The Christian's Guide To Detecting Demonic Music
A History of the Occult in Rock & Roll and modern World Music Songs - https://devil-music-the-occult-beatles.webnode.sk/
The Dragon's Hot Breath
Unmasking the Awful Truth About "Christian" Rock Music
The 50s: A Decade of Music That Changed the World
During the few years when high-octane rock & roll ruled unchecked, the possibilities seemed limitless
Satan and his minions in the entertainment industry are very sneaky, and each year they find new ways to pervert nature and steal the innocence of youth.
You might be shocked by some of these facts about today's music:
FACT: 1 in 3 popular songs on the radio promotes abortion in one way or another.
FACT: There are almost as many songs playing on the radio about gay romance as there are straight romance.
FACT: Before the invention of rock and roll by The Beetles, you almost never, ever heard of teen pregnancy, homosexuality, abortion, teen rebellion, or school shootings.
Most young people today insist that the music they listen to is harmless, and that they don't use music as a basis for making important life decisions.
But what most people don't know is that rock and roll, rap, the techno, and disco all contain subliminal messages and Satanic rhythms designed to summon demons and cause possession, confusion, rebellion, and eventually, death.
Christians must be very careful in choosing what they allow themselves and their children to listen to, and fortunately, the church is always willing to help.
DETECTING SATANIC RHYTHMS:
Rhythm is one of the most basic elements of any song, and also the most dangerous. Certain rhythms can lead to toe-tapping, dancing, fornication, drug use, murder, and self-mutilation.
A good rule of thumb for determining the danger of a rhythm is to first measure the tempo at which it is playing. This is why Christians should always carry a portable metronome in their pocket.
Portable Metronomes Help Detect Satanic Beats.
Tempos are measured in beats per minute (BPM) and any song that clocks in at a speed of over 90 BPM should be turned off. 85 to 90 beats per minute is considered the upper limits of the margin of musical safety, and should never be exceeded.
If you find yourself listening to a song with a tempo of 666 BPM, destroy whatever instruments or devices are producing the music, and pray fervently for forgiveness and protection.
The actual rhythm of the song can be much harder to identify for Christians, since they are not used to listening to music with drums.
Drums are the most dangerous of all musical instruments, even more than the electric guitar! Drums have their roots in the dark continent of Africa where the voodoo hoodoo is just rampant. It is currently unknown to Christian scientists if it is ever safe to listen to drums or not.
Some particularly dangerous beats to look out for:
Boom boom BOP, boom boom BOP! (Also known as the Negro shuffle)
BOOM tata BOOM tata BOOM tata!
RATA tada boom boom TA! RATA tada boom boom TA!
Rhythms vary depending on the time signature of the song, that is, how many beats there are in a measure and which note receives a full beat.
The most righteous time signature is 3/4 time, which is in praise of the Holy Trinity.
There is no such thing as 3/3 time because Satanic music theorists want to prevent full glorification of the Holy Trinity.
I personally prefer the adoration music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owx0kA0ZVCM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCPhqBQURps
http://www.mladifest.com/medjugorje/songs.htm
DETECTING SATANIC LYRICS:
The purpose of music is, of course, the praise and worship of GOD. Some people might argue that music would be boring if it were all written in glorification of GOD, but those people are going to Hell.
Satanist musicians on the Highway to Hell.
As a Christian, you have little to no business listening to anything that doesn't praise GOD. But be careful! Even most modern "Christian" music is secretly a trap to corrupt you with false doctrine and Satanic rhythms!
Lyrics which contain the following words are to be strictly avoided:
"Nigga"
"Dawg"
"Cracka"
"Bounce"
"Watermelon"
"Brotha"
"Ass" (Unless in reference to donkey JESUS rode on.)
"F-word"
"Yo"
"Grill"
"Jiggle"
"Dance floor"
"Baby" (Unless immediately followed by "JESUS.")
"Kiss"
"Triple penetration"
"Fondle"
"Disco stick"
Use your good Christian judgment when listening to lyrics. No Christian has ever been too paranoid, because there is no such thing as too paranoid.
DETECTING NOTES AND CHORDS:
Melody (the tune of the song) consists of a series of notes played on an instrument. It is usually accompanied by chords, which determine the "tone" of the music, which is either happy (major chords) or sad (minor chords.)
Satan wants us to be sad, and JESUS wants us to be happy, so any song containing a minor chord is evil.
Christians should avoid any music that is played in any key except for C Major, which is the only key in which music can be played on the piano without using any of the black keys.
Only 3 Of These Are Safe For Christians!
Playing the white and black keys together on the piano is glorification of race mixing and desegregation. GOD HATES ACCIDENTALS!
CONCLUSION:
The only music that is safe for Christian enjoyment is music without drums played in the key of C without accidentals and utilizing only major chords, with a tempo no greater than 90 BPM and preferably in the meter of 3/4.
Happy listening, True Christians!
Linda
So basically stay away from music with drums? Well then I guess the concert I just went to was "satanic" with all the erotic dancing the homosexual suggestions, the talk of buttocks' and male parts, the moshing, the pentagram, kissing (quite a lot) and the vulgar language.
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. (Leviticus 18:22)
But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me. (Luke 19:27)
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Bob4God
So basically stay away from music with drums? Well then I guess the concert I just went to was "satanic" with all the erotic dancing the homosexual suggestions, the talk of buttocks' and male parts, the moshing, the pentagram, kissing (quite a lot) and the vulgar language.
Oh yes, you're so shocking. Look at us being shocked by your entirely unexpected flaunting of immorality.
You are testing the LORD's patience, and He is drawing a Holy bead on your head right now.
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. - Psalm 7:12
Bob4God
A History of the Occult in Rock & Roll and modern World Music Songs.
How Do I Avoid Going To Hell? Avoiding Hell - A History of the Occult in Rock & Roll and modern World Music Songs. Devil Music: A History of the Occult in Rock & Roll From The Beatles and the Stones to Led Zep, Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath, how the dark arts cast a spell on popular music. https://devil-music-the-occult-beatles.webnode.sk/
https://medium.com/cuepoint/devil-music-a-history-of-the-occult-in-rock-roll-3e671a821ba5
The Christian's Guide To Detecting Demonic Music - 12-06-2012, 10:05 PM
Satan and his minions in the entertainment industry are very sneaky, and each year they find new ways to pervert nature and steal the innocence of youth.
You might be shocked by some of these facts about today's music:
FACT: 1 in 3 popular songs on the radio promotes abortion in one way or another.
FACT: There are almost as many songs playing on the radio about gay romance as there are straight romance.
FACT: Before the invention of rock and roll by The Beetles, you almost never, ever heard of teen pregnancy, homosexuality, abortion, teen rebellion, or school shootings.
Most young people today insist that the music they listen to is harmless, and that they don't use music as a basis for making important life decisions.
But what most people don't know is that rock and roll, rap, the techno, and disco all contain subliminal messages and Satanic rhythms designed to summon demons and cause possession, confusion, rebellion, and eventually, death.
Christians must be very careful in choosing what they allow themselves and their children to listen to, and fortunately, the church is always willing to help.
DETECTING SATANIC RHYTHMS:
Rhythm is one of the most basic elements of any song, and also the most dangerous. Certain rhythms can lead to toe-tapping, dancing, fornication, drug use, murder, and self-mutilation.
A good rule of thumb for determining the danger of a rhythm is to first measure the tempo at which it is playing. This is why Christians should always carry a portable metronome in their pocket.
Music. What Are You Listening to? Hundreds of musical genres exist. Do you know the good from the bad?
The ear is a marvelously designed part of the human body. The messages it sends to the brain cause us to respond in a host of ways. https://rcg.org/youth/articles/0401-mwaylt.html
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THE DEVIL’S MUSIC: HOW CHRISTIANS INSPIRED, CONDEMNED, AND EMBRACED ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
Over the past six decades, rock ‘n’ roll music has played a central role in American popular culture. Armed with a fun-loving and rebellious ethos, rock has had a liberating effect on generations of young people and inspired many of their more significant social movements.
