#351 The Deadly Wound of the Beast – The role of and Tommy

One of the weirdest, disjointed, and off-the-wall movies ever made was Tommy (1975), the film adaptation of The Who’s classic album Tommy. The movie is so bizarre that even fans of the movie have trouble explaining its message. It is high-minded about war and religion, but likes pinball. Tommy is the Pinball Messiah. But the Lord had a purpose for The Who and Tommy. Let’s organize and explain the plot near the beginning of the movie, and then explain why the Lord ordained the movie.

The setting for Tommy (in the 1975 movie version) is World War II. Mr. and Mrs. Walker have had a wonderful and close romantic courtship and are now married. They say an emotional goodbye to each other as Mr. Walker has to depart to fight for his country. He is a bomber pilot and part of the allied war effort in World War II. At the time of his leaving, Mrs. Walker is pregnant with his child. She works in a munitions factory. In the movie, the ‘shot’ that is put in shells in her war plant looks exactly like pinballs. She receives news at the plant that her husband is missing. His plane has crashed, and she might as well not expect to see him again. She is completely devastated and faints. The ‘pinball’ munitions she works with scatter about her on the floor. It is presumed that her husband is dead.

Tommy born on V-E Day. Still without her husband, Mrs. Walker gives birth to their child, a boy, on a very special day. It is V-E (Victory in Europe) Day, May 8, 1945, the day of the end of the war in Europe. Germany had surrendered the day before, May 7, 1945, at 2:41 a.m. There is a scene of an extensive victory celebration on the streets below the hospital. One can see flags of the allies flying, including the flags of the USSR and Britain. The nurses sing a song with a double theme – the end of the war and the birth of a son. The son is Tommy.

A Son! A Son! A Son! There’s a joyful celebration in the street It’s a boy born on this day of peace We’ve Won! A Son!

Later, as a boy, because of the murder of his real father (who had not been killed in his plane crash after all) by the man his mother has remarried (Tommy saw it and heard it and could have told about it all), Tommy becomes blind, deaf, and dumb. But Tommy would become the , skyrocketing to the status of a Pinball Messiah. Remember, the ‘shot’ at the beginning of the movie looked like the pinballs that are seen later in the movie.

Here is #351–Doc 1, which shows scenes from the movie Tommy of Tommy being born on V-E Day, May 8, 1945.

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As we have thoroughly discussed, the surrender of Germany at 2:41 a.m., May 7, 1945, and V-E Day, May 8, 1945, represent the deadly wound to Germany, Revelation 13:3. And as we discussed in Unsealing #332 The Deadly Wound of the Beast – Who can make war with the

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Revelation 13:3-4 (KJV) And I SAW ONE OF HIS HEADS [the 7th Head (or Kingdom), Germany’s Third Reich] AS IT WERE WOUNDED TO DEATH [by the 8th Kingdom, the Beast, partially reflected through Hitler’s April 30, 1945, self-inflicted head wound, and fully fulfilled through the events of the German surrender on May 7-8, 1945]; AND HIS [the 7th Kingdom’s] DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED [by the 8th Kingdom, the Beast, with Lucius Clay Democracy, specifically fulfilled on September 7, 1949]: and all the world wondered after THE BEAST [the 8th Kingdom]. 4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, WHO is like unto the beast? WHO IS ABLE TO MAKE WAR WITH HIM?

Key Understanding: The Who’s most famous piece of musical work was Tommy. In the 1975 movie adaptation of Tommy, Tommy is born on V-E Day, May 8, 1945, directly in conjunction with the victory celebrations of the Allies. The Who was ordained by the Lord to have that name, and to produce Tommy, with the 1975 movie version attached to World War II, and the birth of Tommy totally attached to the victory over Germany, to further verify that the May 7-8, 1945, defeat of Germany was fulfilling Revelation 13:3-4, and especially, WHO is like unto the beast? WHO IS ABLE TO MAKE WAR WITH HIM?

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