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The testimony of a former Satanist high priest, that the “rock beat gives ground”. “My background is not a good one, but I give thanks and praise to Elohim for saving me from it. I was a Satanist high priest for nine years.

      Those in Yahweh’s Congregation have heard many times the blunt warning of Yahshua Messiah: “Then be watchful at every time, begging that you be counted worthy to escape all these things, the things being about to happen, and to stand before the Son of Man” (Luke 21:36).

      We have been told many times to watch world conditions, to understand and know the prophecies of Yahweh, so that we will know when the time comes for Elohim’s people to escape. We have also been taught many, many times in sermons, at Feasts, and in Congregation services that we are to pray consistently without intermission, not neglecting prayer for a single day so that we might be accounted worthy to escape. But some are neglecting their duty!

Amazing Prophecy for Today

The escape of Yahshua’s Congregation to safety is mentioned in Revelation 12. In this chapter is an amazing prophecy concerning the Congregation of Yahweh from ancient times until the return of Yahshua Messiah.

During our time Satan will be very angry with Yahweh’s people, since he knows that he has but a short time left to deceive the nations. He is going to increase the pressure against Yahweh’s people, and is going to do all he can to increase the persecution of deceived men against us! This persecution will become so severe that Yahweh will find it necessary to supernaturally protect His people, and help them escape to a place of safety, before the full force of tribulation and world trouble comes on the earth.

Notice the symbolism of this supernatural protection: “And two wings of a great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness, to her place, where she is nourished there for a time, and times, and half a time, away from the serpent’s face” (Rev 12:14).

Not all of the Congregation will be accounted worthy to go to safety. Verse 17 of this same chapter shows that after those in Yahshua’s Congregation (who are doing their part in the Work of Yahweh) go to a place of safety there will be a “remnant” left.

They keep Yahweh’s Commandments and have the testimony of Yahshua Messiah, but are not accounted worthy to escape. This remnant will be subject to the full wrath of Satan the Devil. He makes war against them. Why?

This same remnant is implied in the prophecies of Revelation, chapter three. In the second and third chapters we have the various eras of Yahshua’s Congregation mentioned in detail. At the present time we are in the Laodicean era of Yahweh’s Congregation. One that is lukewarm and lacking zeal and one that compromises on the Word of Yahweh when it is not convenient to be obedient to it.

However, Yahweh warns the remnant in Revelation 2 and 3 to come out of the stagnant, spiritually defiled congregations and to become a Philadelphian believer in Spirit and truth, as this particular Congregation is promised that it will be kept from the hour of trial which is going to come upon all the world in order to try those dwelling on the earth (Rev 3:10).

But not all who are with us are spiritually of us— some are of the Laodicean spirit! The last Congregation, the Congregation of Laodicea, does not have this promise. They receive the fury of Satan. Very likely few of these people will survive the terrible times of trouble and torture that will follow.

We should all make our calling and election sure. We do not have time to wait for a year, five years or ten years to get ready to be “spiritual.”

I am writing in regard to Christian Music or what is called Power Tracts, Christian rock and roll, and contemporary Christian music, and their counterparts, rock and roll, heavy metal, black metal, country music and punk.

Some groups who play this kind of “Christian Music” say that they do so because it’s the only way they can reach the young people of today. They claim that we must look like the world and use the world’s music in order to reach the young people with the Word of Yahweh. “How long will believers allow themselves to be deceived and lied to by satan (the father of lies)?

The bible says we are to be in the world but not of it – not a part of it. It also says to be a friend with the world is to be an enemy of Elohim. As ambassadors for the Messiah, we should represent Him the best we can. Yahshua never changed His appearance, whether He talked with kings or the poor.

When I first became involved in the occult, music had a big influence on my life. It was not just the words but the music itself. Its effect on me spiritually was to bring me into another state of consciousness.

The beat and style of the music used in the occult rituals is the same that I now hear in Christian power tracts, Christian rock and roll, Christian rap, and in much of what is called Christian contemporary music today. People who were saved from the youth culture of today say, I cannot listen to this new Christian music because when I hear it, it takes me back to my past when I was lost, it brings all that back to me – lustful desires, love of money, sex, suicide and rebellion against authority.

Think of the struggle that these young believers have when they try to separate the things of the world from the things of Elohim. When they hear what is called Christian music that sounds just like the world, these vulnerable young believers become confused and the music becomes a stumbling block in their lives.

Normally a believer will take only what is good and leave the bad. The discernment does not always work with music, however, because if the music is bad and the words are good, many believers are not able to separate them and both are swallowed together.

In April 1990, a believer named Stephen Maphosah from Zimbabwe, Africa arrived for his first visit to the United States. He is a native missionary under the Awana Youth Mission Association. When he turned on a Christian radio station and listened to music, he was shocked.

Here is the report

I am very sensitive to the beat of music, because when I was a boy I played the drums in our village worship rituals. The beat that I played on the drum was to get the demon spirits into the people. When I became a believer, I rejected this kind of beat because I realized how damaging it was.

When I turned on a Christian radio station in the US, I was shocked. The same beat that I used to play, to call up the evil spirits is in the music I heard on the Christian station. Stephen, who was trained to use the beat for demonic worship, visited a Christian bookstore on June 25, 1999. He purchased samples of ten individual contemporary Christian musicians and groups that are among the most listened to by believers in the USA.

He evaluated each tape on the basis of its beat. Some tapes contained the demonic beat that he was accustomed to in his ancestral worship of evil spirits. Other tapes contained a slower variation of the demonic beat. However, he classified all the tapes as “unacceptable and offensive to the believers of this country”.

