I was going okay with the movie until some astronaut had to fly through a wormhole. And then when the protagonist needed to enter a black hole to discover the source of the gravitational anomaly that was drying out the earth, my joy got sucked in with him. Interstellar is one of those movies that explores the exotic effect of lightspeed on time, and ends with the protagonist returning from space to meet his daughter who is now more than double his age.

Einstein wasn’t the first to come up with the idea of relativity. The prophet Amos saw it in the eighth century BC. “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman and the planter by the one treading grapes.” The reaper overtaken by the plowman! The planter overtaken by the grape-treader! Now there are some relativistic anomalies!

Amos is not indulging Interstellar-intrigues, but calling his nation to a moral reset, and employs figures of agricultural miracles to make his point. The statements are neither to be taken literally, nor as science fiction, but simply as a passionate call to repentance, with the promise that God will amply repay anyone who will reorder their ways. Messiah gave us a glimpse of such moral wholeness when he came from beyond the stars to live on earth. He also promised that those who followed him would live to see the Fall work in reverse, and this dusty world flowing with wine.