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Praying as
Ritual Top
Jesus
issued a direct command that prayer be in
private and worship be in the spirit or
mind. While people prayed at the same time
in the same room we have no example of a
clergy person performing the liturgy of
leading prayer.
Prayer
was in the spirit or mind of each
individual.
Preachers Top
Babylon is
the source of Thus
the people, wherever the Babylonian system spread,
were bound neck and
heel to the priests.
The priests were the only depositaries of religious knowledge;
Prior to the
adoption of Christianity by the state it would
have been obscene to pay someone to teach you
the Bible. However, when they began to be paid
it was by the state and not those who were
recipients of the FREE Word of God:
"The system of
sermonizing on a text is now almost universally
abandoned by all who intend that their hearers
should understand the testimony of God."
Alexander Campbell. "Surely official preaching
has no authority, either in Scripture, reason, or experience, and it must come
to an end sooner or later." (Pulpit
Commentary, 1 Cor. p. 464).
- Preaching as a Profession
Index of the Bible's and History's witness
against it.
- The
Demise of the Evangelists by Trading Pulpits
Promise Keeper Top
- An Index
of 33 Research Papers on the PK Cult
- Henry Blackaby: Becoming A
Christ Baptist Alarm
- Experiencing
God like Christ and Moses
- Henry
Blackaby: Promise Keepers and Vineyard
- Hitler
and the volkish state or volkism
- Bob
Mumford - Promise Keepers - National
Shepherding Movement
Purpose Driven Cults Top
B.K.: Well
we weren't there all that long, so we saw a lot
of these being implemented and then we left
because -- the main reason we left was 2
reasons:
(1) That he
was going away from deep Scriptural teaching --
much more superficial messages. He would give a
hand out which had a few 'fill in blanks' and
basically once you fill in the four blanks which
were on handout, that meant the sermon was over.
The purpose
driven cult intends to silence the Word of God
because it is "offensive" to many and turn
"church" or school into theater for "holy
entertainment."
This is first
seen in the Oracle of Delphi which was the Seeker
Center of Apollo who is the Abaddon or Apollyon of
the book of Revelation: the end-time Babylon Whore
worship.
- Aggrippa
took the people's money and established
one. See the Judas connection.
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- Alexander the Oracle
Monger in about 100 AD shows how to
organize one.
- Lucian
Explanation of Psallo and Instrumental
Worship
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- See how the
Infiltrating and Diverting Began in
Babylon
- See
how the shepherding, levels of
conformity and leadership works.
- PaleoPaganism
Clergy and Musical Priesthood
- See
how Hitler Defines the Levels of
Membership.
Reformation Top
Reformation
We have
posted material from Erasmus (father of the TR
or KJV), John Calvin, Martin Luther. Luther
explains "sola fide" or faith only to include
obedience to that which one believes. He also
insists that faith only includes baptism. John
Calvin's view of the trinity is not that of the
later synods
Restoration Movement American Top
We are not
aware of any Restoration Movement Web Site which
does not defend the instrumental music sect.
Therefore, this has been a highly popular site
which adds Biblical quotations and cross links
the RM writers with earlier scholars who, for
instance, universally rejected music--including
self-composed hymns--for the duration of church
history.
Restoration
Movement Site with Lots of Pictures.
Seeker-Sensitive Centers Top
- Hermes the Jubal-like
father of music, liars and thieves.
- That of Apollo (Abaddon,
Apollyon) at the Oracle of Delphi
- Agrippa
including information on Judas Sicarri
(Assassin)
Serpent Worship - Devil Worship - Music Top
Serpent
Worship
The musician
in the garden was Lucifer! The Naga or Nachash
which defines the serpent in the garden was the
shining one. He came equipped with musical
instruments and the brass or copper connection
personifies him as the Chaldean astrologyer or
soothsayers. The dark forest revivalistic
meetings are described much like the Devil
worship still practiced. Lucifer in his/her
feminine form is Sophia (wisdom) and Zoe (life).
Sophia is identified as the serpent and zoe is
identified as the beast or "female instructing
principle." The serpent principle promotes
feminine or effeminate leadership. This is seen
in the modern Mary Worship and the Sophia-Zoe
worship among protestants. The LOOK TO THE HILLS
concept is a second incarnation of the first
fall when Satan used the youth to LOOK TO THE
HILLS and using choirs, instruments, perverted
sex and all of the rest, seduce the holy people
DOWN FROM THE HILLS where the Word dwelled with
them to which they could never return.
