WHY SALVATION

God created everything, including man. God is ALL-loving, ALL-merciful, ALL-righteous, ALL-knowing, and ALL-powerful as well as being the source of ALL light. God has no part and will not tolerate anything that is not righteous. Righteous means just or lawful, so that means that anything that is not just or lawful will not be, nor can it be tolerated by God. God created beings called angels before He created man. Angels were given the ability of free choice, to which man was given as well, the greatest of these angels Lucifer, Satan, was second to only God in power and dominion. Lucifer wanted more than that, he chose to rebel against God in trying to be as God is. God being the only one, who is ALL-powerful, could not be defeated. Satan after being unable to win over God, tried to win over mankind, and to separate man from God, beginning with Eve in the Garden of Eden. Man as well as angels, have the ability of free will, the ability of choice. To have choice you must have more than one option to choose from. God allowed Satan some freedom after his rebellion to allow man the choice of either following God or following Satan, there is no other option, for Satan has claimed all that is not of God, which is sin. Now back to God being ALL: loving, merciful, and righteous, it would be wrong to force anyone to live forever in His presence who does not want to, so here we are with the choice to live forever with God, or we can CHOOSE not to live forever with God. We can choose whichever one we want but, if you remember God is ALL-loving, ALL-merciful, ALL-righteous, ALL-knowing, and ALL-powerful as well as being the source of ALL light, if we choose not to live with God, what do you have left? You have no love, no mercy, no justice or law, and no light, the very definition of Hell. People do not want to think about Hell, or that an ALL loving God would make or put people into such a place, but remember you get to choose whether you go there or not. Satan would want us to believe that God puts us in Hell, so we would not believe in Him, for how can a ALL-loving God place us in an eternity of torment, but God loves us so much that He allows us the option, the choice, to live or not to live with Him. God being loving and merciful has made it easy for us to be with Him, because He loves us so much and He wants all to live with Him. All you need to do is believe in God, God the Father, Jesus the Son of God, and the Holy Ghost, and want to live forever with Him. Salvation, do you want it or need it? You get to choose whether to live in the light with a loving God forever, or to live in the darkness without love, mercy or anything just or lawful, for just as long...........Eternity!!

To Summary

Road Map to Salvation

Romans 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
I Corinthians 15:1-4 1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain . 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:


1) Know that everyone is a sinner Romans 3:10 and 3:23
2) The cost of sin Romans 5:12 and 6:23
3) Jesus Christ paid the price for OUR sins Romans 5:8
4) Believe and Accept that Jesus Christ Died for you and arose from the dead, all can be saved I Corinthians 15:1-4


The Free Gift of Salvation means: 1) To know and believe that you are a sinner 2) Jesus Christ Died for Your Sins 3) Jesus Christ Arose up three days later { His proof that He is God } 4) Letting God pay for Your sins and choosing to not pay them yourself, { With Sincerity on these beliefs, do not just speak it without Believing it }

II Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Ephesians 2:8-9 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Revelation 20:14-15 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
The Sin Debt Must be paid by someone, either you can pay it ( In Hell Forever ) or you can allow God to pay it for you. Jesus Christ Wants you Saved So Much He died for you, He already submitted the payment, all you need to do is accept it and Live for Eternity in Heaven with Him.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Our sin nature at birth has already separated us from God, but God loves us so much, that He died for us and paid the Sin Debt for us, when God ( Jesus Christ ) Died on the Cross at Calvary. Jesus Christ became the Sin of the World, to bring us back to Him.

I Corinthians 15:3-4 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:



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Forever Saved

II Timothy 2:15 Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

There are three main ingredients to gaining a greater understanding of God's word. One is Dispensation. Though God does not change,
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
God does change how He deals with man at different times throughout the Bible.
I Corinthians 12:5,6 5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.

Without understanding this people, believers and non-believers alike, get confused and take certain scriptures out of context. Remember you need to think of whom the scripture is intended for, and who wrote it. The majority of the bible is written for the Jew, the nation of Israel. There are certain things that were given to them, promises, consequences, and rules such as the law, that we during this Age ( Dispensation of The Grace of God ) are not under. Today, Salvation once accepted, is sealed with the Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
Ephesians 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

So Once you accept the Free Gift of Salvation that Jesus Christ has offered to everyone, that is to believe that you are a sinner, and that you are unable to, in any way save yourself from eternal separation from God on your own, you believe Jesus Christ is God and Jesus Christ died for your sins and arose three days later, you are saved and eternally secure in Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:1-4 1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures

I Timothy 2:3,4 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

Satanic Music Devil Occult Pagan Musicians Rock Roll Pop Guitar

Satanic Music Devil Occult Pagan Musicians Rock Roll Pop Guitar

A-Z of Satanic Music

Bizarre's guide to Satanism, occultism and evil in rock n roll... Wagner, Manson, Mayhem and, um, Sting?!

By Martin Robinson

November 2009

A is for Arthur Brown
“I am the God of Hellfire, and I bring you...Fire!” With those words in 1968 Arthur Brown announced Satan had arrived to burn the 60s peace and love dream down. Two years before, the wild man from Whitby had caused a sensation in Paris with his incendiary, macabre band, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, playing a part in instigating the Parisian student riots. In London he was an active part of the bohemian, druggy psychedelic scene, but it was his No.1 single ‘Fire’ which truly shocked the establishment. Its groundbreaking display of Satanic notions and imagery suggested an evil lurking beneath the 60s that was now ready to emerge.

B is for backwards messages
Since the birth of rock ‘n roll rumours have spread of bands hiding subliminal Satanic messages backwards in their songs. Messages were found backwards in The Beatles’ songs, particularly ‘Revolution 9’ which reversed, says, “Paul is a dead man, miss him, miss him.” This instigated the ‘Paul is Dead’ conspiracy theory. Bands such as Pink Floyd and Cradle of Filth deliberately put backwards messages in their songs, but a real furore broke in the early 90s when Christian groups claimed Madonna’s ‘Justify My Love’ when played backwards said, “I love Satan.” Judas Priest had a civil trial brought against them by the families of two fans who’d committed suicide. They said the message ‘Do it’ was in their song ‘Better By You, Better Than Me’. Singer Rob Halford retorted it would be counterproductive to get fans to kill themselves and said if they included a subliminal message it would be “Buy more of our records.”
C is for Cannibal Corpse
With album artwork involving such things as rotting bodies performing cunnilingus on each other and songs such as ‘Entrails Ripped from a Virgin’s Cunt’ and ‘Addicted to Vaginal Skin’, Cannibal Corpse have been on a mission to drag death metal further into the filth than it’s ever been. While they’ve laughed off suggestions that they’re Satanists, for their efforts in depicting Hell on Earth for over 20 years, the Horned One would surely give his approval.

