Hi All,
My latest fad is watching Japanese all metal girl groups. I can enjoy all kinds of music but of course there is the obligatory hand signs "rock on" through out the live concerts. But I noticed the English title of the group Lovebites and their concert called "Knockin' at Heaven's Gate - Part 2" . It got me thinking. From the FE and Christian perspective what does that tile mean? Of course outside this safe space for the FE community I know the trolls would attack on mass for even pondering the subject. But fortunately us open minded Truth seeking folk can consider these things. What a joy and pleasure! But moving on, knocking on heaven's gate? Reminds me of when Hillary Clinton spoke of hoping to shatter the glass ceiling someday. Glass is clear and the color of the water is blue or in the case above us they are "sky blue" . So this glass seems to be a reference to the dome. While I know this is old material for the old hands in the FE community there's a reason why I'm revisiting this statement. From the Christian perspective Heaven is in the sky or more accurately above the dome. So back to the concert name "knocking at heaven's gate" . Could they want to knock so hard they wish to break down the gate or shatter the ceiling. Again the point of me mentioning all this is to find these references in music. Another example would be Guns and Roses Knocking on Heaven's door. Yes, I accept it's probably just about a boy wanting to get a girl. But I often wonder at the choices of words. A Japanese All girl Metal concert from today and a 90s American rock group. Let's see if there's any other examples. Without doing any Google searching how about The Doors with Break on Through to the Other Side? The Doors? (Reminds me of Bill Gates Windows). Doorways, entrances gates? Why Break through? Could it be because who or whatever is demanding their seat in heaven is not welcome there , hence the words describing the use of force? My will be done and not Thy will be done? It's fascinating stuff. Of course the biblical perspective is that a 1/3 of the angels were cast from heaven (the origins of the 33% or the significance of the number 33?). Incidentally I noticed on of Elon Musk's latest rockets has actually 33 rocket engines mounted together. Talk about a face palm moment. By the way I just recently posted the lyrics for Red Hot Chilli Peppers with the Californication song lyrics. There are some nice bread crumbs in there.
Well that's all I have energy for today. Hopefully someone enjoyed my ramblings. I certainly liked sharing them.
God bless and goodnight from Aussie land.
Simon
Like some metal? Tourniquet is my all time favorite Christian metal band. Check 'em out: https://open.spotify.com/track/6vzvjzt6pDNkdsHDX7ZQGf?si=6b725099c1d64271
You spin me round - Dead or Alive. Spinning ball narrative.
Another brick in the wall - Pink Floyd. Antarctica ice wall.