Welcome to "Battles of Faith".
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We're your hosts
Ivor and Atonte Myers.
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Today we're
continuing our discussion
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about the French Revolution.
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The title of today's program is
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'The Science of
Music and the Beast'.
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Now, I know many
of you are wondering
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'what are they going to say?
How does the French revolution
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affect the music of today?'
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Well, if you're
about to change the channel
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or go to another room,
you're not going to want
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to do that. You're
going to want to sit down,
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grab your Bible and go
through the Scriptures with us
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as we study this
very important topic.
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- Yes. We have been dealing
with the French Revolution,
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we've been discussing
the Beast from the abyss
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and showing how this beast,
that rises up from the abyss,
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according to Revelation
11:7 has a wide effect
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on what we see today
happening with our young people.
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We are going to be
looking today at music.
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We have seen already evolution,
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arising from this
beast from the abyss,
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from the French Revolution
in our previous program...
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sexual perversion, we
have looked at the issue of
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humanism and seen all
these principles rising
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out from this profetic
event found in Revelation 11.
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Again, I want to
look at our graphic,
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first graphic
rather, which we have been
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actually putting up
there through previous shows
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speaking of this dissemination
of the French Revolution,
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the principles that came
out of the French Revolution
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and it says here:
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[text on the screen]
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And that's in the
book 'Education', page 228.
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What we see here is that
the principles that arose out of
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the French Revolution, that
led to the French Revolution
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are now going out
on a worldwide scale.
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So, I'm saying that
the French Revolution was
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a test tube that
the enemy was using,
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and now, these things, humanism,
evolution, sexual permissivness,
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and now we're
going to see music,
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are all being the principles
that the enemy is trying to use
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and that are now
being disseminated
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on a worldwide basis.
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We have a very
interesting study today.
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We're going to be looking
at a chart we have created
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and it's called 'The
Family Tree of Musical Sorcery'.
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If it's sounds interesting,
that's because it is interesting
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It's amazing to see the
history of the kinds of music
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that we listen to today, and
that's what we'll be looking at.
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So, I want to put our first
slide up, our first graphic up
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and we are going to see here,
at the bottom of this graphic...
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You see this family tree
and, right at the bottom,
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it stands the Santa
Domingo slave trade.
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I want to give a
little history about that.
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In 1492 Columbus discovered
a little island or place
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by the name of Hispaniola.
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A little while later, the
Spaniards sold this little
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Caraibbean place to
the French, and the French
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changed the name from
Hispaniola to Santa Domingo.
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And it was here,
in Santa Domingo,
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where it became one of the
popular centers for slave trade.
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And what would happen is
that tha slaves would come in,
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would be brought in to
this place and they were
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immediately
baptized as Catholics.
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However, they were not
allowed to read their Bibles,
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they were not
allowed to really understand
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what it was that they
were being baptized into.
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What happened is that,
these slaves, being brought
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from various parts of
Africa were separated so that
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they would not really be able
to communicate with each other.
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That
communication barrier was broken
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and what happened is that
these slaves began to come
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together and to synchronize
their various religions.
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So, what they came
up with was a religion
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which we know today as voodoo.
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- And it's something
that they had in common
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from Africa.
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I mean, they had these religions
and these worship services
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in Africa, and the only thing
that they could still relate to
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each other was this religion;
because they were forced
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to become Catholic
and they weren't able to,
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publically, do their religion,
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they had to do it in secrecy.
They couldn't publically
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practice their voodoo
tradition or religion.
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That's right. So, what happened
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is that you've got
this synchronization
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of all thse various gods.
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That's very interesting,
because, when you look
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at the prophecy of Revelation 11
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where this beast that
rises up from the abyss is...
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A part of the location
that is atributed to this beast
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is Sodom and also Egypt.
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We said in previous
programs that Egypt was known
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for its denial of
God, when Pharaoh said:
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'Who is God that I
should serve Him?'.
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But Egypt is also known
for its multiplicity of gods.
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You remember, when God
was sending those plagues down
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upon the Egyptians, those
represented the ten different
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gods, the gods of the
water, the gods of the air.
