Breaking down the distance between right and wrong

I've always enjoyed Bob Dylan's "Ring Them Bells" off the "Oh Mercy" (1989) album. I didn't discover the recording until I starting getting into his music around ten or twelve years ago. Among the many insightful observations in the song, near the end he says this:

Ring them bells St. Catherine

From the top of the room,

Ring them from the fortress

For the lilies that bloom.

Oh the lines are long

And the fighting is strong

And they're breaking down the distance

Between right and wrong.

And that was twenty years ago. Where is that "distance" today? I'm not exactly sure what Dylan is getting at by saying "Ring them bells St. Catherine" nor am I clear on the similar directives given "St. Peter" and "Sweet Martha" in the first line of the two previous verses. My hunch is he might be referring to I Cor. 6:1-2:

"Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to the law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? Do you not know the saints will judge the world? And if the world be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?" (I Cor. 6:1-2 NKJV)

This passage, along with Rev. 2:26-27 and Rev. 3:21, seems to indicate that Christians will in some way be assisting Christ in his judging of the world in the millenial kingdom. Dylan's reference to the "the lilies that bloom" brings to mind Luke 2:27-28 where Jesus teaches His disciples not to worry about what they shall wear since God clothes the fields with such beauty (with lilies) that not even Solomon and his presumably extravagant wardrobe could match. In verse 28 He mentions the lilies being here today and cast in the oven tomorrow. If God so cares for the field, how much more does He care for us?

My interpretation of "the fighting is strong" is that it's Dylan's observation of the increasing intensity of spiritual warfare. Finally, he closes the song with a killer line: "And they're breaking down the distance between right and wrong". I believe "they" refers to the world and all that is anti-Christ. Just think about how the clarity between right and wrong has been muddied over the years, not only in this generation, but in those preceding it. And that distance has been closing with greater and greater speed.

If you ball your two hands into fists and hold them up at eye level, with the right representing "right" and the left representing "wrong" and gradually move them towards the center, you'll have a clear illustration of Dylan's commentary. And there's no denying it's a tragic truth of the world we live in. By saying "they're breaking...." he's telling us it's something that is happening. And it's still happening today. It's now for the bride, the church, to be actively upholding that which is right by lifting up Christ and His standards as well as clearly pointing out what is wrong.