Indeed, rock has been so important to American life that its influence has come to rival that of larger and more ancient institutions. One of these, the Church, has responded to this challenge in different ways at different times. After unwittingly inspiring rock ‘n’ roll, Christian forces in the United States demonized, racialized, otherized, and fought the music passionately before trying to wield it to their own ends.
The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ’n’ Roll
Randall J. Stephens
Harvard U. Press
March 19, 2018
In his new book, The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ‘n’ Roll, historian Randall J. Stephens documents the turbulent relationship between Christian faith and popular music in the twentieth century United States.
How did Christians inspire rock ‘n’ roll?
I focus quite a bit on Pentecostalism; especially in chapter one, which focuses on the origins of rock ‘n’ roll. I argue that, in part, the music and the worship styles of Pentecostal churches proved instrumental in inspiring the first generation of rock ‘n’ roll musicians. In particular, you have Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Johnny Cash, James Brown, B.B. King, and others who grew up in Pentecostal churches or attended Pentecostal worship services throughout their formative years. Fortunately, we have good documentation of them speaking about their youth in these churches and about how influential it was for them.
Elvis, for instance, grew up in the congregation of Memphis First Assembly of God, and he talked often about his admiration for the gospel quartets who came through, including the white Statesmen Quartet and the Stamps Quartet, along with African-American groups like the Golden Gate Quartet. Asked by a reporter about why he moved the way he did on stage, Elvis replied simply, “I just sing like they do back home.” And continued: “When I was younger, I always liked spiritual quartets and they sing like that.
Ray Charles, too, was famous for retooling spirituals and black gospel music into love songs and releasing them as secular mega hits.
Why then, were Christians so quick to demonize—and racialize—rock?
Betty Friedan identified the Beatles as raising a middle finger to the masculine mystique.
Well, they demonized it, in many cases, because of what they saw as a sort of sinful appropriation. Black and white Christians accused Ray Charles of blasphemy because of how he was secularizing sacred music. Blues legend Big Bill Broonzy certainly believed Charles had gone too far. A former pastor in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Broonzy claimed that Charles had “got the blues,” but “he’s cryin’ sanctified. He’s mixing the blues with the spirituals.” Or, as the critic Hollie West said about Aretha Franklin, whereas she “once said Jesus, she now cries baby. She hums and moans with the transfixed ecstasy of a church sister who’s experiencing the Holy Ghost.”
There were some white Pentecostals who thought that rock and rollers were thieving from church music. One of these, the Pentecostal youth pastor and author of the Cross and the Switchblade, David Wilkerson, called it “Satan’s Pentecost” and portrayed rock ‘n’ roll concerts as a kind of inverted Pentecostal worship, with demonic speaking in tongues. A lot of this was in the vivid imagination of believers, of course, but it shows that, for many of these observers, there was a thin but important line that was being crossed. In the 1950s, white and black conservative Christians worried that even their church music was becoming too “worldly” or too vulgar.
On the race end of things, because I focus largely on the American South, I looked at the white Southern Baptist Convention, Southern Presbyterians, and Southern Pentecostals, and found that their reaction to rock was almost uniformly negative and very often racialized. They attacked rock as “jungle music,” “congo rhythms,” and “savagery.”
In some cases this is ironic because these are some of the very things that Pentecostals were criticized for themselves—for race mixing and having “debased” music in their services, whether that be Hillbilly, boogie-woogie, or some kind of hybrid black and white styles. So there were all of these interesting, and specific, interconnections that I thought deserved more attention.
Is this racist impulse inherent to evangelicalism? Or southern evangelicalism? Or was it just a sign of the times?
It’s indicative of the times, in a way, because that kind of racist rhetoric about rock and roll also appeared in national newspapers and magazines. But what I found in the case of the American South was that there was often this funny discourse about the missionary enterprise of these organizations—the experiences that their missionaries had had in the field—and how these experiences were supposedly applicable to the music. They referenced the “caterwauling” and the driving tribal drums that they had heard in the jungles of the southern hemisphere, and noted how this had a parallel in the music now blasting out of the mean streets and teenage hangouts of American cities.
So for white fundamentalists and conservatives it took on this different kind of religious dimension. There was also a lot of talk about witchcraft and demon possession—I even remember hearing some of this as a kid in the 1970s and 80s in the Church of the Nazarene. Some of that rhetoric persisted for decades after the 50s.
Why were they so threatened by the Beatles?
In part it had to do with their look, and also with their being from Britain—being foreign. But I think the hard thing for us to wrap our heads around now is that, at the time, the hair length of the Beatles—which they had borrowed from these sort of Beatnik existentialists in Germany—was viewed as such a radical departure from how young men were supposed to look and to behave.
There was a lot of talk about how tight their clothes were and how their hair was effeminate. But most of all, evangelicals, and some Catholics, had a pervasive fear about the hysteria that they inspired in young girls. In all of this, there was this view that teenagers looked to the Beatles as a kind of replacement for religion. And in worshipping the Beatles, they lost interest in the Bible and teachings of the church and the lessons of their parents.
From our eyes today, in 2018, it just looks like they’re these four guys with bowl cuts and these neo-Edwardian, tight collarless suits. But there really was a lot of talk back then about hair styles and comportment and what these meant for youngsters.
I found this great interview from the Canadian Broadcast Corporation from the mid 1960s in which Betty Friedan identified the Beatles as raising a middle finger to the masculine mystique—they were declaring that they had had enough of the crew cut, Prussian-style militarism of hyper-masculinity. So even on the other side of the aisle, there were people who believed the Beatles to be important agents of change.
Timothy Leary, too, made a number of pretty hyperbolic statements about the Beatles ushering in a new religious sensibility—a new way of being for young people. When the four came under the tutelage of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, it confirmed the worries of many.
Eventually, after a few decades of desperately fighting rock ‘n’ roll, evangelicals moved to appropriate it for themselves. What was the turning point?
I make the case that one important turning point—among a series of turning points—came with a powerful fear about the growing “generation gap.” Conservative Christians became profoundly concerned that their young people were being led astray by worldly influences. When John Lennon claimed that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ, Christians attacked him fiercely, even as they worried that, for the Baby Boom generation, he might have been right.
“If you like Huey Lewis and the News then you might also like DeGarmo & Key.”
They worried that young people were being swept away by rock music and its accompanying celebration of drugs and bohemian lifestyle. As a member of the Missouri Synod Lutheran denomination asked: “when and where and how are local churches giving their 12-to 16-year-old members such markedly special attention that they feel: ‘This is for us’?”
So, in the early years, in 1966 and ’67, young men and women, countercultural Christians, experimented with rock music that had Christian lyrics. Similar innovation had already been taking place in England. In the US, groups like Mind Garage, the Crusaders, or Larry Norman made up the first wave.
Other early bands and musicians included Andraé Crouch and the Disciples, Randy Matthews, the Armageddon Experience, Agape, Sound Foundation, and Honey Tree. Some of these were more awkward and less successful than others, but they all hoped that they could appeal to young people and potentially pull them back into churches.
I remember that, when I was a kid in the early 90s, I once asked my parents for a Vanilla Ice tape and they bought me DC Talk’s Nu Thang instead.
Yeah, by that time there were just all sorts of different versions of Christian rock that followed on the heels of their secular counterparts.
They were always accused of being kind of derivative and lame.
Yes, exactly. And I think there was a lot of truth to that, because when you listen to some of it you find that it’s basically imitative. In 2004 John Jeremiah Sullivan quipped that “Christian rock is a musical genre, the only one I can think of, that has excellence-proofed itself.” Some evangelical and Pentecostal groups even produced charts that were supposed to help teens and their parents find a Christian alternative to a favorite secular band or solo artist. So, you know, if you like Huey Lewis and the News then you might also like DeGarmo & Key. If you like the Beatles or Wings, you’ll appreciate Phil Keaggy.
The evangelicals you document seem to live in a constant state of moral panic. They freak out about Elvis’ hips, the Beatles’ haircuts, Amy Grant’s sex appeal. Why all the anxiety?