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Egypt was known for its
multiplicity of gods and,
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interesting enough, in
this place called Santa Domingo
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you've got all these
different gods coming together,
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being
synchronized by the slaves,
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and you come up with
this religion called voodoo.
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Now, what is so
special about voodoo.
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Hollywood makes a lot
of fun about voodoo today
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and people just shove it off but
voodoo is an actual religion.
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- It is. And the appropriate
name for it is "vudun".
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It turned to voodoo
once, here in America, people
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started to pick it
up. But the original name
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was "vudun".
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- That's right.
Now, we're going to throw
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another graphic up
here and we see here:
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[text on the screen]
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Interestingly enough, Atonte,
the central figure of voodoo
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is a serpant...
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And we know that, as
we look at the Bible,
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we see that the serpant is
symbolic of the Devil, of Satan.
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And so, here you have
these gods coming together
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and you have the
serpant as the central figure
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and it is described as
the religion under which
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all who gather, share the faith.
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This serpant is
symbolic to something that,
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according to the
Bible, is satanic and wicked.
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Now, we're going to
look at another graphic here
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and this graphic
descibes what voodoo is about.
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Listen to this:
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[text on the screen]
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- In other words, I like
to paraphrase that almost like
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it's the sign
language to the gods.
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The different dance
movements that they do during
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the voodoo service is an
expression without words,
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it's speaking to them.
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- That's right. This is not
a coreographed kind of dance.
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We're talking about
people who are dancing
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according to what
they were listening to,
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according to what they
heard. So, I'm going to put
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another graphic up.
Listen to this again:
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[text on the screen]
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So, here we have this
description of what voodoo is.
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Its key element, its
holy instrument is the drum.
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Its key elements
are drum and dance.
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And the serpant is the central
figure of this voodoo religion.
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Now, I want to read
another statement here and,
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by the way, we don't
have refferences from these.
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That's because we've
got them from web sites
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and these web sites
are actually voodoo sites.
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In other words,
they explain voodoo.
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So, we don't want to
put the source up there,
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but this is research
that we share with you.
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Listen to what this says:
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[text on the screen]
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- So, it's very much a part
of their ceremony...the dance.
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It is essential for them
to be possesed by the spirits.
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- In fact, in the voodoo
religion, the dance represents
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a unity of the gods
and and the human body.
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They call it that
gods are riding the body.
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And that's what
happens when they come in,
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when the gods
supposedly come in, and
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the body begins to move
serpant-like is what they say.
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The spine begins to
move in a serpantlike way
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and they say this is
the possesion of the gods,
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the gods riding their subjects.
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- And again, I'm sure there
are viewers out there thinking:
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"Hey, well, we are Christians,
we don't partake in voodoo."
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And so, what does this
have to do with the music issues
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that we are facing today?
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- We have been dealing
with the French Revolution,
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showing the spirit of
anti-Bible and anti-God
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that arose out
of that revolution.
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Well, how does this
Santa Domingo and voodoo
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tie in with that?
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In 1791, right in the
middle of the French Revolution
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something happened on
the island of Santa Domingo.
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The slaves of Santa
Domingo saw what was happening
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in France. Remember, this
is a French Caraibbean island.
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They saw what was
happening in Fance,
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and the same spirit of uprising
that they saw taking place
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in France as it
were imbude them.
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In other words, they looked
at what was happening in France
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and said 'We are going to
stage an uprising as well'.
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And you have this uprising...
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And, to this day, this
Santa Domingo stage the only
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successfull
uprising, revolt that was
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a successfull revolt.
And at this very time,
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the name of the
island was changed to Haiti.
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And that's how we
know it today, as Haiti...
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And there, the voodoo is a
very intrical part of Haiti.
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- It's a proeminent religion.
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- That's right.
And so, what we can see
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according to one of the
quotes that we have just seen,
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is that the principles that
led to the French Revolution
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and that are rising out
of the French Revolution,
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are now being disseminated
on a worldwide level.
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We've seen it through
evolution, sexual permissivness,
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we've seen it through humanism
and now we're going to look
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at how this revolt in
Haiti actually spread out.
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We're going to put
our graphic up again
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and you'll notice there,
on the third box, highlighted.