Rubel Shelly etal Sermon
Reviews Top
Rubel
Shelly etal Sermon Reviews
Shellyism Top
Shellyism
and perhaps most "christian" universities hold
to the Post Modern view. Shellyism believes that
when the Bible Writers lost interest when Jesus
didn't return immediately they put aside their
memories. However, as they grew more hopeless
they pulled out their now-rusty memories of
Jesus. They SIFTED these through philosophy and
wrote, say the gospel account of John, to fit
his own personal agenda.
This means
that the Bible is hopless as a source of faith
and practice. However, by some magic, seven
facts ABOUT Jesus survived. This constitutes the
CORE gospel. The rest, it is taught, is just the
divided opinions of divided apostles.
This in turn
gave rise to Narrative Theology. Bible things
are still important but they may be "narrated"
to fit our personal circumstances. That is why
this groups cannot find enough words to show its
disgust for anyone who would define absolute
truth about faith and practice by the Bible. A
direct operation of the Spirit gives many the
confidence that whatever they arrive at by
"taking liberties" with John's writings will be
perfect for them.
Jeff
Walling and the Theatrical Movement Index
Shepherding and Circles of Membership Top
- Rubel
Shelly:Accountability groups (From:Great Themes of the
Bible (#18-Guidance)
- Promise Keepers
Turn to Shepherding.
Serpent Worship Top
Serpent
Worship
The musician
in the garden was Lucifer! The Naga or
Nachash which defines the serpent in the garden
was the shining one. He came equipped with
musical instruments and the brass or copper
connection personifies him as the Chaldean
astrologyer or soothsayers. The dark forest
revivalistic meetings are described much like
the Devil worship still practiced. Lucifer in
his/her feminine form is Sophia (wisdom) and Zoe
(life). Sophia is identified as the serpent and
zoe is identified as the beast or "female
instructing principle." The serpent principle
promotes feminine or effeminate leadership. This
is seen in the modern Mary Worship and the
Sophia-Zoe worship among protestants. The LOOK
TO THE HILLS concept is a second incarnation of
the first fall when Satan used the youth to LOOK
TO THE HILLS and using choirs, instruments,
perverted sex and all of the rest, seduce the
holy people DOWN FROM THE HILLS where the Word
dwelled with them to which they could never
return.
Singing as Worship Top
There is no
command to sing as an act of worship in the New
Testament. The direct command it to TEACH one
another. In Romans 15 the resource is "that
which has been written," In Ephesians 5 the
Spirit and in Colossians 3 it is the Word of
Christ. Jesus said that His Words ARE spirit and
life. Singing in the Greek world was a purely
"secular" activity while speaking was a
religious activity. Melody is not Harmony but
the word "melody" speaks of the grinding into
powder by the warriors chant. It is derived from
the twanging
bowstring sending a singing arrow into your
heart. It is related to the SOP Jesus had fed
Judas: the Judas Bag carried "mouthpieces
of wind instruments." Even what David
did as "worship" was speaking to himself with
the Word and "musing" on it or making melody in
his own heart or spirit--even on his bed at
night.
- Congregational
Singing: Catholic Encyclopedia
- Is
singing "church songs" wrong?
Spiritual Worship Top
Series
of articles beginning here
Soothsaying Top
Soothsaying,
Necromancy, Witchcraft. The serpent in
the garden is not identified as a "snake"
except in the sense of hissing or whispering.
The Hebrew word defines the peoples skilled in
enchanting or "charming" people into sin or out
of their property by the mind-altering magic of
music. The word "Chaldean" is almost equivalent
to the word "astrologer." Jubal "handled"
musical instruments where handled means "without
authority." The familiar spirit of the witch of
Endor was an empty wine or water skin. By
mumbling into its hollow space it became like a
"nebel" or the sounding brass of 1 Cor 13.
People have still not grown above the
superstition of being fooled that a musical
performer is speaking the voice of angels or
gods.
