-Areskos
A. pleasing, mostly in bad sense, obsequious, cringing,
II. areskos, ho, the staff borne by pornoboskoi [brothel keeper] on
the stage,
Aeiro (g142) ah'ee-ro; a prim. verb; to lift; by impl. to take up or away; fig. to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the mind); spec. to sail away (i.e. weigh anchor); by Heb. [comp.
5375] to expiate sin: - away with, bear (up), carry,
lift up, loose, make
to doubt, put
away, remove, take (away, up).
ai.
mēkhanēn,
in the theatre, Antiph.191.15;
so “epi
tas
mēkhanas
katapheugousi
theous
airontes
Airô to raise up, exalt, Aesch.:--of passion,
to exalt, excite, hupsou airein thumon to grow excited, to raise
by words, to extol, exaggerate, to take
up for oneself: to carry off, win, gain
This had the same meaning of
EXTERNAL SINGING:
-Aoidê 1. art of song, autar aoidên thespesiên, spell, incantation, thing sung, song, whether of joy or
sorrow,
-Aeidô sing,.hence of all kinds of vocal
sounds, crow
as cocks, hoot as owls, croak as frogs,; hoi tettiges chamothen aisontai, crowing
too soon.
The tettiges are the LOCUSTS which are the MUSES serving Apollo,
Abaddon or Apollyo
Aeirô
is connected to:
Kithar-izô ,( [kitharis] ):--play the cithara,
phormingi [Apollyon's instrument], kitharize. Instrument
players were defined as parasites.
The included Attic word Airô to
raise up, exalt, Aesch.:--of passion,
to exalt, excite, hupsou airein thumon to grow excited, to raise
by words, to extol, exaggerate, to take
up for oneself: to carry off, win, gain
-Romans XV. 1 debemus autem
nos firmiores inbecillitates infirmorum sustinere et non nobis placere
Sustinere I.
to hwww up, hwww upright, uphwww,
to bear up, keep up,
support, sustain 1.To
sustain, support, maintain, by
food, money, or other means (maintain,
preserve with dignity of a citizen II.
Concr., the citizens united in a community, the
body
- politic, the state, and as this consists
of one city and its territory, or of several cities, it
differs from urbs, i.e. the compass of the dwellings of
the collected citizens;
Imbecillitas Caes. B. G. 7, 77, 9
Caes. B.
G. 7, 77, 9 Caesar, Gallic War 7.77.
LXXVII. But those who were blockaded at Alesia , the day
being past, on which they had expected auxiliaries from
their countrymen, and all their corn being consumed ignorant
of what was going on among the Aedui, convened an assembly
[Concilium Pastorium] and deliberated
on the exigency of their situation. After various opinions
had been expressed among them, some of which proposed a
surrender, others a sally, while their strength would
support it, the speech of Critognatus ought not to be
omitted for its singular and detestable cruelty.
Concilium is the same as Latin ecclesia
or Greek sulloge or synagogue. I.a
collection of people, an association, gathering, union,
meeting A.An assembly for
consultation pastorum pasco 2.To
feed, nourish, maintain, support, 3.To
cherish, cultivate, let grow, feed
4. Of animals, to graze, browse
(poet.): pascentes capellae,
Pastor 2.The
minister or superintendent of a church or congregation
Esp., of Christ: “Ego
sum
pastor
bonus,”
Vulg. Johan. 10, 11: “eduxit
de
mortuis
Pastorem
magnum,”
id. Heb. 13, 20;
cf.
Vulg. Ezech. 34.
The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
[2] Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds
of Israel, prophesy, and tell them, even to the shepherds,
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the shepherds of Israel
who feed themselves! Shouldn't the
shepherds feed the sheep? [3]
You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool,
you kill the fatlings; but you don't feed the
sheep. [4] You
haven't strengthened the diseased, neither
have you healed that which was sick,
neither have you bound up that which was broken,
neither have you brought back that which was driven
away, neither have you sought that which was lost;
but with force and with rigor have you ruled
over them. [5] They
were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and
they became food to all the animals of the field, and were
scattered.
Eph 4:[11] He gave some to be apostles; and
some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds
and teachers; [12]
for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving,
to the building up of the body of Christ;
[13] until we all
attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge
of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the
measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ
Outlawed:
-Placeo to please, to be pleasing or agreeable, to be welcome, acceptable, to satisfy (class.).
1. In scenic lang., of players or pieces
presented, to please, find favor, give satisfaction: scenico placenti
Rom. 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh
cannot please God.
Rom. 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the
Spirit,
if so be that the
Spirit of God dwell in you.
Now if any man have
not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Outlawed: Scaenicus I. of or belonging to the stage, scenic, dramatic, ORGANA, theatrical
I. Lit.: poëtae, dramatic poets, ludi, stage-plays, theatrical
representations,
: fabula, a drama,
2. Placere sibi, to be pleased or satisfied with one's
self, to flatter one's self, to pride or plume one's
self
I. Lit.: poëtae,
dramatic poets, ludi, stage-plays, theatrical
representations, :
fabula, a drama, organa, Suet. Ner. 44 : coronae, id. ib. 53
: habitus, id. ib. 38 : gestus, Cic. de Or. 3, 59, 220
: modulatio Comedy.
Orator
Poi-êtês II. composer of a poem, author, p. kômôidias Pl.Lg.935e ; p. kainôn dramatôn, b. composer
of music, 2. author of a speech
Debbie Boggs etal:
II.
Inspired Scripture
I believe in a God who speaks clearly through His
Inspired Word. His important truths
are readily apparent throughout the whole of
scripture. Certainly there are finer nuances
to be gleaned by deeper study, but He does not leave
us to guess where He stands and then hope to escape
the wrath of hell if we guess wrong.
I believe that all scripture is “inspired by
God” (2Tim. 3:16).
I have heard it said many times that the Bible
doesn’t address the issue of instrumental
worship for the church and that it is
conspicuously missing. |
Sorry, but I have never heard that the Bible doesn't
address instruments except from instrumental
apologists: I think they meant that the Bible did not authorize
it. The most overwhelming issue of the www Testament
is the clergy being abandoned to pagan music and the
prophets universally condemning them.
Some claim that God is silent and his silence gives
ME the right to impose new practices whih BECOME the words
of God which cannot be disputed. And so totally inspired
that they claim that God COMMANDED instrumental praise and
we must not be disobedient.
When God brought Israel out of Egypt by pure grace, He gave
them The Book of the Covenant. They agreed to keep it but
refused to listen to the voice of God. While Moses was on
the mountain getting a written code of grace, the people
rose up in musical idolatry. For that transgression God
removed Grace and gave them The Book of The Law and turned
them over to worship the starry host.
Exod 32:1 AND when the people saw
that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the
people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said
unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before
us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out
of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Exod 32:2 And Aaron said unto them,
Break off the gwwwen earrings, which are
in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of
your daughters, and bring them unto me.
Exod 32:3 And all the people brake
off the gwwwen earrings which were in their ears, and
brought them unto Aaron.
Exod 32:4 And he received them at
their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he
had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods,
O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Exod 32:5 And when Aaron saw it, he
built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and
said, To morrow is a feast to the Lord.
Exod 32:6 And they rose up early on
the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace
offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink,
and rose up to play.
"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
gwwwen 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).
Both the Greek and Latin define this is MUSICAL
IDOLATRY;
Ludo A.To sport, play with any
thing, to practise as a pastime, amuse one's self
with any thing. B.To sport, dally,
wanton (cf. "amorous
play,
Tertullian
De Spectaculus Chapter X. Theatrical Performance and Religion
Let us pass on now
to theatrical
exhibitions, which we
have already shown have a common origin with the circus [Circe=church], and bear like idolatrous designations-even as from the first
they have borne the name of "Ludi," and equally minister
to idols.
They resemble each other also in their
pomp, having the same procession to the scene
of their display from temples and altars, and that mournful profusion of incense and blood,
.........with music of pipes and trumpets,
........ all under the
direction of the soothsayer and the undertaker,
........ those two foul masters of funeral
rites and sacrifices.
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
Exod 32:17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the
people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise
of war in the camp.
Lam. 2:6 And he hath
1. violently taken away his tabernacle, as
if it were of a garden:
2. he hath
destroyed his places of the assembly: [h4150 synagogues: good and bad]
the LORD hath caused
the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in
Zion,
and hath despised
in the indignation of his anger the king
and the priest.
Hos 8:3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good:
the enemy shall pursue him.
Hos 8:4 They have set up kings, but not by me:
they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver
and their gwww have they made them idols, that
they may be cut off.
Hos 8:5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine
anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere
they attain to innocency?
Hos. 13:11 I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him
away in my wrath.
3. The Lord hath cast off
his altar (candlestick), he hath abhorred his sanctuary,
he hath given up into
the hand of the enemy
the walls of her
palaces;
they have made a noise in the house [Temple]
of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast. Lam 2:7
WES:
2:7 They - The enemies with their triumphs and blasphemies,
made as great a noise, as those that sang holy
songs, or played on instruments, were wont to make
to the glory of God.
Exod 32:18 And he said, It is not the voice of them
that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that
cry for being overcome; but the noise of them
that sing do I hear.
Paul warned both the Romans and Corinthians about this
musical idolatry
1Co.10:7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of
them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and
drink, and rose up to play.
Paizo (g3815) paheed'-zo; from
3816; to sport (as a boy): - play.
Paig-ma , atos, to, A. play, sport,
whene'er the pipe sounds its sportive
strains, E.Ba.161(lyr.); Ludia
p. luras
-E.Ba.161 Euripides
Bacchae
Chorus
[135] He
is
sweet in the mountains, whenever after the
running dance he falls on the ground, wearing the
sacred garment of fawn skin, hunting the blood of the slain
goat, a raw-eaten delight, rushing to the [140] Phrygian, the Lydian
mountains, and the leader of the dance is Bromius,
evoe! The plain flows with milk, it flows with wine,
it flows with the nectar of bees. [145]
The Bacchic one, raising the flaming torch of pine on his
thyrsos, like the smoke of Syrian incense, darts about, arousing
the wanderers [planetes [Wandering stars] with his racing
and dancing, agitating them with his shouts,
[150] casting his rich
locks into the air. And among the Maenad cries his
voice rings deep: “Go, Bacchae, go,
Bacchae, with the luxury of Tmolus that flows with gwww, [155] sing of Dionysus,
beneath the heavy beat of drums, celebrating in delight
the god of delight with Phrygian shouts and cries, [160] when the sweet-sounding
sacred pipe sounds a sacred playful tune
suited [165] to the wanderers,
to the mountain, to the mountain!” And the Bacchante,
rejoicing like a foal with its grazing mother,
rouses her swift foot in a gamboling dance
êïos epithed of
Phoebus, A. êïe Phoib
[Apollo, Apollon, Apollyon]
enopê 3.
of things, sound, 08;
kitharas e. E.Ion882 O
you, who cause a voice to sing from your seven-stringed
lyre, a voice that lets lovely-sounding hymns peal
forth in the rustic lifeless horn
Note 2. lura A.lyre, a stringed
instrument with a sounding-board formed of the shell of a
tortoise thrênon (since the
dirge was accompanied by the flute)
The Bible is NOT lyric poetry.
Debbie Boggs etal: Is not the www
Testament part of our Bible? Is it not part of
all scripture? Was it not written to teach
us about God (Ro. 15:4) and what He values (love,
justice, mercy, faith, worship, etc.) and what He
hates (evil, idolatry, etc.)? When the
early church gathered to worship, what scripture did
they study together - not the New Testament - it had
not been written yet. What was their hymnbook?
- the psalms, which over and over include mandates
to use instruments
Rom 15:4 “For everything that
was written in the past was written to teach
us, so that through endurance and the encouragement
of the Scriptures we might have hope.”
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Paul excludes the diversities of Romans 15 and defines the
ekklesia or synagogue or school of the Bible in Romans 15: the
teaching was done by speaking "that which is written" using one
mind and one mouth. Self-pleasure excludes all form of theatrics
especially exhibitionism which was a female or perverted mark.
This was written for our learning including telling us that
Israel fell from Grace because of musical idolatry.
Because there is no exception to this radical
condemnation, it is not possible for anyone taking an honest
look at the text to conclude that it teaches us to DO that which
caused God to abandon them to musical idolatry in national-only
animal sacrifices.
1Cor. 10:6 Now these
things were our examples,
to the intent we
should not lust after evil things, as they also
lusted.
1Cor. 10:7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of
them; as it is written,
The people sat down to
eat and drink, and rose up to play.
"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 gwwwen calf." (Smith's Bible Dictionary,
Music, p. 589).
"They sat down to eat and drink and
rose up to play. They practiced rites in which they made
themselves naked, perhaps similar to those which were
carried out by naked
Babylonian priests."
(Woodrow, p. 158)
Anton Marks "We know that all of the Israelites
brought Egyptian gods and practices with them and it is not
far-fetched to think that Miriam, who had not yet been
exposed to the Covenant, was part of the consciousness-altering rhythms and which was
part of a priestly
myth-play brought to
destructive consummation at Mount Sinai as the gwwwen
calf was called back into action.
This "rising up to play" involved eating, drinking, nakedness and musical
worship. The
goddess, Hathor, is the best candidate for the Mother Goddess of the Mount Sinai
idolatry. Here priestessess or prophetesses
were highly trained with musical instruments,
cultic songs and be able to join in the religious
dance.
1Cor. 10:11 Now all these things
happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for
our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
When Paul addressed those areas where pagan singing with
instruments--and music included the whole body--he commanded
that the SPEAK "that which is written" (Rom 15), The
Spirit (Eph 5; John 6:63) or the Word of Christ (Col 3.) These
were all forms of the BOOK of Psalms or other inspired text.
Modern writers do not write inspired Scripture.
Where there were numerous prophets which usually meang
prophesiers or mad singing and playing people who arroused you
to pick your pocket, Peter twww the churches to give attention
to the PROPHETS and the Day Star would arise in their hearts.
The reason for both is that Peter left a written memory and
claimed that it was from an eye and ear witness of Jesus Christ
Who validated HIS mission by working miracles. Therefore,
singing that which is written is a MARK as the only real way we
can identify what Paul identified as the pagan, perferted
performers. A teacher who did not "teach that which is
written" was marked as a false teacher. That is why God put that
authority in the hands of Pastor-Teachers as the elders and not
young professional performers to put on a show.
Jesus had a bound copy of the Greek version: maybe similar to
the one the eunuch was reading so that he knew that baptism was
prophesied. The meaning of a Scribe was that they would be
at every major event taking notes and making copies to sell
before the audience got away. Everything that Jesus said
would be recorded and became short accounts.
Therefore, they would need nothing more to assemble to read
whatever text they had, discuss it and be admonished to observe
it. With the addition of the Lord's Supper they could conduct
"church" until Jesus comes.
Debbie Boggs etal:
Psa 4:1 For the director
of music. With stringed instruments.
Psa 5:1 For the director of music. For
flutes.
Psa 6:1 For the director of music.
With stringed instruments.
Psa 33:2 Praise the LORD with the harp; make
music to him on the ten-stringed lyre.
Psa 33:3 Sing to him a new song; play
skillfully, and shout for joy.
Psa 43:4 Then will I go to the altar of God,
to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you
with the harp, O God, my God.
Psa 47:5 God has ascended amid shouts of joy,
the LORD amid the sounding of trumpets.
Psa 49:4 I will turn my ear to a proverb; with
the harp I will expound my riddle:
Psa 54:1 For the director of music.
With stringed instruments.
Psa 55:1 For the director of music. With
stringed instruments.
Psa 61:1 For the director of music. With
stringed instruments.
Psa 67:1 For the director of music. With
stringed instruments. |
Who is the chief Musician: the truth is that he is often
the slave driver.
Commentators and critics have confessed that they can make
only conjectures as to the primitive meaning and use of the
word (for it is only one word in Hebrew) lamenazzeah.
The Ancient Versions attempt a rendering.
The Sept. has eis to telos = unto, for, or, with a
view to the end. The Arabic, Ethiopic, and Vulgate
render it "at the end". The Chald. renders it (Ps. 45)
"to the praise". The Talmudists hwww that it related to
Him Who is to come; while Aquila (one of the Sept. Revisers,
A.D. 130) renders it "to Nikopoio" = to
the giver of victory.
It is clear that a Person was intended by these various
renderings; but they appear to be interpretations rather than
translations. Regarded as the former, they may be useful
in showing us how the Psalms point to Christ; for He is the
end. It is He Who giveth victory; it is He Who is the
Coming One : and, while the book is called Sepher
Tehillim, the Book of Praises,
it is He Who "inhabiteth the praises of Israel" (Ps. 22:3).
All ancient Hebrew manuscripts, with the early and best later
printed editions, show no break whatever between the lines of
one Psalm and another.
The Septuagint translators had been many years in Babylon,
and the wwwest among them must have been very young when
carried away thither.
There was none who had full knowledge and experience of the
ancient usages of the Temple worship.
Consequently, when they came to their task some 197 years
after the latest carrying away to Babylon, there was nothing
to show them where one Psalm ended and where the next began.
Hence, when they came to the word lamenazzeah, "To
the chief Musician", they took it as being the first
line of a Psalm, instead of the last line of the
preceding Psalm which they had just translated. All
subsequent Versions, in all languages, have followed them in
this mistake. For mistake it was, as we may see from the
only two examples of independent Psalms given us in the
Scriptures : viz. Isa. 38:9-20, and Hab. 3.
In each of these isolated Psalms we have the true models on
which all the other Psalms are based.
In each case we have
1. The Super-scription, or
Title proper.
2. The body of the Psalm itself.
3. The Sub-scription.
In each of these two cases the word lamenazzeah forms
the sub-scription, and appears at the
end of the Psalm.
Those who "set forward" the work of the temple excelled
which means:
Nacach (h5329) naw-tsakh'; to glitter from afar, to
be eminent as a superintendent, especially of the Temple services and
its music; also to be permanent, to excel, chief
musician, singer, overseer, set forward. (The
Worship team or Minister of Music is the overseer or anxiety
inducer).
Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward
the work of the house of the Lord; and six thousand
were officers and judges: 1Chr.23:4
There were also women musical singers "for my own pleasure"
or my "musical instruments" or "my concubines" but there were
never any Levitical women worship team members.
Another description shows that the musical worship teams were
the overseers of the group:
Paqiyd (h6496) paw-keed'; from 6485; a superintendent
(civil, military or religious): - which
had the charge, governor, office, overseer, [that] was
set.
Of the sons of Asaph, the singers were over the business of the house of God.
Ne.11:22b
Melakkah (h4399) mel-aw-kaw';
from the same as 4397; prop. deputyship, i. e. ministry; gen. employment (never servile) or work (abstr. or concr.); also property (as the result of labor): - business, * cattle, * industrious, occupation, (* -pied), *
officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work ([man],
-manship).
This is outlawed for the day of
Rest:
The singers and musicians were eminent (famous, celebrated, conspicuous or
exalted). They were the
chief singers, set forward to advance the work of the institution. They were in
charge, they were officers, they were the overseers of the
"flock." This was not
because of the elders or tribal leaders approved. Rather,
the chief "lion" organized his own teams to grasp ruler
ship after the wars were over. This led to the
displacement of the religious institution by the "peace
party." However, when they cry "peace, peace" we had
better watch out.
And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto
him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake
unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but
make thou it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say
unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my
fathers loins. 2 Chron 10:10
For whereas my father put a heavy
yoke upon you, I will
put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you
with scorpions. 2
Chron 10:11
And answered them after the advice of
the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but
I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips,
but I will chastise you with scorpions. 2 Chron 10:14
This caused Civil war after Solomon's death
See that human hymns are idols.
John Murray defining Psalms as Inspired Psalms: We
cannot write those.
"In the Septuagint
psalmos occurs some 67
times in the titles to the Psalms. In most cases it is the translation of
the Hebrew mismor, but in a few cases it translates other
Hebrew words.
Psalmos means simply "song of praise." The frequency with which the word
psalmos occurs in the titles is probably the reason why
the Book of Psalms is called in the LXX
version simply psalmoi. In the Hebrew it is called tehillim.
Tehillah (h8416) teh-hil-law'; from 1984;
laudation; spec. (concr.) a hymn: - praise.
I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. Psalm 22:22
"There is nothing in the context of
these two passages requiring us to regard "psalms" as
referring to uninspired
compositions.
On the other hand, there are
abundant instances in the usage of Scripture elsewhere
which show that the word "psalm" refers to an inspired composition.
"Furthermore, there is no instance in which the word "psalm," as used with
reference to a song of praise to God, can be shown to
refer to an uninspired song.
It is therefore quite unwarranted
to regard "psalms" in these two passages as referring to
uninspired songs, whereas there is abundant warrant for
regarding them as denoting inspired
compositions.
Probably most churches
do NOT follow that direct command and are therefore not
informed. Paul outlawed SELF-pleasure which we have
proven excludes all forms of arousal singing or instruments.
He further defined the METHOD of teaching "that which
is written." He said us ONE MIND and ONE MOUTH as the way to
educate, glorify or praise God, comfort WITH the Scriptures
and thereby keep the unity of the body. No one in history
has ever imposed music without knowing that they would sow
discord which IS a burnable offense.
No musical performers SPEAK that which is written in UNISON
and therefore violate the direct command for the teaching
purpose and the method of teaching: rarely will a Physics
professor let some musician rewrite his lectures and perform
them with a musical band.
Debbie Boggs etal:
III.
God
Never Changes
I believe in a God that never changes. He is
not given to whims and fancies that come and
go. A loving God would not desire and command
something at one time (Num. 10:2, Ps. 98, 150, I
Chron. 25:6, etc.), later decide that He hates it
(and neglect to mention that fact - just expect us
to guess it), then change His mind again and require
it (I Cor. 15:52, I Thess. 4:16, Rev. 5:8, 8:2,
14:2, 15:2). God does not change. |
That is
partly true: People lived under the Abrahamic
covenant of Grace before they fell into musical
idolatry at Mount Sinai. God abandoned the national
system of kings and priests to make war and conduct
NATIONAL animal sacrifices to which the
people's congregation never attended. The serpent in
the garden of Eden was a "musical enchanter(ess)".
The king/queen of Tyre was typical of Lucifer called
the "singing and harp playing prostitute" in the garden of
Eden. There are examples of instrumental music during the
Patriarchal period and the concept is of giving Jacob a
musical party so that he did not even know that he was
wedding the wrong woman.
If God abandones you to idolatry then maybe God DOES
change: He always changes when we repent.
The assembly for instruction did NOT
change when the curse of musical-sacrificial terror was
IMPOSED.
Gal. 3:14 That the blessing of
Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus
Christ;
that we might receive the promise of the
Spirit through faith.
Gal. 3:15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men;
Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet if it be confirmed,
no man disannulleth,
or addeth thereto.
By appealing to the Law imposed because of musical idolatry
one defacto rejects the Covenant of Grace destroyed BY
musical idolatry.
Gal. 3:16 Now to Abraham and
his seed were the promises made.
He
saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as
of one,
And to thy seed, which is Christ.
Gal. 3:19 Wherefore
then serveth the law?
It
was added because of transgressions,
till the seed should come to whom the promise was
made;
and it was ordained by angels in the HAND of a mediator.
After we are baptized into
Christ:
Gal. 3:28 There is neither Jew
nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free,
there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in
Christ Jesus.
Gal. 3:29 And if ye be Christ’s, then
are ye Abraham’s seed,
and heirs according to the promise.
At the same time the Qahal, synagogue or church in the
wilderness was ordained for all of the rest as a school of
the Bible. It excluded vocal and instrumental rejoicing.
That neer changed and the synagogue was all that was left
for the most part after the Return.
Debbie Boggs etal: A.
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Testament
1. Pre-Davidic
Ex. 15:20 - Pre-Davidic – “Miriam,
the prophetess, sister of Aaron and Moses, took a
timbrel in her hand and led the women in her song of
praise.” |
When Israel fell into musical idolatry, the Law was written to
warn a people condemned to return to their Assyrian and
Babylonian roots. Babylonian tablets were up to 3,000
years www when Moses was born. That is where we understand what
the end Time Babylon Mother of Harlots means. Inanna got the Ea
(Lamech) the patron god of music drunk and stole the magical
chants--the ME: these included the power over the eldership, the
power over musical performers and the power of homosexual
seduction and many more.
"Long before Israel's existence, we
find in Akkadian tablets the word halhallatu for 'double
clarinet,' and we have many ancient representations of
this instruments... it served also to express extreme joy
as well as deep mourning. Its liturgical function is
dubious, to say the least. According to Rabbinic
literature, the days were limited to twelve, or maximally
eighteen, when (it) was played before the altar.
"Extremely popular for secular
purposes the (double clarinet) was played at weddings,
banquets, and funerals. At funerals it served as
accompaniment to the customary wailing women; this
is the meaning of Matt. 9:23. The chief characteristics of
the clarinet were: popularity, juxtaposition with hand
drum and lyre, expression of extreme emotionalism,
and symbolic meaning of fertility and
resurrection." (Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible, p.
472, Abingdon).
Living in the princely quarters Miriam would automatically be a
prophetess of Hathor, the female counterpart to Apis
the gwwwen calf worshipped at Mount sinai. These
represented the Egyptian trinity of Osiris, Isis and infant
Horus. The name of her prophesying is called "soothsaying."
When she pretended to speak for God she got slapped with a dose
of leprosy and dissapears. Miriam means "bitter waters"
and is the likely prototypical usurping woman in Paul's
writings:
Theodoret (Quasten, Music & Worship, p. 65)
claimed that the Jews
brought liturgical music from Egypt and Philo wrote that "Moses learned rhythm, harmony,
meter and everything concerned with instrumental music from
the Egyptians." This is why Moses knew that the noise at Mount Sinai was not the sound of defeat or of victory.
Rather, it was the "sound of them singing that I hear."
The Jews
sang in the type of
the Egyptian threnodies
(elegies for the dead):
Thus they made a gwwwen bull, the image of an animal that was held
to be the most sacred in that land;
they offered unholy sacrifices,
performed impious dances and sang
hymns
which differed in no way from the pagan mourning songs. Philo, De specialibus legibus
[Jesus threw them out more or less
violently like dung]
"This reference probably indicates
the use of songs from the cult of Osiris... it can hardly be denied that
Egyptian influence on Jewish musical practices was quite
significant. This would stand to reason because of the
high quality of Egyptian
cultic music. The tambourine or timbrel, a hoop of bells over which
a white skin was stretched, came from Egypt. Miriam used this instrument to accompany the singing and dancing on the shores of the Red Sea (Ex. 15).
"The trumpet... was the signaling instrument of the Egyptian army. The name of the Sistrum
(2 Sam 6:5) was mena'ane'im. It was the Egyptian kemken used in the cult of Isis.
The music during the transferring the Ark to Sion (David rose up to play)
and the dances of the women at the Shiloh (Judges 21:21), were similar to the Egyptian liturgy and parades.
"As Herodotus reports, women sang the
praises of Osiris while liknesses of the gods were born
about and, during the festival of Diana
at Bubastis,
Women's singing was a vital part of all pagan worship.
In very
times women became priestly singers of the gods in the
temple.
When males do
that in the presence of God they have dug deeper than
any male in paganism unless it is recorded "he was
drunk, perverted or just having fun."
"Women and girls from the different
ranks of society were proud to enter the service of the
gods as singers and
musicians. The
understanding of this service was universal: these singers
constituted the 'harem of the gods'." (Johannes Quasten. In Music and Worship in Pagan and
Christian Antiquity,
beginning on page 41
"Hebrew
music... was used in the luxurious times of
the later monarchy the effeminate gallants
of israel, reeking with
perfumes, and stretched upon their couches of ivory, were
wont at their banquets to accompany the song with the tinkling of the psaltery or guitar (Am. v1. 4-6), and amused
themselves with devising musical instruments while their nation was perishing... music was the legitimate expression of
mirth and gladness, and the indication of peace
and prosperity." (Smith's Bible Dictionary, Music, p.
590).
Here is what
God thought of her "revelations."
Take heed in the plague of leprosy,
that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that
the priests the Levites shall teach
you: as I commanded
them, so ye shall observe to do. Deut 24:8
Remember what the Lord thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of
Egypt. Deut 24:9
Here is what
Miriam did which was common to what the Israelites did
in Egypt and never ceased to do.
Sistrum,
a metallic rattle which was used by the Egyptians
in celebrating the rites of
Isis, and in other lascivious festivals,.Ov. Am. 2, 13, 11 By the Jews,
Vulg. 1 Reg. [Samuel] 18, 6 .--Hence sarcastically, as if used for a war - trumpet by the
wanton Cleopatra Verg.
A.8.696 Luc.
10.63
Exodus
15:[20] sumpsit
ergo Maria prophetis soror Aaron tympanum in manu egressaeque sunt omnes mulieres post eam cum tympanis
et choris
Prophe-ta I. a
foreteller, SOOTHSAYER prophet... oraculorumque interpretes, sacerdotes
Aegyptiorum, quos
prophetas vocant, [Priestess
of Egpt prophetess call out] Aegyptius, propheta primarius
Debbie Boggs etal: Ex.
28:33-35 Jehovah prescribes the high priest’s
garments: “…and beneath upon the hem of it
thou shalt make . . . bells of gwww . .
.that he die not”.
Num. 10:1-10 “The Lord said to Moses, ‘Make two
silver trumpets . . .”
I Sam. 10:5 Samuel tells
the newly anointed King Saul that he would meet “a band
of prophets coming down from the high place
with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them,
prophesying. Then the Spirit of the Lord will
come mightily upon you, and you shall prophesy with
them and be turned into another man.” Wow -
talk about transforming worship!
|
See Saul's Madness induced by the
prophets from the Philistine HIGH PLACE.
"This is the first mention in the OT
of a band of prophets. These were men who went about in
companies and were able by means of music
and dancing to work themselves up into a convulsive and ecstatic frenzy (2 Ki. 3:1-10).
Their abnormality was
believed to be caused by the invasive influence of the spirit
of god. The word prophesied here does not mean
either foretelling the future or preaching after the
manner of the later prophets, but engaging in the ritual dance of the
prophetic guild
(19:18-24). Their behavior was commonly regarded as a form of madness (2 Ki. 9:11; Jer. 29:26)" (The Int. Bible
Ency., I Sam. p. 932).