Some of it probably has to do with evangelicalism’s eagerness to employ the latest means and technologies and forms of entertainment to appeal to young people, both inside and outside of the church. I think sometimes they have come to think of themselves as in competition with—if not diametrically opposed to—Hollywood and the entertainment industry as well as popular music because they are trying to reach similar mass audiences. It’s little wonder that Billy Graham’s crusades used to air on network television in the primetime slot. He also toured with DC Talk, however unlikely that might seem.
There are also a lot of resentments that fuel evangelicalism. (I’m thinking in particular of Billy Graham’s son, Franklin, and his bellicosity.) I think you can see this in end-times theology as a kind of revenge fantasy in which all of your enemies will get their just desserts. Maybe I’m reading too much into this and the new reality that we live in, but I don’t think it should be too surprising that evangelicals rushed to the side of Trump. He speaks in the same language of the culture war and resentment/grievance that they have harbored for a very long time.
It seems to me, too, that the evangelical commitment to non-stop moral panics has helped to give us Trump. They are constantly identifying social evils that will lead to the end of Western civilization—rock ‘n’ roll, of course, but more recently same-sex marriage, national health care, etc. What can this study teach us about evangelical cultural engagement more broadly?
In the book, I wanted to talk about evangelicalism in a way that went beyond politics, because there has already been quite a bit of focus on conservative Christianity and politics—to a considerable extent, historians care about these religious groups specifically because they are politicized. But a lot of their activity is directly concerned with pop culture and cultural engagement outside of the explicitly political realm. A typical Christian bookstore, with its shelves of Christian kitsch and sanctified consumer goods, definitely fits this pattern.
White evangelical political behavior is just one of many facets of the modern movement. Certainly, it’s an important facet, with 81% of white evangelicals voting for Trump. But evangelicals also define themselves by what kind of goods they purchase, the music they listen to, the kinds of books and magazines they read, etc. I wanted to capture a little more of that aspect.
Has the uneasy relationship between Christianity and rock ‘n’ roll changed either in a significant way?
In the epilogue, I use U2 and Bono to speak more broadly about some of these transformations. The members of U2 were part of the charismatic movement in the 1970s in Ireland, looking across the Atlantic to the Jesus People and to some of the exciting things that were happening—especially California. When you listen to early U2 records now, you find that they are just chockfull of religious imagery.
Surely, the same is true of Bob Dylan’s born-again trilogy of records. Dylan, U2—along with Donna Summer, Van Morrison, Arlo Guthrie, and Johnny Cash—have, or had, a kind of authenticity and a critical reception that Christian rock artists just didn’t have. But groups like that, and other mainstream performers who have worked in some kind of Christian context, have changed rock ‘n’ roll. In them, rock has found faith in ways that it had not before—at least not as overtly.
As for the church, David Stowe and Larry Eskridge have both written about how the Baby Boomers and especially the Jesus People had an enormous impact on Christian worship in America—the style of music that is played, the lyrics, etc. I recently visited a church in Colorado called Flatirons Community Church, and the worship is heavily driven by rock ’n’ roll. The music is extremely loud, and it’s hard to imagine that reality without the earlier experiments with pop culture in the early 60s.
http://religiondispatches.org/the-devils-music-how-christians-inspired-condemned-and-embraced-rock-n-roll/
Christian Rock -- Music From Hell! The Dragon's Hot Breath.
Are Christians losing their ability to discern the difference between good and evil? The fact that this demonic music even made it into the church is proof of the moral and spiritual decline affecting the church today. We are being invaded by hard rock, acid rock, punk rock, new wave, and heavy metal music under the guise of religious rock and roll. the Church today pays tribute to the devil with wicked music, so-called "Christian" entertainment and double standards.To know about music influenced by demons look up g craig.
- http://misslink.org/fromhell.html
Unmasking the Awful Truth About "Christian" Rock Music - http://www.av1611.org/crock/crocmars.html
http://religiondispatches.org/the-devils-music-how-christians-inspired-condemned-and-embraced-rock-n-roll/
http://www.tscpulpitseries.org/english/1980s/ts870803.html
As you read the history of rock and roll, observe how Satan brought in his rock music in the 1950's and slowly degenerated it to it's present level of baseness. Music: Violent, loud, abrasive. It has become a combination of Disco, Hard Rock, and 50's music. Synthesized music creates a "robot-like" sound, simulating the controlling power of rock music. Rock music has evolved into the single most powerful tool by which Satan communicates his evil messages to our youth.https://www.biblebelievers.com/Rock1.html
David Wilkerson was the author of over 30 books. Among the better known are:
The Vision, a 1973 book of prophecies Wilkerson claims to have been given from God. The general theme is America is about to undergo a moral breakdown, with pornography openly shown on cable TV, widespread acceptance of homosexuality, a "new sex drug" that would lead thousands into promiscuous lifestyles, and hatred and persecution towards Christians with a "hate Christ" movement. He also prophesied the Iron Curtain would come down but only temporarily, just long enough for the Gospel of Christ to be spread throughout Eastern Europe, and then would go back up. Lest one think everything in this book came to pass, much of it is odd prophecies of things like mysterious explosions in the skies, chemtrails, famine, floods, economic depression, the collapse of the dollar and a new one-world money system, nude dancing in the church, and worse, that did not. As with many such non-specific prophecies it is possible to retroactively shoehorn events since as their fulfillment even though they didn't come about exactly as predicted in the book: a "new sex drug" could be MDMA ("ecstasy"), nitrite inhalants ("poppers") or viagra and "famine" could be the recent heat records being broken throughout America; the Iron Curtain coming down (the Iron Curtain has been down for 20 years now but the eastern country of Russia is standing strong while the western currencies fall which could lead to a new iron curtain.)
Set the Trumpet to Thy Mouth makes a demand for a "holiness" lifestyle among Christians and is a rant against Christians having television sets in their homes, Christian Rock, social consumption of alcohol, and other purported compromises with the devil. Regarding Christian Rock, Wilkerson begins the chapter with a tirade against the leather and studs clothing of the homosexual BDSM community in San Francisco, claims he was able to detect widespread demonic possession among that community when he was trying to witness to them on the street, and then imagine his profound shock when he saw Christian heavy metal and punk bands wearing the same clothing. Rock & roll, according to Wilkerson, is the devil's music born straight out of the pit of Hell and Christians should not be bringing it into the church, because God hates it. Same goes for television and alcohol. Bad, bad, bad. David Wilkerson has spent hours at a time "prostrating himself before God" seeking His will on these matters, so he should know. Published in 1985 a year before the Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart scandals broke, this book also stated that God was about to clean house and bring televangelists down who were involved in adultery and/or stealing money to build big amusement parks, so maybe he was right about a few things here.
There will be riots and fires in cities worldwide.There will be looting – including Times Square, New York City. What we are experiencing now is not a recession, not even a depression. We are under God’s wrath.
http://www.samizdat.qc.ca/arts/musique/Confessions_DW.pdf
https://www.christianforums.com/threads/david-wilkerson-on-christian-music.7539263/
https://www.biblebelievers.com/Rock1.html
http://flcourier.com/2018/03/the-devils-music-delves-into-christians-reaction-to-rock-n-roll/
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In the world of biology, we are given the example of a frog that when placed into boiling water, will immediately jump out. However, if that same frog is put into a bowl of cool water which is slowly heated by a bunsen burner, the frog will eventually boil to death.
Religious rock and roll is like the frog and the water. The term "rock and roll" means fornication. It is a street name for sexual immorality. It has wrecked the lives of many teenagers through suicide, drug abuse, immorality, perversion, satanism, etc. Sadly, we live in a day where many Christians and church leaders are allowing this demonic music into their churches, claiming that the music is holy and sanctified because the lyrics are changed to include some 'religious' words. Where is the discernment in the church?
