Wielding the Sword of the Spirit

"And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God ..." Ephesians 6:17.

THE SATANIC ROOTS OF ROCK AND CHRISTIAN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC: SHOCKING HISTORICAL EVIDENCE! A must read for everyone: Especially Parents.
DEFINING MUSIC
Music is composed of three main components: Melody, harmony and rhythm. By definition, if any of these three elements are absent, then it is no longer music, but noise.

MELODY
Websters Dictionary defines melody as: An agreeable

succession of sounds; a succession of sounds so regulated and modulated as to please the ear. To constitute melody the
sounds must be arranged according to the laws of rhythm, measure or the due proportion of the movements to each

otherto make melody in the heart, to praise God with a joyful and thankful disposition, ascribing to Him the honour due to His Name. Amadeus Mozart declared: Melody is the very essence of music. (Wordsworth Dictionary of Musical Quotations) Melody is the main thing; harmony is useful only to charm the ear. Joseph Haydn (Wordsworth Dictionary) Melody is the horizontal line the notes follow on the music score. Without the melody line, there is no music.

ROCK MUSIC IS NOT MELODIOUS

Seidel, a concert pianist and 25 year Christian music expert states that:

"True godly music, will be composed of three elements - all in perfect balance with each other. They are: MELODY, HARMONY, and RHYTHM. Rock "music" has no melody - only fragments of melody endlessly repeated. Since there is no true melody , there is no real harmony. There is only rhythm and rhythm in and of itself is not music." Rock ends with a crash or long fade-out, with no resolution. It cannot truly be considered music PERIOD!

HARMONY
Websters dictionary defines harmony as: That union of different sounds which pleases the ear; or a succession of such sounds, called chords. Harmony is the vertical line where the notes meet on the music score.

RHYTHM
Rhythm is defined by Webster: Variety in the movement as to quickness or slowness,the proportion which the parts of the

motion have to each other. Rhythm is the movement in music, the beat that holds everything together. The rhythm (not the words) of rock music caused brain damage to laboratory animals, and killed laboratory plants. It's backbeats and breakbeats swamp, consume and dominate the listener with hypnotic power. It's high pitched human and electronic screams give musical chaos. True music has loud and soft intensity. Rock music's intensity is as loud as possible (190db), for as long as possible.

NOISE MASQUERADING AS MUSIC

Webster defines musical as: Melodious; harmonious; pleasing to the ear By these definitions, much of what passes for music today would be more accurately described as noise. The greatest musicians in history have agreed that melody is the very essence of music, but in much of contemporary music the rhythm, or the beat, has taken over and the melody and harmony has either become obscured or vanished.

The rhythm in Rock is the dominant part of the sound. The heavy emphasis on the beat is what distinguishes Rock from every other type of music. (Frank Garlock, Music In the Balance)
Even Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones has been quoted as admitting: Its

a noise we make. Thats all. You could be kind and call it music. (The Rolling Stones An Illustrated Record, by Roy Carr)

IM A SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM

The sexuality of music is usually referred to in terms of its

rhythm - it is the beat that commands a directly physical response. (Sound Effects, Youth, Leisure and the Politics of Rock n Roll)
Rhythm is the element of music most closely allied to body movement, to physical action. Its simple patterns when repeated over and over can have a hypnotic effect on us. (The Enjoyment of Music by Joseph Macklis) When Pop star Michael Jackson was asked why he made filthy sexual hand gestures on stage he replied: Its the music that compels me to do it. You dont think about it, it just happens. Im a slave to the rhythm. (The Evening Star, 11/2/93) While Rock music emphasizes the beat, the Bible emphasizes music as melody (Isaiah 23:16; Isaiah 51:3; Ephesians 5:19).

CELEBRATING UGLINESS
Instead of focusing on attractive, uplifting and beautiful sounds and themes much of the modern industry celebrates ugliness. popular music seems terminally hostile to any sound traditionally associated with music. (Hole In Our Soul The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music, by Martha Bayles)

THE VOODOO CONNECTION

The predominance of the drums in Rock music is noteworthy. Rock music emphasises hard driving beat. The drum is central in Rock, Rave, Rap and Hip Hop. Drums represent the beat of the heart and are played to summon up magic powers. (Marinda Bruce-Mitford, The Illustrated Book of Signs and Symbols)

Pagan dances and rituals are always accompanied by the incessant beat of drums. Rhythm plays a major role in these demonic activities. (Satans Music Exposed, Lowell Heart) The idea that certain rhythm patterns or sequences serve as conduits for spiritual energies, linking individual human consciousness with the gods, is basic to traditional African religionsRock n Roll can ultimately be traced back to African music of a primarily spiritual or ritual nature. In a sense Rock n Roll is a kind of voodoo (Rock n Roll An Unruly History, by Robert Palmer) Todays drummer differs but a little from the shaman in his incessant beating out of a rhythm, and likewise often enters into a form of trance while performing. (The Secret Power of Music, by David Tame) Little Richard, the self-professed architect of Rock n Roll readily admits Satans control and influence in his life and Rock music: My true belief about Rock n Roll is this: I believe this kind of music is demonic a lot of the beats in music today are taken from voodoo, from the voodoo drums. (The Life and Times of Little Richard, by Charles White)

Diabolus in Musica is Latin for the Devil in Music. It is used to describe a musical interval consisting of three whole tones comparable to the augmented fourth or diminished fifth. It is often used as the main musical interval of dissonance in Western harmony.The Tritone is, indeed, the Devil in Musick which, when incorporated into one's Musick, adds a spiritual tension and mysterious quality of sound which cannot be had otherwise. Like the Devil, who represents one half of the nature of man, the ambiguous Tritone is one half of the Octave, it pivots and divides the Scale into two equal parts, and it is the same as its

inverse. (The dreaded augmented fourth and splendid diminished fifth are the same when inverted.) It is the Saturnian Sound that conjures up the occult aspect of every man and every woman, or that most secret and dark part of our soul that cannot be seen with the eyes our primal nature! our primal nature. by David Cherubim HARMONIES are created by notes sounding together at frequencies which are in proportion to each other. The proportions can be expressed by numbers. Low numbers produce consonant harmonies, and higher numbers give rise to dissonance. For example, if two notes an octave apart are sounded together, the frequency of the upper note is exactly double that of the lower. In numerical terms, upper doh over lower doh = 2:1. The sound is clear, pure and open. Sound sol above doh (the perfect fifth) and the proportion is 3:2. This sound is brilliant, confident. Sound fa over doh (the perfect fourth) and this gives 4:3. The word "amen" is often set to these notes. These two intervals are inversions of each other: doh above sol gives 4:3 and doh over fa gives 3:2. Mi over doh (the major third) is 5:4, a lovely interval expressing warmth, gentleness, "togetherness" and much more; its inversion, doh over mi (the minor sixth) gives 8:5, a curiously astringent but also beautiful interval. Doh over la (the minor third) gives 6:5; and la over doh (the major sixth) gives 5:3 - two more beautiful harmonies. Over-simplifying things: these, and a few other intervals, provide the structure, the skeleton, on which most Western music since the Renaissance is supported. The augmented fourth, sometimes called "the devil's interval", is created by sounding ti (or si) over fa, which notes are in the proportion 45:32. Looked at in conventional terms, the inversion of this harmony, fa over ti (the diminished fifth), ought to be identical to the augmented fourth - but its numerical proportions turn out to be 64:45. Either way, it sounds pretty ugly, though it can work musically in the right context - and it is very successfully employed in emergency sirens. This interval is fiendishly difficult to sing. The further we depart from 1, the more we move away from harmony and into dissonance. David Goymour, Battersea, London SW11.

the famous Swabian doctor Frederic Antoine Mesmer (17331815). Mesmer originated the "science" of Mesmerism a forerunner to hypnotism. Mesmer's "magic bucket" was in fact a musical instrument. Pianist Leonard J.Seidel, in Face the Music, explains how Mesmer used music to alter the emotional and mental states of his patients: "Mesmer, a close friend of Mozart, treated several patients with music played on the piano or a glass harmonica fashioned of rotating glass cylinders which produced tones when rubbed by wet fingers. He related how a change of key or meter could cause spasms." Leonard J. Seidel, Face the Music
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(Springfield, VA: Grace Unlimited Publications, 1988) 23-24.

The same key or meter-induced spasms are generated with rock and roll music today and puts rock artists and their audience into what they call "the state." From the Doors biography No One Here Gets Out Alive, keyboardist Ray Manzarek explains: When the Siberian shaman gets ready to go into his trance all the villagers get together and shake rattles and blow whistles and play whatever instruments they have to send him off. There is a constant pounding, pounding, pounding.... It was the same way with the Doors when we played in concert. We knew the symptoms of the state, so that we could try to approximate it. It was like Jim was an electric shaman and we were the electric shaman's band pounding away behind him. Sometimes he wouldn't feel like getting into the state, but the band would keep on pounding and pounding, and little by little it would take him over. God, I could send an electric shock through him with the organ. John could do it with his drum beats. You could see every once in a while - twitch. I could hit a chord and make him twitch. And he'd be off again. Sometimes he was just incredible. Just amazing. And the audience 5 felt it too! Mark Spaulding, The Heartbeat of the Dragon: The

Occult Roots of Rock & Roll

(Sterling Hts., MI: Light Warrior Press, 1992) 11-12.

Others had long before proven its effect on the human body. Seidel writes: A 16th century composer, Gioseffo Zarlino, experimented with what he called the four humors of the body and the four modes of music. Athanasius Kircher demonstrated in the 17th century how musical tones could move each of the four humors, building upon what Zarlino had discovered. Kircher used several glasses, each filled with a different liquid which corresponded to each of the four humors. As a moistened finger was rubbed around the rim of the glasses, producing a musical tone, each fluid was set in a different frequency of motion which resulted in each humor being moved by a particular tone. In the 18th century, E. A. Nicolai described muscles, nerves, and arteries as fibers that were either dissonant or consonant. He demonstrated that music could alter the condition of those fibers. H. W. Albrecht, professor of anatomy at Gottingen wrote that the fibers [muscles], when they were too loose or tight, could be retuned by music.11 Seidel 20. The first accurate measurements of the physical effects of music were recorded in the 19th century by German scientist, Hermann von Helmholtz. In his work, Die Lebre von den Tonempfindungen, published in 1863, he described the components of a musical tone and the physical basis of our perception of consonance and dissonance. Many others built upon his findings, discovering that pulse, blood pressure, and breathing were measurably affected by the various musical elements of rhythm, dissonance and consonance, and pitch and loudness.12 Seidel 21. As science has proven, music is not neutral. It can be used for good or evil. The shepherd boy, David, who later became king of Israel, played his harp to sooth the evil spirit in King Saul. According to Seidel, music is similarly 13 used in mental institutions today for treatment of the mentally ill. Seidel

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As we all know and have experienced, music also brings out the emotions in people. Music can cause tears and joy. Military music incites vigor. Lullabies produce drowsiness. Love songs generate sensual feelings. Hollywood uses background mood music on a grand scale to create excitement, fear, suspense, etc.

Recent experiments in the subliminal use of music in retail stores have proven to cause customers to buy more. The Musak corporation has cashed in on this mind influencing aspect of music. Now there is New Age music, which puts some people into a trance. Sound alone, without music, will cause the same effect. Mark Spaulding, former drummer for a rock and roll band, connects these English Masonic lodges with the modern outbreak of anti-Christian rock and roll. In his book, The Heartbeat of the Dragon: The Occult Roots of Rock & Roll (1992), Spaulding writes: Through the late 1800's.. many British based, occult organizations were formed. The Theosophical Society, The Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn, The Order of The Silver Star, Freemasonry, and Rosicrucianism were but a few of the many esoteric societies that found their homes in England.... The early 1960's witnessed England suddenly filled with people who were caught up in the occult; and British rock and roll was about to follow suit.18 Spaulding 57. Like the music of Mozart, Spaulding confirms that rock and roll "was specifically designed to instigate REBELLION in the listener.. as well as undermining their inborn God-ordained moral Code."19 Spaulding 63. Spaulding's book is the result of an extensive research on the occult origins and Satanic design of rock and roll. He said, "I have discovered evidence which clearly exposes an incredible interconnectedness between rock and roll, Hinduism, Shamanism, Satanism, and Voodoo.... On the surface, these ideologies may seem to be quite diverse but deep within their core they are unmistakably identical."
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Spaulding 19.

Scripture suggests that the Fallen Angel was created a musician. The prophet Ezekiel, in 28:13, says of Lucifer's musical personality: "Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God. ..the workmanship of thy tabrets [drums] and of thy pipes [flutes] was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created."36 Various translations state

it differently. American Standard Version (1901) translates it tarlets, pipes; New King James Version translates it timbrels, pipes;New English Bible translates it jingling beads and spangles; Revised Standard Version takes a different view and translates it as settings and engravings;Likewise, New International Version settings and mountings.
Strong's Concordance defines pipes as a bezel for a gem;37 and tabrets as a tambourine; from the primative root to drum, i.e. play (as:) on the tambourine: -taber, play with timbrels.38 The same Hebrew word is used in Genesis 31:27:1 Samuel 10:5; and Isaiah 24:8 in context with other musical instruments. (37)Strong, Hebrew

#5345. (38) Strong, Hebrew #8596 from prim. root 8608.

The name Lucifer means "morning star," apparently a titled position of the angelic hierarchy. In Job 35:4-7, "the morning stars sang together" when God "laid the foundation of the earth!"39- while all other creation shouted fonoy. Morning stars, or archangels, were apparently created with the ability to make music. (39) Bible, New

American Standard Bible (NASB).

REFORMING MUSIC by Peter Hammond

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Colossians 3:16 Frequently one hears the refrain: The Bible doesnt give any guidelines for music. Its all a matter of taste and preference. However, the Bible speaks to all areas of life, and music is no exception. According to Ephesians 5:17-21 Music is to be melodious. We are to sing as unto the Lord. It is to be wholehearted. The content is to be Scriptural,

with the Psalms predominating. It is to be in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and thanksgiving for all things to God the Father in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ is to characterise it. Worship is the natural response of a Christian. When we are saved, God puts a new song in our heart, and we cannot help but rejoice and praise the Lord, with melody, with instruments, skillfully, and with a shout of joy [Psalms 28:7, 33:1-3]. Music is to be the overflow of a regenerate heart, it must be wholehearted, it must focus on the marvellous works of our great God and Saviour, and it should be characterised by rejoicing. see Psalm 9:1-2 Psalm 21:13 Psalm 40:1-3 And the Lord is to be praised even in the worst of circumstances. Paul and Silas, even after having been seized and attacked by a mob, and beaten with rods, unjustly thrown into prison, their response was to sing praises to God. But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God and the prisoners were listening to them. Acts 16:25

EVALUATING OUR MUSIC

In the light of these clear Scriptural principles, how does our music measure up? Does the praise and worship in our congregation meet the Scriptural standards? And what about the music we listen to in our home, or while travelling?

WE SOLD OUR SOUL FOR ROCK N ROLL

Far from praising and honouring our Lord Jesus Christ, many of the popular secular bands openly blaspheme Christ, exalt the breaking of every one of the Ten Commandments, and some, such as Black Sabbath, openly proclaim their allegiance to Satan. One of the albums of Black Sabbath is entitled: We Sold Our Soul for Rock n Roll. One of the lyrics in their song

Nativity In Black is a love song from Satan: Some people say my love cannot be true, please believe me, my love, and Ill show you, I will give you those things you thought unrealyour love for me has just got to be reallook into my eyes, youll see who I am, my name is Lucifer, please take my hand!

ANTICHRIST ARTISTS
Kurt Cobain has been reported to have decorated his home with blood spattered baby dolls hanging by their necks. The inside of his band, Nirvanas, album, In Utero has pictures of chopped up babies. Cobain has been reported to have spray painted abort Christ and God is gay around his neighbourhood. Jefferson Aeroplane produced a most blasphemous song The Son of Jesus which spews out their hate of the Lord Jesus by claiming He was involved in the occult, had illegitimate children by Mary Magdalene, and that God the Father was sexually attracted to Jesus daughter! These are just a few examples of the many multiplied thousands of blasphemous, anti-Christ elements pervasive in secular Rock, Hip Hop and Rap.

Selling Ones Soul to the Devil

Selling ones soul can be defined as allowing ones integrity, values and moral code to be defiled in order to obtain riches and success. Considering the occult aspect of the industry, selling ones soul can take a more literal meaning, as there exist actual ritualistic initiations. Some artists, who have been more or less in contact with that darker side of Hollywood, have spoken on the subject in their own words. In June 2002, Michael Jackson, gave an unexpected speech about the dark side of the entertainment business. Jackson directly points to Tommy Mottola, the ex-president of Sony Music and the ex-husband of Mariah Carey as a devil. Who better than the King of Pop to speak the truth about the music industry?

What is obvious, however, is that MJ, in his last years, was becoming increasingly outspoken on the shady dealings of the music industry.
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Josie and the Pussycats is a girl band movie aimed at children and young adolescents, especially young girls. At first glance, the flick seems to be one of those generic, God-awful teen movies. However, a closer look reveals how its overall tone and message are in sharp contrast to stereotypes of the genre. Josie and the Pussycats is indeed an acerbic critique of a morally bankrupt music industry. The most surprising thing about this 2001 movie is its frighteningly accurate predictions regarding todays pop music and its agenda: mind controlled artists, hypnotized masses, subliminal messages its all there.

Josie and the Pussycats was released in 2001 by Universal. In music

industry terms, 2001 is ancient history. Just to put you back in the context of the era: NSync were still singing Bye Bye Bye, Cisco wanted to see your thong-th-th-thong-thong-thong and everybody was wondering Who Let the Dogs Out. Teens were going crazy for boy bands like the Backstreet Boys and everybody was dancing to Ja Rule. So, yes, it was a long time ago.

Josie and the Pussycats came out during that period, but it seems to
foretell the death of the era. The movie starts with members of the boy band Du Jour, a spoof on the Backstreet Boys, dying in a forced plane crash. The group is then replaced by a girl band with a semi-punky attitude and non-threatening pop rock music. This pretty much reflects what actually happened in the years following the release of this movie: NSync and the Backstreet Boys disappeared from the preteen music market and were replaced by Miley Cyrus, Hilary Duff, the Jonas Brothers, and so on. Despite the movies apparent lightheartedness, it displays a harsh and sustained judgment of the music business. It is also severely critical of the state of Americas youth. Teens and preteens are constantly depicted as a herd of brainless drones who are incapable of independent thinking and prone to hysteria. But behind the usual OMG these big corporations are so corporation-y criticism, Josie and the Pussycats tackles, in an odd and humorous way, some of the darker sides of the music industry. These include the mind control of the masses and entertainers, and even the assassination of artists who rebel or ask too many questions. the movie starts with Du Jour (the boy band of the day) enjoying their enormous success. In their private jet, the vain and half-witted group of singers complain about petty things to their record executive Wyatt, who acts more like a legal guardian. Or, in mind control terms, a handler. The band then asks Wyatt about strange sounds they heard in the acapella tracks of their latest song and they want some answers.

Du Jour asking their exec Wyatt the purpose of the weird background tracks found on their latest song.

Wyatts answer is quite extreme, for he and the planes pilot strap on parachutes and jump off, leaving Du Jour to die in what is afterwards called an accidental plane crash. This has actually happened in reality numerous times. Artists who start uncovering the darker side of the entertainment business, who ask too many questions, or worse, who plan to reveal these things to the public, are often dropped, publicly humiliated and scorned. And, as in Du Jours case, they are also sometimes killed for displaying such behavior. Du Jour was signed with the worlds biggest record label, Mega Records. We soon learn that the company is much more than a record label. Mega Records is, in fact, in business with the American government and the FBI to brainwash the most influential demographic in the entire population: the youth. While giving a tour of the labels headquarters to visitors from foreign countries (who are there to learn how its done), Fiona, the eccentric CEO of Mega Records, has this to say:

Im sure youre wondering why agent Kelly and the United States government would be so interested in what appears to be a record company. Well, Im about to show you why.
Fionas office then turns into an elevator and starts descending into a secret underground facility.

Fiona, the CEO of Mega Records, giving a tour of the secret underground headquarters of the label.

The labels headquarters is, in fact, a control center for manipulating the minds of the American youth. It creates new fads, decides everything from what clothes are in style to what slang is in vogue, with the ultimate goal of making the youth continually spend money on one temporary trend after another. Reality is, of course, more complex than that. Trends are (probably) not created in an underground control center in New York City. There is however truth in this near-cartoonish depiction of the music business. The entertainment industry is indeed connected to higher powers (as personified in the movie by the FBI agent) in order to sell the youth on the economic elites agenda. Popular culture not only attempts to sell products and brands to the audience, but also ideas, values and attitudes. Continuing her tour, Fiona says:

But how, you may ask, can our operation be so effective? Sure these kids have brains like play dough, just waiting to be molded into shape, but something else must be going on, right?
Fiona then explains that her label inserts subliminal messages in pop music in order to manipulate the youth into buying products and ideas. The label thus goes beyond the simple advertising of products. It conceals hidden messages in the music that bypass the audiences conscious minds in order to directly reach their subconscious.

After the presentation, a foreigner asks Fiona How can you control the rock bands? What if one of them discovers you are placing hidden messages in their music? This is what she answers:

Ever wonder why so many rock stars die in plane crashes? Overdosed on drugs? Weve been doing this a long time. If they start to get too curious, our options are endless. Bankruptcies shocking scandals religious conversions!
There are numerous real life examples of celebrities who have been silenced, one of the most shocking and evident being Michael Jackson. On May 2005, Chappelle abruptly left the production of season 3 of the show and traveled to Africa. A media frenzy ensued, fueled by speculation and rumors of Chappelle going crazy and being on drugs. Upon his return, Chappelle was interviewed on Inside the Actors Studio in December 2005. He discussed many subjects, including his reasons for leaving for Africa. In this next portion of the interview, Chappelle describes in a very vivid matter the sick nature of Hollywood.
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After the killing of Du Jour, record exec Wyatt is instructed to find a new band as soon as possible. The movie makes it clear that talent is absolutely irrelevant. The label just needs a good-looking group and it will take care of the rest. Then we are introduced to The Pussycats and their lack of fans.

The Pussycats performing in a bowling alley, with nobody listening to them. Most overnight successes start from humble beginnings, until the industry takes them, changes them and sells them to the public.

The rock band comprises three young ladies who wear leopard ears as a prop. It is quite obvious that nobody wants to hear their music and even their manager Alexander doesnt seem to like it. After hearing about Du Jours plane crash on television, The Pussycats leader, Josie, is motivated to get out there and obtain a record contract. At the same time, Wyatt is driving around in the small town of Riverdale, looking for a band to sign. Then it happens.

Wyatt literally runs into The Pussycats crossing the street. Some dudes coincidentally walk behind them holding a sign with #1 Band in the World on it. Thats pretty much all Wyatt needed to see to sign them.

Wyatt sits down with the girls and tells them how happy he is to be sitting down with The Pussyhats. He obviously knows nothing about the band and does not care. He then offers them a record contract with Mega Records. Josie wonders briefly why her band is being offered a contract by a label that did not even hear them play. However, her hunger for fame dispels all her doubts and the band signs the contract. The Pussycats story is classic: a broke, struggling band attempts to become big by performing gigs; a record label offers a shady contract; the desperate and fame-hungry band signs, not knowing what they are getting into. For the band, its either taking a chance and signing the contract or

going back to eating Ramen noodles in a crappy apartment. So, they sign the contract. Right after they sign, the label subjects the group to a complete metamorphosis: a make-over to sexy them up, and a name change, from The Pussycats to Josie and the Pussycats. The group is now completely owned by the label. It has lost control of its image, its name and even its music, as it has been modified to contain subliminal messages. But those changes pay off, as they become a #1 band in less than a week.

The movie also contains numerous references to mind control programming. Numerous celebrities have been subjected to mind control in order for them to become more easily manageable by their handlers. In bolder words, they become slaves of the industry.

From wearing cute little kitty ears, the group is now draped in feline prints, a mind control meme signifying a subjects beta programming, also known as Sex Kitten programming. The fact that they wore the ears before they got famous might signify the groups predisposition to this kind of programming.

Monarch mind control includes numerous types of programming, one of them being Beta (or Sex Kitten programming). It is the type of

programming that is the most used in the entertainment industry and it is coded with references to cats, kitties, pussycats, and also with the wearing of feline print clothing. This might explain why the producers chose to base the girl band on the Archie Comic of the same name. The symbolism was just too perfect.
The movie was based on this Archie Comic.

Archie Comic.

So, in less than a week, with the help of subliminal messaging, the group produces a #1 hit and sells out a huge concert. The group even earns the honour of meeting the labels CEO, Fiona.

Fionas hang out room. Notice the painting on the left. Yes, this was years before the creation of the persona named Lady Gaga.

The girls soon realize that Fiona acts in a strange, dissociative matter, as if she were herself under some sort of mind control. After the meeting, Fiona spies on the group using hidden cameras and learns that two members of the group, Melody and Valerie, are creeped out by her and flat-out do not trust her. So she decides to go with another tactic we often see in the music business: to keep the star of the group and drop the other band members. In order to carry out this operation, the label proceeds to use mind control on Josie by making her listen to subliminal messages in her own music. The process completely changes her attitude and personality: Josie turns from a sweet and down-to-earth girl into an attention-hungry diva who is convinced that her friends are worthless. This scene subtly describes the hidden, mind control aspect that happens in the music business: label execs use mind control programming to create an alter persona in Josie, which they can control and manage at will.

Josie, in a dissociative state due to her mind control. Everything is blurry and foggy around her. She is completely dressed in feline prints, still representing her sex kitten programming.

Fortunately, Josie manages to snap out of her hypnotic state and learns everything about the 3D, mass mind control concert. Unfortunately, her band mates Melody and Valerie have been kidnapped by the label and Josie must perform in the mind control concert to avoid the accidental killing of her friends.

Fiona shows Josie a pre-taped segment of MTV News announcing the accidental death of Melody and Valerie. This is a good example of media manipulation in order to protect the elites interests.

I will spare you the details of the ending, but I can tell you that it involves cat fights and the girls playing generic pop rock in front of a crowd that has learned to think for itself. Thank you Josie!

The entire movies message gives the same odd feeling. Its clever behind-the-scenes look of the music industry makes the viewers feel theyre in on the joke, making them comfortable enough to let their guard down. However, at the end of the day, the young viewers are still the butt of the joke: all of the sleazy and gimmicky tactics are being used on real-life viewers in order to sell them mind controlling music. Furthermore, the movie fictionalizes some of the darker aspects of the entertainment business, for example by making mind controlled artists something that one can only see in the movies.

At the end of the film, Mega Records mass hypnosis plans are uncovered, and the FBI (who funded the project) immediately attempts to dissociate from the label, even arresting Fiona on charges of conspiracy against the youth of America. The agent then privately says to Fiona: We were shutting down your entire project anyways we found out that subliminal messages work much better in movies! This is the movies way of saying that even though it has let you in on the joke, the movie is still part of the plans. In other words, the biggest joke in the movie is you. Source : http://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/josie-and-thepussycats-blueprint-of-the-mind-control-music-industry/

The Occults Control of the Music Industry

Music history streams back from the earliest beginnings from tribal chanting into the first city/state civilizations such as Sumer and Egypt. Compared with other arts sculpture, painting, poetrymusic has a special character. Music directly penetrates the inner soul and causes an impacting impression, positive or negative. During the 1960s, the Occult

slowly pursued its influence through Rock and Roll music, and today thrives by using an outward spectacle of occult and satanic rituals and symbolism. The music industry is an important indoctrination tool, and many musicians are introduced to Satanism and Occultism; today the most popular musicians, such as Lady Gaga, are controlled by the occult. The music industry and Hollywood are fixated in Black Magic and Witchcraft. Music has always been associated with the Occult and used as a tool for programming. Music, The Definition: Origin Middle English, from Old French musique, via Latin from Greek mousik (tekhn) ART OF THE MUSES, from mousa muse. It is important to note that the word Museum comes from the phrase House of the Muses. Satanism and The Occult gain energy through humans who are manipulated into trances. These short to long trances provide the Lower Entities to extract needed energy. Music throughout the twentieth century has progressed from innocent to good, and progression from bad too outright vile. Strangely, around the world people are listening to emotionally numbing and trance inducing negative music. Induced trances allow suggestive thought complexes that derive from the songs that mention immorality, rebellion, death, incest, madness, anti-social themes, and infatuation presented as love. Every new style of music has been greeted with suspicion by some. The Greek philosopher Plato wrote, A change to a new type of music is something to beware of as a hazard to all of our fortunes. For the modes of music are never disturbed without upsetting of the most fundamental political and social conventions Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States in the early to mid 1950s. It derived most directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, which itself developed from earlier blues, boogie woogie, jazz and swing music, and was also influenced by gospel, country and western, and traditional folk music. Rock and roll in turn provided the main basis for the music that, since the mid 1960s, has been generally

known as rock music. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio, disc jockey Alan Freed began playing this music style while popularizing the term rock and roll to describe it. Bill Haleys Rock Around the Clock, recorded in April 1954 but not a commercial success until the following year, is generally recognised as an important milestone. The first number one rock and roll record on the US pop charts. It stayed in the Top 100 for a then-record 38 weeks. Three months later in July of 1954, Elvis Presley recored Thats All Right Mama. Please Note: It is important to identify positive music and what music is harmful and negative. Most early music calibrates in consciousness as positive. Positive music and dancing that enhance our freedom of expression creates high levels of confidence and a healthy self-esteem. From the very start of its popularity, rock and roll was accused of being the devils music by the common conservative church member. It would have been far more accurate to have labelled it Damballah Ouedos music instead, for now, the worship of this Voodoo god had a far greater impact on rock and roll than the worship of the devil. Throughout the fifties and into the early sixties, the occult influence on rock and roll waned as rock and roll itself became more mainstream. Rock and roll were still young, and during this period it established a firmer foothold. Music has a very strong, very definite physiological and psychological effect on people. Disharmonic music causes a number of negative behaviors, although those affected are often the last to realize it The sixties were a period of great unrest in the United States. Youth culture sought a different way of life, and found marijuana, and newly developed drugs like lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). These drugs were not fully understood, and it was commonly believed that they could expand the human conscious and provide their users with mystical experiences that could increase their understanding. Many earliest experimenters with LSD (most notably Timothy Leary) considered the drug to be a gift to humanity from what is uncertain. Despite its source, LSD had a major effect on rock music. The sound and content of songs changed noticeably as the creative force behind rock music became charged with the force of

the supposed mystical images generated by the hallucinogenics, giving birth to psychedelic rock music. (More in depth history on this later). When the underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger convinced Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones to write the song Sympathy for the Devil, Satanism had its first marked effect on rock music. Clearly to many observers, Occult Satanism began to reveal its controlling influence through The Piper in Led Zeppelins Stairway to Heaven and, Hotel California of the Eagles which is popular worldwide. Rock Music gave the occult a dominant force and socially accepted by mass amount of listeners. Today, the occult plays out its satanic rituals through their favorite musicians and award ceremonies in front of millions of deluded humans.

Rhythm and tempo, used harmonically, are sympathetic to the bodyThe tempo should usually correspond to the normal human heart rate range of approximately sixty to 120 beats per minute
A number of artists have spoken literally about handing over their souls (their conscience or spiritually good personalities) to the machinations of the occult. Many well known rock artists are studied in the occult and are aware that spiritual entities and multidimensional demons can manifest themself through music of a lower vibrational nautre. They have admitted that they use rock music and the rythms, the lower gutteral tones, and the insidious lyrics to LOWER the vibration of concerts, listeners, etc. They have admitted countless times (Jim Morrison being the most well known) that they are possessed by the music and have little control over where these vibrations lead them. This is typical of almost any satanic ritual or practice the lowering of consciousness and allowing lower vibrational entities to control a person. These practices often go completely out of control, and if anyone remembers the last woodstock, it was well known to the people there that a bad energy had manifested itself throughout the crowd following hours of extremely heavy, depressive and violent songs.

The Open Occult in Music, Early 1970s:

Time Magazine cover, with a Satanic looking drawing and the headline: The Occult Revival, Satan Returns. Inside the June 19, 1972 issue of Time. Cover Story: The Occult: A Substitute Faith. Ive now been sued by about 25 people who claim their kids committed suicide from listening to my music. -Ozzy Osbourne (Source -interview, Ozzy Meets Marilyn Manson, 1997)

1972 was the same year that the low-low budget cult movie Blood Sabbath was released. It was also a full three years after the members of the Birmingham based heavy blues band Earth (lead vocalist: Ozzy Osbourne) decided to change their name to Black Sabbath. 1969 marked the beginning of the career of Ozzy Osbourne. Osbourne formed the band Black Sabbath and released the album We Sold Our Soul For Rock & Roll. The next fifteen years would witness a procession of young

drugged-out rock performers, like Osbourne, each competing for the big money and the recording contracts. The key criteria of those who would make it was their ability to portray occult symbolism and play out occult rituals.

In 1985, New Solidarity newspaper, which has since been forcibly shut down by the federal government, conducted an interview with Hezekiah Ben Aaron, then the third-ranking member of the Church of Satan. Ben Aaron is now a devout Christian. In the interview, Aaron revealed that it was his Church that started such heavy-metal rock groups as Black Sabbath, The Blue Oyster Cult, The Who, Ozzy Osbourne, and many others. The Church of Satan was then led by its high priest, Anton LaVey. Many report, however, that LaVey, a former circus lion tamer, was just a front man for the real high priest, Kenneth Anger, the man who earlier recruited the Rolling Stones to the occult. Donald Phau

The Harmful Effect of Live Concerts

The human brain thinks as cycles of brainwaves, at approximately 8 thoughts per second. The eyes see 20 to 30 separate actions per second, but the brain only uses the best eight to send to the conscious mind. The subconscious gets the rest, subliminally and wholesale. Most live music shows incorporate video screens with their music at 30 frames per second on standard American television resolution. They color 8 of the 30 movie frames differently, THEY choose which ones you think about, and which are just absorbed as PROGRAMMING. Hollywood has used this trick ever since Disney invented: it ; its now illegal in television commercials). When bass tones or bass drums or lights (or all, in a concert) use this 8per-second speed (which they do all three in most live shows) it does the same thing to the brain that hypnosis doesbreak up analytical thoughts so that certain mispronounced (hard to understand) lyrics go right to the subconscious. Add illegal drugs and real or fake sacrificial blood in the

mosh pit, make a circle with a pentagram onstage using the stage lights and positions of the musicians within it, place your big speakers for 13 separate points of origin of musical sound, and you have a full-on BLACK MASS, complete with sacred geometry. The musical tones (chords) used along with those lyrics are dissonant in modern music, making certain automatic emotions happen in the mind that attaches to the lyric message. This can cause emotional stress in a person, which is resolved in a songs ending, with a happy message as the resolution of the song. Hollywood uses this method in movies. This is how PROGRAMMING WORKS in most mind control victims. Most modern music induces trance like states.

Modern Day Occult Symbolism in the Music Industry Featuring Lady Gaga:
Pop Culture directly portrays Occult symbolism. Andy Warhol was an icon artist of the 1960s. Perhaps he was the originator of what is now referred to as pop culture. In the 21st century his influence is still being strongly felt by modern youth especially in the world of fashion. By using the word fashion, it is used in a sense were it covers everything which is not only worn by teens, but anything from backpacks, music, to teenage hair styles, anything associated with pop culture. The Influence of such people as Andy Warhol and many other during the 1960s lead to outright displays of Occult Symbolism through rock and pop music artists. The symbolism surrounding Lady Gaga is completely blatant. Occult symbolism is becoming so clear that analyses becomes a simple exercise of the obvious. Her whole persona (whether its an act or not) is a tribute to mind control, freemasonry, and the occult where being vacuous, incoherent and absent minded becomes a fashionable thing.

Lady Gaga incorporates in her videos, photos and shows symbolism that refers to the mind control. Her symbolism is deep, esoteric and even spiritual, yet she makes song like Just Dance which is about being totally numb. While masses of young people imitate Gagas gestures, her act is part of a bigger system that incorporates many other stars with the same symbolism. She is creative and a gifted song writer. But at the end of the day, the Lady Gaga persona is a Fame Monster, doing everything

required to be an international superstar, including incorporating in her act the symbolism of the elite, making her a puppet.

Other Popular Female Occult Puppets

Pink Beyonce Rihanna Taylor Swift Britney Spears

Award ceremonies like the VMA and Grammys define and crystallize the pop culture of an era. They consecrate the chosen artists while leaving the others dwelling in the shadows of anonymity. The shows are heavily penetrated with occult symbolism, and primarily focusing on the initiation aspect.

Popular Music Is The Babylon System

Dumbed-down, amoral, nihilistic drivel from the likes of Gaga and Katy Perry serves to keep the masses in a state of spiritual decay. By Paul Joseph Watson It has never been more apparent to those who have awakened from the slumber imposed upon them by popular culture that the establishment music industry now pumps out the most dumbed-down, monotonous, garbage which actually serves to induce depression and despair in those who are enlightened and aware, while providing hypnotizing bread and circuses for those still transfixed by the babylon system. If the readers of this website sat down and watched MTV for an hour, theyd probably come away feeling dazed, confused, and disgusted at the parade of sickness, idolatry and worship of everything thats wrong in our society. Love of money, the evisceration of morality, the exaltation of post-

modern nihilism, the attack on the family, the normalization of the bizarre, the sick and the twisted. Mainstream popular culture is nothing more than a tool which the elite use to make us feel worthless, pathetic, powerless and hopeless. They want us to believe that the most significant thing we can ever achieve in life is to look cool and garner the approval of our peers by wearing the uniform of whatever cult we are mandated to belong to, and that we can only accomplish this by mimicking the retarded behavior of the people we see in music videos. This is why legions of young people, whatever color they are or background they come from, walk around trying to look like and imitate rappers who wear their pants half way down their legs, can barely talk, and only live for getting smashed out of their skulls and having meaningless random sex with women who they objectify as instruments of carnal pleasure. Easily the biggest stumbling block in trying to educate people as to why they are depressed, leading increasingly insular and emotionally unstable, unhealthy lives with declining living standards is dragging them away from the very distractions that contribute to their downfall. The power of entertainment as an opiate of the masses has never been stronger, and with the widespread rollout of 3D technology, the tools of hypnotism are only becoming more and more potent. A London Guardian report entitled Lady Gaga and the New World Order gives serious credence to a website that not only discusses how popular music is used to keep people downtrodden and distracted, but how it is replete with messages and symbolism bragging about how the elite are using entertainment to keep the masses enslaved. The Vigilant Citizen has a good claim to be the worlds most distinctive music critic. On his website, vigilantcitizen.com, he describes himself as a graduate in communications and politics and a producer for some fairly well-known urban artists. He has spent five years researching Theosophy, Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, the Bavarian Illuminati and Western Occultism. All of these interests converge in his insanely detailed analyses of the symbolism of pop videos and lyrics. Thus Pinks MTV awards performance mimics a

Masonic initiation; Jay-Zs Run This Town trumpets the coming of the New World Order (NWO); and the video for Black Eyed Peas Imma Be Rocking That Body advances the transhumanist and police state agenda. Whats surprising is the methodical, matter-of-fact, occasionally humorous tone of his essays. He does not write like a swivel-eyed loon rambling about Obamunism (although, inevitably, theres an unsavoury fascination with Jewish influence). To those who dont study occult symbolism, he concedes, it might all seem totally far-fetched and ridiculous, but for those in the know I was simply stating the obvious. His examinations are certainly exhaustive. Scrolling down his densely illustrated posts, you may find yourself thinking, Say, Lady Gaga really does very often cover up one eye. And a lot of pop stars really do pretend to be robots. Although the Vigilant Citizen insists he is neither a political conservative nor a religious fundamentalist, he is heir to such offpiste 60s pop critics as the Reverend David A Noebel, author of Communism, Hypnotism and the Beatles, and Gary Allen, who theorised that post-Rubber Soul Beatles material was so technically sophisticated that it must have been put together by behavioural scientists in some think tank. Leftwing thinkers at the time had their own take on pop as mind control. Peter Watkins 1967 movie Privilege starred Manfred Manns Paul Jones as a puppet of the state, pacifying the populace with catchy patriotic tunes. In such analysis, the villains may change but the mechanisms remain the same. The fact that the Guardian writer seriously discusses how popular music is littered with elitist symbolism without sneering the whole thing off as a conspiranoid delusion is an example of how abundantly clear this process is becoming. This kind of subject matter is no longer out there, its no longer considered wild to simply point out that popular culture and particularly popular music is exercising an undue and insidious influence on the moral, societal, and spiritual development of younger generations and humanity in general.

