The Last Battle

Let me finish this morning with a quote from C.S. Lewis.

In his final book in the Narnia series, The Last Battle, some of you will have read it, maybe read it to your kids.

He has this description of the beginning of life in Narnia that's going to go on and on forever.

And it's a beautiful allegory of heaven, beautiful allegory of the new creation.

Those were my favorite books.

I was very hesitant to read The Last Battle because I knew that was the last book

and

what happened at the end and I was not ready to accept it.

jokes in this one.

This one has a lighter and more humorous tone than, say, The Last Battle.

Or even, say, like...

Like the

Others in the story regard dulce et decorum est, so that idea that there is a good and beautiful death, as no more than an irrational sentiment.

They treat nobility, patriotic feeling, and self-sacrifice with cynicism.

For there are mopes and malcontents in the last battle, as well as contemplatives.

They are the dwarfs, to whom everything is a sensory wilderness.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

Then comes The Corpse and His Boy, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Share, and then The Last Battle.

You've got them all.

And they're such great books, my friends.

There is a conspicuous lack of silver platters.

He references Asimov's Foundation Trilogy and C.S. Lewis's The Last Battle, where the further in you go, the bigger everything gets.

As your universe grows and becomes more complex, you are alone.

But remember, this is not isolation.

And some of those that you think aren't making the cut, you'll be surprised." And of course C.S.

Lewis goes into that in The Great Divorce and The Last Battle, and then you've got, you know, Luke Thompson calling me an infernalist, and, you know, on and on and on and on and on and on and on.

Okay? So ...

And what are they gonna do tomorrow? You know, maybe, maybe N.T.

And I will tell you the moment why.

Uh, well, there was one moment I remember you were talking about divine hiddenness, and your analogy for understanding how one could have interaction with God while not formally knowing God, and so overcoming the hiddenness objection, you made an analogy to, uh, The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis.

Um, if you wanna catch people, uh, up on that.

Yeah.