Allan.Stanglin.Silence.of.Scripture

Allan Stanglin can seduce people to fellowshiip people who call the Spirit in Isaiah 1, Jesus obedience, Jesus command and the ONLY way Jesus will admit you to His school of the Bible. The burning might be less if Allan Stanglin etal went out and recruited their own church.

1 In Laws 933 D both are used of the victim with epōdais, which primarily applies to the god. Cf. Lucan, Phars. vi. 492 and 527.

epōdē , Ion. and poet. epa^oidē , hē, A. song sung to or over: hence, enchantment, spell
“ou pros iatrou sophou thrēnein epōdas pros tomōnti pēmati” S.Aj. 582 of the Magi
oute pharmaka.[Revelation 18 SORCERY] .oud' au epōdai” Pl.R. 426b

Rev. 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters,
        shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
Rev. 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee;
        and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee:
        for thy merchants were the great men of the earth;
         for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

g5331. PHARMAKEIA, far-mak-i´-ah; from 5332; medication (“pharmacy”),
        i.e. (by extension) magic (literally or figuratively): — SORCERY, WITCHCRAFT.

sophos , A.skilled in any handicraft or art, clever
poets and musicians, Pi.O.1.9, P.1.42, 3.113; en kithara s. E.IT1238 (lyr.), c

GOD HIDES FROM THE WISE THEOLOGIANS:

Matt. 11:25 At that time Jesus answered and said,
        I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
        because thou hast hid these things from the WISE [sophos] and prudent,
         and hast revealed them unto babes.

The Church is built upon or EDUCATED by the Prophets and Apostles. That is why Theologians are forced to PERFORM religion and are unable to be humble enough to be a DISCIPLE.

Rev. 18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
Rev. 19:1 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven,
saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God

Allan Stanglin: Rick Atchley takes a well known Restoration Movement slogan and updates it to reflect our most recent history:

“We speak where the Bible speaks, and where the Bible is silent, we speak even more.”

Oh, yeah, the silence of Scripture — is it permissive or prohibitive? If we’re honest, most of us decide based on the issue of the moment and/or our own comfort zones.

The Christian Church INVENTED the Law of Silence upside down from that in the Bible and recorded history. The Campbells knew that a Church is A School of Christ and not even simple simon needs a law to sit down and shut up when Jesus comes to teach ONLY when the elders teach that which has been taught. Since you cannot conduct a Church of Christ from the widerness onward while giving all of your attention to the music and musicians Godly people will not impose instruments and godly people will flee and not look back at their stolen property. Furthermore it is not possible to be a minimal Bible student and not know that instrumental sounds which make a physical attack on the body is OFTEN outlawed. While the preacher is sermonizing and the musicians musicate (the hypocrits says Jesus) they make CERTAIN that you do not hear the Words of Christ restricted to the Prophets and Apostles.

Allan Stanglin: ENDORSES those men who INTEND to sow discord to confiscate YOUR church

Rick Atchley used by the NACC and "handled" by David Faust and the "white paper" confessed AFTER "transistioning" or subverting HIS church--after the new building like at Sand Creek, changes his solemn promise but all along:

Well, we discipled the children of those progressive churches
        for a whole generation to grow past us Boomers.
        They never heard the sermons we heard.
        They never heard the rationale for a cappella music.

We took your money, ha, ha, ha. But, we did not teach what we paid you to do. ha, ha, ha.

Amos 8:2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou?
    And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me,
        The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
Amos 8:3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day,
        saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place;
        they shall cast them forth with silence.
Amos 8:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation;
        and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head;
        and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Amos 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD,
        that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
        but of hearing the words of the LORD:
Amos 8:12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east,
        they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

See the same story of wine, women and music causing the people to starve for lack of the Word

We sent them to youth rallies and Church of Christ events

        with some of the finest Christian bands in the world.
       We discipled our children to leave our Movement!

Allan Stanglin: Strange, but that never really was a question that concerned anybody in our churches until right after the Civil War when we were looking to divide and punish, to humble others and make ourselves feel better.