And the Lord said unto Samuel,
Hearken unto the voice of the
people in all that they
say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. 1 Samuel 8:7
According to all the works which they have done since the day that
I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day,
wherewith they have forsaken
me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee. 1 Samuel
8:8
O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help. Hosea 13:9
I will be thy king:
where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities?
and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? Hosea 13:10
I gave thee a king in mine
anger, and took him away in my wrath. Hosea
13:11
Debbie Boggs etal:
2 Sam
6:5 David and the whole house of Israel were
celebrating with all their might before the LORD,
with songs and with harps, lyres, tambourines,
sistrums and cymbals.
|
"The trumpet... was the signaling instrument of the Egyptian army. The name of the Sistrum (2
Sam 6:5) was mena'ane'im. It was the Egyptian kemken used in the cult of Isis.
The music during the transferring the Ark to Sion (David rose up to play)
and the dances of the women at the Shiloh (Judges 21:21), were similar to the Egyptian liturgy and parades.
| Debbie Boggs etal: 2 Sam
6:15 while he and the entire house of Israel
brought up the ark of the LORD with shouts and the
sound of trumpets. |
2 Sam 6:13 And it was so, that when they
that bare the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed
oxen and fatlings
2 Sam 6:15 So David and all the house
of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting,
and with the sound of the trumpet.
Ju-bilo ,
a-vi, a-tum, 1, v. n. and
I. a. [jubilum], to shout, to raise a
shout of joy: quiritare, jubilare, V to call out to a person: io buccol
quis me jubilat? Poet. ib.: jubilate
Deo, Vulg. Psa.
99,
4
2 Sam 6:16 And as the ark of the Lord
came into the city of David,
............ Michal Sauls daughter looked through a
window,
............ and saw king David leaping
and dancing before the Lord;
............ and she despised him in her heart.
Latin Play:lu-do B. To play, sport,
frisk, frolic an ad pugnandum,
pugno , a-vi, a-tum, 1, v. n. and very rarely
I. a. [root pug-, to thrust,
strike, whence pugil, pungo, etc.], to fight, either
singly or in armies, to combat, give battle, engage, contend (very freq. and class.).
A. To sport, play with any thing, to
practise as a pastime, amuse one's self with any thing:
illa ipsa ludens conjeci in communes locos, Cic. Par.
prooem.: Prima Syracosio dignata est ludere versu Nostra
... Thalia, Verg. E. 6, 1 .--Esp., to play
on an instrument of
music, to make or
compose music or song:
B. To sport,
dally, wanton (cf. "amorous play," Ov. A. A. 2, 389; Cat. 61, 207;
2 Sam 6:20 Then David returned to
bless his househwww.
............ And Michal the daughter of Saul came out
to meet David,
............ and said, How glorious was the king of
Israel to day,
............ who uncovered
himself to day
............ in the eyes of the handmaids of his
servants,
............ as one of the vain
fellows shamelessly
uncovereth himself
Nu-doI. to make naked or bare; to strip, bare,
lay bare, expose to view, uncover (syn.: exuo, detego,
revelo).
Scurra , ae, m. 1. A city buffoon,
droll, jester (usually in the suite of wealthy
persons, and accordingly a kind of parasite;
syn.: -Of the clown in a pantomime,
Vain is h205. aven,
aw-ven´; from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to
pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to
come to naught); strictly nothingness; also trouble.
vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol:affliction, evil,
false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught,
sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness).
Compare 369.
Ezek 22:28 And her prophets have
daubed them with untempered [Taphel,
Tabret, frivolity] morter,
seeing vanity, and divining
lies [magical songs] unto
them, saying,
Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath
not spoken.
Latin: Vānus
Ghost, emptiness, nothingness, naught, of persons, show,
false, lying, deceptive, delusive, untrustworth,
vainglorious, ostentatious, boastful, vain, weak,
wavering.
Vanities are
Magica which is equated to Exegetice or those people who
add to the Word of God.
Magica
Vanities: This is the Garden of Eden Story. Which is the
Lucifer-Zoe story etal.
Vanitas I.Lit., emptiness,
nothingness, nullity, want of
reality:
B. Esp., falsity, falsehood, deception,
untruth, untrustworthiness, fickleness, magice I.
the magic art, magic,
sorcery (post-Aug.): pariter utrasque artes effloruisse,
medicinam [p. 1097] dico magicenqu.
Included Vanitas:
tŭmultus an uproar, bustle,
violent commotion, disturbance
Included Tumultus
pulso and psallo have the same
meaning: to push, strike,
beat, Of military engines, Of musical instruments:
chordas digitis et pectine eburno, to
strike, play upon, cymbala,A.
In gen., to urge or drive on, to impel,
to set in violent motion, to move, agitate,
disturb, disquiet:
C.To drive away, remove,
put out of the way,
A. In gen., to urge or drive on, to
impel, to set in violent motion, to move,
agitate, disturb, disquiet:
Similar Vanitas: to Rythmice
I. the art of observing rhythm
Debbie Boggs etal:
2.
Davidic
1 Chr 6:32 “They ministered with music before
the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, until Solomon
built the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem. They
performed their duties according to the regulations
laid down for them.” NIV |
When David sinned so that he could never again return to GOD'S
Tabernacle, God gave him a Jebusite High Place already fitted
for idolatry. David made his OWN tent and transferred the
Ark and the singers to ZION (Nor Moriah totally consumed in
paganism):
After the processional with
music in which the ark was brought to Jerusalem it is said:
"The ancient Tabernacle was now divided; the ark was
brought into Zion, whereas the brazen altar at least,
and probably the vessels of the holy place (ex.
25:23-40; 37:10-28; 40:22-27), were established in the
high place at Gibeon.
Asaph and the singers (1 Chron. 6:31-47; 15:16-19; 16:5; 25:6)
were left before the ark,
while the priests ministered in Gibeon before the Tabernacle (16:39)." (Schofield Bible, p. 478-479).
"The original
altar of Burnt-offering
continued at Gibeon with the Tabernacle (2 Chr. 1:3, 5).
David must have erected a new altar for sacrifice at
Jerusalem.
>
The sacrifices commanded
by the Law were, it
appears, offered at the former place (Gibeon);
> at the latter were offered voluntary
additional sacrifices." (Albert Barnes, 1
Chron, p. 347).
1Chr. 6:15 And Jehozadak went into captivity, when the LORD
carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar.
1Chr. 6:32 And they ministered before the dwelling place of
the tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until Solomon
had built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem: and then they
waited on their office according to their order.
The KJV uses the word SINGING: Zamar NEVER includes an
instrument without naming that instrument.
This just means
SINGING because David never performed WORSHIP with
either singing or instruments. Ecclesiasticus
was in the bound Bible Jesus quoted from:
48:8. In all that he did he gave thanks
to the Holy One, the Most High, with ascriptions of glory;
..........HE
sang praise with all his heart, and he loved his
Maker.
48:9. He placed singers before the altar,
..........to make sweet melody with their
voices.
48:10. HE gave
beauty to the feasts, and arranged their times
throughout the year,
..........while they praised
God's holy name,
..........and the sanctuary
resounded from early morning.
From
What the Bible Says
1Chr. 13:6 And David went up, and all Israel, to
Baalah, that is, to Kirjathjearim, which belonged to Judah, to
bring up thence the ark of God the LORD, that dwelleth between
the cherubims, whose name is called on it.
1Chr. 13:7 And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out
of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart.
1Chr. 13:8 And David and all Israel played before God with all
their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with
psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with
trumpets.
1Chr. 13:9 ¶ And when they came unto the threshingfloor of
Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hwww the ark; for the oxen
stumbled.
1Chr. 13:10 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against
Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark:
and there he died before God.
1Chr. 13:11 And David was displeased, because the LORD had
made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called
Perezuzza to this day.
"we recognize the same elements: the
sacrifices and libation, the cultic feast in which the congregation gets a share of
food and drink after it has been blessed by the king, and
the merry-making, now in the form of instrumental and vocal
music. But the central
act of the ritual, which was performed by the king, is called literally 'drinking' the god (Gurney, O. R. Some Aspects of Hittite
Religion, p. 33-34, Oxford University Press, 1977)
| Debbie Boggs etal: 1 Chr
15:16 David twww the leaders of the Levites to
appoint their brothers as singers to sing joyful
songs, accompanied by musical instruments: lyres,
harps and cymbals. |
These were Levitical Warrior Musicians
under the KING and COMMANDERS OF THE ARMY: the
singing was ordained by the KING because these were to give
glory to the king whom God had given in His Anger and
whom God said would destroy the nation: and they did.
1Chr. 25:1 Moreover David
and the captains of the host separated to
the service [hard bondage> of the sons of Asaph, and of
Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps,
with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the
workmen according to their service was:
1Chr. 25:2 Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and
Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands
of Asaph, which prophesied according to the order of the
king.
Asaph
is from h622: a primitive root; to gather for any purpose;
hence, to receive, take away, i.e.
remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore,
etc.):—assemble, bring, consume, destroy, felch, gather
(in, together, up again), x generally, get (him), lose,
put all together, receive, recover (another from leprosy),
(be) rereward, x surely, take (away, into, up), x utterly,
withdraw.
"As we have seen in the passage discussed above (I Sam.
10:5-13), prophecy was intimately associated with politics
from the very first moment it appeared in Israel. The
prophetic band was stationed right next to a Philistine
garrison. Their purpose was to incite Israelites to
engage in holy war against the Philistine
foe, and to do this they must have sung, with the
fervor of their ecstasy, war songs which aroused the
people to action. Like the charismatic judges of an earlier
day, they were intoxicated with 'enthusiasm."
(Anderson, Bernard, p. 231).
From
What the Bible Says
From the warning of God and
the retrospective of Nehemiah and the statement that the
"law was against us" we know that the kings were imposed
whey the elders fired God. They were twww that the kings
would enslave them and carry then into captivity and death.
And because God had turned them over to worship the starry
host we understand that the military and clergy were
involved with thee worship of Dionysus which they had
inherited from Egypt as a curse:
1 Chr 25:1 David, together with the commanders
of the army, set apart some of the sons of Asaph,
Heman and Jeduthun for the ministry of prophesying,
accompanied by harps, lyres and cymbals. Here is the list
of the men who performed this service:
Payne insists that the
Hebrew of 1 Chronicles 25:1 unambiguously identifies these
leaders as military commanders, an
interpretation favoured by several Bible translations.
(Payne, p 423-4; NASB, NIV, NKJV, NRSV, Jerusalem Bible)
If military commanders had a particular interest in the
appointment of musicians, it suggests a strong link
between music and warfare.
Service is: H5656 ăbôdâh
From H5647 ; work of any kind: bondage, +
bondservant, effect, labour, ministering (-try),
office, service (-ile, -itude), tillage, use, work, X
wrought.
H5647 ‛âbad aw-bad' A primitive root;
to work (in any sense); by implication to serve, till,
(causatively) enslave, be, keep in
bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel
1 Chron 25:2 Of the sons of Asaph;
Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons
of Asaph under the hands of Asaph, which prophesied
according to the order of the king.
H623 ’âsâph aw-sawf' From H622 ;
collector; Asaph, the name of three Israelites, and
of the family of the first:---Asaph.
H622 ’âsaph aw-saf' A primitive root; to gather
for any purpose; hence to receive, take
away, that is, remove (destroy, leave behind,
put up, restore, etc.):--assemble, bring, consume, destroy,
fetch, gather (in, together, up again), surely,
take (away, into, up), X utterly, withdraw.
"The Hithpa'el of nb', in the ancient texts, refers to ecstasy
and delirium rather than to the emission of a 'prophecy'." (de Vaux, Roland, The Bible and the
Ancient Near East, p. 243 Doubleday
"Maniac inspirations, the violent possession which
threw sibyls and priestesses into contortions--the foaming lip and streaming
hair and glazed or glaring eyes-- have no place in the
self-controlling dignity of Christian inspiration. Even
Jewish prophets, in the paroxysm of emotion, might lie naked
on the ground and rave (1 Sam. xix. 24); but the genuine
inspiration in Christian ages never obliterates the
self-consciousness or overpowers the reason. It abhors the hysteria
and stimulation and frenzy which have sometimes disgraced revivalism and filled lunatic asylums."
(Pulpit Commentary, 1 Cor., p. 460).
David's Praise word in the
instrumental Psalms is Halal from which we get the word
for LUCIFER which speaks of a light and sound show to
steal people's prophecy. Hillel,
Judges 12:13.
-Sophocles,
Antigone
Chorus
[791] You seize the minds of just men and drag them to
injustice, to their ruin. You it is who have incited this
conflict of men whose flesh and blood are one. [795] But
victory belongs to radiant Desire swelling from the eyes
of the sweet-bedded bride. Desire sits enthroned in power
beside the mighty laws. [800] For in all this divine Aphrodite
plays her irresistible game.
-Commentary [800] wreaks her
will’ in that contest which nika
implies. We find “empaizō”
with a dat. (1) of the object, as Her. 4.134
“empaizontas
hēmin”,
‘mocking us’: (2) of the sphere, as Ar. Th. 975
“khoroisin
empaizei”,
‘sports in dances.’ The “en”
of “empaizei”
here might also be explained as (a) in the
“imeros”,
or the “blephara”,
i.e. by their agency: or (b) ‘on her
victim.’ But the interpretation first given appears simpler.
(Cp. Vergil's absol. use of illudere,
G. 1. 181,
“Tum
variae
illudant
pestes.”）
Both Zamar and Psallo are a WARFARE word and never a
WORSHIP word.
Psallô
(psao)
1. to touch sharply, to pluck, pull, twitch, Aesch.; toxou neuran ps. to twang the bow-string, Eur.; belos ek
keraos ps. to send a shaft
twanging from the bow,
schoinos miltophurês
psallomenêI phurôI. metaph. to mingle
together so as to
soil or defile,
confuse, to be doomed to have one's hair defiled with
earth, thêriôdous from a confused and savage
state
Tox-euma , atos,
to, A. arrow, metaphor, of
songs and words S.Ant.1085
Sophocles,
Antigone Teiresias There, now, are arrows for your heart, since you provoke me, [1085] launched at you, archer-like, in my anger. They fly true--you cannot run from their burning sting. Boy, lead me home,
so that he may launch his rage against younger men,
and learn to keep a quieter tongue [1090] and a better
mind within his breast than he now bears
Debbie Boggs etal: Psalms -
more quoted in the NT than any other OT book.
In Luke 24:44 and John 10:34, Jesus confirms the
prophecy of Psalms, saying, “the scripture cannot be
broken.”
Some have
sought to discredit instrumental music in the www
Testament as merely a Davidic invention.
Instruments were used both before and after David,
however. David clearly had the Lord’s
blessing. He is referred to 59 times in the
N.T. |
But, one should understand
that the instrumental psalms and warrior chants
intended to drive the enemy into panic with taunt
singing: that is what is happening with the singing and
clapping to show defeat of the www "grey hairs." Because
these taunt songs carried sexual warnings to anyone the
captured, it comes as no surprise says Delitsch on the
Psalms:
Moreover,
we must take into consideration the facts that the compass
of the tenor extends even into the soprano,
that the singers were of different ages down to twenty years of age, and that Oriental,
and more particularly even Jewish, song is fond of falsetto
singing.
Again: Payne
insists that the Hebrew of 1 Chronicles 25:1 unambiguously
identifies these leaders as military commanders,
an interpretation favoured by several Bible translations.
(Payne, p 423-4; NASB, NIV, NKJV, NRSV, Jerusalem Bible) If
military commanders had a particular interest in the
appointment of musicians, it suggests a strong link between
music and warfare.
David sang
boast songs against HIS own personal enemies so you have to
take these as allegorical or implicate David as a conformed
effeminate as may be claimed in Scripture:
Tympanotriba I. a
taborer, a timbrel-player, a term of reproach for a soft,
effeminate person (alluding to the priests of
Cybele),
T. Maccius Plautus, Truculentus, or The
Churl
STRATOPHANES Say you so,
indeed? I'll first make trial of that. Do you, for the sake
of such a shabby present, vegetables, and comestibles, and
vinegar-water, bestow your love upon an effeminate,
frizzle-pated, dark-haunt frequenting, drum-drubbing debauchee
6 Is he deranged: "Hariolus."
Literally, "a soothsayer," or "diviner." In
their prophetic frenzy, these persons often had the appearance of being mad, and were so considered.
7 Drum-drubbing debauchee: "Typanotriba." Literally, "drum," or
"tambourine beater." He alludes to the eunuch-priests of Cybele, who used to beat tambourines in her
procession-probably in allusion to debauchees, emasculated by riot and dissipation
After all, what do you think the CODE
TERM "New Wineskins Worship" means?
Because the Sabazianism to which God abandoned the Israelites
BECAUSE of musical idolatry we should look to Dionysus as the
PATTERNISM and PURPOSE of discording the church:
"dionysus's worship is thus
established by the simple means of killing the
opposition. It has
been suggested that every tragic
hero who suffers and
dies on stage at the Dionysia, the great dramatic festival
at Athens (of the South?), is in
fact dionysus himself, being killed."
In the Eleusian mysteries, the wine
was not noted for its alcohol but for drugs perhaps from
fermented barley or from mushrooms used to bring on the exhilaration. Of the priest, it is said that:
"As he performed
the service, he intoned
ancient chants in a falsetto
voice, for his role in
the Mystery was asexual, a male who had sacrificed his gender to the Great
Goddess. Resource
Because God gave David a Jubusite High Place rather than let the
people be slaughtered, before twisting all known scripture it
might help to understand that this was a QUARANTINE to keep the
people away from the fall from grace:
"The tradition that associated music and psalmody
with the Davidic age generally has been verified by
archaeological discoveries, which show decisively that for
centuries previously the people of Palestine had been
renowned for their musical interests. Palestinian nomads on a
visit to Egypt were depicted in the Beni Hasan tableau as
walking behind their animals to the accompaniment of music.
Other Egyptian sources from 1550 B.C. refer to examples of Canaanite
music, while Ugaritic texts are replete with
religious poetry, some of it being distinctly parallel
in phraseology to the Hebrew Psalter. From the
same sources come references to a class of temple personnel
known as 'sarim,' who closely resembled the Hebrew
singers of the monarchy and later periods." (Harrison,
R. K., Introduction to the www Testament, Eerdmans, p. 411).
By taking over and adapting Jerusalem's ancient cult, David
provided Israel with a new worship, one that featured his own status and its
sacral significance. Britannica
"The book of Psalms contain new doctrine after the Law of
Moses. And after the
writing of Moses, it is the second
book of doctrine...
(David) first gave to the Hebrews a new style of psalmody,
bu which he abrogates the
ordinances established by Moses with respect to sacrifices, and
introduces the new hymn and a new style of jubilant praise in the worship of God; and throughout his
whole ministry he teaches very many other things that went
beyond the law of Moses." (Fragment of Commentary by Hippolytus,
bishop of Rome, Ante-Nicene, V, p. 170)
See how God turned the nation over to
this form of Egyptian Worship.
Debbie Boggs etal: 3.
Post-Davidic
2 Ki 3:15 “But now bring
me a harpist." While the harpist was playing, the
hand of the LORD came upon Elisha and he said, “This
is what the LORD says:”
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This is a long story which you may read
here to be a DISCIPLE rather than a musician.
Jehoram was the son of Ahab
and Jezebel. He had grown up with the hundreds of "prophets of Asherah and of Baal." Their practice had been to play music, sing, dance by bending the knee and even wounding
themselves.
However, their effort was not a
sign of spirituality but was a method by which God
brought them to destruction even as Elijah
accomplished God's will by quiet words.
Jehoram wanted Elisha to help him restore the LAW OF GIVING
unlawfully. Elisha reluctantly performed his prophecy and
caused all of the tithers to DESTROY their "means
of giving." There must be a moral here?
Most of those who call in a HARPIST PROPHESIER (not a writing
prophet) the effect in every instance is to DRIVE OUT those
who had suppled the unlawful tithes and offerings..
Debbie Boggs etal: II Chron. 5:13,14 “The trumpeters and
singers joined in unison, as with one voice, to give
praise and thanks to the LORD. Accompanied by
trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, they raised
their voices in praise to the LORD and
sang: "He is good;
his love endures forever."
Then
the temple of the LORD was filled with a cloud, and
the priests could not perform their service because
of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the
temple of God.”
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We have
reviewed Ronnie Norman on the Temple Dedication.
Stephen twww the truth and God murdered for
REPUDIATING that which this apologist for music is trying to
restore as ceremonial legalism.
- God promised David a Tent
- But, Solomon built God a HOUSE
- But, God does not live in houses built by human hands:
especially by Hiram the Architect who built Jerusalem's
about like that at Tyre for "the singing and harp playing
prostitute.
When the Ark was placed into the Most Holy place there went the
easy access to the symbolic presence of God, to His Word once in
the ark and Grace UNDER the mercy Seat.
With the loud NOISE playing 120 ram's horns all tuned to ONE
NOTE blasted out, God SHUT DOWN the Temple and SEALED His
presence FROM the common people. Not to worry, the people
who had been put OUTSITE the gates prayed directly to God and
God answered from HEAVEN. So, guess God was not in the house
after all. When the CLOUD of God's Glory appears in the
HOUSE built by human hands it SHUT DOWN access to His symbolic
presence.
ADDED: He will take the girls for his court and the young boys
from the farms including performing musical glorification of the
king and making war to shed blood.
God's glory FILLED the house with a CLOUD: h6051
1Sam. 8:12 And he will
appoint him captains over thousands, and
captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and
to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments
of his chariots.
See the Pagan implication
of the instruments of his chariots.
- Ar.Pax235;
of musical notes,Id.Av.683
(lyr.), Pl.Lg.812d;
Anapaistos
hammered, forged, rebounding,
Nagan (h5059) naw-gan'; a prim. root;
prop. to thrum, i. e. beat a tune with the fingers;
espec. to play on a stringed instrument; hence (gen.) to
make music: - player on instruments, sing to the
stringed instruments, melody, ministrel, play (-er,
-ing..
For the children of Ammon and Moab stood
up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay
and destroy them:
and when they had made an end of the
inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.
2 Chronicles 20:23
And when Judah came toward the watch tower
in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude,
and, behwww, they were dead bodies fallen
to the earth, and none escaped. 2 Chronicles 20:24
And when Jehoshaphat and his people came
to take away the spoil of them, they found among
them in abundance both riches with the dead
bodies, and precious jewels, which
they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry
away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil,
it was so much. 2 Chronicles 20:25
See a review of David Faust to see the
whole story.
| Debbie Boggs etal: II Chron.
29:25ff When Hezekiah restored the temple
worship, he reinstated instruments: “And he
stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with
cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the
commandment of David and of Gad the kingís seer and
of Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was from
the Lord through his prophets.” |
The Levites were in the courts and could not go into a covered
house even to clean out the garbage.
David never commanded instruments for his plague stopping
ceremony but it is clear that ALL musical instruments were by
the command of David THROUGH Gad the Stargazer.
Hezekiah's Reform: not a patternism for
worship.
c. 1048 B.C. The precedent: David made
a deal with God to stop the plagues which he (David) had
caused. God gave David a Jebusite
High Place to construct
an alternative altar because he never lost the fear of God
and could not go to Gibeon again. When he built the
temple, Solomon did not consult God at Jerusalem but
returned to Gibeon.
We Repeat:
"The ancient Tabernacle was now divided; the ark was
brought into Zion, whereas the brazen altar at least,
and probably the vessels of the holy place (ex.
25:23-40; 37:10-28; 40:22-27), were established in the
high place at Gibeon.
Asaph and the singers (1 Chron. 6:31-47; 15:16-19; 16:5;
25:6) were left before the ark,
while the priests ministered
in Gibeon before the Tabernacle (16:39)." (Schofield Bible, p.
478-479).
"The original
altar of
Burnt-offering continued at Gibeon with the Tabernacle (2 Chr. 1:3, 5).
David must have erected a new altar for sacrifice at
Jerusalem.
>
The sacrifices commanded
by the Law were,
it appears, offered at the former place (Gibeon);
> at the latter were offered voluntary additional sacrifices." (Albert Barnes, 1
Chron, p. 347).
How can that be disputed if God turned them over to
worship the starry host and God gave the kings in His
anger and took them away in His anger?
c. 728 B.C. Hezekiah's
use: The Jerusalem
temple was so polluted that not even animal sacrifices
could be made there. The priests had set up alternative altars outside of the city. A plague was on the nation, the city and
the temple. To collect the people inside of the walls,
Hezekiah made a deal with God to purify the temple so that
the priests and therefore the people would be more
collected inside of Jerusalem and able to withstand a
certain attack. The "congregation" was never the common
people but the king, commanders of the army, city
officials and clergy participated in these rituals.
This does not establish
PATTERNISM for Christian worship which is wholly in
the new PLACE of the human spirit.
The Temple Was the Capital of
Israel: Bank, etc
The Temple Was Not for People's Worship
Animal Sacrifices at the Temple were Identical to All
National Capitol Buildings
The Jerusalem was "Capitol Hill" and Not
"Church."
Debbie Boggs RESTS ON THE BURN OFFERING WITH INSTRUMENTS
WHICH GOD DID NOT COMMAND
See the
WHOLE story to see that the Temple was the
headquarters of the Civil-Military-Clergy complex abandoned to
worship the starry host. Christ in Spirit repudiates them as
robbers and parasites. The MILITARY people made war and
not religion.
Notice that the people's congregation, the synagogue, was a
Bibls school only and vocal and instrumental rejoicing was
outlawed for any Simple Simon who would dare "make noise never
called music" when God's Words were being READ: not even the
vilest pagan temple would permit that.
2Chr. 29:20 Then Hezekiah the king rose early,
and gathered the rulers
of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.
2Chr. 29:21 And they brought
seven bullocks,
and seven rams,
and seven lambs,
and seven he goats,
for a SIN OFFERING for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah.
And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to
offer them on the altar of the LORD.
2Chr. 29:22 So they killed the bullocks,
and the
priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar:
likewise, when they had killed the
rams,
they
sprinkled the blood upon the altar:
they killed also the lambs,
and they sprinkled
the blood upon the altar.
Never any music:
A civil war which resulted from the slavery building the temple
God had not commanded as a house, meant that the nation of
Israel would not "fellowship" the tiny nation of Judah
consisting mostly of Jerusalem.
THEREFORE THE SIN OFFERING OF THE GOATS
WITH WARRIOR INSTRUMENTS WAS FOR THOSE WHO "DESTROYED THE
UNITY."
2Chr. 29:23 And they brought forth the he goats
for the sin offering
before the king and the congregation;
and they laid their hands
upon them:
2Chr. 29:24 And the priests killed them,
and they made reconciliation
with their blood upon the altar,
to make an atonement for all Israel:
for the king commanded
that the BURNT offering
and the sin offering
should be made
for all Israel.
Albert Barnes: All
Israel—Hezekiah aimed at reuniting once more
the whole people of Israel, if not into a single state,
yet, at any rate, into a single religious communion.
The northern kingdom was in a condition approaching to
anarchy. The end was evidently approaching. Hoshea,
the king contemporary with Hezekiah 2 Kings 18:1 , ruled,
not as an independent monarch, but as an Assyrian
feudatory 2 Kings 17:3 . Under these circumstances
Hezekiah designed to invite the revolted tribes to
return, if not to their www temporal, at least to
their www spiritual, allegiance 2 Chr. 30:5-10 . In order,
therefore, to prepare the way for this return, he included
"all Israel" in the expiatory sacrifice, by which
he prefaced his restoration of the www worship.
Debbie Boggs FOLLOWS THE SAME
PATTERNISM IN HIS "UNITY" EFFORT PURELY POLITICAL
Of course, most of the people of Israel just made fun of
HEZEKIAH'S attempt at a UNITY MEETING with music.
THE SPIRITUAL COVENANT HAD BEEN MADE WITH ABRHAM WHICH
ELEMINATES BURNT OFFERINGS.
Gen. 22:7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father,
and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son.
And he said, Behwww the
fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt
offering?
Gen. 22:8 And Abraham said,
My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a
burnt offering:
so they went both of
them together.
Gen. 22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked,
and behwww behind him a
ram caught in a thicket by his horns:
and Abraham went and
took the ram,
and offered him up for a
burnt offering
in
the stead of his son.
Debbie Boggs IS PRETENDING THAT CHRIST
NEVER EXISTED
We are warned about the lying pen of the Scribes who put
people's trust in Jerusalem and the Temple. Jesus called
the Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. He pointed to Isaiah and
especially Ezekiel 33 where the hypocrites are defined as slick
speakers, singers and instrument players. The primary meaning of
hypocrite in the Greek language is RHETORICIAN and next in line
are musicians.
Jer. 7:21 Thus saith the LORD
of hosts, the God of Israel;
Put your burnt
offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
Jer. 7:22 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:
They fell from Grace BECAUSE of musical idolatry at Mount
Sinai and were turned over or back to worship the starry
host.
Is. 1:10 Hear the word of the
LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of
our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Rev. 11:8 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.
Is. 1:11 To what purpose is the
multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD:
I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and
the fat of fed beasts;
and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of
lambs, or of he goats.
Is. 1:12 When ye come to appear
before me,
who hath required this at your hand, to tread
my courts?
Is. 1:13 Bring no more vain
oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons
and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with;
it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Is. 1:14 Your new moons and
your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble
unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Is. 1:15 And when ye spread
forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you:
yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands
are full of blood.
Is. 1:16 Wash you, make you
clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine
eyes; cease to do evil;
Is. 1:17 Learn to do well; seek
judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless,
plead for the widow.
Is. 1:18 Come now, and let us
reason together, saith the LORD:
though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as
snow;
though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Is. 1:19 If ye be willing and
obedient,
ye
shall eat the good of the land:
Is. 1:20 But if ye refuse and
rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword:
for
the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Is. 1:21 How is the faithful
city become an harlot! it was full of judgment;
righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
Jer.
7:23 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.
Jer. 7:24 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.
The Holocaust was related to Molech
Because of musical idolatry and because they had been
worshiping the "burning" gods, there was a warning from the
beginning. Nevertheless,
1Kings 11:7 Then did Solomon build an high place for
Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill
that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination
of the children of Ammon.
The burnt offering to ISRAEL was probably added without command
to replace the human sacrifice of burning infants.
H5930 ‛ôlâh ‛ôlâh o-law', o-law'Feminine
active participle of H5927 ; a step or (collectively stairs,
as ascending); usually a holocaust (as going up in
smoke):—ascent, burnt offering (sacrifice), go up to. See also
H5766 .
