Have you experienced Cypher’s kiss, the sting of someone’s betrayal? It hurts, no question. However, if you turn the situation over to God, He can use even the worst attack to propel you toward your destiny, making the devil wish that he never messed with you in the first place. When you find yourself feeling like David who wrote prophetically of Jesus betrayal, “Even my close friend in whom I trusted, Who ate my bread, Has lifted up his heel against me” (Psalm 41:9 NASB), just remember that you have a calling, a purpose for living on your life. Paul says that “we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10 NASB). God created us with specific talents and abilities that we would need to fulfill that calling. The enemy knows that much. However, since he isn’t all knowing like God, he doesn’t know precisely what God has in mind for you. This means he has to shoot essentially blindly at you, hoping he will mess up God’s plan. To do that, the devil often uses a Cypher, someone you think you can trust, but is in fact so consumed by his or her own interests and greed that he or she will turn on you for their own gain. At this point I’d like to say I find it interesting that the Wachowski's siblings, who wrote and directed The Matrix, chose the name Cypher for the name of the character that I think is meant to represent Judas Iscariot, Jesus’ betrayer.
Although I don’t believe the Wachowskis intended The Matrix trilogy to be taken as a direct biblical allegory about Jesus, the film definitely has some messianic overtones. For example, at the beginning of The Matrix, Neo is told by the person who buys a computer disk from him, “Hallelujah! You’re my savior, man–my own personal Jesus Christ.” Now back to the character Cypher, who betrays the resisters as a group to the Agents and not Neo specifically (although ...