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A Vision of the Armies
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It was after hearing a Man of God who preached a message called “Strange Fire” about the displeasure and judgment of God against Contemporary Pop Rock and worldly music styles in the Church. That I became very disturbed and angered because I was already brain washed by the so called “Christian” Media to believe that I could have God and my former lust for Heavy Metal Music too. I had all the excuses and justifications down pat and I thought that I could very effectively argue with anyone for my new found idol of Religious Rock Music.
You see, being not only a teen aged youth, but a babe in Christ as well, I really did not know much about the Word of God. I had only been saved about a couple of months and though I had read the four gospels, I was not really grounded on a true foundation of sound doctrine that was rightly divided in truth. In that, there was a lot of the Bible that I had only skipped through and read but had never really studied; Thus, I now understand why so many young people grow up warped and totally subverted into the perditious errors of this end time idolatrous apostasy that Christian Entertainment really is. Most are brainwashed by ungodly teachers right into this perdition from the womb of their salvation experience. And there is such a violent reaction of slander and character assassination condemning any one who opposes their lust for worldly music that very few dare to even question the matter.
Like so many others who are snared in this strong delusion, I thought that God was calling me to use my artistic talents (as an aspiring heavy metal song writer in my case) to reach others for Jesus. So for me there was a whole lot at stake. Because all of my future dreams and what I was brainwashed to believe was my very purpose for life, was being threatened by this Old Fashioned Preacher of Righteousness. You see, it was the deceivers on Christian Radio and Television who deceived and brain washed me into believing that it was God who ordained that I grew up living a sex, drugs and rock music life style in order to save me so that He could use those same sins of that worldly life style to Evangelize and reach others through me. The only problem with that whole damnable disposition is the fact that God never tempts anyone to sin. Yet the seducers promoting this compromise never told me that it is written:
“Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Do not err, my beloved brethren.” James 1:13-16
And again: “Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.” 1st Peter 1:13-16
And you would be absolutely shocked to discover how many hundreds of thousands of souls are walking around out there believing the same lie that I believed. Thinking that God ordained their former life styles before coming to Christ in order to use their former fashions and lusts in the name and for the cause of Jesus Christ to reach others who live in those same sinful life styles. And yet as we have discovered, both the Apostle Peter and James has exposed this demonic imagination for the lie that it really is. Thus, so shortly after being saved I was blinded, corrupted and well on my way to being among the damned were it not for the unshakable conviction of the Holy Spirit that took hold of my heart and would not allow me to just write off this message “Strange Fire” as being the extremist views of some old fashioned legalist. Deep down inside, not only in my heart, but in my mind, my soul, my emotions, my guts and in my spirit there was a deep conviction that what this Preacher was saying was 100% true. Yet I didn’t want to believe that. Thus, began an inner war between my flesh and my spirit. The lust of this worldly compromise had gotten such a grip on my heart that I did not want to let go of my own personal dreams and plans. Still yet the Spirit of God would not allow me to just be snatched out of the Father’s hand without giving me a clear witness of the truth and the personal choice to choose between Christ and antichrist.
Thus the Holy Spirit was using the Word of God and that message “Strange Fire” to reason with my mind and to convict my heart as He brought so many questions to my mind, telling me to just consider the truth and pray about it since there was so much at stake if I was wrong. And so pray I did, in my own ignorant way I told God that I was not completely sure about His will and purpose for my life. I told Him that I still believed that He was calling me to begin a Christian Heavy Metal Band but there was a possibility that I could be wrong because of that message I heard titled “Strange Fire.” I told God that I needed to try the spirits and if I was being deceived and that one Preacher was right and all those other Preachers were wrong; then I trusted that since He loved me enough to seek me out and to save my soul while I was yet a sinner, then surly since I was a Christian He would certainly still love me enough to confirm to me which way was right and which direction I needed to choose. I ended this prayer by reminding God that I stood at the cross totally unworthy of His help except through the blood of Jesus and that if He would confirm to me that Christian Rock Music was acceptable to Him then I would continue in my course and follow my dream, but if it was indeed a “Strange Fire” to Him, then I would repent of it and warn others against it as being a deception.
As I prayed and afterward, I had complete confidence and faith that God was going to confirm His will to me and direct my path. I knew that the answer would come soon and in my limited knowledge I expected God to send someone with a teaching on the subject that would answer my doubts and hopefully explain away the strong conviction that I was under. Because as the Bible tells us, the heart is deceitfully wicked and in the folly of my youth and ignorance I really did believe that Christian Entertainment was a tool of Evangelism in spite of the deep conviction that I was under and desperately wanted to prove wrong. Still yet, I determined within myself that if God did indeed prove to me that this music and entertainment in the Church was indeed a “Strange Fire” of seducing spirits of Satan, I was totally serious about repenting of, and contending for the faith against it as being a damnable deception. And I believe that God honored my prayer because He saw that I was serious about following Him, even if it meant that I had to give up what I wanted so much. Because in my spirit and in truth I was casting myself upon Him in total dependence for His direction and will for my life and His answer would determine the very fate of my eternal soul.
