The Last Battle

Last book in Narnia series Symbol of the end of times Parallels with Revelation

Tash: God of the Calormenes Satan; the Dragon Revelation 12: 9, 13: 3 “The great dragon was hurled down- the ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray…Men worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast…”

Shift: talking ape who lives by Cauldron Pool The Antichrist; the beast out of the sea Revelation 13: 1, 5-7a “And I saw a beast coming out of the sea…The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority…He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. He was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation”

Puzzle: Donkey, friend of Shift The image of the beast out of the sea; the idol of the antichrist Revelation 13:14 “[The false prophet] ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.”

Rishda and Ginger: Calormene and Cat that lead part of the following for Tashlan Dual embodiment of the Beast out of the Earth; False Prophet Revelation 13: 11,12,14 “Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth…He exercised all the authority of the first beast, whose fatal wound that had been healed…Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth…”

Rishda and Ginger Matthew 24: “At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect-if that were possible.”

Tashlan: Combination of Tash and Aslan created by Shift, Rishda, and Ginger to include all people in the worship Universalism; deception

Through the Stable Doors The stable doors represent a passageway from this world into the next.

Dwarves: Atheism Blind to reality Matthew 13: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand… For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes.”

Seven Friends of Narnia Digory, Polly, Peter, Edmund, Lucy, Eustace, Jill Importance of the number seven Completeness

Seven Friends of Narnia Revelation 7 :9,14,17 After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude … standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes …"These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

Destruction of Narnia The Trumpet Sounds -The beginning of the end- Matthew 24:29 "Immediately after the distress of those days, 'the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’”

Destruction of Narnia Acts 2:20 “The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.”

Destruction of Narnia 2 Peter 3:10 “But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. ”

Separation of Beasts Revelation 25:32,33,41All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. …He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. ‘Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.’ …’Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.’

Emeth: a Calormene seeking Tash, but found Aslan Emeth: Hebrew for “truth and searching” Psalm 63:1 “O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water”

Emeth and Aslan Acts 10:35 says that God “accepts men from every nation who fear him and do what is right.”