That may be true but the Disciples clearly intended to humble the south: with one exception all of the Disciples scholars rejected using "machines for doing hard work" in what Christ and the Campbells called A School of Christ. The fact is that the northern Disciples were profiteers or carpetbaggers and after the War had a huge fortune. That led to the Worship Race ONLY in the North where everyone had to outdo one another with their phallic symbolsl. After the carpet bags went dry many of the huge buildings were doomed, as an elder confessed to J.W..McGarvey either IMPOSE musical performance or lose their property.

Commands, Examples and Inferences from Genesis to Revelation and affirmed by all historic Scholars.

The REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE AND CHURCHES OF CHRIST. The discorders love to mock the Regulative Principle but they do not grasp or plan to IGNORE that Jesus was made to be God's LOGOS which defines The Regulative principle OPPOSITE to rhetoric, singing, playing or acting.

God reserves the right to Command, Example, Infer or even HINT for an honest Disciple. Christ in the wilderness commanded that the Word be PREACHED by READING the Word: Elders as the only Pastor-teacher in A church of Christ is commanded to teach that which has been taught. The Campellls tried to restore the wilderness pattern:

Church is A School of Christ: so says the Bible over and over.
Worship is Reading and Musing (mele not melos or melody) the Word.
The Bible is not silent: everyone is to speak the same things by speaking that which is written for our learning.

The Stoneites held absolutely nothing in common with the Campbells until the Christian Churches finally sected out of the Disciples beginning in 1927 and ending in 1971. At that time the so-called Stone-Campbell Movement began again to confiscate churches of Christ. No Christian church has ever proposed Biblical unity but the intention has been by using a few dupes to as they boast 'infiltrate and divert."

Allan Stanglin: The Civil War and the resulting hatred and bitterness that lingered into and through Reconstruction in the South played a critical and undeniable role in the divisions among the Stone – Campbell churches that ultimately led to the official “split” between the Disciples of Christ and the Churches of Christ.

Churches of Christ continued to NOT DO what they had never in recorded history DONE. Why would they NOT do something they had NEVER DONE because they were HATEFUL AND BITTER? This is called psychological violence: you are supposed to be DISSOCIATED and come to HATE those who refuse to violate direct commands. Hitler could not have done a better job in Mein Kampf when He used his SEEKER SYSTEM.

If you are honest you can read the history surrounding a few men shaking hands in 1832 agreeing to ASSEMBLY TOGETHER based on the signed agreement with exactly agreed with the Commands, Examples and Inferences docummented from Genesis to Revelation and all historic Scholars and men who could understand that A Church of Christ is a Schoool of Christ which is ANTITHETICAL to the worship services of the Jacob-cursed and God-Abandoned Levites: the Levites performed as soothsayers or SORCERERS in the NOT-commanded Civil-Military-Clergy Complex abandoned to worship the starry host: so sorry that Allan missed Acts 7, 1 Corinthians 10 and Romans ten where the Instrumental Idolatry at Mount Sinai caused God to sentence the Israelites beyond Babylon for captivity and death.

There is strong evidence that Mr. Campbell did not favor the so-called union.

In The Christian Messenger for November, 1834, is quoted an article from the Millennial Harbinger (Campbell's paper) as follows:

"Or does he (Stone) think that one or two individuals, of and for themselves, should propose and effect a formal union among the hundred of congregations scattered over this continent, called Christians or Disciples, without calling upon the different congregations to express an opinion or a wish upon the subject?

We discover, or think we discover, a squinting at [14] some sort of precedency or priority in the claims of the writer of the above article," etc.

It is well known that Mr. Campbell insisted upon immersion before believers were received into fellowship, to which Stone answered:

"We cannot, with our present views, unite on the opinions that unimmersed persons cannot receive remission of sins."

And though later on he came to believe in immersion in water for the remission of sins, there is no evidence that he ever made it a test of fellowship, without which he could not have been a member of the Disciples of Christ.

Allan Stanglin: To deny this would be to ignore the evidence. Similar splits along North and South lines occurred in the Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian denominations at the same times. And, no, we were not immune.

On the contrary, history well documents that the Civil War did NOT have anything to do with the South being Bible literate and rejecting the Idolatry of Musical Worship which is Babylonian. It is noted that the war did not divide the Diciples/Christians. However, what became Churches of Christ were called Reformed Baptists and the Baptists began to split over instruments in about 1900.