What I never expected was that God would answer that prayer by giving me a night vision. I say “night vision” because this was not a dream. It was too real to be a dream. For no sooner than I prayed that prayer and said “Amen,” I became very sleepy and could not stay awake if I wanted to. And upon hitting the pillow I was fast in a deep sleep. It was unlike any dream I ever had, because I immediately opened my eyes in the middle of a barren hot desert with no life as far as I could see in any direction. Except for two guys I knew who were standing motionless before a T-Shirt Stand. I believe that it was no coincidence that these guys were friends who I had known in the world and their nick names were “Satan” and “Little Satan.”
As I looked at the designs on the hanging T-Shirts I noticed that they were my Christian-Rock (C-Rock) Music drawings that I made for the purpose of doing C-Rock T-Shirts and album covers. And immediately I knew that God was telling me that I was conforming my life to reflect the image of Satan by giving place to the Devil through these worldly T-Shirt designs that perfectly complimented the Religious Rock Music life style which I was fast falling into. And though at that time in my Christian life I really didn’t know about the following verses in the book of Jeremiah. I became very aware of the fact, and God made me to know that this lifeless desert all around me was only symbolic of my compromise with C-Rock Music which was going to cause my spiritual death; As it is written:
“Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.” Jeremiah 17:5-6
No sooner than I understood what God was telling me. An Angel from above caught me up and in the blink of an eye I was taken from earth to another location and was sat down upon a beautiful blue and transparent-like pathway that was made of some kind of precious gem stone that I never saw before or after. Looking up the pathway before me I beheld The Great White Throne of Almighty God. Only He was not sitting upon it at that time; but rather, to the Right side of the Throne (which was to my left because I was facing the Throne,) I beheld the Holy Trinity. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit standing side by side. Except that they appeared as One Light and there was no discernable division of space between each one’s figure. Except for the fact that the Father, who I discerned was the one in the middle, was taller than both Jesus and the Holy Spirit who stood at the same height as each other at both of His sides. Their faces shown so brightly that I could not see any visible characteristics about their faces. All I could see was the Brilliant white light that shown brighter than the Sun. And before them there was this great large room and I saw rows of what appeared to be like Church pews and standing at the pews I beheld Saints of God all dressed in brilliant white robes. And these Christians were not so much discernable as knowing from exactly what nationality each had come from; rather, they were of every color: Red Tan and Yellow, Black, Brown and White. And yet they were all made of God’s Light.
Each person no matter their color: From the Whitest White to the Blackest Black and all colors in between. They all shined with this same emanating inner Light that radiated not only from the Holy Trinity but from within each of these Saints as well. And I stood there totally transfixed by this awesome sight until I heard a great commotion coming from my right, (which was actually the left side of the Throne room when viewed from God’s perspective.) Upon turning to my right hand I beheld what appeared to be the mouth of a dark cavern and just inside there was a great mass of people that far out numbered the Saints. Only these people were not distinguishable so much for their skin colors; Rather, they were distinguished by the worldly styles of fashions that each wore. There was every type of worldly entertainment represented there; Only, I was made to know that these were all religious counterfeit “Christian” entertainers which were representing the entertainments that each one’s style of fashion reflected. There were “Christian” Rockers, “Christian” Rappers, “Christian” Punk Rockers, “Christian” Metal Heads, “Christian” Pop Rockers, “Christian” Jazz Players, “Christian” Country and Western Cow Boys and Cow Girls, “Christian” Sports figures, “Christian” Foot Ball, Base Ball and Basketball players as well as one person who I discerned to be a “Christian” Comedian.
Each person wore a style of fashion like a uniform which identified them with their worldly lust. The “Christian” Country Music players had on their Cow Boy hats and boots, and button down shirts with a big belt buckle in front of their denim jeans. The Punk Rocker had his face rings, leather jacket, Mohawk hair style and spandex and leather clothing. The Rapper had his “gangster” style of fashion going on. The Metal Head had on his leather jacket, chains and spiked wristbands along with his shameful womanish long hair. And the Sports Players all had on their various sports uniforms. There was so many entertainment styles of fashion represented there that I can not possibly go into detail describing them all. Yet I discerned immediately that these counterfeit “Christian” entertainers represented the Armies of the Antichrist. And I was made to understand that there were spirit princes of wickedness over each style of religious entertainment and those carnal false “Christian” masses that were fans of and/or who followed after these particular entertainments were actually having direct communion with demon rulers of darkness through the demon powers that worked under the evil spiritual principalities that governed the kingdom of darkness.
