Vojo's
lyrics are a response, in part, to the international terrorism that
is moving world governments into a defensive posture against an elusive
enemy, paving the way for the prophesied final dictator, who will
be a "man with a plan" to bring peace to a war-weary world.
Other inspirations? The daily papers are full of them: God's guiding
principles eroded from American life by the actions of activist courts;
God's name removed from schools, government, courts and homes; legalized
murder of millions of unborn babies each year; pornography on demand
via the Internet; sex and violence permeating entertainment; homosexual
marriage; a 50% divorce rate that destabilizes the family unit; and
the Founding Fathers' principle of separation of church and state
has metamorphosed from freedom of religion into a
shrill, atheistic freedom from religion.
Giving in to the libertarian demands for removal of all restraints
on conduct has decimated the moral underpinnings of our society. Was
ancient Rome more or less corrupt before its decline?
No anti-God - or anti-Jewish - culture in history has survived. The
empty echoes of dead empires bear testimony to their error and present
a warning to the present. America was once the standard bearer of
God's Word; it is now the stronghold of the enemy's moral cesspool,
and it exports this culture to the rest of the world. Satan's unrelenting
war against Jesus the Savior is evident in both domestic and international
news every day, and the pace quickens.
The songs in "Revelation - The Musical"
are not typical praise tunes heard at Sunday morning worship services.
The topics are rarely addressed in contemporary Christian music. They
anticipate the battle about to be joined; they are pit bulls against
an immoral majority.
Some of the lyrics are scathing political satire, sparing no sacred
cow, including the U.S. Supreme Court, the American Civil Liberties
Union, any liberal who draws breath, atheists, evolutionists, school
prayer opponents, church-state separation militants, Israel’s
enemies and any of Satan’s favorite religions.
A focal point of the dramatic scenes and several of
the musical numbers is the identification of the prophesied final
dictator and his puppet master, Satan. While the secular world tends
to view Lucifer, the Antichrist, the False Prophet and predictions
of the Tribulation as nothing more than myths, God’s Word tells
us to expect them all to appear “in those days,” Biblical
shorthand for End Times.
With satire, humor is often used to express outrage.
In Medieval times, the king’s fool would say things others dared
not, for fear of losing their heads. Modern fools like Vojo, the show’s
lyricist, use satirical songs to articulate aggravation, and if someone
becomes indignant, so much the better.
Within the right context,
humor can be a most effective tool for painlessly driving home a serious
point. Political cartoonists do it every day. Although
there is no comic aspect to any of the last dictator’s actions,
several songs use sarcasm as a dramatic method to present the material.
A
wise man once said, “Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
the pen is mightier than the sword.” Martin Luther's printed
words changed history, and all the king's men were useless.
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