Nowhere was it more obvious than during a recent Beyonce performance where she was surrounded by dancing riot cops. As the vigilant citizen website explains, this is about indoctrinating people to accept the robotization of the human body and the gradual introduction of a virtual police state Gagas habit of covering one eye is explained as her rejection of God and her induction as a Luciferian priestess. Notice how people like Christina Aguilera copy Gagas symbolism of humans as soulless robots.

The one-eyed Luciferian theme is also seen here with Rihanna.

While the website sometimes uses too broad a brush with which to identify servants of the babylon system, for example, a Bob Dylan clip is misconstrued as him saying he sold his sold to the devil, when in fact as any Dylan fan will know, in the late 70s he became a Christian and started releasing gospel music, it does an excellent job in pointing the finger at those who really have metaphorically sold their souls - people like Katy Perry to be used as tools with which to keep the masses in a perpetual state of disorder and spiritual decay. Tearing down the facade of this babylon system and dragging people away from the constant hypnotic distractions of sports, dumbed-down music, fashion and every other sideshow offered up to turn our heads from our true spiritual development is as if not more important than educating people about the political aspects of the new world order agenda.

We need to make it cool to be informed about what is happening to our world and how we can change its course. This process has accelerated over the past decade and many music artists have incorporated this awakening into their work. Bands like Muse and the Foo Fighters, rappers like Paris and Eminem, are pushing back against the tide of zombie brainwashing being fostered on us by the likes of Gaga and Katy Perry. Theres no better way to conclude than with Bob Marleys Babylon System song, which perfectly illustrates everything we are up against in this battle. Source : http://www.infowars.com/popular-music-is-the-babylon-system/Friday, July
2, 2010

Music speaks intimately to the heart, and so widely, and a powerful influence, even in early childhood. Music can become embedded into the subconscioushave you ever woke up with a song in your head, but didnt listen to that song lately? The Bottom LineChoose Wisely According to Steven Jacobson, (Media Mind Control, Media Bypass, Sept 95 pg 50) says Fast music will speed up the nervous system while slow music will slow it down. Sounds vibrate in different parts of the body. Low tones will vibrate in in the higher portions and on the into the head. Much of todays popular rock music is built around a heavy bass pattern louder than the melody. These low frequency vibrations reverberate in the lower parts of the body so that the music feels good. These loud, low-frequency vibrations and the driving beat of most rock music affect the pituitary gland, which controls male and female responses. The repeating sound pattern induces the hypnotic state of mind that is similar to day dreaming, thus clearing the mind of all thought so that the message can be implanted in the unconscious without resistance. It is important to note that lyrics of many rock songs are not clearly distinguishable consciously. When you do not hear the message clearly, you cannot make he conscious

choice to accept or reject it. When you cannot make that choice or when that choice is taken away from you, the message is programmed directly to the subconscious, thus circumventing analysis and choice in accepting the content of the message. So listening to such destructive lyrics such as suicide, drug abuse, and Satanism can only have a negative influence on the mind of the listener. Unfortunately children are being on this type of music. It is a known fact that sound can change body chemistry, blood pressure, breathing and digestion.

COPYING THE WORLD

But what about contemporary Christian music? Incredibly, many contemporary music performers sing songs from these very secular artists, and adopt and adapt songs from them. Many even copy the worlds looks and lifestyles.

WE HAVE CREATED A MONSTER

Stan Moser, former head of Word Records, and CEO of Star Records, was one of the pioneers and most important executives in contemporary Christian music. After 26 years in the industry, he walked away from contemporary Christian music and in an article in Christianity Today (We Have Created a Monster) Mr. Moser freely admitted:

There is a growing chasm between CCN and the Church between whats actually happening in the real world of ministry, or even in the music ministry of the Church, and what were doing in Contemporary Christian Music. In fact, I would probably be more inclined to call the industry commercial Christian music rather than Contemporary Christian MusicTo be candid, I look at the majority of the music I hear today and think its virtually meaninglesswe as an industry werent running away from the

Church at that time, but I do think we walked awayso we could still basically, get rich. Materialism, a lot of it, crept in and started affecting our values (Christianity Today, May 20, 1996)
Michael Card acknowledges: we started with little root in the Church, and now were bearing the fruit of that separationtheres a big accountability gap in the industry as a result of the lack of connectedness to the Church. (Christianity Today, Cant Buy Me Ministry, May 20, 1996)

MASS MARKETING MUSIC

In an interview in Christianity Today, Michael Card was quoted as observing:

The lyrics of a good number of the songs dont portray anything specifically Christian - not a lot of the big songs are identifiably Christianwhat happens to the message when we start giving the music to as many people as possible? There is an essential part of the Gospel thats not ever going to sell. The Gospel is good news, but it is also bad news: You are a sinner and you are hopeless. How is a multi-million dollar record company going to take that? Thats a part of the message, too, and if thats taken out and it frequently is in Christian music it ceases to be the Gospel. (Cant Buy Me Ministry)

THE PRAISE OF MEN VS THE PRAISE OF GOD

The great Reformer Martin Luther warned of this nearly 500 years ago: We should praise God with both word and music, openly proclaiming the Word of God through musiche who believes earnestly cannot be quiet about it. But he must gladly and willingly sing and speak about it so that others may come and hear it. And whoever does NOT want to sing and speak of it shows that he does not believe it. They did not confess Himfor they loved the praise of men more than the

praise of God. Jn 12:42-43 It is clear from the Scripture that all music should be for the praise and glory of God. However, it seems that many Christian concerts seem to be everything but that. Here are a few reports of reactions to some major Christian artists and bands: As teenager shrieks fill the Dallas Convention Centre moments before DC Talk took the stage Friday night, one of the relatively few grownups in the sold out crowd observed this is just like The Beatles!; His concerts draw hundreds of thousands of fans each year, mostly teenage girls who scream out their affection for him non-stop throughoutto his fans, Smith is the absolute greatest there is bar none (Inside Music)

IDOLATRY IN MUSIC
As Keith Green wrote: Why do we idolise Christian singers and

speakers? We go from glorifying musicians in the world to glorifying Christian musicians. Its all idolatry!Satan is getting a great victory as we seem to worship these ministers on tapes and records and clammer to get their autographs in churches and concert halls from coast to coast. (So You Wanna Be A Rock Star? by Keith Green)
Now, the industry is celebrity driven. The song is almost irrelevant. The focus is on the person and songs have become disposablethe direction and value system are getting worse faster than any of us can imagine. (Cant Buy Me Ministry) Sometimes people give us a hard time because we dont mention God on stagebut we feel that our calling is to get people interested in our music, interested in us (Ghoti Hook, HM magazine) God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an

abomination in the sight of God. Luke 16:15 There is tremendous power in music, and whenever any minister of the Gospel questions a form of music or challenges popular trends in music, he will experience much abuse, hostility and an explosive reaction. For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ. Galatians 1:10

THE MESSAGE, THE MUSIC AND THE MUSICIAN

Christian music should always emphasise the message the Word of God not the music, nor the musician. Christian music is not meant to be entertainment, it is not a performance, a concert or a talent show. Music is to be worship, a ministry as unto the Lord. Dr. Frank Garlock has written: Contrary to popular opinion, sacred

music is not for entertainment. Christian music is first and foremost a vehicle for praise unto the Lord. (Music In the Balance)
However, much of what is presented as Christian music today not only emphasises the musician, but the medium completely overwhelms the message. In all too many cases the message is vague, ambiguous, obscured or incomprehensible. Martin Luther emphasised the importance of avoiding worldly influence and ensuring that the message is clear: But I would like to avoid any new words or the language used at court. In order to be understood by the people, only the simplest and the most common words should be used for singing; at the same time, however, they should be

pure and apt; and further, the sense should be clear and as close as possible to the Psalm.

SOUNDING LIKE THE WORLD

Fanny Crosby, a prolific Hymn writer who produced over 9,000 songs of praise, despite being blind, was only converted at 45 years old. Before this she wrote many secular songs. This is what Fanny Crosby wrote about mixing Christian hymns with worldly music: Sometimes I need to

reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. O my, no. The Church must never sing its songs to the melodies of the world. (Whats Wrong With Christian Rock)
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things are become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17 When Christian music carries the beat, instrumentation, and exact sounds of the lost crowd, it results in confusion and shameit is shameful to use musicians who in shallow songs daze instead of praise, who entertain instead of trainthat transfer the worship owed to Christ to concert hopping, money hungry entertainers who have never left the world far enough behind to stop sounding like it (Shame, By Dr. Hal Webb)

PLEASING GOD
Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Who then, therefore, wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. James 4:4 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject

to the Law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. Romans 8:5-8 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. John 4:24 Therefore come out from among them and be separate says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you. I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. 2 Corinthians 6:17-18 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans 12:1-2 Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do all in the Name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. Col. 3:16-17 Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song. And His praise in the assembly of saints. Psalm 149:1

ROCK AND ROLL - KILLS

by Terry Watkins

More than half a million teenagers attempt suicide each year! Nearly twothousand a day!
Suicide has increased 300 percent since 1950. The teenage suicide rate in America is the highest of all industrialized nations. And according to the National Education Association, ". . . teenage suicides are linked

to depression fueled by FATALISTIC MUSIC AND LYRICS."

In 1988, Dr. Mark Rosenburg, addressing the American Society of Suicidology, said, "It was thought that the way to prevent suicides was to treat depression . . . It's not the case with these kids. Rather than being clinically depressed, these young suicide victims are impulsive, acting out fantasies."

Where are the fantasies coming from these young people are acting out? Time after time ... the culprit ROCK MUSIC!
Dr. Paul King, medical director of the adolescent program at Charter Lakeside Hospital, in Memphis Tennessee, says

more than 80 percent of his patients are there because of rock music. He adds, "the lyrics become a philosophy of life, a RELIGION."

WHAT ARE THE ROCK STARS PREACHING?

Elton John, sings, "Think I'll buy a forty-four/Give 'em all a

surprise/Think I'm gonna kill myself,/Cause a little suicide."

The Nihilistics sing, "This method is effective, tried and

true/It's the only solution left for you/Kill yourself, kill yourself/It's about time you tried/Kill yourself, kill yourself/IT'S ABOUT TIME YOU DIED"
The Healing Faith sings, "I put a bullet in the chamber/Put

the barrel in my mouth/Six to one I'm gonna make it/One in six I'll snuff it out."
Metallica sings, "I have lost the will to live,/Simply nothing

more to give/There is nothing more for me/NEED THE END TO SET ME FREE."
Ken Wooden, investigative reporter for "20/20" said, "Why do we spend billions on advertising? Because people answer the ads. This type of music is a form of advertising . . . And I've seen kids who have responded to the ads. I'VE SEEN THEM DEAD ON MARBLE SLABS." Sixteen-year-old Steve Boucher put a gun to his head, pulled the trigger and blew his brains out. His parents blame their son's suicide with his obsession to AC/DC's song "Shoot to Thrill." He was sitting under his AC/DC poster when he pulled the trigger.

In February 1986, eighteen-year-old Phillip Morton, hung himself from a closet door in Delafield, Wisconsin. Pink Floyd's album The Wall, which includes such songs as "Goodbye Cruel World" and "Waiting for the Worms," was playing continuously in the background. In the book "The Psychology of Music", Dr. Schoen says, "Music is the most powerful stimulus known among the perceptive processes." Charles Manson, who claimed inspiration from the Beatles, used music to gain "satanic" control over his followers who went so far as murder under his command. Art Linkletter blamed "secret messages" in rock music for the death of his daughter in 1969. Dr. Howard Hanson, a director of the famous

Eastman School of Music said, "Music is made up of many

ingredients and according to the proportions of these components, it can be soothing or invigorating, ennobling or vulgarizing, IT HAS POWERS FOR EVIL AS WELL AS FOR GOOD." Satan has commanded a vicious attack at the young of this generation. Jesus Christ said in John 10:10, "The thief cometh not, but for to STEAL, and KILL, and to DESTROY:" And his number-one target is the most vulnerable THE YOUNG! The Dead Kennedys, sing, "I kill children,/I love to see them

die/I kill children,/I make their mothers cry." The Bible in Ezekiel chapter 28 describes Satan before his rebellion and fall, verse 13, ". . . thou hast been in Eden the garden of God: every precious stone was thou covering . . . the workmanship of thy TABRETS and of thy PIPES was prepared in thee the day that thou wast created."

Tabrets and pipes are musical instruments!

Satan is connected with music and you'd better believe he knows the awesome power of music! 2 Corinthians chapter 4: verses 3-4 says, "But if our gospel be hid,

it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world (referring to Satan) hath BLINDED THE MINDS of them which believe not".

The battle is a battle for the mind!

Jesse Penn-Lewis in her book, Battle for the Mind says, "There is a great

battle to-day over THE USE AND CONTROL OF THE MIND . . . it is primarily THROUGH THE MIND that Satan holds his captives in his power."

One of the greatest attacks Satan ever placed upon the human mind is rock music. Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, who Newsweek magazine calls the Lucifer of rock, said years ago, "we,ve had they're bodies . . . and now WE WANT THEIR MINDS."
Satan knows, if he can capture your mind he can control you. Jesus Christ commanded us in Matthew 22:37, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy MIND." In Mark chapter 5, Jesus Christ casts the demons out of the maniac of Gadera, and verse 15 reads, "And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right MIND:"

The apostle Peter gives a solemn warning in 1 Peter 1:13, "Wherefore gird up the loins of your MIND". Anyone who has studied hypnosis knows the key vehicle for

hypnosis is repetition. In hypnosis, the subject is usually asked

to repeat a phrase over and over until their conscious mind is in a hypnotic, suggestive state. While under hypnosis, people have little or no control over their actions. Many times they don't even know what happened. In San Antonio, Texas, a sixteen-year-old boy while listening to Pink Floyd's album The Wall, went into a trancelike state. Without warning, he suddenly jumped up and brutally stabbed his aunt to death. According to the police report, there were no drugs involved JUST THE MUSIC! The boy claimed the music HYPNOTIZED HIM and does not even remember the killing! Satan is using a powerful and subtle form of hypnosis to capture the mind. The key to hypnosis is repetition and the main ingredient of rock music is repetition. An overwhelming, repetitive, driving beat. That steady, repetitive beat can place the listener's mind into a dangerous state of suggestive hypnosis. And friend, that danger is frightening when you consider the words fed into that young impressionable mind! In October 1984, Nineteen-year-old John McCollum shot himself in the head, while listening to Ozzy Osbourne sing "Suicide Solution": "Evil thoughts and evil doings/Cold, alone, you hang in ruins/Thought that you'd escape the reaper/You can't escape the Master Keeper/ . . . /Where to hide, suicide is the only way out." He was still wearing the stereo headphones when his body was found! The Institute for Bio-Acoustics Research, Inc. (IBAR) was hired to

evaluate "Suicide Solution". Not surprisingly, they found subliminal lyrics that weren't included in the copyright "lead sheet". The subliminal lyrics are sung at one and one-half times the normal rate of speech and are not grasped by the first time listener. However, they claim the subliminal lyrics, "are audible enough that their meaning and true intent becomes clear after being listened to over and over again." What are some of the hidden subliminal lyrics? "Why try, why try? GET THE GUN AND TRY IT! SHOOT. . .SHOOT. . .SHOOT," followed by a hideous laughter! But, that's not all! IBAR's analysis of "Suicide Solution" found something else Hemisync tones, which result from a patented process that uses sound waves to influence an individual's mental state. The tones have been found to increase the rate at which the human brain assimilates and processes information." IBAR alleges that the Hemisync tones made 19-year-old John McCollum more vulnerable to the suggestive lyrics sung by Ozzy Osbourne. The McCollum's attorney says he has received "at least 20 phone calls from parents indicating their kids committed suicide not just listening to rock music but specifically to Ozzy Osbourne." John McCollum's father said, "THEY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE PUTTING OUT . . . there are people who are out there trying to make money, and THEY HAVE NO HESITATION TO SELL YOUR KIDS DOWN THE DRAIN . . . You see a perfectly normal kid there who doesn't show any signs of depression at all happy. Then six hours later, he's dead. Nobody can explain it. The only thing we know is that he was listening to this music." Jimi Hendrix, among rock's greatest guitarists, who choked to death on his own vomit in 1970 due to a drug overdose, said, "Atmospheres are

going to come through music because music is a spiritual thing of its own. YOU CAN HYPNOTIZE PEOPLE WITH MUSIC and when you get people at the weakest point YOU CAN PREACH INTO THEIR SUBCONSCIOUS whatever you want to say."
Homosexual rock star Little Richard, said, "Some rock and roll groups stand in a circle and drink cups of blood. Some get on their knees and pray to the devil. ROCK AND ROLL HYPNOTIZES US AND CONTROLS OUR SENSES." In December 1985, eighteen-year-old Raymond Belknap and James Vance after listening to Judas Priest sing "Beyond the Realms of Death", climbed out the bedroom window, and went to a nearby church playground. There Belknap put a sawed-off shotgun to his head, pulled the trigger and literally blew his head off. As Belknap lay dead on the playground, Vance took his turn. He said, "There was just tons of blood. It was like the gun had grease on it. There was so much blood I could barely handle it, and I reloaded it and then, you know, it was my turn, and I readied myself. I was thinking about all that there was to live for, so much of your life is right before your eyes, and it was like I DIDN'T HAVE ANY CONTROL . . . MY BODY WAS COMPELLED to do it and I went ahead and shot." Vance survived the gunshot wound, but slipped into a coma in November, 1988 and died a few days later. The bereaved parents brought legal action against Judas Priest. The lawsuit stated, "The suggestive lyrics combined with the continuous beat and rhythmic non-changing intonation of the music combined to induce, encourage, aid, abet and mesmerize the plaintiff into believing the answer to life was death."

According to expert witnesses who analyzed the Judas Priest album, both subliminal messages and backmasking were found. They found the subliminal message "Do it" at least six times. Attorney Kenneth McKenna said, "They just literally obeyed the commands of the music, and the lyrics . . ."

Do you remember Patty Hearst?

In February, 1974, she was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. But shortly, she's helping the SLA rob banks. You wonder how they converted her? Newsweek magazine, February 16, 1976, Dr.

William Sargent, Britain's foremost expert on brainwashing was asked to examine Patty Hearst. His conclusion: "she was a victim of "FORCED CONVERSION" or brainwashing. Her nervous system was kept at maximum stress by the continual playing of loud ROCK MUSIC . . . a person whose nervous system is under constant pressure can "inhibit" and "exhibit" paradoxical brain activityBAD BECOMES GOOD AND GOOD BECOMES BAD."
According to Dr. Sargent, rock music can actually "convert" the listener bad actually becomes good, and good becomes bad. That explains the often irrational and unnatural behavior among today's youth. No wonder I've had young people, without the least bit of fear or hesitation, look me straight in the face and say, "Yea, man, I wanna go to hell, we're gonna party down in the flames of hell with Satan." Sixteen-year-old, Dennis Bartts, of Center Point, Texas, told his best friend he "planned to meet Satan." He walked to the high

school football field, carrying his portable cassette player. When he got there he popped AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" in the cassette player, and hung himself from the goalpost. There is no rational explanation for such behavior, outside of "satanic" influence. Reporter Tom Jarriel on ABC's "20/20" said, "The

Satanic message is clear, both in the album covers and in the lyrics, WHICH ARE REACHING IMPRESSIONABLE YOUNG MINDS."
According to the book Satanism in America, which is endorsed by the National Criminal Justice Task Force on Occult Related Ritualistic Crimes, hard-core Satanism has been called "the fastest-growing subculture among America's teens."

The facts speak loud and clear!

Satan, using a very powerful and deadly weapon called rock music, has penetrated and captured the minds of this generation! Young people tell me, "Aw man, it's not affecting me. I don't worship the devil. I'm not gonna commit suicide, or anything. I just like listening to the music. But man, it doesn't affect me." That's not what Dr. Kappas says . . .

Dr. John Kappas, a leading researcher of the mind

and hypnosis, started in the early 60's studying the effects of rock music. Dr. Kappas said, " . . . the things
that aren't understood about all these satanic things is how they get the message across to these young people.

What you are talking about is what is called WAKING SUGGESTIBILITY. These are highly suggestible states easily influencing the young . . . any conscious message that goes along with that record will be bought by the listener at that time. THERE IS NO DEFENSE against the conscious message received at that time . . . They will take in anything that you suggest at that time BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO DEFENSES AGAINST IT . . . THEY BECAME HYPNOTIZED . . . These were individuals who were ESSENTIALLY WALKING AROUND IN A HYPNOTIC STATE . . ."
Fourteen-year-old Thomas Sullivan of New Jersey, a fan of Ozzy Osbourne, claimed it didn't affect him. But on January 9, 1988 the small town of Jefferson Township knew better. Tommy Sullivan, your typical, all-American, fourteen-year-old BECAME A BRUTAL KILLER! That Saturday night, Tommy's father was awakened by the sound of a smoke alarm. He got up and discovered a small fire burning in the living room. While he was putting it out, he heard the front door slam. He went to the window in time to see someone plow the family car into a snowbank, then jump out of the car and run. Then he found his wife in the basement, lying in a pool of blood. Her eyes had been gouged, her cheeks carved and her throat brutally slit. "We knew immediately who our suspect was," said Detective Hart. On the front seat of the family car was found a note in Tommy's handwriting, addressed to "the greatest demons of hell." It included a pledge to kill his family. The pledge had been

crossed out, and in parentheses, Tommy had added, "I have already killed my family." Early the next morning, a neighbor spotted Tommy's shirtless, frozen body in the neighbor's snow-covered backyard. His wrists were slashed and his throat slashed from ear-to-ear with an intensity that nearly decapitated him. Mayor Fran Slayton put it best, "There's just something that's bothering me about this situation. It bothers me that a good kid like that can go in two weeks." Tommy's father said later, all week his son had been singing a rock song "about blood and killing your mother."

1 Peter 5:8 says, ". . . the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR:"

NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.

Like centuries ago the worship of Molech is distinguished by drums. It is the drums and the rhythm that makes Rock music different from other music styles. It is not the lyrics the differentiates it, but the drums and rhythm. The drum style of Rock and Roll originated in voodoo. Robert Palmer, contributing editor to Rolling Stone writes, in Rock & Roll An Unruly History:

"Bata drums [drums used in voodoo]... provided a template for the inner rhythms of rock and roll... [they] serve as conduits for spiritual energies, linking individual human consciousness with the gods... the drum rhythms that make rock and roll can ultimately be traced back to African music of a primarily spiritual or ritual nature. In a sense, rock and roll is a kind of 'voodoo'... Drums are used in "voodoo" possession... drummers tap out their

rhythm patterns like signals to the realm of the gods, inviting and enticing them to come and POSSESS their devotees."
Little Richard, the self-professed "architect of rock 'n roll", readily admits Satan's control and influence in his life and rock music: "My true belief about Rock 'n' Roll - is this: "I believe this kind of music is demonic.... A lot of the BEATS in music today are taken from voodoo, from the voodoo DRUMS." (The Life and Times of Little Richard)

MOLECH OF CHRISTIAN ROCK by www.babylonforsaken.com Leviticus 18:21, 20:2-3 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.... Whosoever... giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. Down in the valley of Hinnom, the Valley of Tophet, just outside the city of Jerusalem, an evil idol of Molech was erected. This was the god worshipped by the Ammonites. It was a great metal god, with arms outstretched. Fires heated these arms until they were red hot, and children were placed upon them to be consumed as a sacrifice. Drums were played as this terrible worship was conducted to drown the screams of the dying children. It was the most vile and awful form of worship imaginable, and was totally condemned by GOD.

Moloch... was made of brass; and they heated him from his lower

parts; and his hands being stretched out, and made hot, they put the child between his hands, and it was burnt; when it vehemently cried out; but the priests beat a drum, that the father might not hear the voice of his son, and his heart might not be moved. Jeremiah 7:31.. Commetary: Jewish Rabbi Rashi.
God had warned the nation of Israel long before not to make a metal god [Leviticus 19:4], and threatened to destroy them if they caused their children to pass through the fire unto Molech. MOLECH WAS WORSHIPED IN TOPHET. Yet we read in Scriptures that Israel turned from the true worship of GOD and began to worship Molech. According to the Bible Molech was worshipped in the valley of Hinnom, in a place called Tophet [see Jeremiah 7:30-31, 32:35]. Tophet literally means the place

of drums. It is derived from the Hebrew word Toph, which means the drum. Drums were the main instrument used in the
worship of Molech, and the people of that area knew that when they heard the overwhelming beat of the drums sounding from the Valley of Hinnom that another child had passed through the fire into the arms of Molech.

DRUMS WERE NEVER The EMPHASIS IN THE WORSHIP OF GOD. The worship of Molech could never be confused with the worship of YHWH. Not even in the sound of the worship music. Though God allowed for the use of percussion instruments in worship, including the cymbals and 'tambourine and taboret', the percussion was not the dominate force of the music. The taboret is a finger drum, the timbrel a tambourine. Both were held in one hand and beaten with the fingers in the back ground. The larger "Beta" drums were a

very common instrument in Egypt and the lands around Israel, yet God never asked to be worshipped with them, nor do we see him worshipped with them in Scripture.

DRUMS ARE PROMINENT IN FALSE WORSHIP. The Emphasis of Drums have always been associated with pagan worship. Drums have are prominent with pagan, voodoo, shamanism, magic and satanic rituals. One of the main reasons that Satan chooses to make drums prominent in false worship is their hypnotic potential. Drum beats can cause "switching" to occur in the brain as it loses symmetry between left and right sides. This causes stress and it makes it difficult for a person to distinguish between what is beneficial and what is harmful. In this condition the body usually chooses that which is destructive over that which is therapeutic. Bringing a person to the point where he is unable to discern that which is harmful from that which is beneficial is one of the goals of Satan. A person in this condition is suspect to receiving spirits associated with the music. DOES MOLECH STILL LIVE? The Bible teaches that when a person offered sacrifice to a false god like Molech, they were actually offering sacrifice to demons [1 Corinthians 10:20]. Invisible to the worshippers surrounding the idol a demon was present and it accepted the worship that was offered to the idol. Though the ancient metal image of Molech has been destroyed, the demon Molech lives on. According to some 16th century demonologist: Molech is: A king of hell, this Molech finds particular pleasure in making mothers weep; he specializes in stealing their children. WHERE IS MOLECH TODAY? Molech in the days of the Bible was represented as a metal god that had

the body of a man but the head of a bull. His two horns were prominent upon his head. Today this ancient horned metal god is still worshipped.

The horned god is worshipped in witchcraft and satanism, and of course Rock Music. When you see the Rockers raising their hands with the pinky and first finger raised and the thumb tucked toward the palm, they are a saluting the horned metal god who reigns over Rock N Roll, the demon Molech, or Satan himself. See Below

A history of the devil's horns

It is being flashed everywhereon TV, in newspapers and magazines, at sporting events, and even at presidential inaugurations. I'm referring, of course, to the sign of El Diablo, the horned devil, also known as the sign of Il Cornuto and as Diabolicus. It began in the modern era with the followers of satanic cults, the members of the official Church of Satan, and heavy metal rock music bands and fans flourishing the sign of two

separated fingers upward sign. The rock bands made it popular and trendy, and now it seems almost everyone is doing it.

Three versions of the "El Diablo," the sign of Satan, the horned God. The hand sign at right is also the deaf's gesture, or signing, for "I love you," a fact which has many people confused. I Love You, Devil? The sign often is confused with the deaf's signing of the phrase, "I love you." While at first this appears an odd resemblance, we register an "ahh, I get it!" emotion when we discover that the person who invented, or created, the hand sign system for the deaf, Helen Keller, was herself an occultist and Theosophist. Did Keller purposely design the deaf's "I love you" sign to be such a remarkable imitation of the classic sign of Satan? Was Keller saying, basically, "I love you, Devil?"

Hellen Keller above

Who really was Hellen Keller?

Helen Keller was a famous person in American history. She did some things that I agree with and other things that I don't agree with. She was an American author, a political activist, and a lecturer. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in America. "The Miracle Worker"is the famous movie that Keller's teacher Annie Sullivan caused her to communicate in a succinct level (by breaking down her isolation that developed by a near complete lack of language). The movie came about in 1962.

Kellers family came from Switzerland. She became blind and deaf in 19 months with scarlet fever, and meningitis. In 1904 Keller graduated from college at age 24. Keller invented over 60 different signs, so she could talk to her family before the age of 7. Very few know about the esoteric side of Helen Keller. Even though she popularized the use of the El Diablo or the horned Canuto hand sign. This hand symbol or sign existed thousands of years in pagan religions. Keller claimed that it means I Love You but Keller was a Occultist and Theosophist. Theosophy, literally "god-wisdom" (Greek: theosophia), designates several bodies of ideas. The 6th century neo-platonist PseudoDionysius seems to have been the first philosopher the term applied to. There was a group of Renaissance philosophers: Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, Robert Fludd, and, especially, Jacob Boehme; the Enlightenment theologian Emanuel Swedenborg was influenced by these. And finally, the word was revived in the nineteenth century by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky to designate her religious philosophy which holds that all religions are attempts by humanity to approach the absolute, and that each religion therefore has a portion of the truth. Together with Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge, and others, Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. This society has since split into a number of organizations, some of which no longer use the term "theosophy." SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophy

Helen Keller wrote a book called "Light in My Darkness," which was first published in 1927. In the book, she wrote a tribute to mystic Emanuel Swedenborg, whom she regarded as: "...one of the noblest champions true Christianity has ever known..." She admits in the book that: "...the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg have been my light, and a staff in my hand and by his vision splendid I am attended on my way..." Who was Emmanuel Swedenborg? He was a Swedish scientist, mystic, philosopher, and theologian. He lived from 1688 to 1772. He was a modernist and called himself a Christian, but his views were far different from orthodox Christianity. He claimed to have received a vision in how to reform Christianity. He rejected the Biblical belief that salvation was by faith through grace alone as the Bible says. He believed that faith and charity was necessary for salvation. That's false since you can be a pagan or atheist being full of charity and go to Hell. Swedenborg referred to himself as aninitialis, in Greek (mystikos), "an initiate" (Bergquist, 1999, p.451; in turn based on Arcana Coelestia 4099). Swedenborg claimed to visit heaven, hell, etc. and that he talked with angels, demons, and other spirits. Freemasons like Albert Mackey wrote that Swedenborg had an influence on Freemasonry, especially in Europe. So, Swedenborg wanted to pull Christianity into a more mystical or occult direction. The reality is that Christianity can't be pulled into a mystical direction. It's here and it has nothing to hide. Mysticism relates to the mysteries and keeping secrets from the rest of the public. The Bible is inherently clear as Jesus said in John 18:20... "I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing." We read in 2nd Peter 1:20, "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation." Scripturally, no one can claim that they have received some knowledge from God that no one else has.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. Her most popular work was a two-volume book she wrote titled 'The Secret Doctrine,' in which she woefully states...

"Lucifer represents.. Life.. Thought.. Progress.. Civilization.. Liberty.. Independence.. Lucifer is the Logos.. the Serpent, the Savior." pages 171, 225, 255 (Volume II) "It is Satan who is the God of our planet and the only God." pages 215, 216, 220, 245, 255, 533, (VI) "The Celestial Virgin which thus becomes the Mother of Gods and Devils at one and the same time; for she is the ever-loving beneficent Deity...but in antiquity and reality Lucifer or Luciferius is the name. Lucifer is divine and terrestrial Light, 'the Holy Ghost' and 'Satan' at one and the same time." page 539
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky 32 Co-Freemason

The Secret Doctrine

The Theosophical Society was founded in New York in 1875 by the Ukraine born, Madame Blavatsky, and the American Col. Henry S. Olcott. Today they claim 25,000 members in 60 countries, with 6,000 in the USA... but its influence far transcends the boundaries of its own ranks, influencing the New Age Movement, the Rosicrucians, The Anthropological Society, the "I Am" Ascended Masters, New Thought, et cetera. The Doctrine of the Society: Is a mix of Hinduism, Buddhism, Spiritualism, and Gnostic Christianity, with Masonic rituals, and a systematic criticism of Christianity, Judaism and Islam... all based in the visions and revelations that Mme. Blavatsky had by the "Mahatnas" of Tibet, and the Spiritualism she lived in the USA.

Photo to Right: Occultist and Satan worshipper, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Partying, Drinking, Rebellion, Or...? With the rapid rise in popularity of the El Diablo sign among rock fans, many people seem to be blissfully unaware of the satanic background and dark history of this sign. To some, giving the sign more likely indicates their eagerness and gusto for fun, partying, drinking, and youthful rebellion.

Theosophist, Helen Keller, and Her Satanic Hand Sign

The following pictures and gestures are examples for the reader, to decide which of the persons shown here, are paying homage to Satan and which are employing it for some other purpose.

The devil's horn salute has been raised far and wide; here are some of its best moments.

Fans let devil horns fly as Megadeth rocks Dallas

Ronnie James Dio - "Rainbow In The Dark"

Above Anton LaVey making the Devils horns during a satanic worship service.

On the back cover of his first edition of The Satanic Bible, Anton LaVey is shown with his left hand making the sign of allegiance to the Devil. It does not mean, I love you, but it does mean I swear allegiance to Satan. When the thumb and two middle fingers are turned down, and the index and the pinky are turned up, it signifies the horns of the goat and that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost But thats not all! On the right you will find another copy of The Satanic Bible. Notice the upside down crucifix of Jesus at the top of the front cover, and the 666 at the bottom. Both are true symbols of Satan and his Antichrist. In fact the rock, pop, country, hip-hop, rap, and all music artist have come up with their own unique way of signaling the 666 with a hand sign, thus showing their musical allegiance to Satan.

Beware of Satanic Influence

Rihanna flashing devil horns in the Run This Town video.

The illustration from the book Witches, by Una Woodruff and Colin Wilson (Crescent Books, New York, 1988), shows a satanic witch signaling the "El Diablo."

Brittney Spears, brought up as a Disney star, would certainly be very familiar with this sign and know just what she was doing here.

Ozzie Osborne, one of the so called greats of satanic goth music. His influence is not to be underestimated.

ROCK AND ROLL IS OF SATANIC ORIGIN Rock and Rollers admit that their music is satanic. Many of them admit to giving their bodies and souls to Satan in order to become both rich and famous. Rock and Roll was birthed by Satan to destroy the youth.

Jesus Christ said, "He that is not with me is against me. . ." When you say NO to Jesus you say YES to Satan. And friend, That's a very, very serious thing to do!

THE CHOICE IS YOURS!

REPENT SO YOU CAN BE SAVED

Jesus told the crowd in Luke 13:3-5, "Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish....except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." In Peter's sermon recorded in Acts 3:19 he said, "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out." Paul said in Athens, "And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent" (Acts 17:30) Paul told the Corinthians, "For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation" (2 Cor. 7:10). And Peter wrote that the Lord is "not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" (2 Pet. 3:9). True repentance involves turning from everything that you know is sinful. Jesus does not save anyone who refuses to turn away from any known sin in his or her life.

Remember there is more to being a part of Gods kingdom by just believing in him, for we know the scripture says that the devil also believe and tremble. Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. James 2:19 This is not to say that God can't or doesn't save anybody with these tracts. Jesus can, and does, save in spite of what we ignorantly do Part of the commission to the Apostles was that "repentance and remission of sins should be preached" (Lk. 24:47). The first message that Jesus preached after He was baptized and spent forty days in the wilderness was "repent ye, and believe the gospel" (Mk. 1:15). "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:" Romans 3:10 "... for there is no difference. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" Romans 3:23

"... Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood," Revelation 1:5 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16 Now believe upon the Lord with all your heart, repenting of your sins, and receive him by Faith as both your Lord and Savior!

by Donald Phau NOTE. Through out the article we (Dial-the-Truth Ministries) have added some additions/comments. Our comments are in Italic Today, at almost any "heavy-metal'' rock concert one can hear the audience being exhorted to rape and murder in the name of Satan. Lyrics such as the following are typical: "We come bursting through your bodies Rape your helpless soul Transform you into a creature Merciless and cold We force you to kill your brother Eat his blood and brain Shredding flesh and sucking bone Till everyone's insane We are pestilent and contaminate The world Demonic legions prevail" "DEMONS" by Rigor Mortis

Any loving parent today would be horrified and shocked to learn that their sons and daughters are eagerly listening to such evil. Perhaps though, some may think privately, "If only we could return to the 'good old days,' with the music of the Beatles." Little do most people suspect that it was with those innocent-looking Beatles, that most of the trouble started. Modern electronic-rock music, inaugurated in the early 1960s, is, and always has been, a joint enterprise of British military intelligence and Satanic cults. On the one side, the Satanists control the major rock groups through drugs, sex, threats of violence, and even murder. On the other side, publicity, tours, and recordings are financed by record companies connected to British military intelligence circles. Both sides are intimately entwined with the biggest business in the world, the international drug trade.

The so-called "rock stars" are pathetic puppets caught in a much larger scheme. From the moment they receive their first recording royalties, the groups are heavily immersed in drugs. For example, much-admired "stars'' such as John Lennon of the Beatles and Keith Richard of the Rolling Stones, were heroin addicts. Richard had to obtain blood transfusions, replacing his entire heroin-laced blood supply, in order to get a visa to enter the United States. (Tony Sanchez, Up and Down WIth the

Rolling Stones, p.319)

The "rock stars" are also totally artificial media creations. Their public image, as well as their music, is fabricated from behind the scenes by controllers. For example, when the Beatles first arrived in the United States in 1964, they were mobbed at the airport by hundreds of screaming teenage girls. The national press immediately announced that "Beatlemania" had besieged the U.S.A. But the girls had all been transported from a girl's school in the Bronx, and paid for their screaming performance by the Beatles' promoters. The money of the 1960s rock groups, which in some cases mounted to hundreds of millions of dollars, was also totally under the control of mobconnected promoters. From 1963 to 1970, the Rolling Stones made over $200 million, yet the group's members were all nearly bankrupt. None of them had any idea of where their money went. Between 1963 and 1964 the Beatles and the Rolling Stones laid siege to Western European and American culture. This two-pronged invasion from England was well-planned and well-timed. America had just suffered the shock of the assassination of President John Kennedy, while in the streets the mass-based civil rights movement had just held a Washington, D.C. rally, led by Martin Luther King, of 500,000 people. The rock counterculture would be used as a weapon to destroy such political movements. Later in 1968 and 1969, years which saw a mass strike of students and workers in the United States and Europe, huge, open-air rock concerts were used to head off the growing discontent of the population. The rock concerts were devised as a means for mass recruitment to the drugsaturated, free-sex counterculture. For the millions who came to these concerts, thousands of tablets of the hallucinogenic drug, LSD, were made freely available. These drugs were secretly placed in drinks such as Coca-

Cola, turning thousands of unsuspecting victims into raving psychotics. Many committed suicide. Less than a half century ago, our young children studied violin and piano, learning about the great classical composers such as Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. As will be shown, the same record companies who today promote Satanic "heavy-metal" rock have run covert operations to destroy the musical heritage of these great classical composers. For the past thirty years, Western society has been under the gun of a deliberate plan of cultural warfare, with the purpose of eliminating JudeoChristian civilization as we know it. These plans must not succeed. So that the reader can better combat this evil, we'll go back nearly thirty years, when those four innocent lads from Liverpool, England, the Beatles, were just starting out.