D is for Daniel Johnston
Daniel Johnston is a savant genius American singer-songwriter haunted by Satan. In and out of mental institutions his whole life, he managed to still be heralded by Kurt Cobain, but his demons continually wrecked his career. He once used a New York showcase organised by Sonic Youth to lecture the crowd on Satan, then later refused to sign a lucrative record deal because the label had Metallica on their roster and he thought they were Satanic. Once, when flying in a small plane with his pilot father, Johnston became convinced he could fly, so cut off the plane’s power. He and his father miraculously survived the crash.


E is for The Eagles
‘Hotel California’ is strongly rumoured to be about the Church of Satan building, and lines like “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’ seem to back this up.  Indeed, on the inside cover of the Hotel California album the photo seems to show the bald figure of the head of the Church of Satan, Anton LaVey looking down on the band from a balcony.
F is for Freddie Mercury
Few still seem to realise that Bohemian Rhapsody, a national treasure of a song is about one man’s desperate battle against the Devil. It seems the young bohemian kills a man and sells his soul to the devil to escape execution. Not quite such a family tune now is it?

G is for Great Balls of Fire
The complex, deeply troubled Jerry Lee Lewis came from a deeply religious background and thought rock n roll was the Devil’s music. But he discovered he had a gift for it, and launched himself into damnation, alternating between periods of drinking and whoring and invoking the Devil as he played, and periods of pious self-loathing. He initially refused to record Great Balls of Fire because he thought it was Satanic, screaming at his producer, “Man I got the devil in me!” Believed himself to be cursed to remain alive while those around him died. Now 74 years old.


H is for Hall
The super-smooth Darryl Hall from middle of the road pop kings Hall & Oates is an unlikely devotee of occultism. He once said, “Around 1974 I graduated into the occult. I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the 19th century British magician who shared these beliefs...his personality was the late 19th century equivalent of mine.” He says. “I believe in the ability to change reality through will and that is the definition of magick. I feel I have done that. When I’m singing and in touch with the energy...that’s the reason I’m in music.”

I is for Ian Curtis
Obsessed by the occult, there has been some speculation amongst fans and writers that the Joy Division frontman’s remarkable, almost anciently written, pitch-black mystic lyrics and his literally spell-binding, ‘possessed’ live performances are evidence that he was possessed by a demon or was himself a called a nagual, a demonic witch doctor capable of transforming himself into animals. Whatever he was, he hung himself in his kitchen aged just 23.

J is for Joe Meek
Joe Meek was the deranged genius producer who made the first ever UK single to get to number one in America, ‘Telstar’, out of a kitchen studio in a flat on London’s scuzzy Holloway Road. He was also an occult obsessive who, in early 1958, got a tarot message that Buddy Holly would die on February 3rd. He contacted Holly, but the date passed without incident. However, on February 3rd 1959, Holly died in a plane crash. Meek saw this as proof of the spirit world and began regularly holding séances where he’d consult Pharoah Ramses the Great. He eventually believed he was possessed by demons and on February 3rd 1967 he used a shotgun to kill his landlady, then himself.


K is for King Crimson
The debut album by these prog rockers was 1969’s ‘In the Court of the Crimson King: an observation by King Crimson’ was arguably the first Satanic concept album which combined psychedelia, heavy metal and lyrics about the Devil to blow the minds of LSD-fried hippies everywhere.

L is for Led Zeppelin
Jimmy Page was obsessed with the occult, and by filtering his interest into Led Zeppelin IV, he not only gave the band an expressly demonic edge, he was crucial in bringing occultism into the open. He was an exponent of Aleister Crowley’s teachings, and even bought Crowley’s old Loch Ness property, Boleskine House (USE THE PIC OF HIM IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE) , where Crowley performed magick rituals and conjured demons. Page owned an occult bookstore and publishers called, ‘The Equinox’, and occult symbols representing the members of the band were put on the cover on Led Zeppelin IV. Some people have speculated that dabbling in the dark arts cost Led Zeppelin dearly, as following the deaths of Robert Plant’s son in 1977 and drummer John Bonham in 1980, rumours spread of a curse.

M for Marilyn Manson
Although he’s often said he doesn’t believe in Satan as a being, his use of unholy imagery showed just what a grip the idea of the Devil still has on people, as he became public enemy number one in America in the 90s. His ‘Antichrist Superstar’ album and persona united the notions of celebrity and Satan, and cleverly played around with Nazism, fetishism and anti-Christianity, everything that seemed opposed to societal norms and values. After the Columbine killings were blamed on him though, it seemed many people had missed the message and were taking him far too literally.

N is for Norwegian Black Metal
The most overtly Satanic metal scene. In the early 90s in Norway bands such as Mayhem and Burzum peddled a violently anti-Christian message which resulted in murders and over 50 arson attacks on churches.  Mayhem’s guitarist Euronymous was at the centre of the scenes most notorious incidents. In 1991, his bandmate ‘Dead’ shot himself at the house they shared; upon discovering the body, Euronymous took photos, ate a piece of brain, and collected skull fragments which he later made into necklaces. In August 1993, Burzum’s Verg Vikernes murdered Euronymous at his apartment, inflicting 23 knife wounds in the process.


O is for Orridge, Genesis P-
After a correspondance with William S Burroughs while at Hull University, Neil Megson AKA Genesis P-Orridge got introduced to the work of occult magick exponent Bryon Gysin. He soon dropped out of university and began a war on conventions and taboos with his highly provocative, occult-influenced pagan bands Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV. In 1995 he released the seminal counter-cultural occult book, ‘Thee Psychick Bible’.


P is for Paganini
Nicolo Paganini was an 19th century virtuoso violinist from Genoa who was widely accepted as being in league with the Devil due to the difficulty of his compositions and super-human playing. For concerts he’d dress completely in black and would astonish and terrify audiences with his double-jointed wrists, near-impossible fingerings and string-breaking bravado. At one concert in Vienna, audience members claimed to have seen the Devil guiding his arm on stage. People were so convinced of his Devilment that when he died he was refused burial in consecrated ground for 5 years.

