AMEN! COME, LORD JESUS! (18 OF 18)
Scripture: Revelation 22:6-21
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Amen! Come, Lord Jesus! (18 of 18)
Series: Revelation
Patrick Edward
Revelation 22:6-21
Introduction
Pop music's a funny genre. Typically, we listen to it because of its catchy melodies, simplistic yet effective chord structure, and just that overall feeling we get when listening. For these reasons and more, we also tend to think of pop music as benign, as not really having a profound message or addressing serious topics. Semisonic's ''Closing Time'' is not about the last call at a bar but actually about a premature baby. TLC's ''Waterfalls'' is about the AIDS epidemic. ''Born in the U.S.A.'' by Bruce Springsteen is actually about the Vietnam War. One of my favorites is Blues Traveler's ''Hook'', which simply satirizes catchy musical hooks in songs, as the lyrics reveal,
It doesn't matter what I say
So long as I sing with inflection
That makes you feel I'll convey
Some inner truth or vast reflection
But I've said nothing so far
And I can keep it up for as long as it takes
And it don't matter who you are
If I'm doing my job then it's your resolve that breaks
Because the Hook brings you back
I ain't tellin' you no lie
The Hook brings you back
On that you can rely.
There are plenty more examples out there, where you and I miss the really message of the song because we're listening to it casually without any sort engagement with the content of the lyrics. Instead, we're just riding down the road mindlessly singing songs about AIDS, abortion, school shootings, even The Beatles and LSD. The joke, of course, is on us, which could be said of the book of Revelation.
Indeed, how many of scoured its pages for millennial looking for hidden meanings and subtle clues to unlock a play-by-play account of the end of the world. How many have read its words through the lens of current events hoping to see exactly what this event or that means. Even those of us who resist going down the theorist's rabbit trail, or for many who generally avoid ...
Series: Revelation
Patrick Edward
Revelation 22:6-21
Introduction
Pop music's a funny genre. Typically, we listen to it because of its catchy melodies, simplistic yet effective chord structure, and just that overall feeling we get when listening. For these reasons and more, we also tend to think of pop music as benign, as not really having a profound message or addressing serious topics. Semisonic's ''Closing Time'' is not about the last call at a bar but actually about a premature baby. TLC's ''Waterfalls'' is about the AIDS epidemic. ''Born in the U.S.A.'' by Bruce Springsteen is actually about the Vietnam War. One of my favorites is Blues Traveler's ''Hook'', which simply satirizes catchy musical hooks in songs, as the lyrics reveal,
It doesn't matter what I say
So long as I sing with inflection
That makes you feel I'll convey
Some inner truth or vast reflection
But I've said nothing so far
And I can keep it up for as long as it takes
And it don't matter who you are
If I'm doing my job then it's your resolve that breaks
Because the Hook brings you back
I ain't tellin' you no lie
The Hook brings you back
On that you can rely.
There are plenty more examples out there, where you and I miss the really message of the song because we're listening to it casually without any sort engagement with the content of the lyrics. Instead, we're just riding down the road mindlessly singing songs about AIDS, abortion, school shootings, even The Beatles and LSD. The joke, of course, is on us, which could be said of the book of Revelation.
Indeed, how many of scoured its pages for millennial looking for hidden meanings and subtle clues to unlock a play-by-play account of the end of the world. How many have read its words through the lens of current events hoping to see exactly what this event or that means. Even those of us who resist going down the theorist's rabbit trail, or for many who generally avoid ...
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