Creating the Beatles The Beatles first began performing in the late 1950s in jazz clubs in England and West Germany. These clubs, always located in the seediest part of the cities, served as a marketplace for prostitution and the circulation of drugs. Beatle biographer Philip Norman writes: "Their only regular engagement was a strip club. The club owner paid them ten shillings each to strum their guitars while a stripper named Janice grimly shed her clothes before an audience of sailors, guilty businessmen and habitues with raincoat-covered laps." (Philip Norman, Shout! The Beatles in Their

Generation, p. 81)

The Beatles got their first big break in Germany, in August 1960, when they obtained a booking at a jazz club in Hamburg's notorious Reeperbahn district. Describing the area Norman writes it had, "red-lit windows containing whores in every type of fancy dress, all ages from nymphet to granny...Everything was free. Everything was easy. The sex was easy... Here it came after you." (Philip Norman, Shout! The Beatles in Their

Generation, p. 91)
Far from the picture of innocence, the Beatles, even in their first performances, were always high on a drug called Preludin, "John (Lennon), would be foaming at the mouth, he'd have so many pills inside him...John, began to go berserk on stage, prancing and groveling...The fact that the audience could not understand a word he said, provoked John into cries of `Sieg Heil!' and `F____ing Nazis' to which the audience invariably responded by laughing and clapping." (Philip Norman, Shout! The

Beatles in Their Generation, pp. 152,91)

Off the stage, the Beatles were just as evil. Norman continues, "while in Hamburg, John, each Sunday would stand on the balcony, taunting the churchgoers as they walked to St. Joseph's. He attached a water-filled contraceptive to an effigy of Jesus and hung it out for the churchgoers to see. Once he urinated on the heads of three nuns."(Philip Norman,

Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation, p. 152)

While in Hamburg, in June of 1962 the Beatles received a telegram from their manager, a homosexual named Brian Epstein, who was back in England. "Congratulations," Epstein's message read. "EMI requests a recording session." EMI was one of Europe's largest record producers, and their role in promoting the Beatles would be key in the future. Under the the strict guidance of EMI's recording director George Martin, and Brian Epstein, the Beatles were scrubbed, washed, and their hair styled into the Beatles cut. EMI's Martin created the Beatles in his recording studio. Martin was a trained classical musician, and had studied the oboe and piano at the London School of Music. The Beatles could neither read music nor play any instrument other than guitar. For Martin, the Beatles musicianship was a bad joke. On their first hit record, "Love Me Do," Martin

replaced Ringo on the drums with a studio musician. Martin said Ringo, "couldn't do a [drum] roll to save his life." From then on, Martin would take the simple little tunes the Beatles would come to him with, and turn them into hit records.

Lockwood and EMI EMI, led by aristocrat Sir Joseph Lockwood, stands for Electrical and Mechanical Instruments, and is one of Britain's largest producers of military electronics. Martin was director of EMI's subsidiary, Parlophone. By the mid-sixties EMI, now called Thorn EMI, created a music divison which had grown to 74,321 employees and had annual sales of $3.19 billion. EMI was also a key member of Britain's military intelligence establishment. After the war, in 1945, EMI's European production head Walter Legge virtually took over control of classical music recordings, signing up dozens of starving German classical musicians and singers to EMI contracts. Musicians who sought to preserve the performance tradition of Beethoven and Brahms, were relegated to obscurity while "ex-Nazi" Party members were promoted. Legge signed and recorded Nazi member, the late Herbert Von Karajan, promoting him to superstar status, while great conductors such as Wilhelm Furtwangler were ignored. From the beginning, EMI created the myth of the Beatles' great popularity. In August of 1963, at their first major television appearance at the London Palladium, thousands of their fans supposedly rioted. The next day every mass-circulation newspaper in Great Britain carried a front page picture and story stating, "Police fought to hold back 1,000 squealing teenagers." Yet, the picture displayed in each newspaper was cropped so closely that only three or four of the "squealing teenagers" could be seen. The story was a fraud. According to a photographer on the scene, "There were no riots. I was there. We saw eight girls, even less than eight." (Philip

Norman, Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation, p. 188)

In February 1964, the Beatles myth hit the United States, complete with the orchestrated riots at Kennedy Airport, previously mentioned. To launch

their first tour, the media created one of the largest mass audiences in history. For an unprecedented two Sundays in a row, on the Ed Sullivan Show, over 75 million Americans watched the Beatles shake their heads and sway their bodies in a ritual which was soon to be replicated by hundreds of future rock groups. On returning to England, the Beatles were rewarded by the British aristocracy they served so well . In October 1965, the four were inducted into the Order of Chivalry, and were personally awarded the accolade of Member of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham palace.

Up from the Dregs: The Rolling Stones The credit for the origination of today's blatantly Satanic "heavy metal rock," goes to the English group, the Rolling Stones. Their rise to fame was closely connected with that of the Beatles. The Stones, as they were called, were widely characterized as the counterparts to the Beatles. "The Stones" were "mean,'' "dirty" and "rebellious," whereas the Beatles were the well-groomed "Fab Four." Though seemingly competitors, they were merely two sides of the same operation. The Stones' first hit record was actually written by the Beatles, and it was Beatle member George Harrison who set up the arrangements for their first recording contract. Following the same game plan as the Beatles, in the spring of 1963 the Rolling Stones appeared on one of England's most popular family television shows, Thank Your Lucky Stars. Only this time, the reaction by the middle-

aged viewers was quite different from that to the Beatles. Hundreds of angry letters were sent, with a typical letter stating "It is disgraceful that long-haired louts such as these should be allowed to appear on television. Their appearance was absolutely disgusting." The program, however, had exactly the planned effect. Rolling Stones' manager Andrew Oldham was elated at the response. He told the group, "We're going to make you exactly opposite to those nice, clean, tidy Beatles. And the more the parents hate you, the more the kids will love you. Just wait and see." (Tony Sanchez, Up and Down With the

Rolling Stones, p.17)

In 1964, the Rolling Stones appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, as the Beatles had done earlier. This time though, the coast-to-coast audience beheld the spectacle of the television studio being ripped to shreds by Stones fans. Sullivan said on the air afterward, "I promise you, they will never be back on our show." The publicity, however, was exactly what was wanted. Within a few months, the group's records were selling millions of copies. The plan was now to use both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones as the means to transform an entire generation into heathen followers of the New Age, followers which could mold into the future cadre of a Satanic movement and then deploy into our schools, law enforcement agencies and political leadership. Enter Satan In his book, The Ultimate Evil, investigatorauthor Maury Terry writes that between 1966 and 1967, the Satanic cult, the Process Church, "sought to recruit the Rolling Stones and the Beatles." During this period, Terry reports that a photo of Rolling Stones leader Mick Jagger's longtime girlfriend, Marianne Faithfull, appeared in an issue of The Process Magazine. The picture shows her supine, as if dead, clutching a rose. Terry's book goes on to

implicate the Process Church cult in the Charles Manson and Son of Sam multiple murders. It was the former lawyer for the Process Church, John Markham, who recently ran the frameup trial against Lyndon LaRouche. A key link between the Rolling Stones and the Process Church is Kenneth Anger, a follower of the "founding father" of modern Satanism, Aleister Crowley. Anger, born in 1930, and a child Hollywood movie star, became a devoted disciple of Crowley. Crowley was born in 1875 and was called the "Great Beast." He was known to practice ritual child sacrifice regularly, in his role as Satan's high priest or "Magus." Crowley died in 1947 due to complications of his huge heroin addiction. Before dying, he succeeded in establishing Satanic covens in many U.S. cities including Hollywood. Anger, like Crowley, is a Magus, and appears to be the heir to Crowley. Anger was seventeen years old when Crowley died. In that same year, 1947, Anger was already producing and directing films which, even by today's standards, reek of pure evil. During 1966-1967, when the Process Church is reported to be recruiting in London, Anger was also on the scene. Author Tony Sanchez describes that Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and Keith Richard, and their girlfriends Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenburg, "listened spellbound as Anger turned them on to Crowley's powers and ideas." (Tony Sanchez, Up and

Down With the Rolling Stones, p.155)

While in England, Anger worked on a film dedicated to Aleister Crowley, called Lucifer Rising. The film brought together the Process Church, the Manson Family cult, and the Rolling Stones. The music for the film was composed by Mick Jagger. Process Church follower Marianne Faithfull went all the way to Egypt to participate in the film's depiction of a Black Mass. The part of Lucifer was played by a guitarist of a California rock group, Bobby Beausoleil. Beausoleil was a member of the Manson Family, and Anger's homosexual lover. A few months after filming under Anger's direction in England, Beausoleil returned to California to commit the first of the Manson family's series of gruesome murders. Beausoleil was later arrested and is now serving a life

sentence in prison along with Manson. Having lost his star performer, Anger then asked Mick Jagger to play Lucifer. He finally settled upon Anton La Vey, author of The Satanic Bible and head of the First Church of Satan, to play the part. The film was released in 1969 with the title Invocation To My Demon Brother. In London, Anger had succeeded in recruiting to Satanism the girlfriend of one of the Rolling Stones, Anita Pallenberg. Pallenberg had met the Rolling Stones in 1965. She immediately began sexual relations with three out of the five members of the group. Anger, commenting on Anita, said, "I believe that Anita is, for want of a better word, a witch...The occult unit within the Stones was Keith and Anita...and Brian. You see, Brian was a witch too." One of the group's friends, Tony Sanchez, writes of Pallenberg in his book, Up and Down with the Rolling Stones, "She was obsessed with black magic and began to carry a string of garlic with her everywhere--even to bed--to ward off vampires. She also had a strange mysterious old shaker for holy water which she used for some of her rituals. Her ceremonies became increasingly secret, and she warned me never to interrupt her when she was working on a spell."(Tony Sanchez, Up and Down WIth the

Rolling Stones, p.159)

He continues, "In her bedroom she kept a huge, ornate carved chest, which she guarded so jealously that I assumed it was her drug stash. The house was empty one day, and I decided to take a peep inside. The drawers were filled with scraps of bone, wrinkled skin and fur from some strange animals." (Tony Sanchez, Up and Down With the Rolling

Stones, p.159)
In 1980, the seventeen-year-old caretaker of Keith Richard's New England estate was found shot to death in Anita Pallenberg's bed. The death, ruled a suicide, was with Pallenberg's gun. Richard's house was located near the East Coast headquarters of the Process Church. According to an article in the English newspaper Midnite, a Connecticut police officer, Michael Passaro, who had responded to the "suicide'' reported "strange singing" from the woods a quarter mile from the Richard's mansion.

The newspaper continues, "There have been several bizarre satanic rituals in the area over the past five years. A local reporter attributed the outbreak of occultism to 'rich people taking Acid.'" In 1967, reflecting their ongoing association with Anger and the Process Church, the Rolling Stones released their first rock album openly celebrating the Devil, titled, Their Satanic Majesties Request. A few months earlier, the Beatles had released their first album dedicated to the promotion of psychedelic drugs, Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The album contained a fantasized version of an LSD trip, called "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", or L.S.D. for short. It became a top seller. Clearly, the Beatles' album was dedicated to Satanist Aleister Crowley (pictured to left). It was released 20 years, nearly to the day, after Crowley's death in 1947, and its title song began with the lyrics, "It was twenty years ago today..." The album's cover featured a picture of Crowley. One month after the album's release, the Beatles shocked the world by announcing, publicly, that they were regularly taking LSD. Beatle member Paul McCartney, in an interview with Life magazine said, "LSD opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain." They also publicly called for the legalization of marijuana. The cat was now out of the bag, but the protests were few and minor. In England, the BBC banned "A Day in the Life," and in the U.S.A., Maryland Governor Spiro T. Agnew, who would later be watergated, launched a campaign to ban "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds."

Dial-the-Truth Ministries - ADDENDUM ROCK MUSIC AND ALIESTER CROWLEY

Aleister Crowley is without a doubt, the main spiritual "teacher" of rock music. Crowley's mission in life was to destroy Jesus Christ and Christianity, while exalting sex perversion, drugs, magick and Satan. Aleister Crowley spews his hatred of Jesus Christ in The World's Tragedy: "I do not wish to argue that the doctrines of Jesus, they and they alone, have degraded the world to it's present condition. I take it that Christianity is not only the cause but the symptom of slavery."
(Aleister Crowley, The World's Tragedy, p. XXXIX)

"That religion they call Christianity; the devil they honor they call God. I accept these definitions, as a poet must do, if he is to be at all intelligible to his age, and it is their God and their religion that I HATE and will DESTROY." (Aleister Crowley, The World's Tragedy, p. XXXI) In the introduction of The World's Tragedy, Israel Regardie says: "This long, almost epic poem is one of the most bitter and vicious diatribes against Christianity that I have ever read." Crowley's most famous teaching, "Do what thou wilt shalt be the whole of the law" became the "mantra" of the 60's revolution of drugs, sexual perversion and anti-Christianity. "Do your own thing" "If it feels good do it". THE BEATLES & CROWLEY According to The All Music Guide, The Beatle's Sgt. Pepper album, "will forever be known as the recording that changed rock & roll". Time magazine said, Sgt Pepper's was "drenched in drugs." (Time, Sept. 26, 1967, p.62) The cover of Sgt. Pepper's showed the Beatles with a background of, according to Ringo Starr, people "we like and admire" (Hit Parade, Oct. 1976, p.14). Paul McCartney said of Sgt. Pepper's cover, ". . . we were going to have photos on the wall of all our HEROES . . ." (Musician,

Special Collectors Edition, - Beatles and Rolling Stones, 1988, p.12) One of the Beatle's heroes included on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's was the infamous Aleister Crowley! Most people, especially in 1967, did not even know who Crowley was but the Beatles certainly did. The Beatles apparently took Crowley's teaching very serious Beatle John Lennon, in an interview, says the "whole idea of the Beatles" was Crowley's infamous "do what thou wilt": "The whole Beatle idea was to do what you want, right? To take your own responsibility, do what you want and try not to harm other people, right? DO WHAT THOU WILST, as long as it doesn't hurt somebody. . ." ("The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon & Yoko Ono", by David Sheff & G. Barry Golson, p. 61) "They're COMPLETELY ANTI-CHRIST. I mean, I am anti-Christ as well, but they're so anti-Christ they shock me which isn't an easy thing." Derek Taylor, Press Officer for the Beatles (Saturday Evening Post, Aug. 8, 1964). "Jesus El Pifico, a garlic-eating, stinking little yellow, greasy fascist bastard Catholic Spaniard." (John Lennon, A Spaniard in the Works, p.14) "Christianity will go, it will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that. I'm right and will be proved right. . . .We're more popular than Jesus now." John Lennon (San Francisco Chronicle, April 13, 1966, p.26)

LED ZEPPELIN

One of Crowley's most devout disciples is Led Zeppelin guitarist, Jimmy Page. Page, even bought Crowley's "house of horrors" Boleskine, located on Lock Ness. Boleskine

was the home Crowley performed his "satanic-magick", including blood sacrifices. Crowley was buried inside a dark chamber in Boleskine. Crowley's most famous teaching was "Do what thou wilt shalt be the whole of the law". Page had inscribed in the vinyl on Zeppelin's Third album, Led Zeppelin III, "Do what thou wilt. So mete it Be." Unbeknown to concert goers, Page would actually perform Crowley rituals during some of Zeppelin's concerts.

OZZY OSBOURNE

Ozzy Osbourne called Crowley a "phenomenon of his time" (Circus, August, 26, 1980) Ozzy even recorded a song of tribute to Crowley Mr. Crowley: . . . You fooled all the people with magic You waited on Satan's call . . . Mr. Crowley, won't you ride my white horse Mr. Crowley - Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy, known for uncontrollable and violent acts, confessed in an interview: "I really wish I knew why I've done some of the things I've done over the years. I don't know if I'm a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it's not what I think it is - Satan". Ozzy Osbourne (Hit Parader, Feb., 1978, p.24)

THE DOORS Jim Morrison, superstar of the Doors, who died "mysteriously" on July 3, 1971 was deeply involved in the occult . Morrison married his wife at a Wicca wedding standing in a pentagram and drinking each others blood.

The backcover of the Doors album "13", shows the group gathered around a bust of Aleister Crowley.

Morrison admitted that Satan was the source of his music: "I met the Spirit of Music. . . . An appearance of the devil in a Venice canal. Running, I saw a Satan or Satyr, moving beside me, a fleshly shadow of my secret mind, . . ." (The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison, p. 36-38) Ray Manaxrek of the Doors, says of Morrison: "He was not a performer. He was not an entertainer. He was not a showman. He was a shaman. He was possessed." "While [Jim Morrison] he was staying at the Chateau Marmont, he spent a few wild nights with a buxom neighbor . . . once waking up in a tangle of bloody sheets after they shared champagne glasses of each other's blood." (Pamela Des Barres, Rock Bottom, p. 208)

Many other rock artists "studied" Crowley such as: Marc Bolan, David Bowie, Graham Bond, Sting, Daryl Hall, King Daimond, Bruce Dickinson, Stiv Bators, et al.

Creating the Counterculture

The year 1967 marked a significant escalation in open cultural warfare against the youth of the United States. The year saw the beginning of mass, open-air rock concerts. In the two years which followed, over 4 million young people attended a series of nearly a dozen of these "festivals," becoming the victims of planned, wide-scale drug experimentation. Mind destroying hallucinogenic drugs such as PCP, STP, and the Beatles-promoted LSD, were freely distributed at these concerts. These millions of attendees would afterward return to their homes to become the messengers and promoters of the new drug culture, or what came to be called the "New Age." The first rock festival, "The First Annual Monterey International Pop Festival," was attended by over 100,000 youngsters. The real purpose of Monterey Pop was the widespread distrubution of a new type of drugs, classified as psychedelics or hallucinogens, such as LSD. At Monterey, thousands of younger teen-agers were introduced to the new hallucinogenic drugs. The first experimentation with LSD was begun in the early sixties, in the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco. The project was run by a joint CIA-British intelligence task force under the code-name MK-Ultra. Part of the project called for the free distribution of 5,000 tablets of LSD through a commune known as Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters. LSD's after-effects were

then closely studied. "We must always remember to thank the CIA and the army for LSD, by the way. That's what people forget. . ." ("The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon & Yoko Ono", by David Sheff & G. Barry Golson, p. 123)

Dial-the-Truth Ministries - ADDENDUM

Kesey, a so-called "poet" and convicted drug felon, became famous for driving around California in a painted-up bus with his commune, the Merry Pranksters, distributing LSD-laced Kool Aid to the unsuspecting. The effect of LSD is to make the victim psychotic, along with the inability to discern reality from drug-induced hallucinations. For many, this psychosis (also called a "bad trip") could and did lead to suicide. When an individual is given LSD without his knowledge, the psychosis-producing capabilities of the drug are amplified, and usually leave the victim with permanent brain damage. The organizer of the Monterey festival was John Phillips, a member of the rock group the Mommas and the Papas. Phillips, as we shall see, was a drug pusher and closely tied in with the network of Satanists around Charles Manson and director Roman Polanski. Phillips appointed a board of directors to promote and finance the concert. The members of the board brought together a network of British intelligence operatives and Satanists. The board of directors included Andrew Oldham (the Rolling Stones manager), the Stones leader Mick Jagger, Beatle Paul McCartney and Phillips' friend, record producer Terry Melcher, the son of Doris Day. The concert, including the staging and the huge innovative outdoor amplification, was run by Phillips. It was the first time that an American audience was exposed to such openly demonic British groups as The Who, and Jimi Hendrix. At the conclusion of their act, The Who, in a drug-crazed frenzy, destroyed all their guitars, amplifiers, and drums. Hendrix simulated masturbation with his guitar, on stage, while performing at ear-splitting volume levels. There was massive, open use of drugs. Author Robert Santelli, in his book, Aquarius Rising, writes "LSD was in abundance at Monterey. Tabs of `Monterey Purple' were literally given to anyone wishing to experiment a little." The police made no arrests, setting another precedent for future outdoor concerts.

There was a larger scheme in operation. The scheme was tied into MKUltra and it involved using Satanists around Phillips, along with agents such as Ken Kesey and Timothy Leary. The plan was to turn nearby San Francisco into a Satanist gaming preserve, mass recruiting and perverting young run-away teenagers. Phillips had earlier written the music to a song called "San Francisco" which sold over 5 million copies. The song called for youth throughout the country to come to San Francisco "with flowers in their hair." The song was a rallying cry to tens of thousands who came flooding into San Francisco in the summer of 1968 to join the new "hippie" movement, misnamed the Summer of Love. Some who came became the prey for the likes of Charles Manson, who recruited his cult-"family" exclusively from runaway youth.

Dial-the-Truth Ministries - ADDENDUM TIMOTHY LEARY AND ALEISTER CROWLEY Timothy Leary, an Harvard psychologist, who was the LSD "guru" of the 60's. Leary preached spiritual "enlightenment" could be obtained by LSD. Many rockers, like the Beatles, were deeply influenced by Leary. The Beatle's song "Come Together" was dedicated to Leary, and Leary even sang background on Lennon's "Give Peace A Chance". Leary was also a very serious follower of Crowley. On PBS Late Night America, Leary admitted to being an "admirer" of Crowley and Leary believed he was carrying on Crowley's work: "Well I've been an admirer of Aleister Crowley. I think that I'm carrying on much of the work that he started over a hundred years ago, and I think the 60's themselves. . . He was in favor of finding yourself, and 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law' under love. It was a very powerful statement. I'm sorry he isn't around now to appreciate the glories he started." (PBS Late Night America, from "Hells Bells video, Reel to Real Ministries)

Manson and the Rock Stars

Charles Manson has been portrayed as a lone psychotic who had hypnotic power over his "Family". In reality, Manson was well-known to a whole network of Hollywood actors, actresses, promoters, partners and rock stars, and was providing sex and drugs to many of them. In his autobiography, Papa John, Phillips tells of an invitation he received to join Terry Melcher and Beach Boy member Dennis Wilson, at Wilson's mansion. Wilson said, "This guy Charlie's here with all these great-looking chicks. He plays guitar and he's a real wild guy. He has all these chicks hanging out like servants. You can come over and just screw any of them you want. It's a great party." Manson's entire "Family" moved into the Beach Boys' mansion for nearly a year. The Beach Boys, who have performed at the White House, are the top recording group of EMI's subsidiary, Capitol Records. On Sunday, August 10, 1969, Manson sent four members of his cult for their last visit to Melcher's house. This time Melcher wasn't there, but the actress Sharon Tate, wife of movie director Roman Polanski, and three others, were. When the group left, Tate and the others had been savagely mutilated and murdered. As for Phillips, in June 1980, he was arrested for running a large-scale drug wholesaling operation.

The Age of Aquarius

The largest concert after Monterey Pop, the "Woodstock Music and Art Fair," would be what Time magazine celebrated as an "Aquarian Festival"' and "history's largest happening." The term "Aquarian" was carefully chosen. The Aquarian age signified that the "Age of Pisces," which is the age of Christ, had come to an end. At Woodstock, a small town in upstate New York, nearly half a million youth gathered to be drugged and brainwashed on a farm. The victims were isolated, immersed in filth, pumped with psychedelic drugs, and kept awake continuously for three straight days, and all with the full complicity

of the FBI and government officials. Security for the concert was provided by a hippie commune trained in the mass distribution of LSD. Once again, it would be the networks of British military intelligence which would be the initiators. Woodstock was the brain child of Artie Kornfeld, the director of EMI's Capitol Record's, Contemporary Projects Division. The original funding was provided by the heir of a large Pennsylvania-based pharmaceutical company, John Roberts, and two other partners. It was another pharmaceutical company, the Swiss-based Sandoz Laboratories, which had first synthesized LSD. Roberts would later be accused of using his company for the mass drugging of the attendees. Little adequate preparations were made for the nearly half a million people who came. Joel Rosenman, one of the three partners, writes, as the concert neared, "Food and water were clearly going to be in short supply, sanitary facilities overtaxed, tempers short, drugs overabundant. Worst of all, there was no way for anyone who wanted to, to leave." Sitting in your own excrement was actually part of the plan, as John Roberts jokingly wrote, "We're going to hand out bananas at the gate to bind our patrons." A hippie commune called the Hog Farm, had a special role at Woodstock. The Hog Farm was led by a man nicknamed Wavy Graver, who was a former member of Ken Kesey's MK-Ultra operation, the Merry Pranksters. Communes like the Hog Farm were commonly found in the remote parts of California and served as the breeding grounds for Satanic cults, as well as terrorist groups. Members of these communes continually interchanged with other communes and were the recruiting grounds for the Process Church and Manson. Hog Farm member Diane Lake was a member of Charles Manson's Family, at the time of the massacre of Sharon Tate and her guests. On August 14, one day before the scheduled opening, the entire festival security force, comprised of 350 off-duty New York City cops, pulled out. A spokesman for the New York police claimed that no official arrangement was ever made with the city, a claim the promoters vehemently denied. In an August 15, 1969 New York Times article, the head of Woodstock's security said, "Now I don't have any security at all. I've been struck. We're having the biggest collection of kids there's ever been in this country

without any police protection." Not surprisingly, the Hog Farm was put in charge of security. Woodstock funder and director John Roberts, openly admitted that he was well aware of the Hog Farm's connection to drug distribution. He writes, "their fee was simply transportation to and from the festival... a peacekeeping force that looked, talked, and smelled like the crowd would be both highly credible and highly effective... and the most important, they were wise in the ways of drugs, knowing good acid from bad, good trips from bummers, good medicine from poison, etc." The Hog Farm at the time was living in New Mexico's mountains. Roberts chartered a Boeing 727, at a cost of $17,000, and flew 100 of them to New York. To clear the final path for the planned drugging of half a million youngsters, the district attorney for the area agreed privately that there would be no arrests or prosecutions for violations of drug laws. John Roberts writes, "The District Attorney...recognized early on that many of our customers would be using illegal drugs, but also recognized that such use would be the least of our problems over the course of the weekend. He acted, therefore, with compassion and good grace throughout." Roberts also writes that he was meeting continuously with the FBI up to and including one day before the start of the concert, and had their full cooperation.

The Experiment Begins

Two days before the scheduled start of the concert, 50,000 kids had already arrived in Woodstock. Drugs immediately began to circulate. Many people brought their babies and, as Roberts says, even they were drugged. Roberts writes that at a nearby lake, "the tots swam naked, smoked grass, and got into the music." A poll conducted at the festival by the New York Times showed that 99 percent of those attending were using marijuana. Local sheriff deputies, totally overwhelmed, reported that no arrests were being made for drug use. The New York Times of August 17 quoted one deputy," If we did

(make arrests), there isn't enough space in Sullivan or the next three counties to put them in." The use of marijuana was not the worst. Following the design of the original MK-Ultra project, the mass distribution of LSD came next, much of it in LSD-laced Coca Cola, as Kesey's Pranksters had done five years earlier. Roberts jokingly relates the following, "a particularly abrasive cop ....had been handed an LSD-spiked Coke while directing traffic. Long after all automobiles in the area had congealed to a standstill, the hardhat was still out on the road waving them on. Finally they led him away." For the next three days, the nearly half a million young people that arrived were subjected to continual drugs and rock music. Because of torrential rains, they were forced to wallow in knee-deep mud. There were no shelters, and no way to get out. Cars were parked over eight miles away. Rosenman writes that the key to the "Woodstock experiment" was "keeping our performers performing around the clock...to keep the kids transfixed..." Within the first 24 hours, over 300 kids reported to medical authorities, violently ill. The diagnosis: they were having "bad" LSD trips. Thousands more would follow. On August 17, the New York Times reported: "Tonight, a festival announcer warned from the stage, that 'badly manufactured acid' (a term for LSD) was being circulated. He said: 'You aren't taking poison acid. The acid's not poison. It's just badly manufactured acid. You are not going to die.... So if you think you've taken poison, you haven't. But if you're worried, just take half a tablet.'" The advice, to nearly 500,000 people, "just take half a tablet" was given by none other than MK-Ultra agent Wavy Gravy. With a growing medical emergency on hand, a call went out to New York City for emergency medical personnel. Over 50 doctors and nurses were flown in. By the end of Woodstock, a total of 5,000 medical cases were reported.

Altamont: the Making Of a Snuff Film

The last major rock "festival" of the 1960s was held at Altamont racetrack, outside San Francisco. The featured performers were the Rolling Stones, who now reigned supreme in the rock world, since the Beatles had broken up. The suggestion for the concert came from MK-Ultra agent Ken Kesey. This time, the audience was whipped into a frenzy, in open praise of the Devil. The result was a literal Satanic orgy. At its conclusion, four people were dead and dozens beaten and injured. Mick Jagger, the lead singer of the Rolling Stones, played the part of Lucifer. The performance marked the beginning of the "heavy-metal" concerts of today. Over 400,000 people attended the Altamont concert with far less preparation than even Woodstock. Food, and even water, were nearly unavailable. But plenty of drugs were to be found. Like Woodstock, the concert would become the vehicle for the mass experimentation of drugs, especially LSD. Author Tony Sanchez describes the scene as people gathered at Altamont: "By midmorning there were more than a quarter of a million people milling around, and things were becoming chaotic. There was a lot of bad acid (LSD-DP) around, and people were freaking out all over the place. Everybody was getting stoned out of his skull to pass the long hours before the music was to start--Mexican grass, cheap California wine, amphetamines ..." (Tony Sanchez, Up and Down With the Rolling Stones, p.195) "By midday virtually everyone was tripping...A man was almost killed as he tried to fly from a speedway bridge--another acid case. On the other side of the site a young guy screamed for help as he fell into the deep waters of a drainage canal. The stoned-out freaks looked on bemused as he sank beneath the surface. No one seemed sure if he had been real or an hallucination. It didn't matter anymore anyway, he was dead. Elsewhere doctors were kept busy delivering babies to girls giving hysterical premature birth." (Tony Sanchez, Up and Down With the Rolling Stones, p.195)

The descent into Hell would continue. The Rolling Stones had hired, for a reported $500 worth of free beer, the motorcycle gang Hell's Angels to act as security guards for the concert. Their real payment, however, was in drug sales. The Hell's Angels, an outlaw gang made up of robbers, rapists and murderers, were the known controllers and sellers of drugs on the entire West Coast. When the festival did open, the crowd of nearly half a million people waited for more than one and a half hours for the Stones to appear. It was only when nightfall arrived, allowing for the use of special lighting effects, that the group finally came on stage. Mick Jagger, the lead singer, was dressed in a satin cape, which glowed red under the lights. Jagger was imitating Lucifer. Author Sanchez next describes what he calls a preplanned "Satanic ritual." As the group began playing, "strangely several of the kids were stripping off their clothes and crawling to the stage as if it were a high altar, there to offer themselves as victims for the boots and cues of the Angels. The more they were beaten and bloodied, the more they were impelled, as if by some supernatural force, to offer themselves as human sacrifices to these agents of Satan." (Tony Sanchez, Up and Down

WIth the Rolling Stones, p.199)

Standing in the crowd in front of the stage, with his girlfriend, was a black man by the name of Meredith Hunter. Hunter would soon be singled out for human sacrifice. The Stones had just released a new song entitled, "Sympathy for the Devil." It had quickly become the number one record in the country. The song begins with Mick Jagger introducing himself as Lucifer. As soon as he began to sing it at Altamont, the entire audience rose up and began dancing in a wild frenzy. Sanchez describes what happened next, "A great six foot four grizzly bear of a Hell's Angel had stalked across to Meredith (Hunter) to pull his hair hard in an effort to provoke a fight ...A fight broke out, five more Angels came crashing to the aid of their buddy, while Meredith tried to run off through the packed crowd. An Angel caught him by the arm and brought down a sheath knife hard in the black man's back. The knife failed to

penetrate deeply, but Meredith knew then that he was fighting for his life. He ripped a gun out of his pocket and pointed it straight at the Angel's chest... And then the Angels were upon him like a pack of wolves. One tore the gun from his hand, another stabbed him in the face and still another stabbed him repeatedly, insanely, in the back until his knees buckled." "When the Angels finished with Hunter, several people tried to come to his aid, but an Angel stood guard over the motionless body. `Don't touch him,' he said menacingly. `He's going to die anyway, so just let him die.'"(Tony

Sanchez, Up and Down WIth the Rolling Stones, pp. 201,202)

It was never proven that Meredith actually had a gun. Later, arrests were made. No one was ever indicted because no one person would step forward as a witness out of fear of retaliation by the Angels. Throughout the bloody killing the Rolling Stones continued to play "Sympathy for the Devil." The entire group watched from the stage as Meredith Hunter was killed right before them. In addition, incredibly, the entire murder was professionally filmed by a film crew hired to film the concert. Shortly thereafter the film was released throughout the country with the title of a Rolling Stone's song, "Gimme Shelter." Was the murder preplanned by Satanists? In his book, The Ultimate Evil, author Maury Terry tells how Satanic cults circulate among themselves films of their human sacrifices. These films are called "snuff films." Terry relates that one of the seven Son of Sam murders in New York City was actually filmed from a nearby parked van. The film was then purchased by a rich Satanist. "Gimme Shelter," which was a box-office hit, can still be purchased or rented today for only a few dollars, at your local video store. Behind "Heavy-Metal" Rock The same year as Altamont, 1969, marked the beginning of the evil career of Ozzy Osbourne. Osbourne formed the band Black Sabbath. The group modeled itself on the Rolling Stones. The next fifteen years would witness a procession of young drugged-out rock performers, like

Osbourne, each competing for the "big money" and the recording contracts that came with it. The key criteria of those who would "make it" was their ability to portray decadence and evil. These were the "heavy-metal" groups. In 1985, New Solidarity newspaper, which has since been forcibly shut down by the federal government, conducted an interview with Hezekiah Ben Aaron, then the third-ranking member of the Church of Satan. Ben Aaron is now a devout Christian. In the interview, Aaron revealed that it was his Church that started such "heavy-metal" rock groups as Black Sabbath, The Blue Oyster Cult, The Who, Ozzy Osbourne, and many others. The Church of Satan was then led by its high priest, Anton LaVey. Many report, however, that LaVey, a former circus lion tamer, was just a front man for the real high priest, Kenneth Anger, the man who earlier recruited the Rolling Stones to the occult. The following is an excerpt from that interview: "I was working for the Church...the Church had other people who were middlemen for other companies. There were middlemen for Apple [set up by the Beatles], Warner Brothers, and other record companies. Someone would come to me and say, `I have a tape recording, and I'd like for you to check it out. I'd like to see if you would be interested in sponsoring a Rock group.' I'd say `All right, I'll check it out.' A few days later Ben Aaron would call back and set up another meeting. He continues, `I'd hand you $100,000, and you wouldn't sign anything. What you wouldn't know is that a mirror on the back of the wall is a one-way mirror and we're tape recording and photographing, or video taping everything that goes on. The payback, if you fail to make the group work, is really bad. Sometimes it's up to 60% on the dollar." Aaron's interview continued: "we send you to a store, we provide you with uniforms and we provide you with amplifiers. It's all paid through the money we gave you. We set you up with a road tour. We set you up with engagements. We book you." Aaron then explained that if the group did not make it he was given orders to collect the money or make other "arrangements." These "other arrangements," perhaps, are the key to the dozens of reported rock star "suicides." The underworld drug mafia has ample means to eliminate non-

payers. Some readers may remember the following statement Beatle John Lennon made to the international press back in 1966: "Christianity will go. It will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that. I'm right and I will be proved right. We are more popular than Jesus now." Hopefully, he will be proven to be wrong.

HE WILL. . . HE WAS. . . John Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman, one of his admirers, on December 8, 1980.

"There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." God, Proverbs 14;12

The Tragic Life of Freddie Mercury

by David J. Stewart

The Spirit of Sodomy

"The end-times spirit of Sodom was also evident in the events surrounding THE DEATH OF FREDDIE MERCURY (real name Frederick Bulsara), lead singer for the rock group Queen. Mercury was bi-sexual, and the group flaunted immorality and rebellion against biblical laws. Many of Queen's hard-rocking songs perennially remain popular rock anthems in sports

stadiums and other forums. These include "We Will Rock You," "We Are Champions," and "Another One Bites the Dust." Their song "We Are the Champions" is an unofficial anthem of the homosexual liberation movement. Many of their songs are filthy and vile. Freddie Mercury said, "We want to shock and be outrageous" (Circus, April 1974). He whipped "concert audiences into a frenzy with erotic body contortions. Their tours have featured snake charmers, strippers, transvestites, and a naked lady (Larson's Book of Rock, p. 179). Drummer Roger Taylor said, "I'd love to own a whorehouse." The group staged an all-female nude bicycle race in 1978. Freddie Mercury died in November 1991 of AIDS. Five months later, 72,000 fans of this lascivious rock musician gathered for a memorial at Wembly Stadium. It was called the "Concert for Life" and featured Elton John, David Bowie, Annie Lennox, Axl Rose and other immoral, anti-Christ rock stars. It was estimated that ONE BILLION people viewed the event on television worldwide!" David W. Cloud "But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and for ever. Amen" Jude 20-25. Freddie Mercury (real name Frederick Farookh Bulsara), lead singer of the legendary rock band Queen, died of AIDS at only 45 years of age on November 24th, 1991. How tragic! It was alleged that Freddie Mercury had homosexual lovers all around the world. One

simply go no further than a simple web search to discover that Mercury was openly bisexual. It is not surprising that Mr. Bulsara died because of AIDS. Queen's music is idolized today by the homosexual community, with such hits as "Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy."

False Religion
Even more tragic is the fact that Freddie Mercury was a follower of false religion called Zoroastrianism and not the Lord Jesus Christ. The following is an account of Freddie Mercury's funeral... "Just like Mercury himself, the occasion [of his funeral], which the singer had spent weeks planning in meticulous detail, was a bewildering mixture of flamboyance and secrecy, witnessing the collision of two very different worlds--the modern world of rock music and the ancient world of the Zoroastrian religion, in which Mercury had been brought up. Zoroastrianism is one of the world's oldest and most exclusive religions. Founded by the prophet Zoroaster (or Zarathustra) in 600 B.C., it has only 120,000 members worldwide and just 6,000 in Britain. Its followers see life as a battle between two spirits, Spenta Mainyu, the "Bounteous Spirit," and Angra Mainyu, the "Destructive Spirit." Whichever one a Zoroastrian lives his life by determines where he or she goes to after death. The final resting place is the Zoroastrian equivalent to the Christian heaven or hell. As Mercury's oak coffin was carried into the chapel, covererd in a satin sheet and topped with a single red rose, Zoroastrian priests, dressed in white muslin robes and caps, chanted traditional prayers to their god Ahura Mazda, also known as the Wise Lord, for the salvation of the singer's soul. Throughout the twenty-five minute service, conducted totally in the ancient Avestan langauge, the priests used no word of English other than commands to the forty mourners to stand and sit.

Mercury had insisted on his funeral being a private, low-key affair, and the magical ancient ceremony was attended only by extremely close friends and family, as he had wished. The singer's parents, Bomi and Jer Bulsara, wept throughout as did Mary Austin and Elton John. Among the other tearful mourners were sixties drummer turned impresario Dave Clark, the three remaining members of Queen, and Brian May's girlfriend, former

EastEnders' soap star Anita Dobson.

Just after nine on that cold wintry morning, a gleaming black Rolls-Royce carrying the coffin in which Mercury's body lay drove slowly into the grounds of the West London crematorium in Kensal Rise." -- SOURCE:

Rick Sky, The Show Must Go On: The Life of Freddie Mercury, Citadel Press/Carol Publishing Group: New York City, NY (1994), pages 8-9
Freddie Mercury spent weeks planning his own funeral, but failed to prepare his soul to meet God. The Word of God plainly teaches that ONLY through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can anyone go to Heaven. Freddie Mercury placed in faith in false religion, and NOT upon Jesus Christ. This is so tragic! Read the following phrase from the above article again, "Zoroastrian priests, dressed in white muslin robes and caps, chanted traditional prayers to their god Ahura Mazda, also known as the Wise Lord, for the salvation of the singer's soul." Freddie Mercury is not in Heaven according to the Bible, he is in Hell suffering. Why? Because he was a homosexual? No! It's because Freddie Mercury did not obey the Gospel of Christ...

