Discovered this song like an hour before. Being a big Dylan buff, whatever he does speaks to me. This song is pretty cool too. The song is pretty much self explanatory. Probably some Biblical references are hiding here and there, someone with a knowledge in that field might wanna enlighten us.
The theological character of this song becomes evident from the following line : Look up, look up - seek your Maker - 'fore Gabriel blows his horn
The theological character of this song becomes evident from the following line : Look up, look up - seek your Maker - 'fore Gabriel blows his horn
This implies that there is a maker who will call to account in the future, which may happen unexpectedly even for those who believe in him. The judgment will be initiated by Gabriel blowing his horn. This refers to 1.Corinthians 15,52: in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (This is also...
This implies that there is a maker who will call to account in the future, which may happen unexpectedly even for those who believe in him. The judgment will be initiated by Gabriel blowing his horn. This refers to 1.Corinthians 15,52: in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (This is also cited in Handel’s Messiah).
The last book of the bible called Revelation describes in mysterious pictures a plan of God, represented by a book sealed with seven seals that could not be realized before Jesus died, which is expressed as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals (chapter 5). Each seal opens a new phase of history. The seventh seal brings seven trumpets given to angels (chapter 8). Each trumpet brings a new type of global war. Gabriel’s horn stands for the last of these seven trumpets. Chapter 10,7 reads: but in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, the mystery of God would be finished, as He declared to His servants the prophets.
The believers are addressed as Sugar Baby. The bible speaks more of Christianity as the body of Jesus than of Christianity as his bride. For example 1.Corinthians 12,27: Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. - However, the characterization of Christianity as Jesus’ bride can be found in several more Bob Dylan songs: Sweetheart like you, When the night comes falling from the sky, perhaps Cry a While and the scenery of The groom’s still waiting at the altar.
The initial report on creation in the bible (Genesis 1) ends with: Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. This is followed by a detailed view on the creation of Eve, where unexpectedly something was not good: It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him. This leads further to a statement cited by Paul in Ephesians 5,31 and characterized by him as a great mystery: For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. Paul understood it tentatively as a prediction of what Jesus did for not staying alone.
Discovered this song like an hour before. Being a big Dylan buff, whatever he does speaks to me. This song is pretty cool too. The song is pretty much self explanatory. Probably some Biblical references are hiding here and there, someone with a knowledge in that field might wanna enlighten us.
The theological character of this song becomes evident from the following line : Look up, look up - seek your Maker - 'fore Gabriel blows his horn
The theological character of this song becomes evident from the following line : Look up, look up - seek your Maker - 'fore Gabriel blows his horn
This implies that there is a maker who will call to account in the future, which may happen unexpectedly even for those who believe in him. The judgment will be initiated by Gabriel blowing his horn. This refers to 1.Corinthians 15,52: in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (This is also...
This implies that there is a maker who will call to account in the future, which may happen unexpectedly even for those who believe in him. The judgment will be initiated by Gabriel blowing his horn. This refers to 1.Corinthians 15,52: in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (This is also cited in Handel’s Messiah).
The last book of the bible called Revelation describes in mysterious pictures a plan of God, represented by a book sealed with seven seals that could not be realized before Jesus died, which is expressed as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals (chapter 5). Each seal opens a new phase of history. The seventh seal brings seven trumpets given to angels (chapter 8). Each trumpet brings a new type of global war. Gabriel’s horn stands for the last of these seven trumpets. Chapter 10,7 reads: but in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, the mystery of God would be finished, as He declared to His servants the prophets.
The believers are addressed as Sugar Baby. The bible speaks more of Christianity as the body of Jesus than of Christianity as his bride. For example 1.Corinthians 12,27: Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. - However, the characterization of Christianity as Jesus’ bride can be found in several more Bob Dylan songs: Sweetheart like you, When the night comes falling from the sky, perhaps Cry a While and the scenery of The groom’s still waiting at the altar.
The initial report on creation in the bible (Genesis 1) ends with: Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. This is followed by a detailed view on the creation of Eve, where unexpectedly something was not good: It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him. This leads further to a statement cited by Paul in Ephesians 5,31 and characterized by him as a great mystery: For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. Paul understood it tentatively as a prediction of what Jesus did for not staying alone.
I hope this is sufficient, though not too long.