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We have there the
beast from the abyss,
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the French Haiti revolution.
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But now, you'll look up to
the right and you'll notice
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the Louisiana purchase.
What is the Louisiana Purchase
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all about?
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Very simple. France, at
this time had owned almost
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all of the USA,
as we know it today.
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The whole thing
was called Louisiana.
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Well, in 1803-1804,
France sells Louisiana to
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America.
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- And we know it as the
famous "Louisiana Purchase".
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- And what's interesting
about that is...we've already
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discussed that. The
beast from the abyss
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represented the things
that took place in France,
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the Revolution in France.
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The beast from the
earth, Revelation 13:11:
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'the horns like a
lamb... speaks like a dragon...'
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represents events
taken place in the US.
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In the Louisiana Purchase
you have France and the USA
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making this land agreement.
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What's so
significant about that?
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Well, part of the Louisiana
Purchase are one of the
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places which
America aquired as her own
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was a place called New Orleans.
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- And then slaves
were brought to New Orleans
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and that started to be a major
slave trade port for America.
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- Exactly. And that is
where, in New Orleans, voodoo
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entered in America.
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- A little side note:
voodoo, as a religion,
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wasn't allowed to be practiced
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anywhere in America at that
time, except for New Orleans.
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- And, to even take that
further, they were only allowed
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to practice their
voodoo ceremonies on Sundays
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in congo square. And
what happened as these slaves
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came over to America
and even the free came over
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to America, and to New Orleans,
they brought their voodoo
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traditions with
them, and they would begin
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practicing their
vudun at congo square.
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And what happened
is that you had people
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that were coming,
Americans that would come,
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and wonder: "What is
this strange music that
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these people are
doing, and this dancing?",
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because it was
foreign to America.
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And what happened is that
these tourists would see it
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and it began to
interest them so much that
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they began to imitate it.
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A part of the music
that began to be popular
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just around
this time, the 1900's
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was something
known as "Ragtime".
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The 'Ragtime' actually
sprang out of New Orleans
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as a result of the slaves that
were brought in to New Orleans.
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We can safely
say that 'Ragtime',
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with its off-time
rythm, with the lawlessness
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that it brought it with
it, we can safely say that
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this also ascended out of
the beast, or out of the abyss
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that we saw arose up
from the French Revolution.
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We've got Santa
Domingo, we've got Haiti,
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we've got the French Revolution,
we've got France selling
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Louisiana to
America, we've got New Orleans
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with the slaves coming over,
the voodoo practicing slaves
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coming over, and then
we've got this music that
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is introduced to
America for the first time
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called 'Ragtime'.
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We're going to put
our graphic up there
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and you're going
to notice on box no.5,
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the highlighted
box where it says:
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'New Orleans slaves
migrate from Haiti. Voodoo
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enters America', box
no.6: 'Ragtime' - is the music
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that comes out of this
style that they brought
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to America. From
there you'll se the word,
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or the term
'R&B'. That stands for
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Rythm and Blues,
which sprung out of Ragtime.
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And so, here you have
this music that is beginning to
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evolve, change
forms, transform itself
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and it's moving from
one style to another.
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Interesting thing about
this is, we looked at the beast
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from the abyss and saw that
this beast represented Egypt
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and Sodom -
sexual permissivness.
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And, as you look at
these styles of music,
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and their origins
and what they cause,
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we can ask a
question: 'Do we see Egypt?'
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"who is God that I
should obey Him?"...
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yes, because
Ragtime and R&B were music
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produced by those
who did not want to have
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anything to do with God.
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They weren't into Christianity.
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They looked at that
as the 'white' religion
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and so, they came up
with a different form of music
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and said: 'This is our own,
this is our music that expresses
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our sorrows, that
expresses what we want to do
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where we don't have
much so we like to talk about
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those things that
make us all feel good',
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which, at the time, and still
now, was sexual permissivness,
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lawlessness. We see
that in this style of music.
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We're going to look
at the graphic again.
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We're going to notice
that, from R&B, the next box
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highlighted would be Jazz.
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1920's! And 'jazz'
happens to be a sexual term,
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term that was used..
- ...to describe sex.
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- To describe sexual act.