Q is for Queens of the Stone Age
With Queens of the Stone Age's fourth album 'Lullabies to Paralyze', Josh Homme brought out the loitering demons that had always been at the edge of his music, and pushed them to the fore in a rare modern and popular example of the occult album. On songs like 'Someone's In the Wolf' and particularly 'Burn the Witch', Homme delved into a hypnotic world of magick, paganism and Grimm's fairytales to create an eerie, supernatural masterpiece.


R is for The Rolling Stones
Their Satanic Majesties, The Rolling Stones, are the ultimate devilish rock ‘n roll, revelling in Lucifer’s shadow. From ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ to ‘Dancing with Mr D’, their songs have treated Satan like a close personal friend, and Mick Jagger in particular has traded upon the sexy, dark glamour of being the embodiment of evil. Their shattering Altamont concert, where the killing of a fan at the hands of the Hell’s Angels the Stones had hired for security, has been seen by some as the point where they paid the price.

S for Sting
Almost unbelievably, the Baron of Bland, Sting, is a big follower of the occult. He once said in an interview regarding his tarot cards: “These cards were designed in the 1940s under the supervision of Aleister Crowley. They’re quite stunning. Crowley was known in his lifetime as ‘the evilest man on earth’ and ‘the great beast’. My favourite tarot card is Death. Oh! Here it is! How strange Death should be right on top. Anyhow – I find it extraordinary how strong are the feelings this card inspires in me.” Who’d have thunk it?

T is for Tartini
Guiseppe Tartini was a composer who’s most famous work is the ‘Devil’s Trill Sonata’, a solo violin sonata which Tartini was encouraged to write when the Devil appeared in a dream. Apparently Satan himself appeared at the foot of his bed with a violin and played the most beautiful music he’d ever heard. When Tartini awoke, he attempted to recreate it, and almost abandoned music when he couldn’t match it – nevertheless, the resulting sonata remains one of the most technically difficult pieces in classical music.

U is for Underground, Velvet
Lou Reed was a deeply troubled, rebellious kid who terrorized his nice middle-class family, playing guitar at incredible volume and putting on an effeminate persona. His parents, wishing to ‘cure’ of him of his homosexuality and his addiction to “the Devil’s music”, listened to their doctor and admitted Lou to a psychiatric hospital where he received electro-shock therapy. It failed to do what his parents desired though, and their son went on to record some of the most dangerous music ever in The Velvet Underground.

V is for Volta, Mars
Recording the Mars Volta’s album ‘The Bedlam in Goliath’ proved to be a nightmarish process after the band had a bad experience with an Ouija board which they’d bought in Jerusalem. It’s unknown what happened exactly, but band member Omar Rodriguez-Lopez confirmed the original engineer had a nervous breakdown and stole the studio tapes. Their studio also flooded twice, and he claims that various tracks they’d recorded would just disappear from the tapes.


W is for Wagner
For his Götterdämmerung piece, the 19th Century German composer Richard Wagner included a section representing the pagan black mass scene. To convey this, he made use of tritones, an extended musical interval between two notes. In the middle ages tritones were called Diabolus in Musica or ‘The Devil’s Interval’, and actually banned by the Church because it was believed that pause invoked sexual feelings and in it lay the Devil. After Wagner, bands like Black Sabbath made liberal use of the eerie sound of the Devil’s Interval.

X is for Crossroads
Legendary American bluesman Robert Johnson was the original musician who sold his soul to the Devil. Johnson was a young but otherwise unremarkable musician in Robinson, Mississippi in the 1930s whose desire to become a blues great led him to a crossroad near the Dockery plantation late one night. Here he met a large black man who tuned Johnson’s guitar, played some songs, then returned it. Suddenly Johnson could play otherworldly blues, but in exchange he had sold his soul. He died aged 27 at a country dance, after his whisky was poisoned by the husband of a woman he’d met.

Y is for Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono was a devotee of Tarot and numerology and refused to let John Lennon or her travel without consulting one of her psychics. In 1978 the couple began collecting ancient Egyptian artefacts which Yoko believed had supernatural and mystical powers. Fascinated by their power they had an Egyptian Room in their apartment at the Dakota building in New York, the building which had been the setting for Roman Polanski son of Satan film, ‘Rosemary’s Baby’. Lennon was shot and killed outside the building by Mark Chapman in December 1980.


Z is for Ziggy Stardust
After becoming interested in the occult around the time of Ziggy Stardust, Bowie moved to Los Angeles where his cocaine addiction fuelled his interest and ended with one of the strangest tales in rock history. Claiming to have seen Satan in his indoor swimming pool he got his wife Angie to get him in touch with a priest who then taught him how to perform an exorcism. Angie Bowie says halfway through the ritual the pool began bubbling, and then she saw an image of Satan burned into the bottom of the pool. The Bowies sold up and moved house immediately.

Popular Music with Pagan Roots

"For primitive man music is not merely recreation or a form of self-expression but is an integral part of the world in which he lives.... Through music he finds a link with the supernatural." (Encyclopedia Britannica) "The one thing I got from Hitler was the idea of the Nazi youth. ... The youth of today re the leaders of tomorrow. They're young, they can be brain-washed and programmed." (Nikki Sixx of the rock band, Motley Crue) "Overexposure to violent images is desensitizing us to violence. Because it now takes more and more violence to make us feel shock and revulsion, media violence has to become more and more graphic to be profitable. We are addicted—and we’re about to overdose." (Tipper Gore in Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Society)

Adventures into the world of Zen, free sex, and mind-expanding drugs during the ‘60s paved many strange paths to "higher" consciousness. The long hair of those years was primarily a sign of eroding boundaries, rebellion against authority, and experimental ways to live — and die. Music nurtured this liberation. It summoned, taught, inspired, and unified the seekers. Those who sang the same words felt the same rhythms and caught the same vision. Like New Age spirituality, the music of the New Age has developed through syncretism and synthesis — a blending of contemporary dreams, ancient paganism, Eastern religions, and modern technology. The album jacket copy for Windham Hill’s "Pioneers of the New Age" summarizes the thrill of the "new" discoveries:

"It was like a gardener’s experiment in cross-pollination gone wild. Each different type of music fertilizing the other, producing a stunning hybrid flowering. John Coltrane mixed jazz with Eastern music. Bob Dylan mixed folk music with beat poetry and electric guitars. Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles [added] electronics and multitracking...."