"In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting

destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power." 2nd Thessalonians 1:8-9
God is not pleased by the death of the wicked...
"Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure

in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?" Ezekiel 33:11

Riches Without God

Oh how foolish are the sinful and rebellious hearts of men and women against the Lord that created them! Freddie Mercury left behind an estate valued at $15,500,000 to his family and friends. Freddie lived a reckless life of sodomy, fornication, illegal drugs and materialism. Mercury died in London in his $4,000,000 home in 1991. He carried none of his wealth beyond the grave. He had such a beautiful voice, but used his talents for the devil. How sad! How tragic! Where is Freddie Mercury now? Hell! My friend, you don't have to go to Hell. Jesus shed His blood to pay for the sins of mankind. I did not write this article to criticize Freddie Mercury. I wrote this article to express two observations I've made about Mr. Mercury's life: first, a life of booze, immorality, and devilish music always end in judgment; and second, all of Mercury's fame, wealth, and friends cannot help him escape the wrath of God.

ALL Christ-rejecters go straight to Hell to be tormented in fire. I say this with great sadness, but it is the TRUTH nonetheless. I ask you to believe upon Jesus now as your Saviour. The Biblical doctrine and reality of God's wrath has been abandoned in America's pulpits.

judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

Psalm 7:11, God

THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR HE IS IN YOUR MUSIC

Songs that promote fornication, rebellion, drugs, drinking, violence, rape, murder, fighting, lust, anarchy, false religion, the new age... etc are obviously Satanic, and are spreading openly the message of Lucifer. Yet Satan has even more sinister ways of adding his message to a song. In this study we are going to expose these "Wiles of the Devil".

Backmasking and subliminal messages

Back masking has been found in Rock music for decades. Why does Satan backmask? To gain MIND CONTROL. The alcohol, tobacco and retail industries spend millions of dollars yearly on subliminal programming. Shops use it to fight shoplifting. "Enchantment is a form of spell casting primarily involving mind control. Enchanters dispatch or assign wicked spirits to objects and places for whatever purpose the spell calls for.... Enchantment controls the mind and is one of the most powerful spells that can be cast on a person...." David Meyer ex-occultist. Jimi Hendrix revealed the conspiracy of subliminals 20 years ago.

"Atmospheres are going to come through music, because music is in a spiritual thing of its own..... you hypnotise people to where they go right back to their natural state which is pure positive ... and when you get people at that weakest point, you can preach into the subconscious what we want to say ..... " Question: Who is meant by "WE" in the above quote? Answer: Jimi Hendrix and his demons. "People want release any kind of way nowadays. The idea is to release in the proper form. Then they'll feel like going into another world, a clearer world. The music flows from the air. That's why I connect with a spirit and when they come down off this natural high, they see clearer, feel different things ....." Jimi Hendrix's method of preaching locks onto a spirit of music which comes from the air. "The prince of the power of air, that now works in the children of disobedience." Ephesians 2:2 Q. What is the power of air? A. Radio, TV, internet are three examples. Go to a local shopping mall and you see children of disobedience, rebellious, sullen, stubborn, angry teens in black clothing. (Colour of darkness in uniform) Q. Why would Satan put backmasks in Christian rock? A. To erase the difference between Christ and Satan. Q. What kind of spirit is loose in the youth at your chruch? Are they the children of God, or children of disobedience?

INVOKING THE DEVIL

How the satanic messages get onto the albums is a mystery, but the testimony of Elaine, a former Satanic High Priestess gives a good clue - at least as far as the usual Rock albums are concerned. The Rock rhythm and style is itself an invocation to demonic powers to participate. Rocker, David Bowie says, "Rock has always been the devil's music." If demons are invoked through Rock, then it is understandable that they will sing in duo with the artists, and as fans around the world listen and join in the songs, they form a planetary choir of satanic praise. Is Christian rock more dangerous than secular rock and roll? Yes! "It's

more deadly because it's disguised, and pulling blindfolds over Christian eyes is something in which Satan delights."
Godwin includes a testimony of Elaine, who for 17 years was a servant of Satan. She became a high priestess, and also attained a high position of national leadership in the US. Elaine eventually rejected Satan and was saved through faith in the Lord Jesus.

DEMONS ON RECORDS
Part of her testimony, as relating to Rock, follows: "Because of the high position I held for so many years, I was involved in the planning of many of the destructive influences Satan has brought into the U.S. and other countries. Satan if REAL! Demons are REAL! I can tell you from my own personal experience, but you don't have to take my words for this. Simply read God's Word. "Like so may other things, the whole movement of Rock music was carefully planned and carried out by Satan and his servants from its very

beginning. Rock music didn't "just happen" it was a carefully masterminded plan by none other than Satan himself. " I have personally met a great number of the rock stars. They have All agreed to serve Satan in return for money and fame. They have received all they wanted, but also so much more that they didn't expect. Their very lives and souls are, and in many cases have been , destroyed. These rock stars KNOW exactly what they are doing. They are, step by step, teaching untold millions of young people to worship and serve Satan. "I attended special ceremonies at various recording studios throughout the U.S. for the specific purpose of placing Satanic blessing on the Rock music recorded. We did incantation which placed demons on EVERY record and tape of rock music that was sold. At times we also called up special demons who spoke on the recordings - the various backmasked messages. ALSO, in many recordings, we were ourselves recorded in the background (masked by the over-all noise of the music) doing chants and incantations to summon up more demons every time one of the records or tapes is played. As the music is played, these demons are summoned into the room to afflict the person playing the music, and anyone else who is listening. The purpose of all this? MIND CONTROL! Mind control not only to give the listeners understanding of the messages about Satan conveyed to them by the music, but also to prevent them from recognising their need of Jesus. (See II Corinthians 4:4) "Many of the song lyrics are themselves actual incantations calling up demons when the song is sung. The purpose of this is two-fold: to exert control over the listener, and to provide the listener with actual incantations he or she can use to send demons upon another person to gain revenge by afflicting them with illness, accidents, etc., and also to help influence another person into the bondage of Rock music itself. A good example of this is the lyrics of the DOOM SONG by the PLASMATICS.

"Behold the power of the night Curse the filthy hypocrites Crawl into their beds at night Ooze from slimy depths below Scream into their frozen brains Work thy wretched wrath Remove all obstacles from our path I command that these things which I speak Will come to be Behold the Prince of Darkness here!" If you don't think there is a supernatural power behind Rock music, you just try to stop listening to it (if you normally do), or try to get someone else to stop listening to it. You will quickly experience the power behind the music.

The Music of Devils in God's House

"It amazes me," he says, "that a great multitude of young men and women, including young ministers, are so infatuated with rock music". What incredible spiritual blindness! "We have come to the place where anything is acceptable if it 'gets results'. If the music of devils gets kids up front to make a decision, it is acceptable. How very dangerous. Most of those youth have not been touched beyond their emotions. The Holy Spirit has not probed deeply to deal with sin. No demands have been made on them about forsaking the world, their old ways and friends - and there is little or no heart repentance. It ends up a 'vote for Jesus'. "My concern is, What does God think about rock? If we can discover His mind on this matter, then all Christ-loving youth must accept it; and if they won't, it will prove they are stubborn, deceived by lying spirits, and not willing to submit to the Holy Spirit's authority."

IS THE DEVIL IN CHRISTIAN ROCK?

Under this chapter heading, Jeff Godwin reports on CHRISTIAN ROCK. He says "Christian rock" is a contradiction in terms. " How can Christ be unequally yoked with the perverse paganism of Rock?" When you join yourself to rock music, you are joining Jesus Christ to perverse, world loving paganism! Godwin maintains that Satan is the King of Rock, and that he does not stop at the door of the Gospel Record store. Rather, Satan is now mounting a strategic offensive against Christians, utilizing willing, zealous believers to propagate the beat, the style and the hidden messages amongst young Christians.

HOW CAN SATAN BE IN IT, WHEN THEY USE IT TO WIN SOULS?

Question: Some Christian Rockers argue that Rock music doesn't have to be satanic. If the lyrics are about the Lord and salvation, it can be a legitimate form by which young people in a world of predominate rock can be won for Christ. Answer: We are not talking here about lively gospel music. We're talking about ROCK! We are not talking about beat or even drums. We're talking about ROCK beat and style. While some Christian Rockers may say they are seeking to win souls in the rock world, but what they are actually doing is introducing young people to Rock, and the spirit of rock. Music is not for winning souls, but for singing praises to GOD! Preaching is is the tool given by God to win souls to the kingdom.-- Romans 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how

shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? Some ask? Why cant a Christian enjoy "worldly" rock also? Everything we do should be to the glory of GOD. 1Corinthians 10:31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. "There's one very simple test for Christians to use to determine what is and what is not godly music: Could you play that music as part of the Sunday morning worship service without offending God? If GOD wouldnt be pleased with it, then it is not worth playing. If such music cannot be used to praise the King, then why are you listening to it?

CHRISTIAN ROCK ALBUMS LOADED WITH DEMONICS!

A few Christian lyrics does not worry the devil - he joins the Christian artists in the recording studio to sing with them in duet, just as he does the secular rock musicians. This is not imagination! It is most alarming to discover that many "Christian Rock" albums are also backmasked with satanic messages. There's something about ROCK that Satan claims as his own! STRYPER's album "In God We Trust" contains the hidden messages, "Hail Lucifer," and "Satan who love we worship." DANIEL BAND's album "Rise Up" has the hidden words, "Now worship Satan", and "I shall love Satan" and "I am fighting back oh master demon." JERUSALEM has an album "In His Majesty's Service" which is backmasked with the words, "Hey Lord Satan .. Yarrh Satan he's master ... Yarrh, Satan is Lord ... Say I love you Satan. Jesus God he serves Satan ...

oh we're yours Satan evil, oh evil, god is nil ... My friend Lucifer sings for you". RESURRECTION BAND's album "Between Heaven 'n Hell" is backmasked with "Yeah Lucifer promised me more, live for a week, ooh evil I take the mark". PETRA, another Christian Rock Group while singing "Washes Whiter Than, " had no idea they were being backmasked with the shocking hidden refrain, "Ooh so evil ..... Lord Satan ..... Lord Satan my love." Each of these phrases are repeated over and over. CARMEN's record "Destination is There" has the hidden words, "Satan worship the mark .... worship Satan." On their album "Radically Saved," the backmask is "Here's Lucifer."

Biblical precepts against Christian Rock music:

Firstly, God is concerned with the seed that produces the fruit. All seed produces of its own kind. Out of which womb was Rock music born? Was it born in the womb of a Spirit-filled musician? GOD FORBID! Secondly, God will not accept a blemished sacrifice! (Malachi 1:8-13). Every Christian concert or record should be an offering to the Lord. Is Rock an acceptable offering? "I've noticed", he says, "that musicians at Christian concerts seldom perform rock just before the message and invitation. It is not conducive to conviction of any kind because it is of another spirit. If it is of God, why not use it before the invitation? Why not a ripping rock segment just before the sermonette? It is reserved for the entertainment part of concerts, to the accompanying of fleshy whistles, shouting and grooving. It doesn't inspire them to kneel and pray, or even to bow their heads and worship. There is

not one ounce of conviction in it - God refuses to touch it. What it does is turn audiences on to a fleshy display of jumping on seats, jiving and dancing in anything but a spiritual manner." Thirdly, God has His prescribed boundaries for worship. (Malachi 1:12) Fourthly, God is looking for overcomers who will search out the old paths and find the right way. (Jeremiah 6:16) Fifthly, God will not tolerate the uncircumcised of heart in His house. (Ezekiel 44:7-13) Sixthly, there can be no worship if the name of Baalim be on our lips. "God is saying "My true worshippers will never again speak of, let alone do those things that represent the old life and former idols" Hosea 2:17 Finally, it all comes down to our love for Christ, "If any man love the world, or the things that are in the world, the love of the Father is not in him". (1 John 2:15) If we are going to line up with God, we need to stand up against rock, help pray it down, and refuse to support any Christian performer or group or station who continues pushing it. Heavy-metal rock music can trap people, especially teenagers" into dabbling in disgraceful Satanic practices. For example, we denounce Rock star Ozzy Osborne's tune SUICIDE SOLUTION: "Wine is fine but whiskey's quicker Suicide is slow with liquor Suicide is the only way out, Don't you know what it's really about?"

IS MY FAVORITE ROCK GROUP INTO THIS?

Question: Is my rock group in this? Answer: Yes, if they are into Pop, Rock (soft, hard, heavy, alternative, etc), Funk, Rap.

SUBMISSION VS. REBELLION

The real battle is not about a musical generation gap, it's about SUBMISSION vs. REBELLION. Submission is the hallmark of the Christian life. Without it, all you have is counterfeit spirituality. To resist the devil, you must first be submitted to God (James 4:7). Since Rock fans aren't truly submitted, they'll never be able to resist Satan, no matter how often they sing "To Hell With the Devil" (by Stryper). That is why these young people are in bondage to pornography, and fornication, witchcraft, lust, and drugs. They refuse to submit and to surrender all their hearts to GOD. They continue to fill their mind with the sensual and devilish beat and rhythm of Rock. The classic hymns so despised by youth today were all about SUBMISSION. That's why carnal Christians want no part of them. Songs like: "Washed In The Blood," "Haven of Rest", "Jesus Paid It All", "To God Be The Glory", "Lord, I'm Coming Home", "Victory in Jesus", "Have Thine Own Way, Lord", "When I Survey The Wondrous Cross", "Take My Life And Let It Be", "I Surrender All", "Jesus Is All The World To Me",. These are all songs of SUBMISSION. Here's a lyrical example from just one of them: "Have thine own way, Lord/Have thine own way/thou art the potter/I am

the clay/Mold me and make me/After thy will/while I am waiting/Yielded and still..." Now read any rock lyrics to see the difference between submission and rebellion:

WHAT'S WRONG WITH ROCK MUSIC? Contributions by Bro. Martin "He hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God." Psalm 40:3 As Bible believing Christians, we must rebuke error when we see it [2nd Timothy 3:16 4:2]. Question: What is wrong with worldly, non Christian rock music? 1. It has ungodly themes of rebellion, drugs, sex, and demons. 2. It's musicians set an ungodly lifestyle example of deep sin. 3. Rock music is addictive as it causes the brain to release opiates. 4. The Rock beat with its uneven flow is opposite to the body's natural rhythm. e.g. da-da-da beat, stop at end of bar, and the listener subconsciously "comes to a halt" at the end of each bar. 5. The Rock beat causes "switching" to occur in the brain as it loses symmetry between left and right sides. This causes stress and it is as if a person's body can no longer distinguish what is beneficial and what is harmful. The body actually chooses that which is destructive over that which is therapeutic. Turning down the volume won't help. (Have you noticed the peace you feel from listening to the old hymns, isnt present in rock?). 6. All Rock Music originates from the Devil. David Bowie rock star says: "Rock has always been the devil's music." Little Richard says: "I believe this kind of music is demonic."

Just asked yourself: When you served the devil, before you became a Christian what type of music did you listen to? 7. Rock music contains many clear back masked and subliminal messages. SATANIC LIES USED TO JUSTIFY ROCK MUSIC

Satan's #1 lie about rock is "Music is neutral".

Answer: Neutral music does not drive away demons, but David's music did drive away King Saul's demons. I Samuel 16:14-23. There is no such thing as neutral music. Music stems from one of two places, the carnal flesh (Which is controlled by Satan and is the enemy of GOD) or the converted heart (Which is controlled by GODS Spirit). To which are you sowing? Galatians 6:8 Music of the flesh quenches the holy Spirit; the same way the holy music of David quenched the power of Satan.

Lie 2: "Only the words matter"

Answer: If you take Jesus Christ or the Bible out of the C-rock music, it's no more Christian than worldly rock music. Christian music by definition is about Jesus Christ, not about dope, abortion, starvation or self-esteem. Ephesians 5:19 says that we are "Singing and making melody .. to the Lord", not to people.

Lie 3: " No music is intrinsically evil".

Answer: What about the heavy metal bands that openly praise Satan? The worship of Satan is SIN. What about rock music that preaches drug taking, sexual promiscuity, rebellion, occultism, eastern religions, and new age values? To encourage

such things is sin!!! Matthew 18:6 But whoso shall offend (Entice to sin) one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Lie 4: Rock is just another type of normal music.

Answer: Seidel, a concert pianist and 25 year Christian music expert states that: "True godly music, will be composed of three elements - all in perfect balance with each other. They are: MELODY, HARMONY, and RHYTHM. Rock "music" has no melody - only fragments of melody endlessly repeated. Since there is no true melody , there is no real harmony. There is only rhythm and rhythm in and of itself is not music." Rock ends with a crash or long fade-out, with no resolution. It cannot truly be considered music PERIOD!

Lie 5: Rock musics rhythm doesn't hurt anybody.

Answer: The rhythm (not the words) of rock music caused brain damage to laboratory animals, and killed laboratory plants. It's backbeats and breakbeats swamp, consume and dominate the listener with hypnotic power. It's high pitched human and electronic screams give musical chaos. True music has loud and soft intensity. Rock music's intensity is as loud as possible (190db), for as long as possible. In I Kings 19:11,12 the Lord was not in the strong wind, nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire, but in "a still, small voice." Not like rock music. Lie 6: In order to reach the lost, we must pre evangelize with Christian rock music. C-Rockers say "Jesus Christ rocks".

Answer: C-rock confuses, pollutes and deceives the next generation of the body of Christ. C-rock makes a vulgar image of God, glorifies self, and makes God in man's own rebellious image. All forms of Rock invite demonic influences into the listener. "The combination of sound, rhythm, colour and movement can be used to attract demonic spirits into people" Satanist Alistair Crowley. Lie 7: It is alright to copy the world. C-rock copies the world. ALL ROCK is of the world. John 15:18 "If the world hates you, ye know it hated me..." Rock devotees feel secure in saying that there is no Scripture saying "Thou shalt not listen of rock". Answer: There is no verse that says "Don't beat your wife" either. But what does the Bible says about loving this World? Consider these verses against rock: I John 2:15,16 "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world ,the love of the Father is not in him." Rock looks like, and is worldly. When Rock or C-Rock stars wear skin tight spandex, teased long hair, use smoke bombs, and strobe lights, this is the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. If you can't see this, you are in deep bondage to the flesh. James 4:4 ".. a friend of the world is the enemy of God". CCM stars look and act like the world. CCM music and lyrics are like the world. Therefore C-rock stars learned from secular rock stars years ago.

I Corinthians 10:20 "I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils." Rock and C-rock contains demon messages backmasked praising Satan. 2nd Corinthians 6:14 "What fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion has light with darkness ?" Ephesians 5:11 "Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them. For it is a shame (sin guilt shame) even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret". To listen to Rock is to fellowships with worldly darkness. Lie 8:There's nothing wrong with rock bands in a church. Answer: "They (the priests) have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed a difference between the unclean and the clean." Ezekiel 22:29 There's supposed to be a difference between holy and profane (godless), clean and unclean, but Christian-rock tries to erase that line. Numbers 21:1-9 applies to C-rock. God's people loathed God's provision of manna. The things of God weren't good enough for them. They wanted the things they had when they were back in bondage in Egypt. Today, for some Christians, old fashioned, traditional Christian music isn't good enough any more. Some believers long for the same old garbage that they had back in their unsaved , "bondage to sin" days. II Corinthians 6:17 "Come out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing" Nothing is filthier than rock music.

CONCLUSION
Parents, if you've been wondering where all that rebellion in your kids has been coming from lately, then check this review of CCM "brides", "Live to die": "This release is chock full of straight ahead, full throttle grinding and pounding. It's the type of sound your parents will hate". CCM Magazine

Sept. 1988
This is compromise with the world, and breaking the fifth commandment. Four clear facts of Rock and C-rock are: 1. It's not based on the Bible 2. It is opposed to the Bible 3. It wants nothing to do with the Bible 4. It promotes worldliness (Rebellion and Carnality).

Ex-Worship Leader: Why I Left the CCM Movement

Dan Lucarini, a former worship leader, had to get away from the contemporary Christian music (CCM) movement. No, hes not a fundamentalist stuck in the old ways, he says. But hes a Christian who says he realized CCM was man-centered and unavoidably associated with a spirit of immorality. While the use of CCM in churches is an old and probably tired debate, Lucarinis book, Why I left the CCM Movement, is in its 20th printing, seven years after it was first published. It continues to, I guess, touch a nerve for some folks in the church today, Lucarini told the Christian Post in a recent interview in Denver, Colorado. When the book first came out in 2002, Lucarini thought it would be just part of the transitional period around 2002-2003. But today, people still have the same questions about CCM and about worship in the church. He said, As long as we have Christians and churches and were in the world, were going to be struggling with how much of the world should we bring in and how fast and at what point do we offend and scandalize other Christians.

A former rock musician (keyboardist, singer, and composer) from the Baby Boomer generation, Lucarini became a worship leader just as CCM was beginning to take over church services in the late 1980s to 1990s. He was a new born-again believer at the time and was happy to use his talents for God. He helped a couple of churches transition from traditional to contemporary worship services. He thought he had all the right motives and enthusiastically promoted the acceptance of CCM in evangelical and fundamental churches. We used the excuse that we wanted to reach out to the young people, Lucarini said. You know what? They didnt like the music. It was our music. It was classic rock. We just did it for ourselves. That was the conclusion that I came to. ... Lets be honest about it. It wasnt to save souls. It was just because we liked that kind of music and were the rebellious generation so we just basically thought we could do whatever we wanted, he added. Nearly 20 years later, CCM is a staple in many churches, and the younger generation of believers has for the most part grown up on it and thus do not see the controversy in it. So when Lucarini and other like-minded Christians challenge the popular music style in church services, theyre often labeled as legalistic Pharisees and dismissed because of the generation gap. But Lucarini reminds readers that they cannot dismiss him as being a traditionalist considering how heavily involved he was in both the secular rock music and Christian praise and worship scenes. The heart of his argument is that rock music, and all forms of it, is a music style that was created by immoral men for immoral purposes. Whether its soft rock, pop rock, jazz, praise and worship, Chris Tomlin, Delirious, or Hillsong, CCM is scandalous and offensive because of where it came from and what it means around us in the world today, he argues. And I dont

believe that Christians can just take it and sanctify it and call it holy, he says to those who say it can be used to reach people for God. I think its a mistake. Its like serving a nice juicy steak on a garbage can lid (even if you try to scrub it, it remains a dirty garbage can lid), he explains. I can sit and talk to anybody about why I think rock music is the wrong musical language to tie with praise the holy God, he contends. Theyre incompatible. You see the results of it everywhere with the tension and church splits and even the younger generation. He adds, I meet a lot of people today that are questioning because theyve gotten burned out on the worldliness, the entertainment, and the no-holds-barred we can do anything we want with music and God loves us. And they just come to a point when they go that aint right. In his book Lucarini strikes back at most of the arguments Christians make to defend CCM, including, Isnt music amoral? Isnt this just a matter of personal preference and taste? Show me where the Bible says rock music is evil. Isnt CCM easier to sing than hymns? and Isnt God using CCM to save and disciple teens? After his experience with taking teens to CCM concerts, Lucarini believes the harm done (CCM artists, whether or not intentionally, role modeling indecent dress and rebellious images, or stirring improper crushes and lustful interests among fans) far outweighs any benefits. Many Christian leaders argue that music is a secondary issue or a matter of secondary doctrine and lament internal church conflicts over such matters. But Lucarini rejects that argument. Its very arrogant for people to declare issues that split and divide Christians as secondary. Its just an attempt to suppress whats going on, he said. Any issue that scandalizes and offends brothers and sisters in Christ cannot be called secondary. At that point in time its primary and must be dealt with. Lucarini advises churches not only to get rid of CCM (anything that has a rock beat influence) but also worship bands and leaders.

EXCERPTS FROM WHY I LEFT THE CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC MOVEMENT BY DAN LUCARINI:
[After describing an experience he and his wife had in observing a powerful storm carry thousands of butterflies across a large lake and deposit them roughly on a sandy shore, the author makes the following application:] In the 1990s, this movement blew into our church services accompanied by powerful forces, and anyone who got in the way was like the butterfly, swept away by its proponents, wounded during the violent journey, and finally dumped on the beach to perish. Some may never fly again, because their spirits were too tattered and torn by the storms forces. Others had their souls weighed down by the immorality, deception and divisiveness that accompanied the CCM storm. (p.

15)
I realize I am also challenging a very powerful stronghold in the church. CCM is well entrenched now, perhaps even the favoured music style in the majority of fundamental and evangelical church services. CCM has taken deep root in the lives of many believers, and some will find what they read here very painful because it will tug hard on that root. Some pastors will not like what I have to say because they too have embraced this movement. But I believe that the use of CCM in praise and worship is a man-made phenomenon and should be exposed as such because it lacks a strong biblical foundation and ignores Gods instructions for acceptable worship. Using it for worship has produced wrong attitudes and encouraged carnal lifestyles; both are damaging the unity and effectiveness of Christians. I also believe the real motive for adopting CCM for praise and worship was not, as we were often told, to evangelize those from outside the church, but was rooted in a need to satisfy our own desires for our favourite

music. (p. 18) In his effort to create a non-judgmental atmosphere, the pastor promoted a God accepts us as we are philosophy, with which CCM seems to go hand in hand. This was a pastor who once accepted tickets to a Doobie Brothers rock concert and defended his choice by claiming that if Jesus were alive today, he would be at this concert because he spent time with sinners. This teaching produced a church that attracted people who wanted God in their lives but did not want to change their lifestyles. (pp. 28, 29) Another strong musical influence in my life at this time was Promise Keepers, the well-known mens movement based in Colorado. Promise Keeper music uses predominantly rock styles, including classic Seventies-style rock. I attended huge stadium rallies where the Maranatha Mens Band ministered in music. (p.

30)
During our weekly practices, the praise band would often switch into a rock and roll jam session. As the leader, I could have discouraged this but I chose instead to indulge my own appetite for rock and roll. To put it bluntly, I was having fun! As I look back on this, I see how hard it was to restrain the rock music beast and prevent it from taking over completely. (p. 31) Now I want to summarize the reasons I had to leave the CCM scene. Firstly, I could no longer accept the premises undergirding the CCM philosophy. Our key premises were that music is amoral; God accepts all music styles; and no one should judge anothers preference or tastes. As I dug into the Bible to prove them right, instead I saw that they were man-centered, illogical, and misrepresentations of basic biblical principles. Secondly, when I saw what the Bible teaches about true worship and what

it really means to be in the presence of God, I became sickened at the way my generation so glibly used profane and vulgar music accompanied by vulgar dress to offer up worship and praise to a holy God! And no one involved seemed to notice what we were doing. Thirdly, to preserve my marriage and to be faithful to God in all things, I needed to separate from the temptations that were ever-present in the CCM setting: the ego gratification and attraction to the female members of the worship team. (p. 34) Discipleship is not a self-esteem journey; growth means change, change always includes loss, and loss is always painful. You cannot keep all your old habits and pleasures. The Come as you are, God accepts you where you are at doctrine is closely aligned with the tolerance movement that is popular in our secular society. Jesus did not accept her [the woman caught in adultery in John 8]--he commanded her to change. The honest seeker must conclude that this come as you are teaching of Gods unconditional acceptance is at best misleading. We cannot come to God just as we are, with our sin unconfessed or ignored or draped all over us, and still expect his acceptance. We cannot drag our favourite worldly music, dress and language into the church, and expect a blessing! (pp. 38, 39, 40) Acceptance doctrine is so pervasive in some fellowships that Christians are no longer allowed to question another Christians behaviour or personal preferences. If you confront another in love, you will be accused of judging them. If you dare quote chapter and verse from the Bible, you will be called a Pharisee. If a church has any practices that step on the toes of anyones personal preferences, then it is considered to be a legalistic church. In this new Church of Acceptance, showing tolerance for worldly affections and behaviours is far more important than exercising biblical discernment. In this thoroughly biased

atmosphere, it is easy to see why a Traditional is afraid to speak out about music styles. (pp. 40, 41) [The author uses the terms Traditionals and Contemporaries to describe Christians committed to traditional or contemporary music.] When we brought rock music (and all its musical cousins) into the church service, we invited along with it a spirit of immorality with which that music is unavoidably associated. (p. 42) I believe this aptly illustrates a major problem with the Contemporarys notion of worship; that God wants to affirm us through worship, to make us feel good about ourselves with the result that we will have this grand experience of feeling higher and higher. worship is not looking up and feeling good, it is bowing down and feeling lowly. It is certainly biblical to feel happy in Jesus but I now realize that a good personal feeling is not part of biblical worship. When we try to feel an experience of affirmation from worship, we are not worshipping God. We are worshipping our own egos. (pp. 56, 57) I am now convinced that God will not accept our worship when it is offered with music styles that are also used by pagans for their immoral practices. If I am wrong, why was he so harsh in judging Israel when they sacrificed to him using the pagan high places and rituals? He is a jealous God. If you grasp this principle alone, it will change for ever the way you lead a worship service. The true heart of worship is the heart that bows before God and submits to his Word, no more and no less (p. 57) It is time to expose the hypocrisy of those church leaders who justify CCM by claiming they use it for evangelistic purposes in their seeker services. Nonsense! The truth is, these churches use it in their services for the saints as well. One of the major

problems with seeker-oriented music is that it must not only sink to appeal to mans fallen nature, but is also bound to stir up the believers sinful nature, his flesh, as Paul called it. At the seekersensitive churches we attended, the music was ostensibly designed for the unchurched but that excuse was really just a smoke screen obscuring our real reason for bringing CCM into the service. The bottom line was that we simply wanted to use our music in the church, not what we perceived as our parents or grandparents music. We have the same self-centered, selfindulgent spirit of the 1960s and 1970s but now it has been given a veneer of Christian dedication. (pp. 62, 63) The self-indulgent spirit entered the church with the baby boomers. The urge to change church music coincided with our rise to church leadership positions in the mid-1980s. The pastors leading the seeker-sensitive movement are baby-boomers. The 70s boomer group has sometimes been dubbed the Me generation and now we are bringing our pervasive Me-ness into church leadership and practice. This besetting sin of our generation will seep into every aspect of church life and ministry.

(pp. 64, 65)

we have become preoccupied with perfecting a music ministry that strokes the ego and fulfils the desires of carnal believers, to the detriment of the more serious disciples in our midst. (p. 66) Rock and roll is a musical style that was created for immoral purposes by immoral men, and has always been used by the world to express its immoral attitudes in song. (p. 68) When you combine the sensual dancing with the immodest dress of the women on the platform [in the praise teams], you place a very large stumbling block in front of the men of the

congregation. (p. 71) I lay the blame of splitting churches over music at the feet of Contemporary leaders who insist on the adoption of their music agenda without regard to the conscience and discernment of others. (p. 76) And more and more often, when it comes to a choice between losing long-time members of our church or our pet music programmes, Contemporaries decide that people are also expendable. (p. 76) Decades of rock music in our culture have permanently stamped that music style with the dimension of immorality. Changing the lyrics and substituting Christian musicians cannot remove that stigma. (p. 91) Music concepts may be amoral or neutral, but all music styles have a moral dimension because they are so easily and unavoidably associated with some worldly attachment. (p. 91) When someone says, Show me where the Bible says that rock music is evil, you could reply: Show me where the Bible says that: * God is pleased you chose the same music style as Madonna, Hootie and the Blowfish, and the Dave Matthews Band. * you should vigorously defend the favourite music style of this world. * its OK to use the same music style as the sex and drug culture. * God waived that abstain from all appearance of evil clause just for you. (p. 96)

We took teens to concerts given by popular CCM artists. These were not the radical heavy metal or hip-hop artists, but the middle-of-the-road performers who seemed to be good role models. But we noticed that the artists, probably under the influence of their recording companies, imitated secular artists in music, concert performance techniques, dress, hairstyle and merchandising. Everything seemed to be geared to making money by winning fans. The poor teens were manipulated in the same way as when they were listening to their secular teen idols. They were hooked in the beginning by safe, careful lyrics and moderate music but the artists always progressed to an edgier, rockier and harder music style with a lifestyle and image to match. And the teens followed along. The CCM artists became role models for different kinds of immorality: indecent dress, rebellious images, improper crushes on married men by young girls, lustful interest in sexy females by adolescent males. (p. 117) Traditionals are initially assured by the Contemporaries that the two styles can co-exist peacefully. In reality, what happens over time is a steady slide down the slippery slope, away from all traditional music into the latest, edgiest contemporary styles.

(p. 119)
I found it unbelievable that a pastor who was dead-set against rock music, and preached that he would never allow a drum set in his church, would then allow musicians to sneak the drums and rock music in through the back door of accompaniment tapes. (p.

120)
When the drum set finally appeared on the platform, I believe the church reached the steepest and most dangerous part of the slope. More than any other instrument, a drum set is the key

instrument of contemporary music styles. (p. 121) With blended services, we have created two sets of musicians with different skills. Now began the competition for the hearts of the congregation: the battle of the bands, so to speak. Contemporary always prevailed over Traditional, because it fed the sinful desire of our flesh. Add to that the veneer of respectability given to CCM by the leadership, and many believers gladly traded the old music for the new. the blended service is not a long-term solution Rather, it is quite simply a transitional phase to gradually move a church service from all traditional to all contemporary. even this separation of services [in those churches that attempt to have two different services, one traditional and one contemporary] will not remain sharp for long. Soon it will blur, and the blurring is almost always towards contemporary shades. (pp. 122, 123) _____________________ Dan Lucarinis e-mail address is danlucarini@msn.com. His book Why I Left the Contemporary Christian Music Movement: Confessions of a Former Worship Leader can be purchased from Evangelical Press, 2002, P.O. Box 84, Auburn, MA 01501, sales@evangelicalpress.org.

What gives you the right to "judge" the CCM stars?

The Word of God. One of the most misunderstood and misapplied verses in the Bible is Matthew 7:1, "Judge not, that ye be not

judged".
Websters Dictionary defines judge as 1. The presiding official in a court having power 1. To decide 2. To determine; (Websters Dictionary p.330)
While we as Christians are NOT definition ONE 1. The presiding official in a court having power. That authority belongs only to God.

"So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God."

Romans 14:12 But we as Christians are commanded to "1. To decide 2. To determine" what is "right" and "wrong" according to the word of God. If you do not "judge" "right" from "wrong" you are traveling a blazing "one-way" course to "perversion" and "degradation" that will eventually land you in a "lake of fire"! Revelation 21:8 A lot of Christians read Matthew 7:1 and say, "See, were not supposed to judge between right and wrong". And any sense of declaring someone, especially other Christians, to be wrong, is "judging" that person. There are some serious problems with this interpretation. . . For instance, if you keep reading Matthew 7, youll soon read in verse 15:

"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves." Matthew 7:15

Notice these false prophets "come to you in sheep's clothing"-- in other words they are "masquerading" as Christians! And yet, according to the Lord Jesus Christ "they are ravening wolves." According to the Lord Jesus Christ Beware: some "so-called" Christians are "ravening wolves"! How can we tell the "sheep" from the "wolves" unless we "judge" or "determine"? How can we do as our Lord commanded and "beware of false prophets" unless we "judge" them by the word of God? If we do not "judge" or "decide" their error by the word of God, how do we even know they are in error? Just because someone "sings" about the Lord Jesus Christ, are we to not "judge" their "songs", "conversation", and "testimony"? Because someone professes to be a Christian should we accept whatever they say and do as "right" and "pleasing to God"? Who said the following?

"If we continue on this path, respectable, industrious and honest, if we fulfill our duty faithfully, it is my conviction, the Lord God will continually help us in the future. He will not leave respectable people in the lurch indefinitely. He may test them, but in the end He lets His sun shine upon them and gives them His blessing."
Billy Graham? Jack Van Impee? Billy Sunday? Dwight Moody? ADOLF HITLER! Most people dont know, but Hitler claimed to be a Christian. In fact, Hitlers campaign was "Positive Christianity". Because Hitler professed to be a Christian, should we just "ignore" the terrible acts he did? Should we read Matthew 7:1, "Judge not, that ye be not judged" and say "What gives you the right to judge Hitler?" Nonsense. We as Christians are to expose and "judge" ERROR by the word of God.

Dont misunderstand me. I dont think Carman, dc Talk, Steven Curtis Chapman, Amy Grant, and other CCMers are another "Adolf Hitler", but I am illustrating an important Biblical principal. When Carman portrays the Lord Jesus Christ as a "street-hippie", crucified in a street-gang fight, throws the Lord Jesus Christ in a dumpster we as Christians, are to say, without apology, "that is wrong, that is a LIE, that is blasphemy!" That is NOT praising the Lord Jesus Christ! When dc Talk sings songs by Nirvana, Doobie Brothers, Beatles, et al. we as Christians, are to say, without apology, "that is wrong, we are to be

separated!"
When Steve Curtis Chapman sings "Lord of the Dance" we as Christians, are to say, without apology, "that is wrong, that is not Biblical" In the occult, Shiva is the Lord of the Dance! Our purpose in "judging" Christian Contemporary Music is not any "personal" attack. It is not that we do not "like" CCM. It is not that we believe most CCMers are unsaved. It is not because of our personal taste in music. We have spent hundreds (probably thousands) of hours researching CCM. We try to document our accusations. We try to obtain the original source. We try to be plain spoken and not "beat around the bush". We believe very strongly that Christian rock music is doing irreparable harm to the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, especially among our young people. Our purpose is to wake up Christians to this spiritual "cancer" that is eating away at the "songs of Zion". The Bible over and over COMMANDS us to "judge".

"Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment"

John 7:24 "But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man." 1 Corinthians 2:15

"I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say" (1 Corinthians 10:15). "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God:. . ." 1 Peter 4:17

The Lord Jesus Christ commanded "judging":

"Judge righteous judgment" (John 7:24) "Why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right? "(Luke 12:57). The Lord Jesus Christ commended Simon in Luke 7:43 for "judging" and Jesus Christ said Simon was "right" for judging: "And he said unto him, Thou hast RIGHTLY judged" (Luke 7:43). To illustrate the complete "spiritual insanity" and "perversion" of the "judge not" philosphy, here's an incident with Michael Sweet formerly of the group Stryper: During one of Stryper's "Christian" concert tours, they hired the "secular" group White Lion as the opening act. During some of the concerts White Lion openly used filthy, vulgar profanity from the stage. At one concert White Lion even threw out filthy pornographic magazines into the "Christian" audience. In an interview Michael Sweet was asked, how "did you guys deal with those things when it happened" - Sweet unbelievably replied: "We felt that we couldn't judge any other group. If we told them hey, you can't do this you can't do that, we would be judging them." (On-Line Interview at http://www.michaelsweet.com/interview.html) Incredible!!!! Here's a "ton" of Christian young people that came to hear "Christian" rockers, Stryper and White Lion is using filthy, vulgar language and throwing pornography into the young Christian audience and Stryper doesn't have enough conviction and backbone to even tell them to stop because that would be judging them!

What a wicked, ungodly, filthy mess! Hey, try reading the Bible for a change!

"Them that sin REBUKE BEFORE ALL, that others also may fear." 1 Timothy 5:20 "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather REPROVE them." Ephesians 5:11
You parents better beware when you send your Christian young people to that "Christian Rock" concert! And people ask me would you rather "Christian" young people go hear Stryper or Marilyn Manson well, there's not much difference! In 1 Corinthians 5, the Apostle Paul is addressing the church at Corinth, "It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you,". Paul did NOT write back and say remember Matthew 7:1, "Judge not, that ye be not judged". No. Paul does not hesitate to "judge" this "brother in the Lord": "For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed," 1 Corinthians 5:3 And Paul goes so far as to deliver him unto Satan to kill him! And the man is a Christian (. . . that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord

Jesus)!
"To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus." 1 Corinthians 5:5 Paul even "rebukes" the Corinthian church for NOT "judging"! 12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not YE JUDGE them that are within? 13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

6:1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? 2 Do ye not know that the saints SHALL JUDGE the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Know ye not that WE SHALL JUDGE angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? (1 Corinthians 5:12 - 6:3) The Bible CLEARLY, over and over commands the Christian to "judge" or "determine" what is right and wrong with the light of the word of God. God gave us a book the word of God and we are to JUDGE anything and everything by the word of God and that includes Christian rock and Christian rockers! "Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear." (1 Timothy 5:20) "This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;" [Notice this is aimed towards Christians.] (Titus 1:13) The Bible says there are some who "profess to know God" (so-called Christians) but "in works they deny him, being abominable" and God says they are "disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate". How can we possibly obey our Lord without "judging" their "works"? "They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate." (Titus 1:16) How can we "prove" something without "judging" or "discerning" it with the word of God? "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." (1 Thess. 5:21)

The Bible commands us to "withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly". Again, how can we know who "walks disorderly" except we "judge" or "discern" from the word of God? "Now we COMMAND you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us." (2 Thess. 3:6)

Jesus Christ writes to the church at Ephesus:

2:1 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; 2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast TRIED THEM which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: (Revelation 2:1-2) The act of "TRIED THEM" is "JUDGING" them! When someone goes to court they are "TRIED" or "JUDGED"! And the Lord Jesus commends them for "JUDGING" them! And again, these were so-called Christians, even

claiming to be apostles!
Paul writes in Romans 16:17, and again notice the application is to "judge" or "mark" other so-called Christians. "Now I beseech you, brethren, MARK THEM which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them." (Romans 16:17) In Philippians 3, Paul again admonishes us to "mark" or "judge" so-called Christians: ". . . MARK THEM which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:" (Philippians 3:17-18)

These are just a few verses that command the "child of God" to "determine" or "judge" between "right" and "wrong". The immediate response is How do we "judge" what is "right" and "wrong"? How can we "judge" what is "right" and "wrong"? You say CCM is "wrong" and "not from God" others says its "right" and "from God" how do I know who is "right"? There is only one logical answer. That answer is simple, sure and steadfast. . . By the King James Bible the word of God. I have read numerous (everyone I know of) books, articles, et. Al. justifying CCM and not ONE of them has as many Bible references as this ONE small ANSWER. The articles and books Ive read justifying CCM are

what someone "feels", "thinks", "believes", etc. but what does God SAY?
My advice to anyone truly searching for the "will of God" concerning CCM or any subject is: Do NOT believe a word, I, or anyone else says, without FIRST checking what God SAYS: "God forbid: yea, let God be TRUE, but EVERY man a LIAR; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged." (Romans 3:4) May the Lord help you, as the Bereans, who "searched the scriptures

daily, WHETHER THOSE THINGS WERE SO". "These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, WHETHER THOSE THINGS WERE SO."
(Acts 17:11)

Arent you causing divisions among Christians?

Yes. We Are.
But as any serious Bible-student knows, DIVISION from false doctrine, satanic influences, compromise and worldliness is commanded. The false idea that because someone is a Christian, or professes to be a Christian, were not to "judge" their error and separate (or divide) ourselves from them is simply wrong. Were not only to separate ourselves from them but also warn others. And yes, cause divisions. . . Our prayer is to cause a DIVISION among Christians. Were presenting the truth about Contemporary Christian Music and our prayer is that Christians will see CCM for what it really is ("wolves in sheep clothing" Matt. 7:15) and DIVIDE from it. Jesus Christ causes DIVISIONS:

So there was a DIVISION among the people BECAUSE OF HIM John

7:43 Jesus Christ said plainly in Luke 12:51 He came to cause DIVISIONS:

"Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather DIVISION:" Luke 12:51
Paul commands DIVISONS among Christians:

"Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye WITHDRAW yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us." 2 Thess.
3:6

Notice the requirement for DIVISION: ". . .every brother that walketh

disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us". Every Brother. . .? Paul is referring to another Christian. Paul caused DIVISION among the body of Christ. Notice, ". . . every brother (a Christian) that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us". DISORDERLY AND ANTI-TRADITION? Is there a better description of
Christian Contemporary Music? Larry Norman displays the "not after tradition" or "rebellious" roots of CCM in "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music" "I aint knockin the hymns, just give me a song that has a beat. I aint knockin the hymns, just give me a song that moves my feat. I dont like none of them funeral marches, I aint dead yet" Larry Norman mocks the old glorious hymns as "funeral marches"! Amazing Grace, Blessed Assurance, To God be the Glory, and thousands more! Notice also, the title of Larry Normans song: "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music" ALL THE GOOD MUSIC? The Lord God Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, according to Larry Norman (and CCM) does NOT have ANY GOOD MUSIC! The Devil has ALL the good music!!!! Amazing Grace is NOT GOOD? Jesus, What A Friend For Sinners is NOT GOOD? And The Rolling Stones . . . and Marilyn Manson. . . and Led Zeppelin is GOOD? What a mockery to the Holy and Wonderful and Glorious God of the Holy Bible! Isaiah 5:20 wrote of Larry Norman and CCM:

"Woe unto them that CALL EVIL GOOD, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"
Typical "rebellious", "disorderly" and "anti-Biblical" attitude of CCM. . .

"Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye WITHDRAW yourselves from every brother that walketh DISORDERLY, and NOT AFTER THE TRADITION which he received of us." 2 Thess. 3:6

Paul commands, if a "brother" (again a Christian) does NOT obey the Word of God (such as CCM) DIVIDE "have no company with him, that he

may be ashamed." "And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother." 2 Thess. 3:14-15
Paul caused a DIVISION. Paul separated from Mark.

37 And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark. 38 But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work. 39 And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus; Acts 15:37-39
Paul rebuked the Apostle Peter - before all!

"But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?" Galatians 2:14
We as Christians, are the proclaimers of truth. And most of the time, the truth will cause DIVISION. But isnt this doing more harm than good? No. Its never wrong to publish the TRUTH.

Aren't you doing more harm than good attacking other Christians? NO.

We are not "attacking" other Christians. We are "judging" CCM by the word of God exactly as the Lord commanded us. And despite the attempts of today's non-offensive, tolerant Christianity, it is not possible to separate the "sin from the sinner". Just because we are dealing with Christ-professing people does not mean we are to "turn a deaf ear" or develop a "see no evil, hear no evil" attitude. (If you haven't already read What gives you the right to judge the CCM artists? please do so now) In fact, scripture tells us that "judgment must BEGIN at the house of God". "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God:. . ." 1 Peter 4:17 We are obeying God. The scripture clearly commands us to "search the scriptures, whether those things are so". The scripture clearly commands us to "prove all things". 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. 1 Thessalonians 5:21 We are presenting the truth about Christian rock in the light of the word of God. And if you believe that is "doing more harm than good" you love CCM and Christian rock more than the word of God!

The Truth is NEVER "doing more harm than good".

And ye shall know the TRUTH, and the TRUTH shall make you free. John 8:32 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the TRUTH, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of TRUTH; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. John 14:16-17 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the TRUTH. 1 Timothy 3:15

Why don't you quit being so negative and show some love?

WE ARE.

We're showing love. Love for our Lord and Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. And if you truly LOVE someone, you will FIGHT anything or anyone that attempts to do HARM to your LOVE. Any decent parent's LOVE would give their life defending their children. And our LOVE for the Lord Jesus Christ should exceed even our LOVE for our family.

Every TRUE, BALANCED love is not only POSITIVE but also NEGATIVE against anything or anyone that attempts to harm their TRUE love. Anyone that truly loves the Lord Jesus Christ will FIGHT anything or anyone that LIES, DEGRADES, MISREPRESENTS, PERVERTS, MOCKS and BLASPHEMES Him. And as we have documented many times CCM does all this and more. . . Ye that LOVE the LORD, HATE evil: Psalm 97:10 No man can serve TWO masters: for either he will HATE the one, and LOVE the other; Matthew 6:24 Do you LOVE the Lord Jesus Christ? Do you LOVE the Lord Jesus Christ more than anything or anyone? Do you LOVE the Lord Jesus Christ more than Christian Rock or CCM? A teenager called me one day, and hotly asked, "What's wrong with

Carman?" I asked, "Are you a Christian? Do you believe that Jesus Christ loved you so much He died on a cross for you?". He answered, "Yes, I'm a Christian and I do love the Lord". I asked, "Have you seen the video 'Resurrection Rap' by Carman? The one where they stab the Lord Jesus in a back alley gang fight, and then throw your Lord and Savior in a garbage dumpster?" He said, "Yes, I have it". I asked, "Does it bother you that Carman is falsely portraying your Lord and Savior, someone you truly love?" He replied, "But Carman's trying to get a message across!" I asked, "By LIEING about and degrading your Lord and Savior?" I then asked him, "What if Carman was doing that to your mother?" He quickly replied, "But it wouldn't be true, that didn't happen to my mother!" I answered, "Exactly! And you know what? It didn't happen to your Lord and Savior either! And you ought to love Him more than your own mother".

With tears he replied, "This music isn't right, is it?" I said, "No, it's not. It's not right".

It amazes me how Christians who claim to love the Lord Jesus Christ defend CCM's anti-Christ attitude! WHY? I answered the phone some time back. . . A dear lady was on the other end weeping. She told me a Christian friend of hers gave her Carman's Resurrection Rap video. She was shocked! She couldn't believe what they were doing to her Lord and Savior! Sobbing, she asked, "How can so-called

Christians do this to their Lord and Savior?"

"How can so-called Christians do this to their Lord and Savior?" Have you left first love? 2:1 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; 2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: 3 And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. 4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast LEFT THY FIRST LOVE. 5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent. 6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate. Revelation 3:1-6 Do you love the Lord Jesus Christ? Does it bother you that CCM is removing the Lord Jesus Christ? Does it bother you that CCM is perverting and refusing to "tell the old, old story, of Jesus and His love"?

Does it bother you that CCM is presenting to a hopeless, Christless-world a lovey-dovey, no judgement, no repentance, no hell, no blood atonement, "I'm ok, you're ok", feel-good, double-speak, anti-Christ, message?

If this doesn't bother you you have left your first love.
4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. 5 REMEMBER therefore from whence thou art fallen, and REPENT, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent. Revelation 3:3-6

DO YOU LOVE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST?

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt LOVE the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.. Matthew 22:37-38 If ye LOVE me, keep my commandments. John 14:15 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that LOVETH me. . . John 14:21 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man LOVE me, he will keep my words. . . John 14:23 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my LOVE; . . .John 15:10 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the LOVE of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 1 John 2: 3-5

My little children, let us not LOVE in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in TRUTH. 1 John 3:18 By this we know that we LOVE the children of God, when we LOVE God, and keep his commandments. For this is the LOVE OF GOD, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 1 John 5:2-3

What's wrong with using rock as a tool to reach young people? One of the main justifications of CCM is using rock as "a tool to reach people" for Christ. The idea is to "entice" the lost person into listening to the music by making it sound like the world's music. Then once they're "rockin-out" - subtly "sneak" in the Lord Jesus Christ. Look like "rock", sound like "rock", act like "rock" and once they're "sucked-in" - slip in the Lord Jesus Christ!
We heartily agree with the conviction of the German reformer Martin Luther, as he stood before the Diet of Worms, he boldly confessed: "Unless I am refuted and convicted by testimonies of Scripture, my conscience is bound in the word of God: I cannot and will not recant anything. I cannot do otherwise. Here I stand. God help me, Amen." ". . .yea, let God be TRUE, but every man a LIAR;. . ." Romans 3:4

ERROR ONE:
Rock music is FLESH. God is a SPIRIT. The SPIRIT and the FLESH are contrary to each other.

Rock music is FLESH.

There is no doubt rock music is FLESH. It's CARNAL. And the world knows this! That's why the world "loves" rock music. The world does not love "spiritual" things But the natural man receiveth not the things of

the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (1 Corinthians.
2:14) The world loves FLESHLY, CARNAL things. And that is why the world "loves" rock music. A few "testimonies" from the world: "But rock music has one appeal only, a barbaric appeal, to sexual desire not love, not eros, but sexual desire undeveloped and untutored." (Bloom,

Alan, The Closing of the American Mind, Simon & Schuster, 1987 p.73)
"Its admirers want to make rock appealing by making it respectable. The thing can't be done. Rock is appealing because it's vulgar, . . Rock is the quintessence of vulgarity. It's crude, loud, and tasteless." (Pattison, Robert, The Triumph of Vulgarity, 1987, preface, p.4) Secular rock bad girl Lita Ford, says: "Listen, rock'n roll AIN'T CHURCH. It's nasty business. You gotta be nasty too. If you're goody, goody, you can't sing or play it. . ." (Los Angeles Times, August 7, 1988) Rock music, any rock music is FLESH! You can label it "Christian", but that doesn't change it's nature it's still FLESH. You can label strychnine "candy", but that doesn't make it candy it's still POISON.

Christian rock is FLESH! Here's a review of some CCM concerts: Michael W. Smith "His concerts draw hundreds of thousands of fans each year, mostly teenage girls who scream out their AFFECTION FOR HIM non-stop throughout. And that's where the problems start. To his fans, Smith is the absolute greatest there is, bar none. To his detractors, he is a manipulator who utilizes his good looks and stage show presence to gain unwholesome adoration from his Christian audience as part of a master plan to pursue pop stardom regardless of the cost." (IM Jan/Feb 91 p

22)
"Smith, with synthesizers blaring, drums blazing, and guitars screeching, sent a young crowd into a frenzy from beginning to end." (Tulsa Tribune) "With sweeping strobes lighting the stage and crowd areas, Smith took the stage with some twirling dance steps that sent the crowd into rocking frenzy. The moment Smith's hands hit the air, the audience responded with over-the-head hand claps and stomping feet." WHITE HEART "Crossover,a hot new six-piece band from Rhode Island, got the place rocking with a blend of pop metal melodies and straight-ahead power. . . The crowd was in a frenzy by the time Whitecross appeared, and the front of the auditorium was packed with screaming metalheads."

CARMAN
"One of the first song routines Carman swings into is a jazzed-up 50's imitation of Elvis Presley called "Celebrating Jesus." Carman shakes, stutters and shimmies just like the "King" himself, as the crowd cheers and be-bops in the aisles". If rock music was NOT fleshly the lost world would not "love" it! The Bible is very clear the "natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God. . . neither can he know them." ! If rock music was SPIRITUAL

the world would "hate" it! If Jars of Clay, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, dc Talk, et al had any real spiritual message, MTV, Billboard, VH-1, would NOT "receive" their songs and videos! They would NOT praise and play their music! Not according to God in 1 Corinthians 2:14! But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 1 Corinthians 2:14

God is a SPIRIT.
"God is a SPIRIT: and they that worship him must worship him in SPIRIT and in truth." John 4:24 "Now the Lord is that SPIRIT:. . ." 2 Cor 3:17 "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the FLESH, but after the SPIRIT." Romans 8:1
God's salvation and methods are SPIRIT. "It is the SPIRIT that quickeneth; the FLESH profiteth nothing:. . ." John 6:64 "Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his SPIRIT." 1 John 4:13 "Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the SPIRIT, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." John 3:5 "But God hath revealed them unto us by his SPIRIT:. . ." 1 Cor. 2:10

God's music is spiritual not fleshly.

". . . I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding

also."(1 Cor. 14:15)

" . . . be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Ephesians 5:18-19 "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." Colossians 3:16

The SPIRIT and the FLESH are contrary, opposite, enemies.

5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. Romans 8:5-8 "For the FLESH lusteth against the SPIRIT, and the SPIRIT against the FLESH: and these are contrary the one to the other:. . ." Galatians 5: 16 "For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the FLESH." Philippians 3:3

God is against the FLESH.

Not only is the SPIRIT contrary to the FLESH, but God is AGAINST the FLESH. "So then they that are in the FLESH cannot please God." Romans 8:8 "That no FLESH should glory in his presence." 1 Cor. 1:29 "And they that are Christ's have crucified the FLESH with the affections and lusts." Galatians 5:24

So let's add this up . . .

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Rock music (any rock music) is FLESH God is SPIRIT. God's salvation and methods are SPIRIT. The SPIRIT and the FLESH are contrary, opposite. God is against the FLESH.

How can anyone, who understands simple Bible verses, honestly "justify" rock music as a "tool for reaching people" for Jesus Christ? How can the "seeds" of FLESH grow "fruits" of the SPIRIT? THEY CANNOT . . . IT IS NOT POSSIBLE! Here's the testimony of Lowell Hart, a former rock musician:

"Rock, rhythm and blues, jazz, pop tunes, Bossa Nova, etc. are all products of the world. These [CCM] musicians are taking the fleshly and are saying, in effect, 'We are going to appeal to the spiritual.' It cannot be done. It is neither logical nor scriptural. This is typical of the contemporary Christian music approach today." (Lowell Hart, Satan's Music Exposed, p. 123)
And ANYONE who thinks they can "sow" to the FLESH and "reap" SPIRITUAL fruits according to God - they are DECEIVED! According to God a Christian who claims they are using "flesh" [rock music] to bring forth "spiritual" [new birth, salvation] they are "MOCKING GOD" and calling God a LIAR, according to Galatians 6:7.8! Read it! Be not DECEIVED God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his FLESH of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the SPIRIT of the Spirit reap life everlasting. Galatians 6:7,8 Could God possibly make it plainer? Only a disobedient, carnal, backslidde, Christian who will NOT submit to the word of God would justify fleshly, rock music as a "tool" to bring forth the spiritual, new-birth! It is NOT possible!

And ANYONE who thinks they can "sow" to the FLESH and "reap" SPIRITUAL fruits according to God - they are deceived! "Be not DECEIVED God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his FLESH of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the SPIRIT of the Spirit reap life everlasting." Galatians 6:7,8 The Lord says in Romans 13:14 - "make not provision for the flesh". "But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof." Romans 13:14 And yet, CCM takes just the opposite approach! They "parade" and "flaunt" the flesh and "make not provision for the Lord Jesus Christ". Their dress, their long hair, their earrings on males, their "hip" speech, their album covers, their videos nearly everything about CCM copies, imitates and glorifies the FLESH. The apostle Paul, addresses this "FLESH = SPIRITUAL" error in Galatians: "Are ye so foolish? having begun in the SPIRIT, are ye now made perfect by the FLESH?" Galatians 3:3 2 Peter 2 warns against "false prophets . . .who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even DENYING THE LORD [as CCM does] that bought them" and verse 18 gives their "bait" EXACTLY AS CCM "they allure through the LUSTS of the FLESH"!

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the FLESH, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 2 Peter 2:18

Not only is rock FLESH rock is Satan's music!

If you think that's just a "paranoid-old-fogey-undocumented" response, read the following quotes by rock artists! Homosexual rock star, David Bowie in Rolling Stone magazine (Feb. 12, 1976), stunned the music world, when he stated:

"Rock has always been THE DEVIL'S MUSIC . . . I believe rock and roll is dangerous . . . I feel we're only heralding SOMETHING EVEN DARKER THAN OURSELVES."(Rolling Stone, Feb. 12, 1976)
The title of CCM artist Larry Norman's song "Why Should the DEVIL Have All the Good Music" testifies that rock is Satan's music. Little Richard, one of the architects of rock 'n' roll, from "first-hand" experience, knows who is the "author" of rock 'n' roll.

"My true belief about Rock 'n' Roll - is this: I believe this kind of music is DEMONIC. . . A lot of the beats in music today are taken from voodoo, from the voodoo DRUMS." Little Richard (Charles White, The Life and Times of Little Richard, p. 197) "I was directed and commanded by another power. The power of DARKNESS. . . The power of the DEVIL. SATAN." Little Richard (Charles White, The Life and Times of Little Richard, pp. 205-206)
As for using rock music as a "tool" for the Lord here's what Little Richard said:

"Rock'n roll doesn't glorify God. You can't drink out of God's cup and the devil's cup at the same time. I was one of the pioneers of that music, one of the builders. I know what the blocks are made of because I built them." (The Dallas Morning News, Oct. 29, 1978, p. 14A)
How is that Little Richard, a homosexual, rock star has more spiritual discernment that a lot of supposedly, born-again, Spiritfilled, Christians? ERROR TWO:

The PURPOSE of Christian music.

God has placed a lot of emphasis on music. The Bible has over 500 references to music. The longest book in the Bible is Psalms. Psalms are "songs unto the Lord". The purpose of music is to praise and worship the Lord. Christian music is sung "unto the Lord" not "unto the world". Just a few verses, from hundreds, that teach this:

"Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing PRAISE. Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm. With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King." Psalm 98:4-6 "It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing PRAISES unto thy name, O most High:" Psalm 92:1 Dr. Frank Garlock, author of several books on Christian music, and an instructor in Christian music for over 40 years, writes:

"Contrary to popular opinion, sacred music is not for entertainment. Christian music is first and foremost a vehicle for praise unto the Lord." (Garlock, Frank & Woetzel, Kurt, Music in the Balance, Majesty Music, 1992 p.54)
Christian music was NEVER meant for the lost world. The Bible is very clear - Christian music is "sung unto the Lord" - not the world!

The purpose of Christian music was NEVER meant to evangelize the lost!
The book "What About Christian Rock" by Dan Peters, Steve Peters and Cher Merrill is a book praising Christian Rock. Chapter Eight (pp. 100-145) of the book, titled "Goals" is very interesting. In "Goals", through personal interview, correspondence, or quoted statements, the authors state the "quoted" goals of approximately 130 individual CCM performers. Dr. Garlock and Kurt Woetzel, in their book, Music in the Balance, give summary of these goals. Here is the chart as it appears in Music in the Balance (p. 111):

GOALS MENTIONED FREQUENCY Evangelism 66 Hope and Encouragement 28 Communicate God 16 Discipleship and Commitment 15 Positive Influence 11 Speak to Contemporary Issues 11 Praise 3 Nebulous 28 Used Scripture 1

Notice in the chart: 66 stated "Evangelism" as their goal, and only 3 out of 130 artists said "praise" is one of their goals! And what's even more interesting out of 130 CCMers ONLY ONE "Used Scripture" in stating the goal of their music! WOW! And this is from a book (What About Rock) trying to justify Christian Rock! The GOAL of using Christian music as Evangelism is not the GOAL of Christian music. Tim Fisher, author, musician, music professor and founder of Sacred Music Services, states in his book, "The Battle for Christian Music": "Music is never used in Scripture as a means of reaching the lost." (Tim Fisher, The Battle for Christian Music, p.155) Nowhere in the Bible do you find music used as a goal of "Evangelism". Tim Fisher also gives another problem with using music for evangelism: "One of the major problems with the CCM crowd is that they believe the purpose of music is outreach. When outreach is your stated purpose, you will go to any lengths to justify almost anything in attempting to reach the lost. Indeed, this is exactly what we are seeing in the CCM movement today." (Tim Fisher, The Battle for Christian Music, p.156) The "lost" world is not interested in Christian songs "praising the Lord." The only way to get the lost world to "like" Christian songs is to "spirituallydumb-down" the songs. In order for CCM to appeal to the world they have to remove, hide or disguise the Christian influence. Can the lost world really appreciate songs praising God for salvation, thankfulness, mercy, love, sanctification, et. al.? The Bible is clear to the lost world spiritual things are foolishness! But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (1 Corinthians. 2:14) Psalm 137 is an interesting scenario. The children of Israel are taken captive by Babylon. The children of Israel were well known for their

instruments and songs. Babylon wanted them to play a song but the

children of Israel refuse to play the Lord's song for the world!
1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. 2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. 3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. 4 How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? (Psalms 137:1-4) The music from the Lord is sacred! It should not be taken lightly! It should not be used as entertainment for the world! Just as the lost world is not interested in a "Bible-believing" church that preaches the word of God, the world is not interested in music that praises the Lord. The lost world is NOT going to praise the Lord Jesus Christ. According to the Lord Jesus Himself the world HATES Him! "The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil." (John 7:7) "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you." (John 15:18) The only way Contemporary Christian Music can "entice" the world is "remove", "disguise" or "redefine" the Lord Jesus Christ. And that is exactly what they do! They subtly remove the Lord Jesus and replaced our Lord Jesus Christ with the pronouns; "he", "him", "you", "I", et. al. They have also "redefined" the Lord Jesus Christ as a "politicallycorrect" "tolerant", "lovey-dovey", "partying", "hip-hop", "rapping-rocker". Songs such as, dc Talk's "Jesus Freak", et al. clearly describe "another Jesus" than the Jesus Christ of the Bible. In 2 Corinthians 11:4, the apostle Paul warns of "another Jesus". Here's a sample of the "removing" of the Lord Jesus Christ:

Amy Grant: "What we're trying to do is take Christian principles and make them understandable. Even if it doesn't say Jesus, it doesn't matter. . ." (Rolling Stone, June 6, 1985 p 10) "Lyrically, the only difference between Amy Grant love songs and, say, those of Olivia Newton John, is that often Grant's pronouns come with capital letters..." Rich Mullins: "I'm really sick of all this heavy-handed Christianity. Musicians take themselves too seriously. They should have more fun, and they should stop preaching unless that's what God has called them to. If I want to hear a sermon, I'll go to church, thank you." (CCM magazine, April, 1987, p. 12) Steve Taylor: "Our concerts attract people because they know they won't be preachy or insult their intelligence." (Peters Brothers, What About Christian Rock, p. 138) (In other words, according to Steve Taylor, if you tell someone they're going to hell without Jesus Christ to Mr. Taylor that's insulting their intelligence no wonder Mr. Taylor has such a low opinion of Jesus Christ, as he would write a song titled "Jesus is For Losers"; Jesus Christ is for SINNERS. Bill Gates may not be a LOSER, but he is certainly a SINNER.) Michael W. Smith

"My songs are not preachy - at all . . ." (Michael McCall, Contemporary Christian, June 1986, p. 19). ". . . So I've made a definite decision now that I'm no longer in the Sandi Patti kind of groove. I love Sandi. I think her music is great, and she needs to do her thing. But my goal is not to speak to the church. I want to

talk to the kids and address the whole peer pressure thing." [No Jesus] (CCM, June 1986, p. 18)
Here's what a secular reporter in the Birmingham News wrote after watching a Michael W. Smith concert:

"If you weren't familiar with Michael W. Smith's standing in the world of contemporary Christian music, you might attend one of his concerts and come out none the wiser." (The Birmingham News, Feb. 12, 1993 p. 5c)
DeGarmo and Key: "On Street Light, we were trying to stick to the street theme and deal with problems people were dealing with. They weren't biblical themes, and they didn't talk about God a lot." Dana Key (CCM Magazine, Nov. 1987, p.20) Many CCM artists despise mentioning the lovely and wonderful name of Jesus Christ so much - they admittedly have an anti'Jesus' attitude! Here's a quote from Jason Martin of Starflyer 59: Jason Martin of Starflyer 59 "A lot of bands, the reason they get so turned off, is because you have to put the word 'Jesus' in every line. . . That's why so many bands get almost anti-'Jesus'in their lyrics, even though they're Christians. . ."(HM, Mar/Apr 97 p. 21) Jason says, "you have to put the word 'Jesus' in every line" - well, what's wrong with that? That is - if you really believe Him! I don't think Jason has to worry about putting "'Jesus' in every line". Out of 25 Starflyer 59 songs, over 1400 words, 4 albums - I could not find the word "God, the word "Lord", I found "Jesus" in "2nd Space Song" - with this ridiculous line "counts the sands Jesus in your hands". Jesus in your hands? Who that believes that Jesus Christ is God Almighty, the Lord of Lords, thinks they've got "Jesus in their hands"! These CHRISTIAN bands act like saying the name "Jesus" is taking the "mark of the beast"! Notice Jason Martin of Starflyer, also says, "That's why so many bands get almost anti-'Jesus' in their lyrics,

even though they're Christians". That's exactly what I've been preaching for years - many (if not most) CCM artists are "antiJesus" in their lyrics! They not only do NOT mention the name of Jesus! They not only go out of their way NOT to mention the wonderful name of Jesus - but they are anti-Jesus in their lyrics! How can a Christian, someone who actually believes that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, loved them so much that He died for them, NOT want to sing about Jesus? Compare that to these Christian songs: Blessed Assurance, Jesus is Mine by Fanny Crosby My Jesus I Love Thee by Adoniram Gordon Wonderful, Wonderful Jesus by Anna Russell Victory in Jesus by E.M. Bartlett Jesus Is All the World to Me by Will Thompson Jesus Is the Sweetest Name I Know by Lela Long Jesus Lover of My Soul by Charles Wesley Why do this so-called Christians so despise the wonderful name of Jesus Christ Have they never read Acts 4:12 or Philippians 2? Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other NAME under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Acts 4:12 That at the NAME OF JESUS every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:10-11 Even CCM artist, Michael Card, admits that much of CCM, is NOT Christian: "The lyrics of a good number of the songs don't say anything specifically Christian -they may have some moral message, but not a lot of the big songs are identifiably Christian. . . 'What happens to the message when we start getting the music to as many people as possible?' There is an essential part of the gospel that's not ever going to sell. The gospel is good news, but it is also bad news: 'You are a sinner, and you are hopeless.' How is a multimillion-dollar record company going to take that?

That's a part of the message, too, and if that's taken out-and it frequently is in Christian music- it ceases to be the gospel." (Can't Buy Me Love, Christianity Today, May 20, 1996, p. 25) Stan Moser, former head of Word Records (the man responsible for signing Amy Grant) and CEO of Star Song Records, was one of the pioneers and most important executives in CCM. And after 26 years in CCM, in November 1995, walked away from CCM. In an article in Christianity Today, titled "We Have Created a Monster" about CCM Mr. Moser freely admits: "But to be candid, I look at the majority of the music I hear today and think it's virtually meaningless." (Christianity Today, We Have Created a Monster, May 20, 1996 p. 27) Leslie Phillips: "People are tired of Christian songs that are only praise and worship. The church forced the 'old' taste in music on kids. We're breaking the stereotype." (Carol Leggett, Amy Grant p. 112) Stryper "We're not religious fanatics who are trying to convert everybody we meet. . .We honestly believe that Jesus Christ is the Savior, but we're about the most unreligious Christian band you could imagine. . . " Robert Sweet, of Strvper (Hit Parader Nov, 1986, p. 21) Holy Soldier

"We're just trying to show that it doesn't need to be pretentious or preachy to be Christian." (CCM, July 92 pp. 54-56)
Wayne Watson

"There's one way I won't write. I won't write a song that says, 'You better get right with God.' From my own experience I find that way sometimes makes people defensive. . . " (Christian Activities Calendar, Spring/Summer, 1989, p. 111)

Sandi Patti:

"Music is a very powerful force. . . Why can't we take that same powerful force music put positive lyrics [Not Jesus] to it and begin shaping values that way.?" (Charisma, Feburary 1986, p. 43)
Kim Boyce: To show the utter spiritual blindness of CCM read this quote by CCM artist Kim Boyce:

"Christians can be judgmental about this and say it's not right, but I feel it doesn't matter what a song's message might be, as long as it comes from a Christian heart. And, conversely, a song is not a Christian song just because it comes from a Christian viewpoint." She pauses. "For example, take M.C. Hammer's 'Pray.' I don't know where M.C. Hammer is coming from. But why didn't a Christian artist write this song! It's very cool and it says something. I don't know if he is a Christian or not I've heard it said he is but the point is that he can say anything he wants just because he's the hottest thing around."(IM Jan/Feb 91 p. 14)
And many, many, many more quotes could be given . . . Here's some examples of albums with Jesus "completely removed"! Sandi Patti's LeVoyage, And of course, the wonderful name of Jesus is nowhere to be found. Michael W. Smith's album, Change Your World, has 2819 words - Jesus occurs - ZERO! Michael W. Smith's album, I'll Lead You Home, has 2046 words -: Jesus occurs - ZERO! And again many more albums could be given . . . This should make ANY truly born-again Christian ashamed and abhorred of such Christ-less music. And yet many so-called Christians are defending and "loving" such music that "takes away their Lord".

"And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have TAKEN AWAY my Lord, . . ." (John 20:13) BUT WAIT . . . TIME OUT . . .
If the purpose of CCM is "a tool to reach" people with Jesus Christ . . . Would you please explain something for me How in the world are you

going to reach young people for Jesus Christ when you do not even mention "His NAME"? We're unable to come to the phone at this time. At the sound of the beep. ..
I don't care how much CCM'ers talk about "using rock as a tool to reach

young people" or "motives" or "attitudes" or "relationships" or "values" or "self-esteem" or "positive-lyrics" NO JESUS NO REACHING THE LOST!
Peter says in Acts 4: "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." Acts 4:12 How completely contrary to the men of God! The Apostle Paul writes: "And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified." 1 Corinthians 2:1-2 The Apostles were beaten in Acts 5 and the scriptures say: "And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go . . . And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ." Acts 5:40-41

Look how many times the Apostle Paul in just the first chapter of 1 Corinthians: verse 1 Jesus Christ verse 2 Christ Jesus, Jesus Christ our Lord verse 3 God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. verse 4 Jesus Christ; verse 6 Christ verse 7 our Lord Jesus Christ: verse 8 our Lord Jesus Christ. verse 9 his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. verse 10 our Lord Jesus Christ verse 12 Christ verse 13 Christ verse 17 Christ. . . the cross of Christ verse 23 Christ crucified verse 24 Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. verse 30 Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: The following excerpt is from "The Dragon's Hot Breath: Unmasking the Awful Truth About 'Christian' Rock Music" by Texe Marrs concerning a telephone conversation between Texe Marrs and CCM "star" Steve Taylor. After dealing with hundreds of CCM'ers this is a typical response when asked about "removing the Lord Jesus Christ": "I 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!'" (Texe Marrs, The Dragon's Hot Breath, Living Truth Ministries, p.7) When music, such as CCM, purposely removes the Lord Jesus Christ it is no longer Christian!

A Christian is a follower and disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ. And when Jesus Christ is removed it is NOT CHRISTIAN! When a lot of the CCM "stars" mention the Lord Jesus Christ it's another Jesus (2 Cor. 11:4). It's not the Lord Jesus Christ of the Bible. CCM's "Jesus" is a "hip-hopping", "party-animal", "groovy", "boys-will-be-boys", "rock-star". Rather than "lifting up" the Lord Jesus Christ, they drag Jesus Christ down into the "mire and filth" of their "rock" world. Here's just a few examples of the "polluting" of the Lord Jesus Christ. DcTalk - Jesus Freak Steve Taylor - Jesus is for Losers Bride - Psychedelic Super Jesus Messiah Prophet Band - Master of the Metal Carman - Resurrection Rap Video (Jesus is portrayed as a street-gang member) The Word of God in John 12:43 has the CCM artists "number". Just like the chief rulers in John 12, the CCMers refuse to confess the Lord Jesus Christ because "they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God". "42 Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but

because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: 43 For they loved the PRAISE OF MEN more than the praise of God." John 12:42-43
CCM's methods are NOT Biblical! After CCM has successfully "zapped-out" the Lord Jesus Christ; time for the next step. They try to completely "zap out" any influence and testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ in their "lifestyle". So they dress, look, act, talk, walk, appear with "secular artists" at "secular rock shows" everything possible to look like the world. CCM artist Mylon Lefevre, unashamedly (by "perverting" Matthew 7:15!) titled on of his albums, "Sheep in Wolves Clothing".

If it "looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, walks like a duck and has web feet it's a duck!" When CCM "looks like the world, acts like the world, sounds like the world, imitates the world, fellowships with the world" IT'S WORLDLY IT'S NOT CHRISTIAN! Again this is completely against the word of God: "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, . . ." 2 Corinthians 6:17 "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?" 2 Corinthians 6:14

ERROR THREE:
God's "tool" for reaching the lost. God's "tool" for reaching lost young people (or any people) with the gospel is NOT MUSIC ANY MUSIC! God's "tool" for reaching people with the gospel is "PREACHING the word of God". "For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of PREACHING to save them that believe." 1 Corinthians 1:21 This is God's "tool". He hasn't changed. God does NOT LIE. Every revival in history, bar none, came through the PREACHING of God's word Torrey, Sunday, Moody, Spurgeon, Wesley, et. al. Music, such as written by Fanny Crosby, Charles Westley, helped "set the atmosphere" but make no mistake about it God's "tool" for reaching people with the gospel is "PREACHING the word of God". No matter how much you try to justify "your fleshly appetite" for Christian Rock one thing is certain God can not LIE! And when He says, ". . . it pleased God by the foolishness of PREACHING to save them that believe" , He "demolishes" CCM's use of rock as "a tool for reaching the lost!"

Alfred Gibbs, writes in his book, The Preacher and His Preaching: ". . . preaching is the God-ordained means of spreading the gospel amongst the unsaved." (Gibbs, Alfred P., The Preacher and His Preaching, p.25) "How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a PREACHER?" (Romans 10:14) Did you read that? "without a PREACHER", not a SINGER, not an ENTERTAINER A PREACHER! "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." (Romans 10:17) The word of God is the instrument of saving faith NOT A SONG ANY SONG!

Now, if you don't like that, don't get mad at me, get mad at God HE WROTE IT!
Don't send me a nasty email telling me how "judgmental" I am I didn't say it GOD DID!

ERROR FOUR:
CCM's method is deceitful. Another serious "error" using rock music as a "tool for reaching people for Christ" it is "deceitful". CCM "deceives" the listener into "getting into the music" and then "surprise, surprise!" "We're NOT the world! We LOOK like the world. We

SOUND like the world. We ACT like the world. We FELLOWSHIP with the world but guess what! We're Christians!" And guess what THAT IS DECEITFUL!

Don Butler, gospel Music Association executive director, openly boasts of deceitfully using "music is the bait": "Music is the bait, the message is the hook. We can use a different style of music for every age level to give people what they need. Once other religions find this out we'll be in trouble." (IM, Mar/Apr 1991 p. 27)

And what does the Lord say about doing His work "deceitfully"? "CURSED be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, . . ." Jeremiah 48:10
You better read that again Not "CURSED" be he that doeth the work of the WORLD deceitfully but CURSED be he that doeth the WORK OF THE LORD deceitfully! "CURSED be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, . . ." Jeremiah 48:10 Compare CCM's "deceitful" use of music to "entice" it's audience with that of the apostles: The Apostle Paul refused to "entice" his audience. "And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:" 1 Corinthians 2:4 The CCM crowd says, "Let's use rock music to get their attention and

then we'll 'SNEAK' in the Lord Jesus Christ".

The apostles sure didn't try to "sneak" in the Lord Jesus Christ. They BOLDLY "lifted" Him up! They proclaimed the Lord Jesus Christ, openly, proudly and with BOLDNESS! Despite beatings, despite threats, despite being put to death - they weren't about to "hide" their Lord Jesus Christ! 10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised

from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. 11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. 12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. 13 Now when they saw the BOLDNESS of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus." (Acts 4:10-13) "And he spake BOLDLY in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him." (Acts 9:29) "Long time therefore abode they speaking BOLDLY in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands." (Acts 14:3) "And he began to speak BOLDLY in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly." (Acts 18:26) "And he went into the synagogue, and spake BOLDLY for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God." (Acts 19:8) Who do you think is right?

The "DECEIT" of CCM or the "BOLDNESS" of the apostles?

CONCLUSION:
With what we have presented, and we could have presented much more, and much worse. With the clear scriptures presented any honest, serious, dedicated Christian whose desire is to "follow the Lord Jesus Christ" should put aside their "fleshly appetite", "prejudices", "personal desires", "friends" and serious ask themselves "Are these things so?" And then "search the scriptures" for the answer.

"These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so." Acts 17:11 Our prayer is you will have the conviction and courage, despite the cost, to obey the word of God. God needs some young people, pastors, youth leaders, parents, teachers that will take a stand against CCM and worldly music. May you have the conviction of the German reformer Martin Luther. As Martin Luther stood before the Diet of Worms, on December, 1521 with the threat of death ringing in his soul, he declared: "Unless I am refuted and convicted by testimonies of Scripture, my conscience is bound in the word of God: I cannot and will not recant anything. I cannot do otherwise. Here I stand. God help me, Amen." God help you . . .

What about the thousands of people getting saved at CCM concerts? If you havent read, What's wrong with using rock as a tool to reach young people? please read it first. We do NOT believe "thousands" of people are getting saved at CCM concerts.
While we certainly will not say, no one can be saved at a CCM concert we do not believe "thousands" are being saved at CCM concerts. If people are getting saved Praise the Lord! If people are getting saved, it is for factors outside the CCM concerts, such as someone "witnessing" and "praying" for that person. Its because that person has at some time heard the "preaching" of the word of God.

But we can NOT believe "thousands" of people are getting saved at CCM concerts, for the following FOUR reasons from the word of God:

REASON ONE:
Gods method of salvation is "PREACHING the word of God".

"For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of PREACHING to save them that believe."
1 Corinthians 1:21 This is Gods method. He hasnt changed. God does NOT LIE. (Titus 1:2) Every revival in history, bar none, came through the PREACHING of Gods word Torrey, Sunday, Moody, Spurgeon, Wesley, et. al. Most CCM concerts have NO PREACHING and NO PREACHER present!

"How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a PREACHER?" (Romans 10:14)
Notice "without a PREACHER", not a SINGER, not an ENTERTAINER A PREACHER!

"So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."
(Romans 10:17) The word of God is the instrument of saving faith NOT A SONG! Not only do CCMers not have a PREACHER they go out of their way to "abstain from all appearance of PREACHING"! Steve Taylor:"Our concerts attract people because they know they won't be preachy or insult their intelligence." (What About Christian Rock, Peters Brother, p. 138) (According to Steve Taylor, if you tell someone theyre going to hell without Jesus Christ to Mr. Taylor thats "insulting their intelligence" no wonder

Mr. Taylor has such a low opinion of Jesus Christ, as he would write a song title "Jesus is For Losers" Rich Mullins "I'm really sick of all this heavy-handed Christianity. Musicians take themselves too seriously. They should have more fun, and they should stop preaching unless that's what God has called them to. If I want to hear a sermon, I'll go to church, thank you." (CCM magazine, April, 1987, p. 12) Michael W. Smith

"My songs are not preachy -- at all . . ." (Michael McCall, Contemporary Christian, June 1986, p. 19).
Here's what a secular reporter in the Birmingham News wrote after watching a Michael W. Smith concert:

"If you werent familiar with Michael W. Smiths standing in the world of contemporary Christian music, you might attend one of his concerts and come out none the wiser." (The Birmingham News, Feb. 12, 1993 p. 5c)
Stryper "We're not religious fanatics who are trying to convert everybody we meet. . .We honestly believe that Jesus Christ is the Savior, but we're about the most unreligious Christian band you could imagine. . . " Robert Sweet, of Stryper (Hit Parader Nov, 1986, p. 21) Holy Soldier "We're just trying to show that it doesn't need to be pretentious or preachy to be Christian." (CCM July 92 p 54-56) HM magazine says, "a lot of Christian bands do not feel it necessary to speak about God or Christ": "There are a lot of bands out now who do not feel it necessary to speak about God or Christ". (HM mag, Issue #67, p.26)

Ghoti Hook (now how's that for a Christian name) says: "Sometime people give us a hard time because we don't mention God onstage. . . we just feel that our calling is to get people interested in our music, interested in us. . ." (HM mag, Issue #67, pp.34-35) Christian rockers, Spudgun, says: "We don't normally say stuff about God from the stage". Jason Keely, Spudgun (HM mag, Issue #67, p. 40) Wayne Watson

"There's one way I won't write. I won't write a song that says, 'You better get right with God.' From my own experience I find that way sometimes makes people defensive. . . " (Christian Activities Calendar, Spring/Summer, 1989, p. 111)

So we KNOW:
1. Gods method of presenting salvation is PREACHING the Word of God by a PREACHER. 2. CCM performers refuse to PREACH, and usually have no PREACHER there.

So we have two choices:

1. God is LYING! He did NOT mean what He said. 2. "Thousands" of people are NOT getting saved at CCM concerts.

Who do you think is RIGHT? CCM? The Word of God?

I can hear someone say, "Yea, but youre limiting God." No were believing what God said. But we do believe God is limited to TRUTH. God cannot LIE.

"In hope of eternal life, which God, THAT CANNOT LIE, promised before the world began; But hath in due times manifested his word through PREACHING, . . ." (Titus 1:2-3a) "God said it and that settles it!"

REASON TWO:
Another reason I believe "thousands" of people are NOT getting saved at CCM concerts is the requirements for the "conviction" and "working" of the Holy Spirit are NOT present at CCM concerts. Jesus Christ, in John 16:8, gives the "working" of the Holy Spirit: "And when he is come, he will REPROVE the world of SIN, and of RIGHTEOUSNESS, and of JUDGMENT:" (John 16:8) There is no "PREACHING" or "REPROVING" of SIN, RIGHTEOUSNESS, or JUDGEMENT at CCM Concerts. The message at CCM concerts is a "hip-hopping", "partying", "nonjudgmental", "self-esteem", "positive", "feels-good", "humanistic", "fleshly", "carnal" message. There is usually no mention of HELL. There is usually no mention of JUDGEMENT. There is usually no mention of personal SIN. There is no REPROVE. The requirements for the working of the Holy Spirit are NOT present. CCM concerts are a "dancing", "be-bopping", "fleshly", "carnal" atmosphere which is completely contrary to the Holy Spirit! "For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are CONTRARY the one to the other: . . ."Galatians 5:16 Some examples of CCM concerts "flesh" atmosphere: ADVERTISEMENT FOR ONE BAD PIG Blow the House Down" "They're loose again! And this time it's LIVE, unbridled mayhem. In their most daring release yet, One Bad Pig begs the question, why just shake the house, when you can blow the house down?! On stage screaming, stomping, slam dancing, stage diving, pleading and praying. It's the absolute wildest Christian concert ever recorded, and we've captured every wallowing, squealing moment on video! " (Release, Summer 92 pp. 1617)

Michael W. Smith "His concerts draw hundreds of thousands of fans each year, mostly teenage girls who scream out their AFFECTION FOR HIM non-stop throughout. And that's where the problems start. To his fans, Smith is the absolute greatest there is, bar none. To his detractors, he is a manipulator who utilizes his good looks and stage show presence to gain unwholesome adoration from his Christian audience as part of a master plan to pursue pop stardom regardless of the cost." (IM Jan/Feb 91 p 22) "Smith, with synthesizers blaring, drums blazing, and guitars screeching, sent a young crowd into a frenzy from beginning to end." (Tulsa Tribune) "With sweeping strobes lighting the stage and crowd areas, Smith took the stage with some twirling dance steps that sent the crowd into rocking frenzy. The moment Smith's hands hit the air, the audience responded with over-the-head hand claps and stomping feet." WHITE HEART "Crossover, a hot new six-piece band from Rhode Island, got the place rocking with a blend of pop metal melodies and straight-ahead power. . . The crowd was in a frenzy by the time Whitecross appeared, and the front of the auditorium was packed with screaming metalheads." CARMAN "One of the first song routines Carman swings into is a jazzed-up 50's imitation of Elvis Presley called "Celebrating Jesus." Carman shakes, stutters and shimmies just like the "King" himself, as the crowd cheers and be-bops in the aisles". Now, honestly, who in their right "spiritual" mind, could possibly believe that is the "working of the Holy Spirit". If it is we can throw our Bible away because that is completely opposite to the word of God! And if you dont believe that get your King James Bible out and read it!

"5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. . . . 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God." Romans 8:5,8

REASON THREE:
We do NOT believe "thousands" are being saved because at most CCM concerts man is glorified and lifted-up.
And according to the Lord Jesus Christ that is Satans goal:

"But he [Jesus] turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men." Matthew 16:23
According to the Lord Jesus Christ (read it! Turn the music off and READ IT!) Satans goal is to uplift man. A satanist is someone that glorifies and uplifts man! According to the Lord Jesus Christ the following comments and quotes are satanic: dc Talk: Here's how Dallas Morning News, (April 27, 1996) describes a DC Talk "Freak Show" concert:

"As teenagers shrieks filled the Dallas Convention Center moments before dc Talk took the stage Friday night, one of the relatively few grown-ups in the sold-out crowd observed, This is just like the BEATLES."
Michael W. Smith Smiths concerts are filled with teenage girls who "scream out their affection for HIM" (not the Lord Jesus Christ). Heres how Inside Music,

Jan/Feb 91, describes a Smith concert:

"His concerts draw hundreds of thousands of fans each year, mostly

teenage girls who scream out their AFFECTION FOR HIM non-stop

throughout. . . . To his fans, Smith is the absolute greatest there is, BAR NONE . . ." (IM Jan/Feb 91 p 22)
Now how can a Christian, who believes the Bible possibly believe God is a part of that man-worshipping atmosphere? How can the Holy Spirit, who inspired Matthew 16:23, possibly be a part of CCM's man-worshipping concerts? It is simply NOT possible for most CCM concerts and Matthew 16:23 to harmonize! The most pitiful remark comes from author Josh McDowell about CCMer Steve Camp: "Thank God for Steve Camp. The body of Christ is enriched because we have his heart and his music. My oldest daughter thinks he hung the moon." Josh McDowell (CCM, Aug, 91, p. 15) Did you read that? "My oldest daughter thinks he hung the moon"! Do you know who hung the moon? The Lord Jesus Christ hung the moon! (John 1:3) Its one thing for young teen age girls to "idolize" these CCMers, but Josh McDowell, who is supposedly a minister to makes such "satanic" statements theres no excuse! Shame on you Josh McDowell! Not surprisingly, the message Satan delivered Eve in the garden of Eden is ". . . ye shall be as gods. . ." (Genesis 3:5) exactly what is happening at CCM concerts. The atmosphere, the music, and man-worship are completely opposite to the word of God! And dont tell me you "love the Lord Jesus Christ" and defend CCM! Because Jesus Christ said in John 14:23 " . . .If a man love me, he will

keep my words. . ."

If you "love the Lord Jesus Christ" according to the Lord Jesus Christ "you'll keep His words" And CCM is AGAINST His word!

Again, we do not believe "thousands" of people are getting saved at CCM concerts -- but:

Even if people are getting saved does that make CCM right?
What kind of Christians is CCM producing? What kind of Christian "foundation" is CCM building? If it takes music and lifestyles that blatantly imitate the "world", that teaches "no worldly separation", a "nihilistanything-goes-Christianity" what will it take to reach the next generation? How far will CCM "depart from the word of God" to "reach the lost"? What "seeds" are CCM planting? What kind of crops are CCM growing? If the Lord Jesus tarries what "kind of fruit" will CCM "reap" in our young people? Youd better pray about that youth pastor, pastor, parent that is "feeding" your young people with the spiritual "counterfeit" of CCM. If the Lord tarries, these young people will grow up and the "seeds" of CCM will NOT produce the "fruits" of the Holy Spirit? Here's an example of the fruits of Christian rock: The Christian Rock group Audio Adrenaline spent seven days with seven Christian young people and during that time conversed with them. These are Christian young people "hopped-up" on Chrisitian rock. Even, the group Audio Adrenaline was surprized at their "tolerance" and compromise. Here's what Audio Adrenaline reported:

"One guy was totally questioning his faith, teetering on atheism. One of the girls couldn't hold a conversation without dropping the f-word. . . On the issue of absolutes, I heard some comments that surprised me. I think there are a lot of Christian young people who are lured into the philosophy of tolerance. . . I thought some of the kids were a little out there, almost New Age, real accepting and tolerant. .." (CCM, Feb. 1998)

The "seeds" of the flesh will NOT produce the "fruits" of the Spirit!

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man SOWETH, that shall he also REAP." (Galatians 6:7)
What is CCM, with its "partying" and "rocknrollin" atmosphere, doing to the future of "bearing his reproach" (Heb. 13:13)? What is CCM doing to the Christian crops and vineyards of tomorrow? Will these young people "nurtured" on the "beat" and "high" of Christian rock be able to "stand against the wiles of the devil." (Ephesians 6:11)? In the book, Builder of Bridges, Dr. Bob Jones, Sr., gives a frightening analysis of the type of "Madison-Avenue" salvation show, used in CCM. "Suppose I have a beautiful garden, and you are a fruit gatherer, and you tell me that you will gather my fruit. I go away on a trip. You gather the fruit and pile it in the corner. It looks good. But when I go out into my orchard, I find that my trees are ruined. The limbs are broken, there is damaged bark on the trunks, and the roots are damaged and exposed. My trees begin to die, and there is no more fruit." (Johnson, R.K., Builder of Bridges, p. 291) As old-time preacher, Carl Lackey once stated: "The devils a good checker player. He doesnt mind giving up a few souls, to damn and destroy a generation." (from the message, The Kind of Man God is Looking For, by Carl Lackey)

REASON FOUR:
The "end" does NOT justify the "means".
Even if people are getting saved does that mean CCM is RIGHT?

Does the "end" justify the "means"?

Pat Boone, among the first who "rock n rolled" with Jesus, truthfully confessed his use of rock songs (such as "Tutti Frutti", "Aint That a Shame") were "means to an end".

"I recognized a long time ago, that God built a platform for me with those early rock n roll songs I did. They werent gospel songs, but they were means to an end." (CCM Magazine, May 1997, p.9) Doug Van Pelt confesses on the use of Thrash metal (thrash metal is a "hellish" and "satanic" growling music popularized by groups like Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Danzig, Exodus, Suicidal Tendencies) in CCM magazine: "Thrash metal, like other contemporary forms of Christian music, may be one of those rare occasions where the means are justified by the ends". (CCM Magazine, Feb.1989, p.20) But does the Bible endorse the "end justify the means"? NO. It clearly does not. . . The Apostle Paul writes in Romans 3:5-8, to those, such as Pat Boone, who justifies the means by the ends: 5 But if OUR UNRIGHTEOUSNESS commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) 6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? 7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through MY LIE unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? 8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just. (Romans 3:5-8) "And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive LAWFULLY." (2 Timothy 2:5)

Heres a good example illustrating the problem with the "end justifies the means".
The Bible teaches every baby that dies goes to heaven. The Bible teaches an "age of knowledge and accountability". "Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil,

they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it." Deuteronomy 1:39 So every baby goes to heaven if the "end" justifies the "means" then abortion is great! Millions of people are getting saved! Over 1.5 million babies, every year, are going to heaven thanks to abortion! Since 1973, over 30 million babies are in heaven thanks to abortion! Who cares they're being murdered? Who cares they're little brains are literally being sucked out? So what, they're being sucked out and chopped up like ground meat? The "end justifies the means" little people are getting saved! Lets start preaching the "salvation through abortion" in our churches. Hey, lets have "abortion-calls" in our churches! Think of the millions that could be "saved"? Do you get the picture? Do you see how ridiculous the "end" justifies the "means" is? As Franky Schaeffer writes in Addicted to Mediocrity: "The excuse that sometimes people are saved is no excuse at all. People have been saved in concentration camps because God can bring good from evil, but this does not justify the evil." (Schaeffer, Franky, Addicted to Mediocrity, p. 45) It is NEVER right to do WRONG Even if people get saved!

"What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin,[CCM] that grace may abound? God forbid . . ."
(Romans 6:1-2)

Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?

"Didn't Charles Wesley say 'Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music'?" "NO". "Then it was Martin Luther." "NO. It wasn't Martin Luther." "Then it must have been General William Booth." "NO." "Hummh Then, it was John Newton." "NO." "Oh. I know. It was Isaac Watts." "NO. It wasn't Isaac." "Well, who said, 'Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music'?" Larry Norman and the CCMers!

In order to justify their disobedience to the Word of God and their love for rock music, CCMers claim everyone from Martin Luther; to General William Booth; to John Newton made the infamous statement "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?". But where did "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?" actually come from? The "mis-quote" was taken from a message Reverend Rowland Hill, pastor of Surrey Chapel in London, preached in 1844. Reverend Hill did NOT say, "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?" what he actually said was, "The devil should not have all the best tunes." Reverend Hill's message was not a "call" to copy or bring the "devil's" music in the church. During the time Reverend Hill preached his message, in England, church music had fallen in both quantity and quality, which is certainly not the case today. His message was a "call" for Christians to write, compose and produce quality Christian music. It was NOT an

appeal for Christians to sing the "devil's" music for the Lord.

(Lowell Hart, Satan's Music Exposed, pp. 169-170) (V.J. Charlesworth, Rowland Hill, p.156) And as with much of CCM, they RARELY get the facts straight. After all, what's the TRUTH got to do with rock 'n' roll! "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?" is one of the "rally-cries" of the CCM community. CCMer Paul Baker titled his book on the history of Contemporary Christian Music, "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?" CCM pioneer, Larry Norman, even wrote a song, titled you guess it! "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?". Geoff Moore, Chris Christian and others have did "covers" of Norman's ludicrous song. "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?" is the one of the most stupid and irreverent statements that's ever come out of the mouth of mankind! Look at what they are saying! Why Should the Devil Have ALL the Good Music?

Webster's Dictionary defines ALL as; Every; the whole quantity of, Everything; the total (The Grosset Webster Dictionary, p.15)
The devil has ALL the good music? ALL [Every; the whole quantity of, Everything; the total] the GOOD music! The Holy, Merciful, Wonderful, Creator, All Mighty, Everlasting and Loving God has NO GOOD music! GOD DOES NOT EVEN HAVE ONE GOOD SONG???? And the wicked, evil, perverted and rebellious devil has ALL the GOOD music! Poor God does NOT even have ONE GOOD song! Out of the millions of songs written by Christians God does NOT even have ONE GOOD song! Out of the 9,000 songs Fanny Crosby wrote, or the 4,000 Charles Wesley wrote there is NOT even ONE GOOD song! Out of the 150 Psalms David wrote, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit there is NOT even ONE GOOD song

Here's what Larry Norman, Geoff Moore, Paul Baker and the CCMers SAY: "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" by Johann Sebastian Bach is NOT GOOD but "Anti-Christ Superstar" by Marilyn Manson is GOOD! "Amazing Grace" by John Newton is NOT GOOD but "Have a Good Day in Hell" by The Eagles is GOOD! "Blessed Assurance" by Fanny Crosby is NOT GOOD but "Running with the Devil" by Van Halen is GOOD! "A Mighty Fortress is Our God" by Martin Luther is NOT GOOD but "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones is GOOD! "Jesus, Lover of my Soul" by Charles Wesley is NOT GOOD but "Highway to Hell" by the AC/DC is GOOD! "Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed" by Isaac Watts is NOT GOOD but "Stairway to Heaven" by the Led Zeppelin is GOOD! Let's conduct an observable, provable and scientific experiment: Here are two songs in RealAudio. Listen to both. You decide which one is GOOD! And also which one is the DEVIL'S. This "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?", rebellious, CCM attitude, is wicked, perverted, stupid and irreverent! And it is completely AGAINST the Word of God!

Woe unto them [ditto, Larry Norman, Paul Baker, Geoff Moore] that call evil GOOD, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20
The Lord Jesus Christ is completely OPPOSITE Larry Norman, Geoff Moore, Paul Baker and CCM: (Who do you think is RIGHT?)

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a CORRUPT [DEVIL ROCK MUSIC] tree bring forth GOOD fruit. Matthew 7:18

Does not "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?" PRAISE the Devil and his music? And on the opposite side of the statement Larry Norman, Paul Baker, Geoff Moore and CCMers, are subtlety (see Gen. 3:1) "PUTTING-DOWN" the Lord God and His music! This is God Almighty that has NO GOOD MUSIC! This is the Creator of the universe that has NO GOOD MUSIC! And you're asking people to love, trust and serve a God that can NOT write or inspire ONE GOOD SONG in 6,000 years and millions of songs! WOW! Somebody's elevator is not coming up to the top. Somebody's a couple of fries away from a "happy meal"! (I'll give you a hint they believe the Devil has ALL the GOOD music). I've commented to CCMers, about the irreverence, perversion and total stupidity, of Larry Norman's song and they defensively reply, "Oh no. Larry Norman is not REALLY saying the Devil has ALL the GOOD music." Well, if that's NOT what he's REALLY saying why on earth, is he REALLY saying it? Would you like to hear him REALLY say it? Don't leave here and say, "We're putting words in their mouth, or we're twisting their words, etc." YOU CAN HEAR IT FOR YOURSELF! Adolf Hitler's propaganda machine was headed by Joseph Paul Goebbels. Goebbels most famous and successful propaganda ideology was the "Big Lie". The "Big Lie" was simple tell the biggest, most outrageous lie;

tell it often enough; tell it loudly enough and eventually people will believe it.
Following the "Hitler-Goebbels-Big-Lie" propaganda script the "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?" BIG-LIE, has certainly worked very successful! The "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?" BIG-LIE, would actually be hilarious except for one gigantic problem many Christian young people really believe it! I've had many CCM young people, honestly and sincerely, say, "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music"? Thanks to the influence of Larry Norman, Paul Baker, Geoff Moore and other CCMers, they honestly believe the old hymns are NO GOOD! They sincerely believe the devil's rock songs are GOOD! I've had Christian teenagers say, "I don't like none of those funeral marches [referring to

the hymns], Just give me a song that has a beat. Just give me a song that moves my feet." Those words, by the way, are from Larry Norman's song! Here's some of the lyrics to Norman's song: I ain't knocking the hymns, [Yes, he is - 3 lines later, Larry calls the hymns "funeral marches"] Just give me a song that has a BEAT. [Rock Music] I ain't knocking the hymns, Just give me a song that moves my feet. [rock feeds the flesh] I don't like none of those funeral marches [calling the hymns - funeral marches] I ain't dead yet! [According to Larry, if you listen to the hymns - you're DEAD] Listen to it. Here's some "fruit" of the Goebbels "BIG LIE" propaganda with Larry Norman's "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music" BIG-LIE. Here's a Christian Rock web site, [lifemetal.home.ml.org] their title-banner is "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music". Take a look at it. Notice the satanic and evil look. This site is saturated with the "appearance of evil". They either have never read, 1 Thess. 5:22, "Abstain from all APPEARANCE OF EVIL" or just does not care what "God says". Here's a Christian Rock [users.lia.net/collins/Music.htm] site with the heading, "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music". If you think I'm exaggerating the propaganda influence and deceptive power of CCM and Larry Norman's song, here's what the intro to the site says:

Gone are the days when the only place to find Christian music was between the pages of your hymn books. Christian artists these days can rock with the best of 'em . Finally, some REAL music with a REAL message! What more can you ask for? So what are you waiting for then? Check it out!

Did you read what that site says? "Finally, some REAL music with

a REAL message! " "Amazing Grace" was NOT REAL music! "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" did NOT have a REAL message! Of ALL the hymns, Psalms and spiritual songs written before Christian Rock NO REAL music NO REAL message! Incredible! And what's even worse these Christian young people ACTUALLY believe that!
Here's another "real-life" example of the "fruits" of Norman's "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music". This is a portion of an actual email I received, and I've received literally hundreds just like it. Nothing has

been added or edited this is EXACTLY as received! I stumbled into this site looking to see what web sites might have out there on Christian Rock and found your web site... And I have to say, What youth wants to listen to Funeral Marches?? (a quote from Larry Norman) I find MOST Church music DRY, Boring, (like a lot of churches that follow the god of rules) "Why should the devil have ALL the good music??"
Goebbels [or Satan] was correct tell the biggest, most outrageous

lie; tell it often enough; tell it loudly enough and eventually people will believe it!
Good work Larry Norman and CCM! Your rebellious attitude, lies, lack of spiritual "guts" and convictions, are destroying the "foundations" of real Christian music and convictions in many of these CCM "nurtured" young people. Goebbels [and the "father of LIES" Satan] would be proud! According to the Lord Jesus Christ, The "father of LIES" is the devil: Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because

there is NO TRUTH in him. When he speaketh a LIE, he speaketh of his own: FOR HE IS A LIAR, AND THE FATHER OF IT. John 8:44 The "FATHER" of the "BIG-LIE" "Why Should the Devil Have ALL the Good Music" is Satan! Here's another interesting perspective, to Larry Norman's and CCM's, "Why Should the DEVIL Have All the Good Music"? by their own admission ROCK MUSIC IS FROM THE DEVIL! The reason, I emphasize that, many CCMer's "go in to looney-land" trying to "exorcise" the devil from rock music. Larry Norman states in a news article, "'The devil will try to steal anything

Christians leave lying around,' Norman insists. Is rock music satanic? Norman insists it comes from the church." (Lowell Hart, Satan's Music
Exposed, p. 20) Al Menconi says in his funny-book, "Rock music is actually rooted in the rhythms of the black church". (Al Menconi, Staying in Tune, p. 49)

"Rock 'n' roll doesn't glorify God. You can't drink out of God's cup and the devil's cup at the same time. I was one of the pioneers of that music, one of the builders. I know what the blocks are made of because I built them." (The Dallas Morning News, Oct. 29, 1978, p. 14A)
"Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?"

HE DOES NOT.
In FACT, the devil does NOT even have ONE GOOD song. The Lord Jesus Christ has ALL the GOOD MUSIC (AND EVERYTHING ELSE GOOD)!

Woe unto them that call evil GOOD, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth GOOD fruit. Matthew 7:18

Every GOOD gift and every perfect gift is from ABOVE, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. James 1:17

Isn't it better for Christians to listen to Christian rock than Secular rock? The problem with this argument is that if young people do not listen to Christian Rock then they will automatically listen to secular rock. Assuming the ONLY choice young people have is rock music!

But there is more music than rock. . .

Why limit the choices to only rock?

I have three children, and they listen to music constantly. They love music. They sing and play musical instruments. And not one listens to rock music! And what's more they do not like rock music! And I know hundreds of young people who play and listen to music - and they hate rock music! And I know hundreds of people who previously listened to rock music, both Christian rock and secular rock, that now only listen to good Christian music. And they have no desire to listen to rock! Testimonies of young people and rock music. Not every young person listens to rock music - secular or Christian . The question itself, "Isn't it better for our young people to listen to Christian Rock than secular rock?", implies that something is "wrong" with Christian rock - just not as "wrong" as secular rock. . .

So we provide them the "lesser of two evils". It's the "same 'ol" philosophy of the world: We know young people are going to have sex;"Isn't it better for our

young people to know about and have access to condoms to protect them from AIDS?". Hey! I've get a great idea - why don't we teach them that sex before marriage is wrong - and AVOID it?
We know women are going to have abortions; "Isn't it better to make

abortions legal and provide "safe" abortions?" Hey! I've get a great idea -why don't we teach and show them what really happens during an abortion and provde adoption options?
And that "lesser of two evils" philosophy is completely contrary to the word of God:

"But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy." 1 Peter
1:15 -16 The God of the Bible, is a God of absolutes. He wants you "with" Him or "against" Him.

"He that is not with me is against me; . ." Matthew 12:30

God wants you "hot" or "cold". The Lord Jesus Christ makes this stern warning against "lesser of two evils" or "luke-warm" Christians in Revelation:

"I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." Revelation 3:15-16

What about soft-rock music like Steve Greene and Twila Paris? ROCK MUSIC IS WRONG.
There is NO way to make that which is wrong right. You can dilute it, you can disguise it and you can soften it up but it's still ROCK! Rock music is rock music! Whether it's soft, hard, metal, speed, Christian or grunge! Highly-respected, Professor Alan Bloom, professor of social thought at the University of Chicago, who has also taught at Yale, the University of Paris, the University of Toronto, Cornell and many other schools, writes in his best-selling book, The Closing of the American Mind: "But rock music has one appeal only, a barbaric appeal, to sexual desire not love, not eros, but sexual desire undeveloped and untutored." (Bloom, Alan, The Closing of the American Mind, Simon & Schuster, 1987 p.73) Robert Pattison, who is a lover of rock music, writes in his pro-rock book, The Triumph of Vulgarity: "Its admirers want to make rock appealing by making it respectable. The thing can't be done. Rock is appealing because it's vulgar, . . Rock is the quintessence of vulgarity. It's crude, loud, and tasteless." (Pattison, Robert, The Triumph of Vulgarity, 1987, preface, p.4) Secular rock bad girl Lita Ford, says: "Listen, rock'n roll AIN'T CHURCH. It's nasty business. You gotta be nasty too. If you're goody, goody, you can't sing or play it. . ." (Los Angeles Times, August 7, 1988)

According to the Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 7:18-19, "a corrupt tree [rock music] cannot bring forth good fruit". 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Matthew 7:18-19 The Bible clearly teaches we are to discern between holy [Christ] and unholy [rock music]. To "marry" holy Jesus Christ [Christian + Rock] with unholy rock music is obvious spiritual perversion. And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; Leviticus 10:10 Christian rock "profanes the Lord". Christian rock shows no difference between the holy and profane. And according to Ezekiel 22:26 this "profanes the Lord". Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. Ezekiel 22:26 The word of God declares, You cannot bring forth a clean [Christian] thing from an unclean [rock music]." Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. Job 14:4 What about a little, soft rock? According to God just a "little" will corrupt the "whole". ". . . Know ye not that a LITTLE leaven leaveneth the WHOLE lump?" 1 Corinthians 5:6

How can CCM "mention the Lord Jesus" and yet be wrong?

Many people have written, and truthfully asked:

"Yes, there are serious compromises in CCM. Yes, they do fellowship with worldly rockers. Yes, CCM has some spiritual problems but Ive seen them mention Jesus. Ive seen them give altar calls. Ive seen them do good. How is this possible if Satan is involved?" People believe that if Jesus Christ is mentioned or if the person professes to be a Christian then it must be ok! But that false ideal does not match the word of God. "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because MANY false prophets are gone out into the world." 1 John 4:1 But before we begin, let me establish a few basic Bible facts: 1. There is a real supernatural evil being call Satan. The name Satan occurs 56 times in the King James Bible.

2. Satan desires to be like God. Isaiah 14:13-14, refers to Satan, "For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

3. Satan desires worship. When Satan tempted Jesus Christ in Matthew 4: 9, he said, "And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me."

4. Satan is a deceiver. "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him." Rev. 12:9

5. Satan will try to counterfeit the things of God. Satan can appear as an "angel of light". "And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light." 2 Cor 11:14

6. Satan's message is not always evil or openly wrong. When Satan tempted Eve in the garden of Eden it wasn't openly evil or bad in fact it was GOOD and PLEASANT. "And when the woman saw that the tree was GOOD for food, and that it was PLEASANT to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat." Genesis 3:6

7. Satan's main goal is to get someone to disobey the word of God. If someone is not saved, Satan's goal is to keep that person from obeying the word of God for salvation. And if someone is saved, Satan's goal is to keep that person from obeying the word of God for service. Satan does NOT want you to do the will of God.

BUT. . . CCM's message is good. It is not bad or evil. Satan's message doesn't necessarily have to be "wrong" or "evil", in fact it can even appear "good" or "pleasant" as long as it keeps you from obeying the word of God. In Genesis chapter three, as Eve eyed the "forbidden" fruit, the Bible says: "And when the woman saw that the tree was GOOD for food, and that it was PLEASANT to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat." Genesis 3:6

According to Genesis 3:6, the "forbidden fruit" was "good", "pleasant" and "make one wise". What is wrong with that? It wasn't "satanic". It wasn't "evil". It was "good" and "pleasant". What is wrong with that? Simple. IT WAS AGAINST THE WORD OF GOD!
"And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." Genesis 2:16-17 That single, simple act of rebellion damned mankind! That innocent act of disobedience damned mankind! And yet it appeared "good" and "pleasant"! The ONLY problem was it was against the word of God!

Just because something isn't "evil" just because something isn't openly "satanic" does NOT mean Satan is not the author! And just because something appears "good" and just because something appears "right" does NOT mean it is RIGHT! Does it disobey the word of God? If it does no matter how it appears it is NOT the will of God!

God does NOT lie. God is NOT going to DISOBEY His own words. For if He did God would be a LIAR. And that is NOT possible. . . "In hope of eternal life, which God, THAT CANNOT LIE, promised before the world began;" Titus 1:2
Christian rock (CCM), as we have documented on this site over and over, blatantly, openly, and many times proudly disobeys the clear teaching of the word of God! BUT. . . Some CCM artists seem to genuinely "love" the Lord. But even "love" is NOT a guarantee against Satanic influence. Even though someone "loves" the Lord even though their motive is "love" for Jesus Christ they can still be "controlled" by Satan if they disobey the will of God! Find that hard to believe? Matthew 16:13-23 has an amazing dialogue, between Jesus, Peter and Satan: 13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? 14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. 15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not REVEALED IT unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. 18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and

whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 20 Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ. 21 From that time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. 22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. 23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. A few interesting things about Matthew 16:13-23: 1. In verse 17, Peter had a direct revelation from God " . . .for

flesh and blood hath not REVEALED it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven." Again, notice God "REVEALED" it unto Peter. I
doubt, few people ever received the "revelation" such as Peter received at that moment. And I'm sure very few people have ever been as close to the Lord Jesus Christ as Peter.

2. But look what happens in verse 23 just 6 verses later! "But he

turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan:. . ." Just
seven verses after God had "revealed" unto Peter Jesus addresses Peter as Satan! Satan had completely taken over Peter! What was coming out of the mouth of Peter was not the words from God or even Peter but straight from Satan!

3. Peter's message was NOT bad or evil. In fact, humanly speaking, it was good. It was postitve. But it was against the word of God and it's author was Satan!

4. But look at something else in Matthew 16: Peter's motive. As Jesus began in verse 21 to tell how He would be crucified, verse 22 reads, "Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it

far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee."

What was Peter's motive? It was his LOVE FOR THE LORD JESUS! He didn't want Jesus to be crucified! And even though Peter's motive was RIGHT when he got out of the will of God Satan COMPLETELY TOOK OVER! You can have the RIGHT motive, even love for the Lord Jesus Christ, and be completely WRONG and under control of Satan! Sincerity, love and motive is no substitute for obeying the WORD OF GOD! The Christian Rock stars may have the RIGHT motive, but only a carnal, backslidden, disobedient Christian could possibly think rock music was the direct will of God! The secular world knows the God of the Bible is NOT the "god of rock". The lost, secular world knows Satan is the "god of rock". Secular rock bad girl Lita Ford, says, "Listen, rockn roll AIN'T CHURCH.

Its nasty business. You gotta be nasty too. If youre goody, goody, you cant sing or play it. . ." (Los Angeles Times, August 7, 1988)
Even secular Time magazine, (March 11, 1985 p.60) in an article about Contemporary Christian Music titled the article, "New Lyrics for the DEVIL'S MUSIC". When rock music first appeared, even the secular world knew it was wrong. The very term "rock'n roll" means "sexual fornication". In The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (p.474) for the definition of "rock & roll" is "The term is a blues euphemism for sexual intercourse". Encyclopedia Britannica Yearbook for 1956 described rock' n roll as,

"insistent savagery . . . deliberately competing with the artistic ideals of the jungle."

BUT. . . Most CCM artists appear as Christians doing God's will. In 2 Corinthians 11:14-15:, the word of God reveals an alarming characteristic of Satan and his ministers: 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.(2 Corinthians 11:14-15) The Bible CLEARLY says in 2 Corinthians 11:14-15: 1) Satan can appear as an angel of light. 2) Satan's ministers can appear as the ministers of righteousness [Christians]. Could not Satan's musicians appear as "musicians of righteousness"? An interesting side note. . . Marilyn Manson is a very popular secular rock star. Manson is a devoted Satanist and an ordained reverend in the Church of Satan. During his concerts Manson rips up the Bible. When asked in Blast! Magazine (May 1996) "How would you like to be remembered?", Manson replied, "As the person who brought an end to the age of Christianity". What most people don't know is satanist Marilyn Manson also had a Christian rock band formed to "infiltrate Christian nightclubs". "Manson and Ramirez also worked on a couple of side projects. One was called Satan on Fire, a fake Christian death-metal band formed to infiltrate Christian nightclubs. . ." (Request, Jan. 1997, p.43) It's also very interesting that as a youngster Marilyn Manson attended Christian school while following Satanism.

Let me make something VERY clear. I do NOT believe most of the CCM artists are Satanists. I do NOT believe most of the CCM artists are willingly doing Satan's will. But as documented from quotes from many sources, I DO believe Satan is the author of Christian rock. I DO believe most of the CCM artists are unknowingly caring out Satan's plan. By the way, do you know who said the following?

"If we continue on this path, respectable, industrious and honest, if we fulfill our duty faithfully, it is my conviction, the Lord God will continually help us in the future. He will not leave respectable people in the lurch indefinitely. He may test them, but in the end He lets His sun shine upon them and gives them His blessing."
Billy Graham? Jack Van Impee? Billy Sunday? Dwight Moody? ADOLPH HITLER! Adolph Hitler also called his plan "Positive Christianity." Watch out for the

"positive" pushers!
Just because someone mentions the Lord or acts like a Christian, does not mean there are following the Lord Jesus Christ. The real test is are they following the word of God? Jesus Christ says in Matthew 7:15 warns of "false prophets, which appear to you in sheep's clothing [as a Christian] but inwardly are ravening wolves" BUT. . . Many CCM artists seem to genuinely worship the Lord. I've seen them in concerts mention Jesus Christ. I've seen them praise the Lord. Would Satan do that?

In Mark chapter 5, the Lord Jesus Christ has an interesting encounter with a man possessed with an unclean spirit. Verse 6, says, the unclean spirit "worshipped him". Verse 7 says, the unclean spirit, refers to the Lord Jesus, as "Jesus, thou Son of the most high God". 5:1 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. 2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, 3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: 4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. 6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and WORSHIPPED HIM, 7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. 8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. (Mark 5:1-8) According to Mark 5:1-8, the fact that someone mentions Jesus, or even "worships" Him, does NOT mean it is from the Holy Spirit but could actually be an "unclean spirit". BUT. . . Many CCM artists openly say Jesus is Lord. Isn't that enough to prove it's from God? Just because someone calls Jesus "Lord" does NOT mean they are a Christian. In Matthew chapter 7, there are MANY people who call Jesus, "Lord"; who " prophesied in thy name"; who "in thy name have cast out devils"; who "and in thy name done many wonderful works" and yet they were NEVER saved Jesus Christ NEVER knew them! Notice, not a "few", but verse 22, "MANY . . ." are doing this!

21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 MANY will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. (Matthew 7:21-23) You ask, "How do I know who is truly following the Lord Jesus?". Simple. Are they obeying the clear teachings of the word of God? BUT. . . Many CCM artists mention salvation. Would devils or evil spirits mention the name of Jesus or tell of His salvation? Yes. In Acts 16, an evil spirit follows Paul, and tells the truth: 17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which show unto us the way of salvation. 18 And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour. Acts 16:17-18 Even though the evil spirit was telling the truth, the apostle Paul would not honor her testimony. Why? Why didn't Paul say, "C'mon up hear sister, and give a word of testimony". Why? Because even though the message was RIGHT the medium that brought it was WRONG! And God would NOT honor it! The same with rock music. Either rock music is from God from day one. Or rock music is from Satan from day one and God will NOT honor it's message! I have NEVER heard a clear, old-fashion, Bible-based plan of salvation from a CCM artist. I have heard several "feel-good", watereddown, "make-a-decision" whatevers. I have NEVER heard a simple, You are

a sinnner; You're going to face judgement; You're going to spend eternity in a lake of fire without Jesus Christ; You can do nothing to save yourself; etc. from ANY CCM artists. CONCLUSION The purpose of this article is NOT to "judge" who is saved and who is not. We do not know. We do not even try to guess. Only God knows for sure who are truly born again. The purpose of this article is just because someone appears to be Christian just because the message appears to be Christian just because they appear to worship the Lord Jesus does NOT mean they are following the Lord Jesus Christ! "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because MANY false prophets are gone out into the world." 1 John 4:1 This article, our web site, our ministry has one MAIN purpose to get people back to the word of God the King James Bible. And that is your ONLY safe guide! There is only ONE source you can be 100%, absolutely sure of the word of God! You can NOT absolutely trust me. You can NOT absolutely trust CCM artists. You can NOT absolutely trust your church, your preacher, your spouse, your parents, your children, nor anybody! "God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; . . ." Romans 3:4 And you can NOT EVEN absolutely trust in your own heart! "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9 "He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: . . ." Proverbs 28:26 The ONLY absolute safe position is the word of God. And that should be the ONLY test for CCM or anything or anybody else!

