Posted on 11/17/2015 7:20:28 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
One of my favorites...
“Big train comin’ and the train done gone.”
“One of my favorites” Mine too,
along with “When You Going to Wake Up” on same album
Truly, prophetic.
Of course Bob has left the Christian born again thing and is just BOB again.
I like Dylan. Always did. Well at least after he left pure folk and got booed off the stage at the Newport Folk Festival, by the folky/hippies.
Wow - another person who loves this album. Came out in ‘79 I believe. I wore that album out.
Not yet, our Lord tarries until just the right time, not wanting anyone to miss his arrival. When he finally comes, it will be too late. Now is the time to get right with Him!
My favorites too.
Great song and Bob was used by God. But this is yet another PROOF that people can “fall away”...(2 Thes 2)
Slow train. Get it?
Thanks so much for posting! I remember Dylan's brief experiment with Christianity before he fell away. Worked with a guy in '79 who played the cassette often. I was still lost as I could be, but liked Dylan.
I'm going to listen to clips of Slow Train Coming as soon as I post this.
Praise God & thank you, Jesus! I was blind but now I see, was lost but now I'm found.
Yes, that one is unnervingly prophetic. Too bad for Bob, I too was hoping he had found his Messiah.
Enlighten me, I may be missing something?
Thanks for the update. I have not really followed Dylan's music or life. I'm really glad to see that I may have erred in where I though Dylan was in his faith.
Perhaps he is not going to descend on the Mount of Olives but is already here. “[W]hen he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”
Or you could reverse it and say, “When he appears, we will see him as he is, for we shall be like him.”
Way back in '86, I was privileged to have Don Francisco (the Christian musician, not the Spanish-TV host) sing at the church I was working at. Among other things, he talked about how at one point in the late 70s he was feeling despondent, and seemingly out of nowhere he received a phone call from Bob Dylan, who said the Lord had told him (Dylan) to tell Don that He was with him (Francisco), and how that showed that God wants to use us to encourage one another.
But Dylan's final question, "Tell me what youâre gonna do when your water turns to wine?" puts us on very different ground. What does that even mean: when your water turns to wine? Dylan, as he does on other occasions (especially in his early years) has taken a song that was going in a familiar enough direction and just flipped it into another dimension. The changing of water to wine naturally brings to mind the biblical story of Jesus' first public miracle, at the wedding in Cana. Tha'âs the image; it's one that Dylan as a songwriter knew that listeners would know, and would resonate in some way. It flips the song into another dimension because now the question is not merely: "What are you going to do when the very bad things happen to you?" but: "What are you going to do when something very good happens to you? How are you going to respond to a miracle in your life?"
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