Churches of Christ by that name ALWAYS rejected the performing arts and ARTISTS and always believed Jesus when He connected salvation to baptism. To ENDORSE the Baptists is to endorse what APISTOS defines as treacher and rebellion. One suspects that Allan Stangle is a Stalking Horse for the Baptists as was Max Lucado, Mark Henderson and others. Rick Atchley took about 12 years to out his HIDDEN AGENDA as a stalking horse for the Christian Church.

Allan Stanglin: As further proof, Holloway and Foster’s Renewing God’s People offers up the issues of instrumental music in corporate worship and the American Christian Missionary Society.

Renewing God's People: A Concise History

Gary Holloway now heads the World Convention of the Disciples of Christ
A Preview of the World History of the Stone Campbell Movement This will prove that these people just love to denounce those who feed their face.

Foster And Holloway are simply ignorant of the facts. Churches of Christ built on John Calvin's urge to Restore the Church of Christ: that Restoration Movement rejected the Catholic's use of the organ in the assembly. However, the Catholics never used the organ to Accompany Congregatioal singing. Stanglin does not know that there is no command, example or remote inference in the Bible of God calling the GODLY people out of their REST to "sing congregationally with or without instruments." The opposite is a fact: Instruments were permitted for the Civil-Military-Complex because God had ABANDONED them to Babylonianism. Singing in a TUNEFUL sense was IMPOSSIBLE because "Melody as tunefulness belongs to the 19th century" and because there is NO METRICAL material in the Bible. The command for the Stanglins was to PREACH the Word by READING the Word for comfort and doctrine. We have to conclude that, like Judas, he has denied the Word so that the SOP or PSALLO word has been HAND FED so that Satan came into him.

Allan Stanglin: While the centralized missionary organization had its detractors almost as soon as it was established in 1849, the Missionary Society was not something over which anybody in a Stone-Campbell church would have fought or divided Until after the Civil War.

The Stone-Campbell Church is a really bad lie: The Campbells were never united with the Stoneites and there was not a single Biblical doctrine held in common. If they NEVER unioned with the Disciples then it is a lie to say that they DISUNIONED. In a given congregation when the Disciples imposed the organ and drove out THEIR MEMEMBERS then those who knew that instruments meant soothsaying or sorcery simple refused to visit THEIR congregation.

That's untrue: in my better days, I would call it a lie. It's true that it had nothing to do with the Reformed Baptists at that time or Churches of Christ but it DID sow discord among the Disciples-Christians.

William J. Nottingham Global Ministries.

"My point here is that the first missionary society was the product of a long and intense process which generated considerable soul-searching. There were shared biblical principles and at the same time fundamental differences in theological opinion. Disagreement grew
concerning congregational ecclesiology,
commonality in mission with other Christians,
and also perhaps communion of the Holy Spirit.

This tension would eventuate in separate bodies and institutions of the 20th and 21st centuries. [Disciples and NACC] A full appreciation is probably hidden from us in the distance from ante-bellum times. But the nature of the Bible's authority,
the relatively new idea of the autonomy of the local congregation,
and the centrality of millennialist eschatology for these men and women,

with men doing most of the writing which is left to us, seem to me to be mysteries that can only be observed from different angles and rarely entered into existentially by later generations like our own.

This is evidenced in the decisions concerning missionaries growing out of this fervor leading up to the Cincinnati convention: Dr. and Mrs. James T. Barclay were the first. It was in their parlor in Washington, D.C., 1843, that the congregation had been organized which became the Vermont Avenue Church and in 1930 the National City Christian Church.

They went to Jerusalem, not because of Acts 1:8 "beginning with Jerusalem" as a popular Disciples legend has it, but because it was taken for granted by Alexander Campbell and his followers that the Jews were to be converted before the return of Christ.

That was a false assumption: the Millenial Harbinger's major thrust was not to SUPPORT Millerism but to defeat it. Campbell denies that Jesus will return to Canaan. Because the Church of Christ did not believe in William E. Miller [Ellen G. White]. You will notice that it was the Disciples who were tilted by Miller.

The title of Campbell's journal proclaimed clearly the eschatology of the pre-Civil War spirituality, so neglected in our denominational memory by scholars and theologians since then.

