|
TURN (the) TABLES
An online book of prophetic
revelations concerning music and other mysteries, and vital, challenging, and
liberating doctrinal atomic bombs often avoided by church leaders (I always
was a pyromaniac), and free discipleship. "Curiosity killed the cat. But
wait; the cat has nine lives. Oh, but that's not quite right, actually the
cat's got eternal life." My father always told me, "Son, see through
the BS." So I looked around, and found BS all over the world. Then I
looked in the church, and found BS all over the church. Then I concluded that
BS makes the world go around. My mind is weary of sifting through all the BS
to find the truth. My heart is weary from continually being broken by BS.
Maybe yours is too. This is a BS free zone. Enjoy. Get real, brothers and
sisters, and expect big miracles in your life and the people around you, and
in our nation and the world. Living for Christ with honesty, integrity, courage
and an open mind is big adventure. There is plenty of room at the top for
those who are willing to work, think and pray.
|
|
INTRODUCTION
For too long the church has had an unforgiving attitude towards rock
musicians and their music. When are we ever instructed to pray for them?
Musical talent is a God given gift. Music was invented by God for worship.
Musicians are gifted by God from birth to be worship
leaders. Musicians belong in God’s church more than anyone. Even rock
musicians and those who love their music like nothing else on earth. I know
that I am not alone, but I do not see many of my kind in the churches.
Rockers for the most part are cast out of the American church. Many of us
have been outcasts all our lives. That is why God twisted my arm to write
this book. It is dedicated to those everywhere who truly love good music of
all kinds, for after all, God invented music, even rock music, not the Devil.
Many rock musicians are serving the devil and they know it. They
may publicly deny any allegiance to Satan. Many Satanists will keep their
devil worship a secret, to avoid persecution or investigation by the law for
serious criminal activity. They may even claim to be Christians or New Agers
or anything but Satanists. Satanists are liars and deceivers, what do you
expect? And so what anyway? Did you think that Christ has returned already
and sent Satan to the bottomless pit? Why is it so shocking that Satan still
has a major influence in the earth? Christ teaches that we are not to fear Satan
(Matthew 10:28). One of Satan's most common strategies is to pull stunts that
are so ugly, bizarre and unbelievable that you go into a state of shock and
fear and you are not able to think clearly. This is a form of mind control.
He is hoping that you will even go into a state of denial, and just sit idly
by while he wreaks havoc. Don't forget to pray, this is what he wants most of
all. No matter how bad the situation may look, don't panic, God is still in
control and God still answers prayer. A clean heart combined with desperate
prayers is our most powerful weapon against the darkness. I believe that
"God is not the author of confusion" (1 Corinthians 14:33).
Confusion originates from Satan, his demons, and people. The musicians
usually give fair warning in their promotional artworks or in the lyrics of
their songs and I can choose to avoid them or selectively listen to their
more polite music through Napster. The people who cause me the most problems
are not people out there in the world, but in the church, who are serving the
devil and they don't know it. An unforeseen attack from a so called brother
or sister in Christ is harder to bear than the more or less obvious
wickedness of some musician who is wallowing in sin, or some pitiful,
pathetic Satanist who thinks that love is a dirty word.
But Jesus wants us to forgive others in any case. If you
do not forgive others, God will not forgive you (Matthew 6:15). This
statement carries heavy implications for your future in eternity. Bitterness
and unforgiveness can cause demons to latch on to your spirit to encourage
such negative attitudes and behavior, causing you much shame and
embarrassment. I know from much past experience. Irregardless of whether you
are a Christian or not, God will allow this oppression in your life, because
you are out of line through your unforgiving mindset. I should add that many
people are under the misconception that all demons are fun demons. When a
person willingly invites demons into their being, it is a big gamble. You may
not necessarily experience the happy, thrilling adventure that was
advertised, but rather the worst nightmare of your life. Also, demons can be
very persistent and difficult to get rid of, once they have made themselves
at home with you, and there is not much effective help out there if you
decide you don't think they are your friends after all; you may search for
years to find the right help.
Not all successful rock musicians worship Satan. Many do not.
But we Christians tend to throw out the baby with the bath water when it
comes to music, lumping all rock music into the same category. We pay the
price for our lazy mindedness and lack of discernment, by living and
promoting a "safe", hospital disinfected boring lifestyle that
stinks like powerful germ killing chemicals, crippling our ability to find
common ground with the lost in order to show them the love of Jesus.
I have found that it is important to reward the wicked when they
do something good. If all we Christians do is criticize, criticize, criticize,
the wicked will not listen to the gospel message. I love the wicked first,
before they love me, because Jesus loved me first, before I loved him. I
endure the insults of the wicked, when I go into the devil's territory to
befriend them, as they judge me to be just another arrogant, goody two shoes,
self righteous, holier than thou Christian who has come to beat them over the
head with a Bible and tell them that they are sinners. They already know that
they are sinners. What they really need is for some Christian to love them,
instead of putting on the sterile rubber gloves and performing a rectal
examination. When you go into a bar or tavern to meet the lost, or wherever
you may encounter them, you don't need to preach the gospel to them. They have
more than likely heard the gospel preached to them already by some money
grubbing televangelist, and think all Christians are gullible for sending
their money in that direction and promoting the hypocrites. So I go into
bars? What? Jesus told his disciples to "occupy til I come" in Luke
19:13. It is the least we can do for him. Did he mean we are to just occupy a
pew in a church building or are we to occupy the world outside? Maybe God has
not called you to or prepared you for this type of ministry. Please pray for
this ministry and others like it. We do need your prayers to be effective.
When you are with the lost in their territory just say
something about how great Jesus is now and then and show them the love of God
by how you treat them. Your focus in communicating to them should not be how
great Christians are, we fail in so many ways and they have no faith in us,
thank God. Just try to tell them how great Jesus is. Try to loosen up, just
have a good time with them. Maybe you can't save them. Live it up, celebrate,
Jesus is coming back soon to clean up this mess of a world. Don't be frantic
to get them saved. This turns them off. Punishment in hell is not forever; we
will all be together again someday anyway (see the chapter HEAVEN AND HELL
for more on this subject). God is all about love and mercy and will not
punish sinners forever for a short lifetime of sin. That would not be fair.
It is a good witness for them to see you having fun. They are so concerned
that it is a real drag to be a Christian. You don't need a lot of money to
win. Just as long as you are having fun they will see you as being a winner.
I listen to the music of the lost, enjoy it, and praise them for
it, if it is uplifting and not offensive, even if some of that particular
band's music is unacceptable to me as a Christian. That way they don't assume
that I am narrow minded and judgmental, and may listen to me when I tell them
about the love of God. When you go to a restaurant to sit down to a good
meal, do you check out the religious beliefs, or lack of them, of the cooks,
the owner, or the people serving you, before you will eat? When you go
shopping, or buy a car, or conduct business of any kind, how often do you do
business with immoral or unspiritual or wicked people without knowing or
caring? Why are musicians singled out by Christians as the people we hate and
boycott just because of their lack of spirituality? Is it because we are
prudes and afraid of having any real fun? I met Jesus in person and he was
infinitely more fun that I have ever had in my life. The encounter made every
earthly pleasure seem pathetic by comparison. Fun is not a four letter word.
What? Are you planning to go to heaven thinking that it will be a quiet,
solemn, boring place? Stop insulting God in your mind by thinking that he is
the enforcer of a bland, dull lifestyle.
In the past the term “Rock” could be an abbreviation for “Rich
Oppressors of Children and Kin”. While musicians seek sex, drugs, fame and
fortune, bewildered parents try desperately to cope as their naive children
blunder through life attempting to imitate the lifestyles of their Rock
idols. Perhaps there is a way that Rock music could be used for good instead
of evil. The musicians of our day have brought about a mass satanic revival
in a very short period of time. It is partly the fault of people in the
church for utterly rejecting the electric guitar, and for that matter, most
forms of exciting worship music. Think of what highly talented people, with
dynamic music, could do for God’s kingdom if they were not inspired by drugs,
or the spirit of Satan and his demons, or the spirits of lustful men and
women, but instead by the Holy Spirit. Jesus is coming soon. It is high
time people in the church quit promoting trivial nitpicking as righteousness
like the self-righteous Pharisees who killed Jesus and persecuted the early
church. It is high time Christians got a heart for the lost, and reached out
from their comfortable church buildings (at the least through prayer) to a
world of confused, self destructive people who are on their way to hell.
There is much truly wonderful music around these days, and thank
God, because I am a big music lover. I believe that my generation saw and
heard the greatest music performed in all of human history. But even as
amazing as modern music is, what I really want to hear is what kind of music
the God-man Jesus will play in heaven. God will not give his glory to another
(Isaiah 42:8). God will not be outdone by the musicians of our day, or by
Satan himself. Modern musicians are often unrestrained at showing off how
awesome they are, and it is a wonderful thing to see and hear. But that has
not been God's way in this present age. At this present time, God is
understating and concealing just how infinitely glorious and wonderful he is
to the inhabitants of earth. He will not show his best to his enemies and be
mocked for it. He already did that on the cross. God has a tender and
sensitive heart. But it is time now to have a big celebration. Jesus is returning
soon to take his church home to heaven for the wedding supper of the Lamb.
And there
is soon coming a time when God will share in the privacy of heaven the
unlimited riches of his glory with those who have put their faith in his Son
Jesus, and divine music will be just one aspect of the transcendent blessings
he will generously share. Every pleasure of this present age will look
pathetic by comparison. Please don't be one of the majority who will miss
out, who are foolishly racing down the highway to hell. It is not too late to
turn back.
|
|
Lord rebuke you Satan and your demons. I command you to leave
immediately [rock star or band, corporation, politician, government entity,
individual person; all the people mentioned in my prayer list, etc.] in the
name of Jesus Christ. I command you to leave their person, from around them
and over them, from their friends and family, their business associations,
acquaintances and everyone they come in contact with. I command you to leave
all these persons and not return, in the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of
Jesus Christ and for his sake I pray and give thanks.
Dear Heavenly Father, I pray that you would continually dump out your Holy
Spirit on all these people that I wrote down in my prayer list, and bring
them to repentance and salvation. I pray that they would all see a great
multitude of signs that Jesus is Lord and God, Creator, Savior and eventual
restorer of all things. I pray that you would disciple them, deliver them,
heal them, anoint them, and prosper them financially to do the work of your
ministry. I pray that they would have a lot of fun. I pray that they would
overcome this evil world and the evil one that is in it, and inherit great
reward in heaven. I pray that you would bring about a great harvest in the
land and spare us from the punishment we deserve for all the innocent blood
we have shed. In the name of Jesus Christ, and for his sake, I pray all these
things and give thanks.
|
