To make it as religious as possible which is what it seems to be:
the night before Israel was supposed to enter the Promised Land that their Father told them was theirs to take, they sent spies to check it out, but they came back fearing that the people of the land would destroy them and not trusting God's word. We were shadows of what we were meant to be as the image bearers of God and became children of wrath [or Satan] through our disobedience. I have no clue about the middle verse but the last hints to an afterlife in which we will know the reason for our existence. That is what we are all after, right?
We are the kings and queens of a new promise through Jesus Christ our Lord
I don't know, although I applaud any deduction of reasoning to find meaning in words. So, I like the afterlife thought, but I think it's a stretch.
I don't know, although I applaud any deduction of reasoning to find meaning in words. So, I like the afterlife thought, but I think it's a stretch.
There's a parable somewhere in the Bible about an incoming army just trampling down a field toward a defending army. At the last moment a defending soldier holds up a baby, and the attackers immediately stop in their tracks. I may be remembering this completely wrong, but it dramatically shows a baby stopping a war. Children can remind us what it means to live, and they can also grow to make better attempts at living rightly.
I can definitely see a parallel in this song to the hope of Jesus Christ found in Christ's birth. This song ends in hope. If you think about the first humans, Adam and Eve, they were the king and queen of earth. They were told to rule over everything that had the breath of life in it (although this does not mean we can selfishly dominate living creatures because we were the chosen ones). We were made to cultivate these precious gifts, because when you receive a gift you don't throw it in a moldy shed.
The children echoing the chorus in the end lead me to believe that our kids are the new Kings and Queens of tomorrow. They can live without making the same mistakes older folks have made. We can learn about the Holocaust and the most atrocious events in history which degrade what it means to participate in a higher, moral world of enlightenment, or to be man. A bit of humanity dies when man loses respect for man.
To make it as religious as possible which is what it seems to be:
the night before Israel was supposed to enter the Promised Land that their Father told them was theirs to take, they sent spies to check it out, but they came back fearing that the people of the land would destroy them and not trusting God's word. We were shadows of what we were meant to be as the image bearers of God and became children of wrath [or Satan] through our disobedience. I have no clue about the middle verse but the last hints to an afterlife in which we will know the reason for our existence. That is what we are all after, right?
We are the kings and queens of a new promise through Jesus Christ our Lord
I don't know, although I applaud any deduction of reasoning to find meaning in words. So, I like the afterlife thought, but I think it's a stretch.
I don't know, although I applaud any deduction of reasoning to find meaning in words. So, I like the afterlife thought, but I think it's a stretch.
There's a parable somewhere in the Bible about an incoming army just trampling down a field toward a defending army. At the last moment a defending soldier holds up a baby, and the attackers immediately stop in their tracks. I may be remembering this completely wrong, but it dramatically shows a baby stopping a war. Children can remind us what it means to live, and they can also grow to make better attempts at living rightly.
I can definitely see a parallel in this song to the hope of Jesus Christ found in Christ's birth. This song ends in hope. If you think about the first humans, Adam and Eve, they were the king and queen of earth. They were told to rule over everything that had the breath of life in it (although this does not mean we can selfishly dominate living creatures because we were the chosen ones). We were made to cultivate these precious gifts, because when you receive a gift you don't throw it in a moldy shed.
The children echoing the chorus in the end lead me to believe that our kids are the new Kings and Queens of tomorrow. They can live without making the same mistakes older folks have made. We can learn about the Holocaust and the most atrocious events in history which degrade what it means to participate in a higher, moral world of enlightenment, or to be man. A bit of humanity dies when man loses respect for man.