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So, here you have
again; this music is fit into
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the description of
Sodom given to the beast
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in Revelation 11.
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Another
interesting thing about this
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is...as you look at New
Orleans and the celebrations
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that thay have
happening in New Orleans...
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In Revelation 11:10 it says:
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"And they that dwell
upon the earth shall rejoice
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and make merry,
and shall send gifts
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one to another
because these two prophets
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tormented them that
dwelt on the earth."
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We're speaking here about
the Old and the New Testament.
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When the Old and the
New Testament were put away,
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the people celebrated
because they were happy
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that God was out of the picture.
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And look at what was
happening in New Orleans.
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Look at all the celebrations
that were going on there.
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They're celebrations
of sin, of wickidness.
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Look at Southern
decadence, a celebration of
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sexual permissivness.
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Look at the Jazz Festival...
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All these different celebrations
which are, for the most part,
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accompanied with
Sodom - sexual permissivness
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and Egypt - 'who is God
that I should obey Him?'
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Looking at our graphic
again we see that from jazz
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and tha 1920's, you come to
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Rock'n Roll in
the '50s and the '60s.
00:20:16.78\00:20:20.72
And, amazingly enough,
Rock'n Roll brought with it
00:20:20.75\00:20:25.37
the spirit of rebellion.
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We can safely say that
rock'n roll ascended out
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of that abyss.
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And you look: Sodom,
Egypt are the principles there?
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Very much so. They are there.
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Now, rock'n roll
took two different turns
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in the '50s and the '60s.
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Number 1: in the
island of Jamaica.
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They would listen to the
music coming from New Orleans
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which was
popular music, pop music,
00:20:54.42\00:20:56.34
rock'n roll, jazz, blues,
00:20:56.37\00:20:58.12
they would listen to this, but
the signal wasn't very strong
00:20:58.15\00:21:03.39
so it would break up and
00:21:03.42\00:21:05.57
they would go out at
times and come back in
00:21:05.60\00:21:07.77
and what happened is
that the Jamaicans formed
00:21:07.80\00:21:10.43
this style of music
where the music is played
00:21:10.46\00:21:13.77
for a little while and
then they purposely stop it,
00:21:13.80\00:21:15.69
and the DJ would
talk, and the music would
00:21:15.72\00:21:17.98
start again. This is called
00:21:18.01\00:21:20.25
the forerunner of Reggae.
00:21:20.28\00:21:22.05
Well, in the 1970's,
Reggae was taken from Jamaica
00:21:22.08\00:21:27.83
and brought back over to America
00:21:27.86\00:21:30.48
and there is where you have
the introduction of hip-hop,
00:21:30.51\00:21:33.66
in the '70s and '80s,
beginning in Bronx, New York.
00:21:33.69\00:21:39.89
- And there's where
the rap music started.
00:21:39.93\00:21:42.28
- There's where
hip-hop and rap music began.
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Let me jump back a little
bit. We're going to put our
00:21:45.67\00:21:47.55
graphic up one more time
and you're going to notice that
00:21:47.58\00:21:49.93
large box that says:
'The Jesus Movement'.
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What was the 'Jesus Movement'?
00:21:54.47\00:21:56.72
Some of you, who were
around in the '50s and '60s,
00:21:56.75\00:21:58.86
or '60s rather
remember the 'Jesus Movement'.
00:21:58.89\00:22:02.18
What happened there?
00:22:02.21\00:22:03.29
The hippies from the
rock'n roll era, decided that,
00:22:03.32\00:22:07.14
after trying drugs,
they were going to try Jesus.
00:22:07.17\00:22:11.10
And what they did is
they became Christians,
00:22:11.13\00:22:15.09
but they took
their music with them.
00:22:15.12\00:22:20.01
Now remember where
this music is coming from.
00:22:20.05\00:22:21.84
It's coming from Santa Domingo,
the vudun spirit of worship,
00:22:21.87\00:22:26.42
the gods entering the
body and riding the body.
00:22:26.45\00:22:29.96
And, as you look at
rock'n roll, what was happening
00:22:29.99\00:22:32.14
to the young people?