Two distinct forms of music emerged. First, the ambient sounds labeled "New Age Music" flow from a growing fascination with Eastern meditative religions. Appealing to man’s spiritual yearning for inner peace and harmony with nature, it can induce trance states -- especially when accompanied by New Age visualizations.
Second, the throbbing rock music unashamedly promotes occult values, sensual images, orgiastic rhythms, and vulgar expressions. It has captured the hearts and minds of children around the world.
On the surface, these two types of music seem as opposite as what they proclaim: inner peace or sensual violence. But they both lead toward the same result: union with the "angel of light" who seeks to immunize children against Truth and persuade them to worship idols. Rock star Jimi Hendrix summarized the process from his dark perspective:

"You hypnotize people [with music] 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."2

ANCIENT FORMS OF NEW AGE MUSIC
The New Age includes the dark as well as the beautiful side of evil. The mind behind the enticing masks hates God and everything He represents. Thus New Age music includes not merely the smooth, hypnotic strains that flow from electric synthesizers, but the whole range of music that lauds New Age enticements— and suggests the use of meditation, magic, and drugs to reach them.

Man’s attempts to transcend the boundaries of the physical world through music weave through the history of mankind. While God encouraged His people to enter His presence through songs of praise (Psalm 100), Satan offered a seductive counterfeit used in pagan societies as a connecting link to other gods. Nevill Drury, who promotes New Age meditation and visualization in his manual, Music for Inner Space, points to ancient cultures as models for today:

"In societies where magic and myth define and influence everyday existence, man aspires to be like the gods and to imitate them, thereby acquiring mastery of nature. ... In both primitive societies and ancient cultures, magical incantations and songs are a source of power."3

In India, the ancient Hindu ragas would stir the imagination, alter consciousness and inspire occult exploration. Drury explains that the drone component— "the unchanging basic note or pitch"—sustains the music and "meditatively makes each musical performance an ‘inner journey.’ One literally travels with the music, lured into new areas of consciousness...."4 He continued,

"Repetitive rhythms and mantric musical patterns are used universally to induce trance states. However, we have a choice within the altered state of allowing ourselves to surrender to the music and be 'possessed' by its intoxicating rhythms or 'ride' the music or drumbeat on our journey to the inner world."

In primitive Africa and South America, the witchdoctor functioned as a mediator between the tribe and demonic spirits. The sacred drum, which is credited with magical powers, together with hallucinatory drugs (sorcery) induced trances which transported him -- actually his mind and imagination -- into the spirit world. There he received guidance. As Obo Addy, a drummer and singer from Ghana explained, the beat opened the veil between the physical and spiritual domains:

"My father was a medicine man. He told the future and healed the sick. Music invoked the spirits my father possessed."5

The ceremony often involved the whole tribe. Intoxicated by the drum’s beat, the dancers would eventually surrender to the persuasive rhythms and enter a state of trance. A description of the Macumba (Brazil) spiritists’ trance dance ends with this observation: "If I was looking for a mindless joy it was here, in a dance with the brain turned off and the body taking its orders straight from the drum."6
Musicologists Manfred Clynes and Janice Walker explained that "the central nervous system transforms a musical rhythm into a movement pattern." This "rhythmic experience of sound largely is not under control—we are driven by it."7 Nevill Drury illustrates the point:

"The rhythms which induce trance states are repetitive, energetic, and often loud and overwhelming. They lead the dancer away from the familiar setting of the everyday world into a disorienting atmosphere pulsing with vibrant rhythms, which usually build to a climax. In voodoo it is at this point that the loa gods possess and 'ride' their subjects in trance like hones, while in Africa the dancers imitate the movements and footsteps of the possessing spirits."8

THE INTOXICATING MESSAGE OF ROCK
Hard rock soon soared in popularity, even among children. Heavy metal "differs from other forms of rock by its bombastic chords, screaming lead guitars, throat-wrenching vocals, and a demolition derby approach to drumming," warned Jeff Lilley in his 1989 article, "Dabbling in Danger."9
Dave Hart, a research analyst for Menconi Ministries, identifies three kinds of metal music.
1. Party metal, the most popular style, emphasizes sex, drugs, partying, and living for today with no thought for tomorrow. "It’s the stuff getting on the charts: Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Del Leppard," explains Hart. "There is very little overt occultism."10
It does, however, teach Satan’s favorite messages: Follow your feelings and Live to lust. Mere explicit sex no longer shocks enough, so party metal has stooped to the level of kinky, cruel, and violent sex—"porn rock"—such as Judas Priest’s song about oral sex at gunpoint.
2. Thrash metal joins punk music and heavy metal in a perverted focus on violence and death. ‘"Eighty-six ways to die’ is the theme of half of these albums,"11 explains Hart. The album jackets flaunt hateful messages such as Megadeth’s Killing Is My Business—and Business Is Good, Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All, and Anthrax’s Spreading the Disease.
At concerts, "metalheads" or fans "shake their heads and hair vigorously to the beat. Many reel and careen into each other in a wild style of dancing called ‘moshing’—the punkers call it ‘slam dancing.’ Pity those who collapse under the feet of the feverish throng."12
3. Black metal is satanic. The album jackets display grotesque pictures smattered with skulls, chains, blood, demons, goat heads in pentagrams, and a mockery of crosses. The titles proclaim the power of supernatural evil: Destruction’s Bestial Invasion, Slayer’s Hell Awaits, Venom’s From Hell to the Unknown, and Maiden’s "Number of the Beast?" from the album Live After Death.
Whether the musicians personally practice Satanism or merely play at it for its shock value matters little to the children who absorb the messages. No doubt, the image of a vampirish Ozzy Osbourne drooling blood and singing about an "X—rated demon that lives in my head"13 has inspired occult fascination in the hearts of his young worshipers who had moved beyond fear. Surely Venom’s ritual images in the song, Sacrifice has fueled that curiosity:

"Sacrifice to Lucifer... /Bring the chalice/Raise the knife/Welcome to my sacrifice...."14

Given full freedom to indulge natural desires, many youngsters learn to crave the most shocking, lewd and brutal entertainment available.
WHEN DARKNESS RULES One of Webster’s definitions for the word muse, the root of music, is "the personification of a guiding genius or principal source of inspiration."

Man has two main sources of inspiration outside of himself: God and Satan. While both communicate their thoughts to willing listeners, the latter is an aggressive liar who desires to stir rebellion against God. (See I Chronicles 21:1; John 3:2, 27; Acts 53; 13:10; Ephesians 2:2-5.)

