actually is a West African word meaning Nzambi, which is an African name of a deity god, Nzambi - the god of the dead. It is this particular deity, or “god” which is based on occult worship whereby Nzambi rules the living as well as the dead. Yet the term zombie goes even further back from the West African tribes, to a darker reality – Satan. The origin for a zombie is found in a spirit deity who took the form of a python, it is this character which influenced the West African tribes and Nzambi and ultimately is how this whole phenomenon began. It is this occult practice that can be found in the jungles of Africa as well as Haiti, which gives us its true meaning.

The characteristics of zombies are simple to understand, in modern terminology, the zombie is a dead human that either through a plague, virus, or other means, becomes reanimated and begins its quest to hunt other living human beings. This action involves the dead human (zombie) to hunt, then eat (cannibalism) its victim alive, and what’s left, then becomes infected, such as a bite or scratch to the flesh from the infected creature, which then “turns” the living person into a “walker”.

Here’s the trouble with zombies, the whole concept is not about entertainment to be lost in a world of fantasy, but it’s based on the past actions of the occult world found in remote places of society. The entire zombie history is traced back to ancient “gods” or spirit, which in reality are nothing more than demonic spirits. It is these demonic spirits which induced people in ancient countries to partake in human sacrifice, the spilling of blood as an appeasement to their god. Voodoo and other rites, including witchcraft, are the founders of where we get the whole zombie concept. It’s based on occult rituals and nothing more.

It was believed that zombies could be made by poisoning people with tetrodotoxin, the poisonous substance found in pufferfish (family Tetraodontidae). The poison would be administered and make the victim appear dead, and due to the climate in Africa and Haiti which would lead to a rotting corpse within days, if not hours, burial would be swift, often without checking if the body was actually dead. Following this, voodoo magicians would find and exhume the body, reviving it to a zombie-like state, possibly with the help of datura, the so-called "zombie cucumber."

Christians should remove themselves from this whole genre and leave it alone. When someone watches something of this nature, its entire message is one of evil. The dead hunting the living, it is in fact a most sincerest form of demonic representation of the enemy (Satan) who desires to eat and devour those whom he can. Again, it all goes back to the occult. From the dead’s blood lust to cannibalism, it takes its very roots from the dark demonic world of the occult, where people partook of this activity even though it was forbidden by God. That’s why the depictions of zombies chasing and devouring human beings are made to be gruesome because it is. Everything one see in a zombie movie or on TV, is a fulfillment of the occult, the viewer is actually seeing the occult ritual being played out right on the screen.

God makes clear His views on all of this: “When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.  For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.”  (Deuteronomy 18:9-12)

There is no place for such entertainment in the life of a believer. The reality is that while the zombie craze is enticing many young people in this particular horror genre, the reality is darker and more alarming when we examine everything with scripture. Zombies, like vampires, like ghouls, like werewolves, and other popular horror icons, represent the darkness of Satan’s kingdom and one which the Christians need not have anything to do with, even if it seems harmless, the spirit behind it is not. 

The trouble with zombies is it’s demonic. It is now clearer how dangerous opening oneself to demonic influence can be. There are no limits to the depravity of human behavior when someone is disconnected from any Godly influence. While the idea of a Zombie Apocalypse seems farfetched, a better question is examining your own spiritual state. The Bible says: “And you, being dead in your sins...hath he quickened [given life] together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;” (Colossians 2:13-14)

What is the meaning of “The Zombie Apocalypse” that we can understand from the Bible view? Final Judgment is a “Zombie Apocalypse” in the Bible.  After the 1000 years, Satan and all the damned are let out of the abyss.  They rise as the “living dead”.  Satan gathers them all, and they converge to attack Jerusalem.  It’s a literal “Zombie Apocalypse” Revelation 20:1-2. Here we see the damned emerging from hell and from their graves globally to join Satan for the “Zombie Apocalypse”. They come out of their graves to be gathered by Satan to march against Jerusalem (Rev. 20:5 -9).

The damned of all ages will come back from the dead, as the living dead, to march with Satan against Jerusalem in a “Zombie Apocalypse” in the Final Armageddon after the 1000 year reign of Christ.