In the movie War Games, a brilliant man has created a computer program that the defense department uses to determine strategies for conducting war. A teenager hacks into the system and finds the games menu which includes global thermonuclear war. He believes it to be a game when in reality it is the real deal and begins playing. The computer takes over the game and the country is soon headed towards a doomsday scenario. The teenager and a girl friend track down the designer who comes to help save the day. In the end they three get into the "mind" of Joshua, the computer, and trick it into shutting down the game in futility that in the end nobody wins.

Is there an allegory in this movie? It is interesting that the name of the computer is the name of the designer's son who died as a child, before he reached his potential, and the name happens to be the Anglicized version of the name Yeshua, or Jesus. The doomsday scenario, destruction of the earth because all the countries who possess nuclear weapons fire them, is clearly meant to be a message against the proliferation of such weaponry, a la Dr Strangelove. But could it also not include the ultimate end game of God vis a vis creation and the book of Revelation? We can see in our enlightenment world that many no longer believe that there is an end game, surely God can see nobody wins and therefore would rather just play nice.

God knows us but do we know Him? His desire, like our own, is to be known. The book of Hosea says it again and again, that His people don't know Him but that He wants them to know Him. The incarnation of Jesus is God making Himself known to us, we who are hiding in darkness, just like in Genesis 3, pitifully clothing ourselves emotionally just like Adam and Eve. The knowledge that we are known is too wonderful for us (see Psalm 139.6). They sought knowledge apart from God when they should have sought knowledge about God and from God.