Commands, Examples, Inferences,  CENI Biblical Authority

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CENI or the Regulative Principle outlaws most PAY FOR PLAY clergy and therefore they are ANTIGod and ANTIChrist and, according to Jesus, the sons of the Devil and led by the SPIRITUS of Apollo or Apollyon.  That marks the Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, who made their own sermons and Prayers (Hymns in the Greek) to justify the Law of Tithing or Law of Giving.

ANTICHRISTS deny that God commands, examples and even infers to disciples: that gives them the authority to COMMAND, EXAMPLE AND INFER their own dogma.   Jesus called the Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: In Ezekiel 33 the Spirit OF Christ named speakers, singers and instrument players.  The Pharisees invented their OWN doctrines as the only way to Steal the Homes of Widow.  Jesus said IN VAIN do they worship me teaching for doctrine the Commandments of men.

Mark 7:6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Mark 7:7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me,
        teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Mark 7:8 For laying aside the commandment of God,
        ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups:
        and many other such like things ye do.
Mark 7:9 And he said unto them,
        Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

The Prototype of Babylon-Tyre Israel. Sodom not spiritual Israel.	Jesus referenced Isaiah and Ezekiel to define the national Worship of the Starry Host--Abaddon	The End-Time Fulfillment
For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people. Ezek 26:7 They will plunder your wealth and     loot your merchandise;     they will break down your walls     and demolish your fine houses and throw your stones, TIMBER and rubble into the sea. Ezek 26:12	Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the Lord. Eze 33:30  The Beast is a New Style of Musis. John 10 Blasphemy is saying that Jesus even CLAIMED to be God.	Rev 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.     Rev 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:    Rev 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.      Rev 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
Olympian 9 For Epharmostus of Opus Wrestling-Match 466 B. C. 9.[1] The resounding strain [melos] of Archilochus, the swelling thrice-repeated song of triumph, sufficed to lead Epharmostus to the hill of Cronus, in victory-procession with his dear companions. [5] But now, from the bow of the Muses who, shooting from afar, send a shower of such ARROWS OF SONG these on Zeus of the red lightning-bolt and on the sacred height of Elis, which once the Lydian hero Pelops [10] won as the very fine dowry of Hippodameia.	Hes. Th. 1 [10] veiled in thick mist, and utter their song with lovely voice, praising Zeus the aegis-holder, and queenly Hera of Argos who walks on golden sandals, and the daughter of Zeus the aegis-holder bright-eyed Athena, and Phoebus Apollon, and Artemis who delights in arrows, The Muses in Revelation are led by Apollyon. ALL religious craftsmen or performers are called SORCERERS and they will be CAST ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FORE.	And one day they taught Hesiod glorious song while he was shepherding his lambs under holy Helicon, and this word first the goddesses said to me— [25] the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis: “Shepherds of the wilderness, wretched things of shame, mere bellies, we know how to speak many false things as though they were true; but we know, when we will, to utter true things. -Apollo  Apollo exercises an elevating and inspiring influence on the mind as god of MUSIC, which, though not belonging to him alone any more than ATONEMENT and PROPHECY, was yet pre-eminently his province. Mousagetês (leader of the Muses) as
I will put an end [Rest, Repose, to your noisy songs, and the music [sound] of your harps will be heard no more. Ezek 26:13 Noisy: Multitudo Songs:  Canticum chorus canticum Insonuit, magic formula, incantation  any thing that soothes, charms, or allures, a charm, blandishment, allurement, enticement "And he shall destroy the multitude of thy musicians, and the sound of thy psalteries [cĭthăra] shall be heard no more." Ezek. 26:13 LXX	My people come to you, as they usually do, and sit before you to listen to your words, but they do not put them into practice. With their mouths they express devotion (Lord, Lord as amorousness - inordinate love), but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain (commerce or trade or attendance). Eze 33:31	Rev 18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.           2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.    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 18:22
then I will bring you down with those who go    down to the pit,    to the people of long ago   I will make you dwell in the earth below, as in ancient ruins, with those who go down to the PIT,and you will not return or take your place in the land of the living. Ezek 26:20 Isaiah 14:11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms [maggots] cover thee. Amos 5:23 Take thou away from me the noise [tŭmultus] of thy songs [carmen]  for I will not hear the melody [cantĭcum] of thy viols	Indeed, to them you are NOTHING MORE than one who sings love songs with a beautiful voice and [NOTHING MORE than one who] plays (make melody on) an instrument well, for they hear your words but do not put them into practice. Eze 33	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.
I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord God. Ezek 26:2	When all of this this comes true-- and it surely will-- then they will know that a prophet has been among them." Eze 33:33	Revelation 19:19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.    Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
THE BEAST THE MOTHER OF HALOTS RIDES TO USE SORCERY TO TAKE AWAY YOUR INHERITANCE da^pa^n-aō  2. consume, use up, “hē phusis d. ton thoron” Arist.GA757a25; “khronon eis of persons, to be destroyed, “hupo thēriōn” Ph.2.43; kathaper hupo puros ib.433; “pros thēriōn” App. BC5.79; “en tartarois kai barathrois puri kai phonō kai sidērō panta dapanēsasthai   “en tartarois kai barathrois dapanōmenous” WASTE THE PUBLIC'S MONEY thērion , III. as a term of reproach, beast. “kolaki, deinō thēriō” Pl.Phdr.240b; “hē mousikē aei ti kainon thērion tiktei” Meaning: A new style of music or drama! Tarta^r-os , the nether world generally, And altogether the ancient philosoj)hy of the Greeks appears to have been very much addicted to music; and on this account they judged Apollo to have been the most musical and the wisest of the gods, and Orpheus of the demigods. And they called every one who devoted himself to the study of this art a sophist, as Aeschylus does in the verse where he says — And then the sophist sweetly struck the lyre. Musae (Mousai). In Greek mythology the Muses were originally the nymphs of springs, whose waters gave inspiration, such as Hippocrené, Castalia, etc.; then goddesses of song in genera. They are all female and are considered goddesses dwelling in Olympus, who at the meals of the gods sing sweetly to the lyre of Apollo. They are the nine daughters of Zeus.  Sophis-tês , ou, ho, master of one's craft, adept, expert, of diviners, Hdt.2.49; of poets, meletan sophistais prosbalon Pi.I.5(4).28 , cf. Cratin.2; of musicians, sophistês . . parapaiôn chelun A.Fr.314 , cf. Eup.447, Pl.Com. 140; sophistêi Thrêiki (sc. Thamyris) E.Rh.924, cf. Ath.14.632c: with mod II. from late v B.C., a Sophist, i.e. one who gave lessons in grammar, rhetoric, politics, mathematics, for money, such as Prodicus, Gorgias, Protagoras, a quibbler, cheat,  a RHETORICIAN as the primary meaning of a HYPOCRITE. hoi s. tōn hierōn melōn” A sophist, serpent, makes MUSICAL MELODY with a congregation AS a harp and cannot grasp that IN THE HEART is a place. Id.O.2.98 Pindar, Odes Olympian Odes 2 Peter 2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, [Zoon, Zao, Zoe]           made to be taken and destroyed,           speak evil of the things that they understand not;           and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; Natural: G5446 phusikos foo-see-kos' From G5449 [natural descent] ; “physical”, that is, (by implication) instinctive:--natural. Compare G5591 Bruit: G249 alogos [Anti-Logical] al'-og-os From G1 (as a negative particle) and G3056 ; irrational:--brute, unreasonable. Beasts: G2226 zōon dzo'-on Neuter of a derivative of G2198 [Zao, Zoe] ; a live thing, that is, an animal:--beast. căprīle , is, n. caper, like equile, ovile, bubile, etc., I. an enclosure or stall for goats, Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 8; Col. 7, 6, 6; Plin. 28, 10, 42, § 153; Vitr. 6, 9.—Adj.: căprīlis , e, of or pertaining to the goat: “semen, i. e. capellae, 2 Peter 2:13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness,           as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time.           Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves           with their own deceivings [delusions] while they feast with you;           All musicians and rhetoricians are equated to parasites. Entrupo (g1792) en-troo-fah'-o; from 1722 and 5171; to revel in: - sporting selves. gamêliôi lechei [marriage couch-bed] hêdonais, playing in the wind, exult over, treat haughtily or contemptuously, made a mock of, tinos sumphorais, III. use or abuse at pleasure Entru^ph-aō ,  Paison paizô [pais] 4. to play (on an instrument), Hhymn. II. to sport, play, jest, joke, Hdt., Xen., etc.; p. pros tina to make sport of one, mock him, APOLLON LEADER OF THE MUSE

 For ANY Disciple of Christ this would say that what must be taught are the DOCTRINES OF CHRIST.

The use of the CENI principle has been used in two ways: Among the Disciples or Christian churches the High Church principle is used which allows people to make changes to make the culture-formed instutite function in a changed culture. Therefore, the Law of Silence permits one to add where God has been silent (or assumed to be silent) and ADD to the institute: afterward one's personal preference becomes the will of Christ.  Christ might call it Will Worship.  The Greek THEOLOGY demands that you SPEAK the words of the GOD: Scripture such as Isaiah 55 outlaws "speaking your own words on the day of REST." Because the CENI is used almost exclusively to repudiate Churches of Christ which have never fallen for the fad of "musical worship" those who read the text do not need a LAW to keep them from mocking Jesus Christ.

Isa 8:19And when they shall say unto you,
        Seek unto them that have familiar spirits,
        and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter:
                should not a people seek unto their God?
                for the living to the dead?  

[19] et cum dixerint ad vos quaerite a pythonibus et a divinis qui stridunt in incantationibus suis numquid non populus a Deo suo requirit pro vivis a mortuis

-strīdō  to make a shrill noise, sound harshly, creak, hiss, grate, whiz, whistle, rattle, buzz: stridentia tinguunt Aera lacu, V.: cruor stridit, hisses, O.: belua Lernae Horrendum stridens, V.: horrendā nocte (striges), O.: mare refluentibus undis, V.: aquilone rudentes, O.: videres Stridere secretā aure susurros, buzz, H.

H7442 rânan raw-nan' A primitive root; properly to creak (or emit a stridulous sound), 2. tremulous sound of a mast or pole "Shaken by the wind" also the sound of a torrent. Vibrate the voice TRILL which is the WOMEN'S sound of Halal above.

-cantus , ūs, m. id., 2. With instruments, a playing, music: “in nervorum vocumque cantibus,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 2, 4; id. Rosc. Am. 46, 134: “citharae,” Hor. C. 3, 1, 20: “horribili stridebat tibia cantu,” Cat. 64, 264: “querulae tibiae,” Hor. C. 3, 7, 30:
B. An incantation, charm, magic song, etc.: cantusque artesque magorum. Ov. M. 7, 195; 7, 201: “at cantu commotae Erebi de sedibus imis Umbrae ibant,” Verg. G. 4, 471: “magici,”

-măgĭcus , a, um, adj., = magikos,

I.of or belonging to magic, magic, magical (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): “artes,” Verg. A. 4, 493: “magicis auxiliis uti,” Tib. 1, 8, 24: “arma movere,” Ov. M. 5, 197: “superstitiones,” Tac. A. 12, 59: “vanitates,” Plin. 30, 1, 1, § 1: “herbae,” id. 24, 17, 99, § 156: “aquae,” Prop. 4, 1, 102 (5, 1, 106): di magici, that were invoked by incantations (as Pluto, Hecate, Proserpine), Tib. 1, 2, 62; Luc. 6, 577: “linguae,” i. e. hieroglyphics, id. 3, 222; “but lingua,” skilled in incantations, Ov. M. 7, 330; Luc. 3, 224: “cantus,” Juv. 6, 610: “magicae resonant ubi Memnone chordae,” mysterious, id. 15, 5.

-rĕ-sŏno   “qui (cornus) ad nervos resonant in cantibus, carmina resonantia chordis Romanis, to the strings, “in vocibus nostrorum oratorum

-pŏētĭcus , a, um, adj., = poiētikos,
I.poetic, poetical: “verbum,” Cic. de Or. 3, 38, 153: “non poëtico sed quodam oratorio numero et modo,” id. ib. 1, 33, 151: “di,” represented by the poets,

Mŏdus , 2. The measure of tones, measure, rhythm, melody, harmony, time; in poetry, measure, metre, mode: “vocum,” Cic. Div. 2, 3, 9: “musici,” Quint. 1, 10, 14: “lyrici,” Ov. H. 15, 6: “fidibus Latinis Thebanos aptare modos,” Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 12: Bacchico exsultas (i. e. exsultans) modo, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 214 P. (Trag. v. 152 Vahl.): “flebilibus modis concinere,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 106: saltare ad tibicinis modos, to the music or sound of the flute, Liv. 7, 2: “nectere canoris Eloquium vocale modis,” Juv. 7, 19.—Fig.: “verae numerosque modosque ediscere vitae,” moral harmonies, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 144.—

The familiar spirit is a dry, empty wineskin. It serves as the echo chamber of the nebel which means 'VILE.' It has the same meaning as the harp and the sounding gongs in 1 Cor. 13.

The Wizzard is one who thinks that they can hear the Word of God "beyond the sacred page."  John called them sorcerers because they used rhetoric, singers and instrumentalists to STEAL the Word and money from others Yiddeoniy (h3049) yid-deh-o-nee'; from 3045; prop. a knowing one; spec. a conjurer; (by impl.) a ghost: - wizard.

"In Isa 8:19 the 'obhoth and yidh'onim are spoken of those who 'chirp and mutter." These terms refer to the necromancers themselves who practiced ventriloquism in connection with their magical rites. In Isa 29:4 it is said 'Thy voice shall be as an 'obh, out of the ground.'... They are stamped in these passages, as in the Witch of Endor narrative, as deceivers practising a fraudulent art. By implication their power to evoke spirits with whom they were in familiar intercourse is denied." (Int Std Bible Ency., ency, p. 690)

H178  ’ôb obe From the same as H1 (Ab, Ab, Lord, Lord sayers: apparently through the idea of prattling a father’s name); properly a mumble, that is, a water skin (from its hollow sound); hence a necromancer (ventriloquist, as from a jar):—bottle, familiar spirit.

Pȳthon ,, I. the serpent slain, according to the myth, near Delphi by Apollo, who was fabled to have been called Pythius in commemoration of this victory, Ov. M. 1, 438;

To the law and to the testimony:
        if they speak not according to this word,
        it is because there is no light in them. Isa 8:20

HERE IS THE SILENCE THOSE SENT STRONG DELUSIONS CANNOT HEAR:

Matthew 27:29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand:
        and they bowed the knee before him,
        and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
Matthew 27:31 And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him,
        and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.

illūdo (inl-
I  Neutr., to play at or with any thing, to sport with, amuse one's self with (syn. colludo; cf. ludificor).
1. To scoff or mock at, to make a laughing-stock of, to ridicule (so most freq.): “satis superbe illuditis me,
“feminarum illustrium capitibus,”  : illusa pictae vestis inania, rhetorum),

How to use PSALLO to turn captives into WOMEN
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), singing (psallein),
..........and shop-keeping (Hucksterism). 
So wilt thou soon see them become women instead of men,
and there will be no more fear of their revolting from thee."

-[4] Ludoisi de sungnômên echôn tade autoisi epitaxon, hôs mête aposteôsi mête deinoi toi eôsi: apeipe men sphi pempsas hopla arêia mê ektêsthai, keleue de spheas kithônas -[khiton  David's garment] te hupodunein toisi heimasi kai kothornous hupodeesthai, proeipe d' autoisi -kitharizein te kai psallein kai kapêleuein [prostitutes, petty trade, playing tricks, corrupting] paideuein tous paidas. kai tacheôs spheas ô basileu gunaikas ant' andrôn opseai gegonotas, hôste ouden deinoi toi esontai mê aposteôsi."

The word kitharizo means to PLAY THE CITHARA and does not include singing.

-Kitharizô 1 [kitharis] to play the cithara, phormingi [Apollo] kitharize Il., Hes.; lurêi eraton kitharizôn Hhymn. (so that there can have been no great difference between the kithara, lura, and phorminx ); kitharizein ouk epistatai, of an uneducated person,

-Kithar-isis , eôs, hê, playing on the cithara, Pl.Prt.325e; k. psilê, i.e. without the voice, Id.Lg.669e, cf. Pae.Delph.15; aulêsis kai k. Phld.Mus.p.23 K.

-Arassô ,of any violent impact, with collat. notion of rattling, clanging, as of horses, hoplais, pound in a mortar, strike with a shower of stones.
a). kitharēn strike the lyre, Orph.A.382; humnon, melos, etc., Nonn.D.1.15,440, etc.
2. c. dat. modi, arassein tina oneidesi, kakois, assail with reproaches or threats,
II. Pass., to be dashed against, dash one against the other
Pound in a mortar, “holmō a.” Nic. Th.508

When they MOCKED Jesus the prophecy used the word Alarm or Triumph which is to play loud wind instruments and make a loud rejoicing sound.
G1702 empaizō emp-aheed'-zo From G1722 and G3815 ; to jeer at, that is, deride:

Empaizō , fut. A.“-xomai” LXXHb.1.10: pf. empepaikha ib.Nu.22.29:— mock at, mock, “tini” Hdt.4.134;
3. Pass., to be deluded, Ev.Matt.2.16, AP10.56.2 (Pall.), Vett.Val.16.14; to be defrauded, of the revenues, Cod.Just.1.34.2.
II. sport in or on, “hōs nebros khloerais e. leimakos hēdonais” E.Ba. 866 (lyr.); tois khoroisin e. to sport in the dance, Ar.Th.975; “tō gumnasiō” Luc.Lex.5. 