H5766 ‛evel ‛âvel ‛avlâh ‛ôlâh ‛ôlâh eh'-vel, aw'-vel,
av-law', o-law', o-law' From H5765 ; (moral) evil:—iniquity,
perverseness, unjust (-ly), unrighteousness (-ly), wicked
(-ness)
Greek: These are the two
ideal types of Greek sacrificial ritual; they are appropriate
to different divinities, done for different purposes, and
conducted by different methods. Holocausts are apotropaic
rituals, intended to appease the spirits of the
Underworld,
Hebrew: A "whole offering" (Hebrew: olah), or "burnt
offering", is a type of Biblical sacrifice, specifically an
animal sacrifice in which the entire sacrifice is completely
burnt,
consumed totally by fire. The term "burnt offering"
derives from the Septuagint translation, itself deriving from
the Biblical phrase "an offering made by fire", which occurs
in the description
of the offering. This form
of sacrifice, in which no meat was left over for anyone, was
seen as the greatest form of sacrifice
and was the form of sacrifice
permitted by Judaism to be given at the Temple by Jews and
non-Jews. Modern
Biblical scholars regard the Moloch offering,
which involved human immolation, as being related to the whole
offering.
| Debbie Boggs etal: II Chron. 30:21
“The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem
celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven
days with great rejoicing, while the Levites and
priests sang to the LORD every day, accompanied
by the Lord's instruments of praise.
Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites, who
showed good understanding of the service of the
LORD. For the seven days they ate their assigned
portion and offered fellowship offerings and praised
the LORD, the God of their fathers.” |
This was not congregational worship but more like a Camp
Meeting. But, the text does not say that they were the
LORD'S INSTRUMENTS. We have shown above the separation between
the atonement for Judah, Jerusalem and the Temple and the burnt
offerings for Israel which had SECTED OFF which God had not
commanded. The instruments were David's instruments.
Even if regularly observed, this would be once a year:
2 Chr 30:21 And the children of Israel that were present at
Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread
seven days with great gladness:
and the Levites
and the priests praised the LORD day by day,
singing with
loud instruments unto the LORD.
Loud is: H5797 ‛ôz ‛ôz oze, oze From H5810 ; strength in
various applications (force, security, majesty,
praise):—bwwwness, loud, might, power, strength, strong.
h2490. Chalal, to wound, to dissolve; figuratively,
to profane (a person, place or thing), to break
(one’s word), tdenom. (from 2485) to play (the flute):--begin
(x men began), defile, x break, defile, x eat (as
common things), x first, x gather the grape thereof, x takeinheritance,
pipe, player on instruments, pollute,
(cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay
(slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
But, here is what Hezekiah--always fighting a losing
battle--was doing TO the Levites who might have been
teaching.
2 Chr 30:22 And Hezekiah spake comfortably
unto all the Levites that taught the good
knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat
throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings,
and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.
Christ has become OUR Passover so guess we won't be hwwwing
a musical festival and if we do, we will do it OUT IN THE
OPEN,.
Debbie Boggs etal: Neh 12:27
“At the dedication of the wall of
Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from where
they lived and were brought to Jerusalem to
celebrate joyfully the dedication with songs
of thanksgiving and with the music of cymbals, harps
and lyres.”
|
Hezekiah also defined WHY they had been taken captive and their
temple destroyed and walls broken down:
So the children went in and possessed
the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of
the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their
kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with
them as they would.
Neh 9:24
And they took strong cities,
and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance:
so they did eat, and were filled, and
became fat, and delighted
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee,
and cast thy law
behind their backs,
and slew thy prophets
which testified against them to turn
them to thee,
and
they wrought great provocations. Neh 9:26
Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests,
nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto
thy commandments
and thy testimonies,
wherewith thou didst testify
against them. Neh 9:34
For they
have not served thee in
their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou
gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest
before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
Neh 9:35
Behwww, we are servants this
day,
[and so are you]
and for the land that
thou gavest unto our fathers
to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof,
behwww, we are servants
in it: Neh 9:36
And it yieldeth
much increase unto the kings whom thou hast
set over us
because of our sins:
also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle,
at their pleasure,
and we are in great distress. Neh 9:37
They
have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns:
they have put themselves to pain, but shall not
profit:
and they shall be ashamed of your revenues
because of the fierce anger of the Lord. Je.12:13
Hezekiah refers all the way back to David to understand how to
dedicate or purify a temple: this leaves no doubt about who
commanded what:
And certain of the
priests sons with
trumpets;
namely, Zechariah the
son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah,
the son of Mattaniah, the
son of Michaiah, the son of Zaccur,
the son of Asaph: Nehemiah 12:
35
And his brethren,
Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai,
Nethaneel, and Judah,
Hanani,
with the
musical instruments of David the
man
of God, and
Ezra
the
scribe
before them. Nehemiah 12: 36
So stood the two companies of them that gave
thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers
with me: Nehemiah 12: 40
The Priests: And the priests;
Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai,
Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets; Nehemiah
12: 41
The Levites: And Maaseiah, and
Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and
Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang
loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.
Nehemiah 12: 42
1037 BC - Solomon succeeds King David.
520 BC - work on the temple walls begins.
Notice that Nehemiah reaches back to David to explain
what has just taken place:
And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of
their God, and the ward of the purification,
according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon
his son. Nehemiah 12: 45
For in the days of David and Asaph of
www there were chief of the singers, and songs
of praise and thanksgiving unto God. Nehemiah
12: 46
And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the
days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and
the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified
holy things unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified
them unto the children of Aaron.
Nehemiah 12: 47
"The solemn ritual described in
Neh. 8-10 is one of the most important moments in the
history of Israel: this is as it were the official birth
of Judaism. The gathering does
not take place in the
Temple, but in the public square. It does not consist of
bloody sacrifices, but of reading
the law and prayer. " (Charpentier, How To Read the
Bible, p. 75)
Of course, as a result of this loud rejoicing or
boasting, they attracted the attention of the enemy and
the rebuilding was stopped for about 16 years.
| Debbie Boggs etal: Zech. 9:14 “ .
. . and the Lord God shall blow the
trumpet.” |
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout,
O daughter of Jerusalem: behwww, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass,
and upon a colt the foal of an ass. Zech 9:9
Salvation is Jesus or Joshua or Jehovah- Saves.
Yasha (h3467) yaw-shah'; a prim. root; prop. to
be open, wide or free, i. e. (by impl.) to be safe;
causat. to free or succor: - * at all, avenging, defend,
deliver (-er), help, preserve,
rescue, be safe, bring
Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behwww,
thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass,
and a colt the foal of an ass. Matt 21:5
When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim,
and raised up thy sons, O Zion,
against thy sons, O Greece,
and made thee as the sword of a mighty man. Zech 9:13
And the Lord shall be seen over
them,
and his arrow
shall go forth as the lightning:
and the Lord God
shall blow the trumpet,
and shall go with
whirlwinds of the south. Zech 9:14
The
description of the trumpets.
[The Rule of the Trumpets: the trumpets] of alarm for all their service for the [ . . .
] for their commissioned men, 17[by tens of thousands and thousands and
hundreds and fifties]
and tens. Upon the
t[rumpets . . . ]
[ . . . ] )8[ . . . ] 19[ . . .
which ] 20 [,, . they shall write . . . the trumpets
of Col. 3 the battle
formations,
and the trumpets for
assembling them when the gates of the war are opened so that the
infantry might advance, the trumpets for the signal of the slain, the trumpets of 2 the ambush, the trumpets of pursuit when the enemy is defeated, and the trumpets of reassembly when the battle returns.
On the trumpets for the assembly of the congregation they shall write, "The called of
God." 3 0n the trumpets for the assembly of the chiefs
they shall write, "The princes of God." On the trumpets of the formations they shall write, "The rule of God."
On the trumpets of the men
of renown [they
shall write], "The heads
of the congregation's clans."
Then when they are assembled at
the house of meeting, they shall write, "The
testimonies of God for a holy congregation." On the trumpets of the camps 5 they shall write, "The peace of God
in the camps of His saints."
On the trumpets for their campaigns they shall write,
"The mighty deeds of God to scatter the enemy and to put all those who hate
justice to flight and a withdrawal of mercy from all who
hate God."
On the trumpets of the battle formations they shall write,
"Formations of the divisions of God to avenge His anger on all Sons of Darkness."
7 0n the trumpets for assembling the infantry when the
gates of war open that they might go out against the
battle line of the enemy, they shall write, "A
remembrance of requital at the appointed time 8 0f God."
On the trumpets of the slain they shall write, "The hand of the
might of God in battle so as to bring down all the slain because of unfaithfulness."
On the trumpets of ambush they shall write, 9
"Mysteries of God to wipe out wickedness."
On the trumpets of pursuit they
shall write,"God has struck all Sons of Darkness, He
shall not abate His
anger until they are annihilated." When they return from battle
to enter the formation, they shall write on the trumpets of retreat, "God
has gathered."
On the trumpets for the way of return
from battle with
the enemy to enter the congregation in Jerusalem,
they shall write,"Rejoicings
of God in a peaceful return."
The Lord of hosts shall defend
them;
and they shall devour,
and subdue with sling stones;
and they shall
drink, and make a noise as through wine;
and they shall be
filled like bowls, and as the corners of the
altar. Zech 9:15
The ministry of the priests
and Levites.
When the battle line are arrayed against the enemy battle line against
battle line there shall go forth from the middle
opening into the gap between
the battle lines seven priests of the sons of Aaron, dressed in fine white linen
garments: a linen tunic and linen breeches, and girded
with a linen sash of twined fine linen, violet,
'"purple, and crimson, and a varicolored Sign, the
work of a skillful workman, and decorated caps on
their heads; the garments for battle, and they shall
not take them into the sanctuary.
The one priest shall walk before
all the men of the battle line to encourage them for
battle.
In the hands of the remaining
six shall be the trumpets of assembly' the trumpets of memorial, the trumpets
of the alarm, the
trumpets of pursuit, and the trumpets of reassembly.
When the priests go out into the gap between
the battle lines,
seven Levites shall go out with
them. In their hands shall be seven trumpets of rams' horns.
Three officers from among the Levites shall walk before the priests
and the Levites.
The priests shall blow the two trumpets of assembly . . . of ba]ttle upon fifty shields,
and fifty infantrymen shall go out from the one gate
and [ . . . ] Levites, officers. With each battle line
they shall go out according to all [this] o[rder....
men of the] infantry from the gates [and they shall
take positi]on between the two battle lines, and [ . .
. ] the battle ] [,, . ] the trumpets shall blow continually to direct the
slingmen until they have completed hurling seven
times.
| Debbie Boggs etal: Hab 3:19 “The
Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like
the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the
heights. For the director of music. On my
stringed instruments. |
For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.
This defines how this message is to be presented and does not
command instrumental music.
Hab 3:1 A prayer of Habakkuk
the prophet upon Shigionoth.
Shigionoth is a poem set to music and signals a judgmental message:
Shiggayown (h7692) shig-gaw-yone' from 7686; prop.
aberration, i. e. (tech.) a dithyramb or rambling poem: - Shiggaion, Shigionoth
Shagah (h7686) shaw-gaw'; a prim. root; to stray (caus. mislead), usually (fig.) to mistake, espec.
(mor.) to transgress; by extens. (through the idea of intoxication) to reel, (fig.) be enraptured: - (cause to) go astray, deceive,
err, be ravished, sin
through ignorance,
(let, make to) wander.
But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed
up of wine, they are out
of the way through
strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in
judgment. Is.28:7
WINE is a mocker, strong drink is
raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Pr.20:1
| Debbie Boggs etal: Garrett,
Leroy. Restoration
Review. January, 1991. “The argument we
have always made that instruments were
authorized in the www Testament but
not the New hardly applies to the Psalms,
for it is not a matter of the instruments being
‘authorized’ or legislated. They were used out
of the spontaneous devotion of the people.
They praised God in every way available to them,
which would of course include instruments of
music. We need to question a
hermeneutics that keeps saying, ‘But that’s in the
www Testament.’ We should at least be able to
understand how our Christian friends who choose to
use instruments consider it odd that we elect to
make use of all the spiritual values in the Psalms
except “Praise Him with stringed instruments” (Ps.
150:4).” |
Only 57 of the Book of Psalms are psalms or mizmors. The
Greek words were used because they have a universal perverted
meaning unless they are used for LEARNING ONLY. We don't
ACTUALLY bash infants heads. The word "psalmos" is a song: you
have to define an instrument IF one is included.
Psalmos also appears in the LXX as
equivalent to the Hebrew word neginah. This Hebrew
term is used to describe a wide variety of songs. Neginah is
translated by psalmos in Lam 3:14 (song), in Lam 5:14
(music) and in Ps 69:12 (song). It is striking to observe that
in the LXX translation of Lam 3:14 and Ps 69:12, psalmos, or
its verbal form, is used for songs that are
not only uninspired but are in fact the product of
the wicked, even drunkards, who mocked God and His word.
The Hebrew term neginah is used elsewhere in the Hebrew
Scriptures of: the songs of the wicked, Job 30:9 (song); the
inspired praise of God, Psalm 61 title (Neginah-a song
performed on a stringed instrument); and the uninspired praise
of the Lord composed by King Hezekiah, Is 38:20 (my songs).
Nagan (h5059) naw-gan'; a prim. root; prop. to
thrum, i. e. beat a tune with the fingers; espec.
to PLAY on a stringed instrument; hence (gen.) to make
music: - player on instruments, sing to the stringed
instruments, melody, ministrel, play (-er, -ing.
h5060 naga naw-gah' A primitive root; properly to
touch, that is, lay the hand upon (for any
purpose; euphemistically,
to lie with a woman);
by implication to reach (figuratively to arrive,
acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy,
etc.):- beat, (X be able to) bring (down), cast,
come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen,
join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike,
touch
Used interchageably with
g2490 chalal,
to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane
(a person, place or thing), to break (one’s word),
tdenom. (from 2485) to play (the flute):--begin
(x men began), defile, x break, defile, x eat
(as common things), x first, x gather the grape thereof,
x take inheritance, pipe, player
on instruments, pollute, (cast as)
profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain),
sorrow, stain, wound.
Ludo
A.To sport, play with
any thing, to practise as a pastime, amuse one's self
with any thing: Especially to play
on an instrument of music, to make or compose
music or song:
B.To sport, dally, wanton (cf. "amorous
play,")
C. Ludere aliquem or aliquid, to play,
mock, imitate, mimic a person or
thing (only in mockery; cf.: partes
agere, etc.): civem bonum ludit, Cael. ap. Cic.
Fam.
8, 9, 1; cf.: ludere opus, to
imitate work, make believe work
E.To spend in play or amusement,
to sport away: otium, Mart. 3,
67, 9 .--Hence, ludere operam, to throw away one's
labor, to labor in vain,
F.To make sport or game of a person,
to ridicule, rally, banter:
G.To delude, deceive:
Insania
The history of the Greek language extends back about fifteen
centuries before Christ. The era called the "classical" period
was from around 900 B.C. (the time of Homer) to the conquests
of Alexander the Great (c. 330 B.C.). During this time
psallo carried the basic sense of "to touch sharply, to
move by touching, to pull, twitch" (Liddell, p. 1841).
Luke 7:24 And when the
messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto
the people concerning John, What went ye out into the
wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with
the wind?
Luke 7:25 But what went ye out for to
see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behwww, they
which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately,
are in kings courts.
Don-eô, A. shake, of the effects of the wind,they
shake the young tree, having driven them, to de te pnoiai doneousin they shake the
young tree, kardian to agitate
one's mind,
hêmas edonêsen hê mousikê, ,
donountaito neurôdes have twitchings in the tendons,
Twitching: Psallô (psao) I. to touch
sharply, to pluck,
pull, twitch, Aesch.; toxou neuran ps. to twang the
bow-string, Eur.; belos
ek keraos
ps. to send a shaft
twanging from the bow,
Anth.
Tendons Nervus
i, m. [root snar-; www Germ.
snara, a snare; Gr. neuron; cf. parvus and
pauros] , a sinew, tendon, nerve.
1. I.
q. membrum virile; 2. A string
of a musical instrument, 3. A bowstring: reciproca tendens nervo
The Shaken by the Wind continued:
Erôti Fr.6.5 ;
paida
Paul insisted that we meet WITHOUT WRATH:
this is the word Orge and EROS was the god pagans
worshipped.
Org-aô , II. of men, like sphrigaô, swell
with lust, wax wanton,
be rampant, Ar.Lys.1113, Av. 462 (where the Sch. explains
it epithumêtikôs echô) ; ho ep' aphrodisiois mainomenos . . orgôn Poll.6.188 ; of human
beings and animals, to be
in heat, desire sexual intercourse, organ pros tên homilian, ocheian,
Arist.HA542a32,560b13 ; o. ocheuesthai ib.500b11 ; pros to
gennan Plu. 2.651c
2. generally, to be eager or ready, to be excited, Lakedaimoniôn
orgôntôn emellon peirasesthai Th.4.108 ; orgôntes krinein judge under
the influence of passion, Id.8.2
2. drive about Od.22.300;
disturb, terrify, Tim.Pers.222:
hence of love, agitate, excite,
II. of sound, murmur,
buzz, of bees, prob. in h.Merc. 563; d. throon humnôn rouse the voice of song, Pi.N.7.81:--also in Med. or Pass., luran [lyre] te
boai kanachai t' aulôn [flute] doneontai Id.P.10.39 ; of bees, Choeril.2;
rhoizêmasin aithêr doneitai Ar.Av.1183 .--Poet. word, used
in Ion., X.Smp.2.8, and late Prose; of medical percussion,
Aret.SD2.1
Pindar Pythian 10.[31] Once
Perseus, the leader of his people, entered
their homes and feasted among them, when he found them
sacrificing glorious hecatombs of donkeys to the god. In the
festivities of those people [35] and
in their praises Apollo rejoices most, and he laughs when he
sees the erect arrogance of the beasts. [37] The Muse
is not absent from their customs; all around swirl the
dances of girls, the lyre's loud chords
and the cries of flutes. [40] They
wreathe their hair with gwwwen laurel branches
and revel joyfully. No sickness or ruinous www age is mixed
into that sacred race; without toil or battles [43] they live without fear of
strict Nemesis.
The choicest hymn of praise flits from theme to theme, like a
bee. [55][55] And
I hope that, while the Ephyreans pour forth my sweet voice
beside the Peneius, with my songs I will make Hippocleas
even more admired for his garlands by boys his age and by his
elders, and I will make the girls think of him. For [60] people«s minds are
tickled by various desires; [61] but whatever each man
strives for, let him hwww on to it eagerly if he gets it, the
concern that is close at hand. It is impossible to foresee
what will happen a year from now.
| Debbie Boggs etal: In fact,
to what is Paul referring when he speaks of
“all scripture”? Is he referring to
his own letters, which he is in the middle of
writing? Is he referring to the gospels, which
may not have even been written yet? Well - the
argument goes - but we are following the NT
church. Shouldn’t we rather be following
Jesus, (who, by the way, was known to worship
at the temple where instruments were
used.) |
The ONLY role of the ekklesia or synagogue
is teaching the Word: you do not teach by making music but
indeed stop the learning process. Paul commanded that we READ or
SPEAK the Psalms and speak is the "opposite to poerty or music."
No one missed that until the year 373. Once you start the
slippery slope there is no stopping. The Psalms are not metrical
and you cannot make music with them without rewriting them:
2T im. 3:16 All scripture is
given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction,
for instruction in righteousness:
How do you present the Scriptures?
1Tim. 4:13 Till I come, give attendance to [public] reading, to exhortation,
to doctrine.
Acts 13:15 And after the reading of the law
and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent
unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word
of
exhortation for the people, say on.
Thus ends the synagogue other than
prayers.
Acts 15:21 For Moses of www time hath in every city
them that preach
him,
being read in
the synagogues every sabbath day.
2Cor. 3:14 But their minds were blinded:
for until this day
remaineth the same vail untaken away
in the reading
of the www testament;
which vail is done
away in Christ.
The most memorable events OUTSIDE but never IN the
temple was "casting out the musical minstrels" more or less
violently like Dung. And he cast out the Collection
Plates and the collectors. He consigned the pipers,
singers and dancers to the marketplace with all the other
polluted musicians. Because the TOOK the Widows mites Jesus
promised that the temple would be dismantled stone by stone.
There is no proof that Jesus ever attended OUTSIDE the gates
during any sacrificial music.
Debbie Boggs etal: B. New
Testament
Luke
7:32 They are like children sitting in
the marketplace and calling out to each
other: "'We played the flute for you, and
you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you
did not cry.' |
Yes,
they hoped that John wore the soft clothing of the Catamite
and that Jesus would sing or lament and dance when they
piped. This was a clear mark of the perverted initiation
into the cult of Dionysus or the god of the new wineskin.
This was sodomy as part of the www Abomination of
Desolation defined in Second Maccabees.
Luke 7:24 And when the messengers of John were departed, he
began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye
out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the
wind?
Don-eô, A. shake, of the effects of the
wind, to de te pnoiai doneousin they shake the young
tree kardian to agitate one's mind, hêmas edonêsen hê mousikê, II. of
sound, murmur, buzz, of bees, prob. in h.Merc.563; d. throon
humnôn rouse the voice
of song, Pi.N.7.81:--also
in Med. or Pass., luran
te boai kanachai t' aulôn doneontai Id.P.10.39 ; of bees, Choeril.2; rhoizêmasin aithêr
doneitai Ar.Av.1183 .--Poet. word, used in Ion., X.Smp.2.8,
and late Prose; of medical percussion, Aret.SD2.1
- "Yobal (Jubal). (Note: Jubilee or "a blast of trumpets" is from Jubal
which means "to lead with triumph or pomp.") and Tobalkin (Tubal-Cain), the two brethren, the
sons of Lamech, the blind man, who killed Cain, invented
and made all kinds of instruments (or metal weapons) of
music.
- Hippolytus
V
- "Yobal made reed
instruments, and harps,
and flutes, and whistles,
- and the
devils went and dwelt inside them.
When men blew into the pipes,
the devils sang inside
them,
- And Satan had been made ruler (or prince) of that camp
- And when the men and women were stirred
up to lascivious frenzy by the devilish
playing of the reeds which emitted
musical sounds,
and by the harps which the men played through the
operation of the power of the devils, and by the sounds
of the tambourines and of the sistra which were beaten and rattled through the agency of evil spirits, the sounds
of their laughter
were heard in the air above them, and ascended to that
holy mountain.
Luke 7:25 But
what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft
raiment? Behwww, they which are gorgeously apparelled,
and live delicately, are in kings courts.
Delicate Malakos
path-êtikos d. = pathêtikos,
path-êtikos 2. sensuous,
impassioned, patheti clegein describe the
symptoms of emotion, emotional style
3. Astrol., p. zôidion, = pathikon,
1 Cor 6:[9]WEB Or don't you know that the unrighteous
will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived.
Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
[10] nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor
slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the
Kingdom of God. [11] Such were some of you, but you were
washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified
in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our
God.
e. of music, soft, effeminate,
tuned to a low pitch
Harmonia IV. in Music,
stringing, ha. toxou [bow] kai luras [harp], method of stringing, musical
scale
2. generally, music, autôi de tôi rhuthmôi
mimountai chôris
V. personified, as a mythical, Neikos,
MUSIC
demands rhythm, acting and dancing: there is not
ETHICAL music idea in the Bible.
g. of reasoning, weak,
loose, logos Isoc.12.4 ( sullogizesthai
to reason loosely
Luke 7:26 But what went ye
out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much
more than a prophet.
They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and
saying, We have piped
unto you, and ye have
not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept. Luke 7:32
Jesus consignes the pipers, singers and dancers to the
market-place where all of the singing, dancing, music and
pagan ceremonies took place. The Jews HOPED that Dionysus
was their messiah because that is the worship God abandoned
them to BECAUSE of musical idolatry.
The singing or lamenting was the natural result of the
"initiation" which was the same as bowing to Baal.
Initiation into homosexuality was the goal:
Aulêtikos, kalamos used for making flutes, (sc. technê),
hê, flute-playing,. Adv.-kôs, dei karkinoun [spread like cancer]
Spond-aulês , ou, ho, playing
the flute at a SPONDE (Ephesus) and (Rhegium).
Spondê
[spendô] I. a drink-offering,
i. e. the wine poured
out to the gods before
drinking, Lat. libatio,
Pl.Euthd. 277d. Plato, Euthydemus, Socrates: Euthydemus was proceeding to press the youth for the third
fall, when I, [277d] perceiving the lad
was going under, and wishing to give him some breathing-space
lest he should shame us by losing heart, encouraged him
with these words: Cleinias, do not be surprised that these
arguments seem strange to you; for perhaps you do not
discern what our two visitors are doing to
you.
They are acting just like the celebrants of the Corybantic rites, when they perform the enthronement of the person whom they are about to initiate. There, as you know, if you have been
through it, they have
dancing and merrymaking: so here these two [277e] are merely
dancing about you and performing
their sportive gambols
with a view to your subsequent initiation ..... Such things are the sport of the
sciences--and that is why I tell you these men are
making game of you; I
call it sport
This is THE meaning of Rock and Roll!
They hoped that Jesus would dance and lament (ouch) the
Dionysus initiation which means BOWING before Baal.
Choreia ,
A. dance, esp. choral dance
with music chorous choreias tôi Dionusôi
2. of any circling motion, as of the stars planêtôn te kai aplanôn choreiais
Debbie Boggs etal: 1 Cor
14:7 Even in the case of lifeless
things that make sounds, such as the flute
or harp, how will anyone know what tune is being
played unless there is a distinction in the notes?
1 Cor 14:8 Again, if the trumpet does not
sound a clear call, who will get ready for battle? |
In 1 Corinthians 13 Paul equated speaking in tongues to the
"worship of angels" which was witchcraft, to the sounds
of war and to the sounds in the theater where
echo chambers acted like pipe organs to amplify the voice.
Lifeless instruments are carnal weapons and this
is Paul radically condemning them as ANTI-Christian. By
being informed about the literature which Paul and school kids
knew, false teachers are charging to do brain surgery after
discovering that HE has a brain.
Plutarch
Cor but that a
body which hath neither
life nor soul should
have any direct or
exquisite words formed
in it by express voice, that is altogether unpossible . For the
soul nor God himself can distinctly speak without a body,
having necessary organs and instruments meet for the parts
of the same, to form and utter distinct words. But where
stories many times do force us to believe a thing reported
to be true, by many grave testimonies: there we must say,
that it is some passion contrary
to our five natural senses, which being begotten in the imaginative
part or understanding draweth an opinion unto itself, even
as we do in our sleeping.
Euripides, Ion
Creusa
[881] O you, who cause a voice to sing from
your seven-stringed lyre, a voice that lets
lovely-sounding hymns peal forth in the rustic lifeless
horn,
LIFELESS
Apsuchos (g895) ap'-soo-khos; from 1 (as a neg.
particle) and 5590
[breath]; lifeless, i.e. inanimate (mechanical): -
without life.
Apsuch-os, on, lifeless, inanimate, empnoun
[breath] aniei Mousan Sopat.10; ha
-otata tôn ostôn with
least life or sensation,
Mnêma 2. mound or
building in honour of the dead, monument, tomb
Heredotus 7.CLXVII. The story twww by the
Carchedonians themselves seems to have some element of
truth. They say that the barbarians fought with
the Greeks in Sicily from dawn until late evening (so
long, it is said, the battle was drawn out), during
which time Amilcas stayed in his camp offering sacrifice
and striving to obtain favorable omens by burning whole bodies
on a great pyre.
When he saw his army routed,
he cast himself into the fire where he was
pouring libations on the sacrifice; he was consumed by
this and was not seen any more. [2] Whether he vanished
as the Phoenicians say, or in the manner related by the
Carchedonians and Syracusans, sacrifice is offered to
him, and monuments have been set up in all the
colonists' cities, the greatest of which is in Carchedon
itself
II. spiritless,
faint-hearted,
III. materialistic, logos Porph.Gaur.14.4 (Comp.).
HOPLON Euripides-Ion
- O thou, that wakest on thy seven-string'd
lyre
- Sweet notes, that from the
rustic lifeless horn
- Enchant the ear with heavenly melody,
- Son of Latona, thee before this
light
- Will I reprove. Thou camest to
me, with gwww
- Thy locks all
glittering, as the vermeil flowers
-
- Because they were addicted to the astrial gods it
comes as no surprise that even David wanted to WAKE
UP his lyre UNLESS he was speaking in figurative
language.
- Awake up, my glory; awake,
psaltery and harp: I myself will awake
early. Ps.57:8 ; Psa 108:2
- Woe unto him that
saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb
stone, Arise, it shall teach Behwww, it is laid
over with gwww and silver, and there is no breath
at all in the midst of it. Hab 2:19
-
- But
the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the
earth keep silence before him. Hab 2:20
- And now my son and thine,
ill-fated babe,
- Is rent by ravenous vultures;
thou, meanwhile,
- Art to thy lyre attuning strains of joy.
| Debbie Boggs etal: Eph. 5:19 and
Col. 3:16 refer to “psalms, hymns, and spiritual
songs”. Every source I checked ties instrumental
music to the word “psalm”. |
No, that is a bad lie: none
of the psalms were metrical and none were ever sung
accompianed by an instrument. The method would be to SPEAK
the text and sound a string note before or after to focus
on the WORD.
Col 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in
you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing
one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
16 Let the word of Christ
[What about the songs of Twila Paris:
isn't her's just as good as Christs or that
which is written?]
dwell in you richly in all wisdom;
[Why can't Twila dwell in the worship leader?
Isn't Twila as wise as Christ?]
teaching and admonishing
one another
[Why isn't
it just as good to entertain and defend the
audience?]
[Doesn't saying Lord, Lord
100 times teach?]
[Why shouldn't a half dozen
sing to the rest of the audience?]
[How could you prove that one another really
means one another in this changed
culture?]
in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs,
[Psalms, hymns and spiritual
songs are types of the Biblical psalms.
Why should I be stuck with www style
Bible text in my enlightened culture?
If we all psalmos with a harp, do we
all have to put down our harp when we sing
an ode?
Since the
"psallo-based" words spoke of war and pollution
and was never used "to play an instrument"
But only PLUCK with your fingers and
NEVER with a plectrum,
would our
enlightened age let us change that to
mean
"pluck with a guitar pick?" Or, BLOW
on a flute or BEAT on a drum or CLANG
with brass?]
But according to Paul time trained
as a Jew, a psalm would point to the mizmors
There
are only 50 mizmors not
restricted and NONE of these name an
instrument. Now, shall
we PhDuhs define a
Psalm according to Paul time or do we use
our modern Bible
which use psalm to name
a WHOLE BOOK and not true psalms?]
