The Matrix Resurrections: What's Really Going On In The Matrix?

What's really going on in the matrix? What story is being told? Many have speculated about this. There are critiques of government, power, capitalism, and so on. There are spiritual elements. But what is the rock bottom story being told? To really understand the matrix and what is happening, and why it's so profound and hits us so deeply, we have to understand theology. So yours truly is here to help.

You may find this conclusion astonishing, but stay with me, as I explain the parallels. But yes, your mind is about to be completely blown.

The matrix, the entire series, including resurrections, is about an attempt to stalemate God. The goal, to defeat God, force God into a truce, and circumvent the world system that God has created. I know, sounds crazy doesn't it? But stay with me here.

The matrix is the coded reality in which humans are kept under control. Agents protect the system. There are convening powers, machines, that designed and set up the matrix. Humans are trapped within it.

Fundamentally, the matrix is portraying a view of the universe we all currently live in, from the perspective of rebellion against God's system. So the matrix we see in the films, is how someone like Lucifer (Satan) would view God, the universe we live in, and the human race.

I'm going to draw a diagram here of the theological comparisons, let's take a look:

The Matrix = the planet earth as it is today

Agents = angels (servants of God who protect and defend the system and the people in it)

The Architect = God the Father (the designer of the matrix system)

Agent Smith = Jesus Christ (God in human form, machine in human form you might say)

The War between humans & Machines = the great spiritual battle for the souls of humanity

The Scorching of the Sky = The Fall event in Genesis

Zion = hell

Hovership crews = demons

Residents of Zion = people in hell

Morpheus = the false prophet of revelation

Neo = the anti-Christ

The Oracle = the oracle at Delphi typological figure (perhaps Satan)

Trinity = the sacred feminine

Fight between Neo and Smith = Final battle of Armageddon

Where do these ideas come from? It has a certain flavor of Gnosticism, Greek philosophy's theological response to Christianity. It accepts many of the attributes and baselines of Christian theology but twists much of it. In Gnosticism God is viewed as just one of many deities. God is actually viewed as a lower deity who is capricious and evil, sort of a bizarre tyrant that the human race is trapped under, and needs to escape from. It tends to view Jesus and Lucifer as brothers with equal power. But it's not quite Gnosticism.

You might say it's Gnosticism blended with the ancient mystery religion of the Babylonian society, and perhaps even Satanism. But I'm not going to speculate too much on roots, that's not the purpose here.

We see in the films that the plight of Zion is extremely severe. They exist in the last human city, near the center of the Earth (similar to how hell is often characterized.) Then you have the hovership crews, hacking into the matrix, to "set souls free" from the matrix system. But when you see the power of the machines, coupled with the power of the agents to defeat the hovership crews that access the matrix, you get a taste of what it must be like to be a demon attacking the Earth.

They must travel from hell, through whatever "heavens" exist between here and there, and they work attacking and destroying people in the matrix, the Earth. Angels, God's messengers protect the system and they protect Christians. Demons are absolutely no match for angels. Angels crush demons with ease, just like agents are able to easily defeat even the most skilled fighters, like Morpheus (see the fight between Agent Smith and Morpheus in the first film.)

It's a hopeless situation for Zion and the various humans still left fighting the machines. In the same way, it's a hopeless situation for rebellious humans, demons, and their leader Satan. But in many ways these demonic forces are no longer what they originally were.

Satan used to be Lucifer, a leader in God's community, in God's reality, what we call "heaven." And demons used to be angels, workers, builders, clerks, and various functionary positions within God's reality.

But at some point in the infinite past, apparently this Lucifer leader, making use of free will, and a grand delusion, decided he ought to rebel and encourage rebellion against the God of heaven. Lucifer must've been a very convincing being, because according to the Bible, one-third of the angels joined his rebellion (Revelation 12:4). They rebelled, and were quickly defeated. How that played out, I would love to see it for myself, what exactly happened, but at this point I'm not aware. We do get some hints in Ezekiel though, from Ezekiel 28:13-19 "You corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor." Perhaps Lucifer was on a quest for greater and greater wisdom in God's realm, but that quest led to a sort of cancer of the mind, that spread, in realization of himself, and a self-focus that grew and grew, until his own genius, beauty, and wisdom became his main concern. And the madness spread like a cancer, destroying him.