Narnia and the North! The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Part II
“Aslan?” said Mr. Beaver. “Why, don’t you know? He’s the King. He’s the Lord of the whole wood, but not often here, you understand. Never in my time or my father’s time. But the word has reached us that he has come back. He is in Narnia at this moment. He’ll settle the White Queen all right. It is he, not you, who will save Mr. Tumnus.”
“She won’t turn him into stone, too?” said Edmund.
“Lord love you, Son of Adam, what a simple thing to say!” answered Mr. Beaver with a great laugh. “Turn him into stone? If she can stand on her two feet and look him in the face it’ll be the most she can do and more than I expect of her. No, no. He’ll put all to rights…”
“That you will, dearie, and no mistake.” Said Mrs. Beaver; “if there’s anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they’re either braver than most or else just silly.”
“Then he isn’t safe?” said Lucy.
“Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.”
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.” (Psalms 19:1)
“He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name. Great is our Lord and mighty in power; His understanding has no limit.” (Psalms 147: 4-5)
“By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of His mouth.”
“When I consider your heaves, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?”
“I’ve come at last,” said he (Father Christmas). “She has kept me out for a long time, but I have got in at last. Aslan is on the move. The Witch’s magic is weakening.”
“They (Peter, Susan, and Lucy) hadn’t even known for certain (as the Witch did) that this was what would happen when Aslan came to Narnia. But they all knew that it was her spells which had produced the endless winter; and therefore they all knew when this magic spring began that something had gone wrong, and badly wrong, with the Witch’s schemes.”
“But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn’t know what to do or say when they saw him. People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If the children had ever thought so, they were cured of it now. For when they tried to look at Aslan’s face they just caught a glimpse of the golden mane and the great, royal, solemn, overwhelming eyes; and then they found they couldn’t look at him and went all trembly.”
“I can only imagine
What it will be like
When I walk
By your side…
Surrounded by your glory, what will my heart feel
Will I dance for you Jesus or in honor of you be still
Will I stand in your presence or to my knees will I fall
Will I sing hallelujah, will I be able to speak at all
I can only imagine…”
“You have a traitor there, Aslan,” said the Witch… “Well,” said Aslan. “His offence was not against you…”
“You know that every traitor belongs to me as my lawful prey and that for every treachery I have a right to a kill…”
“And so,” continued the Witch, “that human creature is mine. His life is forfeit to me. His blood is my property.”
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
“The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life – only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.” (John 10: 17-18)
“And now, who has won? Fool, did you think that by all this you would save the human traitor? Now I will kill you instead of him as our pact was and so the Deep Magic will be appeased. But when you are dead what will prevent me from killing him as well? And who will take him out of my hand then? Understand that you have given me Narnia forever, you have lost your own life and you have not saved his. In that knowledge, despair and die.”
“There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane… stood Aslan himself.”
Luke 24:36:“While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’”
I Corinthians 15: 3-4 “For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Sciptures…”
“It means,” said Aslan, “that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards…”
Hebrews 2:14 “Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death – that is, the devil – and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.”
“but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.” (II Timothy 1:10)
I Corinthians 15: 52b and 54-57 “…For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed… When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: ‘Death has been swallowed up in victory.’ ‘Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?’ The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Revelation 20:14 “Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.”
Revelation 21:4 “He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
And, from the resurrection of Aslan onwards, the restoration of Narnia begins! There is a great battle in which the Witch is utterly defeated by Aslan and the Narnians. The reign of the Witch is ended, the Witch herself is dead, and the four children are crowned kings and queens over Narnia: High King Peter the Magnificent, High Queen Susan the Gentle, King Edmund the Just, and Queen Lucy the Valiant. Their rule, in later years, becomes known as the Golden Age of Narnia.
Jake says
Why apologize for awesomely long posts? :D
Like it is with books, "The longer, the better!"
:D