Comments and Quotations about
Musical Instruments and the Sorcery Parallel
Speaking in Tongues Top
Speaking
in Tongues Index 36 Ancient and Modern
Resources
See
connection with witchcraft
David Hume - Superstition -
Enthusiasm
John
Wesley - Enthusiasm - Revivalism
Speaking in
tongues took two forms. First, the prophetesses at,
say, the Oracle of Delphi dedicated to Apollo
(Abaddon, Apollyon) would get zapped out of her
mind sniffing burning poppy seed, hallucinating
drugs and chewing laurel leaves which make my deer
foam at the mouth and go crazy. All pagans
believed that emotionally and sexually confused
people in their insanity were inspired by the gods
(demons). Philo coined the word enthusiasm or Enthus O Mania meaning out of your
mind or possessed by the demons. This was an
almost exclusive female ability to "prophesy" and
sell it at a price too high.
Second, of
the 75 the languages the Greeks recognized,
there were 5 languages or major dialects. All of the
barbarian languages were called tongues. There is no such
thing as "unknown tongues" spoken of by Paul. Paul
excluded the gibberish form of uncovered
prophesying in 1 Cor 11:5 and highly regulated the
use of tongues other than the common one
understood by a church. Paul did not speak
gibberish but as a gifted Apostle he spoke more
"languages" or the lesser tongues where he had to
preach.
As Catholics
claimed that Latin was the power or magical
language of liturgy, the Corinthians believed that
a prayer or song in some barbarian tongue had
angelic power even if the speaker did not know the
language. By analogy, a priest may not know much
Latin but enough to speak the magic. The Yezdis of
iraq were devil worshipers who spoke their magic
in a language the did not understand. Paul said
that you might find a time to use that language
but NOT IN CHURCH. Paul spoke many minor dialects.
Spectacle Worship Top
Don't Miss Dr. Squintum : Theatrics,
Witchcraft and Religious Revivalism has the
same source.
- Dan Dozier
Spectacle Worship and Purpose Driven Cult
Jeff
Walling and the Theatrical Movement
Index
- Fred
Peatross Pulls no punches in defining
Spectacle Worship
- in terms identical to
neo-paganism and witchcraft.
- See
direct parallel in witchcraft
- Tertullian
- The Shows, or De Spectaculis - Showtime
"Worship"
Jesus said
that God will only note our worship which is "in
spirit." That is the human spirit or mind (nous)
as the holy place (nao) where God seeks us.
Prayer
was in the spirit or mind of each individual. You can pray
on my behalf but you cannot lead me in prayer
because I am out of my "spirit" and giving
heed to you.
Sprinkling or Immersion Top
Baptism
means to immerse or bathe in water. We can wash
our bodies but only Christ can sprinkle the
blood.
Various examples of God
Sprinkling.
S.U.N. Worship Replaces S.O.N.
Worship?
- The Pagan
And Godly Systems related to sun or starry
host worship. Wine Cup is
symbol.
The Two
Babylons: Osiris Worship at Mount Sinai
was S.U.N. Worship. Sabbath
Eucharistic movement is really devoted to
the sun god. Also See "Walk to Emmaus"
the Catholic/Anglican Evangelistic
Recruiting movement to S.U.N. worship
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- Great Hymn to Shamash in
Babylon
Rubel Shelly
Exodus
pattern for Christian worship and community.
Israel rose up to "play" in S.U.N. worship at
Mount Sinai. God gave the Law "because of this
transgression" and turned them over to worship
the starry host including the S.U.N. as their
god. This worship shows up as Astarte or Easter
sun worship.
The Exodus Pattern For Worship
and Community
Apollo (Abaddon, Apollyon) as
S.U.N. God,
father of musical harmony, a majore Seeker
Center at the oracle of Delphi.
- The Bull / Sun Cult in
Egypt and Mount Sinai---Part Two
- See Osiris Worship at
Mount Sinai with Music.
- The
Result of this Worship
- Shamash the S.U.N. God:
Max Lucado
Sunday Versus Sabbath Top
The sabbath
was not a "day of worship" but a day of "rest."
The Babylonian Sabbath allowed the "gods to rest
on the sabbath but forced the people to work.
The Lord's Day was observed for the assembly
which was not called worship but "school." Those
who worship on the sabbath as opposed to resting
on the sabbath profoundly break the Sabbath in
fact and in spirit.
- Babylonian Background to
Jewish Sabbath (Deep, heavy research notes)
- The
Feast of Marduk and Zarpanit - the
Sabbath, Shabbat, Shabatum
- The
Epistle of Barnabas
- Augustine
on the Sabbath
- Alexander Campbell and
the Sabbath
Synagogue Top
The
synagogue always existed although it is normally
called an assembly. Music was outlawed during
these assemblies which were for instruction
(Num. 10:7). The "people's congregation"
worshiped in study of the word and in their own
personal prayers. The temple was for the
civil-state rituals. By analogy, Washington
Cathedral is primarily for state "worship
rituals."
- The Synagogue as
institutionalized in the first century.
- There was
no music and no praise service in the
synagogue
- Does
the Synagogue Authorize Instrumental
Music
- The
Christian Synagogue (not yet)
Tabernacle Top
God ordained
the tabernacle "within the camp" of Israel to be
the symbolic sign of God's presence and the
people's easy access. After Israel rose up to
play in musical idolatry at Mount Sinai, God
appointed the Levites to guard the Tabernacle
against the approach of the people who were now
"strangers." They were never in the Tabernacle
or Temple during animal sacrifices.
The
result of the sin at Mount Sinai
Temple Top
After the
elders "fired" God and demanded a king like the
nations so that they could worship like the
nations, God "gave them kings in His anger and
later took them away in His anger." The Temple
was identical to all pagan temples but it was
not a congregational worship center. Rather it
was headquarters of the temple-state. Therefore,
only the king, clergy and representative civil
servants participated in animal sacrifices.
When the
Jewish system failed, the scholars went back and
read the history of the Exodus and the temple.
It became clear in hindsight that Mount Sinai
and building the temple was the MARK that God
had abandoned the people to their own devices.
The Levites did not occupy the holy place
typical of the church and assuredly any Levite
musician who attempted to "boldly come before
the throne of grace" with instruments would have
been killed.
Temple Worship and Babylon
Parallel
Tithing Top
The
Israelite farmers who moved into Canaan were
given tribal lands. These were often developed
pastures, orchards, vineyards with houses, wells
and cattle. For that, he paid 10% of ONLY the
food produced on the land as rent. 9% of the
food went to the Levites who performed many of
the civil functions. 1% went to the priests who
were always vocational ministers. There was
never a demand to tithe cash made from other
efforts other than things like import / export
taxes and etc.
Tithing, Law of Moses, Not
Christian - 1 - Tithing
- Legalism - Origin
- 2 - Tithing
- Legalism - Malachi 3:8-10
- 3 - Tithing
- Legalism - New Testament Giving
Trinity
"To speak of
God as a person would have been heretical for the
Middle Ages; it would have been to them a
Unitarian heresy, because it would have conflicted
with the statement that God has three personae,
three expressions of his being." Paul Tillich
Trinity
in the Post Apostolic Fathers
Vineyard Top
Carol Wimber and
the new Praise Song Books???
Voodoo Top
During the
Second Great American Awakening the charismatic
breakdown was found to be facilitated by singing
a new form of "praise hymn." People abandoned
singing the Biblical text for teaching and
turned to secular, mind-manipulating music to
force people into a mental derangement which
could be toted back to the Calvinists as proof
that they were saved. These hymns are a direct
product with the slaves' double-talk to curse
the master while seeming to praise him. This had
a strong Voodoo connection.
- See
Revivalistic Praise Singing and Voodoo
- Musical
Worship Teams (a cappella) and the
superstition of paganism
Willow Creek and Holy Entertainment Top
- Review
of Willow Creek by Christianity Today
- Bob
Mumford New Wineskins Shepherding - Willow
Creek
- Spectacle Worship and
Witchcraft Roots
- See the
Cult/Shepherding Connection
Wineskins, the new kingdom and gospel Top
Dionysus or
Bacchus was a form of Apollo / Hermes worship.
