One person summed it up as such: “The entire piece: reverence to the first incarnation, and a look ahead to the second coming. The second will be intense…” Another wrote, “I swear, the most hateful people against Christians…are other Christians. 
I’ve seen so many kids come to know Jesus at Skillet shows. I can’t even count how many times I’ve seen them preach the gospel from the stage. The outrage is ridiculous.”
‘I Absolutely Believe Music Belongs To God,” Skillet Frontman John Cooper Explains
During an interview with pastor Shane Idleman in 2022, Cooper discussed how all music belongs to God and only becomes demonic when the artist intends it to be.
“For me, I just love loud music. I’ve always loved it since I was a kid—I just related to it,” Cooper said. “I really don’t want to use Scripture cavalierly, but I will throw some Scriptures out there that I think they mean something to me, and maybe it’s applicable. Maybe it’s not, but I think about this Scripture that says, to the pure, all things are pure (Titus 1:15).”
“One of the things that that Scripture, as I’ve understood it to mean, is that sometimes there’s going to be something [that] may be attached to something that’s really negative for someone, but maybe it’s not negative for someone else,” Cooper continued while speaking of the Apostle Paul’s instructions about eating food offered to idols. “Maybe that could be that meat that was sacrificed to idols, as we see in the Scriptures, and somebody’s like, ‘Hey, that’s not me anymore. I gave my life to Jesus. I don’t want nothing to do with that meat.’”
“Then you may have somebody else—a Christian—that’s like, ‘I don’t even know this is a sacrifice to idols. I just thought it was meat, and I was thankful that God gave it to me,’” he continued. “Music was a little like that for me.”
“The devil doesn’t create stuff, he distorts,” Cooper explained. “The devil comes in to steal and kill and destroy—of course—but he wants to steal something that God made that was good. He wants to mess with it and change it to where he tries to get glory, and I always felt that music just glorifies God.”
Cooper believes that all “music belongs to God.” He explained:
There’s something of eternity with music. The Bible doesn’t talk about music a lot, but there is something eternal. We know that the angels were singing before we were ever created. We know that music is singing and worship, and we know that’s gonna be for eternity, [which is] one of the few things we have here that in some form is going to exist before the throne for always and always and always, when time has ended, right?
“We’re not gonna let the enemy steal something that God created,” Cooper added. “[The devil] may have distorted it, but we’re bringing that back under the lordship of Christ, where music and art belongs, because everything is the Lord’s.”
“The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof—everything in it is his. So that’s kind of the way that I view it,” Cooper added.
