My family has been watching this movie every year for the last two years since we’ve first seen it on Victory Channel as it was being debuted by Andrew Wommack, founder of Andrew Wommack Ministries and Charis Bible College, where majority of this movie’s actors hail. This movie resonates with me every year, from the cinematics, the story, the songs (it’s just like David: King of Jerusalem, which I wrote about on a personal blog of mine) and the overall ambience of the movie.
Honestly, if you’re expecting to understand what Christmas is truly about in a wonderful and biblically accurate story, watching this movie should be first on your holidays list (next year, of course.)
The story follows about three different timelines. One in current, with a family celebrating Christmas, the mother, Ruth’s story dealing with her father, and a fictional wise man, Zargon, who wants to visit the Messiah after hearing about his birth. They all coincide with each other and bleed into each other’s events, just as in David: King of Jerusalem’s movie where scenes went backwards and forward between young and older David. I need to find out and hope to meet the people responsible for these wonderful stories and bringing them to life, because they have writing, production, direction and musical talents out of this world. (I think it’s these people.)
One of my favorite scenes is when Reuben, a young boy who was a leper, sees Zargon’s wounds gone off his once dying body and declares, “Abba, your wounds, they’re gone!” I also enjoyed the music, the settings of the stages (lighting and all that wonderfully good stuff) as well as the two music videos at the end of the movie that were nothing less than top notch. We just noticed this as we watched it on Christmas Eve and I couldn’t believe my eyes after seeing the masterpieces that were “Be Like Mary” and “Believe” song by various singers from the movie.
Like David: King of Jerusalem, you’ll see familiar faces; most actors played multiple roles throughout the production. But again, they did such a fine job that you couldn’t even tell that there were repeated actors. The Charis Bible College team did a stellar job showing the real reason for Christmas, being Jesus’s birth and death, because his life and death were a gift for all mankind so we can pursue the lives God wants us to achieve.
This movie is directly based on the book The Servant King by Elizabeth Fumero Muren and Adam Stone. (I also purchased this in 2022.)
I apologize for writing about this so late, I should have done this many moons ago. But it’s better to be late than never, amirite!?
I hope you enjoyed your Christmas holidays and I hope you have a prosperous New Year!
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