Average Age at Death of Included Rock Stars (1)
36.9 Years
Average Age at Death of Americans (2)
75.8 Years
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Satan certainly knows the power and influence of music. Ezekiel 28 gives some descriptive insight into Satan before his eventual fall, verse 13 reads:
"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 TABREST and of thy PIPES was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created." Ezekiel 28:13
Tabrets and pipes are the basis of musical instruments! Satan knows the power of music – and he knows the vulnerability of the teenage years – and you’d better believe he knows, far better than Barna Research, the fact that most people will receive Jesus Christ as their Savior before the teenage years!
With those FACTS clearly in focus – Satan will aim his attack at the impressionable, fragile, young person!
The battle-plan is simple:
"Rock" that young person through the teenage years. . . Fill that spiritual void with "good ol’ rock’n roll" – and chances are – they’ll never accept Jesus Christ as Savior!
And another soul "rocks" into a lake of fire – for ever and ever!
"And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." Revelation 20:15
George Harrison, a devout follower of the Hindu god – Krishna, knows the vulnerability of the teenage years. Harrison told Rolling Stone Magazine:
"The main thing is to get the kids. . . nail you when you’re young and brainwash you, then they’ve got you for the rest of your life."
George Harrison, Beatles, (Loose Talk, Rolling Stone Magazine, p. 70)
And you’d better believe Satan is aware of this fact!
And there is nothing more influential to the average young person than their music. It dictates to them how they dress. . . how they wear their hair. . . their vocabulary. . . They "dance" to the "tune" of today’s musical "pied pipers"!
Professor Alan Bloom writes in his best-selling book, The Closing of the American Mind:
"Today, a very large proportion of young people between the ages of ten and twenty live for music. It is their passion; nothing else excites them as it does; they cannot take seriously anything alien to music. . . "(Dr. Alan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind, p.68)
And the music is especially "aimed" at young people – at a time in their life, according to Barna Research, when they most likely will accept Jesus Christ as Savior!
Professor Alan Bloom details this important fact in his book:
"Never was there an art form directed so exclusively to children. . . The music business is peculiar only in that it caters almost exclusively to children, treating legally and naturally imperfect human beings as though they were ready to enjoy the final or complete satisfaction." (Dr. Alan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind, p.74, 77)
Rock music is their "god"! It is their RELIGION!
Dr. Paul King, medical director of the adolescent program at Charter Lakeside Hospital, in Memphis Tennessee, says more than 80 percent of his teenage patients are there because of rock music. Dr. King, says, "the lyrics become a philosophy of life, a RELIGION."
(Written by Dr. Terry Watkins)
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