At this point in the vision my attention was drawn to one individual in particular who stood in this perditious throng. She looked like a Pop Rock Starlet whose attire was that of a harlot in that her fashion of dress was very tight and revealing and she was what the world would call very “sexy.” For reasons unbeknown to me at the time, I knew that I had to study her face very closely so that I would remember what she looked like. I remember just standing there staring at her face knowing that she had some significance to all that I was then beholding and I stood there wondering what it was or why? Because I had never seen this individual before. Then suddenly a fog like mist began to arise all around these entertainers and lightning flashes began to flicker as the noise of crashing thunder was heard. The whole scene reminded me of the opening of a Heavy Metal Rock Concert. Then a voice spoke to me telling me that the fog which I beheld rising up around these entertainers was the power of a strong delusion. Then I noticed the eyes of this Pop Rock Starlet. Her eyes had grown wide and starry as she was looking strait forward totally mesmerized. Looking around I noticed that everyone’s eyes were mesmerized in the same way and that they were all looking at something to the front of them. And that is when I beheld the unholy trinity of the three unclean spirits of the antichrist.
Now mind you that at this time in my life I had never read the whole book of Revelation if I had I only skipped through it not understanding much of what I read. My point being that I had no idea that it contained anything about these three antichrist spirits which looked like frogs. It was after having this vision that I would later discover the following verses:
“And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.” Revelation 16:13-14
These three unclean spirits like frogs which I beheld, stood upright as men. Only they had green reptilian like skin which was covered with what looked like diseased and festering sores and purplish spots. Their hands and feet were webbed like fish fins between their long sharply pointed fingers and toes. And though this may sound a bit far fetched and perhaps even ludicrous, I tell you the honest truth when I say that these demon creatures looked very much in appearance like the popular “Teen Age Mutant Ninja Turtles.” Only they wore no mask and did not have shells on their backs. And their eyes were a glossy black as dark as death itself. While the expressions on their faces manifested the most utter and absolute evil of the most violent and hostile intent.
Then I watched as the far wall of that cavern opened up like a gate revealing the very depths of hell itself where I beheld the souls of countless millions writhing in agony in the flames of that horrible furnace. At which point these frog-like creatures turned and walked into the flames leading all these counterfeit Christian soldiers of the antichrist with them into the perdition of a burning hell. What shocked me the most out of everything I had seen was the way that all these entertainers just followed these demons right into that burning hell with their eyes wide open and yet without the slightest clue that anything was wrong. Then I immediately awoke and I knew beyond all doubt that God had given me this vision as a grave warning to awaken out of the worldly snare of the Devil that “Christian” entertainment really is.
It was about a week later that I was watching some Christian program on TV 38 in Chicago, when I about fell out of my chair. Because right there on this Religious Broadcasting Network they introduced a female Contemporary Christian Pop Music Artist who I had only seen one time before in my entire life just a week before. It was the provocatively dressed woman from my vision with the mesmerized eyes who stood under the power of a strong delusion and followed the spirits of antichrist into hell. They introduced her by name as “Amy Grant.” It was then that I knew beyond all doubt that the vision I had was more than just a dream inspired by my own confusion. God had supernaturally confirmed the answer to my prayer. As I began to grow in the Word of God, I discovered that contrary to popular belief, the Bible is full of instructions about worldly styles of music and entertainment in God’s Church. The Holy Spirit has not left us without abundant warnings that it is indeed a strange fire from the depths of hell and it has absolutely no place in a true Christian’s life. I pray that this testimony will be used by the Holy Spirit to turn many from this perditious road to hell. For as it written:
“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that 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. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come…” 1st John 2:15-18
The Atmospheric Ascendancy of the Antichrist
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” Isaiah 5:20
When good is evil and evil is good When reality and truth are no longer understood
When light is as darkness and dark is as light When love waxes cold and for peace they shall fight
When the Christian Church becomes Contemporary and all Religions come together as one Woe unto them all for that Anti-Christ hath come
For when the Right Winged Eagle devours the innocent Doves Both Left and Right Winged Pigeons shall perch in an ecumenical false love
Thus when bitter is sweet and sweet becomes bitter The judgment of God shall fall upon all wicked sinners
And then shall the Saints be raised to prevail For at the brightness of Christ's second coming Satan's darkness shall fail. © 1993 Raymond Bolton Pena
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