Tag: revelation

Falling To Pieces Into Place

Paramore’s early “Hallelujah” has an interesting lyric at the start: Somehow everything’s going to fall—right in-to place The pause after “fall” and the lengthening of “right” add to the meaning of the line. It’s a little like: Somehow everything’s going to fall—[and if that’s the case then] let it in-to place The falling of world…

The End Reveals the Beginning

For me, a central point of apocalyptic theology is that the end reveals the beginning and the beginning reveals the end. On the one side, as the history of the world progresses toward its end, the real meaning of the beginning becomes apparent—even to the point of becoming obnoxiously obvious. Specifically, the more that the…