Hermes (Mercury or Logos in the Rubel Shelly
model) was the father of musical instruments,
new wine, liars and thieves. He is also a
Lucifer / Sophia-Zoe character who was the
serpent musician in the garden of Eden. When
Hermes didn't get by with stealing Apollo's cows
by deceit and instruments, Apollo is senior
'god' at the Seeker Center at the oracle of
Delphi. This "god" is a Destroyer. Apollo is
Abaddon or Apollyon of the end-time who is lord
of the locust or those sent forth to separate
those MARKED by the Apollo system from those
MARKED with the Word or Mind of Christ. The wine
flowing from the new wineskins may be the sign
of God's wrath used to identify the agents of
the Destroyer.
- Index
of New Wineskins Push for Dionysus or
Bacchus Feminist Worship: the Symbol is
the WINESKIN and the Legalistic Jubilee.
- The Pope
adopted sun worship and the symbol of the
"woman" was the WINE CUP: The Symbol or
MARK was the WINE CUP and the Legalistic
Jubilee
Witchcraft Top
- Today's
charismatic worship or even the rise of
"praise singing" or "holy entertainment" has
more in common with witchcraft or neo-paganism
than with Christianity.
Witchcraft
and the Zoe, Theatrical Performers
"standing in the holy place"
- BULL Summis desiderantes
Witchcraft
Awakening
Index Colonial Index
Women in Worship Click for Deaconesses above Top
Most of the
problem with women in public "worship" acts is
the result of the problem with men in public
acts. However, Paul used the word authentia which in
contemporary writings was not "being boss."
Rather, it was sexual authority. A non-silent or
non-sedentary female in the presence of a pack
of males simply cannot perform rituals without
exercising authentia which is "both
erotic and murderous." I love the approved
example of Jesus who stood up to read the Word
resting on the pulpit but then He did not rest
on the pulpit but had the common decency to sit
down. It is also a fact that a male cannot do
body rituals and rhetorical exercises without
becoming a BLOCK between the people and God.
Women in
Worship Click for
Deaconesses above - Various articles on both
male and female clergy roles
Worship Top
Jesus didn't
prescribe "worship rituals" because this would
have conflicted with His demand that God only
acknowledges worship "in spirit." The spirit or
mind is the only PLACE worship takes place. The
TRUTH is the only resource of acceptable
worship. All worship in prayer was IN THE
SPIRIT. Teaching the inspired Word was in truth
but "singing and melody" were in the spirit
because both are destructive in the external
sense. "Church," however, is synagogue or school
of the Bible.
Series
of articles beginning here
Paul
commanded that the teaching be one
another or the elders must be the
preacher-teachers or they cannot be elders.
To hire a
surrogate pastor would have been obscene in
Paul's mind.
Assuredly
listening to a sermon is not an act of
worship.
Praying is defined by a
direct command of Jesus and an approved
example. Each person must pray for themselves
and Paul's only reference is to "praying in
the spirit" or each persons mind.
Giving as
an act is excluded by (1) Jesus paying the temple
tax, (2) the treasurer's hand not knowing what
my hand gives directly to the poor in alms,
(2) the only collection was voluntary and
exclusively for the poor, (3) Paul making it
clear that the Corinthian's initiative in
giving to the poor was NOT a command, and (4)
history's testimony that the well to do gave
to help the immediate needs of the poor in the
congregation. The early churches agreed that
systematic charity was not the function of the
church which was a school.
Singing is
not an act of worship because the
operative direct command is to "teach one
another," the resource is the inspired Word of
Christ or Spirit and the singing and melody is
"in
the heart" just as the praying is "in spirit." Otherwise,
it would violate Jesus' statement that worship
is in the PLACE of the spirit as it is devoted
to the Truth which is the Word of Christ.
Paul
warned the Corinthians that they didn't even
assemble to show forth or teach and remember
the Lord's Death. And at Troas people met on
the Lord's day to remember the Lord. This was
a stated time for a stated purpose. We doubt
that they met on the first day of the week
just to eat a common meal when Paul told the
Corinthians to eat their meals outside of the
communion time.
Other than
that, the epistles show that giving heed to
the learning of the Word "as it has been
written" is the only clear WORSHIP concept in
the churches. This is why Thomas Campbell
articulated the Restoration Movement's
restoring the non-clergy concept and seeing
assembly as "the school of Christ." This is in
agreement with Romans 15 which is Paul's
solution to allow diverse backgrounds meet for
teaching the Word.
When Paul
defined "worship" it was in the
spirit.
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