Are Christians losing their ability to discern the difference between good and evil? The fact that this demonic music even made it into the church is proof of the moral and spiritual decline affecting the church today. We are being invaded by hard rock, acid rock, punk rock, new wave, and heavy metal music under the guise of religious rock and roll.
Music: Violent, loud, abrasive. It has become a combination of Disco, Hard Rock, and 50's music. Synthesized music creates a "robot-like" sound, simulating the controlling power of rock music. Rock music has evolved into the single most powerful tool by which Satan communicates his evil messages to our youth.
This picture of compromise can be found in God's Church today — a Church walking in fear and intimidation, accommodating worldliness in her midst, afraid to step out boldly and call sin what it is! As Hezekiah did in bowing toward the desires of the "man of sin,"
the Church today pays tribute to the devil with wicked music, so-called "Christian" entertainment and double standards.
Last night I attended a Christian music festival. I will never forget what I saw, and I can truly say it was a heartbreaking experience. Since leaving the concert I have been weeping for hours, groaning in the Spirit feeling the wrath of a holy God burning against what I saw.
David Wilkerson looks searchingly at a hungry, spiritually starved, youth generation. As a recognized professional commentator and analyst of the modern youth culture, David Wilkerson looks searchingly at a hungry, spiritually starved, youth generation. As a recognized professional commentator and analyst of the modern youth culture, Wilkerson says: "God has been shaking me up recently. It is almost as though His Holy Spirit has taken me by the back of the neck and turned me upside down..." This experience has resulted in a new perspective on the drug scene, rock music, long hair, and runaways.Wilkerson says: "God has been shaking me up recently. It is almost as though His Holy Spirit has taken me by the back of the neck and turned me upside down..." This experience has resulted in a new perspective on the drug scene, rock music, long hair, and runaways.
‘THE DEVIL’S MUSIC’ DELVES INTO CHRISTIANS’ REACTION TO ROCK ‘N’ ROLL. “Gospel and rock ‘n’ roll were cut from the same cloth,” Tav Falco, leader of the psychedelic group Panther Burns, once observed, “even though one is considered to be the devil’s music, and the other sanctified music. It was played by the same people, and appealed to the same audience.”As he railed against rock ‘n’ roll as “the pulse and tempo of hell” in 1959, Pentecostal youth pastor David Wilkerson made much the same point. With the shaking, the prostration, and “even the speaking in vile tongues,” Wilkerson declared, rock concerts resembled perverted Pentecostal services.
In “The Devil’s Music,’’ Randall Stephens, a professor of history and American Studies at Northumbria University, reminds us that for decades Christian leaders denounced rock ‘n’ roll as a demonic cultural force.
THE DEVIL’S MUSIC: HOW CHRISTIANS INSPIRED, CONDEMNED, AND EMBRACED ROCK ‘N’ ROLL - http://religiondispatches.org/the-devils-music-how-christians-inspired-condemned-and-embraced-rock-n-roll/
Even though religious rock-and roll music comes camouflaged as a means of "drawing young people to the Lord Jesus Christ (which it does not do) when you pull back the covers, you will find it to be a doctrine of devils....
Millions of Pentecostals believe that anyone who praises the Lord, speaks in tongues, and exhibits what is today accepted as the "gifts of the Spirit" is "of God". Such are blindly followed no matter what devious paths they might promote. They never "try the spirits", and they obviously do not realize that Satan is an expert at parroting the things of the Lord. They are unaware that Satan is the ultimate expert in the religious area.
Luca testimony.
I know about music influenced by demons too. I've listened to the backwards played songs.
I know the names of the bands that were into that.
The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ’n’ Roll Hardcover – March 19, 2018
The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ’n’ Roll Hardcover – March 19, 2018
Satan wants us to be sad, and JESUS wants us to be happy, so any song containing a minor chord is evil.
The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ’n’ Roll
In his new book, The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ‘n’ Roll, historian Randall J. Stephens documents the turbulent relationship between Christian faith and popular music in the twentieth century.
How did Christians inspire rock ‘n’ roll?
I focus quite a bit on Pentecostalism; especially in chapter one, which focuses on the origins of rock ‘n’ roll. I argue that, in part, the music and the worship styles of Pentecostal churches proved instrumental in inspiring the first generation of rock ‘n’ roll musicians. In particular, you have Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Johnny Cash, James Brown, B.B. King, and others who grew up in Pentecostal churches or attended Pentecostal worship services throughout their formative years. Fortunately, we have good documentation of them speaking about their youth in these churches and about how influential it was for them.
When rock ’n’ roll emerged in the 1950s, ministers denounced it from their pulpits and Sunday school teachers warned of the music’s demonic origins. The big beat, said Billy Graham, was “ever working in the world for evil.” Yet by the early 2000s Christian rock had become a billion-dollar industry. The Devil’s Music tells the story of this transformation.
Rock’s origins lie in part with the energetic Southern Pentecostal churches where Elvis, Little Richard, James Brown, and other pioneers of the genre worshipped as children. Randall J. Stephens shows that the music, styles, and ideas of tongue-speaking churches powerfully influenced these early performers. As rock ’n’ roll’s popularity grew, white preachers tried to distance their flock from this “blasphemous jungle music,” with little success. By the 1960s, Christian leaders feared the Beatles really were more popular than Jesus, as John Lennon claimed.
Stephens argues that in the early days of rock ’n’ roll, faith served as a vehicle for whites’ racial fears. A decade later, evangelical Christians were at odds with the counterculture and the antiwar movement. By associating the music of blacks and hippies with godlessness, believers used their faith to justify racism and conservative politics. But in a reversal of strategy in the early 1970s, the same evangelicals embraced Christian rock as a way to express Jesus’s message within their own religious community and project it into a secular world. In Stephens’s compelling narrative, the result was a powerful fusion of conservatism and popular culture whose effects are still felt today.
Books by Randall J. Stephens
The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ’n’ Roll
Satan wants us to be sad, and JESUS wants us to be happy, so any song containing a minor chord is evil.
The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ’n’ Roll
In his new book, The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ‘n’ Roll, historian Randall J. Stephens documents the turbulent relationship between Christian faith and popular music in the twentieth century.
How did Christians inspire rock ‘n’ roll?
I focus quite a bit on Pentecostalism; especially in chapter one, which focuses on the origins of rock ‘n’ roll. I argue that, in part, the music and the worship styles of Pentecostal churches proved instrumental in inspiring the first generation of rock ‘n’ roll musicians. In particular, you have Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Johnny Cash, James Brown, B.B. King, and others who grew up in Pentecostal churches or attended Pentecostal worship services throughout their formative years. Fortunately, we have good documentation of them speaking about their youth in these churches and about how influential it was for them.
When rock ’n’ roll emerged in the 1950s, ministers denounced it from their pulpits and Sunday school teachers warned of the music’s demonic origins. The big beat, said Billy Graham, was “ever working in the world for evil.” Yet by the early 2000s Christian rock had become a billion-dollar industry. The Devil’s Music tells the story of this transformation.
Rock’s origins lie in part with the energetic Southern Pentecostal churches where Elvis, Little Richard, James Brown, and other pioneers of the genre worshipped as children. Randall J. Stephens shows that the music, styles, and ideas of tongue-speaking churches powerfully influenced these early performers. As rock ’n’ roll’s popularity grew, white preachers tried to distance their flock from this “blasphemous jungle music,” with little success. By the 1960s, Christian leaders feared the Beatles really were more popular than Jesus, as John Lennon claimed.
Stephens argues that in the early days of rock ’n’ roll, faith served as a vehicle for whites’ racial fears. A decade later, evangelical Christians were at odds with the counterculture and the antiwar movement. By associating the music of blacks and hippies with godlessness, believers used their faith to justify racism and conservative politics. But in a reversal of strategy in the early 1970s, the same evangelicals embraced Christian rock as a way to express Jesus’s message within their own religious community and project it into a secular world. In Stephens’s compelling narrative, the result was a powerful fusion of conservatism and popular culture whose effects are still felt today.