Notice that Campbell spoke of THE PROTESTANT THEORY: not his because he speaks where the Bible speaks and insists on a NEW HEAVEN and a NEW EARTH and that you could not convert people after the literal earth was burned up.

In the Millennial Harbinger of 1841,
we read in what is called The Protestant Theory:
"The Millennium, so far as the triumphs of Christianity is concerned, will be a state of greatly enlarged and continuous prosperity, in which the Lord will be exalted and his divine spirit enjoyed in an unprecedented measure. All the conditions of society will be vastly improved; wars shall cease, and peace and good will among men will generally abound. The Jews will be converted, and the fullness of the Gentiles will be brought into the kingdom of the Messiah."

The founding of the American Christian Missionary Society cannot be separated from the millennialist eschatology of the period

See Alexander Campbell on the Second Coming to prove that you never believe "the doctors of the Law." This takes careful reading to grasp that Campbell REPUDIATES any speculation.

The Disciples followed the Millerites: not Campbell.

nor from the pragmatism which required a foreign dimension to keep pace with other denominations or to outgrow them! D.S. Burnet's book The Jerusalem Mission and Dr. Barclay's book The City of the Great King make this clear, along with speeches and articles by various leaders like Isaac Errett. Barclay wrote in a journal The Christian Age:

"The ACMS...resolved...
to make the first offer of salvation to Israel. . .
for the salvation of the Jews...
for upon the conversion and resumption of Israel

AGAIN, THE TWO MOVEMENTS WERE NEVER UNITED WHICH WOULD HAVE DEMANDED ORGANIZATION AND CREED WHICH THE REFORMERS REJECTED. The fraternal agreement was possible until the Missionary Society. The unity with the Baptists came to an end when they caught on to the fact that Campell taught that baptism was FOR or in order to salvation and the Baptists with "no connection to the historic church" taught salvation by THEIR faith only. Jesus calls them traitors and treacherous but Stanglin probably has an agenda. "Unity in the interest of betraya."

Allan Stanglin: Following the Society’s pro-Union resolutions and its official support of the United States military, it became the firestorm issue of the Restoration Movement. To demonstrate how the War Between the States had influenced feelings and thoughts, consider that two of the Society’s most outspoken critics were former officers of the organization. Tolbert Fanning served on the board and even addressed its annual meeting in 1859. Benjamin Franklin (no, not that one) served as the Society’s secretary for thirteen years. But after the war they both repeatedly blasted the group as unbiblical in Franklin’s American Christian Review. Their main official objection was based on the “silence of Scripture.”

But, they NEVER rejected the Society because they were BITTER OVER THE WAR. As predicted, when the "society" began to dabble with politics it PLANNED to sow discord and made everyone aware that they could PROUNOUNCE on any doctrinal issue and that possiton would be THE view of those who paid their dues collected by extortion from their members.

H. Leo Boles. In Lexington, Ky., in 1832 to 1849. At that time in Lexington my grandfather presented the New Testament teaching for unity. He said, in part, the following:

"God has but one people on the earth. He has given to them but one Book, and therein exhorts and commands them to be one family. A union such as we plead for--a union of God's people on that one Book--must, then, be practicable.

"Every Christian desires to stand complete in the whole will of God. The prayer of the Savior, and the whole tenor of this teaching, clearly show that it is God's will that his children should be united. To the Christian, then, such a union must be desirable.

"But an amalgamation of sects is not such a union as Christ prayed for and God enjoins. To agree to be one upon any system of human inventions would be contrary to his will, and could never be a blessing to the church or the world; therefore, the only union practicable or desirable must be based on the word of God as the only rule of faith and practice...

"I have the more cheerfully resolved on this course, because the gospel is a system of facts, commands, and promises, and no deduction or inference from them, however logical or true, forms any part of the gospel of Jesus Christ. No heaven is promised to those who hold them, and no hell is threatened to those who deny them. They do not constitute, singly or together, an item of the ancient and apostolic gospel. While there is but one faith, there may be ten thousand opinions; and, hence, if Christians are ever to be one, they must be one in faith, and not in opinion. When certain subjects arise, even in conversation or social discussion, about which there is a contrariety of opinion and sensitiveness of feeling, speak of them in the words of the Scripture, and no offense will be given and no pride of doctrine will be encouraged. We may even come, in the end, by thus speaking the same things, to think the same things.