Many popular singers have acknowledged their links to a supernatural source of inspiration other than God. For example, Joni Mitchel admitted being ruled by "a male muse named Art" who opened to her "the shrine of creativity."15 Angus Young of AC/DC confessed, "Someone else is steering me. I’m just along for the ride. I become possessed when I'm on stage."16

The fact that most rock singers look to themselves, drugs, or alcohol for inspiration - not consciously to Satan or spirit guides, fits the deceiver's plan perfectly. He is a master at using untamed desires for his cruel purposes.

God tells us not to give up on those who are caught in deception. Instead He encourages is to speak the truth in love so that "they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will." (2 Timothy 2:26).
WHAT DO CHILDREN LEARN?

"Children spend an estimated four to six hours a day with music. They get up to it get dressed to it, do their home- work to it, and fall asleep to it. That adds up to 11,000 hours of listening to music between the seventh and twelfth grades alone."17

Do children really listen to the words? Former disc jockey and rock musician Bob DeMoss travels throughout the United States speaking to parents, teachers, and kids. He tests grade-school students to prove that children learn the lyrics and often understand the adult message.
When asked a question about the title of the Samantha Fox song, Touch Me, (I Want Your ___), eighty percent of the fourth-graders filled in the missing word "body." Obvious familiarity enabled them to sing the words to George Michael’s seductive I Want Your Sex. 18

Dr. Joseph Stuessy, professor of music theory at the University of Texas at San Antonio, contends: "There is a new element in the music, a meanness of spirit—outright hatred—that was not present in the early days of rock."19 People are more likely to remember a musical message than words spoken alone. When you add the fact that repetition internalizes the message, the sum spells DANGER.

Most hard rock and heavy metal bands—whether through records, MTV, or concerts—drum the following anti-Christian messages into children’s minds:
1. Spurn Jesus Christ.

• Album jackets expose an incredible hatred of Christ. Replete with crosses of every kind— bloodied and broken, moss-covered, upside-down, even right-side-up but in an occult setting—they mock the symbol of Christ’s victory.
• Metal Church’s album, Blessings in Disguise, twists Christianity with song titles such as "Rest in Pieces."
• Venom spills out its rage on the cover of Welcome to Hell: "We’re possessed by all that’s evil. The death of your God we demand... ."20
• Craig Chaquico of Jefferson Starship proclaims an alternative religion: "Rock concerts are the churches of today. Music puts them on a spiritual plane. All music is god."21
• "It’s bad to be good," proclaims Poison,22 illustrating the reversal so typical of satanic ideology.
• In her video, Like a Virgin, Madonna makes herself the object of worship. Dressed in a lacy slip and a cross, the sex goddess writhes seductively in a mystical church setting resplendent with candles and crosses. Like an ancient cult prostitute, she blends sexual lust with spiritual worship—an occult formula that has proven its magnetism.

2. Fuel the imagination with promiscuity, perversion and violence.

• The children who listened to Prince’s songs while doing their homework heard lyrics such as these from the album, Dirty Mind: "My sister never made love/To anyone else but me... /Incest is everything it’s said to be."23
• Megapopular Guns N’ Roses rose to the top with its debut album, Appetite for Destruction, which sold over seven million copies. This band plays for "the kids"—and the kids love them. Consider the impact of songs like "Anything Goes" on a child’s mind: "Panties ‘round your knees/With your ass in debris... ." The next lines present a graphic image of intercourse, then the song finishes with a hint of sadomasochism: "Tied up, tied down/Up against the wall/Be my rubbermade baby/And we can do it all."24
• The original album cover for Appetite For Destruction showed a bare-breasted woman sprawled on the sidewalk with her panties pulled down. A robot/monster stood over her, while a huge flying creature with tiny red demonic-looking cling-ons hovered above. After many complaints, the rape scene was replaced by a cross with five skulls — one for each band member—but the controversial scene was printed on the inside liner.
• Not only do today’s songs glorify sex of every kind, they promote the myth that girls enjoy rape and violent, sadistic sex. Thus words like shoot and bullets and gun may refer to the action and anatomy of sex rather than murder. What do children learn from these double messages? Dr. Stuessy answers with a startling question:

"What if I were an impressionable fifteen-year-old boy today? My rock heroes have told me that sex on a date is expected and that it is a violent act.... My date is to be the object of my sexual cutting, slicing, and shooting. I must be very conscious of exerting my masculinity. I don’t want my date, who, for all I know is 'experienced'... to think I'm a wimp! I will nail her to the bed and make her scream in pain! Boy, this sex stuff is great!"25

Tipper Gore responds, "Can anything be worse than being a teenage girl, having to cope with teenage boys who are psychologically primed to cut, slice, and shoot...? Yes—being a teenage girl programmed to accept it."26
3. Indulge in drug and alcohol abuse
Song lyrics and personal testimonies extol the delights of chemical as well as sensual intoxication. Occasional warnings fade in the overwhelming contradiction of many rockers’ drug-dazed lifestyles. Guzzling their favorite whiskey during concerts and singing about the types and techniques of drug abuse, idolized models—like pied pipers—draw children into a deadly trap of mindlessness, hysteria, sensuality, and violence.
A reporter from The Boston Globe asked Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue (who flaunts his delight in drugs and Jack Daniels), "Do you ever have second thoughts about your influence on teenagers?"
"No," replied the rocker, "I think we have a very positive message. It’s very much an American message: Live free, express yourself, and it’s up to the youth to change the world. Also, just have a good time."27
4.Ignore dangers such as suicide and death.
Many experts link the six thousand (and rising) annual teen suicides to "depression fueled by rock music and lyrics that glamorize sadistic violence and drug abuse, as well as suicide itself."28 The coroner’s report for nineteen-year-old John McCollum from Indio, California states, "Decedent committed suicide by shooting self in head with .22-caliber pistol while listening to devil music."29
John, who died wearing his stereo headphones, had been listening to power-packed suggestions such as, "suicide is the only way out," in Ozzy Osbourne’s song "Suicide Solution" from the Blizzard of Ozz.
Why is this happening? Dr. Mark Rosenburg, speaking at the1988 Conference at the American Society of Suicidology, helps answer that question: "It was thought that the way to prevent suicide among teens was to treat depression... . That’s a fallacy. It is not the case with these kids. Rather than being clinically depressed, these young suicide victims are impulsive, acting out fantasies."