On the very large OTHER HAND
here are the psalms used by those who intend to
do you harm?
Psalmos
also appears in the LXX as equivalent to
the Hebrew word neginah [5058]. This
Hebrew term is used to describe a wide variety
of songs. Neginah is translated by psalmos in
Lam 3:14 (song), in Lam 5:14 (music) and in Ps
69:12 (song). It is striking to observe that in
the LXX translation of Lam 3:14 and Ps 69:12,
psalmos, or its verbal form, is used for songs
that are not only uninspired but are in
fact the product of the wicked, even
drunkards, who mocked God and His
word. The Hebrew term neginah is used
elsewhere in the Hebrew Scriptures of: the songs
of the wicked, Job 30:9 (song); the
inspired praise of God, Psalm 61 title
(Neginah-a song performed on a stringed
instrument); and the uninspired praise of the
Lord composed by King Hezekiah, Is 38:20 (my
songs).
5060. naga, naw-gah´; a
primitive root; properly, to touch, i.e. lay
the hand upon (for any purpose; euphem., to lie
with a woman); by implication, to reach
(figuratively, to arrive, acquire); violently,
to strike (punish,
defeat,
destroy,
etc.):beat, (x be able to) bring (down), cast,
come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen,
join, near, plague, reach (up), smite,
strike, touch.
Psallo has the base meaning of TOUCH or HANDLE.
Thayer gives many
definitions and uses of the word Psalmos. The
first is "to pluck off, to pull out the hair".
Even at first glance we both know that this is
not the definition we need, but we must ask why
is the word defined in this way. This particular
meaning of Psalmos is attributed (by Thayer) to
Aeschylus between the years 525 and 426
B.C. This is obviously not the definition to
what the Apostle Paul wrote in the early first
century
singing with grace in
your hearts to the Lord.
[Why isn't
singing in your mouth better?
if melody in Eph 3:15 means making melody on
a harp,
then why doesn't with
grace mean to play some kind of stringed
instrument?
Did Paul tell the Ephesians they could make
melody on a HARP (only)
and then limit
the Colossians to singing with grace IN
their heart?
There is no
instrument in GRACE and there is no instrument is
PSALLO because both define a spiritual result IN
the heart as a result of SPEAKING the inspired
text. |
The command was to SPEAK with one mind and one mouth
"using that which is written." The purpose was to teach so that
a faithful believer would attend assembly having memorized a
whole psalm or other passage. Even if the psalmists is lusting
to bash heads of infants, the purpose is not unlearned praise
singing but to understand the underlying prose history.
Eph
5:
[19]WEB loquentes vobismet ipsis in psalmis et hymnis et
canticis spiritalibus cantantes et psallentes in cordibus
vestris Domino
Loquor
I. inf. loquier, Naev. ap. Gell. 1, 24,
2), v. dep. n. and a. [Sanscr. lap-, to talk, whisper;
to speak, talk, say (in the lang. of common life, in the tone
of conversation; cf.
Quint. 9, 4, 10; 11, 3, 45). A.
To speak, declare, show, indicate or express clearly
logik-os , ê,
on, ( [logos] ) the organs of speech
A. of or for speaking
or speech, logikê, hê, speech, opposite to mousikê,
Only 57 of the texts are called psalms
by those who translated into the GREEK. Because the
universal understanding of the Greek words you
will discover that probably most of them are warrior
chants used to intimidate the enemy.
After all, David was one of the kings given
to carry out the captiviity and death sentence and to WIN
wars on their. David was NOT a worship minister nor did he
prescribe worship. The Levitical Warrior musicians
were directed by the King and commanders of the army and
NOT by the priests.
Psalms are poems and tend to be poetic: you have to
understand forms of figurative language or be prepared to
hav a "smashing in the heads of some infants" ceremony
next week.
The tabulation of musical
passages "contains a rather disproportionate number of metaphorical
sentences, where music or its instruments are not to
be understood literally but are used as similies or
rhetorical figures. The most celebrated of these poetical
passages is Paul's glorification of love in I Cor. 13."
(Interpreter's Dict of the Bible, Music, p. 466).
Jesus said that truth
had been hidden in parables or symbolic langauge from the
foundation of the world. Isaiah 48 specificially says that
was to TRAP those who made a living out of singing or
predicting the future.
Paul commanded that they be used to SPEAK and therefore
Teach and Admonish because the ekklesia or synagogue never
had a praise service based on direct command and minimal
common sense.
Debbie Boggs etal: Zondervan
Pictorial Bible Dictionary. Grand Rapids,
Michigan, 1963. P.694.
Psalms – “Its name in
Latin and English Bibles . . . comes from the Greek,
Psalmo, which means ‘twangings [of harp
strings]’, and then, as a result, songs sung
to the accompaniment of harps. This latter
name originated in the LXX (cf. its NT authenticity,
Luke 20:42) and reflects the form of the book’s
poetry. The same is true of its alternate
title, Psalterion, meaning ‘psaltery,’ and then, a
collection of harp songs, from which comes the
English term ‘Psalter.’”
Vine, W.E.
Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words.
www Tappan, New Jersey, 1966. Psalm –
“Psalmos--primarily denoted a striking or
twitching with the fingers (on musical
strings); then, a sacred song, sung to musical
accompaniment, a psalm. It is used (a) of the
O.T. book of Psalms, Luke 20:42; 24:44; Acts 1:20;
(b) of a particular psalm,
Acts 13:33; (c) of psalms in general, I Cor. 14:26;
Eph. 5:19; Col. 3:16. |
Vine:
Psallo primarily "to
twitch, twang,"
then, "to play a
stringed instrument with the fingers,"
O.T.
"and hence, in the Sept.,
"to sing with a harp, sing
psalms,"
[never without including the name of
the instrument]
N.T. denotes, in the NT, "to sing a hymn,
sing praise;" in Eph 5:19, "making melody" (for the
preceding word ado, see SING). Elsewhere it is
rendered "sing," Rom 15:9; 1 Cor 14:15; in James 5:13,
RV, "let him sing
praise" (AV, "let him
sing psalms").
Hymns "was that part of the Hallel
consisting of Psalms 113-118; where the verb itself is
rendered 'to sing praises' or 'praise' Acts 16:25; Heb
2:12. The Psalms are
called, in general, 'hymns,' by Philo; Josephus calls them 'songs and hymns.'" Vine
on Humneo
| Debbie Boggs etal: Note: The psalmos
denoted that which had a musical accompaniment;
the ode was the generic term for a song; hence the
accompanying adjective ‘spiritual.’” |
This does not DEFINE Psalmos but
shows how it is used in the literature. Anyone not
willing to risk their souls would deliberately destroy
the peace and harmony for which Jesus died by looking up
words in distionaries or lexicons which define the
numerous ways the word is CONNECTED to music but
never MEANS music.
Not true: A psalmos is a song and says
nothing about how it is presented.
MAKING WAR:
Psalmos, ho, twitching or twanging with the fingers, psalmoi
toxôn E.Ion173
(lyr.); toxêrei psalmôi [toxeusas] Id.HF1064 (lyr.).
Psalmoi toxôn does not mean "sing and play a harp" WITH
a bow. Psalmoi just means pluck or twang a bow.
Phoebus' lyre,
that sings with you, [165]
would not protect you from my bow. Alter your wings' course; go to the
Delian lake; if you do not obey, you will steep your
lovely melody in blood. [170]
Ah,
ah! what is this new bird that approaches; you will not
place under the cornice a straw-built nest for your
children, will you? My singing [psalmoi]
bow will keep you off. Will you not obey?
ouden s' ha
phorminx ha Phoibou 165
summolpos toxôn rhusait' an.
parage pterugas:
Phoebus is Apollo or the Apollyon of Revelation:
His musical worship team are called LOCUSTS and
are always dirty and adulterous ready to expose
themselves.
Phorm-inx
A.
lyre, freq. in Hom., esp. as the instrument of Apollo. 2.
ph. achordos, metaph. for a bow, Arist.Rh.1413a1.
psalmoi s' eirxousin
toxôn. ou peisêi; chôrôn dinais
Here psalmoi means just SINGING. Melody is
aoide
meaning "beautiful singing."
Here the singing is something the BOW does which is not
tuneful.
MAKING WAR:
toxêrei psalmôi [toxeusas]
[Furnished with the Bow] +
[Twitching with the fingers] + [Shoot with the bow]
Pulso to
push, strike, beat, Of musical
instruments: chordas digitis et pectine eburno, to
strike, play upon, A. In gen., to
urge or drive on, to impel,
to set in violent motion, to move, agitate,
disturb, disquiet, C.To
drive away, remove, put
out of the way, D. To injure,
insult: pulsatos infecto foedere divos,
of treason
MAKING A METAPHOR:
or metaphor
Send forth a hymn
3. c. acc. rei, shoot from a bow, metaph.,
discharge, send forth, t. humnous Pi.I.2.3
hath shot arrows in vain, E.Hec.603
Pindar
Isthmian
1.2.[1] The men of www, Thrasybulus,
who mounted the chariot of the Muses with
their gwwwen headbands, joining the glorious lyre, lightly
shot forth their honey-voiced songs for young men, if
one was handsome and had [5] the
sweetest ripeness that brings to mind Aphrodite [ZOE] on
her lovely throne. [6] For
in those days the Muse was not yet a lover of gain,
nor did she work for hire. And sweet gentle-voiced
odes did not go for sale, with silvered
faces, from honey-voiced Terpsichore.
Pindar, Odes Isthmian Odes
Pi.I.5(4).47; My swift tongue has many arrows, to
shout the praises of these heroes.
"And Sophia and Zoe caught him up
and gave him [jehovah] charge of the seventh heaven, below the veil between above and below.
And he is called 'God of
the forces, Sabaoth', since he is up above the forces of
chaos, for Sophia established him. Jehovah made himself a
huge four-faced chariot of
cherubim, and
infinitely many angels to act as ministers, and also harps and lyres.
"Between the more known, near the Sumerians,
the goddess Ereshkigal; the goddess Inanna,
associated with the winged
lion, or while subjugating the lion [of the
tribe of Judah], having assumed on themself
the wings; near the Hittites, Hebat, spouse of
Teshub, represented like a matrona, up on her sacred
animal, the lion; the lunar goddess
Shaushka (identified with Ishtar, IIIth dynasty of
Ur, accadic period, approximately 2350 BC)
"Erotic
dance was a sacred ritual in ancient Egypt,
common in fertility rituals and sex magick. The most famous was the erotic dance
of the priestesses of Het
Heret [whom the
Greeks called Hathor], but also common in the temples of
Bast, Aset [Isis], and Nuit.
The meaning of 'Eve'
is disputed. Hawwah is explained in Genesis III. 20 as 'mother of all living'; but this may well be a Hebraicized
form of the divine name Heba, hebat, Khebat or Khiba. The goddess, wife
of the Hittite Storm-god, is shown riding a lion in a rock-sculpture at Hattrusas--which equates her with Anath--and
appears as a form of ishtar
in Hurrian texts.
She was worshipped at Jerusalem (see 27.2). Her Greek name was Hebe, Heracles's
goddess-wife.
THE SECONDARY WAYS IT ISUSED
SECOND: Psal-mos way the word is used: not
what it meant:
II. mostly of musical strings, pêktidôn psalmois krekon humnon Telest.5 , cf. Diog.Trag.1.9, Aret.CA1.1.
Pêktidôn psalmois krekon humnon
Pêktidôn Pêktis
I. an ancient harp used by the Lydians, Hdt., etc.
II. a sort of shepherd's pipe,
joined of several reeds, like Pan's pipes (surinx),
surinx 2.cat-call,
whistle,
hiss, as in theatres,
Id.Lg.700c;
cf.
surizô11.2
surigmos:--the last
part of the
nomos Puthikos was
called
suringes,
prob. because it imitated the
dying
hisses of the
serpent Pytho,
Str.9.3.10.
NOMOS or singing the LAWS of Apollo (Apollyon etal)
is the ONLY definition of LEGALISM. That is because you use
machines for doing HARD WORK or creating the shock and awe
which is hallucinated as "worship."
Psalmois
twitching or twanging with the fingers
Krekon Krekô , A. weave,
2. STRIKE a stringed instrument
with the plectron, magadin generally,
play on any instrument, aulonAr.Av.
682 pêktidôn psalmois k. humnon
DENOTING ONLY THE SOUND OF PLUCKING
YOUNG BOYS ETC.
THIRD: 2.
the sound of the cithara or harp,
psalmos d'alalazei A.Fr.57.7
(anap.); there were contests in to psallein C.).
Alal-azô (formed from the cry alalai): --raise the
war-cry shout the shout of victory, nikên alalazein
2. generally, cry, shout aloud, Pi.l.c., E.El.855;
esp. in orgiastic rites, A.Fr.57; of Bacchus
and Bacchae, E.Ba.593 (in Med.), 1133, etc.; ôloluxan hai gunaikes,
êlalaxan de hoi andres Hld.3.5 .
II. rarely also of other sounds
than the voice, sound loudly, psalmos d' alalazei;
kumbalon alalazon 1 Ep.Cor.13.1
T. Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus,
or The Braggart Captain
Now I will
disclose to you both the subject and the name of the
play which we are just now about to act, and for the
sake of which you are now seated in this mirthful place , "Alazon"
is the name (86)
This city is Ephesus; then, the Captain, my master, who has
gone off hence to the Forum, a bragging, impudent, stinking
fellow, brimful of lying and lasciviousness, says
that all the women are following him of their own
accord. Wherever he goes, he is the laughing stock
of all; and so, the Courtesans here--since they make wry mouths at
him, you may see the greater part of them with lips all
awry Alazon is the name:
Alazôn, "the boaster," he says, was the Greek
name of the play. It is not known who was the Greek
author from whom Plautus took this play, which is one of
his best.
How better
utterly condemn musical instruments associated with
pagan women?
1 Cor 13:1 THOUGH I speak with
the tongues of men and of angels, and have not
charity, I am become as sounding brass,
or a tinkling cymbal.
Alalazo (g214)
al-al-ad'-zo; from alale, (a shout, "halloo"); to
vociferate, i.e. (by impl.) to wail; fig. to clang:
- tinkle, wail
Mk.5:38 And he cometh to the house
of the ruler of the synagogue, and
seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed
greatly.
FOURTH:
3. later, [This
ONLY defines how the word is used: not a definition]
a. song sung to the harp,
[Psalmus does not INCLUDE the
harp unless NAMED]
A song sung TO a
harp means that you twang the string then seek to imitae
that sound: this identifies mose uses of an instrument
which was imitated but never to TEACH. Here is where the
musical imposers have to go for evidence for point a.
Is. 23:15 And it shall come to
pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten
seventy years, according to the days of one king:
after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing
as an harlot.
Here is how a harlot sings:
Is. 23:16
Take an [1] harp,
go about the city, thou harlot that hast been
forgotten; make sweet [2] melody, [3] sing many songs,
that thou mayest be remembered.
b.
psalm, LXX 2 Ki.23.1, XXIII.
Now these are the last words of David. David the son of
Jesse says, The man who was raised on high says, The
anointed of the God of Jacob,
c. The
sweet psalmist of Israel: [2] The Spirit of Yahweh spoke
by me, His word was on my tongue
al., Ep.Eph.5.19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart
to the Lord;
d. biblos psalmôn
Ev.Luc.20.42 . And David
himself saith in the book
of Psalms, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou
on my right hand,
That is why Paul commanded "plucking your
heart strings" which was a common statement.
| Debbie Boggs etal: Lucian--160
A.D.—“It
is impossible to pipe without a pipe or to PSALLEIN
without a lyre or to ride without a horse.” "The classical meaning of psallo continued into Hellenistic and post-New Testament times. The
satirist Lucian of Samosata in the second
century A.D. said |
Psallo never at any time or place in history means to "play
an instrument." It means to pluck WITH YOUR FINGERS and
NEVER with your FINGERS. If you pluck a harp string
you sound a note: this does not mean "music" since there is
no meter in the Bible.
http://www.pineycom/MailSerLucian.html
Furthermore, Lucian's use of
instrumental music was in connection with the continuing pagan fertility rituals where wine, women and song with instruments
"strummed up" the dead "gods" to come to them in an intimate
way in charismatic ecstasy. "In Lucian of Samosata's Dialogues
of a Courtesan we hear almost exclusively of women musicians
and singers." The
king of Tyre as the agent of the female or bisexual Lucifer
gained his/her customers through literal music:
At that time Tyre will be forgotten
for seventy years, the span of a king's life. But at the
end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in
the song of the
prostitute:
Is.23:15
"Take up a harp, walk through the
city, O prostitute forgotten; play the harp well, sing
many a song, so that you will be remembered." Is.23:16
At the end of seventy years, the LORD
will deal with Tyre. She will return to her hire as a prostitute and will ply
her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. Is.23:17
Both Tyre and Babylon were truly
"ecumenical" -- they would sing and play anyone out of their
"contributions." See Wen Amun's encounter.
In Antiquity women musicians and singers had a very bad
reputation. The flutists,
harpists and singers at banquets were courtesans.
In Lucian of Samosata's Dialogues of
a Courtesan we hear almost exclusively
of women musicians and singers. Sullust writes
of Sempronia:
She played the cithara and danced
more elegantly than was becoming an upright woman, and she
could do many other things which minister to voluptuousness.
Arnobius (fl. 4th century, Africa) identifies
the harpists and the courtesans with one another. He asks:
Has God created souls for this, that
women should become harlots,
sambucists and harpists in order to surrender their bodies to
lust?
"The pagans frequently used boys choirs in their worship, especially on festive
occasions. This custom may be explained in the first place
by the musical qualities of boys' voices; their
individuality and beauty, which could not be matched by
either men's or women's voices, was greatly valued in
antiquity. Thus Lucian of
Samosata calls the boy's
voice 'perfectly
delicate, not so deep as to be called masculine nor so
fine as to be effeminate and lacking in power, but falling
soft, mild and lovely upon the ear." (Lucian's
Imagines 13)
"The chief reason, though, for the
participation of boy's choirs in cultic celebrations is to be found in the fact
that of the innocence upon the divinity. So it was, as can be seen repeatedly,
that 'an innocent boy, whose parents are both still living,'
was employed at pagan sacrifices and oracles as a medium between god and man.
"In Delos, at the solemn sacrifices,
choirs of boys who danced
and sang to the cithara and the flute were always in attendance Quasten, p. 88)
Hint:
Psallein means play a harp! Hint: Lucian never
ceased writting in ATTIC and never in Koine because he was
selling his documents and recital to the rich and famous who
affected ATTIC meaning the soft and effeminate.
2. the sound of the cithara
or harp, psalmos d'alalazei A.Fr.57.7
(anap.); there were contests in to psallein
That does NOT define PSALLO.
See our comments on Lucian
And, Lucian would say, you cannot ride a horse without a horse just as you cannot RECITE lyric
poetry without a LYRE. Simple! Lucian
wrote in Attic!
Or lyric poetry, which requires not a reader,
but a chorus and a
harp-accompaniment?
Neither the Bible
or any other manly material is lyric poetry: that comes
from the Lesbian singers.
The Psallo words
mean ONLY to pull or pluck something which you must
define.
'It is impossible to pipe [aulein] without a
pipe or to strum [psallein]
without a lyre or to ride without a horse' (Parasite
17)
"Sponging" is the superior art and "the sponger
has no ulterior object; occupation and pre-occupation are
for him one and the same." However,
........ "Other arts, again, are useless to their professor
unless he has his plant;
you cannot play the flute if you
have not one to play;
lyrical music requires a lyre,
horsemanship a horse.
But of ours (sponging)
one of the excellences and conveniences is that no instrument is required for its exercise. The Parasite, 17. Translated by H. W. and F. G.
Fowler, Vol III, 1905
A. Ralph Johnson probably quoting Tom Burgess in the Christian church's defense
of instrumental music says:
Athenaeus. (A.D. 230)
"Being very
talented, he could play on the harp [epsallen]
with the bare hand without a plectrum." -The
Deiphnosphists, IV. 183-184, Tr. by Gulick Bk. 4, Sec.
183 D.
|
Hint: epsallen means "play on the harp" and Paul didn't
use the word!
"Aristoxenus says that the
magadis and the PECTIS may be played without a
plectrum, by simply plucking [psalmou] with
the fingers....
Again, Phrynichus says in The Phoenician Women,
'With plucking [psalmoisin]
of the strings
they sing [aeidontes] their
lays in answering strains."
The Deiphnosphists, XIV. 635, Translated by Gulick, Vol. 6, p.
427.
"And so the lyre-player [psaltees]
not rudely nor inelegantly put the curb on Phillip when he
tried to dispute with him about the way to strike
[psalles] the lyre [psalteerion].
Here is the ONLY meaning of flute and
harp players in history: The
Deipnosophists of Athenaeus of Naucratis Book XIII:
Concerning Women
Remember that
Apollo is Abaddon or Apollyon in the book of Revelation.
The muses or musicians are the LOCUSTS or musical
performers in the legends John knew about to define the
end-time holy whore worship.
39. There were also some instruments besides those
which were blown into, and those which were used with
different strings, which gave forth only sounds of a simple
nature, such as the castanets (κρέμβαλα),
which are mentioned by Dicaearchus, in his essay On the
Manners and Customs of Greece, where he says, that
formerly certain instruments were in very frequent use, in
order to accompany women while dancing and singing;
and when any one touched these
instruments with their fingers they uttered a shrill
sound. And he says that this is plainly shown in the
hymn to Artemis, which begins thus-
Artemis, now my mind will have me
utter
A pleasing song in honour
of your deity,
While this my comrade
strikes with nimble hand
The well-gilt brazen-sounding
castanets.
"Hear, ye Styacs, vendors of
twaddle, hypocritical
mouthers of words who
alone by yourselves gobble up everything on the
platters before a wise man can get a share, and then are
caught doing the very opposite of what you solemnly
chant;" oglers of boys you are, and in that alone
emulating the founder of your philosophy, Zeno the
Phoenician, who never resorted to a woman, but always to boy-favourites,
| Debbie Boggs etal: Basil The
Great, bishop of Caesarea--mid 4th century—“For it
is a canticle and not a psalm; because it is
sung with harmonious MODULATION by the
unaccompanied voice and with no instrument
sounding.” |
Bill Swetmon notes that "Some think that the verb has its
original signification of singing with an instrument. this
is the dominant sense in the Septuagint, and both Basil
and Gregory of Nyssa define a psalm as implying
instrumental accompaniment; and Clement of Alexandria, while forbidding the use of the flute in
the Agapae, permitted the harp." (p. 28)
http://www.pineycom.com/Psallo.Mark.of.Effeminate.html
"Philodemus considered it
paradoxical that music should be regarded as veneration of
the gods while musicians were paid for performing this so-called veneration. Again,
Philodemus held as self deceptive the view that music
mediated religious ecstasy. He saw the entire condition induced by
the noise of cymbals and tambourines as a disturbance of the spirit.
He found it significant that, on
the whole, only women
and effeminate men
fell into this folly.
Accordingly, nothing of value could be attributed to
music; it was no more
than a slave of the sensation of pleasure, which satisfied much in the
same way that food and drink did.
zΩman from the false religions, which are not ashamed of criticising what is noble, will ask: how can there be a feast
without carousing and overeating, without the pleasant company of hosts
and guests, without quantities of unmixed wine, without richly set tables and highly
stacked provisions of everything that pertains to a banquet,
without pageantry and
jokes,
bantering and merry-making to the
accompaniment of flutes and citharas, the sound of drums
and cymbals and other effeminate and frivolous music
of every king,
enkindling unbridled lusts with the help of the sense of hearing. For in and through the same
[pleasures] those persons openly seek their joy, for what true joy is their they do
not know.
"Women and girls from the different ranks of society were
proud to enter the
service of the gods
as singers and musicians. The
understanding of this service was universal: these singers
constituted the 'harem of the gods'." (End of Quasten)
In Homily X, 1; on Psalm I, Basil
wrote:
2. When they are asked the reason for this furious
and truceless war, they allege psalms and a kind
of music varying from the custom which has obtained
among you, and similar pretexts of which they ought to be
ashamed. Their lips speak not of the deeds of men:
they sing hymns to God continually, working with their
own hands that they may have to distribute to
them that need.
Therefore, He devised for us these harmonious melodies
of the psalms, that they who are children in age or
even those who are youthful in disposition might to all
appearances chant but, in reality, become
trained in soul.
For, never has any one of the many indifferent persons gone
away easily hwwwing in mind either an apostolic or
prophetic message,
but they do chant the words of the psalms even in the
home,
and they spread them around in the market
place, and if perchance someone becomes exceedingly
wrathful, when he begins to be soothed by
the psalm, he departs with the wrath of his soul
immediately lulled to sleep by means of the melody.
A psalm implies serenity of soul; it is
the author of peace, which calms bewildering
and seething thoughts. For it softens the wrath of
the soul, and what is unbridled it chastens.
A psalm forms friendships, unites those separated, conciliates
those at enmity.
Who, indeed, can still consider him an enemy with whom he
has uttered the same prayer to God?
So that psalmody, bringing about choral singing, a bond,
as it were, toward unity, and joining the
people into a harmonious union of one choir,
produces also the greatest of blessings, charity.
It is in his personal poems that Gregory
is most original and interesting.
- Nay! I owe thee naught beside,
- Though thine hands be open wide.
- Would a table suit thy wishes,
- Fragrant with sweet oils and dishes
- Wrought to subtile niceness? where
- Stringed music strokes the air,
- And blithe hand-clappings, and the smooth
- Fine postures of the tender youth,
- And virgins wheeling through the dance,
- With an unveiled countenance;
- Joys for drinkers, who love shame,
- And the maddening wine-cup's flame.
- Wilt thou such, howe'er decried?
- Take them and a rope beside!
Tom Burgess on Chrysostom
Brown notes of Clement:
"The testimony of Clement is, that musical instruments in worship
is fitter things for beasts
than for men. Basil says, he thought musical instruments
unprofitable and hurtful.
He calls them, the inventions of Jubal of the
race of Cain.
At page 955, he says, "In such vain arts, as the playing upon the harp, or pipe,
as soon as the action ceases, the work itself vanishes. So that really, according to the
Apostle's expression, The
end of those things is destruction." And again, at page 957, he says,
"Laban was a lover of the harp
and of music, with which he would have sent away
Jacob: if thou hadst twww me, said he, I would have sent
thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret,
and with harp.
And stripped of all of your wealth.
[Laban had used a musical party
with wine so that Jacob didn't know which woman he was
sleeping with. He intended to use the same musical party
to SEND Jacove away empty-handed]
"But the Patriarch avoided that music, as
being a thing that would hinder
his regarding the work of the Lord, and his considering
the works of his hands."
| Debbie Boggs etal: Augustine--396 A.D.—“there are
some songs which cannot be called Psalms. . . But
those are called Psalms which are sung to the
psaltery.” The
transliteration of the Greek word psallo parallels
that of the word baptizo. The complete
meaning of “immersion” was not made clear by simply
anglicizing baptizo into baptize. |
Psallo is TRANSLATED but Baptism is TRANSLITERATED.
It is a fact that no one will ever find psallo translated as
melody: in the parallel command in Colossians 3 Paul said
"with GRACE" in your heart. Both melody (melos) and grace
are qualities of SPEACH.
Vincent's: Word Studies Of The New
Testament, Vol. III,
pg. 269-270 "...The noun psalm (Eph. 5:19; Col. 3:16; I Cor. 14:26),
which is etymologically akin to this verb (psallo in I
Cor. 14:15 DEM), is used in the New Testament of a
religious song in general, having the character of an www
Testament psalm...
"Some think that the verb has here its original
signification of singing with an instrument. This is its
dominant sense in the Septuagint, and both Basil and Gregory of Nyssa
define a psalm as implying instrumental accompaniment...
"But neither Basil nor Ambrose nor Chrysostom, in their panegyrics
upon music, mention instrumental music, and Basil expressly condemns it. Bingham dismisses the matter
summarily, and cites Justin Martyr as saying expressly
that instrumental music was not used in the Christian
Church. The verb is used here in the general sense of singing praise."
See Augustine on Psalm 41: Judas will
not musically triumph over Christ
"Think not this; but that enemy think
of, of whom said the Lord, "an enemy hath done this."
For He it is who suggests that for things earthly he be worshipped,
for overthrow
the Christian Name this enemy cannot.
For he hath seen himself conquered by the fame and
praises of Christ,
he hath seen, whereas he slew Christ's Martyrs, that
they are crowned, he triumphed over.
"He hath begun
to be unable to persuade men that Christ
is nought; and
because by reviling
Christ, he now with difficulty deceives,
by lauding Christ, he endeavours
to deceive.
Exaidô,
A. sing out, sing one's
last song, of the
swan, 2. sing the exodos, of a chorus, II. trans., sing away by means of a spell.
"Before this what said he?
Whom worship ye? A Jew, dead, crucified, a man of no
moment, who could not even from
himself drive away death. When after His Name he
saw running the whole human race, saw that
- in the Name of the Crucified
- temples are thrown down,
- idols are broken,
- sacrifices abolished;
and that all these things predicted in the Prophets are
considered by men,
by men with wonder astonished,
and closing
now their hearts against the reviling of Christ;
he
clothes himself with praise of
Christ, and begins to deter
from the faith in another manner.
Great is the law of Christ, powerful is
that law, divine, ineffable! but who fulfilleth it? In
the name of our Saviour, "tread
upon the lion and the dragon."
By reviling openly roared the lion; by
lauding craftily lurks the
dragon.
"Let them come to the faith, who doubted; and not
say, Who fulfilleth it? If on their own strength they presume,
they will not fulfil it. Presuming on the grace of God let
them believe, presuming (on it) let them
come; to be aided
come, not to be judged.
"So live all the faithful in the Name of Christ, each
one in his degree fulfilling
the commands of Christ, whether married, or celibates
and virgins, they live as much as God granteth t
| Debbie Boggs etal: Likewise, the
complete meaning of “a songs sung with
stringed instruments” is not evident
in the English form of psalm. When, in our
heritage, we discovered the definition of
baptize to be immersion, we made it
a doctrine that baptism must be by
immersion. What would consistency demand with
regard to psalms? |
Psalm never had any musical meaning: it simply means to pluck
and make a sound. We have shown that it primarily speaks of
making war or it a metaphor for "shooting forth a song."
There is absolutely no connection: everyone always knew that
baptism means to dip or to immerse. "Our heritage" did not
discover it and neither did it discover the universal testimony
against musical performance and it connection with vile people.