"For several years past I have stood pledged to meet the religious world, or any part of it, on the ancient gospel and order of things as presented in the words of the Book. This is the foundation on which Christians once stood, and on it they can, and ought to, stand again.

From this I cannot depart to meet any man, or set of men, in the wide world. While, for the sake of peace and Christian union, I have long since waived the public maintenance of any speculation I may hold, yet no one gospel fact, commandment, or promise will I surrender for the world" (Life of Elder John Smith, pages 452-454.)

This is the ground of unity that was accepted in 1832 by the Stone and Campbell groups; it is the fundamental teaching of the New Testament. Such a unity honors the truth of God, respects the authority of Christ, and glorifies God.

Since Stanglin rejects God's right to Command, Example, infer or even hint for a disciple OF Christ it is unethical to appeal to there ever being UNITY between the groups.

Since the Bible does not specifically mention anything about multi-church organizations or boards that support a combined effort among different congregations, they argued that the Missionary Society was unscriptural. Of course, those who supported and served the Society claimed that silence in Scripture is what gave them permission to do it.

That's also false: men like Alexander Campbell understood that any Organization intending to INCLUDE ALL OF CHRISTENBDOM would become the thought leaders of ALL the congregationa and corruption would spread. Jesus said that the Kingdom of God does not come with OBSERVATION: that means Religious Observations. He said DON'T GO where they think they have the Kingdom collected; the Kingdomof God is WITHIN you. Paul's letters inspired by Christ were sent to ALL of the churches and he said that if any one thought they were spiritual and had an imagination the HE would write them another letter. God said that the imagination of the human heart is only evil continually. So, I recommend back to reading.

The same arguments were used in debating the issue of instrumental music in our corporate worship assemblies. While the first recorded instance of an instrument used in worship in a Stone-Campbell church was in Midway, Kentucky in 1859, it really was a post-Civil War issue.

No literate Bible Student thinks that the Bible is SILENT about using instrumental sounds in the School of the Word where both the males and females are to sit down and shut up so that WRATH or ORGY such as singing and playing instruments would not break out: the ONLY reason for the assembly was to learn so that "everyone would be saved and come to a knowledge of the Truth." The Word of Christ is TRUTH and songs and sermons are ANTI-truth.

The churches that brought in pianos and organs argued that, since the Bible did not prohibit it, they were permitted to use the instruments to help their singing and to appeal to the younger generations.

The churches which IMPOSED instruments in Disciples of Christ congregatiosn DROVE OUT large numbers of the owners. There is no record of anyone even thinking that they should be concerned with the Bible until massive division happened IN THE NORTH. Lexington, Kentucky and Sand Creek Illinois is in the NORTH according to my map. The opposition in the South broke out when northern women clammored for a Women's Society until they got the preacher fired. The Christian Standard send a MISSIOBNARY into Nashvill with the boast that "we will take Tennessee for the organ and society party within five years."

Opposition to this “innovation” came mostly from the South, and mostly from the same “silence of Scripture” argument. The New Testament, they claimed, authorizes congregational singing, but not musical instruments. On the other hand, those who used instruments cited the same Bible verses that gave them authority to use song books and song leaders and church buildings to aid their worship: none.

That's because Paul commanded that we SPEAK that which is written for our learning. The ANTITHESIS of the pagan drunk on wine singing was the the ODE PSALLO be IN THE HEART: In 1 Corinthians 14 Paul comanded that singing out of their OWN spirit was just SINGING INTO THE AIR. The Disciples claimed that GOD COMMANDED the use of Instruments: Rick Atchley claims that a spirit told him that God COMMANDED instruments. That's a lie of course. Faitful Churches of Christ told them that they had NO COMMAND for instruments and THEY were the ones who claimded that SILENCE gave them permission tosow massive discord. They dredged up the PSALLO Word for the first time in recorded history and said THERE IS OUT AUTHOORITY.

Lard's Quarterly, Volume March 1864 These are now its spirit and law, and of course, no offense to it. But despite of even these, for now we care nothing for strife, nothing for the feelings of the brethren, we shall insist on the right both for self and others to introduce each for himself the instrument with which he can best conduct his worship. For the son of Mars, then, we claim the right to introduce the fife and the drum; and for the self the right to introduce, for I could never make music on anything else, but am capital on these, the Jews-harp, the tin-pan, and the barrel-head.