E.Ba. 866 Euripides, Bacchae ........OnLine Text

 

Chorus

Shall I move my white foot in the night-long dance, aroused to a frenzy, [865] throwing my head to the dewy air, like a fawn sporting in the green pleasures of the meadow, when it has escaped a fearful chase beyond the watchers [870] over the well-woven nets, and the hunter hastens his dogs [Catamites] on their course with his call, while she, with great exertion and a storm-swift running, rushes along the plain by the river, rejoicing [875] in the solitude apart from men and in the thickets of the shady-foliaged woods.

What is wisdom? Or what greater honor do the gods give to mortals than to hold one's hand [880] in strength over the head of enemies? What is good is always dear.

Empaiktês , ou, ho,A. mocker, deceiver, LXXIs.3.4, 2 Ep.Pet.3.3, Ep.Jud. 18.

2 Peter 2:13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

Entrupo (g1792) en-troo-fah'-o; from 1722 and 5171; to revel in: - sporting selves.

Truphaô , ( [truphê]
2. part. truphōn as Adj., effeminate, luxurious, Ar.Nu.48, etc.; “t. kai amelēs” Pl.Lg.901a; “to truphōn” effeminacy, Ar.V.1455 (lyr.); also of things, dainty, delicate,  “paison,
II. to be licentious, run riot, wax wanton, Ar.Lys.405, etc.; to be extravagant

Paison paizô [pais]
2. esp. dance, “paisate” Od.8.251; “dōma peristenakhizeto possin andrōn paizontōn” 23.147, cf. Hes.Sc.277; “p. te kai khoreuein”
alla pepaistai metriōs hēmin, of the chorus,
4. play on a musical instrument, h.Ap.206: c. acc., “Pan ho kalamophthogga paizōn” Ar.Ra.230; dance and sing, Pi. O.1.16.
5. play amorously,

IT'S A FACT: JESUS NEVER SAID "THOU SHALT NOT MUSICAL MOCK ME."

Christ in Spirit defined the future REST both inclusively and exclusively.

Is. 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: (Spirit of Christ 1 Pet 1:11; Rev 19:10)
         if they speak not according to this word,
         it is because there is no light in them.

In Isaiah 50 He warned about the musical PLUCKERS

http://www.pineycom.com/Isaiah.50.Smitten.Plucked.html

In Isaiah 55 He commanded us NOT to pay for the free water of the Word

http://www.pineycom.com/Isaiah.55.Word.Spirit.html

In Isaiah 58 he outlawed seeking our own pleasure or even SPEAKING OUR OWN WORDS.

http://www.pineycom.com/Isaiah.58.html

Before they heard the direct command against vocal or instrumental rejoicing on the REST day, some of Israel rose up to PLAY in musical idolatry. That was a result of telling Moses that they would no hear the voice of God:

Deuteronomy 18:15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee,
         of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;
Deuteronomy 18:16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb    
        in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God,
        neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
Deuteronomy 18:17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.
Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee,
        and will put my words in his mouth;
        and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Deuteronomy 18:19 And it shall come to pass,
         that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

"Prophesying" in the good sense was speaking the actual words of Christ in the prophets who could say 'thus saith the Lord." Preaching is supposed to "speak that which is written for our learning." Anyone who presumes to speak for God blasphemes (Jeremiah 23).

Deuteronomy 18:20 But the prophet,
        which shall presume to speak a word in my name,
        which I have not commanded him to speak,
        or that shall speak in the name of other gods,
        even that prophet shall die.

Paul affirmed that only the Prophets by Christ and made more perfect by Jesus of Nazareth was the resource upon which the church is founded and built up. 2 Peter 1

2 Peter 2 No Prophecy is of Private Interpretation
2 Peter 2 Instrumental Music is Corruption
2 Peter 3. End time Musical Mockers
See Father Son Holy Spirit Trinity

2Peter 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables,
        when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
        but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

Fables are myths from MUO [to shut the mouth: music forces the lambs to be silent before the slaughter]

Muthos   2. fiction (Opposite. logos, historic truth)

Pind. 0. 1 From there glorious song enfolds the wisdom of poets,¹ so that they loudly sing [10] the son of Cronus, when they arrive at the rich and blessed hearth of Hieron, who wields the scepter of law in Sicily of many flocks, reaping every excellence at its peak, and is glorified [15] by the choicest music, which we men often play around his hospitable table. Come, take the Dorian lyre down from its peg, if the splendor of Pisa and of Pherenicus placed your mind under the influence of sweetest thoughts,

Yes, there are many marvels, and yet I suppose the speech of mortals beyond the true account can be deceptive, stories adorned with embroidered lies; [30] and Grace, who fashions all gentle things for men, confers esteem and often contrives to make believable the unbelievable. But the days to come are the wisest witnesses.

 embroidered lies Poikilos
2. of Art, p. humnos a song of changeful strain or full of diverse art, Pi.O.6.87; “poikilon kitharizōn” Id.N.4.14; “dedaidalmenoi pseudesi poikilois muthoi” Id.O.1.29; of style, “lexis poiētikōtera kai p.” Isoc.15.47 (Comp.); “skhēmatismoi” D.H.Is.3.

 Fables are myths from MUO [to shut the mouth: music forces the lambs to be silent before the slaughter]

Sophis-tês ,A. master of one's craft, adept, expert, of diviners, Hdt.2.49; of poets, “meletan sophistais prosbalon” Pi.I.5(4).28, cf. Cratin.2; of musicians, “sophistēs . . parapaiōn khelun” A.Fr.314, cf. Eup.447, Pl.Com. 140; sophistē Thrēki (sc. Thamyris) E.Rh.924, cf. Ath.14.632c: with modal words added, “hoi s. tōn hierōn melōn”

II. from late v B.C., a Sophist, i.e. one who gave lessons in grammar, rhetoric, politics, mathematics, for money,

goēs     A. sorcerer, wizard, Phoronis 2, Hdt.2.33,4.105, Pl.R. 380d, Phld.Ir.p.29 W.; “g. epōdos Ludias apo khthonos” E.Ba.234, cf. Hipp.1038; prob. f.l. for boēsi Hdt.7.191.
2. juggler, cheat, “deinos g. kai pharmakeus kai sophistēs” Pl.Smp.203d; “magos kai g.” Aeschin.3.137:

2Peter 1:17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory,
        when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory,
        This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
2Peter 1:18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard,
        when we were with him in the holy mount.
2Peter 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy;
        whereunto ye do well that ye take heed,
        as unto a light that shineth in a dark place,
        until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
2Peter 1:20 Knowing this first,
        that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
2Peter 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man:
        but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

2Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people,
        even as there shall be false teachers among you,
        who privily shall bring in damnable heresies,
        even denying the Lord that bought them,
        and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2Peter 2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways;
        by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
2Peter 2:3  And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you:
         whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

Those who mock God's right to CENI give themselves the right to make laws and impose them on other people. However, not even Jesus of Nazareth had that right. Remember that Christ in Spirit inspired the prophets and defined His future rest or assembly both inclusively and exclusively.

Is. 59:15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey:
         and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment. 
Is. 59:16 And he saw that there was no man,
        and wondered that there was no intercessor:
        therefore his arm brought salvation unto him;
        and his righteousness, it sustained him.
Is. 59:17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate,
        and an helmet of salvation upon his head;
        and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing,
        and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
Is. 59:18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay,
        fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies;
        to the islands he will repay recompence.
Is. 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west,
        and his glory from the rising of the sun.
        When the enemy shall come in like a flood,
        the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Is. 59:20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion,
        and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
Is. 59:21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; 
        My spirit that is upon thee,
        and my words which I have put in thy mouth,
        shall not depart out of thy mouth,
        nor out of the mouth of thy seed,
        nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed,
        saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.

Matt. 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,
        All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

Preachers and elders get NONE:

Matt. 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
        baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matt. 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
        and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Now, I confess that Jesus didn't say "Don't teach Jimmy Joes 'How I acquired spirituality' course.
For those wise enough to know that "no man knows the Father but the Son Who reveals Him" that means that "teach what Jesus COMMANDED to be taught means "what Jesus COMMANDED to be taught." You need a Phd in Phrenology to argue that point.

Christ spoke through the Prophets and Jesus fulfilled those prophecies fully. THAT is the spiritual teaching resource and a DISCIPLE of Christ would never try to whine their own will into a law.

John 12:47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not:
         for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
John 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words,
        hath one that judgeth him:
        the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him,
        If a man love me, he will keep MY WORDS:
        and my Father will love him,
        and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

A modern theology which does NOT speak the Words of God attempts to use parts of COMMANDS and EXAMPLES of the "worship of the starry host" to which God ABANDONED israel because they rejected GRACE and turned to musical idolatry of the trinity of "gods."  See how this fall from Grace is being promoted as a new VISION which is claimed to be through NEW SPECTACLES.

1. Christ in Spirit spoke only through the Prophets (2 Cor. 3; 1 Peter 1:11; Revelation 19:10
2. 2 Peter 1 lists the prophecies made more perfect as the SPEAKING material for the church
3.       Those who do not speak that which is written is called a false teacher like a false prophet
4. Jesus fullfilled the SPIRIT message and said "My WORDS are SPIRIT and they are life."
5. Christ in the prophets defines as BLASPHEMY those who speak out of their own imagination.