The Spirit OF Christ does not depend on our culture and Paul
does not use any musical terms including "psallo" which is
primarily a warfare or polluting word: therefore, pluck the harp
strings and not the harp strings and you young friend. In
no culture in the history of the church has anyone thought that
it meant ot make music or play a harp.
Debbie Boggs etal: The phrase often
translated ‘in your heart’ has been
translated a little differently by many scholars:
L Weigle = “with all your heart”; Gingrich =
“heartily”; Chrysostom (385 A.D.) = “with
close attention and understanding.
The parallel "with GRACE in
your heart" then might become "WITH your grace?"
When we SPEAK one to another we are to pay close
attention IN our hearts but we do not sing WITH
our hearts but our vocal cords. If you are
diverted by the Lucifer Principle you CANNOT pay
attention to the words of Christ or your own
speaking.
Debbie Boggs etal:
Perhaps Eph
5:19 would be more accurately translated:
“Speak to one another with
songs sung with stringed instruments,
praises to God and all kinds of spiritual songs.
Sing and make music with your whole heart to
the Lord.” Without this distinction between
the varied types of songs, it would just read,
“songs, songs, and songs.” |
But, that would be a lie based on the
text and all known translations: the NIV or feminist version
uses "music" but melody is NOT a music word, ever never and
then of bad women. As history notes "if a male sang
and played he was drunk, perverted or just having fun."
Literally this verse says:
External: Speaking to yourselves in
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
Internal: singing and making melody in
your heart to the Lord;
Technically you cannot SPEAK
and SING at the same time. Since they spoke in the
synagogue and did not sing, bottom line is there is no
musical content for the school of the Bible.
Eph 5: [19]WEB loquentes
vobismet ipsis in psalmis et hymnis et canticis spiritalibus
cantantes et psallentes in cordibus vestris Domino
Speak in Latin: Loquor 1. [Sanscr. lap-, to talk,
whisper;, to speak, talk, say (in the
lang. of common life, in the tone
of conversation; A. To
speak, declare, show, indicate or express clearly
Speak in Greek: Laleo
(g2980) lal-eh'-o; a prol. form of an otherwise obsol.
verb; to talk, i.e. utter words: - preach, say, speak (after), talk, tell, utter.
Comp. 3004.
Logik-os, ( [logos] ) A. of or for speaking or speech, merê l. the organs
of speech, logikê, hê, speech, opposite to mousikê
Psallo never speaks of
"melody" in a tuneful sense.
The book of PRAISES
was named PSALMS by the Greeks. There are only 57
Mizmors which are called PSALMS in the BOOK of psalms.
Of these, 7 are dedicated to sacrificial agents or
events: the other PSALMS do not include instruments.
All of the instrumental psalms have truly bad or evil
connotations. That is because they were the PRAISE songs
used by the Levitical Warrior Musicians to intimidate the
enemy.
The BOOK of Psalms in the Greek translation are clearly
marked as Psalms, Hymns, Spiritual Songs and Maschils or
dark sayings ot proverbs. Therefore, when Paul commanded
Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs in Romans 15 he defined "that
which is written." In Ephesians 5 he defined the SPIRIT
and Jesus said "my words are Spirit and Life"
(Jon 6:63). In Colossians he says to speak the Words
of Christ. Therefore, the songs, songs and songs
misses elementary Bible.
No musical hostile takeover artists have any intention of
using the songs written by the Spirit OF Christ and they do
not intend to present anything which will allow you to see
THROUGH them and see Christ who Paul said will be OUTSIDE
suffering from your reproaches.
Debbie Boggs etal: Twice, Paul
refers to Christ’s return being heralded by the “trumpet
of the Lord” (I Cor. 15:52, I Thess
4:16). Why does God own a musical instrument
and why does He employ it to announce the most
dramatic event ever? Why doesn’t He use voices
at such a moment? Could it be there are things
that an instrument can express that a voice cannot?
1 Cor
15:52 “ . . . in a flash, in the twinkling of
an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will
sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we
will be changed.”
1 Th 4:16 “For the Lord
himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command,
with the voice of the archangel and
with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in
Christ will rise first.”
|
I suppose many of the living will be PLAYING the trumpet
REALLY LOUD? Maybe the "trumpet" has sounded as the country-wide
hostile invasion of many religious groups by professional
entertainers? Maybe the women and effeminate playing in
the holy places is both a verbal and visual aid so that those
with the mark of the word will flee in droves. Revelation
has the locusts or muses taking captive a certain class and
punishing them for easy left-behinds.
These, like Revelation 18, are signs of JUDGMENT and a warning
for the living to "preach the gospel."
Salpinx
I. a war-trumpet, trump, salpizô heaven trumpeted
around, of thunder as if a signal for battle,
Sêmainô [sêma] I. to shew by a sign, indicate, make known, 2. in
war, to give the signal
of attack, Thuc.; sê.
têi salpingi, when
signal was given for the Greeks to attack
Klazô 2. of dogs, bark, Pan
and his pipes, 3. of
things, as of arrows in the quiver, clash, rattle, klazousi kôdônes phobon ring
forth terror, of the
sea, roar, salpinx . . aoidan;
Echê salpingos,
a sound or noise of any
sort, confused noise of
a crowd, the roar of the sea, the groaning of trees in a
wind,
The VOICE sounds like a trumpet but ALL of the trumpet
sounds induce MORTAL FEAR.
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet
be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid?
shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD
hath not done it?
Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth
his secret unto his servants the prophets.
God speaks spiritual truth ONLY through
the prophets and apostles. No prophet ever
commanded musical instruments and no prophet FAILED to
associate musical instrument with a breakdown into wine,
women and music.
Here is a true translation and not the feminists
commentary. Paul warned that we worship in the PLACE
of the spirit and not in the FLESH. The reason was that
the dogs or "www style praise singers" were lurking and
lusting.
1 Cor. 15:50 Now this I say,
brethren, that flesh and blood cannot
inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption
inherit incorruption.
1 Cor. 15:51 Behwww, I shew you a
mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be
changed,
You will notice that the trumpet is the MARK that you
have been TAKEN CAPTIVE.
Amos 2:2 But I will send a fire
upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth:
and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting,
and with the sound of the trumpet:
1 Cor. 15:52 In a moment, in
the twinkling of an eye,
..........at the last trump:
..........for the trumpet shall sound,
..........and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,
and we shall be changed.
This is consisten with the only authorized use of the trumpet:
to sound a warning or alarm and God outlawed this for the
synagogue or church in the wilderness.
Isn't this too late to add to the church worship--unless
you plan to be left behind?
1 Thess 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend
from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel,
and with the trump of God: and the dead
in Christ shall rise first:
1 Thess 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with them in the clouds,
to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1 Thess 4:18 Wherefore comfort one another
with these words.
This defines the SYNAGOGUE of Romans 15 where the direct
command for us is to comfort one another with the WORDS OF
GOD.
Additional Proof Text:
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
[See Plato-Symposium]
Symposium;
Then, said Eryximachus, as you are all agreed that drinking
is to be voluntary, and that there is to be no compulsion,
..........I move, in the next
place, that the flute-girl, who has just made
her appearance,
..........be twww to go away
and play to herself, or, if she likes, to the women
who are within.
To-day let us have conversation instead; and, if you
will allow me, I will tell you what sort of conversation.
This proposal having been accepted, Eryximachus proceeded as
follows:-
truphaô , ( [truphê] )
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,
And we know for
certain that those who are LOST will be engaged in a musical
"worship service" using loud trumpets: they will not hear
the voice LIKE a trumpet and that is how Satan intends to
make sure that you are not able to even hear the trumpet
which seems to be sounding as we speak.
Debbie Boggs etal: C. Revelation
Revelation is full of references to instruments,
including at least two situations where God Himself hands
out the harps and trumpets (a strange thing for
Him to do if He doesn’t wish to be worshipped in that
way). (Rev. 8:2, 15:2)
Rev 5:8 “And when he
had taken it, the four living creatures and
the twenty-four elders fell down before the
Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were hwwwing gwwwen
bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the
saints.”
|
Rev 5:8 And when he had taken the book,
and the four
beasts [living creatures]
four and twenty elders |
fell down before the Lamb |
having [hwwwing] every
one of them harps,
and
[hwwwing] gwwwen vials full of odours, |
which are the prayers of saint |
Now, try PLAYING your harps!
The first time these "Living Creatures" are mentioned in the
Bible is in Gen. 3:24, where they are called "CHERUBIM,"
but are not described. They were placed at the entrance
to the "Garden of Eden" to prevent
the re-entrance of Adam and Eve, and to keep the way of the
"Tree of Life." It would appear as if at the
place where they were sationed there was a Tabernacle, a
place of worship to which Cain and Abel resorted to make
their offerings, and that it was from there that Cain went
out from the "PRESENCE OF THE LORD." Gen. 4:16.
1Chr. 21:29 For the tabernacle
of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness,
and the altar of the
burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.
1Chr. 21:30 But David could not go before it to enquire of
God:
for he was afraid
because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
One of the definition
of the beast in Revelation is PAN who uses his HORNS or
musical instruments to help evil people build their mountain
kingdom:
Later I thought of this clown of the flute as a grotesque modern form of the great god
Pan of the forest whom the Greeks
worshipped as the symbol of cosmic
vitality--serene, goat-footed
Pan
who plays the sacred syrinx
(pan pipes) in the sinking
dusk and with its magic sound evokes an echo in all things: leaves and fountains shiver, the
stars begin to tremble, and the shaggy goats dance at the edge of the grove. (qtd. in Kinsley,
David R. The Sword and the
Flute:
33, n. 49)
Pan is the same Dionysus worship in the Book
of Revelation and that to which the elders abandoned the
nation when they demanded a king so that they could worship
like the nations:
"Pan is the symbol of the universe, the personification of
nature, representative of all the Gods. His parentage was Hermes
or Zeus. His colour was royal purple. He was a dark
wine red, sometimes called moon blood. Pan was
equivalent to Dionysus."
There was a half hours silence before the incense
altar to which no harp player could come without getting killed.
| Debbie Boggs etal: Rev 14:2 “And I heard a sound
from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like
a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like
that of harpists playing their harps.” |
Note that the 144,000 are on the Earth:
AND I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood
on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four
thousand, having his
Fathers name written in
their foreheads. Rev 14:1
What they heard was from heaven.
And I heard a voice
from heaven,
..........like the
sound of many waters and
..........like the sound of loud
thunder, and the voice
which I heard was
..........like the
sound of harpists playing on their harps. Rev 14:2NAS
And I heard a voice from heaven
..........like the
sound of many waters and
..........like the
sound of loud thunder; the voice I heard was
..........like the
sound of harpers playing on their harps Revelation 14:2RSV
And they sung as
it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders:
and no man could learn that song but the hundred and
forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the
earth. Rev 14:3
Unless you are literally or
spiritually dead, there is another angel:
And I saw
another angel fly in the midst of heaven,
..........having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth,
..........and to every nation, and kindred, and
tongue, and people, Rev 14:6
The word
preach like the Latin sermo means "in a
conversational language."
INSTRUMENTAL
NOISE is always the MARK or SOUND of Judgment and NOT
Spiritual worship.
Saying
[not singing] with a loud voice, Fear God,
and give glory to him;
..........for the hour
of his judgment is come:
..........and worship him
that made heaven, and
earth, and the sea,
..........and the fountains of waters. Rev 14:7
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.
Rev 14:9 And the third angel followed
them, saying with a loud voice,
If any man worship
the beast and his image, and receive his mark
in his forehead, or in his hand,
Rev 14:10 The same shall drink
of the wine of the wrath of God, which is
poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation;
and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone
in the presence of the holy angels,
and in the presence of the Lamb:
God always warns you and those whom the gods destroy first
drive mad.
Wisd
17.16 -
And whoever was there fell down, and thus was kept
shut up in a prison not made of iron;
17 - for whether he was a farmer
or a shepherd or a workman who toiled in the
wilderness, he was seized, and endured the
inescapable fate; for with one chain of darkness
they all were bound.
18 - Whether there came a whistling wind,
or a melodious
sound of birds in wide -
spreading
branches, or the rhythm
of violently
rushing water,
19 - or the harsh crash of
rocks hurled down, or the unseen running
of leaping animals, or the sound of the most
savage roaring beasts, or an echo thrown back from a hollow of
the mountains, it paralyzed them with
terror.
20 - For the whole world was
illumined with brilliant light,
and was engaged in unhindered work,
21 - while over those men
alone heavy night was spread, an image
of the darkness that was destined
to receive them; but still heavier than
darkness were they to themselves.
18:1 - But
for thy holy ones there was very great light.
Their enemies heard their voices but did not see
their forms, and counted them happy for not having
suffered,
Wisd 19.13 - The punishments did not
come upon the sinners
without
prior signs in the
violence
of thunder, [Rev 14]
for they
justly suffered because of their wicked
acts;
for they
practiced a more bitter hatred of
strangers.
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet
be blown in the city, and the people not
be afraid? shall there be evil
in a city, and the LORD hath not done
it?
Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing,
but he revealeth his secret
unto his servants the prophets.
14 - Others had refused to receive strangers when they came to them,
but these
made slaves of guests who were
their benefactors.
Stole the church house
of widows.
15 - And not only so, but
punishment of some sort will come upon the
former for their hostile reception of the
aliens;
16 - but the latter, after receiving them with festal celebrations,
afflicted
with terrible sufferings
those who had already
shared the same rights.
17 - They were stricken
also with loss
of sight - -
just as were those at the door of the righteous
man - - when, surrounded by yawning darkness,
each tried to find the way through his own door.
18 - For the elements changed places with one
another,
as on a harp the notes vary the nature of the rhythm,
while each
note remains the same.
This may be
clearly inferred from the sight
of what took place.
19 - For land animals were transformed
into water creatures,
and
creatures that swim moved over to the land.
20 - Fire even in water
retained its normal
power,
and water forgot its fire -quenching
nature. |
God's Wrath is: G2372 thumos
thoo-mos' From G2380 ; passion (as if breathing
hard):—fierceness, indignation, wrath. Compare G5590 .
However, the wrath Paul warned about when the women wave
unholy ARMS is;
Org-aô , I.to
be getting ready to bear, growing ripe for something,
and of fruit, swell as it ripens, II.
of men, swell with lust, wax wanton,
be rampant, 2. generally, to be eager
or ready, to be excited,
3. metaph., full-blooded, swollen with
passion or pride, sphrigôntathumonA.Pr.382
; muthonE.Supp.478
. 4.swell with desire, be at heat,
Orgi-azô, A. celebrate orgia, E.Ba.415 thusias,
pompas, choreias pay ritual service to
a god or goddess, tautêi Str.10.3.12 :--so in
Med., orgiazesthai daimosi, orgia Mousôn
Alalazo
2. generally, cry,
shout aloud, Pi.l.c., E.El.855; esp. in orgiastic
rites, A.Fr.57; of Bacchus and Bacchae,
E.Ba.593 sound loudly, psalmos d'alalazei
A.Fr.57 ; kumbalon alalazon1 Ep.Cor.13.1
| Debbie Boggs etal: Rev 15:3
“They held harps given them by God and sang
the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of
the Lamb: "Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord
God Almighty. Just and true are your ways, King of
the ages.” |
The Greek ECHO means hwww (used in very various
applications, literally or figuratively, direct or remote;
such as possession, ability, contiguity.
It never
means PLAY. Furthermore, the harps in the
cursed monarchy are always the HARPS OF DAVID. These are
the harps of God. God created us all with "harp strings"
which make the "heart string" twang.
Like the incense,
however, the harps are only symbolic,
reflecting the Jewish temple worship.
The fact that both hands
of the elder were occupied
does not present an insuperable
barrier to prostration in worship."
(William S. Smith).
AND I saw (present tense!) another sign in heaven [image
of jealousy],
great and marvellous, seven
angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
Re 15:1
Morris Silver: The image of jealousy (Ezek 8:3) in
the LXX and www Latin may be trnslated as "statue/image of
the trader/buyer." Torczyner
suggests that the compound term sha mala was
transmitted from Assyrian (not Babylonian) into
Hebrew as semel, with sh being pronounced as
s. Thus, again, the "image of jealousy" whose
presence in the sanctuary enraged Ezekiel was a businessman, not an
idol.
When Apollo, the Having-fallen star unleashed the LOCUSTS
or MUSES, they immediately began sowing discord and
breaking up churches of all faiths. This is a MARK
of he beast.
Sêmeion
2. sign from the gods, omen Kathair-eô to s. to take it
down, strike the flag,
as a sign of dissolving
an
assembly, And.1.36; to tês ekklêsias,
3. of sorcerers,
bring down from the sky, selênên [sign in the moon].
*
V. less freq. like
the simple [heresy] hairein, take and carry off
Did you notice that the urge is to STRIKE THE FLAG
and remove the name of Christ from the ekklesia or
church sign. They DISSOLVE the ekklesia and
CONVERT it into a synagogue of Satan: a house of
merchandise. This is he same HERESY connected to the
SELF-pleasing terms used by Paul in Romans 15.
Incentor , o-ris, m. [id.] , one who sets the tune or begins to sing, a precentor, singer I. Lit.: carminis, Paul. Nol. Carm. 15, 32 : [1] incentore
[2] canam [3] Phoebo [4] Musisque [5] magistris, Avien.
Perieg. 895 ; Isid. 6, 9, 13.--
II. Trop., an [A] inciter, exciter: [B] igneus [C] turbarum, Amm. 15, 1, 2 : civilis
belli, Oros. 5, 19 : rebellionis [renewal of war] totius,
id. 6, 11 . Flamen Hislop
Incensor
I. one who kindles or sets fire to, II. Trop., an
inciter, instigator: turbarum,
[2] Căno
I. Neutr., to utter melodious
notes, to sing, sound, play. 2. Of
the faulty delivery of an orator, to speak in a sing-song
tone: inclinată ululantique voce more Asiatico
canere, once canituri,Vulg.
Apoc.
8, 13 )
2 Cor 2:17 For we are not as many,
which corrupt the
word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak
we in Christ.
kapêl-euô, (g2585) A.
to be a retail-dealer,
drive a petty trade...
kapêleu' drive a
trade, mathêmata sell learning by retail,
hawk it about, 2
Ep.Cor.2.17, of prostitutes, playing
tricks with life
Hdt.1.155 Heredotus: Cyrus twww how to take the FIGHT out
of the enemy: [4] But pardon the Lydians, and give
them this command so that they not revolt or pose a
danger to you: send and
forbid them to possess weapons of war,
............and order them to
wear tunics under their cloaks
........... and knee-boots on
their feet,
........... and to teach their sons lyre-playing [kitharizein]
........... and song [psallein]
and dance
............and shop-keeping
[huckstering].
........... And quickly, O
king,
........... you shall see them become women instead
of men,
........... so that you need not fear them, that
they might revolt."
And I saw as it were
a sea of glass mingled with fire: and
them that had gotten the victory over the beast,
and over his image, and over his mark, and
over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, (as it were)
HwwwING the harps of God.
Revelation 15:2
And they
sing the song
of Moses the servant of
God,
........... and the song of the Lamb,
saying (3004), Great and marvellous are thy works,
Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of
saints. Revelation 15:3
Jamison-Fausett-Brown notes that:
"In the Jewish temple, musical
instruments and singing resounded during the whole
time of the offering of the sacrifices, which formed
the first part of the service.
But at the offering of incense,
solemn silence was kept ("My soul waiteth upon God,"
Ps 62:1; "is silent," Margin; Ps 65:1, Margin),
Duwmiyyah (h1747)
doo-me-yaw'; from 1819; stillness; adv. silently; abstr.
quiet, trust: - silence, silent, waiteth.
the people praying
secretly all the time. The half-hour stillness
implies, too, the earnest adoring expectation with which the
blessed spirits and the angels await the succeeding
unfwwwing of God's judgments. A short space is implied; for
even an hour is so used (Re 17:12 18:10,19).
Scripture
is clearly not ‘silent’ on the use of instruments.
Rather, the understanding of God that I gain from it is that
He greatly appreciates that form of worship, to the point of
even commanding it at times, and providing the gifts and
instruments to do so!
Rev 15:8 And the temple was
filled with smoke from the glory of God,
and from his power; and
NO MAN WAS ABLE TO ENTER
till the seven plagues of the
seven angels were fulfilled.
Debbie Boggs etal: IV.
Tradition
Since there is no scriptural basis for the lack
of instruments, the only reason is tradition.
For those hwwwing to traditions of
men, Jesus rebukes with the words of Isaiah,
Mark 7:7-9 “’They worship me in
vain; their teachings are but rules taught
by men.’You have let go of the commands of
God and are hwwwing on to the traditions of
men." And he said to them: "You have a fine
way of setting aside the commands of
God in order to observe your own traditions!” |
If you look up words in a lexicon be assured that you
will find strong delusions. Why would anyone search
from cover to cover for "instruments" and then use those knowing
that they are trying to trump the Bible and all of church
history before them. Is this mystical or what? We
have shown that ALL of the proof texts show negative or Satanic
implications: Peter twww the Jews blinded at Mount Sinai that
they would not be able to read black text on white paper until
they turned or converted to Christ. No one removes the name of
CHRIST: Jesus comes and takes the lampstand or the "seven
spirits of God" all related to divine knowledge which proves
that God will not judge you by your sight or sound so you are
wasting time and lives.
Next, let us establish that the hypocrites are slick speakers,
singers, musicians, actors or dancers.
Matt. 15:7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of
you, saying,
Hypokrites (g5273) hoop-ok-ree-tace'; from 5271; an
actor under an assumed character (stage-player), i.e. (fig.)
a dissembler ("hypocrite"): - hypocrite.
Hupokrinô reply,
make answer, of an
oracle, 2. expound, interpret, explain
[Peter outlawed this as private interpretation.] 2. deliver a speech, declaim, of orators
and rhetoricians, represent dramatically, erôtikôn dramatôn 3. of an orator, use histrionic arts, exaggerate, ape, mimic,
Mania or religious frenzy.
Rhêtor-ikos , ê, on,
oratorical, hê rhêtorikê (sc. technê). These are the craftsmen lumped with the
singers, musicians and "grinder" doing merchandise in the
house of prayer. Rev. 18:22
LATIN: canto I. Neutr., to produce melodious sounds (by the voice or an instrument), to sound, sing, play (class. in prose
and poetry; to sing and play while the actor accompanies the song with gestures or dancing, C. Transf., of instruments, to sound,
resound: 2. Of the
singing pronunciation of an orator, to declaim in
a singing tone, to sing
How Isaiah
defines the hypocrites:
For the Lord hath poured out
upon you the spirit
of deep sleep,
and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers,
the seers hath he covered. Isa 29:10
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: Isa 29:11
And the book is delivered to him that
is not learned, saying,
Read this, I pray thee:
and he saith, I am not
learned. Isa 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: Isa 29:13
Seems like the
"law of silence" as preventing the addition to anything
not commanded which does not assist the teaching of the
Words of God.
How Ezekiel
defines the same hypocrites:
Jesus spoke in
parables to the professional "sermon" speakers and
"prayer" sayers where a hymn is a prayer. That was
to MAKE SURE that the truth would NOT penetrate and
they be saved.
Ezek 33:30 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.
Ezek 33:31 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.
Only corrupters of the Word or
selling stuff for a prophet is a hypocrite. Because
no performing art contributes to anything but the
pleasure of idle people, they are defined by the
lexicon as hypocrites and therefore parasites.
GOD'S PICTURE OF VAIN RELIGION,
ENDORSED BY JESUS
Ezek 33:32 And, lo, thou art unto them
as a very lovely
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.
JFB 30. Not only the remnant in Judea, but those
at the Chebar, though less flagrantly, betrayed the
same unbelieving spirit. talking
against thee--Though
going to the prophet to hear the word of the Lord, they
criticised, in an
unfriendly spirit, his
peculiarities of manner and his enigmatical style (Eze
20:49); making these the excuse for their impenitence.
Their talking was not directly "against"
Ezekiel, for they professed
to like his ministrations; but God's word speaks of things as they
really are, not as they appear.
Jameson Fawcett Brown notes:
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
| Debbie Boggs etal: (It is
interesting to note that the very next chapter in Isaiah
promises a day with song with flutes,
tambourines, and harps. Isaiah 30.)
|
We have looked at Isaiah 30 as the REASON
for
which HELL was created. The definition of a HYPOCRITE
gives us a clue. Because the Jews and Israelites burned
children to Molech to the beat of musical
instruments, God pronounces doom on similar national
worship by showing them going in musical procession
to Topheth (from tambourine) to do their dirty work.
The SOUNDS of God driving His enemies into HELL will
be the same wind, string and percussion
instruments lucifer--the singing and harp playing
prostitute--used to wholly seduce Eve in a sexual sense says
Paul. I will repeat it from the version we know Jesus quoted
from.
Because spiritual people run for their lives, the only ones
performing or "enjoing" the hypocritic arts to replace the
Word of God are THE ONES doomed to hell.
See that HELL will be filled by
people led there by God's enemies to the beat of wind,
string and percussion instruments.
Again, the SOUNDS
in Revelation are of impending doom: get busy and preach
the gospel or burn! The baptism of spirit and fire are
promised to the "generation of Vipers."
Behwww, the name of the Lord
comes after a long time, burning
wrath; the word
of his lips is with glory, a word full
of anger, and the anger
of his wrath shall devour as fire. Isaiah 30:27 LXX
And his breath, as rushing water in a
valley, reach reach as far as the neck, and be divided, to confound the nations for their vain error; error also shall pursue them
and overtake them. Isaiah 30:28 LXX
The Septuagint
translates Verse 29 consistent with the rest of the
chapter.
Must ye always rejoice, and go into my holy places continually, as they that
keep a feast? and must
ye go with a pipe, as those that rejoice into the mountain
of the Lord, to the God of Israel Isaiah 30:29 LXX
and the Lord shall make his glorious
voice to be heard and the wrath of his arm
[Messiah the Intercessor],
to make a display with
wrath and anger and devouring flame: he shall lighten terribly, and
his wrath shall be as
water and violent hail. Isaiah 30:30 LXX
For by the voice of the Lord the Assyrians shall be overcome, even by the stroke where with he shall smite them. Isaiah
30:31 LXX
And it shall happen to him from every
side, that they from whom their hope of
assistance was, in which he trusted, themselves shall war against him in turn with drums and with harp. Isaiah 30:32 LXX
For thou shalt be required before thy
time: has it been prepared for thee also to reign?
nay, God has prepared for
thee a deep trench, wood piled fire and much wood: the wrath
of the Lord shall be as a trench kindled with sulphur. Isaiah 30:33 LXX
Is. 14:11 Thy
pomp is brought down to the grave, and the
noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under
thee, and the maggots cover thee.
Amos 5:23 Take thou away from me the noise of
thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of
thy viols.
Again, those who bought the house and
who run when the trumpet blows in the holy place will
have been there and gone. Therefore, the ONLY ones
being beaten into hell to the beat of Lucifer's
instruments are the MUSES who are known as the LOCUSTS
of Apollyon's musical worship team.
| Debbie Boggs etal: The early church
fathers do not mention the use of instruments
(except in referring to songs as psalms).
|
The church fathers
literature is filled with the repudiation of musical
instruments even in social settings because the music
engendered lust and disorderly conduct. Those who
lie about Clement of Alexander should know that he says
that it is not a sin to use a liar, BUT they fail to tell
you that he was speaking of social meals or OUTSIDE OF
CHURCH.
Those sowing discord claims that the church of Christ is historyless
and make such claims know that most people will believe it
to be honest. Nothing could be less true or miss
leading:
"Such allegorizing passages contain
the nucleuses of the later substance, and perhaps the
presage of the future trends of Christian music. The first
three centuries of the church witnessed many controversies;
some of them concerned themselves directly with music.
The most important of these issues were: (a) organized
versus spontaneous praying and singing; (b) scriptural
versus extrascriptural poems; (c) fusion with Hellenistic
music; (d) vocal versus instrumental music; (e) the rise
of monasticism and its influence upon
ecclesiastical chant." (Interpreter's Dict of the Bible,
Music, p. 467).
The first problem occurred when the
doxologies of the Bible which were like Psalms were
replaced by "a great number of spontaneous and highly
individualized doxologies." However, the non-Biblical
responses were ratified and codified at the second synod
of Vaison in 529. This writing of their own "song book"
virtually destroyed spontaneous or Biblical worship.
In fact, the ACT of singing was
not introduced until about th eyear 373.
"Already at the end of the second
century the Byzantine, Syrian, and later the Armenian church
showed a marked preference for new, nonscriptural
hymns, despite all warnings by the catholic authorities.
Even Canon 59 of the Council of Laodicea (360-81), which
expressly prohibited nonscriptural texts, was
constantly circumvented and openly violated, as the
enormous hymn literature of the Eastern churches
demonstrates."
They
rejected musical performers along with sorcerers,
instrument players, prostitutes and Sodomites.
They understood the Bible and were www Testament literate
which non of the "advanced degrees" apparently have ever
read. They ALL explain WHY they didn't use
instruments: because it was universally condemned in the
Bible and because it has an evil effect on both performers
and the "audience." "Melody as tunefulness belongs to the
19th century" says the Britannica an other sources.
Harmony began to develop after about 100 by monks
and professionals trying to fit the Psalms to organ
pitches. To do that they had to add the oooos, aaaaahs and
other sounds.
And Neander
says, that it was not until the
8th century
that the idea was first heard of Instrumental
music, in the worship of God, was not
practised by the primitive christians, as is evident from church
history.
The organ was first
introduced into the church service by Marianus
Sanutus, in the year
1290; and the first that was known in the West,
was one sent to Pepin, by Constantinus Copronymus, about the
middle of the 8th century.
But that they were not used
in the christian church in the primitive times,
is attested by all the ancient writers
with one consent. This I might easily show by a thousand
testimonies,
from Clement of Alexandria, Basil,
Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Chrysostom, am many others;
all of whom figuratively
explain the passages
of the www Testament, which speak of musical
instruments. For these and many more click for
details.
See Unity Impact
354-430 Augustine of Hippo For the
Jews slew Christ, lest they should lose their place.
When we have to do with Pagans, and
show this coming to pass in the Church of
Christ, which before
was predicted of the Name
of Christ, of the Head
and Body of Christ, lest they think that we have forged these predictions, and from things which have happened,
as though they were future, had made them up, we bring
forth the books of the Jews
- Augustine on Psalm 149
- Augustine Psalm 41
When people take CHRIST out of their identifier it is proof
that Jesus has been there and gone and the songs in the temple
will be howlings because He has come to remove His candlestick
of seven spirits OF Divine knowledge.