But what shall be done with such churches? Of course nothing. If they see fit to mortify the feelings of their brethren, to forsake the example of the primitive churches, to contemn the authority of Christ by resorting to will worship, to excite dissension, and give rise to general scandal, they must do it.

With no right to speak at all, like J.W.McGarvey, Lard explained that they should leave. Further fellowship was precluded because getting "close" was bound to get you taken captive. That danger still exists.

Stark-Warlick Debate: One of the most remarkable and historic debates in which Warlick participated was with J. C. Stark, November, 1903, in Henderson, Tennessee, where the church had been taken over by the digressives and the instrument installed. J. C. Clark, of Christian Church fame, was campaigning in West Tennessee, literally bombarding the churches on the instrumental music issue, an innovation threat to all the churches of Christ west of the Tennessee River. Through the solicitation of two young professors who were notable in the effort to stay the tide of digression—A. G. Freed and N. B. Hardeman—Joe Warlick was brought from Texas to Henderson to debate Stark. This debate stopped the music movement and had it not been held then, the history of churches in West Tennessee would have been very different. This debate saved the church from being swept into the Christian church movement.

Stark: The whole thing comes from a devilish, domineering spirit, which, instead of worshiping God, has taken God's seat in judgment to control the praise others might bring It is well enough to teach them: but "rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and stubborness is as iniquity and idolatry." (1 Slam. 15:23) If taken as he is to the "city of gold," he would surely raise hell in heaven and make all "know and feel what it is to be there."

It turns out that ALL musical terms and names of instruments point to enchantment or WITCHCRAFT.

O.E. Payne Foundational Document: But if it is a self-appointed commission, as I believe it is, I have as much right to offer suggestions as any one. If this commission is calling in O. E. Payne's book on the church-music question in order to destroy it, it is working on the right line, and I want to commend them; but if it is calling in these books in order to give them to others and thus continue their circulation, I suggest a change of name for the commission. It should be called "The Commission on Division" instead of "The Commission on Unity." I doubt whether one church in fifty in this country uses the instrument in their worship. If this book is circulated and read and changes no one, it could not assist in bringing about unity, because we already have unity on that question in most of the churches in these parts; but if it changes some one and makes him believe that he ought to have the instrument in worship, cannot this commission see that this would bring about division. The instrument would be forced into the worship by these new converts made by Payne's book, which would drive out those it did not convert, and thus we would have division instead of unity as a result of this work. Surely this commission could not hope to change every one on this question with this book and thus get every one wrong; but if it did not change all, but changed any, it would cause division instead of unity.
p 106-107 O. E. Payne
433 B.C. Herodotus (I, 155)
This noted traveler and scholar, known as the father of history," and who was, as well, "the father of geograypy," chronicles the conqueror's decree for keeping the people of vassal states in subjection--a method in vogue to this day:

"and bid them train their sons to play the cithara and to play the lyre [psallein] and to keep shop."

That is, forbid them the use of arms or weapons of war, lest they rise in rebellion

The truth:
Grant, then, forgiveness to the Lydians, and to make sure of their never rebelling against thee, or alarming thee more,
send and forbid them to keep any weapons of war,
         command them to wear tunics under their cloaks,
         and to put buskins upon their legs,
       and make them bring up their sons to cithern-playing (Kitharizein),
         and singing (psallein),
        and shop-keeping (Hucksterism). [Corrupting the Word]

So wilt thou soon see them become WOMEN instead of men,
and there will be no more fear of their revolting from thee."

Croesus thought the Lydians would even so be better off than if they were sold for slaves, and therefore gave the above advice to Cyrus, knowing that, unless he brought forward some notable suggestion, he would not be able to persuade him to alter his mind. He was likewise afraid lest, after escaping the danger which now pressed, the Lydians at some future time might revolt from the Persians and so bring themselves to ruin.

Hucksters "corrupt the Word" meaning "selling learning at retail" which means prostitution if you sell your own body and words.

Allan Stanglin The Silence of Scripture

Jude defines men rejecting the WORD and turning to MUSIC as FOREORDAINED at WINTERFEST: