Drums and Beat Music

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59-0628  A  DECEIVED  CHURCH  BY  THE  WORLD

"Samson, the Philistines is on thee! Branham Tabernacle, worldlyism is creeping in among you. What about it? Have you exposed your secret? Have you exposed that secret that God give you when you were wallowing there in the sawdust a few years ago? Have you let it creep out by social, formal worship? What's happened to you? God can come down and perform a miracle, and go right down through the audience, and tell people the secrets of their hearts, and everything, and heal the sick and afflicted, and do signs and wonders, and preach His Word as hard as they can by the Holy Ghost, and people say, Well, I guess that's all right. We enjoy listening to it once in a while, if we're not too tired.

That's Branham Tabernacle. The Philistines is on thee."

The church means the called-out ones. Called out of the world in a spiritual exodus.

Even the Babylonians in the days of Nebuchadnezzar never used drums for their pagan worship.

The Bible never mentions drums. But modern churches depend on drumbeat music to whip up emotions and entertain church-goers.

Drums took over worldly music in the 1950s when rock-n-roll hit the music scene. Elvis Presley became famous and so did

the Beatles from England but drugs entered the drum-beat music scene.

64-0308  THE TOKEN

"And this teen-age of nonsense and rock-and-roll, and things that we're going through, and all these here Beatles and bugs, and do you know that all is represented here in the Book, of the Bible? It says that in Revelation. Certainly, it does. How people, they're dead. They can't rise. They were never Eternal. They wasn't even in the Thinking, so they'll perish. They'll be done forever, totally annihilated

64-0823   QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.1

"And when this lowdown, screaming, filthy bunch of Beatles, that's so called, that got below men and want to become beetles.

... Come over here, a bunch of little, renegade Englishmen there with the hair hanging down in their eyes.

... Oh, how this world is contaminated. There's not a hope for it at all; they have crossed the dividing line between reason and common sense, let alone between salvation."

64-0823   QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.2

"Satan can impersonate any gift. Look at these Beatles now going to impersonate Divine healing: filthy, dirty, rotten, borned out of hell."

64-0830   QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.3

"Anything look like them Beatles, that looks like out of the world, so now, just leave that alone."

Do not copy the Beatles’ hair style. Do not copy their drum beat music.

65-1125  THE INVISIBLE UNION OF THE BRIDE OF CHRIST

"What will the Joneses think if I go to crying and speaking in tongue? What will they think if I'm rebaptized? What a nonsense! Are you married to Joneses? Are you married to the church? Are you married to Christ, the Word?

Now, that's why she is still bearing his children. What kind of children she have? Here is some of their names they call today: cats, beatles, monsters, rickies, rickettas. Cats, beatles, that's church members. Sure. They're all his sons, sons of Cain, which is the sons of the subtle beast, just as smooth as they can be."

61-0108  REVELATION CHAPTER FOUR.3

No wonder Eddie Perronet... turned down on his songs. When he was a Christian, a staunch Christian, they didn't want to buy his songs. One day he said, I'll write one, and someday... that they'll receive. (And the people was wanting something more modernistic in the religious songs.)"

Church people rather want modern beat-music songs to get emotionally worked up.

61-0108  REVELATION CHAPTER FOUR.3

"…        our spirit is of another Kingdom. If our spirit was of this kingdom then we would worship with these things, then we'd worship all these vulgar songs

and worship all this rock-and-roll.

Wherever your heart is, there your treasures is. And our treasures is above."

63-0123  IDENTIFICATION

"If we just got a lot of noise, and can shout and play, and jump up-and-down?

Oh, I've seen Mohammedans do that.

I've seen monkeys do that."

63-0412   THE WORLD IS FALLING APART

"I think our Pentecostal days have become a stink. We play the music, and jump up-and-down in--in the aisles, and dance, and run up-and-down."

63-0223  A DOOR IN A DOOR

"And revival days is almost, seems to be, over. We might as well face the truth. Oh, we have a lot of noise, sure, beat the piano, jump up-and-down."

54-0512  THE SEVEN CHURCH AGES

"That's the way it is when you used to go to dances. I don't believe you would go now, surely not. But if you used to go, they'd have to play up the hoop-up music, and beat the bands,

and beat the drums,

and do every kind of a thing there was about it; and the women run out there, half naked and everything else, and dance on the floors, and things; get you in the spirit to dance. Well, that's right. You get in the spirit of it.

It's the spirit of the devil."

53-0831 GOD  TALKED  TO  MOSES

"That's the Laodicean Church Age, which is to be lukewarm: just while the music's playing, clap hands and holler a little bit, and the music stops, down it goes."

63-0608 CONFERENCES
"We're as Sodom and Gomorrah, ...

and all this Hollywood evangelism and nonsense, all this make-up, and beat the music, and jump up-and-down. The music stops, down you go.

When a man is washed in the Blood of the Lamb,

he don't need music or nothing else.

The power of God just works upon him, and he can shout, scream, praise God, or do anything else, whether there's music or not. The Holy Ghost is in him, and he's identified with Jesus Christ."

65-0919 THIRST

"The music stops, 'sh, whew,' a bucket of water went over everything,"

People are whipped up by the music.

This is fake spirituality.