See more at:
https://northumbria.academia.edu/RandallStephens
http://www.oah.org/lectures/lecturers/view/1730
https://theconversation.com/profiles/randall-j-stephens-188578/articles
The Dragon's Hot Breath
Unmasking the Awful Truth About "Christian" Rock Music
The 50s: A Decade of Music That Changed the World
During the few years when high-octane rock & roll ruled unchecked, the possibilities seemed limitless
A TRUE STORY
The concert hall was filled with excited teenagers and young people, anxiously milling about and cracking jokes. Then the hall lights went dim and laser lights began to flash on stage. A bizarrely dressed group of rock musicians went into action, heavy metal guitars blasting out a vicious beat. Eerie green smoke was released and quickly enveloped the stage.
The audience went wild. Young girls screamed and tore at their hair, while the boys rocked their hips rapidly to and fro, moving to the staccato-like sounds of the band.
Suddenly, an older and wiser man, who had come to observe, bolted out of his seat and commenced to shout, "Ichabod, Ichabod (the glory is gone)! Look, there are demons coming up from the smoke!" The man's name: David Wilkerson, highly respected Christian evangelist and author of the best-selling book, THE CROSS AND THE SWITCHBLADE.
The crowd didn't seem to notice. They were partying and no "stodgy old fundamentalist Christian evangelist" was going to spoil their good time. Their favorite Christian rock group, Mylon LeFevre and Broken Heart, was on stage pounding away and they were in ecstasy.
David Wilkerson, shocked and dismayed, left the concert hall, tears in his eyes and a burden on his heart. God had revealed to him the awful truth about "Christian" rock. But how would this truth get out because, through rock music, Satan has already conquered many churches which were once thought to be bastions of Christian example. Many pastors, youth leaders and other church officials are too frightened to oppose the rock invasion, too afraid to make waves. Some are so delighted to see young people "involved" in "Christianity" through rock music they haven't stopped to analyze just what is actually going on.
A SAD COMMENTARYWhat a sad commentary on today's last days church that Christian music has deteriorated so much that ungodly heavy metal rock bands labeled "Christian" are invited into local churches. Moreover, their degenerate records, tapes, compact discs, and rock magazines are being sold in the millions to teenagers through secular and Christian bookstores!
Friends, there is no such thing as "Christian" rock. This is a lie of the devil. We are not to transform ourselves to the world, for the Bible says that as God's people we "are at enmity with the world." There is no "Christian" whiskey, no "Christian" pornography, no "Christian" adultery, and no "Christian" rock.
WHAT'S WRONG WITH "CHRISTIAN" ROCK?What's wrong with rock music being brought into the church? Plenty! Let's just take a look at some hard and indisputable facts about the currently best known "Christian" rock stars and music.
Stryper: In Which "god" Do They Trust?
The #1 "Christian" rock group is Stryper. Take a look at the reverse side of their million seller album, To Hell with the Devil. Notice the Satanic symbols. There is the upside-down crescent moon which to occultists is the sign of the witchcraft goddess, Diana. You'll also discover the tiny splotch of black blood.
Not convinced? Then examine the cover of this decadent group's latest album, In God We Trust. The question is, in which god does Stryper trust? Stryper's records are produced by Enigma Music Company (Enigma means "mystery") which also produces secular Satanic rock albums. The cover of one of Enigma's current top secular albums, titled Poison, features a young man with demonic looking paint on his face. Vilely, he unleashes a nine inch long bloody red tongue that sticks straight out of his mouth.
Stryper was a secular heavy metal rock band before they and their record company decided to make money off the gullible and deceived Christian community. The members of Stryper were then called Roxx Regime by heavy metal fans. Their present costumes consist of black leather garb with yellow accents. One of the members of Strypersometimes has a large round button or disc protruding from his fly, evidently to signify and bring attention to his private parts. The group is unisex. All have long, feminine-looking hair, in disregard of the Bible's admonition against it, and all wear heavy feminine makeup and rouge.
Stryper's atrocious behavior is not unusual on the tumultuous "Christian" rock scene. At a concert in Los Angeles, the popular group Petra played to a packed audience. A young Bible student who attended told me that after the concert the Holy Spirit convicted him and he began to cry out and sob in repentance. "I'll never go to another Christian rock concert—never!" He promised God, "Lord, I know you don't want me to straddle the fence—you want me far away from the fence on your side of it."
Tragically, to confuse and deceive young people, Stryper actually distributes tiny Bibles at its concerts. But God is not mocked. Jesus prophesied that at the Last Day, before His throne will come those who will boast of the many things they had done in His name. Then those who have attempted to use God for commercial gain and for vain glory will hear Jesus pronounce this momentous and shattering judgment: "Depart from me ye workers of iniquity. I never knew you."
CARNAL SENSUALITY AND SATANISMSuch groups as Stryper, whose leader arrogantly brags that his group emits "positive energy," and Petra, are just two gospel rock bands being sold as "Christian" to our youth. There's also Mercy Seat, whose lead gospel singer wears a revealing leather miniskirt and projects carnal sensuality; Rez, which features a mother goddess type woman with serpentlike stringy hair standing on a Satanic circle on one of their albums; and Daniel Band, whose logo is a Luciferic bolt of lightning inside a Satanic circle. There's also the offensive thrasher group, Vengeance, whose lead song is "Human Sacrifice"; and Tempest, whose newest album pictures a Satanic 6-pointed star (the hexagram) and lightning bolt on its jacket cover and features such unholy lyrics as these: "When you hear our music being played/Do you like the sound of my scream?"
"I WANNA BE KNOWN IN HELL!"I could go on and on about the horrors of "Christian" rock. For example, how about the group Seriah, which screeches out the words, "I wanna be known in hell/feared, hated, respected...." Consider White Cross, which admittedly uses backmasking in its productions; Allies, whose album entitled "Virtues" favorably depicts on its cover a red Soviet-type flag composed of a Satanic triangle within a circle; and Saint, whose producer, Morada, is a New Age-oriented recording company with a pyramid logo. Saintoffers our young people such tunes as "Legions of the Dead," "Abyss," and "Vicars of Fate."
There's also Bloodgood, whose vocal singer, Les Carlsen, parades around the stage wearing an imposing black costume with red feathers and red gloves. Bloodgoodaggressively belts out such amplified tunes as "Eat the Flesh," "Vagrant People," "Alone in Suicide," and "Self-Destruction." Its record company, Frontline, uses for its logo two Satanic triangles colored aqua, the color of the Age of Aquarius, the astrological water bearer. The cover of Bloodgood's "Detonation" album depicts a monstrous, fiery sphinx-like image with a volcano-like eruption spewing from its head and a guitar in its distorted hands.
SATAN'S STAMP OF APPROVALRecently my investigation into "Christian" rock turned up remarkable evidence. A 19-year-old now in a state prison for murder was the subject of part of this investigation. This youth had first become involved with rock music and the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy game. Graduating to blatant Satanism, he drank animal and human blood at Satanic rituals. Eventually, he was convicted of murder-of sacrificing both of his parents to Satan!
I further uncovered the startling fact that, from his prison cell, this young man was communicating with young girls who had written to him because they saw him on television and "thought he was handsome." He masterfully instructed two young girls to participate in a local teen Satanism group and to read Anton LaVey's THE SATANIC BIBLE.
So what does this have to do with "Christian" rock? Simply this: the convict made it clear to his youthful new prospects that there was only one rule they must obey regarding music: They could listen only to "Christian" rock!!
A DEADLY MIXTUREMixing the perverted world with the Church is one of the most unholy things one could possibly do. A type of music that began with the hip-gyrations of Elvis Presley, whose wasted life ended in a drugged state, has finally made its way into the hallowed confines of the Church where God's people ostensibly meet to worship God. "Christian Rock" is a plague in our midst. God help the evangelist, pastor, deacon, or other church leader responsible for bringing this abomination before God's people and offering it up as a sacrifice to the Lord. Surely, the blood of our youth will be on the hands of those who, by so doing, aid Satan.
Rock music cannot be redeemed, sanctified, and made useful for the Church. Its roots are evil, its father is the devil himself. Rock's rhythm and beat induce rebellion and anger in the breasts of young people. Satan is adept at making surface and temporary changes in a youth's life so that parents will believe the lie that "Christian" rock is different from other rock music.
Don't fall for this lie. The ultimate result is that the young person (or the adult!) who listens often to "Christian" rock will eventually turn bad. Rock is rock. Period. The whole purpose of church music is to honor the name of Jesus Christ. Rock cannot possibly do so, for it honors its author, the devil, alone.
Satan has found a magnificently effective method to bring new souls into his foul kingdom. Take your basic Satanic rock band, dress it up with a few "Christian" ornaments, and embellish it with rhythm, sound and fury. This is a recipe for disaster...and for death.
A PERSONAL TESTIMONYNot too long ago, I came across this insightful letter published in the "letters to the editor" page of The Denver Post (August 14, 1988) newspaper, and tears welled up in my eyes. I honestly believe the inspired words of this letter writer perfectly capsulize the awful truth about today's "Christian" rock music.
I attended the August 9 program of the week-long, annual Christian music extravaganza called "Praise in the Rockies" in Estes Park.
From the perspective of a senior citizen who considers himself to be a mature, "spirit-filled" Christian, the scene in the auditorium of the YMCA Campground was as close to Babylon as I want to get.
The artificially produced smoke, the flashing lights and gyrating accompanists created an atmosphere like unto many nightclubs I have frequented in the past. The music, supposedly "Christian," so glorified the performer and masked the Savior that I could only say, "God have mercy on them."
Many in the audience were parents with small or teenage children. I wondered what they thought as they heard and saw that which they had tried to protect them from in their homes.
What I observed there, in that beautiful setting in the Colorado Rockies, maybe is best described as Christian entertainment at its best and Christianity at its worst.
Fellow believers, if that is Christianity, we are in big trouble. The Scriptures admonish us to be not conformed to the world system, but to be transformed.
Jesus told His listeners, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me."
A personal observation during my 31 years as a born-again Christian: Quite often, if a sinner is "saved" through music, he will seek to be fed by music. If he is saved by hearing the unadulterated Word of God, he will be satisfied to be fed by that Word.
TONGUES OF CONFUSION: PROFANITY AND VULGARITY AMONG "CHRISTIAN" ROCKERSAs one earnestly studies the many magazines devoted to "Christian" rock and its cousin "Christian" contemporary music (CCM), one fact above all stands out. These who are the biggest names in the field seem to have a Jekyll and Hyde nature to their personalities. On the one hand, they frequently refer to "Jesus" and "God" in their interviews, evidently because they know their comments will be printed for all to see. On the other hand, their songs rarely mention Jesus Christ and His Gospel. Instead, their rock lyrics overwhelmingly refer to Satan, to hell, to demons, and to fire, death, destruction, and chaos. Meanwhile, the lyrics of the CCM crowd go out of their way to avoid speaking aloud the name of Jesus. Pronouns such as "he" and "she" predominate.
Another fact that stands out is that while rock and CCM entertainers proclaim Jesus and Christianity, for the most part their lifestyles and language do not bear witness that they are born again Christians. Vulgarity and profanity among these young men and women is commonplace. The tongue is a revealer of character, and it is their unbridled, ungodly tongue that exposes the separation of these entertainers from Christ.
One group that is widely known for its filthiness is The Call. In one issue of Harvest Rock Syndicate, a "Christian" rock magazine sold in some Christian and Bible bookstores, the interviewed leader of The Call spouted filthy cuss words as if they were normal to Christians. Incredibly, in that same interview, this same individual insisted he and the other members of the group were true-blue Christians. To prove it, he said they had printed up and signed The Apostles Creed and sent a copy to every Christian radio station in America.
Given the above facts, it should come as no surprise to us that Michael Been, the singer/songwriter of The Call and self-professed follower of Christ, played a featured supporting role as the Apostle John in the horribly blasphemous movie, The Last Temptation of Christ.
Nearly every Christian fundamentalist leader in America opposed this movie, from James Dobson and Marlin Maddoux to D. James Kennedy, Hal Lindsey, and Ted Baehr. But Michael Been, leader of a "Christian" rock group, enthusiastically played the role of John in The Last Temptation of Christ!
Been is not alone among rockers and CCM'ers in his defiance of the real Jesus Christ. Chris Willman, a contributing editor of CCM magazine, the top publication in this poisonous music field, not only admitted he went to see the movie, but actually praised and applauded the movie. According to Willman, though the movie does not agree with "orthodox theology," it still has great value:
We caught the film at a preview screening at Universal and felt that...its the first thing that has forced the average American Joe to think about who Jesus really was and is... (CCM, Sep. 88, p.14).
Since the movie in question portrays Jesus as a fornicator and as more man than deity, Willman's comments in CCM take on bizarre dimensions. Willman not only endorsed the movie but he spitefully took a stab at Bible-believing fundamentalists in the process, snidely remarking that The Last Temptation of Christ is "the movie fundamentalists love to hate."
When exposed for their vulgarity, "Christian" rock and CCM stars and their record companies swiftly go into action to control the damage. After Steve Camp let out a filthy curse word during an interview, his ministry covered up by sending out an "apology" to anyone who wrote and complained. Soon the furor died down.
Amy Grant, the premier superstar and reigning queen of the rock and CCM world, also is given to profanity and even crude sexual language. "That's the way she is," goes the official explanation of her record company, "she's very frank."
Jesus was frank, too, but he never used vulgarity and profanity.
THE DARKNESS OF CHRISTIAN ALBUM COVERSIn an issue of my newsletter, Flashpoint, we discussed the satanic foundations of New Age music. We also briefly showed how the New Age and the occult have made inroads into so-called "Christian" rock music. A graphic example given was Steve Taylor's newest album, I PREDICT 1990, the cover of which unmistakably resembles an occultic Tarot card, the type used by some Gypsy fortune tellers and others for divination.
Recently, Mr. Taylor phoned me and violently objected. He insisted that his album cover is not of a Tarot card design. Instead, he claimed that he got the idea for his album cover while on a trip to Europe. There, in a museum, he came across an old, turn-of-the-century Viennese art poster. The cover for I PREDICT 1990, says Steve, is based on this old Viennese art poster.
JESUS DISREGARDEDI related to Mr. Taylor that I had searched the lyrics of every song in his album and that, regrettably, I could find no reference to Jesus and the Cross.
"Why do you not confess Jesus in your music?" I implored. "Why do you not witness to our youth that Jesus loved them so much He suffered on the cross for them?" His response was, unfortunately, lacking. Taylor responded hotly, "Is it necessary to tell young people about Jesus in every album?"
My immediate answer was "Yes! In every album. Indeed, in every song!"
GODLY CHRISTIAN MEN SCORNEDI then asked Mr. Taylor why he had used the cover of the album to ridicule and make fun of a noted evangelist and prophecy teacher. Steve Taylor's answer was that he didn't believe in a book that this evangelist had written a few years ago on Bible prophecy. Did you read the book? I asked. "Well, no," Taylor admitted, he had never read the book.
The attitude of Taylor is familiar in "Christian" rock circles. Christian rock stars frequently attack, mock and ridicule such conservative teachers and evangelists as Dave Wilkerson, Bill Gothard, and Bob Jones. In one magazine interview, Steve Taylor even suggested that Christians who believed like Wilkerson were so intolerant and rigid their minds weren't "subject to being opened."
Evangelist Dave Wilkerson (author of THE CROSS AND THE SWITCHBLADE) has done much work for the Lord, and I simply can not understand why Taylor and his friends in "Christian" rock and "Christian" contemporary music so despise him. The only reason I can think of is the fact that Brother Wilkerson has preached on the perversions of rock music.
DISCERNING RIGHT FROM WRONGFrom our telephone conversation, Steve Taylor seemed to me to be a sincere but deceived person. I can even believe him when he says he did not know that his album cover resembles an occultic Tarot card. Moreover, I cannot and will not judge his salvation. That is God's business and I hope and pray that Steve Taylor knows or will come to know the Lord as his personal Savior.
