Legendary country music star John Rich recently released a new song titled “Revelation,” drawing on the Christian themes of the New Testament. As its name suggests, the song takes inspiration from the final book of the Bible, Revelation. Inspired by the God-inspired writings of Saint John, Rich sets the themes of warning and redemption against a country music backdrop.
Sitting down for an interview with host of Breitbart News Daily on Sirius XM Patriot 125, Mike Slater, Rich said, “I wanted this song to come out now in the middle of 2024 as I believe a lot of people are starting to turn back to the Book, to the pages of the Bible to try to find some type of answer, some type of real truth.”
Rich continues emphasizing the truth of Scripture, spreading its message through his music. “It is the only perfect truth — what’s written in those pages. It’s not what you say, not what I say, not what the press says, it’s not what your preacher says. It’s what the Books says. So this song is what the Book says,” he continued.
In the music video for “Revelation,” the country artist portrays the battle between good and evil, depicting a conflict between Satan and Jesus. Furthermore, Rich’s father is a Baptist minister who has long been fixated on the Book of Revelation. “[My father] said until the advent of technology — of AI and the internet and all the things we have now — most of us preachers could never really figure out how a lot of these prophecies could ever really happen,” he said.
Rich claimed that, as mere humans, we all get distracted in the happenings of day-t0-day life, forgetting that there is an ongoing spiritual battle around us. “I think we’re all guilty of being sidetracked with the circus that is going on and missing the real point — which is there is a spiritual battle going on , right now, and it manifests itself in the physical which is what we’re seeing today.”
Notably, the singer maintained that the song was not written with the aim for it to top charts or rake in profits, but rather to communicate to society the truth of the New Testament. “This song was not written to be a hit song,” Rich said. “It was not written to be a piece of commerce, a piece of business. This is a message that is being delivered.”
Furhter emphasizing his point that he does not seek for it to be commercially successful by Nashville’s standards, Rich maintained that he only hopes for it to move listeners by its spiritual content. “I don’t expect it to be played on the radio and thats not the point,” he added. “When you see that video, when you hear it, if it strikes you as my dad would say, if the spirit moves you, you’ve got a little button there, you just forward that thing on to the people who are following you. That’s how this thing gets moved around.”
Watch the music video for “Revelation” below:
Note: The featured image is a screenshot from the embedded video.