Constantine

[MaChu]

Seemed random at the end like they ran out of money in their budget and decided to kill the kid and wrap things up fairly anticlimatic with the ending scenes. Other than that...it was pretty good. The beginning scene was MacGuyver(sp?) meets the exorcist, definentely set the movie into play. Also I kinda liked the way they broke up the serious scences with humor like in the bath room..."Do I have to be naked to do this..." pause "Well, Do I..". "Im thinking..."

[shatter_storm]

Wasn't there a wolfenstein: spear of destiny which had you searching for said spear in the nazi castles?

That's one of the only things I took from that movie - the flag along with the spear. My local theatre had the volume cranked up for the previews/commercials, but the movie played pretty darn soft, I couldn't make out most of the dialog.

Good flick tho.

[B.A.M.]

http://altreligion.about.com/library...efsredking.htm

The easiest one I found. My friend is a religious studies/ medieval studies guy and has it in a book in latin, he was excited to see it in the movie

sweet thx a bunch. I think i'll use that symbo for something

[Stix]

Stix: I thought he (Gabe) was in Rev's as well... I thought he was the one showing the author everything? Anywhoo, I know he pops up in a lot of other Catholic canon-sourced fiction.

The author is the Apostle John. As to the speaker asking John to dictate... this is subject to interpretation, though it's generally accepted that it's God and/or Jesus Christ himself.

11Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
12And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
13And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
14His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
15And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
16And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

The Alpha and Omega reference that is only used for the God/Trinity; also John uses the term "Son of Man", the same term used by the prophet Daniel when he prophesized about Christ Jesus, and it's also the same term Christ Jesus used for Himself. There is a lot of talk about angels and stuff like that in Revelation, but as for the specific name Gabriel popping up, after doing a quick search I didn't find anything in the book of Revelation.