But the Bible does tell us we can judge fruits. And it tells us to make righteous judgments and not to cast our pearls before swine (see Matthew 7). We can know the difference between right and wrong, good and evil, acts.
First, I would remind Mr. Taylor that many young people look to him and his music for Christian example. Therefore, why is he too ashamed or unwilling to confess Jesus before men in his songs? Furthermore, if we are to believe him, he chose an old Viennese art poster for an album cover not realizing its occultic nature. Why choose something so totally unrelated to the things of God? What kind of spirit suggested this to him?
Moreover, why does Mr. Taylor unjustly delight in publicly ridiculing and mocking men of God like Dave Wilkerson and others? Taylor and his friends call this "biting satire." I call it cruelty and a sin before God (see James 3 and 1 Peter 3:16).
PUT JESUS IN MUSICI would plead with rock music entertainers and their fans not only to abstain from evil and all appearances of evil, but also, if they truly love God, to put Jesus and the Gospel in their songs. The early Christian church should be our example. In Acts 5:42 we read: "And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ."
Today, many "Christian" music stars often say they don't want to offend the unsaved by mentioning Jesus, His Word, and His sacrifice. What a tragedy! Do they not understand that, in so doing, their lukewarm messages have no power and become carnal and unholy?
Do they not know that Paul boldly announced "For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth" (Romans 1:16)? Are they not aware that God has given Jesus an exalted name of honor and glory?: "Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him and given Him a name which is above every name" (Phil. 2:9).
Discerning Christians are not fooled by "Christian" entertainers who fail or refuse to bring a message of Jesus and the Cross and His wonderful love to their audience. These people are frauds and fakes. They are simply secular entertainers who rip off and lead into darkness the uncommitted and the unaware. There is no such thing as "Christian" music without Christ!
A SHAME AND A SHOCKHowever, Steve Taylor is not the only rock or contemporary music star being deceived and now unknowingly going about deceiving others. His behavior is mild compared to some entertainers. Just examine the actual photos of some "Christian" rock stars found at the back of this report. If you have been fed the lie that today's "Christian" rock and contemporary music is holy or that it is just harmless, clean fun, these photos will be eye-openers.
Fellow Christians, we need to get on our knees before our God and pray that He will forgive us for ever allowing this incredible, outrageous perversion to go on right in our very midst. Today, it is totally out of control. I take responsibility for my own prior failure to fully investigate the horrors of this "new" music.
But friends, now I know the depravities of many of the people who perform this music and the utter sinfulness and abhorrent evil of their music.
Some of these rock and contemporary stars curse; many preach and promote violence and disrespect for parents and church leaders; others use occult symbols in performances and on album covers. Most are fans of secular rock; they admit they enjoy listening to Satanic rock groups. Many dress in demonic leather costumes and unashamedly show off their body parts while prancing about the stage.
The photos I've included in this report amply demonstrate the crude perversity, rebellious behavior, vile appearance and occultic leanings of most "Christian" rock groups.
IT IS IN THE BIBLE!The promoters of carnal and unholy "Christian" rock will tell you that their music is "God's music." When confronted with the awful facts, they'll almost always resort to angrily growling: "Show me in the Bible where Christian rock music is wrong!"
That's a challenge I love to accept. First, we should note that the Bible does not specifically mention and list cocaine, marijuana, child sexual abuse, hard core pornography, X-rated movies, wife battering, wife swapping, physical torture, abortion, and a host of other criminal and immoral acts. It is nevertheless ridiculous for us to assert that these acts are permissible for Christians. God has written the law on our hearts and the Holy Spirit within will surely be grieved if we participate in such evil doings.
However, the Bible does specifically warn against Satanic music. For example, Scripture tells us that Satan, who inspired Cain to slay Abel, also inspired his descendent, Jubal, to invent musical compositions and instruments: "And his brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ." (Genesis 4:21).
In the wilderness, as Moses and Joshua came down from the mountains, how did they know that something was terribly wrong in the camp below? The answer is that they heard a strange sound, a noise. That noise was the singing of pagan songs and the instrumental accompaniment:
"And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear."
(Exodus 32:17-18)
It was in tune with this music of Lucifer that the Children of Israel were drinking, dancing, and engaging in frenzied sexual orgies before the golden calf. Now today, in the 1990s, our children, too, are found drinking, dancing, and engaging in sensual acts before their idols: "Christian" rock stars, as the heavy beat of the music draws them feverishly into the devil's web.
Solomon, the Bible records, called the devil's music "the song of fools" (Eccles. 7:5). Amos prophesied that in the end time, "the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God."
Howlings! What an accurate picture of the distorted hollers, blood curdling screams, shouting, and deafening screeching and hissing of today's "Christian" rock bands. (Screaming is a universal sign of demon possession.)
GODLY MUSIC vs. "CHRISTIAN' ROCK"Holy spiritual music is far different. Paul advised the early Christians to meet, "speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord" (Eph. 5:19). Now compare this with devilish songs by the Christian rock group One Bad Pig, such as that group's "Take a Flying Leap" and "Smash the Guitar." The Christian rock group The Warning gives us the tune entitled "Cut the Crap;" the group Rez sings "Bootleg;" Bride screams out such songs as "Show no Mercy," "A Virgin in the Midst of Whores," and "Monkey See, Monkey Do;" the group Trouble belts out tunes such as "The Skull," "Drown the Devil in the Urinal," and "Kick the Devil in the Head;" White Heart screeches the lyrics to "No Taboo;" and Crumbacher contributes the song "Reckless Boys and Bad, Bad Girls."
No, my friends, this is a cruel thing we are seeing. The Bible warns us of this type of foul music. And if a person can enjoy such demonic music while professing to be Christian, that person is either a liar or is deceived. The Holy Spirit inside simply will not allow this of true believers.
ABSTAIN FROM ALL APPEARANCES OF EVILThe Bible provides much sound advice and instruction that those involved in Christian rock should heed. In I Thess. 5:22, we are commanded to "Abstain from all appearance of evil." Then why do most of the members of top Christian rock bands proudly boast that their own "heroes" are those who lead secular, heavy metal Satanic rock bands? Why do many Christian rock groups play regularly in night clubs, encouraging youth to drink and dance? Why do some Christian rock groups and entertainers such as Steve Taylor, Stryper, and others go on the road with and record songs with unholy secular rock stars such as King Diamond, Hurricane and others?
Why do the members of Christian rock groups often wear occult emblems? Why do they dress in chains, leather, metal studs, and spandex, the same as do the gay sadomasochists in San Francisco?
These filthy dreamers don't run away from sin and degradation—they willingly hurdle right toward it, embrace it, and wallow in the mire. And their wicked goal is to seduce every other Christian young person to do likewise.
Kids are not finding Jesus through these groups. They're being initiated into the devil's corps. It is not through music that we came to know Jesus as Lord. This is true even of worthy praise music—which rock is not! Instead I Cor. 1:18 tells us that it is the preaching of the cross that saves. However, to them that perish, the preaching of the cross is "foolishness."
Yes, friends, the Christian testimony and the preaching of the Word of God yields results while the hellish sounds of rock bring confusion and chaos. It also brings conformity with the world; but Paul taught:
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." (Romans 12:1-2)
ROCK MUSIC IS A "NASTY BUSINESS"That rock music has no place in the Christian church is even recognized by the worst of heavy metal Satanic rockers. These secular rock stars find it laughable that some Christians are so stupid and gullible. Lita Ford, known as hard rock's "bad girl" put it this way:
"Listen, rock 'n' roll ain't church. It's a nasty business. You gotta be nasty too. If you're goody, goody, you can't sing or play it. Kids don't pay to see nice. They want aggression, they want anger—and some sleaze, too. They want rebels." (Los Angeles Times, August 7, 1988)
WHAT YOU CAN DOIf you are involved in "Christian" rock music, stop listening to it now! Destroy your albums. Renounce rock and ask Jesus Christ to replace this music in your life with something he loves and approves. If you are a church leader and you have been an accomplice, knowingly or unknowingly, in bringing Rock into your church, ask Jesus Christ for forgiveness; then courageously lead the youth and adults under your discipling out of rock, carefully explaining to them the reason for your actions
If you are a parent, you must take tough but loving measures now to help your teenager withdraw completely from this evil form of music idolatry. Jesus can strengthen and guide you in your efforts.