00:22:32.17\00:22:34.89
It was as though
those spirits were entering
00:22:34.93\00:22:38.54
and just making them do all
kinds of crazy rebellious things
00:22:38.57\00:22:43.15
The 'Jesus
Movement' took that music,
00:22:43.18\00:22:46.51
and thus, you have the
birth of what is known today
00:22:46.54\00:22:50.47
as CCM,
Contemporary Christian Music.
00:22:50.50\00:22:54.92
Now, let me say here
that CCM simply means
00:22:54.95\00:23:00.72
music that is
contemporary with our times.
00:23:00.75\00:23:03.80
And I'm not saying that all
contemporary christian music
00:23:03.83\00:23:06.28
is wrong, because artists
should be free to do music
00:23:06.31\00:23:11.18
that is up to date.
00:23:11.21\00:23:13.08
But, the kind of music
that reflects what we see
00:23:13.11\00:23:17.10
rising out of the abyss,
that is where we take issue.
00:23:17.13\00:23:20.69
- And the most important
thing, taking it back to
00:23:20.72\00:23:23.79
the voodoo religion, the way
that they were able to create
00:23:23.82\00:23:27.13
that dance and that
movement was from the drum.
00:23:27.16\00:23:29.87
The drummer was the key
person in the voodoo ceremony,
00:23:29.90\00:23:34.84
to get them to move.
You cannot dance in that way
00:23:34.87\00:23:38.58
without a drum.
00:23:38.61\00:23:40.42
And so now, as we're
looking at Christian music
00:23:40.46\00:23:43.53
you're thinking: 'It's okay
to have contemporary music',
00:23:43.56\00:23:46.18
but if it carries the
same element that the voodoo
00:23:46.21\00:23:50.09
religion carried,
then there is a problem.
00:23:50.12\00:23:52.82
Now, here's a powerful thing.
00:23:52.85\00:23:54.43
When the slaves of
Santa Domingo began
00:23:54.46\00:23:58.79
to practice the vudun,
they didn't do it openly
00:23:58.83\00:24:01.10
because they knew
that the Catholics
00:24:01.13\00:24:03.34
were watching them
and that they had to be
00:24:03.37\00:24:06.02
very careful. In other
words voodoo had the power to
00:24:06.05\00:24:09.07
synchronize or hide itself
under a religious disguise.
00:24:09.10\00:24:13.44
You go to some of
those countries today
00:24:13.47\00:24:15.55
and you'll still see the element
00:24:15.58\00:24:17.10
of Catholicism
mixed with voodoo.
00:24:17.13\00:24:18.95
Well, what we have happening
in the '60s is this very same
00:24:18.98\00:24:22.46
principle. Voodoo,
which has transformed itself,
00:24:22.49\00:24:25.77
evolved as it were,
was able to adapt under
00:24:25.80\00:24:30.58
this Christian disguise
and now it found its way
00:24:30.61\00:24:34.29
moving into what we now see,
00:24:34.32\00:24:35.90
we're going to put our
graphic up one last time,
00:24:35.93\00:24:37.74
we have Christian Rap,
Christian R&B, Christian Rock,
00:24:37.77\00:24:43.38
Christian Jazz.
00:24:43.41\00:24:45.59
And it's amazing to see how
this musical tree of sorcery
00:24:45.63\00:24:54.37
began all the way
back on this island,
00:24:54.40\00:24:57.39
and through the
French Revolution
00:24:57.42\00:24:59.08
it just exploded upon the world.
00:24:59.11\00:25:01.66
And I want to
read this quote again,
00:25:01.69\00:25:03.66
where it tells us that
the worldwide dissemination
00:25:03.69\00:25:08.99
of the principles that
led to the French Revolution
00:25:09.02\00:25:12.36
are leading the world
into a state similar to that
00:25:12.39\00:25:19.34
which convulsed France.
00:25:19.38\00:25:20.91
- I have a
powerful statement here.
00:25:20.94\00:25:22.92
It's talking about Jimmy Hendrix
00:25:22.95\00:25:26.03
who was in London one
time with a drummer from Africa
00:25:26.06\00:25:30.83
who was a part of
the voodoo religion.