Debbie Boggs etal: There could be
several reasons for this.
1. Suffering severe persecution,
it may have been inconvenient to tote around
a harp in secret.
In fact toting around a harp
would make them extremely welcome in the
marketplaces and all low class activities.
2. Instruments were a sign
of joy. Destruction of the Temple,
dispersion of the Jews, persecution of the church
were all occasions for lament. The prophets
warned of cursed times when joyous instruments would
be silent. |
I have a nice flute my dog and I made out of a deer leg
bone: why do you think they named the TIBIA? They could
have clapped their hands: they didn't since it was most often to
hiss the looser. They could have stretched a piece of gut
across a chair and produced the rhythm because harps did not
play tunefully. The lyre didn't even have a sound box.
They could have met in the forums and the people who went
there for entertainment would have enjoyed it. They might have
been more EVANGELICAL if they had added the methods of the world
to attract the world. Christians were despised because
they did not do singing musically or use instruments.
All of thes passages are not just LAMENTING for
the loss of their flutes and harps which anyone could afford and
many people could play. Their lamenting is the RESULT
of false leaders using wine, women and music and fleecing
the people by taking unlawful tithes. The result was that the
people hungered and thirsted for the WORD and wandered from sea
to sea but could not find it. As a result, the pagan leader's
wives could no longer steal wine to get drunk while the people
starved. As a result of failure to teach the word, the
people went into exile and the PROUD musical wives were
led captive with fishhooks in their nose.
Amos 8:2 And he said, Amos,
what seest thou? And I said, A basket [homosexual
singers] of summer fruit. Then said the LORD
unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will
not again pass by them any more.
Amos 8:3 And the songs
of the temple shall be howlings in that day,
saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every
place; they shall cast them forth with silence. [As
Jesus cast out the musical minstrels LIKE DUNG.]
Amos 8:11 Behwww, the days come, saith the Lord GOD,
that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine
of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the
words of the LORD:
Debbie Boggs etal confusing
cause and effect: Isa 14:11 “All
your pomp has been brought down to the grave,
along with the noise of your HARP; maggots
are spread out beneath you and worms cover
you.”
This speaks
of Lucifer |
Both Tyre and Babylon are types of Lucifer and we
have drawings of a burial site where the king went into the
grave with his harps and buried alive harpists. Notice
that this is the kings or the "senior pastors" of the nations of
which Israel was one.
Thy glory has come down to Hades,
and thy great mirth: under thee they shall spread corruption and the worm shall be thy
covering. Isaiah 14:11 LXX
T. Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus,
or The Braggart Captain
Now I will disclose to you both the subject and the name
of the play which we are just now about to act, and for
the sake of which you are now seated in this mirthful
place2,
"Alazon" is the name3,
in Greek, of this Comedy; the same we call in Latin. "the
Braggart" (Gloriosus). This city is Ephesus;
then, the Captain, my master, who has gone off hence to
the Forum, a bragging, impudent, stinking fellow, brimful
of lying and lasciviousness, says that all the women are
following him of their own accord. Wherever he goes, he is
the laughing.stock of all; and so, the Courtesans
here--since they make wry mouths at him, you may see the
greater part of them with lips all awry. I wish you now to
know this, how I came to be his slave, from him to whom I
was servant before; for 'tis not long that I lave been in
slavery to him. Give your attention, for now I will begin
the argument.
Isaiah
14.[11] detracta est ad inferos superbia tua concidit cadaver tuum subter te sternetur tinea et operimentum tuum erunt vermes
-Superbia
I. In a bad sense, loftiness, haughtiness,
pride, arrogance, vanity,
rudness, discourtesy,
Ludibrium
I. a mockery, derision,
wantonness. . A laughing-stock, butt, jest,
sport B. A scoff, jest, sport: to reproach
jestingly, scoff, such a drunkard as to be a standing
jest, C. Abuse, violence done to a woman: in corporum
ludibria deflere,
Moses saw that the people were running wild and that Aaron had let them get out of
control and so become a laughingstock to their enemies. Exodus 32:25
-Chrysostom notes: For dancing,
and cymbals, and flutes, and shameful
words, and songs, and drunkenness, and revellings,
and all the Devil's great heap (polu o tou
diabolou forutoj) of garbage is then introduced.
they are indignent that the woman is not exhibited
to a multitude, that she is not set forth as a
stage spectacle, common to all behwwwers:
whereas most assuredly they should rather count it
insult when these things do take place; and a laughing
stock, and a farce.
to look upon the beauty of the damsel's countenance;
nor yet in the house only but even through the market-place
do they lead her in pomp to make an exhibition;
Isa 14:12 How art thou fallen from
heaven, O LUCIFER son of the morning!
how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken
the nations!
Heylel (h1966)
hay-lale'; from 1984 [David's Praise] (in the sense of brightness); the
morning-star: - lucifer.
Isaiah 14:15 Yet thou shalt be
brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit
And Isaiah 30 says that the MARKS of being brought
down to hell will be the same Lucifer's wind, string and
percussion instruments.
See how the Abominable Branch was the
"song with instruments opposed to Christ the True Branch.
Behwww, the Lord will cast her out,
and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be
devoured (burned up) with fire. Zechariah 9:4
And it shall come to pass in that
day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king:
after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot. Is.23:15
"Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet
melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be
remembered (as a male)." Is.23:16
| Debbie Boggs etal: Isa 24:6-8 “Therefore
a curse consumes the earth; its people must
bear their guilt. Therefore earth's
inhabitants are burned up, and very few are
left. The new wine dries up and the vine
withers; all the merrymakers groan. The gaiety
of the tambourines is stilled, the noise
of the revelers has stopped, the joyful harp
is silent.” |
Their lostness was CAUSED
by their reveling with music: does anyone suggest
that we CAN now revel?
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest;
as with the servant, so with his master; as with the
maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with
the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower;
as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of
usury to him. Isa 24:2
See Revelation 18 Parallel.
The land shall be utterly emptied, and
utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken
this word. Isa 24:3
The earth mourneth and fadeth away,
the world languisheth and fadeth away,
the haughty people of the earth do languish.
Isa 24:4
The earth also is defiled under the
inhabitants thereof;
because they have transgressed the laws,
changed the ordinance,
broken the everlasting covenant. Isa 24:5
Does that sound like a law of
silence?
Therefore hath the curse devoured
the earth, and they that dwell therein are
desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are
burned, and few men left. Isa 24:6
The new wine mourneth, the vine
languisheth,
.......... all the merryhearted
do sigh. Isa 24:7
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the
noise of them
that rejoice endeth,
.......... the joy of
the harp ceaseth. Isa 24:8
4885. masows, maw-soce´; from 7797; delight,
concretely (the cause or object) or
abstractly (the feeling):-joy, mirth, rejoice.
They shall not drink wine with a song; [Parallel strolling minstrel /
prostitute]
..........strong
drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
Isa 24:9
The city of confusion is broken down: every
house is shut up, that no man may come in.
Isa 24:10
There is a crying for wine in the streets;
all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land
is gone. Isa 24:11
In the city is left desolation, and the gate
is smitten with destruction. Isa 24:12
When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among
the people,
there shall be as the shaking of an olive
tree,
and as the gleaning grapes when the
vintage is done. Isa 24:13
The word Chalal
(h2490) means play the flute, cut YOUR vines, pollute and prostitute.
The pruning hook was also a musical instrument.
Mizmowr (h4210) miz-more'; from 2167; prop.instrumental music; by impl. a poem set to notes:
- psalm. For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the
flower,
he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. Is.18:5
They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to
the beasts
of the earth:
and the fowls shall
summer upon them, and all the beasts of the
earth shall winter upon them. Isa 18:6
They shall lift up their voice, they shall
sing for the majesty of the Lord, they shall
cry aloud from the sea. Isa 24:14
H5375 This is the Hebrew word for the Pleasuring or creating
excitement Paul
outlawed in the synagogue in romans 15.
No reader of the Greek
literature can escape the fact that this was caused
by singing and music.
Wherefore glorify ye the Lord in the fires, even
the name of the Lord God of Israel in the isles of
the sea. Isa 24:15
The universal MARK of being lost beyond redemption
and taken captive.
From the uttermost part of the
earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. Isa 24:16
Zamiyr (h2158) zaw-meer'; or zamir
zaw-meer'; and (fem.) zÿmirah zem-ee-raw'; from
2167; a song to be accompanied with instrumental music: - psalm
(-ist), singing, song
Zamar
is never used without defining the instrument:
therefore, one CAN sing with a harp but SING
does not include a harp.
Horror hath taken hwww upon
me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
Psa 119:53
But, David who was never
a Worship Leader said:
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house
[self] of my pilgrimage. Psa 119:54
I have remembered thy name, O Lord, in the night, and have kept thy law. Psa 119:55
But I said, My leanness, my leanness,
The Lord will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men
shall worship him, every one from his place, even
all the isles of the heathen. Zep.2:11 |
| Debbie Boggs etal: Isa
27:13
And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those
who were perishing in Assyria and those who were
exiled in Egypt will come and worship the LORD on
the holy mountain in Jerusalem. |
Isa 27:12 And it shall come to pass
in that day, that the LORD shall beat off
from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt,
and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of
Israel.
Isa 27:13 And
it shall come to pass in that day, that the great
trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which
were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts
in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the
holy mount at Jerusalem.
This trumpet
DOETH NOT music make! One note!
7782. showphar, shophar,
sho-far´; from 8231 in the original sense of incising;
a cornet (as giving a clear sound) or curved
horn:--cornet, trumpet.
The Shofar was a horn which was tuned by the priest to ONE
NOTE: no one could cut holes in it and therefore it could
not MAKE MUSIC. Hear
the Sounds.
We learn from the Mishna and the
Talmud that in the Hellenistic period no improvements or modifications that might affect the tone were permitted: no gwww-plating
of its interior, no plugging of holes, no alteration of
its length (the minimum permissible length of a ritually
approved horn was 3 handbreadths); the shofar tone was to
be preserved unaltered. Nor was the process of
steaming or boiling permitted.
Here is the
literal meaning of PSALMOS!
Apart from its liturgical uses the shofar was closely connected with magical symbolism. Its blast destroyed the walls of
Jericho, and in the Dead Sea scrolls we read that during battles
shofar
blowers sounded a powerful
war cry to instill fear into the hearts of the enemy while priests blew the
six trumpets of killing.
Historically the shofar has also served in a number of
popular usages: it was sounded during rites to bring
rain, in the event of
local disasters, and so on. In our times its liturgical
use is restricted to New
Year (Rosh Hashanah)
and the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). See Photos HERE.
-Psalmos ho, twitching or twanging with the fingers, psalmoi
toxôn E.Ion173 (lyr.); toxêrei psalmôi [toxeusas] Id.HF1064 (lyr.).
II. mostly of musical
strings, “pēktidōn
psalmois
krekon
humnon”
Psalmoi toxôn does not mean
"sing and play a harp" WITH a bow.
Psalmoi just means pluck or twang a bow.
Phoebus' Euripides
Ion lyre, that sings with you,
[165] would not protect
you from my bow. Alter
your wings' course; go to the Delian lake; if you do not
obey, you will steep your lovely melody in blood.
[170] Ah, ah! what is this
new bird that approaches; you will not place under the
cornice a straw-built nest for your children, will you? My
singing [psalmoi] bow will
keep you off. Will you not obey?
"Only in Ps 150:3 is it (shophar)
mentioned with most of the other really musical
instruments. Hence, we must conclude that the function of
the shophar was to make
noise--be it of earthly
or of eschatological character--but not to make music. After the destruction of the temple and
the general banishment of all instrumental music, the
shophar alone survived, just
because it was not a
musical instrument."(International Dictionary of the
Bible, p. 473, Abingdon).
Debbie Boggs etal:
Isa 30:29 And you will sing as
on the night you celebrate a holy festival;
your hearts will rejoice as when people go up with flutes
to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.
Isa 30:32 Every stroke the LORD lays on them
with his punishing rod will be to the music of
tambourines and harps, as he fights them in battle
with the blows of his arm. |
The
Jews went in musical processions to Jerusalem specificially
to worship Molech as they had at Tyre where the king is
called "the singing and harp playing prostitute in the
garden of Eden." Isaiah 30 defines FOR WHOM God comes
in judgment. He speaks of the Assyrians, Egyptians and
includes Judah where they burned children just before and
just after the PROOF TEXT fo musical instruments in a Plague
Stopping rituals where Levitical Warrior Musicians could NOT
enter or come close to the holy things EVEN TO CLEAN OUT THE
GARBAGE.
THE PROPHECY
And thou shalt pollute
the plated idols,
and thou shalt grind to
powder (like "melody" in Greek) the gilt ones,
and shalt scatter
them as the water of a
removed woman,
and thou shalt thrust them forth as dung. Isaiah 30:22
LXX
THE FULFILLMENT
Jesus CAST OUT the minstrels like
DUNG. A minstrel is: Aaoidos [a^], ho, ( [aeidô])
singer, minstrel, bard, 3. enchanter
-Aoidê[aeidô] ) singer, MINSTREL, bard, I goôn, chrêsmôn aoidos, E.HF110, Heracl. 403; pratos a., of the cock,
2. fem., songstress of the nightingale, aoidos Mousa
Of GOON
or the weeping song and dancing when the clergy Piped:
The MUSES are agents of Apollo,
Abaddon or Apollon: the LOCUSTS.
But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand,
and the maid arose. Matthew 9:25
PUT FORTH: Ekballô I. to throw or cast out of a place, 2. to
cast out of a
place, banish
VI. to produce, of women
IV. Dem.; to drive an actor from the stage, Lat. explodere,
I. to drive out
or off by clapping;
orig. a scenic
word said of a player, to hiss or hoot off, explode
him.
Ballo (g906) bal'-lo; a prim. verb; to throw
(in various applications, more
or less violent or intense): - arise, cast
(out) dung, lay,
lie, pour, put (up), send, strike, throw
(down), thrust. Comp.
4496.
And the light of the moon
shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of
the sun shall be seven fwww in the day when the Lord shall heal the breach
of his people, and
shall heal the pain of thy wound. Isaiah 30:26 LXX
Behwww, the name of the Lord comes
after a long time, burning
wrath; the word
of his lips is with glory, a word
full of anger, and the anger
of his wrath shall devour as fire. Isaiah 30:27 LXX
And his breath, as rushing water in a valley, reach
reach as far as the neck, and be divided, to confound the nations for their vain error; error also shall pursue them and
overtake them. Isaiah 30:28 LXX
The
Septuagint translates Verse 29 consistent with the
rest of the chapter.
Must ye always rejoice, and go into my holy places continually, as they
that keep a feast? and must ye go
with a pipe, as those that rejoice into the
mountain of the Lord, to the God of Israel
Isaiah 30:29 LXX
and the Lord shall make his
glorious voice to be heard and the wrath
of his arm [Messiah the
Intercessor], to make a display with wrath and anger and devouring flame: he shall lighten terribly, and his
wrath shall be as water and violent
hail. Isaiah 30:30
LXX
For by the voice of the Lord the Assyrians shall be overcome, even by the stroke where with he shall smite them. Isaiah
30:31 LXX
And it shall happen to him from
every side, that they from whom their hope of
assistance was, in which he trusted, themselves shall war against him in turn with drums and with harp. Isaiah 30:32 LXX
For thou shalt be required before
thy time: has it been prepared for thee also to
reign? nay, God has prepared
for thee a deep trench, wood piled fire and much wood: the
wrath of the Lord shall be as a trench kindled with sulphur. Isaiah 30:33 LXX
THE BURNING OF
HARPS AND HARPISTS
It is said that there were tens of thousands of harps and
other musical instruments stored on the temple grounds.
The Levites, according to Josephus, had gotten
permission to "wear linen garments" and restore the priestly
musicians: this would give glory to the KING. They got
permission but Josephus attributes the failure of the nation
to these Levites and they would do it again.
Probably almost all of the harpists and harps were burned
up at topheth as a type of hell and rested on a bed of
maggots. The Jews are still looking for these harps in order
to restart the sacrificial system in a rebuilt temple. We
know where the harps went!
| Debbie Boggs etal: Jer 31:4 I
will build you up again and you will be rebuilt, O
Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your
tambourines and go out to dance with the joyful. |
You see, there IS a difference between what you
do in the vintage festivals and what you do in the
SYNAGOGUES which outlawed loud vocal and instrumental
rejoicing;
Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel:
..........thou
shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets,
..........and shalt go
forth in the dances of
them that make merry. Jer. 31:4
Go forth means:
Yaca (h3318) yaw-tsaw'.. break out, bring
forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat,
without), / be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth
(out), get away (forth, hence, out)...
Of Miriam: The
timbrel "was a
typical women's instrument. It is mentioned seven times
in the OT; thus it must have been very popular. Although
it occurs in the Psalter and in religious hymns (Exod
15; Jer. 31:4), it was not permitted in the temple. Its
function in the Bible was restricted to secular or
religious frolicking, cultic dances, or processions (e.
g., II Sam. 6:5; 1I Chr. 13:4; Ps. 68:25). Its absence in the temple ritual was possible due to the strong
female symbolism, which always accompanied
the tambourine, and which made its use so popular at all fertility rites." (Interpreter's Dictionary of the
Bible, p. 474, Abingdon).
Adorned and destroying COMFORT ZONES is a sign of doom.
Adah (h5710) aw-daw'; a prim. root; to
advance, i. e. pass on or continue; causat. to remove;
spec. to bedeck (i. e. bring an ornament
upon): - adorn, deck (self), pass by, take away.
As he that taketh away a garment in cwww weather, and as vinegar
upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy
heart. Pr.25:20
This dance was a repeat of Mount Sinai because Jeremiah
FIRST speaks of the dreamed of restoration of the nation.
Mechowlah (h4246) mekh-o-law'; fem. of 4234; a
dance: - company, dances (-cing).
And it came to pass, as soon as he
came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf,
and the dancing: and Moses anger waxed hot, and he cast
the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the
mount. Ex.32:19
And see, and, behwww, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in
dances, then come ye
out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the
daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
Jud.21:21
Is not this David,
of whom they sang one to another in dances,
saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten
thousands? 1S.29:5
Upon this I awaked, and beheld;
and my sleep was sweet unto me. Jer. 31:26
All just a dream?
Debbie Boggs etal:
Ezek
33:2 "Son of man, speak to your countrymen and
say to them: 'When I bring the sword against
a land, and the people of the land choose one of
their men and make him their watchman,
Ezek 33:3 and he sees the sword coming
against the land and blows the trumpet to warn
the people,
Ezek 33:4 then if anyone hears the trumpet
but does not
take warning and the sword comes and takes his life,
his blood will
be on his own head.
Ezek 33:5 Since he heard the sound of the
trumpet
but did not
take warning, his blood will be on his own
head.
If he had
taken warning, he would have saved himself.
Ezek 33:6 But if the watchman sees the
sword coming
and does
not blow the trumpet to warn the people
and the sword
comes and takes the life of one of them,
that man will
be taken away because of his sin,
but I will
hwww the watchman accountable for
his blood.' |
Do we have to comment? The trumpet was
ordained to WARN and was reserved for that
purpose. When they blew the trumpet to assemble the
synagogue they DID NOT make an alarm meaning "vocal and
instrumental rejoicing." If some turkey uses the fire alarm
or Tornado warning bell to PLAY MUSIC we put such creatures
into jail.
People are trying to MAKE MUSIC insteading of seeing ALL
musical sounds as WARNINGS.
Matt. 15:7 Ye hypocrites,
well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
Hypokrites (g5273) hoop-ok-ree-tace'; from 5271; an
actor under an assumed character (stage-player), i.e. (fig.)
a dissembler ("hypocrite"): - hypocrite.
Hupokrinô reply,
make answer, of an
oracle, 2. expound, interpret, explain
[Peter outlawed this as private interpretation.] 2. deliver a speech, declaim, of orators
and rhetoricians, represent dramatically, erôtikôn dramatôn 3. of an orator, use histrionic arts, exaggerate, ape, mimic,
Mania or religious frenzy.
Rhêtor-ikos , ê, on,
oratorical, hê rhêtorikê (sc. technê). These are the craftsmen lumped with the
singers, musicians and "grinder" doing merchandise in the
house of prayer. Rev. 18:22
LATIN: Canto I. Neutr., to produce melodious sounds (by the voice
or an instrument), to
sound, sing, play (class. in prose and poetry; to sing
and play while the actor
accompanies the song
with gestures or dancing, C. Transf., of instruments, to sound,
resound: 2. Of the
singing pronunciation of an orator, to declaim
in a singing tone, to sing
Ezek 33:30 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.
Ezek 33:31 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.
GOD'S PICTURE OF VAIN RELIGION,
ENDORSED BY JESUS
Ezek 33:32 And, lo, thou art unto them as a very
lovely 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.
| Debbie Boggs etal: Hosea 8:1
"Put the trumpet to your lips! An
eagle is over the house of the LORD because the
people have broken my covenant and rebelled against
my law. |
See Hosea as the
proof text for the Praise Team.
Fact: when you hear the trumpet sound which was NOT a musical
instrument you may know that you have broken God's Covenant. The
musical instrument always means that people have refused to hear
the Word of God. The final TRUMPET sound will be the
SORCERERS invading the church little bits at a time like when
you boil a frog. When you hear
theINSTRUMENTS in the house it is a MARK that God has cast you
off.
Hos 8:1 Set the trumpet
to thy mouth.
He shall come as an
eagle against the house of the LORD,
because they have transgressed
my covenant,
and trespassed
against my law.
The MARK
of violating the Word of God is absolute.
Hos 8:2 Israel shall cry unto me, My
God, we know thee.
Hos 8:3 Israel hath cast off the thing
that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
Hos 8:4 They have set up kings,
but not by me: they have made princes, and
I knew it not: of their silver and their gwww have they
made them idols, that they may be cut off.
Compare Amos:
Hos 8:5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine
anger
is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain
to innocency?
Hos 8:6 For from Israel was it also: the
workman made it; therefore it is not God:
but the calf of Samaria shall be broken
in pieces.
If you make the songs, it is not from God.
| Debbie Boggs etal: Joel 2:1
Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm
on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble,
for the day of the LORD is coming. It is
close at hand-- |
Joel 2:1 Blow ye the
trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy
mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble:
for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh
at hand;
H7321
rua roo-ah' A primitive root; to mar
(especially by breaking); figuratively to split
the ears (with sound), that is, shout
(for alarm or joy):blow an alarm, cry
(alarm, aloud, out), destroy, make a joyful
noise, smart, shout (for joy), sound an alarm,
triumph.
Outlawed for the
synagogue or church in the wilderness |
- Psallo (g5567) psal'-lo; prob.
strengthened from psao, (to rub or
touch the surface; comp. 5597); to
twitch or twang, i.e. to play on a stringed
instrument (celebrate the divine worship with
music and accompanying odes): - make melody, sing
(psalms)
|
| H7322 ruph roof A
primitive root; properly to triturate
(in a mortar), that is, (figuratively) to
agitate (by concussion):--tremble. |
Psocho (g5597) pso'-kho; prol. from the
same base as 5567; to triturate, i.e.
(by anal.) to rub out (kernels from husks with the
fingers or hand): - rub. |
Joel 2:2 A day of darkness
and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick
darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains:
a great people and a strong; there hath not been
ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to
the years of many generations.
Joel 2:3 A
fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame
burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before
them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and
nothing shall escape them.
H7264 ragaz
raw-gaz' A primitive root; to quiver (with any
violent emotion, especially anger or fear):--be
afraid, stand in awe, disquiet, fall out,
fret, move, provoke, quake, rage,
shake, tremble, trouble
Debbie Boggs etal: Zep 1:15
That day will be a day of wrath, a day of distress
and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin,
a day of darkness and gloom, a day
of clouds and blackness,
Zep 1:16 a day of trumpet and battle
cry against the fortified cities and
against the corner towers. |
The trumpet was given to send warnings: it was excluded for the
syngaogue or church in the wilderness. Therefore it would be
foolish to use the trumpet when there is now war or no signal
that the camp was being removed from its present location.
None of the proof text fail to prove that in the church
the noise is a sign of God's wrath or doom. No one tries to
justify the use of such machines in the ekklesia without
intentionally failing to tell the while truth:
Zep 1:12 And it shall come to
pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles,
and punish the men that are settled on their lees:
that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither
will he do evil.
Zep 1:13 Therefore their goods shall
become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall
also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall
plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
Zep 1:14 The great day of the
LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice
of the day of the LORD: the
Zep 1:15 That day is a day of wrath,
a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness
and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess,
a day of clouds and thick darkness,
Zep 1:16 A day of the trumpet
and alarm against the fenced cities, and against
the high towers.
Zep 1:17 And I
will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk
like blind men, because they have sinned
against the LORD: and their blood shall be
poured out as dust, and
| Debbie Boggs etal: Rev 18:21-22 “Then a mighty
angel picked up a boulder the size of a large
millstone and threw it into the sea, and said: "With
such violence the great city of Babylon
will be thrown down, never to be found again.
The music of harpists and musicians,
flute players and trumpeters, will never be
heard in you again. No workman of any trade
will ever be found in you again. The sound of a
millstone will never be heard in you again.” |
Revelation is a warning message for those with a right to know:
this is a MARK of the invasion of the church by a swarm of
locusts which in John's area were known as the muses or musical
worship team under Apollyon or Abaddon. When you see or
hear these signs then you know that the feminist mother of
harlots has begun to "rule over you" as women and children.
Wisd 19.13 - The punishments did not come upon
the sinners
without prior signs in the violence of thunder, [Rev
14]
for they justly
suffered because of their wicked acts;
for they practiced a
more bitter hatred of strangers.
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be
blown in the city, and the people not be afraid?
shall there be evil in a city, and the
LORD hath not done it?
Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth
his secret unto his servants the prophets.
Revelation 17 defines the Mother
of Harlots who is the feminist goddess
worshipped by all musical people: you did not MAKE MUSIC to a
Patriarchal god. Therefore, the music is the MARK great
distress The Mother of Harlots USES the "lusted after fruits."
These are the same "baskets of summer fruits" in Amos which
implicates the musicians as dogs or male prostitutes.
John would have been familiar with Hesoid who
recognizes the MUSES as HARLOTS
(ll. 1-25) From the Heliconian
Muses let us begin to sing, who hwww the
great and holy mount of Helicon, and dance
on soft feet about the deep-blue spring and the altar
of the almighty son of Cronos, and, when they
have washed their tender bodies in Permessus or in the
Horse's Spring or Olmeius, make their fair, lovely
dances upon highest Helicon and move with vigorous
feet.
Thence they arise and go abroad by night,
veiled in thick mist, and utter their song with lovely
voice, praising Zeus the aegis-hwwwer and
queenly Hera of Argos who walks on gwwwen sandals
and the daughter of Zeus the aegis-hwwwer
bright-eyed Athene, and Phoebus Apollo, and
Artemis who delights in arrows, and Poseidon
the earth-hwwwer who shakes the earth, and reverend
Themis and quick-glancing (coquettishness) Aphrodite,
and Hebe with the crown of gwww, and fair Dione,
Leto, Iapetus, and Cronos the crafty
counsellor, Eos and great Helius
and bright Selene, Earth too, and great
Oceanus, and dark Night, and the holy race of all
the other deathless ones that are for ever. 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 -- the Muses
of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who hwwws the aegis:
(ll. 26-28) `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.'
(ll. 29-35) So said the ready-voiced
daughters of great Zeus,
and they plucked and gave me a rod,
a shoot of sturdy laurel,
a marvellous thing,
and breathed into me a divine voice
to celebrate things that shall be and
things there were aforetime;
and they bade me sing of the race of the
blessed gods that are eternally,
but ever to sing of themselves both first
and last.
Skêptron
,II. staff or baton, esp. as
the badge of command, sceptre: in Hom.
borne by kings and chiefs, and transmitted from
father to son, by speakers, who on rising to
speak received it from the herald, by
priests and soothsayers
|
Revelation 18 implicates the rhetoricians, singers and
instrument players and calls the SORCERERS who had deceived the
whole world. The Muses were the dirty adulteresses
as Apollyon's musical worship team. John is pointing directly to
Delphi just up the coast from Corinth and close to
Patmos. John lumps sorcerers (religious
musicians) and dogs as doomed to hell.
The craftsmen is the word TECHNE which includes all of
the PERFORMING religionists Jesus called
Hypocriites and John called Sorcerers as does all Greek musical
terms. In the Greek theater which was always religious
this points to "theater builders and stage managers." In these
end times it is CRAFTY to steal the church house of widows and
turn it into a "theater for holy entertainment" as they boast.
The end like the beginning will be marked by Mother Goddess
led by women. Therefore, let's back up to Revealtion 17:
Rev 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels
which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto
me, Come hither; I will show unto thee the judgment of the
great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
Rev 17:2 With whom the kings
of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the
earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
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 gwww and precious stones and pearls,
having a gwwwen 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.
When Paul warned about the rising up to PLAY
at Mount Sinai in the musical idolatry of the trinity, in 1
Cor 10 he identifies it as DEMON WORSHIP. There "is
not tradition other than that demigods intruduced musical
instruments" to SECUCE people.
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 hwww of every foul
spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful
bird. [seed pickers]
Rev 18:14
And the fruits [faithful dogs Ph
3] that thy soul lusted after are
departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and
goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no
more at all.
However, all of these habitations
of devils will cease and the musicators will cease
and Jesus will visit for the last time and pick up the
Candlestick of "the seven spirits of God" all related to
teaching knowledge--as it has been taught.
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
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
The Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament,
by Spiros Zodhiates, gives us a start:
“Strong’s #5331, pharmakeia,
from pharmakon, a drug, which in the Gr. writers is
used both for a curative or medicinal drug, and also as a
poisonous one. Pharmakeia means the occult,
sorcery, witchcraft, illicit pharmaceuticals, trance,
magical incantation with drugs (Gal. 5:20; Rev. 9:21;
18:23; Sept.: Ex. 7:22; Is. 47:9, 12). (pp.
1437, 1438)
“Strong’s #5332, pharmakeus; gen. pharmakeos,
from pharmakeuo, to administer a drug. An enchanter
with drugs, a sorcerer ([i]Rev. 21:8 [TR]) (Ibid., p.
1438)
“Strong’s #5333, pharmakos, gen. pharmakou.
A magician, sorcerer, enchanter (Rev. 21:8 [UBS]; 22:15;
Sept.: Ex. 7:11; 9:11; Deut. 18:10; Dan. 2:2). The same as pharmakeus
(5332). The noun pharmakeia (5331) means the
preparing and giving of medicine, and in the NT, sorcery,
enchantment.” (Ibid.)