So, those who deny CENI insist on composing their own songs and sermons worthy of violating the direct command in Isaiah 55 where Christ told us NOT to pay for the free water of the Word.

The Qahal, synagogue or Church of Christ in the wilderness was defined inclusively and exclusively.

INCLUSIVE of Rest, Reading and Rehearsing the Word of God: What Disciples of Christ do.
EXCLUSIVE of Vocal or Instrumental rejoicing: what discipled do not do when God speaks through His Words.

The Synagogue is defined and never changed: the only reason for calling the Godly non-Levites into assembly was for instructions.
The synagogue continued parallel to the curse of the Sacrificial System: God abandoned the Levi tribe to worship the starry host and those are the "gods" worshipped in all animal sacrifices before and after the Temple.  The Military Levite Instrument players were under the king and the commanders of the Army and not worship leaders. Even then, any Levite singer or instrument player who came NEAR any holy thing or INSIDE of any holy house was to be executed.

The Scribes wrote for the cursed Monarchy and we are warned not to believe the "Lying pen of the Scribes" when they heap praise on the Temple.  Jesus called the Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites and in the Ezekiel 33 version named slick preachers, singers and instrument players. The Pharisees specificially ignored the Words of God and composed their own songs and sermons as a way to get around the law against them: In Isaiah 55 Christ defined the free water of the Word and in AIsaiah 58 defined the future REST and outlawed seeking our own pleasure or speaking our own words.  Scribes and Pharisees still do that.

WE ARE STUCK WITH THE WORD OF GOD OR REST ON OUR OWN IMAGINATION.

The Law of Silence as permissive for ME to impose something on YOU was not something invented on those who come near to cursing those who will not let them impose instruments into what they have always honored, in the Words of the Campbells, as a School of Christ: worship was Reading and Musing the word of God which God insisted on because He is God and we are not.
THE MILITARY LEVITES MAKING INSTRUMENTAL NOISE DURING THE BURNING OF GOATS IS USED TO PROVE THAT GOD COMMANDS INSTRUMENTAL PRAISE FOR US..

In 2 Chronicles 29 people imagine that God commanded the Instruments of the Levites as a plague stopping exorcism by looking back almost 300 years when David made a plague stopping sacrifice is THEIR patternism as a DIRECT COMMAND for them.

However, Hezekiah the King, Civil leaders, warrior Levites and the priest STOOD IN RANKS for the slaughtering of animals for the ATONEMENT of nation, king, priests and NOT commanded Temple. Only afterward, it was HEZEKIAH'S idea to burn some goats for Israel which had long defected in a civil war created by Solomon's building of a Ziggurat or tower of Babel since God had abandoned them to worship the starry host.

We are told that the cursed Monarchy had "the lying pen of the Scribes" to record the Civil-Military-Priestly complex. Christ inspired the prophets--usually murdered by the Monarchy--to REPUDIATE them as robbers and parasites.

1. David Faust insists:
        I . In the Old Testament the Lord didn't merely "permit" the use of musical instruments as aids to worship.
                He commanded their use.
        2. In the old Testament the Lord didn't merely "permit' the use of musical instruments as aids to worship.
                He blessed their use.

2. Christ in the Prophets warned about the lying pen of the Scribes:

Jeremiah 7:4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying,
        The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, 
        The temple of the Lord, are these.  

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel;
       Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. Jeremiah 7:21

> For I spake NOT unto your fathers, nor commanded them
        in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
       concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: Jeremiah 7:22
> But this thing commanded I them, saying,
       Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people:
       and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you,
       that it may be well unto you. Jeremiah 7:23

> But they HEARKENED NOT, nor inclined their ear,
       but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart,
       and went backward, and not forward. Jeremiah 7:24

Jer. 8:7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.

Jer. 8:8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is WITH US?
        LO, CERTAINLY IN VAIN MADE HE IT;
        THE PEN OF THE SCRIBES IS in vain.

Christ named them Rhetoricians, singers and instrument players in Ezekiel 33: HYPOCRITES.

Jer. 8:9 The WISE men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken:

Sophos , ē, on, A. skilled in any handicraft or art, clever . N.7.17; “kubernētēs” A.Supp.770; “mantis” Id.Th.382
mostly of poets and musicians, Pi.O.1.9, P.1.42, 3.113; en kithara s. E.IT1238 (lyr.), cf. Ar.Ra.896
“sophon toi to saphes, ou to mē saphes” E.Or.397;
etc.; also en oiōnois, kithara, E. IT662, 1238 (lyr.);
sŏphōs , adv., = sophōs, an exclamation of applause,

Ex. 7:11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt,
        they also did in like manner with their enchantments.

Sophia , Ion. -iē, h(, prop. A. cleverness or skill in handicraft and art, in music and singing, tekhnē kai s. h.Merc.483, cf. 511; in poetry, Sol.13.52, Pi.O.1.117, Ar.Ra.882, X.An.1.2.8, in divination, S.OT 502
“ou sophia alla phusei poiein” Id.Ap.22b;

HH 4 483 What skill is this? What song for desperate cares? What way of song? For verily here are three things to hand all at once from which to choose, —mirth, and love, and sweet sleep. [450] And though I am a follower of the Olympian Muses who love dances and the bright path of song —the full-toned chant and ravishing thrill of flutes —yet I never cared for any of those feats of skill at young men's revels, as I do now for this: [455] I am filled with wonder, O son of Zeus, at your sweet playing. But now, since you, though little, have such glorious skill, sit down, dear boy, and respect the words of your elders For now you shall have renown among the deathless gods, you and your mother also. This I will declare to you exactly: [460] by this shaft of cornel wood I will surely make you a leader renowned among the deathless gods, and fortunate, and will give you glorious gifts and will not deceive you from first to last.”...

Now, you are free to learn whatever you please; [475] but since, as it seems, your heart is so strongly set on playing the lyre, chant, and play upon it, and give yourself to merriment, taking this as a gift from me, and do you, my friend, bestow glory on me. Sing well with this clear-voiced companion in your hands; for you are skilled in good, well-ordered utterance. [480] From now on bring it confidently to the rich feast and lovely dance and glorious revel, a joy by night and by day. Whoso with wit and wisdom enquires of it cunningly, him it teaches [485] through its sound all manner of things that delight the mind, being easily played with gentle familiarities, for it abhors toilsome drudgery; but whoso in ignorance enquires of it violently, to him it chatters mere vanity and foolishness.

lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

Jer. 8:10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others,
        and their fields to them that shall inherit them:
        for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness,
        From the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

 Thus saith the Lord, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah,
        and the great pride of Jerusalem. Jer 13:9
        This evil people, which refuse to hear my words,
........which walk in the imagination of their heart, [twisted]
........and walk after other gods, to serve them,
........and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing. Jer 13:10

Jer 23:16 Thus saith the Lord of hosts,
        Hearken not unto the words of the PROPHETS that prophesy unto you;
        they make you vain:
        they speak a vision of their own heart,

        and not out of the mouth of the Lord.

MIRIAM AND THE LEVITES PROPHESIED WITH INSTRUMENTS: THEY WERE NOT GUIDED BY CHRIST

        in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
       concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: Jeremiah 7:22
> But this thing commanded I them, saying,
       Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people:
       and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you,
       that it may be well unto you. Jeremiah 7:23

> But they HEARKENED NOT, nor inclined their ear,
       but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart,
       and went backward, and not forward. Jeremiah 7:24

MIRIAM AND THE LEVITES WERE MUSICAL PROPHETS:

Prŏphēta and prŏphētes , ae, m., = prophētēs, I. a foreteller, soothsayer, prophet (post-class.; cf. “vates): prophetas in Adrasto Julius nominat antistites fanorum oraculorumque interpretes,” Fest. p. 229 Müll. (Trag. Rel. p. 194 Rib.): “prophetae quidam, deorum majestate completi, effantur ceteris, quae divino beneficio soli vident, App. de Mundo, p. 56, 29: sacerdotes Aegyptiorum, quos prophetas vocant,” Macr. S. 7, 13, 9: “Aegyptius, propheta primarius,” App. M. 2, p. 127, 3.—Of the Jewish prophets, Lact. 1, 4, 1; 4, 11, 1; 7, 24, 9; Vulg. Luc. 1, 70.
Prīmārĭus , a, um, adj. id., I. one of the first, of the first rank, chief, principal, excellent, remarkable (class.): “primarius parasitus,” Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 73:

Părăsītus , i, m., = parasitos, lit. one who eats with another; hence,

Prophētēs prophēmi

I. one who speaks for a God and interprets his will to man, a prophet; so Teiresias is pr. Dios, Jove's interpreter, Pind.; and of Apollo, Dios prophētēs esti Loxias patros Aesch.; while the Pythia, in turn, became the prophētis of Apollo, Hdt.; so Poets are called hoi tōn Mousōn prophētai interpreters of the Muses, Plat.