00:25:30.86\00:25:32.57
Listen to what it says:
00:25:32.60\00:25:33.77
" He [Hendrix] had
gotten a chance to see Rocky
00:25:33.80\00:25:36.05
[which is the gentleman
from Africa] and some other
00:25:36.08\00:25:38.83
African musicians
on a London scene.
00:25:38.86\00:25:40.81
He found it a
pleasure to play rythms against
00:25:40.84\00:25:42.73
their poli-rythms. They
would totally go outside into
00:25:42.76\00:25:46.48
another kind of space
that he had seldom been
00:25:46.51\00:25:49.21
in before. Rocky's
father was a voodoo priest
00:25:49.24\00:25:52.30
and the chief drummer of a
village in Guana, West Africa.
00:25:52.33\00:25:55.61
Rocky's real name is Quazi.
00:25:55.64\00:25:58.10
One of the first things
that Rocky asked Jimmy was
00:25:58.13\00:26:00.76
where he got that
voodoo rythm from.
00:26:00.79\00:26:03.46
When Jimmy dimarred
Rocky went on to explain,
00:26:03.49\00:26:07.40
in his halting
English, that many of the
00:26:07.43\00:26:09.99
signature rythms
Jimmy played on a guitar
00:26:10.02\00:26:12.35
were very often the
same rythms that his father
00:26:12.38\00:26:15.13
played in voodoo ceremonies.
00:26:15.16\00:26:17.04
The way Jimmy danced
to the rythms of the play
00:26:17.07\00:26:19.77
reminded Rocky of
the ceremonial dance,
00:26:19.80\00:26:22.12
to the rythms that his father
played during voodoo ceremonies.
00:26:22.15\00:26:26.24
To the gods of
thunder and lightning.
00:26:26.27\00:26:28.27
- That's right.
One of the things
00:26:28.30\00:26:29.35
that a lot of people
don't understand is that,
00:26:29.38\00:26:31.07
in the voodoo
religion, the word "syncopation"
00:26:31.10\00:26:33.68
simlpy means the gods
and humanity joining together
00:26:33.71\00:26:39.08
in dance. That's what
the word 'syncopation' means.
00:26:39.12\00:26:42.60
And, as we think
about what we see today,
00:26:42.63\00:26:45.27
as Christians we
need to be aware that what
00:26:45.30\00:26:50.17
we are up against is
the beast from the abyss.
00:26:50.20\00:26:53.14
He is rising up
through evolution,
00:26:53.17\00:26:56.10
through humanism, through drama,
00:26:56.13\00:26:59.33
through sexual
perversion and now, we see,
00:26:59.37\00:27:02.29
even through music
he is trying to bring
00:27:02.32\00:27:05.78
the world down into the abyss.
00:27:05.81\00:27:07.65
- And into the church,
because many of the contemporary
00:27:07.68\00:27:11.11
christian music that we
hear today has the same rythm
00:27:11.14\00:27:14.20
and the same beat that
you hear in the worldly music
00:27:14.23\00:27:17.45
if you turn on
your radio station.
00:27:17.48\00:27:19.45
And here it is,
that beat and rythm came
00:27:19.48\00:27:22.15
from the voodoo
religion and the drums that they
00:27:22.18\00:27:26.18
were playing to
bring out those gods.
00:27:26.21\00:27:28.35
- We want to encourage
our viewers to take this
00:27:28.38\00:27:31.88
seriously. You
mention the word 'voodoo'
00:27:31.91\00:27:34.38
and people laugh:
'Ha, ha, ha, you don't
00:27:34.41\00:27:35.60
really believe in
that stuff, do you?"
00:27:35.63\00:27:37.40
It's a real religion.
It is, in reality able to
00:27:37.43\00:27:41.86
disguise itself
under many coverings,
00:27:41.89\00:27:45.09
and we want to encourage
our viewers who are struggling
00:27:45.12\00:27:47.92
with this very issue,
to open the Word of God,
00:27:47.95\00:27:50.76
to research this, to
study it and see for themselves
00:27:50.79\00:27:55.15
if what we're
saying is not true.
00:27:55.18\00:27:57.24
- Well, unfortunately
we're all out of time.
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Until next time, God bless.
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