It's It's It's It's It's It's It's It's

NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT

they seem to worship the Lord; they mention the name Jesus; they provide an alternative for worldly rock music; they have good, positive lyrics; I like it, or don't like it; I get a "blessing"; how much "fruit" you may see; what your church, preacher, friend says;

But does it AGREE with the word of God! If NOT it is NOT following the Lord Jesus Christ. "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" Amos 3:3 In Numbers 22, Balak the king of the Moabites calls Balaam, the prophet of God, to "curse" the children of Israel. And even though Balaam would not "curse" Israel, he taught Balac to "intermingle" and "fellowship" with Israel. "But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication." Revelation 2:14 Just as Balaam, CCM does NOT openly "curse" this generation. But I believe CCM is a modern-day Balaam, who "cast a stumblingblock before our children, to feed their minds with music sacrificed unto idols, and to commit spiritual fornication". Who has taught our children to "intermingle" and "fellowship" with the enemies of the Lord Jesus. And I believe the fruit of CCM is spiritual disaster! We have shown over and over on this web site (and other publications) that Christian Rock does NOT follow the word of God. And we have preached over and over on this web site (and every way we know how) for God's people to "search the scriptures". There is too much at stake to be naive or lazy! May the Lord help you to have the testimony of the Bereans in Acts 17:11:

". . . they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so". Acts 17:11 Our prayer is you will prayerfully, seriously and obediently "try" CCM with the word of God

The Word of God teaches that the wicked will one day be judged by their works . . .

Revelation 20:11-15, And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to

their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.
This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Rock "N' Roll is a work of the flesh, a work of darkness. Many people fail to recognize the demonic forces all around us in society today. Rock 'N' Roll is absolutely saturated in demonism, sexual immorality, rebellion and hatred

against God. There's a website online1 that actually sexually rates hundreds of Rock stars, like Steven Tyler and Gene Simmons, by the groupies (whores) that follow them from city to city for the sole purpose of fornicating with them. This is demonism. Pornography is demonism. Anything that influences people for Satan is demonism. So I don't look for demons and red-tailed devils, Satan comes to us the Bible says with false teachings, sensual entertainers and the counsel of the ungodly. The Rolling Stones are infamous for their allegiance to Satan as well. The song "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones, is the official anthem for the Church of Satan. In it, Lucifer speaks in the first person and asks sympathy for all who meet him. Lead singer, Mick Jagger claims that Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan and author of the Satanic Bible, helped inspire their music! Their album titled, "Their Satanic Majesties Request," leaves no doubt to their allegiance!

Rock "N' Roll music worships the perverted Pagan god, Pan, signified by the horned El Diablo hand sign. The significance of the goat (or the ram) representing Satan is in that they are a mockery of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ. Paul McCartney produced a solo album in 1971 called RAM. He is pictured fondling a RAM on his album cover? Why did Paul McCartney use a RAM on his album cover?

Paul McCartney's 1971 album cover, RAM Goat of Mendes -Origin of the Satanic Hand Sign?

Some witches today claim that the goat head is really supposed to be a ram's head (which originated with the ram-headed god of Ammon in ancient times). The photo to the right is Ammon, the Egyptian ram-god, also identified with the Greek god Zeus. A ram (a non-castrated adult male sheep), has CURVED horns (as in the center photo above); whereas, as goat has a beard and STRAIGHT horns (as in the left photo above). BOTH symbols are utilized in today's Satanism, occult, and witchcraft circles. The Church of Satan uses the goat's head on their main webpage. The pentagram image is inherent to BOTH the goat and the ram. Whether ram or goat, BOTH animals are used to depict the works of darkness. The Goat of Mendez is the god of the witches. (Mendez is another spelling of Mendes, a city of ancient Egypt where fertility worship - Baal worship was practiced). Masons admit readily that Baphomet is a pagan fertility god and, more importantly, that Freemasonry is a fertility cult religion. At any rate, this mockery of

Jesus is a satanic symbol and figures prominently in Satan worship. SOURCE: Kerr Cuhulain (Occult author, police investigator, and friend of witches) Notice below on Ozzy Osborne's album covers that he uses the RAM (curved horns). Do you really think it a coincidence the Paul McCartney placed a RAM on his album cover? Clearly, the music industry has an infatuation with Satanic symbolism.

Did you know that the RAM and the GOAT are synonymous with witchcraft and Satan worship? The Baphomet or Satanic pentagram is pointed downward to accommodate the outline of a goat's head.

Here are numerous quotes from the Rock 'N' Roll performers themselves, in which they openly admit that they are serving Satan . . . David Bowie in Rolling Stone magazine (Feb. 12, 1976), stunned the music world, when he stated: "Rock has always been THE DEVIL'S MUSIC . . . I believe rock and

roll is dangerous . . . I feel we're only heralding SOMETHING EVEN DARKER THAN OURSELVES." (Rolling Stone, Feb. 12, 1976)
In the song "The Conjuring" by Megadeth, the REAL mission of rock is clearly heard:

"I AM THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE A SALESMAN, if you will . . . Come join me in my INFERNAL DEPTHS . . . I've got your soul!" At the end of the song they chant "OBEY"!
Rocker Frank Zappa (who discovered the awful truth December 4, 1993 the second he died) proudly boasted:

"I'm the devil's advocate. We have our own worshippers who are called 'groupies.' Girls will give their bodies to musicians as you would give a sacrifice to a god." (Peters Brothers, What About Christian Rock, p. 17)
The super group, Metallica, in the song "Jump In the Fire", commands young people to jump into hell:

"Follow me now my child . . . DO JUST AS I SAY . . . Jump by your will or be taken by force I'll get you either way . . . So reach down grab my hand walk with me through the land COME HOME WHERE YOU BELONG So come on JUMP IN THE FIRE."
In the cover song, "The Prince", Metallica openly sing:

"Angel from below . . . I WISH TO SELL MY SOUL . . . DEVIL TAKE MY SOUL with diamonds you repay I don't care for heaven so don't you look for me to cry AND I WILL BURN IN HELL from the day I die."
Rock star, Marilyn Manson, proudly boasts:

"Hopefully, I'll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity." (Spin, August 1996, p. 34)

Manson, an ordained "reverend" in the Church of Satan, mutilates himself on stage (1 Kings 18:28), rips-up the Holy Bible, and spews "blasphemies" against the Lord Jesus Christ. Manson's T-Shirts declare,

"KILL YOUR PARENTS" and "I LOVE SATAN".

Manson claims his album Antichrist Superstar came via "supernaturalinspiration":

"I heard this album as finished, I heard it in dreams . . . It was like the revelations of John the Baptist or something." (huH, Oct. 1996, p.34)
Manson's "hope" for Antichrist Superstar,:

"I think every time people listen to this new album maybe God will be destroyed in their heads. . ." (huH, Oct. 1996, p.37)
Manson's "blasphemy" is not just an act. Manson readily admits there's more to the show than meets the eye:

"I don't know if anyone has really understood what we're trying to do. This isn't just about shock value . . . that's just there to lure the people in. Once we've got em we can give em our MESSAGE." (Hit Parader, Oct. 1996, p.28) "Music is the strongest form of magic." Marilyn Manson
Manson admits his childhood longing for Satan:

"My mom used to tell me when I was a kid, If you curse at nighttime, the devil's going to come to you when you're sleeping. I used to get excited because I really wanted it to happen . . . I wanted it. I wanted it more than anything . . ."(Rolling Stone, January, 23, 1997 p.52)

Carlos Santana admits to being controlled by demons, and having NO concern for morality or God: "The energy of devils and angels is the same energy; it's how you use it. It's fuel. There is a saying: If you scare all your devils away, the angels will go away with them. You know, the halo and the horns are the same thing. I mean it's OK to be spiritually horny - that's what creative genius is all about. Geniuses don't have time to think about how it's going to be received... they don't have time to think whether people like it or not, is it morally right, will God like it?" (Carlos Santana, Rolling Stone, magazine, March 16, 2000, p. 87). "...you meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: 'Write this down' " (Carlos Santana, Rolling Stone magazine, March 16, 2000, p. 41).

"Rock concerts are the churches of today." (Guitarist Craig Chaquico of the rock group 'Jefferson Starship.')
"Get them while they're young and bend their minds." (Spencer Dryden of the rock group 'Jefferson Starship.') Twisted Sister sings, "Burn in Hell":

"Welcome to the abandoned land COME ON IN CHILD, TAKE MY HAND Here there's no work or play Only one bill to pay There's just five words to say As you go down, down, down YOU'RE GONNA BURN IN HELL!"
Bon Jovi sings in "Homebound Train":

"When I was just a boy THE DEVIL TOOK MY HAND

Took me from my home He made me a man . . . I'm going DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN On the homebound train."
In Smash Hits magazine, Bon Jovi says: ". . . I'd kill my mother for rock and roll. I WOULD SELL MY SOUL."

One of the most popular groups in rock history is Slayer. Slayer sing of themselves, as:

"Warriors from the gates of hell . . . In lord Satan we trust."

Slayer's albums sell in the millions! And song after song IS PRAISE TO SATAN! Their song "Hell Awaits" says:

"Jesus knows your soul cannot be saved CRUCIFY THE SO CALLED LORD He soon shall fall to me Your souls are damned Your God has fell to slave for me eternally Hell awaits."
The beginning of their song "Hell Awaits" contains an obvious backwards message. When played forward, nothing but garbled noise is heard, but when played backwards you hear the real message "JOIN US, JOIN US, JOIN US" over and over!

The group Acheron, has an album titled, "The Rites of the Black Mass". On the album Peter Gilmore, of the Church of Satan, actually reads the rites of a Black Mass, as the group Acheron, in hellish growls, sings such lyrics as:

"Glory to thee almighty Satan . . . We praise thee, we bless thee, WE ADORE THEE . . .

THOU ART LORD, THOU ALONE, OH MIGHTY SATAN."

The group Manowar, sings in "The Bridge of Death":

"Dark Lord, I summon thee Demanding the sacred right to burn in hell . . . Take My lustful soul Drink my blood as I drink yours . . . LUCIFER IS KING PRAISE SATAN!"
The group Morbid Angel, sings in "Vengeance in Mine":

"Mote it be Satan's sword I have become . . . I burn with hate TO RID THE WORLD OF THE NAZARENE!"
And to commit the ultimate blasphemy they sing in the song "Blasphemy":

"Chant the blasphemy Mockery of the Messiah WE CURSE THE HOLY GHOST . . . Blaspheme the Ghost BLASPHEMY OF THE HOLY GHOST."
Trey Azagthoh of Morbid Angel claims to be a REAL vampire, and while playing onstage he actually bites himself and then drinks his own blood! One of the top songs of the 70's was Hotel California (1976) by the Eagles. Most people have no idea that the song refers to the Church of Satan, which happens to be located in a converted HOTEL on CALIFORNIA street! On the inside of the album cover, looking down on the festivities, is Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan in 1966 and author of the Satanic Bible in 1969!

People say, the Eagles aren't serious, they're just selling records. That's what you think! The Eagles' manager, Larry Salter, admitted in the Waco Tribune-Herald, (Feb. 28, 1982) that the Eagles were involved with the Church of Satan! Not surprisingly, one of the Eagles' songs is titled Have A Good Day in Hell.

The photo to the left above is Anton LaVey. Here are some of the demonic lyrics from the song, Hotel California... Mirrors on the ceiling, The pink champagne on ice And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device' And in the master's chambers, They gathered for the feast They stab it with their steely knives, But they just can't kill the beast Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door I had to find the passage back To the place I was before 'Relax,' said the night man, 'We are programmed to receive. You can check-out any time you like, But you can never leave!' I've heard some pretty lame explanations of what these lyrics mean. Anyone who is familiar with the Bible knows that the Beast is the coming Antichrist (Revelation 20:10). Witchcraft lyrics are deliberately written in short incomplete phrases, to convey ideas without detection. Elton John collaborated with Bernie Taupin, a witch, to incorporate witchcraft lyrics into all his earlier music (more Elton John).

Even The Beach Boys were admittedly practicing witchcraft and trying to create witchcraft music back in the 1960's. There is MUCH witchcraft lyrics in secular music, dark sayings, which convey unholy ideas into the listener's mind. Satan sells!!! Walt Disney's so-called wholesome 3 member boy band from New Jersey, The Jonas Brothers, sing praises to Satan when their song KIDS OF THE FUTURE is played backwards. Backward masking is a confirmed, proven, and very present danger in much Rock music. It was a technique introduced by Satanist Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), who often spoke BACKWARDS as part of Satan-worship. Doing things BACKWARDS is a common Satanic practice, taught by Satanist Aleister Crowley. Crowley gives instructions to the Satanist: ". . .train himself to think BACKWARDS by external means, as set forth here following. (a) Let him learn to write BACKWARDS. . . (b) Let him learn to walk BACKWARDS. . . (c) Let him. . . listen to phonograph records REVERSED (d) Let him practise speaking BACKWARDS. . . (e) Let him learn to read BACKWARDS. . ." SOURCE: Aleister Crowley, Magick In Theory And Practice One of the first signs of Satanic influence is things being done backwards! This explains why Contemporary Christian Music [CCM] singer Michael W. Smith has his name BACKWARDS on his album, THE BIG PICTURE. Michael W. Smith is of the Devil, appealing to all religious denominations because his lyrics are so lame, wishy-washy, and lacking any doctrinal integrity.

The group Kiss leaped on stage as Rock 'n Roll demons... puking blood, breathing fire and screaming... God of rock 'n roll, we'll steal your virgin soul. In their song God of Thunder, they command young people to kneel before Satan:

I'm lord of the wasteland, a modern day man of steel I gather darkness to please me and I COMMAND YOU TO KNEEL Before, The God of thunder, the god of rock 'n roll I'LL STEAL YOUR VIRGIN SOUL!
One of the most popular groups in rock is AC/DC. In the song, Hells Bells, they sing:

I got my bell I'm gonna take you to hell I'm gonna get Ya SATAN GET YA
Their song "Highway to Hell" they sing:

"Ain't nothing I would rather do GOIN' DOWN, PARTY TIME My friends are gonna be there too . . . Hey Satan, paid my dues . . . I'm on the way to the promised land I'm on the HIGHWAY TO HELL."
The group Suicidal Tendencies, whose songs glorify suicide and have been linked to teen suicides, reveal a frightening truth in the song "Possessed":

"I'M A PRISONER OF A DEMON . . . It stays with me wherever I go I can't break away from its hold

This must be my punishment FOR SELLING MY SOUL!"

Pink Floyd sings, in the song "Sheep",

"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want . . . With bright knives he RELEASETH MY SOUL He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places . . . For lo, he hath great power and GREAT HUNGER."
Their song, "Lucifer Sam", they sing: "LUCIFER Sam . . . Always sitting

by your side Always by your side."

The song "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones, is the official anthem for the Church of Satan. In it, Lucifer speaks in the first person and asks sympathy for all who meet him. Lead singer, Mick Jagger claims that Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan and author of the Satanic Bible, help inspire their music! Their album titled, "Their Satanic Majesties Request", leaves no doubt to their allegiance!

The group Venom reveal the real reason for their music, as they sing:

"We're not here to entertain you . . . I PREACH THE WAYS OF SATAN Answer to his calls!"
In their song "Possessed", they sing:

"I am possessed by all that is evil The death of your God, I demand . . . AND SIT AT LORD SATAN'S LEFT HAND!"

What do you think this music is doing? According to the book, Satanism in America, which is endorsed by the National Criminal Justice Task Force on Occult Related Ritualistic Crimes, hard-core Satanism is "the fastest-growing subculture among America's

TEENS."
Studies taken by the Georgia Police Academy revealed that 90% of those involved in Satanism are TEENAGERS! Television personality, Geraldo Rivera, who explored the terrifying rise of Satanism said, "It exists AND IT'S FLOURISHING. IT IS TEENAGERS who are most likely to fall under the spell of Satanism." How serious are they? At the 1992 MTV Awards, the group Red Hot Chili Peppers, upon receiving their award and giving thanks, said: "FIRST OF ALL we want to thank Satan . . ." As shocking and amazing as this all is, I still have web visitors write to me, attempting to defend Rock 'N' Roll music. Even professed Christians attempt to defend their so-called Christian Rock. It's the music itself as Michael Jackson admitted In the case of Michael Jackson's music, it is sensual and highly addictive to the flesh (i.e., body). Hard Rock is addictive to the nervous system and every Rock addict understands the urgent crave for Rock's thundering power chords, mastered by bands like AC/DC, Van Halen and Iron Maiden. Oh listen friend, Satan wants to sift you as wheat just as Jesus warned the Apostle Peter. Satan wants to kill, steal and destroy your life (John 10:10). And he will if you let him! People who listen to Rock 'N' Roll don't even realize that they're being influenced by the music. Where did America's culture of sexual immorality come from? It came from Rock 'N' Roll. As a consequence of such unholy, reckless and irresponsibly living which Rock

music produces, abortion has become commonplace. Proper courtship is a thing of the past. Fornication, nudity and lewd behavior are prevalent in America! Carlos Santana has his own personal demonic god, Metatron. Here is a disturbing excerpt from Rolling Stone magazine... "Metatron is an angel. Santana has been in regular contact with him since 1994. Carlos will sit here facing the wall, the candles lit. He has a yellow legal pad at one side, ready for the communications that will come. 'It's kind of like a fax machine,' he says." SOURCE: Cover Story: The Epic Life of Carlos Santana: Santana :

Rolling Stone (March 16, 2000)

By his own words, Santana admits to having communications with a demon named Metatron. This is unbelievable! The more I research the history of rock-n-roll, the more I am shocked as to just how Satanic the whole industry is. Few people would think of the Beach Boys as being involved with witchcraft, but as you will learn in this article, they certainly were:

"We were doing witchcraft, trying to make witchcraft music." Brian Wilson quoted in Nick Kent's The Dark Stuff (pg.27.) THE BEATLES are the top selling band in history, selling over 170 million
albums.[1] The cover of Sgt. Pepper's (pictured below) showed the Beatles with a background of, according to Ringo Starr, people "we like and admire" (Hit Parade, Oct. 1976, p.14). Paul McCartney said of Sgt. Pepper's cover, ". . . we were going to have photos on the wall of all our HEROES . . ." (Musician, Special Collectors Edition, - Beatles and Rolling Stones, 1988, p.12). One of the Beatle's heroes included on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's wasthe infamous Satanist, Aleister Crowley! Most people, especially in 1967, did not even know who Crowley wasbut the Beatles certainly did.

Sgt. Pepper... ". . . we were going to have photos on the wall of all our HEROES . . ."

"Hero" Aleister Crowley is second from left on the top row:

The cover of the Sergeant Pepper's album by the Beatles showed a background of, according to Ringo Starr, people "we like and admire" (Hit

Parade, Oct. 1976, p.14). Paul McCartney said of Sgt. Pepper's cover, ".
. . we were going to have photos on the wall of all our HEROES . . . " (Musician, Special Collectors Edition, - Beatles and Rolling Stones, 1988, p.12). One of the Beatle's heroes included on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's was the infamous Satanist, Aleister Crowley! Most people, especially in 1967, did not even know who Crowley was but the Beatles certainly did. Crowleys photo appeared on the Beatles Sgt. Pepper album cover (upper left hand corner). The Beatles testified that the characters who appeared on the album were their heroes. Adolph Hitler was to be on the album but Lennon took it off at the last minute. John Lennon explained to Playboy magazine that the whole Beatle idea was to do what you want do what thou wilst, as long as it doesnt hurt somebody (Lennon, cited by David Sheff, The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, p. 61). This was precisely what Crowley taught. Other people who embraced the teachings of Crowley: Ozzy Osbourne called Crowley a phenomenon of his time (Circus, Aug. 26, 1980, p. 26). Ozzy even had a song called Mr. Crowley. You fooled all the people with magic/ You waited on Satan's call / Mr. Crowley, won't you ride my white horse On the back cover of the Doors 13 album, Jim Morrison and the other members of the Doors are shown posing with a bust of Aleister Crowley. David Bowie referred to Crowley in his song Quicksand from the album The Man Who Sold the World. Graham Bond thought he was Crowleys illegitimate son and recorded albums of satanic rituals with his band Holy Magick. Iron Maiden lead singer Bruce Dickinson said: weve referred to things like the tarot and ideas of people like Aleister Crowley (Circus, Aug. 31, 1984). Their song The Number of the Beast said, 666, the number of the beast/ 666, the one for you and me. Crowley was called the Beast.

Daryl Hall of the rock duo Hall and Oates admits that he follows Crowley. I became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century British magician who shared those beliefs. I was fascinated by him because his personality was the late-nineteenth-century equivalent of minea person brought up in a conventionally religious family who did everything he could to outrage the people around him as well as himself (Rock Lives: Profiles and Interviews, p. 584). Hall owns a signed and numbered copy of Crowleys The Book of Thoth (about an Egyptian god). Sting, formerly of the Police, has spent many hours studying Crowleys writings. Stiv Bators, lead singer for The Dead Boys and Lords of the New Church, had a song titled Do What Thou Wilt/ This Is the Law, after the philosophy of Satanist Aleister Crowley. In another song Bators sang: I heard the Devil curse/ I recognized my name. LSD guru Timothy Leary was a Crowley enthusiast. He said: Ive been an admirer of Aleister Crowley. I think that Im carrying on much of the work that he started over a hundred years ago He was in favor of finding yourself, and Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law under love. It was a very powerful statement. Im sorry he isnt around now to appreciate the glories he started The Marilyn Manson song Misery Machine contains the lyrics, Were gonna ride to the abbey of Thelema. The Abbey of Thelema was the temple of Satanist Aleister Crowley. If ever there was a God-hating degenerate, it was Aleister Crowley ... Crowley was the one who initially coined the term "New age" in his book "The Book of the Law. The Dixie Chicks are a country music trio from the United States comprising Emily Robison, Martie Maguire and Natalie Maines. They are the highest-selling female band in any musical genre, having sold 36 million albums as of June 2006.[1]

The photo to the left above the trio bursting from a zipper is from the liner notes to their 1999 Fly CD. This clearly reveals the apostate condition of America today, and why immorality, feminism, and divorce are skyrocketing.

The Rock 'N' Roll band, THE KILLERS, features a ram on their album cover with a nude woman. The Rock-N-Roll industry is absolutely saturated with Satanism and the occult. And the biggest common denominator is sexual sins. Did you ever notice that Wiccan witches never expose Satanism, and Satanists never expose the New Age movement, and New Agers never expose the occult? The reason why is all too obvious, they're all working for the same masterSATAN!

Above: The 2006 album cover Sam's Town from the new wave band, KILLERS. I put some clothes on the immodestly dressed woman.

What many people don't realize is that Elton John's music is saturated with witchcraft language. Many of Elton John's top songs weren't written by himself; BUT, rather, by his long-time music partner and lyricist, Bernie Taupin. Not surprisingly, in 1991, Bernie Taupin self-published a book of poems called The Devil at High Noon. Like so many artists who have sold their souls for rock and roll, Elton John has been immersed in Satanism. In fact, Bernie Taupin who has lived with Elton John and wrote most of his lyrics, stated that Elton Johns home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft (US, July 22, 1980, p. 42). Taupin like Elton John, with whom he collaborates, is also into Satanism. Taupin admits that he decorates his walls with satanic art and has further declared that, the occult fascinates me (People, June 23, 1980). Many artists like Elton John and Bernie Taupin recognize the Devil's hand in their success and realize that their fans do not have a clue that much of their inspiration is the result of demonic beings that use them as puppets to deceive the public. Elton John has admitted that he is deceiving his fans, Its all a big con, and adds, But as long as the public laps it up, Im quite happy to go on giving it to them. (Rolling Stone, July

15, 1976, p. 30).

Like all those who rebel against a relationship with the Lord, Elton John lives a lifestyle that is doomed and headed toward destruction. John has stated, In most artist theres a self destructive streak. Drugs, sex

and doomed liaisons were my form of destruction. Besides his sexually perverse lifestyle Elton John has been known for his temper tantrums and deep depression. Elton John has had multiple sex partners, I would walk into a club a see someone I hadnt even met and I would already have them on the conveyor belt, declared John, Theyd come out with a Vercase shirt and a Cartier watch at the other end.

After all of Johns worldly success he has not found the true happiness that can only be found through a relationship with the Savior Jesus Christ. John has stated, One thing that depresses me is that there are so many successful people that are [expletive) miserable with it. Elton John has sought to fill the depressed, Christless void in his heart to no avail with sexual perversion and materialism. I havent met anybody Id like to settle down withof either sex, says John. Johns sexually perverse influence on the masses is taught by example, through songs as well as in interviews. He has stated: Theres nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. I just think people should be very free with sexThey should draw the line at goats (Rolling Stone, October 7, 1976, p.

17).
Freddie Mercury (real name Frederick Farookh Bulsara), lead singer of the legendary rock band Queen, died of AIDS at only 45 years of age on November 24th, 1991. How tragic! It was alleged that Freddie Mercury had homosexual lovers all around the world. One simply go no further than a simple web search to discover that Mercury was openly bisexual. It is not surprising that Mr. Bulsara died because of AIDS. Queen's music is idolized today by the homosexual community, with such hits as "Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy."

Freddie Mercury spent weeks planning his own funeral, but failed to prepare his soul to meet God. The Word of God plainly teaches that ONLY through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can anyone go to Heaven. Freddie Mercury placed in faith in false religion, Zoroastrianism, and NOT upon Jesus Christ. Tragically, George Harrison rejected the Word of God and Jesus Christ. Harrison's 1971 song MY SWEET LORD, is a song of praise to the Hindu god, Krishna. In fact, Harrison admits that he did that to trick people. In his 1982 interview with the Hare Krishna organization he stated... "I wanted to show that Hallelujah and Hare

Krishna are quite the same thing. I did the

voices singing 'Hallelujah' and then the change to 'Hare Krishna' so that people would be chanting the maha-mantra-before they knew what was going on! I had been chanting Hare Krishna for a long time, and this song was a simple idea of how to do a Western pop equivalent of a mantra which repeats over and over again the holy names. I don't feel guilty or bad about it; in fact it saved many a heroin addict's life." [emphasis added] SOURCE: George Harrison Interview: Hare Krishna Mantra--There's

Nothing Higher (1982)

People who would normally be offended by someone praising "Hare Krishna my sweet Lord," were caught off guard by the way the song was arranged. The listener would follow along with the words "Hallelujah, my sweet Lord" several times before it subtly changed to "Hare Krishna, my sweet Lord." By that time the listener had already been mesmerized by the music and the song. George Harrison was an imposter who rejected Jesus Christ, and is burning in the fires of Hell today because of his sin of

unbelief. I say this with sadness. 2nd Peter 3:9 declares that "God is not willing for any to perish" in their sins. Sadly, at the young age of only 33, AC/DC's lead singer Bon Scott (pictured far right), "drank himself to death," according to the official coroner's report... Bon Scott recorded six studio albums with AC/DC, beginning with 1974's "High Voltage." It was shortly after the release of the somewhat foreshadowing sixth album, 1979's "Highway to Hell," that Scott died (February 19, 1980). In keeping with his rowdy persona, the official coroner's report stated that Scott had drank himself to death. "Highway to Hell" sold over a million copies during its initial run (it has sold seven million to date) and climbed to place at No. 17 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart. SOURCE: Bon Scott, Legendary

AC/DC Lead Singer, Would Have Been 62 Today - Associated Content

Scott epitomized the role of a Godhating rebel who abused drugs and indulged in sinful living. His death is just one of hundreds in the Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Shame. Scott was found dead in his car after an indulgent binge left his body lifeless and his soul at the reality of the "Highway to Hell" which Bon Scott recorded just months prior to his tragic death. Scott had been taking medication for liver damage prior to his death.1

Photo to right: A scene from Katy Perry's lesbian video, "I Kissed A Girl." Katy Perry (born Katheryn Hudson in October 25, 1984) is an American singerwriter, actress, homosexual advocate, and fool. She is most notable for her singles, "UR So Gay" (released in 2007), and "I Kissed a Girl" (which was released in 2008 by Capitol Records). She recently has gained more recognition as Madonna mentioned Perry's song "UR So Gay" on 104.7 KISS FM's John Jay and Rich Morning Show in Phoenix, Arizona, stating that "UR So Gay" was her "favorite song right now." Katy Perry actually released a Gospel album back in 2001, under the name Katy Hudson. Now she's promoting lesbianism. Certainly, Katy Perry is not honoring her parents as the Bible commands, when she sings songs promoting lesbianism. Is this honoring to Jesus Christ? Homosexuality is an abomination to God (i.e., a disgusting sin). Kate Perry is a friend of the sinful world... "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the

friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God."

Kurt Cobain was a devout Satan-worshipper and enemy of God. Cobain, like other Satanists, enjoyed desecrating churches. Cobain, with his bass player Chris Novoselic, spray-painted GOD IS GAY on a church building (Christopher Sandford, Kurt Cobain, Carroll & Graff Publishers, Inc., New York, 1997, pp. 57, 165). Cobain, according to Rolling Stone, would also spray-paint HOMOSEXUAL SEX RULES on a bank. Rolling Stone further reported that other favorite graffiti included GOD IS GAY and ABORT CHRIST (Rolling Stone, Inside the Heart & Mind of Nirvana, by Michael Azerrad, April 16, 1992). Beyond spray-painting blasphemous statements about God on a church, Cobain would take song lyrics he was dissatisfied with and set

them on fire and leave [them] burning on the porch of the Open Bible Church (op. cit. Cobain, Sandford, p.68).

Led Zeppelin is Satanic to the core. In the song Houses of the Holy, Robert Plant (lead singer) speaks of Satan's daughter and making her garden grow (a sexual reference). The album cover displays naked women crawling towards the top of the temple. Led Zeppelin also introduced personal occult symbols on one of their albums. Guitarist Jimmy Page of Zeppelin is a devout follower of Satanist, Aleister Crowley, who proclaimed himself as The Beast 666. Aleister Crowley was also a 33rd and 97th Degree Freemason and is recognized as the master Satanist of the 20th century. In 1971, guitarist Jimmy Page bought Crowleys Boleskine House on the shore of Loch Ness where Crowley practiced his Hellish, Satanic sex-magick rituals, including human sacrifices. Guitarist Jimmy Page actually performed Crowley magical rituals during their concerts. Page had inscribed in the vinyl of their album Led Zeppelin III, Crowley's famous Do what thou wilt. So mete it Be. Page and Robert Plant claim some of Zeppelins' songs came via occultic automatic handwriting, including their popular Stairway to Heaven. There is no doubt to the occult influence of Led Zeppelin. For a very through, extensively documented history of Zeppelins occult inspiration read the 648 page book titled, Fallen Angel: The Untold Story of Jimmy Page and Led

Zeppelin by Thomas Friend.

America is saturated with psychics, palm readers, tarots, fortune tellers, sorcerers, ghost hunters, necromancers, astrologers, spiritualists, witches, Satanists, sances, and every other form of occult demonism imaginable. These all have familiar spirits (i.e., spirits that are not the Holy Spirit of God). As further evidence of the wickedness and apostasy of our day, a worldwide sance was held in April of 2006 to summons late Beatle's member, John Lennon, from the dead. John Lennon, in his book, A Spaniard in the Works, portrays Jesus Christ as, "Jesus El Pifico, a garlic-eating, stinking little yellow, greasy fascist bastard catholic Spaniard" (A Spaniard in the Works, p.14). Rock stars are ministers of Satan, who lead young people into a lifestyle of immoral sex, substance abuse, and rebellion. Our young people's idols are perverted Rock 'N' Roll singers, like Madonna, who not only blasphemes Jesus Christ in her book, SEX, but also portrays herself as receiving oral sex from a dog. Is this your child's hero? Madonna is sinfully idolized by millions of American teenage girls. In her song, BEAUTIFUL STRANGER, Madonna openly worships Satan. Madonna has led millions of innocent girls into a lifestyle of sexual immorality and rebellion against the God of the Bible. If there's one person in this world who is far from being a virgin, it is Madonna. Music is a powerful spiritual medium through which Satan influences people.

"Music is the strongest form of magic." Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson (real name: Brian Warner) is an official high-priest in the Church of Satan. Manson has openly mutilated himself on stage, ripped up holy Bibles, and spewed out blasphemies against the Lord Jesus Christ. Marilyn Manson, on his album Holywood, displays a picture of a rotting man on a cross. If ever a man was demon possessed, it is Brian Warner. Mr. Warner has understandably received much flak from the Columbine Shootings. Although the parents are ultimately to blame for the Columbine shootings, Warner is unrealistic to wonder why parents blame him when he goes around singing about murdering people. No responsible parent would allow their child to come and go as they please, listen to Satanists like Marilyn Manson and do as they wish. Teenagers need rules and restrictions to know they are loved and cared about (Proverb 29:15). Trust is not a right, it's something that must be earned. Parents need to know where their child is at and what they're doing as much as possible. Here's Marilyn Manson's ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR album, where the band members are drinking his urine through tubes connected to his crotch. This is sold in all the music stores. Yet, Michael Marcavage was arrested and found guilty in court for preaching against abortion at the Liberty Bell. Welcome to America!

Marilyn Manson's ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR Madman Marilyn Manson is a disgrace to America, and a major threat to every family. Manson's music is not art, and it's certainly not any recognizable form of legitimate music. It is trash, sewage oozing from the sewer, where Manson's type live. Manson brags that he is going to Hell in his music, and that is tragic! The question is: Are you going to follow him?

Michael Jackson in 1972

Michael Jackson in 2002

Michael Jackson lived for the Devil, using his God-given talent to glorify sinful living, which he indulged in himself until it killed him.

In 2006, Neko Case, on her album Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, in the song, HOLD ON! HOLD ON!, she states... Now it's the Devil I love. Her band's name, The New Pornographers, speaks for itself. Rock 'N' Roll music is a religion of sexual immorality. Neko Case is a sexual degenerate herself... "Not too long ago, Neko Case wrote an article for Girlyhead magazine about dreaming. In it, she describes her favorite dream, where her, Steve Earle, and Madonna were all playing a show in Vancouver. After the show, all three of them have a 'sex sandwich.' And the tryst ends with Madonna remarking to Neko, 'Your hair looks like a wig.' This is Neko Cases world. Its perfect, really." SOURCE Yet, hypocritically, Neko Case sings This Little Light Of Mine on her "The Tigers Have Spoken" album. In the song she sings, Jesus gave me light,

I'm going to let it shine... You've got to be kidding? When asked in a Playboy interview if she would pose naked for Playboy, Neko Case said...
Well, of course I would consider it! But I certainly need time to think about it. It would be a lot of fun...2 Is this how you're letting your light shine for Jesus Ms. Case, by telling others that it would be FUN to strip naked for millions of men to commit adultery with you? Jesus said in Matthew 5:28, ...whosoever looketh

on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Neko Case is an imposter, posing as a Christian;
but she is a child of the Devil. Why would you even speak of doing such an evil thing as posing in a pornographic magazine Ms. Case? I mean, you can't sing about letting Jesus' light shine in one breath, and then say in an interview that it would be fun to pose in a lewd Playboy magazine. You can't sing about loving the Devil and then expect people to understand what you MEANT, when it's not what you SAID. Who's kidding who?

Photo to Right: The original 1973 album cover of the Rolling Stones album titled, Goat's Head Soup. The goat and ram head are greatly revered in Satanism and witchcraft. Few people realize (or care to realize) that the Rolling Stones are of the Devil. Rock-n-roll music is absolutely saturated with Satanism and the occult. The song "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones, is the official anthem for the Church of Satan. There is a preponderance of blasphemy in the Rock 'N' Roll culture against Jesus, the Bible and everything that is good and holy. Infamous Satanist and frontman for BLACK SABBATH, Ronnie James Dio, perished in his

sins without Jesus Christ on May 16, 2010 in Switzerland. His real name was Ronald James Padavona (1942-2010). He died at age 67 of stomach cancer. Dio is infamous for his 1975 hit song, MAN ON THE SILVER MOUNTAIN, which mocked the authority of God. Dio popularized the Devil horned hand-sign which is seen everywhere today by followers of the Devil. The hand sign represents a goat or ram, which are a mockery of the Lamb of God.

Photo to left: Wiccan witch coven high-priestess, Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, as a student. She and Jim Morrison are infamous for their Rock band, THE DOORS. She grew up in the same Town of Babylon that the famous Amityville horror house is in. Wicca is a demonic religion that denies that Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God (1st John 2:22). Wicca does not take into account the term sin. This is also true of modern psychology. Instead, Wiccans believe in a sort of Karma, i.e., that one's actions will come back sevenfold in a next life; but Wiccans deny the Biblical teaching of SIN. The Bible teaches that mankind has broken GOD'S LAWS. That's what sin is, the violating of God's holy Law! Without the knowledge of sin there can be no salvation, for what need is there for a Savior if we are not hell-deserving sinners? Wiccan witches deny the existence of a Devil, or Satan. The person of Satan comes right out of the pages of God's Word. Since Wiccans do not believe the Bible, they do not believe in Satan. Instead, Wiccans recognize Pagan gods such as Pan, the world's most notorious sexual predator (who undeniably represents Satan in Satanism and the occult). This is where the image of the Devil having horns atop his head came from, Pan. Witches have their pick of hundreds of Pagan gods to choose from to worship, including Pan.5

Wicca is distinctively different, and yet inseparably associated with the occult and Satanism. They all have several things in commonincluding permissive sexual immorality, New Age philosophies, an admiration and respect for Aleister Crowley, tolerance of other religions, ritualized worship and the utilization of Pentagrams. From a Biblical perspective, there's not a dime's difference between these groups, they all serve one masterSatan. Wiccans get upset when Christians accuse them of worshipping Satan, but 2nd Corinthians 11:14 tells us the truth, Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Biblically, Satan appears in deceptive forms to people, so that they will follow him instead of Jesus Christ. At the website, http://www.wicca-spirituality.com/divine-lightinvocation.html, witches are taught to invoke the light of the divine. This light that witches, occultists and Freemasons pursue is Lucifer, the god of light. Albert Pike (1809-1892), considered by many to be the most influential figure in Freemasonry history. Albert Pike divulged the true demonic nature of Freemasonry in his writings . . .

The Masonic religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine. . . Yes, Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonay (Jesus) is also God. For the eternal law is that there is no light without shade, no beauty without ugliness, no white without black, for the absolute can only exist as two Gods: darkness being necessary to light to serve as its foil as the pedestal is necessary to the statue, and the brake to the locomotive. . ."The doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophic religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay (Jesus); but Lucifer, God of Light and God of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of darkness and evil."
SOURCE: A.C. De La Rive, La Femme et l'enfant dans la Franc-

Maconnerie Universelle, p. 588; Lady Queenborough, Occult Theocracy pp. 220-221.

The light which occultists, spiritists, psychics, witches, New Agers and Freemasons seek is Lucifer; and not the true Light of God's Word and Jesus Christ. Witchcraft is of the Devil. Harry Potter has caused a massive

interest in witchcraft around the world, and sadly, many teenagers are becoming witches.7 Patricia Kennealy-Morrison's (now age 63) is still a practicing highpriestess witch, what she prefers to call a Celtic Pagan.8 Her childhood home was right between the Amityville Horror House and Ray Buckland's Coven. It was the first modern Witch's Coven outside of England. The Village of Amityville is located in the Town of Babylon, and there was a claim she had precognition which is the ability to foretell the future. She was an early Wiccan and also lived near Ray Buckland who started modern Wicca in America and created the country's first Coven. Jim Morrison met Patricia Kennealy in January 1969, at the Plaza Hotel in

New York City. A tall, attractive redhead, Patricia was then the editor of Jazz & Pop, an influential rock trade magazine. In June 1970, Jim and Patricia were married in a Celtic Pagan handfasting ceremony (this info is straight from Patricia herself, this event has been disputed by others who knew Jim). SOURCE
Patricia Kennealy married Jim Morrison in a witch hand-fasting ceremony. In the witch marriage ceremony blood was spilled and a knife was used. Mrs. Morrison said, there were ceremonial cuts upon himself in the handfasting (Page 383, Strange Days). In this pagan, some say demonic, ceremony they used a dagger to cut themselves. In Mrs. Morrison's words, I make two tiny cuts on the inside of my left wrist, carefully over the bone; we don't want to slice any arteries here, and blood wells up immediately (Page 172). Her and Jim Morrison then mix their blood (Page173). She is most well known for her portrayal in the movie The Doors by Oliver Stone where she is portrayed, in the word of Patricia KennealyMorrison herself... they cut each other's wrists and drink some blood and its what real witches do (Page 379, Strange Days). She furthermore said that there was an accusation that she killed Jim by witchcraft in Morrison biographies (Page 403, Strange Days). In the movie she said to Jim Morrison, F**k Me, Rock God! In an Interview with Raymond H. Thompson in 1988, Kennealy states..