5. Experience the thrills of the dark occult.
"I like to drink blood out of a skull and torture females on stage,"30 says W.A.S.P.’s Blackie Lawless, master of shock rock. His concert props give the appearance that he means what he says.
A small fraction of the horrendous consequences of dabbling in the occult have come into public view in recent years—stories too horrible to comprehend, like that of fourteen-year-old Tom Sullivan. In January 1988, after a classroom assignment to research different religions, Tommy became fascinated with Satanism. He dreamt Satan told him to kill his family, so he murdered his mother with his Boy Scout knife, tried to burn his home, slashed his own wrists and throat, and died outside in the snow. In his diary, "Book of Shadows," he had written:

"To the Greatest Demons of Hell. I, Tommy Sullivan, would like to make a solemn exchange with you. If you give me the most extreme of all magical powers... I will kill many Christian followers who are serious in their beliefs... I will tempt all teenagers on earth to have sex, have incest, do drugs, and to worship you. I believe that evil will once again rise and conquer the love of God."31

Throughout the week before the killing, Tommy, whose room was decorated with posters of his favorite heavy-metal musicians, had been singing a song "about blood and killing your mother."32
Such murderous acts shouldn't surprise us. "People are drawn in [to satanism] by music," explained Pete Roland, a satanic killer. "When you’ve got this music playing over and over again all the time—you know, Megadeth, Slayer, Metallica --- and you’re hearing praise to the devil and... to the ideals of evil, you begin to cheer for it."33

AC/DC’s Bon Scott died soon after recording Highway to Hell. He asphyxiated in his own vomit, joining the ranks of Jimi Hendrix and many other hard-drinking, drug-dazed rock idols. AC/DC quickly plugged in a new lead singer, but the same mocking spirit can be heard as he shrieks out the incredibly arrogant words of "Back in Black" at jackhammer speed:

"I’m let loose from the noose ... I got nine lives... running wild."

Indeed he is. In "Hells Bells" he hisses, "Got my bell, I’m gonna take you to hell..."34 "There’s a battle going on and the battleground is the kids," says Doug Raley, director of Frontline Ministries in Central Oregon. "There are casualties and fatalities... It’s a physical and spiritual war that’s as real as the Vietnam War."35
6. Envision a one world government.
While the dark side of the occult rages openly, an equally sinister assault hides behind the bright lie of global peace. Rock ‘n’ roll spectaculars like "Live Aid" and "Freedomfest" joined rock idols and their billions of worshipers in worldwide celebrations of globalist visions. "We Are the World,"36 they proclaimed, not realizing they celebrated a counterfeit oneness based on the New Age monism: All is one.
Many megastars who proclaim New Age consciousness-raising and leftist political ideologies, have been commended for their social concern. What do they teach? A popular song, "When the Children Cry" from the album, Pride, by White Lion, typifies the same anti-American, one-world sentiment we saw in global education: "No more presidents/ And all the wars will end/One united world under God."37
Their god is not our God, as evidenced by Pride’s other songs. There can be no peaceful united world until "at the name of Jesus every knee [will] bow... and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord" (Philippians 2:10-1l). Between now and that great day, the world will be duped into welcoming a global religion and government. It will worship the ruler of the "one united world," the Antichrist, Satan’s shrewd, cruel puppet (Revelation 13:8). Meanwhile, He reminds us:

"We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be alert and self-controlled... putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet." 1 Thessalonians 5:5-8

The Occult Influence On Rock Music Eric W. Brown feneric@ccs.neu.edu

The Occult Influence On Rock Music

Eric W. Brown

feneric@ccs.neu.edu

From its very beginning, rock music has been associated with the occult, both in reality and in the minds of the establishment. These two relations often differ strikingly, but they both have their effect on the music produced, as well as the society around it.

The study of the influence the occult has on rock music is hampered by the fact that both the occult and rock music have nebulous definitions that readily vary from one person to another. For the purposes of this paper, the rock music of a given era will represent the general genres of music popular with youth culture in that time period, and the occult will represent the belief or use of any supernatural entities or influences. Thus, psychedelic music is a facet of the rock music of the late sixties and the early seventies, and punk is a facet of the rock music of the late seventies and the early eighties. Further, the belief in fate, the devil, or futuresight all fare as the occult.

Rock and roll's origins can be found in the tribal music of Africa. This music was originally part of the ritual worship of the assorted tribal gods. Among the slaves who were brought into the New World, the old ritual tribal music quickly changed into more acceptable forms like church music and the blues, as the act of worshiping pagan gods was usually viewed with disfavor by the ruling whites. These new types of music, combined together and further altered by the influence of Voodoo ceremonial music and popular white music, eventually became rock and roll.

From the very start of its popularity, rock and roll was accused of being the devil's music by the establishment. It would have been far more accurate to have labelled it Damballah Ouedo's music instead, for at this point in time, the worship of this Voodoo god had 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 was still young, and during this period it established a firmer foothold. It would fully need this foothold in the years ahead.

The sixties was 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 of the earliest experimenters with LSD (most notably Timothy Leary) considered the drug to be a gift to humanity -- from what is uncertain. Regardless of 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. This movement toward hallucinogenic use had its roots both in the musicians themselves and in dedicated musically minded outside businessmen. For example, one of the biggest producers of LSD (a shadowy figure who is still known only as Owsley) sponsored the rock band The Grateful Dead in a deliberate campaign to promote the idea of consciousness expansion through the use of LSD.

With the widespread use of LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs came a new interest in the Eastern religions, particularly Hinduism and Zen Buddhism. This interest not only made noticeable changes on what was played, it to a small extent changed what it was played with. George Harrison "discovered" the Indian sitar while learning about Eastern religious thought, and the Beatles' song "Within You Without You" on the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album resulted. It is also interesting to note that the cover of this album contains pictures of a few Indian gurus as well as Aleister Crowley, self claimed master of black magic.

The growth of psychedelic music was neatly complemented by the development of the Moog synthesizer, an instrument capable of making truly bizarre sounds that were apparently just the thing to listen to while going on a hallucinogenic induced consciousness expanding trip. Songs like the Monkees' Moog accompanied "Daily Nightly" that invoke confused images in lines like:

Lost in scenes of smoke filled dreams,
Find questions, but no answers.
Sparks will rise and sometimes see
Phantasmagoric splendor.

seem to be ideally designed for someone wishing to be in an altered state of consciousness.

It was also during this period that one of the biggest concerns of the establishment became a reality. 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.