Quoting now from the old ISBE,
“The word translated in the AV
‘witchcraft’ in Gal 5:20 (pharmakeia) is the ordinary
Greek one for ‘sorcery,’ and is so rendered in the RV,
though it means literally the act of administering drugs and
then of magical potions. It naturally comes then to stand
for the magician’s art, as in the present passage and also
in . . . the LXX of Isa 47:9 . . . translated ‘sorceries’.”
(International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, James
Orr, Ed., Vol. 5, p. 3097.)
With regard to pharmakeia – BAGD
2nd Edition says, that in Rev 18:23 the meaning is
“sorcery, magic”, and in Rev 9:21, “magic arts”. It also
gives usages in many other classical and LXX readings, but
for brevity I’ll limit it to the NT usage, and will in the
following citations also.
Măgĭcus , a, um, adj.,
= magikos, I. of
or belonging to magic, magic, magical
“vanitates,” Plin. 30, 1, 1, § 1:
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.
“cantus,” Juv. 6, 610:
Goēs ,
ētos,
ho,
A. sorcerer,
wizard, Phoronis
2,
Hdt.2.33,
4.105,
Pl.R. 380d,
Phld.Ir.p.29 W.; “
g. epōdosLudias apo khthonos”
E.Ba.234,
cf.
Hipp.1038;
prob. f.l. for
boēsi Hdt.7.191.
Isaiah 28:15 Because ye have said, We have
made a covenant with death, and with hell are we
at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass
through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made
lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we
hid ourselves
Sophis-tēs , ou, ho, 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”
Ath.14.632c:
with modal words added, “hoi s. tōn hierōn melōn” Ael.NA11.1
| Debbie Boggs etal: The Oxford Companion to Music.
Oxford University Press. London, 1956. p.
541. The Synagogue system came about
‘so that those who cannot take part more than the statutory
three times a year in the worship of the Temple at
Jerusalem may have their regular and frequent
local worship. |
These festivals were not called WORSHIP
SERVICES: only warrior aged males were forced to
muster. wwwer males, children and females were not forced
to attend and most probably did not because it was like
summer camp: one of the tithes could be turned into money
and used to by wine and strong drink for themselves and
the Levite ministers--who were always poor.
After
the fall from grace by musical idolatry at Mount Sinai the
Spirit of Christ defined the Holy Convocation or synagogue
as a school of the Bible which excluded vocal or
instrumental rejoicing. See the facts about the Synagogue
for the spiritual people which QUARANTINED them from the
regulat sabbatic or Dionysus worship with wine, women and
music.
"The Pharisees
asserted that God could and should be worshiped even away
from the Temple and outside
Jerusalem. To the
Pharisees, worship consisted not
in bloody sacrifices--
the practice of the Temple
priests--
but in prayer and in the study of God's law.
That is what the agents of change want
to shut down: that is always the motive for music. The
Phraisees were bad but originally had pure motives but the
hassidim had been superceded by false Jews.
Hence the
Pharisees fostered the synagogue as an institution of
religious worship, outside and separate from the Temple.
The synagogue may thus be considered a Pharisaic
institution since the Pharisees developed it, raised it
to high eminence, and gave it a central place in Jewish
religious life. (Britannica Members)
Why there was never any rationale
for music?
Aristotle: Melody Deceives: "Poets also make use of this in inventing
words, as a melody
"without strings" or "without the lyre"; for they employ
epithets from negations, a course which is approved in
proportional metaphors..
- The form
of diction should be
neither metrical nor without
rhythm.
- If it is metrical, it lacks
persuasiveness, for
it appears artificial, and at the same time it distracts the hearer's attention, since it sets him on the watch for the
recurrence of such and such a cadence..
According to Philo, the gods of
the pagans exploit this weakness of men. For the
sake of a better effect, and with the intention of more easily cheating their devotes, that they have set their lies to
melodies, rhythms and meters.." Click for more.
The
Qahal as the major word for the synagogue was set up in
the wildernes for rest FROM religion, reading and
discussing the Word of God: Jesus did NOT change that.
This excluded vocal and instrumental rejoicing
because only simple simons would want to make musical
noise when you meet for what the Campbells called "A
School of Christ."
| Debbie Boggs etal: Every village
has its synagogue and a ritual is laid down
which, after the destruction of Jerusalem under the
Roman rule in A.D. 70, is to develop the vocal
part of the Jewish musical traditions in all
the Mediterranean lands and, at the greater
dispersal that followed, to carry it into every part
of the civilized world. But a dispersed Jewry
was a sorrowing Jewry, and in the
synagogues that were now to be found almost
everywhere in the known world an abstention
from instrumental music served as a lasting
reminder of the glories of the Temple worship
of the past, which should, it was confidently
believed, after a period of patient waiting some
day be renewed.’ |
Christ
in Spirit denied that God commanded King, Kingdom,
Temple, Animal slaughter or any other ritual: Acts 7
proves that they had been abandoned to worship the
starry host because they HAD fallen into musical
idolatry at Mount Sinai.
FOR THE ABRAHAMIC OR THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT SYSTEM.
God would offer the people The Book of The Covenant which was
a covenant of grace like that of the Abrahamic Covenant. The
Tribal Elders governed the people and taught the Word of God.
This Covenant of Grace was not changed by the future
Laws of the Civil-Military-Clergy state from which the godly
people were quarantined to their local area.
Ex. 18:19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee
counsel, and God shall be with thee:
Be thou for the people
to Godward,
that thou mayest bring
the causes unto God:
Ex. 18:20 And thou shalt teach them
ordinances and laws,
and shalt shew them
the way wherein they must walk,
and the work that they
must do.
Caerĭmōnĭa
B. Subjectively, a holy dread, awe, reverence,
veneration of the Deity (external; while religio
has regard both to internal and external reverence for God;
rare except in sing.)
Cic.
S. Rosc. 39.113 Is it not so? In the most
trifling affairs be who neglects a commission, must be condemned
by a most dishonouring sentence; what punishment ought to be
inflicted on that man who has not hindered some private
advantage by his carelessness, but has polluted and
stained by his treachery the solemnity of the very
commission itself? or by what sentence shall he be
condemned?
Ostendo , A.
In gen., to show, disclose, exhibit,
manifest: ille dies cum gloriā maximā sese nobis
ostendat, 2. Transf.: “vocem,” to make heard,
Phaedr. 1, 13, 9.—
1. to show, express, indicate
by speech or signs; to give to understand,
to declare, say, tell, make
known, etc. (syn.: indico, declaro,
significo).—With acc.: “illud ostendit,” Cic. Att. 1, 1, 4.—With
obj.- or rel.-clause: “ostendit se cum rege colloqui [ to talk together,
converse] velle,” Nep. Con. 3, 2:
Because Moses admitted that he needed help especially in
instructing all of the people:
Ex. 18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide
out of all the people
able men, [Apt]
such as fear God,
[H337 yârê’ From H3372 ; fearing; morally reverent]:—
men of truth,
[stable, truth, trustworthy]
hating covetousness;
[unjust gain]
and place such over them, to be
rulers of thousands,
and rulers of hundreds,
rulers of fifties,
and
rulers of tens:
H8269 śar sar From H8323 ; a head person (of any
rank or class):—captain (that had rule), chief (captain),
general, governor, keeper, lord, ([-task-]) master, prince
(-ipal), ruler, steward.
No one was so ignorant that they did not know that the "gods"
were there to serve and not be served: education is the only
reason for assemblying the congregation.
THE SYNAGOGUE OR
CHURCH OF CHRIST IN THE WILDERNESS.
God would offer the people The Book of The Covenant which was
a covenant of grace like that of the Abrahamic Covenant. The
Tribal Elders governed the people and taught the Word of God.
This Covenant of Grace was not changed by the future
Laws of the Civil-Military-Clergy state from which the godly
people were quarantined to their local area.
Ex. 18:19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee
counsel, and God shall be with thee:
Be thou for the people
to Godward,
that thou mayest bring
the causes unto God:
Ex. 18:20 And thou shalt teach them
ordinances and laws,
and shalt shew them
the way wherein they must walk,
and the work that they
must do.
Caerĭmōnĭa
B. Subjectively, a holy dread, awe, reverence,
veneration of the Deity (external; while religio
has regard both to internal and external reverence for God;
rare except in sing.)
Cic.
S. Rosc. 39.113 Is it not so? In the most
trifling affairs be who neglects a commission, must be condemned
by a most dishonouring sentence; what punishment ought to be
inflicted on that man who has not hindered some private
advantage by his carelessness, but has polluted and
stained by his treachery the solemnity of the very
commission itself? or by what sentence shall he be
condemned?
Ostendo , A.
In gen., to show, disclose, exhibit,
manifest: ille dies cum gloriā maximā sese nobis
ostendat, 2. Transf.: “vocem,” to make heard,
Phaedr. 1, 13, 9.—
1. to show, express, indicate
by speech or signs; to give to understand,
to declare, say, tell, make
known, etc. (syn.: indico, declaro,
significo).—With acc.: “illud ostendit,” Cic. Att. 1, 1, 4.—With
obj.- or rel.-clause: “ostendit se cum rege colloqui [ to talk together,
converse] velle,” Nep. Con. 3, 2:
Because Moses admitted that he needed help especially in
instructing all of the people:
Ex. 18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide
out of all the people
able men, [Apt]
such as fear God,
[H337 yârê’ From H3372 ; fearing; morally reverent]:—
men of truth,
[stable, truth, trustworthy]
hating covetousness;
[unjust gain]
and place such over them, to be
rulers of thousands,
and rulers of hundreds,
rulers of fifties,
and
rulers of tens:
H8269 śar sar From H8323 ; a head person (of any
rank or class):—captain (that had rule), chief (captain),
general, governor, keeper, lord, ([-task-]) master, prince
(-ipal), ruler, steward.
From
quoted Plato In Phaedrus
And they have the less difficulty in finding the nature of their
own god in themselves, because they have been compelled to
gaze intensely on him;
their recollection clings to him, and they become
possessed of him, and
receive from him their character and disposition, so far as man can participate in God.
The followers of Zeus desire that their beloved should have a
soul like him;
and therefore they
seek out some one of a philosophical and imperial nature,
and when they have
found him and loved him,
they do all they can
to confirm such a
nature in him,
and if they have no experience of such a
disposition hitherto,
they learn of
any one who can teach them,
and themselves
follow in the same way.
THIS WAS TO PREVENT OR OUTLAW:
Socrates. The wise are doubtful, and I should not
be singular if, like them, I too doubted. I might have a
rational explanation
that Orithyia was playing with Pharmacia [Sorcery], when a northern gust carried her
over the neighbouring rocks; and this being the
manner of her death, she was said to have been carried away by Boreas.
The third kind is the madness of those who are possessed by the
Muses (Musicians of Rev 18);
which taking hold
of a delicate and virgin soul,
and there inspiring
frenzy,
awakens lyrical and all other numbers;
with these
adorning the myriad actions of ancient heroes for the
instruction of posterity (prophecy)
In certain ancient Israelite prophetic groups, music was used to achieve the ecstatic
state, in which the participants, in their
accompanying dancing, were believed to have been seized by the hand of Yahweh, the God of Israel, as in the case
of Saul, the 11th-century-bc king of Israel. Encyclopædia
Britannica Online
THE COMMAND FOR THE EKKLESIA--SYNAGOGUE OF CHRIST:
1Timothy 3:2 A bishop then must be
blameless,
the husband of one
wife, vigilant, sober, of good
behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
2Timothy 2:24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive;
but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
2Thessalonians 2:15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast,
and hold the
traditions which ye have been taught,
whether by word, or
our epistle.
Titus 1:9 Holding fast the faithful word as
he hath been taught,
that he may be able by
sound doctrine
both to exhort
and to convince the gainsayers [Judge]
And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some,
evangelists;
and some, pastors
and teachers; Eph 4:11
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry,
for the edifying
of the body of Christ: Eph 4: 12
Till we all come in the unity of the faith,
and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man,
unto the measure of
the stature of the fulness of Christ: Eph 4: 13
TO PREVENT
That we henceforth be no more
children, tossed to and fro,
and carried about with every wind of
doctrine,
by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness
whereby they lie in wait to deceive; Eph 4: 14
-Fluctuo fluctus, to move
in the manner of waves, i. e. to wave, rise
in waves
-Oratio E. A prayer, an
address to the Deity (eccl. Lat.): “respice
ad orationem servi tui,” Vulg.
3 Reg. 8, 28: “per
orationes Dominum rogantes,” id.
2 Macc. 10, 16: “pernoctans
in oratione Dei,” id. Luc.
6, 12.—Also absol., prayer,
the habit or practice of prayer: “perseverantes in oratione,” Vulg. Act. 1, 14: “orationi instate,” id. Col. 4, 2; cf. Gell. 13, 22,
-Panourg-êma A. knavish trick, villainy,
S.El.1387 (lyr.), LXX Si.1.6 (v.l.); sophistry, Gal.5.251; cf. panourgeuma.
-Sophia A. cleverness
or skill in handicraft and art, as in carpentry, tektonos, hos rha te pasēs eu eidē s. Il.15.412; of
the Telchines, Pi.O.7.53;
hē entekhnos s., of Hephaestus and
Athena, Pl.Prt.32
1d; of
Daedalus and Palamedes, X.Mem.4.2.33,
cf. 1.4.2; in
music and singing, tekhnē kai s. h.Merc.483,
cf. 511; in
poetry, Sol.13.52, Pi.O.1.117
TO MAKE THE ROLE OF WHAT PAUL CALLED
SYNAGOGUE POSSIBLE
But speaking the truth in
love, may grow up into
him in all things,
which is the head,
even Christ: Eph 4: 15
From whom the whole body fitly joined
together and compacted by that which every joint
supplieth,
According to the
effectual working in the measure of every part,
maketh increase
of the body unto the edifying [educating] of itself
in love. Eph 4: 16
TO PREVENT
This I say therefore, and
testify in the Lord,
that ye henceforth
walk not as other Gentiles walk,
in the vanity
of their mind, Eph 4: 17
Vanitas I. Lit.,
emptiness, nothingness, nullity, want
of
reality, popular opinion, Magus, Magice. măgus ,I. magic,
magical (poet.): “artes,” Ov. Am. 1, 8, 5:
“manus, id. Med. fac. 36: carmen,” Sen. Herc. Oet. 467.
Charms Carmen. I. a tune,
song; poem, verse; an oracular response, a
prophecy; a form of incantation (cf.: cano, cantus,
and canto). I. In gen., a tune, song,
air, lay, strain, note, sound,
both vocal and instrumental
-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:
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.
Having the understanding darkened, [Skotoo]
being alienated
from the life of God through the ignorance [Agnoia]
that is in them,
because of the blindness [pōr-oō
petrified] of their heart:
Eph 4: 18
ISRAEL REJECTED THE COVENANT OF GRACE
AND HE GAVE THEM THE BOOK OF THE LAW OF MOSES.
By direct command, practice from the wilderness onward,
the practice of Jesus, the command through the word
"ekklesia," the practices of Paul, the commands of Paul
and the universal practice of the PRE-apostate church
"there was never any praise service in the synagogue"
The sacrificial system of which "noise" was exorcism was
restricted to Jerusalem, inside the walls, at but never
IN the temple. The Jews ceased the use of music
because it would have been a sin to use it after the
sacrificial system was about dead long before the time
of Christ.
No, the synagogue was by definition NOT a place to do
musical rejoicing because THAT was what lost them their
nation and temple. No synagogue added an instrument
until 1815. It is true that cantillation or chanting
developed into something very elaborate. We would still not
call it singing in the "churchy sense."
None of the Bible is metrical and CANNOT be sung in a tunful
sense if your life depended on it.
Cantillation Jewish
Encyclopedia
These conventionalities of pitch result in an
elementary form of song, and thus became early known as "singing
to speech" ( accentus). But when a larger audience is
addressed the assistance of a sing-song utterance in marking
this accent or prosody, and rendering the precise
interdependence of the successive words unmistakable,
has been recognized by all who have ever had to speak in the
open air or in a large building, and has been from the
earliest ages adopted for the public recitation of sacred
texts. Among Jews the desire to read the Scriptures
in the manner described in Neh. viii. 8 has from time
immemorial resulted in the use of some sort of musical
declamation. This mode of recitation, depending not upon the
rhythm and sequence of the sounds chanted, but upon the rhythm
and sequence of the syllables to which they are chanted, is
known as cantillation.
Music in the Synagogue: Britannica
Members
"The description of the synagogue
service above noted the role of the hazzan, or cantor.
It is he who reads the service and declaims the scriptural lessons to certain set musical modes that vary
with the season and occasion.
In the 19th
century in Western Europe much of the traditional music
was either discarded or re-worked under the influence of
western forms and styles.
In addition the pipe-organ was introduced and was the centre of stormy controversy.
The synagogue or
church in the wilderness was to QUARANTINE the civillians
FROM the pagan sacrificial systems. The Sabbath was an evil
day and rituals were held and this derived from Babylon
along with the tithe. The citizens met in thes
synagogues which always existed but which was the only
"religious" institution after the RETURN. The
synagogue was devoted to the WORD and prayer and "never had
a praise service." When the temple was destroyed there
was no rationale and not legal to use instrumental music.
They continued with the psalms which were chanted or spoken
in cantillation as defined by PSALMOS.
Only in time did the changing get more embellished and
no one dared use an organ until the year 1815.
Debbie Boggs etal: Zondervan,
p.562 – “The Jews refused to play the lyre
(kinnor) during the Babylonian Exile.
They
suspended their kinnorim on the willows;
how could they ‘sing the Lord’s song in a strange
land?’ (Ps. 137:4). The kinnor was gay,
and when the prophets of
www admonished the people, they threatened that
the kinnor, the symbol of joy and happiness, would
be silenced unless the people repented from their
sins.” |
Only the Levites had been commanded to stand in ranks and
execute anyone who came near or into any holy thing or place:
their prophesying with instruments was SOOTHSAYING with noise
as exorcism of the bad demon spirits. This was quarantined
behind close gates and if they performed the sacrifices
outside of God's quarantined place they would bring down a
plague on the nations.
During their captivity the Jews were
really "going home." Remember that it was Jubal, Jabal,
Tubal-Cain and Naamah who introduced the Babylonian form of
magic and music.
Naamah 'Lilith' is usually derived from the
Babylonian-Assyrian word 'lilitu,' 'a female demon, or
wind-spirit' -- one of a
triad mentioned in
Babylonian spells. But she appears earlier as 'Lillake' on
a 2000 BC Sumerian tablet from
Ur containing the tale of Gilgamesh and
the Willow Tree.
There she is a demoness dwelling in the trunk of a willow tree
tended by the Goddess Inanna (Anath) on the banks of the
Euphrates.
Lilith typifies the Anath-worshipping Canaanite women, who were
permitted pre-nuptial promiscuity. Time after time the
prophets denounced Israelite women for following Canaanite practices; at first, apparently, with the priests'
approval --
since their habit of dedicating to God the fees thus earned is expressly forbidden in
Deuteronomy XXIII:18.
Lilith's flight to the Red Sea recalls the ancient Hebrew
view that water attracts demons. Tortured and rebellious
demons" also found safe harbourage in Egypt. Thus
Asmodeus, who had strangled Sarah's first six husbands,
fled "to the uttermost parts of Egypt" (Tobit VIII:3),
when Tobias burned the heart and liver of a fish on their
wedding nigh. Click for More
"The very name Orpheus is just a synonym for Bel,
the name of the great Babylonian god, which, while
originally given to Cush, became hereditary in the line
of his deified
descendants. Bel
signifies 'to mix,' as well as to confound,' and 'Orv'
in Hebrew, which in Chaldee becomes Orph signifies also 'to mix.'
But 'Orv,' or 'Orph,' signifies
besides 'a willow-tree;' and therefore, in exact accordance
with the mystic system, we find the symbol
of Orpheus among the Greeks to have been a willow tree.
Thus Pausanias, after referring to a representation of
Actaeon, says, 'If again you look to the lower parts of
the picture, you will see after Patroclus, Orpheus
sitting on a hill, with a harp in his left hand, and in his right hand
the leaves of a willow tree.' He is represented
leaning on the trunk of this tree.' The willow leaves in
the right hand of Orpheus, and the willow tree on which he
leans, sufficiently show the meaning of the name."
(Hislop, Alexander, The Two Babylons, p. 124, Loizeaux
Brothers)
"Since the Babylonian Jews were unable to participate in the worship of the
cultus as in former days, the exile marked an important
turning-point in their religious developmemt. Open-air
meetings by the Kabar irrigation-canal replaced gatherings in
the Temple and its precincts,
Kabar or Chebar is derived from:
Chabar (h2266) khaw-bar'; a prim. root; to
join (lit. or fig.); spec. (by means of spells) to
fascinate: - charm (-er), be compact, couple (together),
have fellowship with, heap up, join (self, together),
league.
Ephraim is joined to idols: let him
alone. Ho.4:17
Those involved with the sacrificial
system knew that it was not legal to play sacrificial music
outside of Canaan. The Willow Tree also has symbolid
association with Orpheus: it was Orpheus and the Lesbian
women who invented THRESKIA or IMpure religion. The
added tune or rhythm but "tunefulness" did not really exist.
The symbol of Orpheus to which the Jews had been
abandoned at Mount Sinai because of Musical Worship was
usually meant when they spoke of Lord. This also
connects with Dionysus and Zeus in the Abomination of
Desolation which proves that this MUSICAL worship was always
the MARK of sexual and homosexual JOY. They made TOO
MUCH JOY with wine women and song and lost everything that had
any meaning to them. However, they were exiled BECAUSE
of this idolatry and the tiny remmant were largely
cured so that there was NO musical worship connected with
Jehovah.
Jesus warned that truth had been hidden in parables
from the foundation of the world. This was to fool the fools
like the Scribes and Pharisees whom Jesus identified as hypocrites:
rhetoricians, singers and musicians. The
connections between the abandoned Jews and the Greeks and
Egyptians is clear.
Pausanias, Greece. [6] Turning our gaze again to the lower part
of the picture we see, next after Patroclus, Orpheus sitting
on what seems to be a sort of hill; he grasps with his left
hand a harp, and with his right he touches a willow. It is
the branches that he touches, and he is leaning against the
tree. The grove seems to be that of Persephone, where grow,
as Homer thought,2 black poplars and willows. The
appearance of Orpheus is Greek, and neither his garb nor his
head-gear is Thracian.
[7] On the other side of the
willow-tree Promedon is leaning against it. Some there are
who think that the name Promedon is as it were a poetic
invention of Polygnotus; others have said that Promedon was a Greek who
was fond of listening to all kinds of music,
especially to the singing of Orpheus.
During their captivity the Jews were
really "going home." Remember that it was Jubal, Jabal,
Tubal-Cain and Naamah who introduced the Babylonian form of magic
and music.
"Some of the psalms express a
tribalistic hatred of foreign powers; even the beautiful
laments of the exiles 'by the waters of Babylon,' for
example, concludes with the assurance that the daughter of
Babylon will be destroyed. 'Happy shall he be, that taketh
and dasheth the little ones against the stones.'
"But in nearly a third of the
collection the 'enemies' whose death the psalmist so
confidently prays for and anticipates are not Gentile
nations, but indivitual Jews who do not share the
religious conviction of the Hasidim (Pharisees). In the
words of Psalm 58, 'the righteous shall rejoice when he
seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood
of the wicked. So that a man shall say, Verily there is
reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth
in the earth." (Parkes, Henry Bamford, Gods and Men The
Origins of Western Culture, p. 134, Knopf)
Naamah 'Lilith' is usually derived from the
Babylonian-Assyrian word 'lilitu,' 'a female demon,
or wind-spirit' -- one of
a triad mentioned in
Babylonian spells. But she appears earlier as 'Lillake' on
a 2000 BC Sumerian tablet from
Ur containing the tale of Gilgamesh and
the Willow Tree.
There she is a demoness dwelling in the trunk of a willow tree
tended by the Goddess Inanna (Anath) on the banks of the
Euphrates.
Lilith typifies the Anath-worshipping Canaanite women, who were
permitted pre-nuptial promiscuity. Time after time the
prophets denounced Israelite women for following Canaanite practices; at first, apparently, with the priests'
approval --
since their habit of dedicating to God the fees thus earned is expressly forbidden in
Deuteronomy XXIII:18.
Lilith's flight to the Red Sea recalls the ancient Hebrew
view that water attracts demons. Tortured and rebellious
demons" also found safe harbourage in Egypt. Thus
Asmodeus, who had strangled Sarah's first six husbands,
fled "to the uttermost parts of Egypt" (Tobit VIII:3),
when Tobias burned the heart and liver of a fish on their
wedding nigh. Click for More
"The very name Orpheus is just a synonym for Bel,
the name of the great Babylonian god, which, while
originally given to Cush, became hereditary in the line
of his deified
descendants. Bel
signifies 'to mix,' as well as to confound,' and 'Orv'
in Hebrew, which in Chaldee becomes Orph signifies also 'to mix.'
But 'Orv,' or 'Orph,' signifies
besides 'a willow-tree;' and therefore, in exact accordance
with the mystic system, we find the symbol of Orpheus among the Greeks to have
been a willow tree.
"Since the Babylonian Jews were unable to participate in the worship of the
cultus as in former days, the exile marked an important
turning-point in their religious developmemt. Open-air
meetings by the Kabar irrigation-canal
replaced gatherings in the Temple and its precincts,
Kabar or Chebar is derived from:
Chabar (h2266) khaw-bar'; a prim. root; to
join (lit. or fig.); spec. (by means of spells) to
fascinate: - charm (-er), be compact, couple (together),
have fellowship with, heap up, join (self, together),
league.
Ephraim is joined to idols: let him
alone. Ho.4:17
| Debbie Boggs etal: 3. Since
instruments were not used in the synagogues and
there was no longer a temple in which to use them,
they were increasingly associated with pagan worship
and secular theater. |
They were PROOFS of paganism even at Mount
Sinai when they rose up to play in musical idolatry. They are
connected with paganism (king-clergy) by the prophets by the
Spirit of Christ who calls the monarchy robbers and parasites.
In the Greek world a PARASITE was one who made loud
noise during animal sacrifices.
Instruments were never used IN the Holy Place as
typical of the body or Church of Christ. It is said that when
Jesus came the Jews had no GOD and had no TEMPLE. The
temple was called HEROD'S temple and the priestly leadership
were HIRELING and not Israelites. Even if the temple had
stood the common people would be put OUTSIDE the gates when
the animal burning was signalled by the trumpets and NOISE of
instruments. That is why Paul says that if we want to find
Jesus we have to go OUTSIDE the massed multituted or camp and
suffer reproaches with Jesus. The "congregation"
assembled for sacrificial noise or music was only the king,
clergy and national leadership. And THEY had been turned over
to worship the starry host BECAUSE of musical idolatry at
Mount Sinai.
| 4.
There may have been few skilled musicians
among the new Christians since it was the priests
who were responsible for developing their skills in
Temple service. |
The prophecy of the King of Babylon is
really pictured at Topheth which was once the King's Music
Grove where Asherah was worshipped and infants were
sacrificed to Molech with music. We are not aware of
any of the NATIONAL Levites who were converted and they and
their harps were cause to ROT and burn up or be consumed by
MAGGOTS at Hell--just outside the city walls. Jews
lament the tens of thousands of harps which were destroyed.
Maybe if God LOVED instrumental music He might have
saved one or two. No. No Bible student can even hallucinate
"making music" in the ekklesia.
The Apostolic Constitions which
may date about the year 200 but certainly reflects the
general understanding of the church assembly notes:
For He has delivered us from the sword, and hath freed us
from famine, and sustained us; has delivered us from
sickness, has preserved us from an evil tongue. For all
which things do we give Thee thanks through Christ,
who has given us an articulate voice to confess withal,
and added to it a suitable tongue as an instrument to modulate withal,
and a proper taste, and a suitable touch, and a sight
for contemplation,and the hearing
of sounds, and the smelling of vapours, and
hands for work, and feet for walking.
And all these members dost Thou form
from a little drop in the
womb;
and after the formation dost Thou bestow
on it an immortal soul,
and producest it into the light as
a rational creature, even man.
If one belonging to the theatre
(1) come, whether it be man or woman,
or charioteer, or dueller, or racer, or player of prizes,
or Olympic gamester, or one that plays on the pipe,
on the lute, or on the harp at those games, or a dancing-master or an huckster,
(2) either let them leave off their
employments, or let them
be rejected. If a
swwwier come, let him be taught to "do no injustice, to
accuse no man falsely, and to be content with his allotted
wages:"
(3) if he submit to those rules, let
him be received; but if he refuse them, let him be
rejected. He that is guilty of sins not to be named, a sodomite, an effeminate
person, a magician, an
enchanter, an astrologer, a diviner, an user of magic
verses, a juggler, a mountebank, one that makes amulets,
a charmer, a soothsayer, a fortune-teller, an observer of palmistry; he that, when he
meets you, observes defects in the eyes or feet of the
birds or cats, or noises, or symbolical sounds: let these be proved for some time,
Debbie Boggs etal: 5. The
use of instruments may have been implicit
in the early fathers’ use of the word Psalm.
Zondervan, p.
564. The Psaltery – “. . . ten-stringed,
rectangular zither. To the early Church Fathers
this psaltery was symbolic: the ten strings, the Ten
Commandments; and the four sides, the Gospels.” |
Pulso to
push, strike, beat (cf.: tundo, ferio,
pello). I.Lit.:
Of military engines
Of musical instruments:
chordas digitis et pectine eburno,to strike,
play upon,
A. In gen., to urge or drive
on, to impel, to set in violent motion,
to move, agitate, disturb, disquiet
C.To drive away, remove,
put out of the way,
D. To injure, insult: pulsatos infecto
foedere divos, of treason
Infecto:
taint, infect, spoil, corrupt. Venenum
pharmakon or SORCERY in Rev 18, discord, charm, seduce, EFFIMINO II.Trop.,
to make womanish, effeminate, to
enervate, A.Womanish, effeminate
, putting together effeminate musical compositions. B. In
mal. part., that submits to unnatural lust: pathicus, [The Dogs
Paul excluded in Philippians 3]
1 Kings 14.[22]
Judah did that which was evil in the sight
of Yahweh, and they provoked him to jealousy with their
sins which they committed, above all that their fathers
had done. [23] For
they also built them high places, and pillars, and
Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree; [24] and there were also
sodomites in the land: they did according to all the
abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before
the children of Israel. [25]
It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that
Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem; [26] and
he
took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh
That dancing Cataline: those
men who by means of their armies, and their arms, and their
riches, were the most powerful men in the state, then that
voice, rendered insane by its infamous debaucheries,
made effeminate by its attendance on holy altars,
kept crying out in a most ferocious manner that both these
men and the consuls were acting in concert with him. Needy
men were armed against the rich, abandoned men against the
good, slaves against their masters.
