LATEST NEWS FLASHES!--No.193--By WS Staff        DFO 10/93
INTRODUCTION TO "HELL'S BELLS"!--A Warning, Classification, and Clarification
[Please read the following LNF before reading the "Hell's Bells" Christian Digest]

         GBY! Enclosed with this mailing is a new Christian Digest entitled, "Hell's Bells--Don't Be Seduced by Satan's Sirens," which we're sure you will find an informative, shocking and very sobering confirmation of what Dad has said from the very beginning about the evils and dangers of modern System rock music! "Music is the religion (of kids today), and much of it comes straight from Hell and is diabolical, demonic ... a spiritual thing that gets them into that same vicious kind of violent spirit! It's like fighting the very demons of Hell, a horrible spiritual influence! They're getting themselves ready for Hell itself! It's horror music!--Absolutely the fiends of Hell, straight out of the Pit!" (MOP 84:57,58.) Even though Dad didn't get into all of the facts and figures mentioned in this Christian Digest in his Letters, or even know the specifics about how depraved and given over to the Enemy a lot of today's rockers are, he sensed it by the Spirit and has always warned us about it, thank the Lord!
         Although this Christian Digest contains a lot of gory and gruesome facts about the rock musicians and rock music that the World blindly idolises, we believe that the material contained herein will help you to understand why Dad has always been so revulsed by and opposed to the Enemy's horror music, and why we in the Family avoid polluting our minds and hearts with it. Reading this Christian Digest will help open your eyes and help you to not be ignorant of one of the Devil's favourite devices, a medium which has enabled him to ensnare millions of souls for his kingdom of darkness!
         There are several aspects of this Christian Digest which we feel are important to explain and clarify for you, our dear Family adults, YAs and teens.
         First of all, please be forewarned that many of the pictures, details and testimonies contained in this expos of System rock music are quite vivid and gruesome. It is therefore classified "For adults, YAs and teens only," and we caution you to pray earnestly for the Lord's protection before reading and for spiritual cleansing afterwards, "lest Satan should get an advantage of us (through lingering thoughts or images), for we are not ignorant of his devices."--2Cor.2:11. We also suggest that you try to plan your reading time so that you are able to read something else that is more positive and uplifting afterwards. Also, we recommend that you avoid unnecessary or extended conversations about the contents of this Christian Digest outside of your group pow-wows, as we not only want to "give no place to the Devil" (Eph.4:27), but we'd like to keep our JETTs and younger children from being unnecessarily affected by the horrors exposed in this publication. Please don't leave this pub in a place where JETTs and younger children can pick it up and read it. Thanks!
         We would also like to take this opportunity to try to answer several of the questions which we anticipate some of you may have regarding this material, beginning with, "Why such a lengthy pub going into so much detail about the Devil's handiwork? Hasn't Dad discouraged us from even talking about the Devil's dirty deeds, lest we give him undue `glory'?" Well, we try not to dwell on the dark side, but as Dad recently reminded us, "exposing evil is our job!" (ML# 2828:1.) And we feel this Christian Digest does just that! It rips away the surface glamour and glitter of the rock scene and clearly exposes Satan's hand behind it all.
         "The fear of the Lord is to hate evil," and we, as God's children, are to "hate even the garment spotted by the flesh" of the World's perverse and literally demonic rock idols.--Pro.8:13; Jude 23. Since some of our teens had shown an inclination for such System rock music, we felt it was important to expose its evil source and content. We hope this expos will be more than enough to help you really hate this dastardly device of the Devil and deliver any in our ranks who may still have a hankering for Satan's sirens (seductive but evil charmers) in System rock! (2 Peter 2:9.)
         Another question that may arise is, "If rock music is such a tool of the Devil, what about our music? Isn't much of it also rock, especially the new Endtime Scripture Song Tape?" Although most System rock is of the Devil and we can soundly and resolutely condemn it as such, we must also recognise music's potential for good when composed, performed and sung under the inspiration of God and for His glory. In fact, the Lord told us specifically that "our music is the miracle which attracts so many to our Message about the Man."--MOP 84:35. Our rock music is not bad, because it's designed to make you "want to be good and do good, and love and be loved, and be helpful and constructive," as Dad said in "Musical Key." "You can tell about music just like anything else, by its effect on you."
         The bottom line, as the author of this Christian Digest clearly brings out, is that "by their fruits ye shall know them."--Mat.7:20. Our Spirit-filled music has good fruit, and has resulted in millions of souls saved, lives changed, and disciples won around the World. System rock music often leads its listeners into drugs, degradation, demonism, destruction and death! At the very least it seduces its listeners into spiritual confusion, rebellion and hatred. Or, as Dad has said, if the Enemy can't inspire you to take actual negative action, he'll try to lull you to sleep, indifference and a stupor through his enticing melodies and hypnotising jungle beats, so you at least won't get in his way.
         Lastly, we would like to recommend that, in witnessing, it might be better to use the general principles Dad brings out in "Musical Key" and "Sequel to Musical Key" rather than the specific, often gory examples mentioned in this Christian Digest. (See ML #326, 326A.) Young people could probably relate to this better, unless they are already saved and filled with the Holy Spirit, or they express similar views regarding modern rock. Remember that "the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit," and most of the youth today have been completely beguiled by this hellish music. (1Cor.2:14.) So to come along preaching against rock will only alienate most of them.--Lift up Jesus and He will draw all men unto Himself! (Jn.12:32.)
         Instead of preaching against what they've got, give them something better--our music and Message, and especially Jesus and salvation! "In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the Devil, who are taken captive by him at his will."--2Tim.2:25-26. Let the light in and the darkness will flee!
         We love you and pray that this Christian Digest will be a blessing. God bless you with a good healthy appetite for God's good music! Amen! WLY!
         P.S. Much of the text of "Hell's Bells" was adapted from a video of the same name. The video itself is not recommended, however, because of the graphic scenes and the lasting bad impression it can leave on both teens and adults! God bless you!

Copyright (c) 1998 by The Family