Country Star John Rich Says Scripture Inspired His Latest Hit ‘Revelation’
- Milton Quintanilla Crosswalk Headlines Contributor
- Updated Jul 22, 2024
Country star and outspoken conservative John Rich recently shared that God inspired him to write his latest song, “Revelation,” as a means of countering “satanic” content promoted by the mainstream media. Rich, a multiplatinum artist and one-half of the duo Big & Rich, told Tucker Carlson that the prophecies of the Apostle John inspired his latest single in the last book of the Bible.
“I was at home in Nashville, not even thinking about writing a song, when suddenly it felt like a hammer hit me in the back of the head,” Rich said.
“When the Lord slaps you upside the head with something, you have a physical reaction to it,” Rich said. “The message I felt coming back to me was, ‘Take it all the way to the mat.’”
According to The Christian Post, Rich said he felt led to write the song dealing with the reckoning of the return of Christ, drawing heavily from biblical themes, particularly Ephesians 6:12: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
“Oh, Revelation, I can feel it coming, like a dark train running/ Oh, get ready ’cause the king is coming/ the king is coming back again,” Rich says in the chorus.
He had that the message applies to as mainstream media and entertainment continue to promote satanic themes.
When you watch the Super Bowl halftime show or the Grammy Awards, you see them putting satanic symbolism right in your face,” he said.
“They are practicing witchcraft on the stage right in front of you. You’re watching a football game or an award show with your kids, and now evil is coming straight at you. We’ve all seen this. Somebody has to counter that.”
Despite not having a record label, Rick told Carlson he’s his own “president, founder, and employee,” noting that “Revelation” has held its own against mainstream rapper Eminem on the music charts.
“I looked up his record just to see what Eminem is doing. One of the titles on his record is just called ‘Evil,’ one is called ‘Lucifer,’ and one is called ‘Antichrist.’ How crazy is that?” the singer said.
Eminem benefits from “massive record labels” and “huge budgets to push and promote and manipulate media,” while “I don’t have anybody,” Rich noted.
“So, to watch those two songs sit there, co-existing, was pretty striking,” he said.
The music video of Rich’s latest song also dramatizes the battle between the Archangel Michael and Satan, as described in Revelation 12.
“And I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven, now is come salvation and strength, and the Kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night,” the song concludes with Revelation 12:10-11 on the screen.
Rich, whose father was a pastor, also stressed that the war we face is spiritual.
“The real war is not Trump and Biden; the real war is not left and right, and the real war is not a culture war. It says in Ephesians, ‘We wrestle not with flesh and blood but with principalities and powers and the rulers of spiritual darkness of this Earth, of this world.’ That is the battle; that’s the real battle.”
“When God says about Himself, ‘I am the same yesterday, today and forever, my Word does not change,’” he continued. “We change, culture changes, the world changes, but He doesn’t. So, however He dealt with things all the way back to the beginning of the written Word is exactly how He’s going to deal with them now and into the future. That is something people don’t want to come to grips with.”
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