"The Beast Within" is a remix of Madonna's song, "Justify My Love". The remix uses the chorus and certain lines of the song with passages from the Bible's Book of Revelation. In 1991 the Simon Wiesenthal Center made claims that the song contained anti-semitic lyrics. One of the lyrics the Center specified was the lyric that read, "those who say that they are Jews, but they are not. They are a Synagogue of Satan". Madonna retorted by explaining that the song was about love and not hatred.
'"The Beast Within" was presented as an interlude during the 1993 The Girlie Show World Tour and again as the video introduction to the 2004 Re-Invention World Tour. The video used imagery of Madonna from the exhibition "X-STaTIC PRO=CeSS" which was a collaboration between Madonna and photographer Steven Klein. The title of the exhibition came from the song "X-Static Process" on Madonna's 2003 American Life album. The revamped version of "The Beast Within" was included on the live 2006 album, "I'm Going to Tell You a Secret."This new version omits the controversial lyrics which caused the 1991 stir.
Prophecy...
[from Revelation 1:3]
Blessed is he who reads aloud the words of the prophecy
And blessed are those who hear
And who keep what is written therein
For the time is near
[From Revelation 1:7]
He is coming with the clouds
And every eye will see him
Everyone who pierced him
And all the tribes of the earth will wail on account of him
[from Revelation 2:1-4]
Those of you who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan
I know your works, I know your toil, and your patient endurance
And how you cannot hear evil men
But have tested those who call themselves apostles, but are not.
And found them to be false
I know that you are enduring patiently
And you have not grown weary
but I have this against you
that you have abandoned the love you had
[from Revelation 13:1-10]
And I saw a beast rising out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads
And a blasphemous name upon its head
And the beast that I saw was like a leopard
Its feet were like a bear's
And its mouth was like a lion's mouth
And to it the dragon gave his power
And the whole earth followed the beast with wonder
And they worshiped the beast saying
"Who is like the beast and who can fight against the beast?"
And It opened its mouth to utter blasphemous words against God.
It was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them
And authority was given it over every tribe
And a people and tongue and nation
And all who dwell on earth could worship it in vain
If anyone has an ear let him hear
If anyone who slays with the sword.
Then he must be slain.
[from Revelation 21:1-8]
Then, I saw a new heaven and a new earth
And I heard a great voice from the throne saying:
"Behold the dwelling of God is with men
He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people
And God himself will be with them
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes
And death shall be no more
Neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore
For these things will have passed away
To the thirsty I will give water without price
From the fountain of the water of life
He who conquers shall have this heritage
And I will be his God and he shall be my son
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted
As for the murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars
Their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire"
[from Revelation 22:10-13]
And he said to me, he said to me:
"Do not seal up the words of the prophecy, for the time is near
Behold, I am coming soon"
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