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Welcome back this week on The Daily Blade. I'm introducing you all to

some music that you may not have considered to be worship music before. Again, a lot of guys just

don't like contemporary worship music, but worshiping God through song is not optional. So I just

want to expand the category of worship music for you. So yesterday we looked at the song Stigmata by the aggressive worship band Convictions. And today we're looking at the song Death Defeated by the Bluegrass Band, the Altar Music. So now, I love me some bluegrass. There's just something about it that just satisfies my soul. Okay, we got the fiddle, we got the banjo, we got all that going on. And the altar music is actually the house band for the altar fellowship church in Johnson

City, Tennessee. The lead pastor is Maddie Montgomery, who used to be the lead singer of one of the

greatest Christian metal bands ever for today. So lots going on there, but let's dig into Death Defeated,

which is off their Welcome Home album from

2022. So I love the first verse of the song, so let's just get right into it. Flame in his eyes,

sword in his mouth, robe drenched in blood, his name on his thigh, king of all kings, be lifted high.

I heard the host of heaven say, come and see. So if this person doesn't sound

familiar to you, then you need to get some more exposure to the book of Revelation because they're

talking about King Jesus here. So flame in his eyes, that's Revelation 114. His eyes were like a flame

of fire. Sword in his mouth, that's Revelation 116. From his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword,

robe drenched in blood. That's Revelation 1913. He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood,

and the name by which he is called is the word of God. So is the blood from the cross? Is it the

blood of his enemies? We don't exactly know. Then his name on his thigh, king of all kings.

That's Revelation 1916. On his robe and on his thigh, he has a name written, king of kings and

lord of lords. And then we have, I heard the host of heaven say, come and see. That's Revelation 6.1.

And I saw when the Lord, or when the lamb opened one of the seals, and heard as it were the noise of thunder one of the four beasts saying come and see.

And this theme actually continues right into verse two. So scroll in his hand. So that's Revelation 5.1.

Then I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back sealed with seven seals.

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