2. generally, an interpreter, declarer, egō pr. soi logōn genēsomai Eur.; so, the bowl is called kōmou prophatēs, Pind.

II. in NTest.,

1. one who possesses the gift of prophēteia, an inspired preacher and teacher.

2. the revealer of God's counsel for the future, a prophet (in the modern sense of the word), a predicter of future events.

ONLY CHRIST SPEAKS THROUGH THE PROPHETS: ONLY JESUS MAKES THE PROPHECIES MORE PERFECT.

The only authentic spiritual information is delibered by the Prophets and Apostles.  You certainly use "music to make the lambs silent before the slaughter." However, ANYTHING you speak imagining silence comes out of your own imagination.

Jer 23:17 They say still unto them that despise me,
        The Lord hath said, Ye shall have peace;
        and they say unto every one that walketh
        after the imagination of his own heart,
        No evil shall come upon you.

Remember that it comes from the Words of God or it comes out of your own imagination: there is no silence. However, those who presume to speak where God has not spoken are guilty of blasphemy:

Despise tthe Word of God:

Blasphēmo , āre, ak profanely of sacred things, “eis theous” Pl.R.381e; offer rash prayer

I.  v.a., = blasphēmeō (eccl. Lat.), to revile, reproach, Vulg. 1 Par. 20, 7; God and divine things, to blaspheme: “Christum,” Prud. Apoth. 415: “nomen Domini,” Tert. adv. Jud. 13 fin.; Vulg. Lev. 24, 11; id. Matt. 9. 3; 26, 65.
2. speak ill or to the prejudice of one, slander, “peri tēs emēs diatribēs”

Isoc. 12. 65 Nevertheless, I think I shall do one thing, namely, show that the city of the Spartans, in handling situations such as I have mentioned, has been much more harsh and severe than Athens, and that those who seek to promote the reputation of the Spartans by calumniating us are short-sighted in the extreme and are themselves to blame for the bad repute which their own friends incur at our hands.

3. speak impiously or irreverently of God, blaspheme

Plat. Rep. [381e] And many similar falsehoods they must not tell. Nor again must mothers under the influence of such poets terrify their children with harmful tales, how that there are certain gods whose apparitions haunt the night in the likeness of many strangers from all manner of lands, lest while they speak evil of the gods they at the same time make cowards of children.” “They must not,” he said.
        “But,” said I, “may we suppose that while the gods themselves are incapable of change

        they cause us to fancy that they appear in many shapes deceiving and practising magic
        upon us?” “Perhaps,” said he. “Consider,”

Dan. 3:29 Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.

By using your own imagination and enhancements

Prāvĭtas , ātis, f. pravus, I. crookedness, inequality, irregularity, deformity
a distorting of the mouth in speaking, impropriety in speaking, in gestures,

Orātĭo , 1. Speech, the power or faculty of speech, the habit or use of language: “quae (ferae) sunt rationis et orationis expertes,

Jer 23:18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord,
        and hath perceived and heard his word?
        who hath marked his word, and heard it?

Jer 23:19 Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord is gone forth in fury,
        even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.

Christ says you are a wicked blasphemer if you pretend to speak when God has not commanded.

Justin Martyr with Typho a Jew Part One c 100-165

Chapter XI.-The Law Abrogated; The New Testament Promised and Given by God.

"There will be no other God, O Trypho, nor was there from eternity any other existing" (I thus addressed him), "but He who made and disposed all this universe. Nor do we think that there is one God for us, another for you, but that He alone is God who led your fathers out from Egypt with a strong hand and a high arm. Nor have we trusted in any other (for there is no other), but in Him in whom you also have trusted, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob.

But we do not trust through Moses or through the law; for then we would do the same as yourselves. But now -(for I have read that there shall be a final law, and a covenant, the chiefest of all, which it is now incumbent on all men to observe, as many as are seeking after the inheritance of God.

Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him:
for he that cometh to God must believe that he is,
and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

For the law promulgated on Horeb is now old, and belongs to yourselves alone; but this is for all universally. Now, law placed against law has abrogated that which is before it,
         and a covenant which comes after in like manner has put an end to the previous one;
         and an eternal and final law-namely, Christ-has been given to us,
         and the covenant is trustworthy,
         after which there shall be no law, no commandment, no ordinance. 

Have you not read this which Isaiah says: "Hearken unto Me, hearken unto Me, my people; and, ye kings, give ear unto Me: for a law shall go forth from Me, and My judgment shall be for a light to the nations. My righteousness approaches swiftly, and My salvation shall go forth, and nations shall trust in Mine arm? ' 

And by Jeremiah, concerning this same new covenant, He thus speaks: "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt' ).

Justin Part Two.

Origen Book VI, Againmst Celsus who promotes Greek theology

XIX I do not indeed, deny that Plato learned from certain Hebrews the words quoted from the Phaedrus, or even, as some have recorded, that he quoted them from a perusal of our prophetic writings, when he said: 

See how Phaedrus defines the Greek practice SINGING their text to inspire people into a charismatic feeling: that is actively promoted as the WORSHIP WARS invaded happy congregations to turn them into theaters for "holy entertainment."

"No poet here below has ever sung of the super-celestial place, or ever will sing in a becoming manner," and so on. And in the same passage is the following: "For the essence, which is both colourless and formless, and which cannot be touched, which really exists, is the pilot of the soul, and is beheld by the understanding alone; and around it the genus of true knowledge holds this place." 

Our Paul, moreover, educated by these words, and longing after things "supra-mundane" and "super-celestial," and doing his utmost for their sake to attain them, says in the second Epistle to the Corinthians: "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are unseen are eternal."  

Origen XLI In the next place, as if he had forgotten that it was his object to write against the Christians, he says that,
"having become acquainted with one Dionysius, an Egyptian musician,

        the latter told him, with respect to magic arts,
        that it was only over the uneducated and men of corrupt morals that they had any power,

while on philosophers they were unable to produce any effect,
because they were careful to observe a healthy manner of life."

Vulgate translates, "They turn thy words into a song of their mouths." heart goeth after covetousness--the grand rival to the love of God; therefore called "idolatry," and therefore associated with impure carnal love,

as both alike transfer the heart's affection from the Creator to the creature. 

Singing with or without instruments drove pagans into a "feeling" or madness in Paul's warning to Corinth. They believed that the "thrill" of hearing the almost always prostitute or sodomite "ministers of the mother goddess" was the "spirits" or "demons" invading their souls. Phaedrus Socrates. Yes, quite admirable; the effect on me was ravishing. And this I owe to you, Phaedrus, for I observed you while reading to be in an ecstasy, and thinking that you are more experienced in these matters than I am, I followed your example, and, like you, my divine darling, I became inspired with a phrenzy. Phaedrus. Indeed, you are pleased to be merry. Socrates. Do you mean that I am not in earnest? Phaedrus. Yes, Socrates, you seem to have a very unusual flow of words. Socrates. Listen to me, then, in silence; for surely the place is holy; so that you must not wonder, if, as I proceed, I appear to be in a divine fury [wrath Paul warned about], for already I am getting into dithyrambics. Phaedrus. Nothing can be truer. Socrates.  Clement of Alexander: "After having paid reverence to the discourse about  God, they leave within [at church] what they have heard. And outside they f oolishly amuse themselves with impious playing, and amatory quavering (feminine vibrato), occupied with flute-playing, and dancing, and intoxication, and all kinds of trash. But now to pass from this to the shameless corruption of the stage. I am ashamed to tell what things are said; I am even ashamed to denounce the things that are done-the tricks of arguments, the cheatings of adulterers, the immodesties of women, the scurrile jokes, the sordid parasites,

All Bible students know better than to use the Levitical Musicians who "prophesied" meaning "to make themselve mad and vile."

"The triumphal hymn of Moses had unquestionably a religious character about it; but the employment of music in religious services, though idolatrous, is more distinctly marked in the festivities which attended the erection of the golden calf." (Smith's Bible Dictionary, Music, p. 589).

"In the New Testament there is nowhere any emphasis laid on the musical form of the hymns; and in particular none on instrumental accompaniment whereas this is significantly paganism." (Delling, Gerhard, Worship in the New Testament, trans. Percy Scott Phil. Westminster press, 1962, p. 86).

Jerusalem, which was taken over by the Amorites in Abraham's time, later became a citadel of control by the aristocracy of rulers and court priests.  These are the ones who killed the true prophets as Jesus mentioned in Matthew 23. The prophet Jeremiah refers to Jerusalem as the harlot in Jeremiah 3:1. Ezekiel refers to Jerusalem as the harlot in Ezekiel 16:15 and 16:35. When Jesus pronounced God's judgement upon Jerusalem, he said there are days of vengeance and great wrath upon it (Luke 21:22.).  And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. Revelation 11:8

Gal 4:24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants;
        the one from the mount Sinai,
        which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

Gal 4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia,
        and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

Gal 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

1. God gave Israel The Book of The Covenant of Grace.
2. They rose up to PLAY which Paul in 1 Cor 10 identifies as demonism: musical idolatry.
   

