Brother SpiritLedEd is completely right. I would also like to add the person on the other line is not Jesus Christ the Savior of this world. It is a counterfeit Jesus. Marilyn Manson also sang this song. The only difference marilyn manson was not shy with displaying demonic symbols. The video you saw may seem normal with it's western scenes, but when you remove the theatrics you see the real story they are trying to tell.
The song in it's deceptive context is asking us to put our trust and faith in a Jesus, because he listens to our prayers and he's there. For us to pick up the phone and he'll make us a believer. It goes as far as claiming it's a forgiver. The deception and identity is revealed in verse 2..
Take second best
Put me to the test
Jesus Christ is the Best and our first choice.
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6
"Take second best" implies we take the next best thing which tends to be a down grade of the best. If this song was about the real Jesus that line would go " take the best and put me to the test." Therefore the identity of this Jesus is a counterfeit. This deity can represent the devil and our fleshy desires.
Flesh and bone by the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I'll make you a believer
I will deliver
Here he's asking you to take his call, so he can make you a believer. The caller is not Jesus but a counterfeit.
In the video the men enters a brothel to fulfill their fleshly desires. The women are dressed in black, they have blank faces and stares giving off a deceptive vibe yet seductive. A mirror appears twice in the video, 1st scene shows a woman looking at herself with 3 hats on it, the second scene is at the very end a 4th hat is thrown on the mirror. Symbols leading up to each mirror scene. 1st they enter the house walking under a wheel with candles ( chandelier ). In the occult the wheel " the circle of life."
Exactly before the mirror scene he walks by a symbol on the wall that looks like a cross but the lines are equal in length inside a box. The quartered box represent the quartered circle.
I'll connect the bold text at the end.
Before the 2nd mirror scene someone rides to a pay phone to pick up the receiver. ( I guess to become a believer ). Then a woman is seen giving the lead singer a kiss on his ring ( sign of loyalty and devotion) The last image of the mirror with a 4th hat being thrown on it. The video ends with him says. Reach out and touch me.
In the occult the mirror is used to contact spirits or to transmit energy as the medicine wheel. So it's no coincidence the fourth hat is thrown on the mirror ( 4 men in the video ) before he says reach out and touch me. The lead singer is seen standing between pillars randomly in the video that can represent " gateways ." The first pillar they meet is dark, the last ones are in the light. ( Have become enlightened ). This video in no way is talking about our Lord and Savior. Instead it is asking you to call on a false Jesus, one who would satisfy your flesh, he is second best , it is a mockery of what Jesus stands for.
The woman in the mirror ( her reflection is what you see ) can represent the devil or their sexual desires. The four men is represented by their hats. The hats being on the mirror can translate communication was made between them and false Jesus.
Do not listen to this song for it will not draw you close to God but away. This video is also filled with sexual imagery without being graphic. The true meaning has nothing to do with Jesus our savior, but the occult. It's a commercial ad for the false Jesus. The video have been exposed it's your choice if you want to continue.
“put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephesians 6:11-12).
“When you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire [an ancient occult practice], or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For all who do these things are an abomination [detestable] to the LORD…”
—Deuteronomy 18:9-12a
10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.
11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. DEUTERONOMY 18: 10-13