As the seventies came into being, there seemed to be a plethora of small occult influences and one dominant one: unity of religion. That is, the concept that all religious teachings are just different ways of expressing the same few ideas. Rock performers as diverse as Steppenwolf and Cat Stevens produced songs with lyrics to this effect. The Steppenwolf song "Spiritual Fantasy" has the lines:

... the wise men came together
And they found that all the teachings were the same.

The Cat Stevens' song "Jesus" equates the teachings of Jesus and Gautama Buddha.

There were other influences, too. The idea of a nature god is one. The piper mentioned in Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" is probably of this variety. The use of supernatural creatures was another, as can be found in Warren Zevon's song, "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner". The "Eagles Hotel California" makes several indirect references to Satanism. Eventually, Satanism became the dominant occult force in rock music and has remained so to the present time. Satanism, however, is not so much a religion as an assortment of individual ideas as to what Satanism should be, since all of the original Satanists' writings have perished. Thus, the Satanist influence on rock music tends to manifest itself in a negative attitude toward established religions, especially Christianity, but to a lesser extent other religions as well (including notably the Wiccan faith).

It may not be immediately clear why the occult should have any influence on rock music at all, but there are at least four reasons.

The first (and foremost in the past decade) is shock value. Rock music has always been at odds with the establishment, and often the most successful musician is the one who stands out most clearly in opposition with established society. Thus, by adopting Satanist ideals and all of their negative connotations, a rock musician can automatically set himself apart from society and get free (albeit inadvertent) publicity from lobbyist groups like the Parents' Music Resource Center, that specialize in discovering hidden messages in recordings and attempting to censor everything they consider unfit for the public ear.

A second reason is artistic value. The very same motives for including references to occult themes in classical liturature holds just as well in popular music.

A third reason is the rock performer's search for individual identity. This is related to the first reason, but is not as strong. Rather than trying to shock an audience with an outwardly negative occult frame like Satanism, a musician might just want to ensure his audience that he is his original by adopting passive (but unique) occult images.

A fourth reason might be the independent rise in popularity of fantasy, horror, and science fiction liturature. These books could be building up an appetite for the occult throughout society. Perhaps the deepest reason for occult influence in rock music is betrayed in the Kansas song "Sparks of the Tempest".

Run for the cover,
Millennium's here
Bearing the standard
of confusion and fear.

The underlying reason for the influence of the occult on rock music could be a millennial effect. If it is assumed that the imminent changing of the millennium will have the same effects as the previous one, a general increase in the occult even in mainstream society is to be expected. If a millennial effect is active, the abovementioned fourth reason is not independent but related to the occult in rock music.

Rock music has throughout its entire history been influenced by the occult, and the causes of this influence are just as much a part of society as they are a part of the rock music itself.

The Satanic music industry and its artists

I ask you to please have an open mind and let the cumulative evidence speak for itself. At least watch all the videos with an open mind if you are going to make posts about this is all nonsense.

In fact, the spirit behind most secular music is Satanic. Several artists have even admitted to "selling" their souls to Satan for fame and fortune. Many artists have also admitted themselves to channeling or being a conduit for evil spirits to create or perform their music. Remember, these are the artists saying themselves and the people around them that have said they are possessed or feel like the music is channeled through them.

1. Tori Amos said "I think music comes through dimensions, it`s arrogant to think you can create music on your own, there`s a co-creation going on. I don`t know with whom, but there is this well that we all tap into". She once said "I wanted to marry Lucifer I don't consider Lucifer an evil force .I feel his presence with his music. I feel like he comes and sits on my piano". She even made a song dedicated to Lucifer. In the following performances she gets down right freaky. Watch after 4:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwhuiPtNciI

Another video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W6lfTUzKPA

2. John Lennon is believed to have "sold" his soul or made a deal with the devil, in fact he said it himself. There is even a book about it called The Lennon Prophecy. The Beatles channeled evil spirits as those in his inner circle revealed. John Lennon once said "When the real music comes to me it has nothing to do with 'cause I'm just a channel. It's given to me and I transcribe it like a channel." He once referred to himself as a hollow temple in which the spirits would inhabit him then leave to be inhabited by another. When asked why The Beatles were so successful he said himself "I my soul to the devil" (Ray Coleman, Lennon, McGraw-hill)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00W93kE-ZE0

3. Kurt Cobain did say his life's goal was to “get stoned and worship Satan” (op. cit. Sandford, p. 42).

Kurt Cobain was obsessed with Satanist Anton Levay, Cobain even wanted Levay to record a song with him. Cobain was known to desecrate churches by writing "God is gay" and other blasphemies. He it was reported that he was involved in witchcraft. Indeed he did channel demons as Cobain is described as “stumbling on melodies by means he himself didn’t fully understand.” (op. cit. Sanders, p. 70).

His widow, after his suicide, would state that “Kurt had a lot of personal inner [expletive deleted] demons, a lot of frailties and physical ailments.” Sandford would state in his biography, “He was a diffident, yet aggressive personality who struggled with demons that drove and tormented him” (Sandford p. 97)

It said that Cobain killed himself because the demonic entities stopped channeling lyrics through him. In his suicide note he would write, “I haven’t felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music, along with really writing, for too many years now.” Sandford has stated, “In his suicide note, Cobain despaired that his muse had flown south…” (Ibid. p. 361).

Read more about it here http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils in America/Rock-n-Roll/kurt_c obain.htm Note the web page cites the source of the quotes.

4. Robert Johnson- The so called father of Rock and Roll Robert Johnson believed to have "sold" his soul for guitar playing abilities and fame. People who knew him spoke about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku4zOtYd-Is

5. Brian Wilson, from The Beach Boys who once said "We were doing witchcraft, trying to make witchcraft music" admitted that he was tormented by voices in his head that would distract and torment him. Records president Larry Waronker claims to have encountered at least five different entities that use Brian Wilson's body as their home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk-FT4CGbYk

6. Jimi Hendrix believed he was possessed by demonic spirits. His girlfriend admitted it as well. His producer also stated that he believed he was possessed. Hendrix begged his girlfriend for help and he felt that the voices in his head were tormenting him.


7 Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne admitted he was being used by some outside external force:

"I really wish I knew why I’ve done some of the things I’ve done over the years. Sometimes I think that I’m possessed by some outside spirit. A few years ago, I was convinced of that – I thought I truly was possessed by the devil. I remember sitting through the Exorcist a dozen times, saying to myself, ‘Yeah, I can relate to that.’" (Hit Parader, Nov., 1984, p. 49)

As a matter of fact the whole band had experienced dark, demonic forces as they dabbled with the occult.

