For years, Disney alum Demi Lovato has struggled with her identity and mental health.
She suffered from addictions, and even jumped on the pronoun bandwagon, but recently changed them back to her original “she/her” designation.
For a while, it looked like she was recovering from the spirits that had been plaguing her body, soul and mind.
Then she released an album that is nothing less than the work of Satan in her life. (*Warning, this link contains iconography that is demonic.)
The title, Holy ____, leaves nothing to the imagination about the direction by which she was influenced to take her newest musical foray. Filled with expletives and guitar riffs that are this generation’s version of Black Sabbath, Lovato shows that she has indeed been “reborn” as she alluded to in her documentary, Dancing with the Devil.
In each generation, this spirit of Antichrist again raises its head, so what Lovato is doing is nothing new. From Ozzy Osbourne to Madonna to Marilyn Manson, this spirit has snagged the souls of performers who spread its message and iconography to entire generations.
What is different now is how far that reach can go.
Lovato has 139 million Instagram followers. Let that number sink in. Now realize the release announcement of this new album is on her Instagram page and understand that prominent musicians from decades past have never had advertising and marketing of this scope and power.
Added to this staggering reach is another 54.2 million followers on Twitter with a profile banner of Lavato wrapped in leather and laying on a cross. But wait, there’s more! Don’t forget her 33 million followers on Facebook, with video giving behind-the-scenes footage of the production of the album.
To give some scope to the magnitude of the reach Lovato has, consider that CBS News, ABC News, NBC News, MSNBC, CNN and Fox News have a combined following of 121.9 million users on Twitter—and Lovato has 139 million followers on her Instagram alone! This is a staggering reach and there is no doubt that many of her followers are young, impressionable adolescents.
For Christians, this news should be both a warning and a call to action. Lifting this woman up in prayer so that the chains binding her are broken should be a priority for intercessors across the world. If she has this much range to spread the message of the Antichrist, imagine how much greater it will be when God uses her to bring Him glory upon her redemption.
This type of spirit takes spiritual warfare to be defeated, for it is a mighty foe. The enemy is not stupid or weak, and although Jesus defeated death on the cross, until the time of His return we are to take up the whole armor of God and wage the spiritual war against the enemy.
Demi Lovato is not the enemy; she is the deceived. The spirits, principalities, rulers of darkness and spiritual forces of evil are the enemies of God that Christians are to take up arms and warfare against. {eoa}
James Lasher is a Copy Editor for Charisma Media.
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