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- March 1988
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- MUSIC AND THE NEW AGE
-
- Joseph Schimmel
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- Michael Jackson, a best-selling singer, songwriter, producer,
- movie star and dancer, is the uncontested, outstanding male recording
- star of the 80's.
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- In February of 1984 he was awarded an unprecedented
- eight Grammy awards, a feat never before accomplished in Grammy
- history. At that point his album Thriller had become the biggest
- selling solo album ever, an album that covered everything from sexual
- fantasy to demon possession.
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- Michael Jackson's life offstage has been
- no less fantastic than his life onstage. Throughout the years he has
- reportedly done everything from collecting mannequins and attempting to
- purchase the bone of the Elephant an to spending part of his life
- living in a plastic bubble. Jackson has not only led much of the
- already lost world further from the truth and deeper into the fantasy
- explosion, but has become one of the most influential proponents of New
- Age ideas in the last days.
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- A favorite even among some deluded Christians, Jackson believes he
- is a prophet sent forth as a messenger to the children of the world.
- He claims I worry about the children, all my children all over the
- world, I live for them...
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- I was sent forth for the world, for the
- children, but have mercy, for I've been bleeding a long time now.
- Michael Jackson attributes his creative ability to the "force within"
- and reveals that his songs are given to him by way of revelation
- through "dreams" after being assembled in another realm. He says, the
- whole thing is strange, you hear the words, everything is right there
- in front of your face, and you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry, I just
- didn't write this.' Its there already. I feel that somewhere,
- someplace, it's all been done, and I'm the courier bringing it into the
- world.
-
- The Word of God reveals three different sources of dreams:
- natural (Ecc. 5:3); divine (Matt. 1:20); and evil (Jer. 23:32; 27:9,
- Zech. 10:2). Therefore the Lord instructs us to test those who claim
- revelation as a "dreamer of dreams" (Deut. 13:1-5) and if they speak
- not according to this Word it is because there is no light in them
- (Isa. 8:20).
-
- Sadly, the closest Michael Jackson gets to the Word of God in his
- lyrics is to promote as truth the very lie God reveals will cause many
- to be damned (2 Thess. 2:9-11).
-
- His song We Are The World was sung by
- an all- star line-up of over 40 singers ranging from Kenny Rogers to
- Cyndi Lauper. It was first done for famine relief in Africa and ended
- up being sung as an anthem during Hands Across America. the message
- Michael brings to his children is that we are all a part of God's great
- big family and that the world must come together as one...we're saving
- our own lives.
-
- The song goes on to say, as God has shown us by turning
- stones to bread so we all must lend a helping hand. Compared with
- Matt. 4:1-5 it does not take much discernment to detect the spirit
- behind the song. The co-writer of the song, Lionel Richie, is
- described as being "in shock" as to how fast Michael Jackson wrote the
- music. Interesting the book by the same title describes the lyrics as
- being "summoned."
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- In Jackson's song Another Part of Me from his latest album Bad he
- sings:
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- We're takin over, we have the truth, this is the mission, to see it
- through...this is our planet...and this is our message to you. The
- planets are linin' up, we're bringin' brighter days, they're allin
- line waiting for you...We're coming together...
-
- This song parallels the New Age Harmonic convergence claim that our
- planet was finding it s rightful alignment in the "galactic community"
- and summoning the New Age. Jackson performs this song, in a short
- movie played at Disneyland where he is seen as a savior transforming a
- decadent society into a paradise with his magic power.
-
- This is not to be taken lightly in that his message is drummed into
- the hearts and minds of millions via his music and as early as 1984 it
- was being reported that a group had emerged claiming he is the "Messiah
- returned" and the "Archangel Michael."
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- If we as discerning Christians reject sitting under the teachings of
- other false teachers, it is my prayer to God that all would reject the
- musical ministry of Michael Jackson.
-
- SCRIPTURES: God, in His Word, warns and alerts us concerning
- spiritual deception in the last days (Matt. 24:4-5, 11, 23-26, 2
- Thess. 2:3-12, 1 Tim. 4:1-3, 2 Tim. 3:8, 13-14, 4:1-5, Rev. 13:1-18,
- 16:13-15).
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