Acts 4:19 But Peter and John answered and said unto them,
        Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.

Acts 4:20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Jer 13:8

Thus saith the Lord, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem. Jer 13:9
This evil people, which refuse to hear my words,
........which walk in the imagination of their heart, [twisted]
........and walk after other gods, to serve them,
........and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing. Jer 13:10

Paul outlaws doubtful disputations in Romans 14 by the sects marked by DIET but all who practiced musical worship.

“Disputing” implies a questioning mind and suggests an arrogant attitude by those who assume they’re always right. Arguing with others in the body of Christ is disruptive. That’s why Paul spent the first part of chapter 2 on humility.

To dwell above, with saints we love, that will be grace and glory
But to live below with saints we know, now that’s a different story!

Dialogismos is used 14 times in the NAS (Matthew; Mark; Luke 6x; Romans 2x; 1 Corinthians; Philippians; 1 Timothy; James) and is translated as: argument, 1; disputing, 1; dissension, 1; doubts, 1; motives, 1; opinions, 1; reasonings, 2; speculations, 1; thoughts, 3; what...were thinking, 2

Dialogismos is used 11 times in the Septuagint (LXX) (Ps 40:5, 56:5, 92:5, 94:11, 139:2, 139:20, 146:4, Isa 59:7, Jer 4:14, Lam 3:60-61) Dialogismos often means the perverse, vain thinking which contemplates destruction (Ps. 94:11), and is turned against God (Jer. 4:14; Isa. 59:7) and against the godly (Ps. 56:5).

Commenting on Phil 2:14, MacArthur notes that dialogismos...

soon developed the more specific ideas of questioning, doubting, or disputing the truth of a matter. In Romans 14:1, the word is used of passing judgment on another believer’s opinions and in 1 Timothy 2:8 it is rendered “dissension.” Whereas grumbling is essentially emotional, disputing is essentially intellectual. A person who continues to murmur and grumble against God will eventually argue and dispute with Him. (MacArthur, J. Philippians. Chicago: Moody Press)

For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man,
........ so have I caused to cleave unto me
........ the whole house of Israel and
........ the whole house of Judah, saith the Lord;

that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory:
........ but they would not hear. Jer 13:11

The PATTERNISM of the "new style music" is really from old style Babylon.  The Vineyard purpose driven music is "to bring on a sexual-lik climax with the spirit." The New Wineskins is a direct takeoff of the Vineyard movement. And the goal is to produce ENRAPTURED and ENTHUSIASTIAC feelings by using music.  Philo invented this word as Enthus O Mania which means to be filled with mania or the MAD prophesying Paul outlawed.  They call it DRUNK ON THE SPIRIT and this is a MARK that people have rejected the direct command to use THAT WHICH IS WRITTEN or to TEACH THAT WHICH HAS BEEN TAUGHT.

If this is the Pattern we are th Behold then it becomes easy to just dismiss specific Biblical commands to follow the commands of God and (wink, wink!) tell the paying audience that they don't exist any longer.

The "Core Gospel" Dr. Rubel Shelly and probably most university educated men majoring in about everything but the Bible consists of these seven facts. For some mysterious reason you can believe that God loved the world but you cannot believe that He was competent to back up the gospel or "good news" with Doctrine which means "the teachings of Jesus." Click for some other Patternism Minus the Bible.

The Bible is to be believed about the "core" gospel but the teachings of Jesus, by the apostles and in church history about baptism can be ignored because it is not the self-defined CORE CREED.

How can I be interested in "knowing" Jesus if I have utter contempt for knowing "about" Jesus? Here is the core without the rest of the apple:

1 Cor 2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

Paul did not say I determined not to PREACH anything among you. To KNOW Christ means that Paul abandoned his own rights and preaching philosophy and preached the Gospel by his life BECAUSE the people were carnal and most unable to eat the "meat" of the Word as the "perfected."

Well, that certainly leaves out baptism and any instructions about a new form of "singing" which is antithetical to the pagan wineskin singing with instruments. Or does it?

1 Cor 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Paul preached the "core" gospel because that is what you preach until people are willing to die to self and submit. Paul called that the "milk" of the Word. The Corinthians never grasped the "core" and therefore remained carnal:

1 Cor 3:1 AND I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

Therefore, those who claim just the "core" probably have not gotten beyond the core and have crucified themselves with Christ. Therefore, they are carnal and there is no "meat of the Word" in them to preach to you. However, the new "milk" of the word to show contempt for people and leave them in the dark is called: "Chicken Soup for the Soul."

The "core" theology shows that Paul nor Christ speaks to them because they just skipped Paul's statement about TEACHING:

1 Cor 2:1 AND I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring [preaching] unto you the testimony OF God.

AND there s come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: Isaiah 11:1
And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; Isaiah 11:2

And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: Isaiah 11:3

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. Zechariah 7:11

They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the LORD Almighty was very angry. Zechariah 7:12

Therefore it is come to pass, that

as he cried, and they would not hear;
so they cried, and I would not hear,
saith the Lord of hosts: Zechariah 7:13

2 Cor. 3:15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
2 Cor. 3:16 Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
2 Cor. 3:17 Now the Lord IS that Spirit: and where the Spirit OF the Lord is, there is liberty.
2 Cor. 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. 1 Pe 1:11

And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Rev 19:10

So, Paul did not say: "I preach only Christ and Him crucified but I preach the whole counsel of God." My "knowing Christ" defines my qualification for a competent preacher: I am willing to be sacrificed.

Churches of Christ do not follow either the Bible or Restoration Movement beliefs by binding "inferences" which are subject to human reasoning.

However, Necessary Inference is a first requirement for grasping God:

The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory. Psalm 97:6
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen,
being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead;
so that they are without excuse: Romans 1:20

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful;
but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Romans 1:21

Those who cannot infer God from His creation are not likely to listen to His words.

Theophilus of Antioch to Autolycus wrote:

Chapter V.-The Invisible God Perceived Through His Works.

For as the soul in man is not seen, being invisible to men, but is perceived through the motion of the body,
..........so God cannot indeed be seen by human eyes,
..........but is beheld and perceived through His providence and works.

For, in like manner, as any person, when he sees a ship on the sea rigged and in sail, and making for the harbour,

will no doubt infer that there is a pilot in her who is steering her; so we must perceive that God is the governor [pilot] of the whole universe, though He be not visible to the eyes of the flesh, since He is incomprehensible.

For if a man cannot look upon the sun, though it be a very small heavenly body, on account of its exceeding heat and power, how shall not a mortal man be much more unable to face the glory of God, which is unutterable?

Therefore, the whole knowledge about God is revealed in propositional truth or it is inferred from His Works.

However, in meeting on the first day of the Week to "break bread" or to "lay by in store" (even if at home) we have the only examples the Bible gives us. We might use the law of inference to say that God DID NOT say: "Don't take the Lord's Supper anyother day." With this inference from silence in hand we decide to eat the Lord's Supper on, say, the Sabbath (before sunset Saturday).

By this inference which overrides the clear Biblical example and the historical imitation of this practice with no Sabbath worship, we BIND this practice on anyone who chooses to meet with us.

On the contrary, we might say that:

> The in the yearly FESTIVALS for muster age males, both the FIRST DAY and the SEVENTH DAY was for REST and a Holy Convocation. Animal sacrifices were held in between. REST never meant worship so we don't LOOK for rules of worship on the first and seventh day. The REST was to quarantine the people of God from the BABYLONIAN worship which God granted as His answer to their prayer when they engaged in MUSICAL IDOLATRY at Mount Sinai.

The Holy Convocation boiled down to READING the Word of God.

> Jesus died to relieve us from the CLERGY BURDEN which was "spiritual anxiety created by religious ritual." The first day was again for REST and both Jesus and Paul PEELS the clergy off the backs of people. Jesus invited the twos and threes to "come learn of me." Therefore, the Bible and history shows that the HOLY CONVOCATION or assembly (synagoguing) was to GIVE HEED to the Word as Paul's only worship word.

> Therefore, first day assembly does not violate the Sabbath. Church assemblies can be the most "works intensive" day of the week.

Furthermore, "worship" on the Sabbath would violate the Sabbath in the modern sense because we couldn't drive to church and assuredly push stuck autos out of a snowed-in parking lot. Most assuredly the HOLY CONVOCATION outlawed calling priests or prophets or other CEREMONIALLY LEGALISTIC parasites defined as rhetoricians, sOPHISts (serpents), singers and musicians. One exception--if you plan to CRUCIFY and MUSICIALLY MOCK Jesus while He is trying to teach you.

The use of instrumental music is based on silence: "God didn't say, 'Thou shalt not use mechanical instruments'." The inference is that silence is divine authority.

By this inference form silence we overide the clear commandment of Paul who defines one of the "allowable instruments" or the human voice and heart. We bind this inference upon anyone who must meet with us on our terms.

