Featured What Do You Believe about Demonic Instrumental Music?

Not true. Music is not just a human thing. Asking if God is pleased with it is the ultimate question.

It absolutely matters who played it and in what context it was used.

Deuteronomy 12:29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land; 30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

God has put certain realms of human endeavor completely off-limits to His people. Concerning what idolaters do after their gods, God has forbidden even inquiring about how the idolaters serve their gods. This applies to everything they do in their worship, including their instrumental music.

God forbids Christians from having anything to do with the music of idolaters. We are not to listen to it to see if it is good music or bad music. We are to reject it categorically and have no fellowship with all such unfruitful works of darkness.

Disobedience to categorical divine prohibitions about not going to certain wicked people and bringing anything of theirs, which includes their instrumental music, into our lives is a premier reason that we have the debacle in our world today.

 

Wrong questions. That is not what this thread is about. This thread is about demonic instrumental music, what it is, why it must be rejected, etc.

No human being has the ability to musicologically analyze demonic instrumental music and definitively explain what is evil about it, etc. God has not authorized such analysis. He forbids any contact with it.

God demands that all music of certain evil people, including idolaters, be categorically rejected.

 

God also has put the occult totally off-limits to His people. Any music of the practitioners of the occult is to be rejected completely. Believers are not obligated to listen to any of it to explain why it is evil, and they are forbidden from doing so, and they are incapable of analyzing it musicologically to determine why it is evil. We must rid our lives of all such music.

 

We also have many testimonies from musicians who have said that their music is demonic. For example,

"Rock has always been the devil's music... I believe that rock & roll is dangerous... I feel that we're only heralding something even darker than ourselves."

Based on such testimonies, Christians are to reject rock music and all of its derivatives, etc.

Had Christians obeyed God and rejected this music completely from the beginning of its being brought into the Church, we would not have the problems with music that we have now in so many of our churches.

 

There is considerable dispute about what that phrase means. If it means "all kinds of music" in the sense that you are talking about, that does not render all of it evil because we know with certainty that he himself did not originate all kinds of music while he was under demonic influence.

Using something good that God Himself has made (some kinds of music) to do evil is not the same thing as originating under demonic influence something that is evil (some other kinds of music).

 

Regardless of what Neb. did or did not do, God forbids His people from going to certain evil people and having anything to do with what they do in their evil practices. There is no biblical justification for going to such wicked people and bringing their music into the worship of God.

We are not to judge their music on its supposed own merit. We are not to have anything to do with it. We are not to listen to it, analyze it, or anything else.

We are commanded to have "no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness" (Eph. 5:11). You do not get to say that instrumental music is an exception to this divine mandate.

I do not believe that all things originated with Christ. Christ did not originate pornography. He did not originate child sacrifice, bestiality, etc.

Scripture says that there are reprobate human beings who "invent evil things" (Rom. 1:32). That is God's Word. God is not the originator of any of those evil things.

There is no basis to say that does not apply to instrumental music.

No, music is not just a human thing. You explain away Scripture that teaches that angels produce music. I reject that handling of Scripture.

 

Voodoo is an evil occult practice. Voodoo music is music that must be rejected completely. Music derived from it must be rejected completely.

If you study the history of much of our popular music of our day, you will find that much of it either has its origins in voodoo music or has been influenced by voodoo musicians or is sourced in other occult practices.

 

Sorry, you are wrong. At Sinai, the people heard the sound of the trumpet emanating from the mount. We know with certainty that there were no humans anywhere on the mount who were playing that trumpet.

Exodus 19:16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.

Exodus 19:19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.

Exodus 20:18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

A supernatural being, either God Himself or an angel sounded that trumpet on that occasion. That was not music made by any human.

Moreover, we know that was not just metaphorical language. The Spirit says that it was sound produced by a trumpet.

Music is not just a human thing.

 

Not at all. Whatever is of the occult is to be rejected categorically--not analyzed. In addition to information about the occult nature of the music, we have plenty of testimonies about such instrumental music being demonic music.

You can immerse yourself in musicology to your heart's content. God never says that analyzing music is the necessary gold standard for knowing what pleases Him and what does not.

 

It does not matter what it seems to have to do with; it is of voodoo music--it is to be rejected.

No, it is not true that the music of some of our popular hymns had their roots in tavern songs. That is a false claim that has been refuted.

There are other valid reasons to reject instrumental music, including the content of any lyrics that it may be used to accompany. Those things are not the subject of this thread.

 

God's use of trumpets is not just in time past (1 Thess. 4:16-17, etc).

I do not know what you are saying in your second sentence.

As for your claim that a trumpet blast is not music, there is no Scripture that says that music is such and such but not such and such.

The Spirit says the following:

Corinthians 14:7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?

The only way that you can claim the sound of the trumpet at Sinai was not music is to show that only one note was played and held for the entire period. Good luck with showing that was true.

Furthermore, Reveille is used as a signal and it certainly is music and is taught to music students as music to play.