Back To The Future Theology

One morning I was washing dishes and the weirdest word came to my mind. It was the word capacitor - not a word that typically comes to you when washing dishes. I thought about this word and what it might mean and a whole analogy came to my mind. Before I get into that though, I wanted to tell you about a capacitor:

Capacitor: An electrical device consisting of two conducting plates separated by an electrical insulator (the dielectric), designed to hold an electric charge. Charge builds up when a voltage is applied across the plates, creating an electric field between them. Current can flow through a capacitor only as the voltage across it is changing, not when it is constant.

In essence, a capacitor stores up energy to be released all at once in a power surge.

In Back to the Future 1, you have the McFly family. Before Marty goes to the past, what is going on with his family? If you remember, his family is not doing well. They are impoverished, unhealthy, oppressed, and are defensive. Biff is super-controlling and their "Future" looks bleak. Doctor Emmitt Brown "Doc" also dies.

So, what happens after Marty goes to the past? When he comes back, you see a completely different family. The mom and dad are both healthy. Marty's father, George lived out his true destiny and became a writer. The family is prosperous and the children have bright futures. The Doc has also been spared and no longer faces death.

The question is: what happened in between these two events? Something took hold of the fabric of time and shifted the course of events which altered the family's destiny. Lives were changed and the future was shifted for the better. Thinking about all this leads us back to the capacitor - The Flux Capacitor.

The Flux Capacitor is the device created that allows time travel possible. When the time machine gets up to speed (88 miles per hour), the flux capacitor releases its energy and the time machine rips through time. In the spiritual world, the flux capacitor is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the conductance point whereby the power of God is built up and transferred into earth at proper times.

The night that Marty takes a trip in the time machine, he has to get the time machine up to 88 miles per hour. The only way the flux capacitor will accumulate enough charge is for the car to get to 88 miles an hour. I equate this to getting up to speed with the holy spirit. When we get up to speed in the holy spirit, He then unleashes a charge through us that makes shifting the fabric of time possible.

The time that we get into the car and accelerate to 88 miles per hour takes is the kairos moment. In wikipedia.com, kairos has this definition: "a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved.' In the New Testament kairos means "the appointed time in the purpose of God", the time when God acts (e.g. Mark 1.15, the kairos is fulfilled)."

SO, IT IS IN THOSE KAIROS MOMENTS WHEREBY THE HOLY SPIRIT SHIFTS US INTO ARBITERS OF OPPORTUNITY. IN THE KAIROS MOMENT, THE HOLY SPIRIT THEN SHIFTS THE FABRIC OF TIME WHEREBY WE WORK WITH THE SPIRIT TO PERFORM A DESTINY CHANGE. When we encounter those moments, we must be ready to step into the vehicle, charge full speed ahead, and the power of God then surges through our vehicles to alter past, present and future.

We are arbiters of opportunity and destiny. God can use us with the help of the Holy Spirit to alter destinies. So, when has the Holy Spirit tugged on your heart? Moreover, when have we quenched the Holy Spirit? Quenching the Holy Spirit is like turning off the time machine so that we don't alter destinies for the better.

God Bless!