65-0219 THIS  DAY  THIS  SCRIPTURE  IS  FULFILLED
"The Pentecostal church is in a Laodicean condition. Oh, they still jump and holler, and carry on when the music is beating.

When the music stops beating, or the beatnik music some of them play and calling it Christianity, and whenever that stops, all the glory is gone.
58-0130  THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL

"Look what kind of condition the church was, at the end of King Nebuchadnezzar, when Belshazzar took his place, then the destructions came. Look what took place:

a reckless, scientific, idiotic, well-fed, self-styled, rock-and-roll gang;

and the supernatural appeared, and they didn't know what it was."

The beat music of rock-n-roll indicates that we are at the end time. Babylon was the first Gentile kingdom

56-1005  PAINTED  FACE  JEZEBEL

"Do you realize it's insanity? Do you realize there's only one time in the Bible that anyone ever stripped their clothes off, and that was a devil-possessed person? Do you realize that all this stuff that's going on today, these rock-and-roll parties that you're--you all are attending, up in them places, when they go so frantic and get in such a maneuver, the Presley and them, till young ladies take their underneath clothes off and throw them up on the platform for him to autograph, and call that civilization, when they send dozens of them to the insane asylum afterward? And our radio programs and everything nearly you hear is full of that chaos? It's the devil like a roaring lion.

And they're bringing that same thing, with boogie-woogie and everything into the church.

Way in the Hottentots of Africa, that same mournful sound... When I seen them stand there, and the witch doctors, and they'd go, and them sounds. Heathens with paint over their face, and the young women would dance out there till they had sex parties and everything else. And America in it has reached the top of civilization and swinging backwards and going into heathens again, painting and rocking, and-rolling thus, and even calling themselves church members."

54-0509  THE  INVASION  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES

I can take my boy, let him be out for a day with somebody; let me come in, I can almost tell you who he's been with. Certainly. Watch, that environment, that spirit catches him.

... You go into Holy Ghost churches, or Pentecostal churches, they call it. Look everybody be... Oh, they run and

jerk their head back and forth, the pastor does; watch the whole church begin to do the same thing."

Jerking their heads back and forth is what happens when you listen to beat music.

A pastor dominating a church is the end product of the Nicolaitans spirit.

65-0711  ASHAMED

"Way back in the jungles of Africa, on safari hunters, they had to take high-powered radios to hear Elvis Presley, Pat Boone, and them guys with that rock-and-roll and twist. And the natives, trying to see them act along, jerking their head and acting like that, the natives stood and looked at him. But, you see, they're not Americans like Pat Boone, and Elvis Presley, and Ricky Nelson, and them guys are. They're not Judases of that type, but they're... See, it's a spirit. And the spirit is not only in America, it has spread itself out over the world,

to bring them to the battle of Armageddon.

They act like that, whether they are... Whatever nation they come from, Africa, India, wherever it is, that vulgar and stuff has spread all over the earth, by just one man starting it."

61-0415  THE  UNCERTAIN  SOUND

"And any young people that

can stand in a building with their hands up and all this carrying on of rock-and-roll and stuff, and beatniks, it's insanity. It's dangerous.

They've gone; the mental faculties has broke down. Remember, the tree of knowledge only goes so far and it swings backward."

64-0705  THE MASTERPIECE

"And there she went. And they were singing this here twist-and-roll songs, you know, or ever what you call, going down, singing that and going by.

I said, Is that the Church? And I was standing there, and in my heart I was crying.

And, this witch, to my notion it's nothing else in the world but she is that World Council of Churches, leading them right straight down the road where she was going. They went off to the left, and disappeared in chaos;

still beating this music and making real funny sounds,

and shaking their bodies, one side and then the other side. And then, like that, carrying on like that, walking."

59-0628   A DECEIVED CHURCH BY THE  WORLD

"If there's not a great band and a lot of carrying on, and whooping and carrying on,

then they don't want the old Gospel any more, that brings tears of joy to the soul, that brings Divine healing back, that restores the apostolic gifts to the church, that brings in the risen Christ, the Messiah of this day."

63-0112  INFLUENCE

 "And yet we shout, and jump around, and speak in tongues. That's the reason that this great move called Pentecostal is not getting anywhere, is because there's no sincerity behind it. It becomes an emotion."

59-0412   WHAT HEAREST THOU ELIJAH

"You have to have a real classical Hollywood outfit

with a lot of show.

American people want entertainment. They don't want the true Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. So therefore, the radio and the television will give them more entertainment than the church can do it, and they stay home. All that comes out is the elect of God that's still hungering, and thirsting, and calling, and crying for the real thing of God."

1964 07 26   RECOGNIZING YOUR DAY AND ITS MESSAGE

"Then He turned me to the right side, and He showed me each church as they've come up out of the ages. And, oh, how vulgar!

And the last one was this last-day church age, which was led by a witch.

And they were so immorally dressed, so filthy-looking!

And they were marching to the time of twist and rock-and-roll.

...or twisting, and carrying on with that music,

walking up. And said, That is the church."

60-1207  THE PERGAMEAN CHURCH AGE

"Baptists, Presbyterian, even Pentecostals, just become a religious ceremony. Only thing they do is

beat on a piano, something or another, jump up-and-down awhile;

and as soon as the piano stopped: Blew! Go out, cheat, steal, lie, everything else."