In one of my former lives I probably was an ancient Celt, but I think I would vastly prefer being a future Kelt. One can have it both ways: battles with swords on the one hand, computers, air-conditioning, and all the comforts of home on the other. SOURCE

It's not just the Rock music industry, but also the entire music industry. The powers that be have Willie Nelson promoting homosexuality and Dolly Parton singing Led Zeppelin's demonic STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN and Johnny Cash singing Satanist Glen Danzig's demonic song, THIRTEEN.
The group Danzig, led by Glenn Danzig, is one of the most openly Satanic bands in rock. Glenn Danzig, spewing his hatred for the Lord Jesus Christ, proudly designed a logo for the band a demon strangling Jesus Christ with blood gushing from Jesus' eyes!

One of Danzig's song is Serpent Jesus, Snakes of Christ. On the inside of their album, Danzig II - Lucifuge, Glenn Danzig is wearing the demonic upside-down cross, with the words of John 8:44 brazenly above him, Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. One of Danzig's other logos is a Satanic Pentagram. Why would Johnny Cash, a man known for singing Gospel music, lower himself to such a wicked level, selling his soul, to the level of a blasphemer? The industry is saturated with Satanism. I'll tell you why? 1st Timothy 6:10 tells us why... For the love of money is the root of all evil.

Venom in "Possessed Look at me, Satan's child, Born of evil thus defiled, Brought to life through

satanic birth, Raised in hell, to live on earth. . . I am possessed by all that is evil/The death of your God, I demand . . . AND SIT AT LORD SATAN'S LEFT HAND!" AC/DC In "Hells Bells" "my lightnings' flashin across the sky, you're only young but you're gonna die, I won't take no prisoners, won't spare no lives/ nobody's puttin up a fight/ I got my bell/ I'm gonna take you to hell/ I'm gonna get ya/SATAN GET YA" Black Sabbath in N.I.B. (Nativity In Black) "Some people say MY LOVE cannot be true/ please believe me, MY LOVE, and I'll show you/ I will give you those things you thought unreal . . . YOUR LOVE FOR ME has just got to be real . . . our love grows stronger now with every hour, Look into my eyes, you'll see who I am/ MY NAME IS LUCIFER, PLEASE TAKE MY HAND!" Black Sabbath in "Who are You?" (During Ozzys years) . . . You think all the people who worship you are blind. . . Giving us your trust And when you have played enough You'll just cast our souls Into the dust. . . In the name of hell Who are you? Kat in Satan Says "Hi, boys and girls!/ We're going to play a game called Satan says! Now listen to me! You know how to play Satan says, don't you? We're going to do everything that Satan says, Right?? If we don't, well, . . . We don't want to find out what will happen, Do we? . . Satan says, Follow me!/ SATAN SAYS, GO TO HELL!"

The Eagles in Hotel California "And in the master's chambers, They are gathered for the feast, They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast." (Inside the album, looking down on the festivities, is Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan and author of the Satanic Bible! Megadeth in The Conjuring the REAL mission of rock is clearly heard: "I AM THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE/ A SALESMAN, if you will . . .Come join me in my INFERNAL DEPTHS!" (At the end of the song ~ they chant "OBEY") Metallica in Jump In the Fire "Follow me now my child . . . DO JUST AS I SAY. . . Now it is time for your fate and I won't hesitate, to pull you down into this pit . . . So come. Iron Maiden in The Clairvoyant I wonder why, I wonder how That it seems that the powers getting stronger Every day I feel a strength, an inner fire But Im scared I wont be able to control it anymore Pink Floyd in "Sheep" "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want . . . With bright knives he RELEASETH MY SOUL/ He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places . . . For lo, he hath great power and GREAT HUNGER." AC/DC In "Highway to Hell" "Ain't nothing I would rather do/ GOIN' DOWN, PARTY TIME/ My friends are gonna be there too . . . Hey Satan, paid my dues . . . I'm on the way to the promised land/ I'm on the HIGHWAY TO HELL." Motley Crue in Wild Side "I carry my crucifix, under my deathlist/ forward my mail to me in hell . . .

OUR FATHER, WHO AIN'T IN HEAVEN/ Be thy name on the wild side." Bow Wow Wow in Prince of Darkness "So open the door and LET SATAN IN, The Prince of Darkness." Kiss In God of Thunder "I'm lord of the wasteland, a modern day man of steel/ I gather darkness to please me/ and I COMMAND YOU TO KNEEL/ Before The/ God of thunder, and rock 'n roll/ The spell you're under/ Gonna rob you of your virgin soul!" Manowar in "The Bridge of Death": "Dark Lord, I summon thee demanding the sacred right to burn in hell . . . take My lustful soul Drink my blood as I drink yours . . . LUCIFER IS KING PRAISE SATAN!" Bon Jovi in Homebound Train "When I was just a boy/ THE DEVIL TOOK MY HAND/ Took me from my home/ He made me a man . . . I'm going DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN/ On the homebound train." Twisted Sister in Burn in Hell "Welcome to the abandoned land/ COME ON IN CHILD, TAKE MY HAND/ Here there's no work or play/ Only one bill to pay/ There's just five words to say/ As you go down, down, down/ YOU'RE GONNA BURN IN HELL!" Metallica in "The Prince" "Angel from below . . . I WISH TO SELL MY SOUL . . . DEVIL TAKE MY SOUL/with diamonds you repay/ I don't care for heaven/ so don't you look for me to cry/ AND I WILL BURN IN HELL Acheron's song 666 from Hail Victory Feel a surge pierce your soul, Try and grasp what Christ stole

Take the mark from styx [styx is the river of hell] The symbol is six, six, six. W.A.S.P. (We Are Sex Perverts) "Sleeping in the Fire": "Taste the love, the Lucifer's magic that makes you numb/ You feel what it does and you're drunk on love/ you're sleeping in the fire!" Exodus A Lesson In Violence If You Got Something To Say Then Come My Way I'm Guarded By Satan I'm Riding On Baphomet I'll Teach You A Lesson In Violence You Won't Soon Forget

In 1973 the famous Rock band, The Who, produced a song titled Water written by Pete Townshend... The foreman over there hates the gang, The poor people on the farms get it so rough, Truck drivers drive like the devil, The policemen they're acting so tough. They need water, Good water, They need water, And I'm sure there isn't one of us here Who'd say no to somebody's daughter. No, no, no, no, no. Who'd say no to somebody's daughter? This is further evidence of the sexual immorality which Rock music promotes. Not surprisingly, Townshend was arrested decades later in 2003 by Scotland yard police for possession of over 7,000 indecent images of children on multiple computers in his home. Facing decades in prison, Townshend must have had some friends in high places who pulled some strings, because he was

released on probation and the matter covered-up. Townshend claims he was doing research. There's a man, Morton Berger, rotting in prison in Arizona for 200 years. His sole crime was downloading 35 indecent pictures of children and bestiality (he was charged for downloading 20 photos, which each carried a sentence of 10 years in prison). The case went before the U.S. Supreme Court as cruel and unusual punishment (a violation of the 8th Amendment). The Supreme Court upheld the lower court's ruling. Townshend had 7,000 images on his computers according to the police in London. Rock music is synonymous with sexual immorality! In 1989 Townshend announces in an interview that he is a bisexual. Townshend has stated that he is sexually attracted to Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones.

The occult has also played a major part in the life and music of heavy metal super group Led Zeppelin. In 1974 they founded their own record company, Swan Song. Its first British release was the Pretty Thing's Silk Torpedo. According to Zeppelin chronicler Steven Davis The album was launched at a blasphemous Halloween party at the Chiselhurst caves. Naked women lined the recesses of the caves and reclined before altars in the style of a black mass. Strippers dressed as nuns doffed their black habits. (Hammer of the Gods, (William Morrow and Company, 1985), Stephen Davis, p.246)

Photo to right: Latin Rock star, Belinda Beli. Notice the illuminati single eye, which is VERY common throughout the entertainment and business world today. The gesture shows allegiance to the New World Order. Occultists love symbolism.

Pink Floyd sings, in the song "Sheep," "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want . . . With bright knives he RELEASETH MY SOUL/ He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places . . . For lo, he hath great power and GREAT HUNGER." Their song, "Lucifer Sam," they sing: "LUCIFER Sam . . . Always sitting by your side/ Always by your side." The group Manowar, sings in "The Bridge of Death": "Dark Lord, I summon thee/ demanding the sacred right to burn in hell . . . take My lustful soul/ Drink my blood as I drink yours . . . LUCIFER IS KING/ PRAISE SATAN!" The group Suicidal Tendencies, whose songs glorify suicide and have been linked to teen suicides, reveal a frightening truth in the song "Possessed": "I'M A PRISONER OF A DEMON . . . It stays with me

wherever I go/ I can't break away from its hold/ This must be my punishment/ FOR SELLING MY SOUL!" Motley Crue sings in "Wild Side": "I carry my crucifix, under my deathlist . . . Forward my mail to me in hell . . . OUR FATHER, WHO AIN'T IN HEAVEN . . . Be thy name on the wild side." The group Coven, sings in "Burn the Cross": "Son of God repent your sins/ And pledge your soul to hell/ Pray that Satan will forgive/ Once your God has failed . . . YOUR GOD IS DEAD and now you die/ SATAN RULES AT LAST!" To show their burning hatred of Jesus Christ, and blaspheme His death on the cross, they sing "Christsycle": "If you're looking for a Saviour/ Then I've got the trick/ Christsycle/ SALVATION ON A STICK." The group Acheron, has an album titled, "The Rites of the Black Mass". On the album Peter Gilmore, of the Church of Satan, actually reads the rites of a Black Mass, as the group Acheron, in hellish growls, sings such lyrics as: "Glory to thee almighty Satan . . . We praise thee, we bless thee, WE ADORE THEE . . . THOU ART LORD, THOU ALONE, OH MIGHTY SATAN." Bon Jovi sings in "Homebound Train": "When I was just a boy/ THE DEVIL TOOK MY HAND/ Took me from my home/ He made me a man . . . I'm going DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN/ On the homebound train." In Smash Hits magazine, Bon Jovi says, " . . . I'd kill my mother for rock and roll. I WOULD SELL MY SOUL." The group Morbid Angel, sings in "Vengeance in Mine": "Mote it be Satan's sword I have become . . . I burn with hate TO RID THE WORLD OF THE NAZARENE!" And to commit the ultimate blasphemy they sing in the song "Blasphemy": "Chant the blasphemy Mockery of the Messiah WE CURSE THE HOLY GHOST . . . Blaspheme the Ghost. BLASPHEMY OF THE HOLY GHOST." The group Black Sabbath have actually given invitations during their concerts for young people to receive Satan. One of their albums, is truthfully titled, "We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n Roll." Their song N.I.B. (Nativity In Black) is one of the most openly satanic songs ever recorded. It is a love-song from Lucifer, in which Lucifer invites the listener to "please

take my hand", the lyrics: "Some people say MY LOVE cannot be true/ please believe me, MY LOVE, and I'll show you/ I will give you those things you thought unreal . . . YOUR LOVE FOR ME has just got to be real . . . Look into my eyes, you will see who I am/ MY NAME IS LUCIFER, PLEASE TAKE MY HAND!"

America Is Being Destroyed

Most people don't realize just how powerful music is and the Communist agenda behind the music industry. The Beatles were deliberately brought to America to morally subvert our culture, changing the values of our youth. Hindsight is 20/20. It is clear today, a half century later, that Rock music has been used to CHANGE American society from one of character, faith in God, loyalty to country, respect for authority, marriage, children obeying parents and individuality; to a decadent culture of sexual perversion, abortion, substance abuse, lack of character, divorce, broken homes, homosexuality and despising dominion (authority). Music is one of Satan's most effective evil weapons, next to wicked television and the evil newsmedia...

Contemporary composers of rock music all agree that their creations have immense power (The majority of facts and references quoted, have been drawn from the book The Facts on Rock Music, John Ankenberg and John Weldon, Harvest House Publishers, Eugene, Oregon USA 1992). For example, Frank Zappa wrote in Life magazine: "The ways in which sound affects the human organism are myriad and subtle... the loud sounds and bright lights of today are tremendous indoctrination tools" (Life magazine, June 28, 1968). Slash, the lead guitarist of the Guns n' Roses declares, "I mean, this is serious. It's my music affecting the lives of people you don't even know, which is definitely a scary thing. To have that much power" (Eric Holmberg, The Hell's

Bells Study Guide, Gainesville, Fl Reel to Reel, 1990). One of the

first distributors of rock music, Hal Ziegler wrote in the 50's "I realize that this music got through to the youngsters because the big beat matched the great rhythms of the human body. I knew it and I knew there was nothing that anyone could do to knock that out of them. I further knew that they would carry this with them the rest of their lives" (Life magazine, June 28, 1968). SOURCE: The Mentally Deranging Power Of Rock-And-Roll Music has been used to lower America's moral standards, desensitizing our nation's youth to embrace all forms of sexual immorality, substance abuse and rebellion.

Heavy Metal Rock Bands All Work To Destroy America

ALL heavy metal bands, albums and songs promote a centralized them of destruction, murder, blood and guts, suicide, insanity, death and ruin!!! It's all about destruction!!! The number thirteen (13) is worshipped by these bands, which represents death and destruction. I heard Dave Mustaine, founder and frontman of MEGADETH on July 26, 2001, claim that Jesus Christ has been his Lord and Savior. I have serious doubts of Mustang's salvation because he is still 100% involved with hardcore, heavy-metal music industry (which is saturated with satanism)... 1st John 3:8-9, He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. This passage of Scripture is referring to a lifestyle of sin. Every Christian commits sins, as evidenced by the Apostle Paul's struggle with sin (Romans 7:14-25). Albeit, there's something very wrong with a person who professes to be a Christian, but they boast of being a lesbian or of

being a hardcore rock star. They're not in Jesus Christ. No one who defends their sins is saved.

America Must Be Destroyed, Says Rock Band GWAR. One thing I learned a long time ago is that Rock 'N' Roll singers are filthy liars. Take for example Dave Mustang of MEGADETH, who professes to have become a born-again Christian around the year 2002. In 2012 Mustang released the album THI3RT3EN, which he says is purely coincidental mentioning the number 13, saying he just likes the number. Anyone familiar with the occult fully knows that the number 13 is revered amongst heavy metalists. The number 13 represents death, war and destruction. That's what Heavy Metal Rock all about, that is, the total destruction of the United States of America. That's why Heavy Metal themes frequently center around suicide, murder, destruction, blood sacrifices and Satan.

"Gwar is a satirical heavy metal/punkrock band formed in Richmond, Virginia, United States, in 1984. The band is well known for its elaborate science fiction/horror film inspired costumes, obscene lyrics and graphic stage performances, which feature humorous enactments of politically and morally taboo themes." SOURCE: Gwar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The sicko Rock band GWAR has sold over 30,000,000 albums in the United States. The band produced an album called, America Must Be Destroyed! The band LIES about the intent of their title and makes the following lame and bizarre excuse... "The lyrical content in America Must Be Destroyed was greatly inspired by Dave Brockies fight with police officers while touring in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1992. The controversy revolved around Brockies rubbery penis adornment. Brockie was revolted by this attack on his rights and so he created a concept album revolving around an elite Morality Squad that attacked the members of Gwar and stole Oderuss penile attachment

(a.k.a. Cuttlefish of Cthulu, a phallic hell beast that normally dangles from his crotch)." SOURCE: Gwar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The truth is that singers very often LIE through their teeth about the true satanic, destructive, immoral intents of their music to counter criticism from parental advocacy groups wanting to protect their children from the sicko music industry. It's not just the music industry; but rather, the entire sick-minded entertainment industry, which is more than a hefty multibillion dollar-a-year industry. Styx's music contained backward masking and faithful Christians exposed them back in the 1980's. Styx responded by going public with what they couldn't hide anymore, that is, that their music contained subliminal messages cleverly hidden from the listener. The human brain is incredibly powerful and can interpret backwards messages subliminally without the conscious mind detecting it. ... In describing what a Van Halen concert is like, David Lee Roth commented, "I'm gonna abandon my spirit to them [emotions], which is actually what I attempt to do. You work yourself up into that state and you fall in supplication of the demon gods" (Rock, April 1984). Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones has remarked, "There is no such thing as a secure, family-oriented rock and roll song" (same journal p. 5). Jon of Bon Jovi observed, "I wanted to rebel against anything and everything, and it happened that I was able to do it by playing rock and roll in a band" (Metal Edge, Aug. 1987, p. 12). John Cougar reveals, "I swear or cuss because I know that it's not socially acceptable. I hate things that are 'this is the way you are supposed to behave.' That is why I hate schools, governments, and churches" (In Tinglehoff Documentation of Expose, p. 6). SOURCE: I Sold My Soul To Rock & Roll & Mind Control

THE JONAS BROTHERS included backward masking in their song, KIDS OF THE FUTURE which says I speak for Satan, Satan, Satan. My sweet forsaken Satan, Satan!!! The big question is why? The obvious answer is that some evil people are trying to trick your mind, inserting thoughts into your brain that you (under normal circumstances) would likely never approve of.

"For Marilyn Manson fans and people who are affected a lot by this music, the idea of somebody like Satan doesn't necessarily

represent evil..." -Marilyn Manson (Source -interview, Ozzy Meets Marilyn Manson, 1997)

"KILL YOUR PARENTS" and "I LOVE SATAN"

Signs of Satan!

This is an album cover by the rock band Dio. The album is called Holy Diver. Dio's singer is former Black Sabbath frontman Ronnie James. The Satan character is clearly displaying the same hand signal.

ONE OF THE devil's key stratagems in turning America against God was to get to the Mother Country first, and then employ her in our demise. An applicable cultural trait of the last days is "without natural affection" (2nd Timothy 3:3). Can anyone calculate the degree of permanent damage inflicted upon the

morals of my generation by Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Mick Jagger and other satanic participants of the so-called "British Invasion"? (The same would apply to later waves led by the likes of Sir Elton John, etc.)
SOURCE: How Satan Turned America Against God; by Dr. William P.

Grady; pg. 415; 2005; ISBN: 0-9628809-3-0

Jesus never taught anybody to have a singing ministry, nor does the Bible anywhere teach it. Ephesians 5:19 speaks of singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. This does not mean that recorded music is wrong; but something is VERY, and obviously WRONG, when professed Christians claim to love God, while SELLING their music, making much more money than they donate, and everything is FOR SALE. Jesus never sold anything, nor did John the Baptist, nor the early church. But today's apostates want to make money from everything they do, exploiting the name of Jesus to make a buck. Who's kidding who? You cannot serve money and God (Matthew 6:24). It's one or the other!

You cannot make God cool, hip, and acceptable to the world. Pastor Danny Castle

"Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream." Amos 5:23,24

The Beach Boys and Satan

Compiled and edited by David J. Stewart

This is unbelievable! The more I research the history of rock-n-roll, the more I am shocked as to just how Satanic the whole industry is. Few people would think of the Beach Boys as being involved with witchcraft, but as you will learn in this article, they certainly were: "We were doing witchcraft, trying to make witchcraft music." Brian

Wilson quoted in Nick Kent's The Dark Stuff (pg.27.)

In an interview, Backtalk with Brain Wilson, Beach Boy's band member, Brain Wilson states... "Well, spirituality amounts to love with me. I consider it the same as love. And my band members are full of love."

"Music that is Godlike and loving gets through. I dont have any power in this world, but I have spiritual power. I think God gave me my music and my talent. Im trying to get across a feeling of spirituality; I think I have a spiritual influence on people." (emphasis added) Love? Band members suing each other, drunkenness, drug abuse, sex orgies, witchcraft? You call this "love" Mr. Wilson? There can be no true love apart from the eternal Word of God (1st John 3:16). Then there's Brian Wilson's song, God Only Knows. Although the song didn't become popular at the time, it has become an icon of the Beach Boys. The song is extremely popular nowadays and is cherished worldwide. The only problem is that Brian Wilson isn't sure there is a God. When asked by interviewer, Andrew Schwartz, "Are you thinking about God these days?", Wilson replied: "I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips." SOURCE,

INTERVIEW: Backtalk with Brian Wilson

I find it utterly disturbing that any individual could sing about a God he's not sure exists. To make matters even more freakish, Wilson states... "...I've gone beyond him (Phil Spector) now. I'm doing the spiritual sound, a white spiritual sound. Religious music ... That's the whole movement. That's where I'm going. It's going to scare a lot of people ... That's where I'm going and it's going to scare a lot of people when I get there." Brian Wilson quoted in Jules Siegel's article, Goodbye Surfing Hello

God!
Here's a guy who wants to produce religious music; but isn't sure if God exists. Interestingly, Brian Wilson in the quote above speaks of a "white spiritual sound"; which is a deviation from his "dark stuff" mentioned in the quote below. But, ironically, Wilson is still unsure of God's existence. I want you to notice carefully here that you can sing witchcraft or religious music, and still be totally void and ignorant of God and His Word. Wilson hasn't

found God, he's found religion; and religion is the most godless thing on the planet. You need Jesus Christ Mr. Wilson; not religion. "We were doing witchcraft, trying to make witchcraft music." Brian

Wilson quoted in Nick Kent's The Dark Stuff (pg.27.)

Everyone reading this article needs to be warned about the evil music of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. Obviously, Wilson is NOT a born again Christian; but, rather, is a child of Satan (Ephesians 2:2). It is frightening when people, who don't even know if God exists, write "spiritual" music for the masses to listen to. Brian Wilson is of the world, and the world receives their own (John 15:19). Wilson is the enemy of God (James 4:4).

Spiritual Music or Witchcraft?

As quoted above, Wilson states... "Music that is Godlike and loving gets through. I dont have any power in this world, but I have spiritual power. I think God gave me my music and my talent. Im trying to get across a feeling of spirituality; I think I have a spiritual influence on people." (emphasis added) I have to agree with Mr. Wilson that he does have "spiritual INFLUENCE" over people, but it is certainly not for God. God may have given you the talent Brian, but you are using it for Satan's purposes. Godlike? What is "Godlike" about "California girls" or "Little Deuce coupe" or the professed "witchcraft" Wilson admitted integrating in their unreleased 1967 album, SMiLE? Concerning the album SMiLE, WIKIPEDIA states... "Smile, which for many years was perhaps the most famous unreleased rock and roll album of all time (sometimes spelled with the idiosyncratic partial capitalization SMiLE, derived from the lettering on the original cover), was intended by its creator Brian Wilson as the follow up to The Beach Boys' influential 1966 album Pet Sounds, but was never completed in its original form. In an event unique in popular music history, the project was resurrected in 2003 and a newly recorded version was released by Beach Boys composer and leader Wilson in 2004. During the 37 years since its cancellation, Smile acquired a considerable mystique, and bootlegged tracks from the never-completed album circulated widely among Beach

Boys collectors. Many of the tracks that were originally recorded for Smile were eventually placed on subsequent albums." -SOURCE SMiLE was the result of Wilson's LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) ,"acid," drug highs. Interestingly, the modern word for "Pharmaceutical" comes from the same Old Testament Hebrew word "sorcery." Drugs have been used by the Devil's crowd for thousands of years as a medium for demonic influence. It is common for people who have taken LSD to claim experiences with demons. Lest anyone should mistake Brian Wilson's selfproclaimed "spiritual" music as "Godlike," consider the following statements from Wilson himself... "We were doing witchcraft, trying to make witchcraft music." Brian Wilson quoted in Nick Kent's The Dark Stuff (pg.27.) "About a year ago I had what I consider a very religious experience. I took LSD, a full dose of LSD, and later, another time, I took a smaller dose. And I learned a lot of things, like patience, understanding. I can't teach you, or tell you, what I learned from taking it. But I consider it a very religious experience." Brian Wilson, Look! Listen! Vibrate! SMiLE!, (pg.167.) "We smoked pot and hash when originally creating those songs [in the late 1960s]. It helped us get into the songs." Brian Wilson
Brian Wilson and his music are of the Devil. The "witchcraft" quote (from the 70's) is

often downplayed by Beach Boys aficionados. The original interviewer (Nick Kent); however, seems to stick by the words he first transcribed. Kent most recently used them in a 2004 magazine article. And when the quote was brought up again in 2005, by TV's Charlie Rose, it prompted an awkward response by interviewees Brian Wilson and David Leaf, neither of whom questioned the quote's authenticity. Brian Wilson has given interviews in which he has noted that through his music he has spiritual power in the world. And it seems that with SMiLE Brian was going all the way and exercising his spiritual powers to their fullest. The "witchcraft" quote makes it clear that SMiLE was meant to be more than simply a musical recording. And the idea of a record album embedded with some kind of unknown mystical power, and the potential of such power, might tend to scare some people. It might even scare the album's

creator (i.e.-the "Fire" tapes incident is an example of the creator being scared by his music's mystical power).

Brian Wilson's Hero: Phil Spector

Concerning Phil Spector, Brian Wilson states...

"Hes been the number one influence on me musically." SOURCE,

INTERVIEW: Backtalk with Brian Wilson

Who is Phil Spector? According to CrimeLibrary.com (Notorious

Murders/Celebrity Crimes) in an article titled I'M TOO EVIL, we

read... "Throughout his career, Spector embraced his public image as a 'mad genius,' but a more sinister image began to emerge as his preeminence as a hitmaker was challenged. Stories of his eccentricities found their way to the press, painting a picture of a demented recluse haunting his California castle. Jeffrey Ressner in Time Europe reported that Spector 'took to running around his hilltop mansion in a Batman costume.' Spector allegedly kept a "glass coffin in his basement" and swore that if his wife 'Ronnie ever left him, he would kill her and display her body like Snow White's.' In Mark Ribowsky's biography of Spector, songwriter Doc Pomus said that Spector would typically change his clothes four times a day and 'each time he'd have a different gun to match the outfit.' Four weeks after Lana Clarkson's death, Spector told the London Daily Telegraph, 'I take medication for schizophrenia, but I wouldn't say I'm schizophrenic. I have a bipolar personality, I'm my own worst enemy. I have devils inside that fight me.' " (emphasis added) "In a 2000 interview, Vanity Fair asked Phil Spector what his greatest fear was. 'That God won't let me into heaven because I'm too evil,' he said, 'and that the Devil won't let me into hell because he's afraid that I'll take over.'

Perhaps the most condemning charges came from Spector's two adopted sons, Donte and Gary Spector, who revealed horrors from the childhoods to the Mail in December 2003. 'For years, we were just caged animals to be let out for Dad's amusement,' Donte Spector said. Their father's abusive behavior toward them increased after his divorce from Ronnie Spector. Donte claimed that as a child, 'he was forced to perform simulated intercourse with his father's girlfriend.' At the age of 9, he was blindfolded and handcuffed 'for her amusement.' Gary Spector said that he was also blindfolded and sexually molested, told by his father that it would be a 'learning experience.' The brothers concurred that they were held prisoner on Spector's estate where the windows in the house were secured with bars and barbed wire. 'We were locked in our separate rooms by our governess, let out for breakfast, then taken to school by guards,' Gary said." (emphasis added) Would you credit such a demented person as Phil Spector, who openly admits to being EVIL, as being your main musical influence? Your hero? Phil Spector is undoubtedly a demon possessed man. This fact, in combination with Wilson's confessions to employing witchcraft into his music, and the heavy use of psychedelic drugs to create his "spiritual" and "Godlike" music, are clear indications that Brian Wilson is controlled by Satan. Ephesians 2:2 states, "Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience." That "spirit" is Satan. The Word of God teaches that Satan works "spiritually" through the unsaved people of this world; and ironically, they often don't even realize it. Brian Wilson knows what he is doing, for he admitted so when he spoke of trying to create "witchcraft music," and also by deliberately going for psychedelic rides on LSD. Satan is so deceitful that he has convinced an older, and supposedly wiser, Brian Wilson, that his music is of God; but, it surely is not. Brian Wilson's music may be of the god of this world, Satan (2nd Corinthians 4:4); but it is not of the Lord Jesus Christ, the God and Creator of the Universe. The Beach Boys used to sing their music at the "Whiskey-A-Go-Go" on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood years back. This was also a favorite place of the vile

rock-n-roll band, Van Halen. Is this a "Godlike" establishment? There is nothing even remotely "Godlike" about Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, or their worldly music. Now in the final phase of Wilson's life, he says he wants to sing "religious" music; but he's still not sure if there is a God. Talk about messed up! Brian Wilson can still come to Christ to be saved; but it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle Jesus said, than for a rich man to be saved. Truly, many people will one day burn in the Lake of Fire because of this world's wealth that prevented them from humbly coming to Christ for forgiveness and salvation. "Ye must be born again" Jesus proclaimed in John 3:3. This can only happen through the blood of Jesus Christ, which He shed for our sins.

The Beach Boys and Satanism

In 1966, the Beach Boys came out with their album, Pet Sounds (album cover pictured to the right). Please notice the goats which they are feeding. This is no coincidence, the goat represents Satan... "The horned and hoofed Greek goat-god, Pan, is one of the most important entities of Witchcraft. Thor, the Norse god, was worshiped before the other gods of Valhalla. Some say he existed as early as the stone-age. Thor drove a great chariot, pulled by two giant, powerful goats. They symbolized thunder and lightning. Medieval legends say that the Devil created the goat. Satan himself often appeared with goat's horns, and sometimes changed his shape completely into a goat."

-SOURCE (Encyclopedia Mythica)

Clearly, Satan is the spiritual power behind ALL rock music, including socalled "Christian rock." There is nothing even remotely "Christian" about rock-n-roll music. Rock-n-roll is a religion of immoral sex, drug abuse, and demonic powers summonsed through the music itself. Brian Wilson even admitted that he was trying to create "witchcraft music." The music of the Beach Boys may seem harmless, but it is as demonic as all rock-n-roll music. One of the greatest dangers is that young people idolize rock band members and want to become like them (following in the steps of their mentors).

Confession of a catholic priest experience of rock music as a teenager

by Fr. Paul O'Callaghan The subject of rock n roll has been controversial and a source of conflict between parents and children ever since it first appeared on the scene in the mid 1950s. When Elvis Presley performed on the Ed Sullivan Show for the first time in 1956, the cameras only showed him from the waist up, because adults were offended by the way he shook his hips. The kids loved it! When the Beatles arrived in the mid 1960s, parents were shocked again this time by the mop-top haircuts. But young people were swept away by the infectious enthusiasm of their music. After the Beatles, more shocks were in store as groups like the Rolling Stones and the Animals popularized a more coarse, gritty, and vulgar style of blues-influenced rock. Still later, the psychedelic explosion brought new controversy to the world of rock. Bands such as the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead openly lived a hippie lifestyle and freely admitted to the use of drugs like marijuana and LSD. This was a new source of alarm for parents as young people adopted hippie ways and the abuse of drugs became epidemic. In the twenty years that have followed, rock n rollers have continued to try to keep the shock waves coming with the violent aggressiveness of heavy metal rock, the open rebellion of punk rock, and music advocating sexual promiscuity, homosexuality, drug abuse, and finally, Satanism, the worship of the devil. However, one thing has changed over the 30+ years of rock history. People arent shocked much anymore. Parents arent alarmed much anymore. Rock n rollers are still putting in a mighty effort to keep the shocks coming, but the fact is that rock has become accepted in our society. Rock music that I would have considered radical when I was a teenager is now commonly heard on commercials. Even an old rocker like Eric Clapton, who spearheaded the group Cream in the 60s, is shown playing live on a beer commercial on T.V. Many parents are now content to keep their kids quiet by letting them stay glued to MTV at home.

The question for us is, how should we, as Orthodox Christians, and especially, as Orthodox parents, approach the subject of rock n roll? Should we be in a continual state of alarm? Should we, as some preachers and churches do, condemn rock as evil, forbid our children to listen to any of it, and burn the records or tapes we might have? Or should we simply accept rock? Should we just figure our children are good Orthodox young people and music cant have any bad effect on them? How about none of the above for an answer? Before we get into this, let me point out one thing. It is nearly impossible to generalize about rock n roll. If someone says rock is this, someone else can always show an exception, and say, no, rock is that! So I cannot give you a lot of easy absolutes about rock. I can only indicate general trends in rock music. But my observations do come from 25 years of watching the rock scene. So Im not just shooting from the hip on the subject like some preachers do, which unfortunately only encourages rock enthusiasts to casually dismiss their criticisms. So how do we approach rock? If we can just use one word, that word should be honestly. We must be honest and unprejudiced as we attempt to analyze it. Viewing rock honestly means, first of all, that we can say there is some good in rock music. The person who cares to listen closely to rock can find examples of deep human sensitivity, elevated poetry, valid social criticism, inspired performing, and expert musicianship. And all of these are things that an Orthodox Christian can and should appreciate. But more than this, occasionally in rock music, we find themes that are genuinely biblical and Christian. When I was a teenager, a group called the Quicksilver Messenger Service did a song called Pride of Man about Gods judgment on sinful human pride full of material from the Bible. More recently, a group called Mister Mister did a song called Kyrie Eleison right out of the Liturgy. Other groups like The Call, U2, and several others have distinctly Christian and Biblical themes to much of their music. Several groups have even done modern renditions of old hymns. So there are things in rock music that even the strictest of us can appreciate.

But while there is some good in rock music, there is much evil. (However, most rock music falls somewhere in between. It is not completely good or totally evil. Like most of life, it contains some of each). And just as we can enjoy the good, we must recognize and reject evil. I would list some of the wrongs in rock under the following categories: 1. Sex and Lust While male-female attraction has always been a part of music, art, and literature, and rightly so, because it is a normal and healthy part of life, much rock music serves to celebrate the most crude forms of lust: casual and promiscuous sex, the use of women purely as sex objects, bisexuality and homosexuality. For example, a video by the group Motley Crue called Girls, Girls, Girls, takes you into one striptease bar after another. A popular song from a year or two ago called Sugar Walls is about a woman inviting a man to experience the pleasure of her sexual organs. A song on the charts just recently stated the message pretty bluntly: I Want Your Sex was the title of it. In addition to these there are many more with a much more subtle message that is basically the same. This is the greatest moral failing of much rock music: It celebrates, not the marriage that God has called pure, but the most crude forms of lust. This fascination with crude and debased sexuality is why (I think) we see so much androgyny or sexual confusion, among rock stars. Many male rock personalities, following the early lead of the Rolling Stones Mick Jagger, deliberately put forth a sexual image that confuses male and female elements. They wear makeup, style their hair in a feminine way and adopt many of the other trappings of female sexuality. Of course, this is appropriate for much of the rock world, which seeks to cultivate an atmosphere of unbridled lust where all normal standards and distinctions disappear. 2. Rebellion Rebellion has been one of the key themes of rock since the very beginning. Since rock is basically music for teenagers, rock n rollers have seized on and exploited the natural rebelliousness of teens with much success. Rock has attacked parents, school, society, Church, and even God Himself anything that would be an impediment to a completely uninhibited pursuit of pleasure. I was one who went through a decidedly rebellious stage during my teen years. Many years later, I was talking to one of my fellow rebels about

what motivated us to rebel. Looking back at it, it seemed that we had very little reason. He then made a remark that illuminated the question. Although hes not what I would call a practicing Christian, he said, You know how people are always saying that rock music is an instrument of the devil. I really think that it was the music that made us rebel. The more I thought about it, the more sense this suggestion made. After all, when I was young, one of my favorite songs was called Its My Life and Ill Do What I Want! Not a message that would encourage you to cooperate very much with parents or school! 3. Violence and Aggression A third danger in much rock music is its appeal to violence and aggression. You can see this if youve ever taken the time to watch much MTV. After the preoccupation with sex and lust, violent and aggressive behavior is its most outstanding characteristic. Theres a simple reason for this: Most rock is not intellectual or spiritual music; its meant to connect directly with the most base and low levels of the unconscious mind. So-called heavy metal rock is a good example of this. This music is the loudest, most abrasive, most violent and aggressive form of rock music. Who does it appeal to? Mostly boys aged 13-18. Why does it appeal to them? Because it connects directly with the chaotic and aggressive forces in their minds. This is an example of why youll notice a sudden and intense interest in music in most kids today at about age 13 just about the age of puberty. Rock music connects immediately and directly with what they feel inside, but in a way that bypasses their mind and understanding. All they know is that its just perfect its just what they always wanted without being aware of it. And in the case of young boys, its because it seizes on and gives form and substance to all that stuff in their unconscious minds particularly their violent and aggressive tendencies. 4. Immediate gratification A last feature of rock that probably includes the other three is the emphasis on immediate gratification. I wont say much about this other than the fact that most rock does not appeal to people to deny themselves and struggle to gain the true blessings of life; rather, it preaches and practices immediate gratification and excitement here and now forget about tomorrow. (This is why drugs have been so

right at home in the rock scene). Needless to say, this appeals to many teenagers, but it is a totally disastrous attitude both spiritually and in terms of maturity. Now, finally before I finish, I want to take a couple of minutes to discuss the role of Satanism in rock music. Interest in Satan, black magic, and things of that sort first started developing among rock musicians in the late 1960s when drug experimentation began to get serious among them. Their interest in the altered states of mind brought about by drugs soon led some to a fascination with the supernatural, the mysterious, and the bizarre. You may remember that the Beatles became disciples of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi soon after their period of drug experimentation began. Not long afterward, the Rolling Stones produced an album entitled At Their Satanic Majesties Request; their involvement with black magic and Satanism during this period has been documented. Later, some of the heavy metal groups began adopting much of the trappings, symbolism and rhetoric of Satanism. As far as I can tell, their motivation was basically the same rock desire for shock value, plus a desire to associate themselves with a symbol of the mysterious, the awesome and the powerful. So why not use the premier symbol of unbridled lust, rebellion, violence and aggression, and immediate gratification? Who better than Satan himself to fit the role? Some rock musicians have no doubt actually practiced Satan worship, but as far as I know, theyre in the minority. The majority of those whove adopted the Satanic imagery have done so out of sensationalism and the desire to clothe themselves with this image of evil. But in doing so, these musicians have been primarily responsible for the dramatic rise in Satanic practices among young people today. Its interesting to note that recent resurgence in Satanic worship and activity has almost directly followed the introduction of MTV showing these various heavy metal groups with all their Satanic symbolism. The Satanic activity of the late 1960s had almost totally fizzled out until MTV came along. The sad thing is, a lot of young people have been led into insanity and demon-possession by these practices, to say nothing of the rumors of

child sacrifice and other horrible practices that we hear about. (And think about this: if your kids are in high school, they probably know someone whos engaged in Satanism of some kind. It has become rampant). So what are parents to do? I think it is our serious responsibility to pay close attention to what our kids are listening to to look at the albums and tapes they bring home. Look for the signs Ive listed listen to the words for inappropriate sexual content, rebellion, violence or aggression and especially anything that smacks of the Satanic. If theres a problem in any of these areas, then that music doesnt belong in your home and neither you nor your kids should be listening to it. (One point in our favor, though, is that most kids really pay little attention to the words in the music they listen to). However, we should still be concerned, although it would be a mistake to throw all rock music out because some is bad. As parents, most of us try to give our children the best we can to prepare them for success in this life. How much more important it is to care for the salvation of their souls, that they become devoted lovers of Christ. We cannot allow rock music or anything else for that matter as far as we can prevent it, to interfere with that process.

Father Paul is the pastor of St. George Church in San Diego, California. He is very much interested in youth problems.

The Use Of Esoteric Language.

To better understand the world of the entertainment industry is to have the knowledge of esoteric language spoken, written, and coded through symbolism. One common method of deception is the use of esoteric language. Esoteric terms are understood by those who are deep in the occult world, but are misunderstood by the common people. The Occult mean Things that are hidden. Here is a good website to show such examples (Watch the videos and listen to some of the interviews). http://www.amy-amy.com/?amy=video&v=N-8J1ma6g8U