In the movie Beauty offers herself in the place of her father who had sinned. This is just one of a number of gospel themes in the story. In Revelation Chapter 17 we also see ‘beauty’ (Babylon) and the Beast but here Babylon is the seductive attraction of the world and the Beast’s purpose is the destruction of God’s people.

Babylon entices people with worldwide adulteries … sex, money and power. The price is the loss of the soul. The Scripture says that ‘friendship with the world is enmity towards God’. We next find, in the second part of the Chapter, that the Beast eats the ‘beauty’ (Babylon).  The Lamb then wins the battle. He is the King of kings.

Jesus is the one who transforms people into true beauty in God’s sight. He does this in ‘clothing’ us, thought faith, with the beautiful garments of his perfect right-ness. Through grace alone he saves us from both the ‘beauty’ of this world’s attractions and also the Beast. Flee to him and beware of the seductive ‘beauty’ of the world … it will never satisfy.