The MASK they hide about is patternism or denying that God has the right to command people. However, the FACE behind the mask is that it is NOT a method of interpretation but the fact that they DENY the inspiration of the Bible. That gives them the "spirit" to do what they deny God the power to do.

Leroy Garrett stated an earlier pattern:

"This is to say that the gospel is not the whole of the New Testament scriptures,..........
..........for the gospel was a reality long before the scriptures were written. 
 
Strictly speaking, the teachings of the apostles are not facts, as the gospel is,
but interpretations, implications, and edification based on the gospel.

In this area, that of the didache (teaching) even the apostles differed in their ideas and emphases.
The churches for whom these documents were written were likewise different from each other.

Garrett goes on to define the "gospel" as something revealed but not subject to debate but:

The doctrine allows for debate and dialogue, for intellectual stimulation and the stretching of the mind. It nurtures us in Christ,

but in such a way that each man develops according to his own uniqueness. The pragmatic mind as well as the speculative mind finds food for thought. Its design is (not) to make us all alike in our thinking, but to make us mature in Christ.

So, we have the "oral gospel" which was in effect before the "graphe," and the seven ones defined above are the only things which we can use to accept or reject fellowship.

All of the rest of the Bible is just pre-post-modern understandings of the apostle-prophets opinions or interpretations. That means "uninspired" to this writer.

The Post-Modern "hermeneutic" of the Latter Rain (or Latter Reign) asks:

"Are you having difficulty discerning or receiving this "new revelation"?

Then you have been interpreting your Bible in the "old way,"
comparing Scripture with Scripture, studying diligently to account for every jot and tittle
and being careful to rightly divide the Word of truth.

"If this describes you, then you belong to the "Old Generation"

which will not enter in to "possess the land" in the Latter Rain Revival.
You may even be a member of a denominational church, with its dogmatic confession of faith and statement of doctrine. These legalistic forms will be relics of the past in the up and coming "Post-denominational Church."

Paul Cain advises that you "dump all that carnal stuff" (doctrine)

and listen to what the "spirit" is saying to the churches through the Latter Rain Prophets and Apostles,  who are dispensing many "new, sacred truths.

Rubel continues to repudiate the ONLY means of determining authority for faith and practice unless guided by a direct operation of God. However, we will show that the disparaged methods of understanding authority were those taught by the Word of God and by all historical scholars other than the liberties taken by the Catholic church and her daughters.

Rubel Shelly: The truth be told, the Bible's "silence" on a subject is most often ambiguous rather than either prohibitive or concessive. What one is willing to allow or quick to oppose is, I fear, due more to taste and temperament than to any clear application of the following cherished dictum: "Where the Bible speaks, we speak; where the Bible is silent, we are silent."

One doubts that God is ever ambiguous in addition to being prohibitive or concessive. If He doesn't care one way or another He probably is silent.

Rubel Shelly: But hold on! Where did that dictum come from? It's not a Bible verse. It's a well-worn religious slogan that I think has some very positive value.

All of God's Word is pretty old but unfortunately, based on most sermons, not very worn! Whatever the Incarnate God of the universe says should be important and will be vitally important to those whose light has not been put out:

Why then, when they have invented on their part unscriptural phrases,
for the purposes of irreligion,
do they accuse those who are religious in their use of them 

For irreligiousness is utterly forbidden, though it be attempted to disguise it with artful expressions and plausible sophisms; but religiousness is confessed by all to be lawful, even though presented in strange phrases, provided only they are used with a religious view, and a wish to make them the expression of religious thoughts. Now the aforesaid grovelling phrases of Christ's enemies have been shewn in these remarks to be both formerly and now replete with irreligion; whereas the definition of the Council against them, if accurately examined, will be found to be altogether a representation of the truth, and especially if diligent attention be paid to the occasion which gave rise to these expressions, which was reasonable, and was as follows:-

19. The Council wishing to do away with the irreligious phrases of the Arians, and to use instead the acknowledged words of the Scriptures, Athanasius in 346 and his flight in 356, De Decretis or Defence of the Nicene Definition

So, let's put some wear on some of the "slogans" from the voice of the Spirit of Christ (1 Peter 1:11) as HE formulated the slogan which I take as a command.

Balaam demonstrated a high ethical standard when he said:

'Even if Balak gave me his palace filled with silver and gold,.

I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad,
to go beyond the command of the LORD--
and I must say only what the LORD says'? Num 24:13

When you let the twangers and sangers take over it is a MARK that you do not know nor care what the Bible says.  We could quote the fact that God is God and you are not and that GOD says that He directs our ways and  further says that YOU do not have the brain cells to INTERPRET God's Mind.

The "strong delusions" proves that some people CANNOT sit down and let God do the guiding.  The SPIRIT'S name is Jesus Christ the Righteous and He HAS SPOKEN in a face-to-face manner to the PROPHETS and APOSTLES: you guys are neither.

Jer. 10:21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD:
        therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

Jer. 10:22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come,
        and a great commotion out of the north country,
        to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.

Jer. 10:23 O LORD,
         I know that the way of man is not in himself:
         it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

Jer. 10:24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

Deut. 29:29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God:
        but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever,
        that we may do all the words of this law.

Dan. 2:22 He revealeth the deep and secret things:
        he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.

It seems to this reviewer that to demand that we find a command or "paradigm" about how to interpret "commands, examples and inferences" may be legalistic. However, because God is there and He is not silent let's look at some examples in the old "written" Word:

Deuteronomy Slogan

Rubel Shelly, Leroy Garret and Latter Rains insists that there is no command, example or inference about "command, examples or inferences." If we find one then these people are teaching error. Rubel sees the Exodus as a "pattern foor worship and community" but the Bible and all but modern theology sees it as a people rising up to play in musical idolatry, losing the Book of the Covenant and burdened with the Book of the Law. Paul in 2 Corinthians 3 says that the unbelievers were DEAF AND BLIND and so could not listen to God until they turned to Christ.

God promised that in contending for the faith in the time of Jesus:

For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do. Deut 18:14

The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; Deut 18:15

According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly,
saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. Deut 18:16

And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. Deut 18:17

I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. Deut 18:18

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. Deut 18:19

But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name,

which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods,
even that prophet shall die. Deut 18:20

Jesus honored the Law of Silence. The term "Son" is defined as the faithful WORDS of the "Father." Jesus identified a son of the Devil as a liar because "he speaks on his own."

For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. Jn.12:49

And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak. Jn.12:50

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. John 6:63

Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends;

for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. Jn.15:15

If the revelation of Jesus even to the prophets (1 Pet 1:11; Rev 19:10) is not AN APPROVED EXAMPLE to speak only what has been revealed then a different Jesus is being spoken. Jesus identified the Devil as a SON of his father because "he speaks on his own."

For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. Matt 12

Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. Matt 13

Therefore, if Christ is not speaking to you through His Words it is because you have declared yourself a mortal enemy to the quiet Spiritual truth: that is the MARK or supernatural sign seen in pompous self-speak.

Lucky we don't stone prophets anymore because those who pretend to be doctors of the law and claim to speak with authority and deliberately or ignorantly misteach, are presumptious prophets and perhaps have already died spiritually.

So, if commands, examples and inferences (how else would God teach?) are not good enough for the NEW prophet they were still good enough for Jesus!

Paul insisted that the "elders teach the Word as it had been delivered to them." Therefore, there was no command, example or inference that one could be hired to refuse to listen to the Word and spend all week composing (or stealing) a sermon outline which just thides the truth.

First Samuel Slogan

Those wanting to get on the Fried Chicken Trail with nothing to offer but the "core" would just not go away in the mind of God because:

I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who will do according to what is in my heart and mind (Spirit). I will firmly establish his house, and he will minister before my anointed one always. 1 Samuel 2:35

Then everyone left in your family line will come and bow down before him for a piece of silver and a crust of bread and plead, "Appoint me to some priestly office so I can have food to eat. 1 Samuel 2:36

> The people did not obey Moses who spoke the Book of the Covenant to the people. They took the oath but as soon as Moses went back to get the written "seventy rules or enabling legislation" the people fell back into musical idolatry. The Covenant was a covenant of grace.

> As a result, God gave The Book of the Law whose 413 precepts "were not good because they could not be perfectly kept." One who is going to live under the Law of Moses had better be prepared, according to James, "not to even show partiality" or the whole weight of the law will fall on their head. The Law was a book of legalism.

> The Book of the Law of Moses which contained laws "in addition" to the Covenant of life was to regulate lawless people and not to save them. The ordinances were for external and not internal purposes.

> Therefore, when the New Prophet came, He fulfilled but did not enforce the Law of Moses but had men like Paul leapfrog the Law and return to the Covenant of Abraham.

> Therefore, the prophet like Moses had something radically new to teach.

The "family" name is not "God" but Jesus, Joshua or Jehovah Saves. The word "Christ" or the anointed one is also applied to Him and the church being Christ's church has been known down through history as the church of Christ. Jesus is Greek rather than Hebrew.