8. "Geezer’s encounters with the supernatural continued. During recording of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath in Bel Air, the bassist felt an ominous presence fill his bedroom. He looked up to see several specters glaring at him from above with overpowering effect. Awash with fear, he immediately awakened Bill, Tony, and Ozzy to tell them what has happened. Geezer soon discovered that all of his fellow bandmates had experienced similar events. . . To Sabbath it was obvious that a dark, ominous cloud was looming over them."(Black Sabbath: The Ozzy Osbourne Years, p. 19)

9. Prince admitted he had another person [evil spirit] living inside him on Oprah. He said he wrestled with changing his name because he didn't know what the spirit wanted him to be called.

10. Elvis Presley is believed to have been demonic possessed. People who knew him said he had occultic powers.

Part 1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e10Wv373uKA&feature=related

Part 2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MftkmYWpqKU&feature=related

11. Carlos Santana admitted he channeled a spirit to make his music. He even has a name for it Metatron:

"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)

12. Beyonce confessed that is controlled by an external force. She's calls the entity Sasha Fierce. She said it takes control of her when she performs on stage. It has been said that in one performance she was angry after a performance because Sasha Fierce threw her ring on her finger to the audience. Here is a website with more information
http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=604

There are many interesting YouTube video analysis of Beyonce, Jay Z, Rihanna and other Hiphop/R&B acts who blatantly have Satanic symbols in their music videos.

13. Jim Morrison himself believed he was a sort of a shaman and that spirits used him for his music. His producer Paul Rothschild said that the most pivotal part of his life is when this spirit entered him. This is all stated in the book "Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison". At Venice Beach before he became famous he said "In that year there was an intense visitation of energy. I left school and went down to the beach to live. slept on a roof... I met the SPIRIT OF MUSIC. AN APPEARANCE OF THE DEVIL on a Venice canal. Running., I saw SATAN..." (The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D99UQfzceiI&feature=related

14. Jimmy Page, who was a devout follower of Satanist Aliester Crowley, was believed to be used as a vehicle for demonic spirits in his music. Other members of Led Zeppelin were said to experience 'automatic writing': "He [Robert Plant] often remarked that he could feel his pen being pushed by some higher authority." (Stephen Davis, Hammer of the Gods, p. 262). In one of their songs when played backwards you can actually hear demonic messages
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ned7yw5j3s&feature=related

15. Bob Dylan implied he made a deal with the Devil whom he called chief of the seen and unseen world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqvvOD4bdRs

16. Katy Perry admitted she sold her soul to the devil.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2xUaTv0jm8

Most of rock music and the culture it promotes are of things against God or good, is it hard to imagine there is a Satanic spirit behind it? Even several Rock musicians admitted the music was of the devil:

17. 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."

18. Little Richard has testified that rock music is demonic:

"My true belief about Rock 'n' Roll--and there have been a lot of phrases attributed to me over the years--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. If you study music in rhythms, like I have, you'll see that is true. I believe that kind of music is driving people from Christ. It is contagious" (Little Richard, quoted by 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 that a lot of people don't believe exists. The power of the Devil. Satan" (Little Richard, quoted in The Life and Times of Little Richard, pp. 205,206).

19. Eminem said he sold his soul in his rap song "Goodbye Hollywood"

"What about math, how come I wasn't ever good at that

It's like the boy in the bubble, who never could adapt, i'm trapped

If I could go back, I never woulda rapped

I sold my soul to the devil, i'll never get it back

I just wanna leave this game with level head intact"

Also in his song "My Darling he retells the deal he had with the devil.

20. Snoop Dogg 

In his autobiography "The Doggfather", Snoop Dogg says the devil came to him to make a deal that he would be rich and famous in exchange for his soul. Snoop accepted the devil's offer (by his own words) and identifies that the point at which Calvin Broadus dies Snoop Dog was born.

21. DMX

FROM THE SONG "LET ME FLY". In this song, DMX explains that he sold his soul to the devil and exactly why he did it etc.

"I sold my soul to the devil, and the price was cheap. A yo it's cold on this level cause it's twice as deep. But you don't hear me, ignorance is blisning and so on Sometimes it's better to be taught dumb. Shall I go on. You don't want no real, what the deal is a mystery. How is it I can live and make history If you don't see it then it, wasn't ment for you to see

If you wasn't born wit' it then, it wasn't ment for you to be But you can't blame me for not wantin' to be hound lock down in a cell wit' a soul gettin' dwelled This is hell, go get the devil and get me the key but can't be worst than the curse that was given ta me It's what I live for, you take away that and I'm gone "

Apparently, it turns out Satan was not happy that Heavy Metal was not reaching Black people. So he created that Hip Hop to reach 'brothers' and cross all kinds of ethnic & cultural barriers.

Pastor Craig Lewis speaks about it here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMGhLjlzI58&feature=related

Watch this wonderful testimony of a rapper who was close to selling his soul for a money but chose to walk with Christ.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM1CkXxwf0Y&feature=player

A former Satan worshiper, John Todd, explains how record companies conjure up evil spirits and use witchcraft to brainwash people through Rock and Roll. Mind you this was taped around 40 years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otti-82jEAc
These are just very few examples of popular musicians who said themselves they were used by some other external power or have made a deal with the devil for fame and fortune. Please watch every part of these videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfBRcBZWI8E&feature=related
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSpFxzTMYi8&feature=relatedthat would make even the biggest skeptic think twice about what's driving the very dark, sinister, anti-Christian nature of a lot of music.

The Bible is clear that Satan has control of the world until Christ returns. Satan even offered Jesus the kingdoms of the world if Jesus worshiped him so surely he can offer people fame and fortune if you served him.

Satan certainly has musical abilities. In Ezekiel 28:13 - "Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: THE WORKMANSHIP OF THY TIMBRELS AND OF THY PIPES WAS PREPARED IN THE DAY THAT THOU WAST CREATED."

Isaiah14:11-12 "Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols [stringed instruments]: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

We only have to look around us at the music industry and its "Rock, rap and Pop stars" to see how much of an influence Satan has on music and its corruption, it is most certainly one of the devils strongest tools to corrupt the Word of God and influence the lost away from Godliness and to place strongholds on them via music.

Spiritual warfare is certainly going on: "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities , against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places." -- Ephesians 6:12

Edited by OoSnap on 05 October 2010

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