If you are not a Christian and are hooked on rock music, listen up! God can set you free of rock and all other sin. He can save you for all eternity and bring profound joy, peace and happiness into your life. Won't you please give God the opportunity to change your life and make you whole? You can do this by getting on your knees, confessing your sins and asking forgiveness from the one and only Lord Jesus Christ. Pledge to commit your life to His service and ask for Him to enter your heart and become Lord of all. You'll never, ever regret your decision, for the Bible tells us that God is just and faithful. "God is Love."
Discerning the Devil's
https://ocistec-purgatory.weebly.com/discerning-the-devils.html
St. John Vianney and St. Francis De Sales. On Dancing.There is always the person who says to me: "What harm can there be in enjoying oneself for awhile? I do no wrong to anyone; I do not want to be religious or to become a religious! If I do not go to dances, I will be living in the world like someone dead!
http://www.catholicapologetics.info/morality/general/dancing.htm
https://www.ecatholic2000.com/desales/idl79.shtml
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Saint Mary of Victory – The Historical Role of Our Lady in the Armed Defense
http://catholicism.org/mary-of-victory.html
FEAST OF OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/feast-of-our-lady-of-the-rosary-617
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The love of God - https://ocistec-purgatory.weebly.com/8203the-love-of-god.html
Discerning the Devil's
https://ocistec-purgatory.weebly.com/discerning-the-devils.html
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Jennifer Lawrence Says She Feels Guilty About Kissing a Married Man -- and it's left her feeling some major guilt!
https://ocistec-purgatory.weebly.com/jennifer-lawrence--kissing.html
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Father Donald Calloway’s Conversion Story – From Drug Addicted Pagan To A Priest Of Mercy.
https://jezismaria.weebly.com/donald-calloway-testimonies.html
THE GLORIES OF Blessed Virgin Mary
St. ALPHONSUS LIGUORI
EXAMPLE - Father Eusebius Nierembergh relates,! that there lived in the city of Aragona a girl, named
Alexandra who, being noble and very beautiful,
was greatly loved by two young men. Through
jealousy, they one day fought and killed each
other. Their enraged relatives, in return, killed
the poor young girl, as the cause of so much
trouble, cut off her head, and threw her into a
well. A few days after, St. Dominic was pass
ing through that place, and, inspired by the
Lord, approached the well, and said;Alexandra, come forth; and immediately the head of the deceased came forth, placed itself on the
edge of the well, and prayed St. Dominic to hear
its confession. The saint heard its confession,
and also gave it communion, in presence of a great concourse of persons who had assembled to to witness the miracle.
Then, St. Dominic or dered her to speak and tell why she had receiv ed that grace. Alexandra answered, that when she was beheaded, she was in a state of mortal
sin, but that the most holy Mary, on account of
the rosary, which she was in the habit of recit
ing, had preserved her in life. Two days the
head retained its life upon the edge
of the well, in the presence of all, and then the soul went to
purgatory. But fifteen days after, the soul of
Alexandra appeared to St. Dominic, beautiful
and radiant as a star, and told him, that one of
the principal sources of relief to the souls in pur
gatory is the rosary which is recited for them;
and that, as soon as they
arrive in paradise, they
pray for those who apply
to them these power
ful prayers. Having said this, St. Dominic saw
that happy soul ascending
in triumph to the
kingdom of the blessed.
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PRAYER.
Oh Queen of heaven and of earth, oh mother
of the Lord of the world, oh Blessed Virgin Mary,
creature most great, most exalted, most amiable,
it is true that many on the earth do not love thee and do not
know tnee; but there are innumerable angels and
saints iu heaven who love and praise thee con
tinually. On this earth, too, how many souls
burn with love of thee, and live enamored of thy
goodness 1 Ah, if I, too, might love tnee, my
most lovely Lady! Oh, that I might always be
engaged in serving thee, in praising thee, in
honoring thee, and in striving to awak
en love of thee in others. A God hath been
enamored of thee, who, by thy beauty,
if I may so speak, hast drawn him from the bo
som of the eternal Father, to come upon the earth
and become man and thy Son; and I, a miserable
worm, shall I not be enamored of thee? Yes,
my most sweet mother, I also will love thee,
love thee much, and do all in my power to make
thee loved by others. Accept, then, oh Blessed Virgin Mary,
the desire I have to love thee, and help me to
fulfil it:I know that thy
lovers are regarded
with much favor by thy God. Next to his own
glory, he desires nothing more than thy glory,
in seeing thee honored and loved by all. From
thee, oh Lady, I await all my blessings. Thou
must obtain the pardon of all my sins, thou must
obtain for me perseverance, succor in death, de
liverance from purgatory,
in a word, thou must
conduct me to paradise. All this thy
lovers hope from thee, and they are not deceived. This
I also hope, who love thee with all my heart, and
above all things next to God.
EXAMPLE
A young man in Perugia once promised the
devil that if he would help him to commit a sin
ful act which he desired to do, he would give
him his soul; and he gave him a writing to that
effect, signed with his blood. The evil deed was
committed, and the devil demanded the perfor
mance of the promise. He led the young man to
a well, and threatened to take him body and soul
to hell if he would not cast himself into it. The
wretched youth, thinking that it would be impos
sible for him to escape from his enemy, climbed the
well-side in order to cast himself into it, but terri
fied at the thought of death, he said to the devil
that he had not the courage to throw himself in,
and that, if he wished to see him dead, he himself
should thrust him in. The young man wore
about his neck the scapular
of the sorrowing Blessed Virgin Mary; and the devil said to him: Take off that
Bcapular,and I will thrust you in." But the youth,
seeing the protection which the divine mother
still gave him through that scapular, refused to
take it off, and after a great deal of altercation,
the devil departed in confusion. The sinner re
pented, and grateful
to his sorrowful mother,
went to thank her, and presented a picture of
this case, as an offering,
at her altar in the new
church of Santa Maria, in Perugia.
PRAYER
Ah, mother, the most afflicted of all mothers,
thy Son, then, is dead; thy Son so amiable, and
who loved thee so much! Weep, for thou hast
reason to weep. Who can ever console thee?
Nothing can console thee but the thought that Je
sus, by his death, hath conquered hell, hath open
ed paradise which was closed to men, and hath
gained so many souls. From that throne of the
cross he was to reign over so many hearts, which,
conquered by his love, would serve him with. Read more at:http://www.catholictradition.org/Mary/glories.htm
http://www.themostholyrosary.com/the-glories-of-mary.pdf
http://www.catholickingdom.com/
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Vicka speaks about her trip with the Gospa (Madonna, the Virgin Mary) in the afterlife. Vision of Heaven, Purgatory and Hell. Read more:
https://ocistec-purgatory.weebly.com/medjugorje---vision-of-heaven-purgatory-and-hell.html
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St. Padre Pio Recited 36 some other days 60 Rosaries A Day And Offered His Life To Avoid A ‘Cataclysm’. "Abandon yourself in the hands of Mary. She will take care of you." Padre Pio always wore the Rosary around his arm at night. Convinced of the power of the Rosary. "With this, one wins the battles. If there were one million families praying the Rosary every day, the entire world would be saved << Click here for more messages about the Rosary >> Pope St. Pius X ?? http://www.spiritdaily.net/PIOCATACLYSM.HTM
http://infallible-catholic.blogspot.sk/2012/05/padre-pio-on-blessed-virgin-mary-and.html
http://taylormarshall.com/2013/06/why-rosary-answer-from-saint-pio-and-bl.html
https://catholicexchange.com/
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