Isaiah Eight Slogan

And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits (Old, empty wineskins), and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter (these people used musical devices and said that the gods lived inside of them): should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? Isaiah 8:19

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word,
it is because there is no light in them. Isaiah 8:20

At baptism a taught believer asks God for a new conscience or consciousness: the ability to be a co-percepter with Christ and be able to comprehend His Word and See His Light. If one does not return to the "word as it has been taught" then they are just making up their own scripture.

Wouldn't this mean: "Speak where the Word speaks and (implied) be silent where the Word is silent?" Sounds good to me. Perhaps God was just judgmental.

The "law" against speaking where God has not spoken is restated many times and is twofold:

First, the Word of God is inspired by the Spirit of Christ. If you speak where God has been silent then you put yourself above God, you speak of yourself, and Jesus defines such a one as a devil.

Second, if you don't let the Word lie where God placed it and permit latter-day prophets to "fill in the blanks" which "God overlooked" you open up the floodgate for all of the Satans to speak of their father.

The peepers and mutterers used the familiar spirit. This was an old, empty wineskin or, in Paul's day, the more sophisticated sounding brass and tinkling cymbals. By speaking into the echoing wineskin the witch disguised her own voice and sold it to the public for a price. Isn't most performance singing with mics and amps just disguising their voices so that the peeps and mutters overpowers the "audience?"

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Is.58:13

A SKETCH ON SCRIPTURE GOVERNMENT, OR THE ROYAL STANDARD. O-Kelly's movement flowed into the Christian church as Anglican influence. From:

W. E. MacClenny, The Life of Rev. James O'Kelly (began preaching 1774) and the Early History of the Christian Church in the South, Raleigh, Va.: Edwards and Broughton Printing Company, 1910, Reprint 1950 pages 232-247

1. I could call forth a cloud of witnesses from the Old and New Testaments to prove the authority, and sufficiency of the Scripture Hierarchy, but a few will be sufficient.

2. Thus saith the Lord by the pen of Moses, in the 18th of Deuteronomy: "The Lord shall raise up a prophet (Christ), him shall ye hear in all things."

3. The word of the Lord came unto the prophet Isaiah: "To the law and to the testimony; if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is not light in them. Chap. 8:20.

4. The law and testimony must include the doctrines and government of Christ's Church.

And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits (Old, empty wineskins), and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter (these people used musical devices and said that the gods lived inside of them):
should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? Isaiah 8:19

Yiddeoniy (h3049) yid-deh-o-nee'; from 3045; prop. a knowing one; spec. a conjurer; (by impl.) a ghost: - wizard.

"In Isa 8:19 the 'obhoth and yidh'onim are spoken of those who 'chirp and mutter." These terms refer to the necromancers themselves who practiced ventriloquism in connection with their magical rites. In Isa 29:4 it is said 'Thy voice shall be as an 'obh, out of the ground.'... They are stamped in these passages, as in the Witch of Endor narrative, as deceivers practising a fraudulent art. By implication their power to evoke spirits with whom they were in familiar intercourse is denied." (Int Std Bible Ency., ency, p. 690)

incanto    
I. To sing in, with dat.: passer incantans saepiculae  
A. To say over, mutter, or chant a magic formula against some one:  

1. To consecrate with charms or spells: incantata vincula,lovelcnots,
        vinculum , or (also in class. prose), contr., vinclum , i, n. [id.] , that with which any thing is bound, a band, bond, rope,  

2. To bewitch, enchant  

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word,
it is because there is no light in them. Isaiah 8:20

5. I will now call for the testimony of Daniel, 9:9,-10: "Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord, to walk in his laws, set before us by the prophets."

Dan 9:10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
Dan 9:11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing,

that they might not obey thy voice;
therefore the curse is poured upon us,
and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God,
because we have sinned against him.

Dan 9:12 And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us,
        by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.

The Spirit OF Christ speaks spiritual truth through the prophets most of whom radically condemn the sacrificial system and identify speakers, singers and musicians as hypocrites.  Jesus pointed to these prophets accusing the Scribes and Pharisees with being hypocrites--speakers, singers and musicians working for  a wage.

6. Isaiah 2:3. " For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord From Jerusalem." Compare 8:16. "Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples." See 11:12 

Isa 2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Isa 2:6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

Anan (h6049) aw-nan'; a prim. root; to cover; used only as denom. from 6051, to cloud over; fig. to act covertly, i. e. practise magic: - * bring, enchanter, Meonemin, observe (-r of) times, soothsayer, sorcerer.

There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, De.18:10

Soothsayers: Anan (h6049) aw-nan'; a prim. root; to cover; used only as denom. from 6051, to cloud over; fig. to act covertly, i. e. practise magic: - * bring, enchanter, Meonemin, observer of times, soothsayer, sorcerer.

"In an inscription from Cyprus, in one from Rhodes and in several from around the district of Carthage, there are references to important personages who bear the title Mqm'lm which we can translate as AROUSERS of the god.'" (de Vaux, Roland, The Bible and the Ancient Near East, Doubleday, p. 247).

"We even have a mention at a later date of a similar custom in connection with the cult in Jerusalem, where certain Levites, called me'oreim, 'AROUSERS,' sang (every morning?) this verse from "Ps 44:23: "Awake, O Lord! Why do you sleep? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever." The Talmud tells us that John Hyrcanus suppressed the practice because it recalled too readily a pagan custom." (Roland de Vaux, p. 247).

And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me,
These are the true sayings of God. Rev 19:9

And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God:

for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Rev 19:10

Proskuneo (g4352) pros-koo-neh'-o; from 4314 and a prob. der. of 2965 (mean. to kiss, like a dog licking his master's hand); to fawn or crouch to, i.e. (lit. or fig.) prostrate oneself in homage (do reverence to, adore): - worship.

Those who are flaunting their body and talent are assuredly not involved in the worship of God but of their own human talent.

7. Jerusalem was the place where the pure Gospel Church was established; from whence the doctrine and discipline went out into all the world.

8. Matthew 28:90. "Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded." "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me." 2 Thes. 3:6. "Now we command you brethren, in the name of our Lord," etc.

9. Chapter 33:14. [sic!] "If any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him."

10. The foundation of the true Church is found in Eph. 2:20. The apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ the corner stone. Compare Isaiah 9:7.

11. That Christ is the only head of the Church, can be plainly proved by Scripture and reason, Isaiah 9:6: "The government shall be upon his shoulder."

12. Ephesians 4:15. Grow up into him in all things which is the head, etc.; and Col. 1:18. And he is the head of the body, the Church. Compare Ephesians 5: Christ the head of the Church as the husband is the head of the wife.

13. Shall the Church have two heads, or the woman two husbands? Who will not fear to set himself head with the Lord?

14. That Jesus is the only law-giver, is evident from what hath been said, and what I will add. James, the apostle, saith: "Be ye doers of the word. Fulfill the royal law." Look into the perfect law of liberty. "We have one law-giver."

15. Let Paul speak: "Do we make void the law through faith? No, we establish the law." "We are under the law of Christ." What more do we wish?

Isaiah 29 Slogan

To the Preachers:

And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: Isaiah 29:11

(Isn't that what the critics have said: God Incarnate taught the oral gospel but all of the written documents are law codes based upon the mininterpretation of apostles in conflict?)

To the elders:

And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned. Isaiah 29:12

Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me,
and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: Isaiah 29:13 (to the tune of a hickory stick or an oxgoad)

Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder:

> for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
> and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. Isaiah 29:14

Paul lined up ALL religious operatives as pagan or Jewish religionism which Jesus came to put down: salvation according to Peter includes being saved FROM this crooked generation.  See more comments on First Corinthians where Paul always establishes the paganism which is destroyed.

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 1 Cor 1:19

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?1Co.1:20

For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God
by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. 1 Cor 1:21

The law of common sense and silence says that God did not send out THEATRICAL PERFORMERS to save those who were pleased. God preaches only when the evangelist takes the gospel out as a herald.

Jesus said that people's worship is vain or empty if they "teach for doctrine the commands of men." Now, doesn't that demand that we listen to the commands of Jesus and those whom He as Spirit inspired? Is vain worship contrary to the Gospel (good news?). For this reason, Jesus spoke to the multitudes in parables to hide the truth from those who did not love the truth.

These people who preach a "core" gospel and ridicule the three forms God used to communicate His will (commands, examples, inferences) are talking behind God's back and talking against Him. And, lo, God explaines them by the example of the spiritual prostitute. Be aware that the Prophets were not legalists but they opposed the Priests who largely ignored the commands of God which were given for their own protection and never for their spiritual salvation:

Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls (just broke them down) and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, (grand meetings) every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the Lord. Ezekiel 33:30

 

(The Lord, to them, was one of themselves pretending to be a prophet)

And they come unto thee as the people cometh,

and they sit before thee as my people,

        and they hear thy words, but they will not do them:

        for with their mouth they shew much love,

        but their heart goeth after their covetousness. Ezekiel 33:31

 

And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song (amourous love song)

        of one that hath a pleasant voice, 

        and can play well on an instrument:

                for they hear thy words, but they do them not. Ezekiel 33:32