In 1981, I was driving down a jungle road in the Ivory Coast with several African pastors in the car with me. I had recently received a couple of tapes from our denominational headquarters that were intended for our teenaged daughter. “These were recordings of various Christian rock artists”. In listening to the tapes, I was very disturbed in my own spirit that such material was being sent to our missionary kids.

But not trusting my own reaction alone and realizing that these pastors with whom I was traveling were very sensitive to the spirit world (both good and evil), I decided to play the tapes for them. The reaction I got was immediately and verbally violent!

One of the pastors asked me this question. Do you mean to tell us that this kind of music is played in your churches in America? I answered in the affirmative. His response was filled with disgust and anger as he replied with another question. What are you doing allowing your church people in America to call up the evil spirits with their music?

There is absolutely no way that believers, who love the rock beat can deny that they love the world. The rock beat not only originated with the ungodly elements of this world, but it expresses the evil intentions of the world’s system, which is opposed to Yahshua’s and His truth. This very phrase rock n roll describes a form of immorality.

“Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him, because all that which is in the world: The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”

Yahweh condemns any believer who loves the world.

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity with Elohim? Whoever, then, purposes to be a friend of the world is an enemy to Elohim? Jac 4:4

Believers are to be in the world but not of the world. We are not to be influenced by their evil ways; instead we are to be a light in their darkness.

In the early years of the Christian rock beat, the beat and the sound were justified on the basis that music is amoral. If such a conclusion is accepted, then music is not a matter of personal taste. Yet such false reasoning is in total opposition to the words of Scripture. Music is the product of words and actions, and nowhere in Scripture is there an amoral classification for words and actions.

“For we all must appear before the judgment seat of Messiah, so that each one may receive the things done through the body, according to what he did, whether good or bad.” 2nd Cor 5:10.

All believers are commanded by Elohim to exercise their spiritual senses in order to discern between good and evil.

But strong meat is for those full grown, having exercised the faculties through habit, for discernment of both good and bad. Heb 5:14.

THE ROCK BEAT OPPOSES YAHWEH’S COMMAND NOT TO MIX LIGHT WITH DARKNESS.

Most of those who promote Christian rock music would agree that the rock music of the world is evil. However, they reason that they by putting Christian words to the same beat, the world’s music is somehow made right.

This human reasoning is directly opposed to the instruction of Scripture.

“…For what partnership does righteousness have with lawlessness? And what fellowship does light have with darkness? Or what part does a believer have with an unbeliever?” 2nd Cor 6:14-15.

In the days of the prophet Haggai, the priest gave direct application in the matter of mixing biblical words with an ungodly beat.

“Behold, one bears holy flesh in the wing of his garment, and touches his wing to the bread, or boiled food, or wine, or oil, or any food, will it become holy? And the priests answered and said, No. If the unclean of body touches these, is it unclean? And the priests answered and said, It is unclean”. Haggai 2:12-13.

If a priest who had been cleansed would touch something unclean, he would not purify the unclean however the unclean thing he touches would make him unclean. Similarly, the thought of making unclean music acceptable by putting biblical words to it is in direct violation of the following command: “Because of this, “Come out from among them and be separated, says YAHWEH, and do not touch the unclean thing, and I will receive you”. 2nd Cor 6:17.

The chief justification for combining the pure words of Scripture with the unclean music of the world is that this is the method by which we will reach non- believers.  There are several fallacies to this reasoning. Yahweh ordained preaching, not music to reach the lost. There are two primary purposes for music in the life of a believer. The first is to praise and worship Yahweh. The second is to edify other believers. This is the clear teaching of Eph 5:19

“Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to YAHWEH.”

When it comes to reaching the lost, Yahweh ordained preaching, rather than music, to accomplish this goal…YAHWEH was pleased though, to save the ones believing through the simpleness of the good news. 1st Cor 1:21. Based on these points the commands of Eph 5:6-11 are permanent.

“Let no one deceive you with empty words, for through these things the wrath of YAHWEH comes on the sons of disobedience. Then do not become partakers with them; for you then were darkness, but are now light in the Master; walk as children of light.

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather condemn them…”

I HAVE LISTENED TO CONTEMPORARY BELIEVER MUSIC ALL MY LIFE. My parents listened to it even before I was born. When they began listening in the early 1970’s the beat was much softer than it is today. However, both secular and believer’s contemporary music styles have changed. The beat of the music has gotten much harder and faster. The changes were subtle, so only in retrospect can I see where that wrong music led me. My parents would never allow me to listen to secular rock music.

However I disobeyed them and listened to it when they weren’t around. This was partly because of peer pressure. It was also because I was used to the beat of the contemporary believer music. I felt that some of the believer music had a harder beat than some of the secular music, so there must not be anything wrong with the softer secular music. Listening to this music was feeding my growing rebellion toward my parents by putting wrong thoughts and attitudes in my mind.

In 1987 I stopped listening to secular music and focused totally on contemporary believer music. This did not correct my wrong attitudes because I was still being fed by the wrong music. Then my pride increased. I felt I was better than a lot of people because I didn’t listen to the world’s music.

On February 13, 1999, I gave all my music to Yahweh and burned all of my Christian rock tapes. The result is amazing! Yahweh has given me a new desire to know Him better. I have a peace in my life that I never even realized was missing. For years I had a stuttering problem that is now completely cleared up, and I have a new relationship with my parents that I have never had before. It was very important for me not just to get rid of the wrong music, but to replace it with right music. REACHING TEENAGERS WITH CHRISTIAN ROCK MUSIC IS LIKE GIVING OUT LIQUOR WITH BIBLE VERSES ON THE BOTTLES.