A bowstring:
reciproca tendens nervo. This includes PULSO (feminine vibrato), to push, strike,
beat. Of musical
instruments, to strike, to urge or drive on, set in violent motion, to move, agitate,
disturb, disquiet. Phoebe medium pulsabat Olympum: Fear or
Apollo or Abaddon or Apollyon. injure, insult: pulsatos
INFECTO--plagues and running sores.
Psalm like song
can be read, recited, sung or sung with an instrument.
However PSALM does not include the instrument.
Because the BOOK of Psalms is a GREEK translation we
know that they used a word consistent with the form of
music recognized in the Greek pagan rituals which was
always destructive. That is why all of the
"instrumental" Psalms have destructive or even polluted
meanings because they were "warrior chants." The Psalms
are NOT metrical and cannot be sung as the apologist
plans to do which was always called charming, enchanting
or sorcery.
"The name of psaltery entered Christian literature in the 3rd
century B.C. translation of the www Testament called the
Septuagint where, in the Psalms, nebel
was translated psalterion. Thus, Nebuchadnezzar's idolatrous ensemble included the
Aramic psantria. Notice, also, that the book of Psalms
has also become known as the Psalter (or psalterium), from the hymns
sung with this harp.
Source
http://www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us/antiqua/psaltery.htm f
NEBUCHADNEZZAR the king made an image of gwww, whose height was threescore cubits (60),
and the breadth thereof six (6) cubits: he set it up in the plain of
Dura (circle), in the province
of Babylon. Dan 3:1
The Temple in Jerusalem had two of
these Phallic Imagtes out front!
That at what time ye hear the sound
of the (1) cornet, (2)
flute, (3) harp, (4) sackbut, (5) psaltery, (6)
dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and
worship the gwwwen image that Nebuchadnezzar the king
hath set up: Dan 3:5
Six instruments are named Six
Times in in Six verses.
Psaltery reminds us of a NEW
WINESKIN religion which is made of THAT WHICH DIED OF
ITSELF:
Nebel (h5035) neh'-bel; or nebel nay'-bel; from
5034; a skin- bag for liquids
(from collapsing when
empty); hence a vase (as
similar in shape when full); also a lyre (as having a body of like form): -
bottle, pitcher, psaltery, vessel, viol
Nabel (h5034) naw-bale'; a prim. root; to wilt;
gen. to fall away, fail, faint; fig. to be foolish
or (mor.) wicked; causat. to despise, disgrace: -
disgrace, dishonour, lightly esteem, fade (away, - ing),
fall (down, -ling, off), do foolishly, come to nought, *
surely, make vile, wither..
Nabal (h5036) naw-bawl'; from 5034; stupid; wicked (espec. impious):
- fool (-ish, -ish man, -ish woman), vile person.
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Psallo or
Psalmus never means to play an instrument: each
instrument uses a compounnd word:
Anti-psallô , A.play a stringed
instrument in accompaniment of song, a. elegois phormingaAr.Av.218
.
Ar.Av.218 .Aristophanes,
Birds
Epops rushes into the thicket.
Epops
From within; singing.
Chase off drowsy sleep, dear companion. [210] Let the
sacred hymn gush from thy divine throat in melodious
strains; roll forth in soft cadence your
refreshing melodies to bewail the fate of Itys,
which has been the cause of so many tears to us
both. [215] Your
pure notes rise through the thick leaves of the
yew-tree right up to the throne of Zeus, where
Phoebus listens to you, Phoebus with his golden
hair. And his ivory lyre responds
to your plaintive accents; [220] he
gathers the choir of the gods and from their
immortal lips pours forth a sacred chant of
blessed voices.
Not commanded by Paul: PsalmOidia singing
TO a harp.
Not commanded by Paul: PsaltOideo sing to
the harp 2 Chron 5:[13] it happened, when
the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make
one sound to be heard
Not commanded by Paul: Psaltos
sung to the harp, sung OF Translated sing in Psalm
119:54
Psalm 119WEB.[52]
I remember your ordinances of old, Yahweh, And
have comforted myself. [53]
Indignation has taken hold on me, Because of the
wicked who forsake your law.
[54] Your statutes have been my songs,
In the house where I live
BarbitOidos singing
to the barbiton
HupAuleo to play on
the flute in accompaniment, melody (melos never
psallo)
HupoKitharizo
play an accompaniment on the harp
Not commanded by Paul: KitharOidesis
singing to the cithra
Lusioidos one who played
women's characters in male attire, Auloi
flutes that accompany such songs.
Kat-auleō , A.
charm by flute-playing, tinos Pl.Lg.790e,
cf. R.411a;
tinaAlciphr.2.1:
metaph., se . . -ēsō phobō I will flute
to you on a ghastly flute,E.HF871
(troch.):—Pass., of persons, methuōn kai katauloumenos drinking wine to the strains
of the flute, Pl.R.561c;
k. pros khelōnidos psophon to be played
to on the flute with lyre accompaniment,
2. make a place sound with
flute-playing, Thphr.Fr.87:—
Pass., resound with flute-playing, “nēsos katēuleito” Plu.Ant.56.
II. in Pass., [ton monokhordon kanona parekhein tais aisthēsesi . . katauloumenon subdued
by a flute accompaniment, to be piped down,
ridiculed, “gelōmenoi kai -oumenoi”
Eph. 5:18 And be not drunk [methuōn] with wine,
wherein is excess;
but be filled with
the Spirit; (The Word of Christ Col 3:16; John 6:63)
Eph. 5:19 Speaking to yourselves
\ in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
\
singing and making melody IN your heart
to the Lord;
Eph. 5:20 Giving thanks [praying] always for all things
unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ;
SPEAK is always defined as opposite of poetry or music:
it is related to Christ as the Word of God in
Person. We don't turn God's Words into songs or
sermons.
Hymns are prayers: you cannot be worshiping God
if you are getting eraptured over the boy and girl
singers always a mark of gender confusion by the
leaders.
Epi-psallō , A.
play the
lyre, S.Fr.60,
Poll.4.58（Pass.); “ melesi kai rhuthmois”
Psallo means to
pluck and make a sound: it does not include either
melody or rhythm.
Katapsallō S play stringed
instruments to, [“sumposion kataulein kai k.” Pass., have music
played to one, enjoy music, ib.785e; of places, resound
with music, Id.Ant.56.
2. Pass., to be buried to the sound of
music, Procop.Pers.2.23.
Hab. 2:19 Woe unto him that saith to the
wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it
shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with
gold and silver, and there is no breath at
all in the midst of it.
Hab. 2:20
But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all
the earth keep silence before him.
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THE
PSALLO WORD SPEAKS OF WARFARE AND PERVERTED RELIGION OF
APOLLO
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IS THIS
SOMETHING YOU WANT TO DO IN CHURCH:
A. psalmoi toxôn - E.Ion173 (lyr.);
I forbid you to approach the
walls and the golden house. I will reach you with my bow, herald of Zeus, though you conquer
[160] with your beak the strength of all other birds.
Here comes another, a swan, to the rim of the temple.
Move your crimson foot elsewhere!
Phoebus' lyre, that
sings with you,
[165] would not protect you from
my bow. Alter your wings' course; go to the Delian
lake; if you do not obey, you will steep your lovely melody in blood. [170] Ah, ah! what is this new bird
that approaches; you will not place under the cornice
a straw-built nest for your children, will you? My singing bow will keep you off.
-Toxon
Bow implicates galliambus ,
i, m. [3. Gallus, II. A.] , I.a
song of the priests of Cybele,
III. metaph., toxa
hēliou
its rays, E.HF 1090;
ampelinois
toxois
damentes,
of the effects of wine, Pi.Fr.218;
“toxon
merimnēs”
kottabos
. . hon
skopon
es
latagōn
toxa
kathistametha
for shooting of liquor from the cup
Paul warned about the women who might induce WRATH
which is ORGY and Paul hoped that their castrating
knife slipped. Homosexual or Emasculated men are
said never to fall into singing and playing unless
they were perverted, drunk or just having fun.
B. toxêrei psalmôi
[toxeusas] Id.HF1064 (lyr.).
Toxeuo
A.shoot with the bow,t inosat a
mark
2. metaph., “Erōs
etoxeus'
auton”
E.Tr.255;
“hē
turannis
pantothen
toxeuetai”
is aimed at,, [255] The dart
of love has pierced his heart, love for the
frenzied maid. .3. c. acc. rei, shoot
from a bow, metaph., discharge, send forth,
“t.
humnous”
Pi.I.2.3;
-Erôs mostly
sexual passion, goddess of love, Aphrodites,
II. as pr.n., Eros, the god of love,
Hes.Th.120,
Alcm. 36, Sapph.74, Theoc.29.22.
-Hes.Th.120
Hail, children of Zeus! Grant lovely song [105]
and celebrate the holy race of the deathless gods
who are for ever, those that were born of Earth and
starry Heaven and gloomy Night and them that briny
Sea did rear. Tell how at the first gods and earth
came to be, and rivers, and the boundless sea with
its raging swell,....but next wide-bosomed Earth,
the ever-sure foundation of all1the
deathless
ones
who
hold
the
peaks of snowy Olympus,
and dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed
Earth, [120] and Eros （Love）, fairest among the
deathless gods, who unnerves the limbs and overcomes
the mind and wise counsels of all gods and all men
within them. From Chaos came forth Erebus and black
Night; but of Night were born Aether2and
Day,
[125]
whom
she
conceived
and bore from union in love with Erebus.
Hecuba What! Phoebus' virgin-priestess, to whom the god with
golden locks granted the gift of maidenhood?
Talthybius[255]
The dart of love has pierced his heart, love for the
frenzied maid.
2. Metaphor Shoot out
or send forth a hymn
Pindar,
Isthmian 2.[1] The
men of old, Thrasybulus, who mounted the chariot of
the Muses with their golden headbands, joining the
glorious lyre, lightly shot forth their
honey-voiced songs for young men, if one was
handsome and had [5] the sweetest ripeness that
brings to mind Aphrodite on her lovely throne. [6]
For in those days the Muse was not yet a lover
of gain, nor did she work for hire. And sweet
gentle-voiced odes did not go for sale, with
silvered faces, from honey-voiced Terpsichore. But
as things are now, she bids us heed [10] the saying
of the Argive man, which comes closest to actual
truth: [11] “Money, money makes the man,” he said,
when he lost his wealth and his friends at the same
time
Humnos
A. hymn, ode, in praise of gods or heroes.
The HYMNS commanded for
the believer consists os the HALLEL PSALMS and
does NOT include singing them for entertainment
and excludes that which is NOT "that which is
written" (Rom 15)
If you want to combine singing
and playing the word is:
Psalma ,
ătis, n., = psalma, I.a
song sung to the accompaniment of stringed instruments,
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| Debbie Boggs etal: Whatever the reasons for the lack
of instruments in the early church, we must
hear scripture supreme over tradition. |
True: and all Bible students and historic scholars
KNEW that instruments were OUTLAWED and always associated with
destructive events and even Satan, prostitutes and Sodomites.
A Disciple of Christ commanded to teach and observe what He
taught does not THINK about using instruments in Bible class.
Justin Martyr a.d. 110-165
And the wealthy among us help the needy; and we always keep
together; and for all things wherewith
we are supplied, we bless the Maker of all through His Son
Jesus Christ, and through the Holy Ghost.
And on the day called Sunday, (th tou Hliou legomenh hmera.)
all who live in cities or in the country gather together to
one place, and the memoirs of the apostles
or the writings of the prophets are read,
as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased,
the president verbally instructs, and exhorts
to the imitation of these good things.
Till I come, give attendance to (public) reading, to
exhortation, to doctrine.1Ti.4:13
Apost. Const. Then let the high priest say: It is
very meet and fight before all things to sing an hymn to
Thee, who art the true God, who art before all beings, "from
whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named;"
Of a memorial for the dead: XLII. Let the third day of the
departed be celebrated with psalms, and lessons, and
prayers, on account of Him who arose within the space of
three days;
Demonstrations of Aphrahac c 337 wrote
§19. Now thus is faith; when a man believes in God the Lord
of all, Who made the heavens and the earth and the seas and
all that is in them; and He made Adam in His image; and He
gave the Law to Moses; He sent of His Spirit upon the
prophets; He sent moreover His Christ into the world.
Furthermore that a man should believe in the resurrection of
the dead; and should furthermore also believe in the
sacrament of baptism.
This is the faith of the Church of God. And (it is
necessary) that a man should separate himself from the
observance of hours and Sabbaths and moons
and seasons, and divinations and sorceries and Chaldaean
arts and magic, from fornication and from festive
music, from vain doctrines, which are instruments of
the Evil One, from the blandishment of honeyed words,
from blasphemy and from adultery.
And that a man should not bear false witness, and that a man
should not speak with double tongue. These then are the
works of the faith which is based on the true Stone which is
Christ, on Whom the whole building is reared up.
And on and on which you can read here.
Barton
Stone – “The past is to be consigned
to the rubbish heap upon which Christ
died.”
Debbie Boggs etal: Martin
Luther--1521—“Unless I am convinced by
Scripture and plain reason--I do not accept
the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted
each other--my conscience is captive to the Word of
God.” |
Christ in Isaiah 30 said
that the enemies of God would be cast into the rubbish heap: the
sounds in sight and sound would be the wind, string and
percussion instruments Lucifer the singing and harp-playing
prostitute brought with him-her into the garden of Eden.
Revelation 17 warns about the Babylon Mother of Harlots: she
would use "lusted after fruits" as speakers, singers and
instrument players. John called the sorcerers and said
that they would be cast alive into the lake of fire.
See Luther on music.
By 1501: "By re-introducing public
worship, the reformers displaced virtually overnight a
thousand years of high
church ritual. The
Reformation fathers condemned the Gregorian Chant for some
very telling reasons, revealing along the way their own evolving concepts of music.
They objected to the distractions
of elaborate vocal and instrumental
music, the dangers of
overly theatrical
performances, the
unwarranted expense of elaborate ceremonies and enormous pipe organs and the uselessness of text unintelligible to the common man.
"Contrasting the high
church's entrenched musical traditions was the simple and pragmatic approach of men like Martin Luther. One
of Luther's stated goals was the restoration of true
worship.
He understood the tremendous benefit
resulting from hearing the
word of God and then uniting
as a congregation to offer
thanksgiving in song.
This stress on congregational
participation in worship became a lynchpin of the Reformation.
It might come as a
surprise that the Catholic church NEVER engaged in
"congregational singing with instrumental accompaniment."
Whey they began singing of sorts in the year 373 even when
organs were imposed it was by people in high places and used
by composers and fiddled around with by the idle monks.
Harmony was thus beginning to develop after the year
1200. The organ was used for preludes, interludes and
recessional. It was only playing by the professionals for
entertainment which polluted the churches in the eyes of the
reformers.
Debbie Boggs etal: V.
Heritage [a virus you caught
from your mother]
Many are concerned that we should preserve our Church
of Christ heritage. |
Right off the bat this is perjorative and intended
to dissociate people to make them think that we DON'T
use instruments because it is a disease we caught from out
ignorant parents. This is absurd: there is nothing but
universal condemnation of instrumental music as a warning even
to those "outside of church' who would fall into a trap
because the performance style is perverted and perverted. All
scholars note that when you move from SPEAK or SAY to even
rhetoric you both MARK and CAUSE effeminancy. At the
time of the American Restoration Movement none of the
denominations looking for something better used instruments
and all refuted their use: Methodists and Baptists went
through the same musical sectarianism as the Church of Christ.
Furthermore, it is a fact that The Church of Christ was
never "joined" to the Disciples who imposed instruments
planning to sow discord.
Most historic church had DIRECT COMMANDS and APPROVED EXAMPLES
of speaking or chanting ONLY the Biblical text. The purpose
was to Teach and Admonish one another. One would have to be
mad to hallucinate music if they understood the nature of the
ekklesia which institution excluded all but vocal instruction.
| Debbie Boggs etal: I wholeheartedly
agree! The heritage that I received
was this - that we should be as the ‘noble Beroeans’
who ‘examined the scriptures daily
to see if these things were so.’ Acts 17:11.
The Church of Christ taught me to constantly be
studying God’s Word. If we have already found
all of the answers and there is no room to
come up with any different conclusions, what is the
point of study? |
The synagogue and later ekklesia or
church was devoted TOTALLY to reading and examining "that
which is written" as the elders "taught that which had
been taught." Peter left it as a MARK of false teachers
those who did not teach that which he and others had left
for our "memory."
One good reason would be to study the www Testament and
especially the Prophets to understand that God totally
repudiates MUSIC of any form because it is a slick way to
navigate people where you want to go usually with the
intention of bringing them into bondage to fleece the
lambs and craunch their bones. Isaiah 58 defines a TRUE
Sabbath and outlaws "seeking your own pleasure or speaking
your own words." That is because to do so CLAIMS that God
left a lot of silence holes for us to fill in--and pay
them too. None of the proof texts in this paper show
that the writer has read the CONTEXT and assuredly does
not know the story line.
Debbie Boggs etal: A willingness
and determination to follow scripture,
even in the face of deeply entrenched
traditions, is what the reformation and
restoration movements were built upon.
‘Scripture
alone’ became the rallying cry of the
Reformation. For the pioneers of the
Restoration Movement, the favorite motto was: ‘In
matters of faith, unity; in matters of opinion,
liberty; in all things, love.’ Only things clearly
stated in Scripture were considered matters of
faith.
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In fact,
ALL church fathers demand that we use Scripture only for
matters of faith and practice. This was not invented for
the Restoration Movemement. The High Church principle was the
motto of the Disciples of Christ out of their Methodist,
Anglican, Church of England, Catholic roots. However,
the Church of England never voted to aprove the right of the
church to IMPOSE anything not commanded by Scripture.
Debbie Boggs etal: Zwingli (1484-1531) rejected audible
music of any kind, believing that whatever Scripture
does not explicitly command is forbidden.
Since Paul, in Col. 3:16 calling us to ‘teach and
admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing
psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in
your hearts to God,’ specifies ‘in your hearts,’ it
must be done silently.
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The direct command was to SPEAK one to
another with the INSPIRED TEXT ONLY. The INTERNAL act was
to sing AND make melody IN the heart. The concept
of speaking a Psalm in order to learn it took
place at church: then, you went home and sang SILENTLY as
much as you wished. Philo denied that humans have the
ability or words to praise God audibly.
| Debbie Boggs etal: For this
reason, Zwingli did not even allow congregational
singing. The fallacy of Zwingli’s
interpretation is apparent--how can we teach and
admonish each other with songs that we sing
silently to God? |
We can SPEAK
outwardly and SING inwardly! That is EXACTLY
what Paul commanded. And you cannot SING and SPEAK at the
same time and making melody on a harp in the heart would
hurt really bad as the word PSALLO means. Philo said the
same thing because worship is in the PLACE of the human
spirit and Paul said we worship IN the spirit as opposed to
IN the flesh because there be dogs or catamites with their
www style praise singing. Because worship is what you think,
the only way to literally worship would be to fall on your
face--now try doing dirty dancing, singing and plan a
"machine for doing hard work."
Euphêmos I. uttering sounds of
good omen, or abstaining from inauspicious words, i. e. religiously
silent, opp. to dusphêmos, Aesch., etc.; euphêmou
stoma phrontidos hientes uttering words of religious
thought, i. e. keeping a holy silence, Soph.;
so, hup' euphêmou boês, i. e. in silence, id=Soph.; euphêma
phônei, like euphêmei, id=Soph.
Johannes Quasten, Music and Worship in
Pagan andd Christian Antiquity, notes of Philo:
"One cannot truly offer thanks to God
as the vast majority of men do, with external effects, consecrated gifts and sacrifices..., but
rather with songs of praise and hymns--
not so much as the audible voice sings, but such as are raised and re-echoed
by the invisible mind."
Philo saw that the high priest had to
lay aside his long flowing robe, set with little bells and
colorfully adorned, when he went
into the holy of holies.
This was an indication that one must not worship God with
music and colorful array; owe should rather pour out to
him one's soul's blood and offer him one's whole spirit as
incense. For
if the soul has opened itself
totally in word and deed and is filled with God then the
voices of the senses and all other burdensom and hateful
noises cease..
Zwingli knew that the
word SPEAK is defined as "the opposite of poetry
or music." That is because melody
conceives to deceive:
Aristotle: Melody
Deceives: "Poets also
make use of this in inventing words, as a melody "without strings" or "without
the lyre"; for they
employ epithets from negations, a course which is approved
in proportional metaphors..
- The form
of diction should be
neither metrical nor without
rhythm.
-
- If it is metrical, it lacks
persuasiveness, for
it appears artificial, and at the same time it distracts the hearer's attention, since it sets him on the watch for the
recurrence of such and such a cadence..
According to Philo, the gods of
the pagans exploit this weakness of
men. For the sake of a better effect, and with the intention of more easily cheating their devotes, that they have set their lies to
melodies, rhythms and meters.." Click for more.
Zwingli had a point
because the Scripture is NOT metrical and therefore
CANNOT be sung in a tuneful sense. That is why Calvin
reluctantly allowed the Psalms to be REWRITTEN or
paraphrased to make singing simple harmony remotely
possible. So, maybe Zwingli wa against REWRITING the Bible.
Modern musical performers make no attempt to "sing
that which is written" so there is little connection with
historical rationality. deceives and so people set
their lies to a melody and invent The Law of Giving or The Law
of Singing. The word Ode further defines PSALMOS as "in Hebrew
Cantillation." The singing marks did not denote tunefulness
but ACCENT and rhythm of SPEAKING. Several resources
note that "Melody as tunefulness belongs to the 19th century"
so I SUPPOSE that their singing was not MAKING MUSIC.
Any prose devoted to a god when READ was called singing
and singing was "using the normal inflections of the human
voice."
Pindar,
Nemean
Odes 7. [20] And I expect that the story of
Odysseus came to exceed his experiences, through the sweet
songs of Homer, [22] since there is a certain solemnity in
his lieswinged artfulness, and poetic skill deceives,
seducing us with stories, and the heart of the mass of men
is blind. For if For if [25] they had been able to see
the truth, then mighty Aias, in anger over the arms, would
never have planted in his chest the smooth sword--Aias, who
was the most powerful in battle, except for Achilles, and whom
the breath of the unswerving Zephyr conveyed in swift ships,
to bring back the wife of gwwwen-haired Menelaus [30] from the
city of Ilus. and
| Debbie Boggs etal: Luther believed
that Zwingli’s approach to Scripture turned the
gospel into a new legalism. Luther’s call to
return to Scripture supported his greater call to
return to Christ |
See that Martin Luther rejected instruments and
congregational singing replaced "the musical worship team."
This means that hymn singing is preaching, a return
of God's Word to the people!
Luther, then,
restored singing to the church as preaching,
the speaking "to one another with psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs" (Eph. 5:19)
so that "the Word of Christ [might] richly
dwell" in them (Col. 3:16).
Because the hymn was regarded as a proedicatio sonora
-- a resounding sermon, it was placed "on the same
level as the proclamation and prayers of the
pastor." (Schalk, C., ed. Key Words in Church Music
(St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1978)
Consequently, the Reformation accorded congregational
song an autonomous place in the liturgy. It was not
simply regarded as the people's answer to the sermon, but
instead stood side by side with the sermon,
albeit in sequential order. (Blankenburg. W. "Der
Gottdienstliche Liedgesang der Geineinde," in Leiturgia
(Kassel: Johannes Stauda-Verlag. 1961)).
The Word of God could become the Living Word
only when it was preached, and only then could it
awaken faith.
--Since music (the notes) "make the text live," God preached
the Gospel also through music.
--Both music and theology then are "bearers and interpreters
of the Word of God, being living voices of the Gospel."
In 1523, Thomas Muntzer was the first to replace
the clerical choir with
congregational singing,
using virtually the same music. He translated the text into the vernacular--a true beginning of the restoration of biblical psalm singing among the people. Chuck From
| Debbie Boggs etal: John Calvin
(1509-1564), like Luther, stressed ‘Christ alone.’
In his effort to restore the original Christian
ordinances, Calvin hoped his doctrine of Christ
might restrain the impulse toward legalistic
imitation. In discussing such things as
ceremonies, he said that the ‘church must not
be too fastidious.’ Rather, they must keep first
things first, not letting questions of form and
organization occupy too large a place. |
John
Calvin: Instrumental music in the church
John
Calvin understood that the synagogue or Church of Christ
was founded in the wilderness: it excluded any loud noise.
Martin Luthers "Sola Fide" was based on "Sola Scriptura"
because you cannot have faith without Scripture. And because
Scriptura commanded baptism he said that you could not be
saved withoout baptism
John Calvin called His a Restoration Movement and defended the
CENI as does the Bible and all historical theologians.
For adults, John Calvin defined baptism just about the
way Alexander Campbell did it.
Harmony of the Law - Volume 2 by John
Calvin understood that the Qahal, synagogue or church in
the wilderness OUTLAWED loud vocal and instrumental
rejoicing which was reserved for warfare or victory:
"Profane nations also had their ceremonies, such as auguries, supplications, soothsayings, victims, because natural reason dictated
that nothing could be engaged in successfully without Divine assistance; but God would have His people bound to
Him in another way,
so that, when called by the sound of the sacred trumpets as by a voice from
heaven,
they should assemble to holy and pious deliberations.
The circumstance of the place also
has the same object. The door
of the Tabernacle was to them, as if they placed themselves in
the sight; of God.
We will speak of the word dewm, mogned
(synagogue) elsewhere. Although it signifies an
appointed time, or place, and also an assembly
of the people, I
prefer translating it convention, because God there in a
solemn manner, as if before His sacred tribunal, called the people to witness, or, according to appointment, proceeded
to make a covenant with them.
If you could not CALL the synagogue
with instruments then how could you REST, read and
rehearse the Word of God when people sing and play
instruments:
Thus Malvenda in Poole's Syn., "et
clangetis taratantara." The word is used by Ennius "At tuba
terribili sonitu taratantara dixit." -- Serv. in, AEn, 4.
A.V., "an alarm."
A difference is to be observed in
this respect between his people under the www and under
the New Testament; for now that Christ has appeared, and
the church has reached full age,
it were only to bury the light of the gospel should we introduce
the shadows of a departed dispensation.
From this it appears that the Papists, as I shall
have occasion to show elsewhere, in employing instrumental music cannot be said so much to imitate the practice of God's ancient people as
to
Psalm 78: it in a sense less and absurd manner,
exhibiting a silly
delight in that
worship of the www Testament which was figurative and terminated with the gospel." (On Ps. xcii. 1.)
"Were any one to ask why the Apostle
speaks with so little respect and even with contempt of Sacraments
divinely instituted,
and extenuates their efficacy? This he does, because he separates them from Christ; and we know that when viewed in
themselves they are but beggarly
elements, as Paul calls them. (Gal. 4: 9.)
Because the music
in connection with animal sacrifices [a curse] under the Law
were part of a training or disciplinary system, John Calvin understands the
difference between the www Law and the New Covenant
Then Calvin notes what the Catholics
confess: that it was not really a borrowing from the
sacrificial system but from the world of entertainment
from all pagans:
"From this it appears that the
Papists, as I shall have occasion to show elsewhere, in
employing instrumental
music
cannot be said so much to
imitate the practice of God's ancient people as to
ape it in a senseless and absurd manner, exhibiting a silly delight in that worship of
the www
Testament which was figurative and terminated with
the gospel." (Psalm 92:1)
| Debbie Boggs etal: Alexander
Campbell called for Christians to “reduce to
practice that simple original form of Christianity,
expressly exhibited upon the sacred page; without attempting
to inculcate anything of human authority, of
private opinion, or inventions of men, as having any
place in the constitution, faith, or worship, of the
Christian Church, or anything as a matter of
Christian faith or duty, for which there can not be
expressly produced a ‘Thus saith the Lord,’
either in express terms or by approved precedent.” |
The Campbell's defined church as "a school of Christ"
and "worship" as reading and musing the Word of God.
They repudiated instrumental music and Alexander refused
to preach in a church until they silenced the organ
and organists. That means that if Jesus has not
COMMANDED something necessary to carry out the school of the
Bible then others have no right to IMPOSE something unless
they can prove that it is commanded and necessary.
Campbell
wrote: The
argument drawn from the Psalms in favor of instrumental
music,is exceedingly apposite
to the Roman Catholic, English Protestant, and Scotch
Presbyterian churches,
and even to the Methodist communities. Their churches having all the world in
them--that is, all the fleshly progeny of all the
communicants, and being
founded on the Jewish pattern of things--baptism being given to all born into the world of
these politico-ecclesiastic communities--
I wonder not, then, that an organ,
a fiddle, or a Jews-harp, should be requisite to stir up their carnal hearts, and work into ecstasy
their animal souls,
else "hosannahs languish on their tongues,
and their devotions die."
And that all persons who have no spiritual discernment,
taste, or relish for their spiritual meditations,
consolations and sympathies of renewed hears, should
call for such aid, is but natural.
Pure water from the flinty rock has
no attractions for the mere toper or wine-bibber. A little
alcohol, or genuine Cognac brandy, or good www
Madeira, is essential to the beverage to make it truly
refreshing.
So to those who have no real devotion or spirituality
in them, and whose
animal nature flags under the oppression of church
service, I think with Mr. G., that instrumental music
would be not only a desideratum, but an essential prerequisite to fire up their souls to even animal
devotion.
But I presume, to all
spiritually-minded Christians, such aids would be as a
cow bell in a concert.
| Debbie Boggs etal: The Stone
movement amounted far more to a rejection of historic
traditions than to a positive reconstruction
of primitive Christian practices. Their
emphasis was Christian character and Christian
freedom. |
The
Stone Movement had nothing in common with the Restoration
movement. He held nothing in common with
Alexander Campbell except the authority of Scripture. No
Christian church would now return to the movement they sected
out in 1927. Here is one of the practices imported into
the Christian churches which flowed out of the Methodists,
Church of England and back to the Catholic church. Click for the Shouting Methodists added
as an ACT of worship.
| Debbie Boggs etal: Benjamin
Franklin (1872)—“The Lord is not attracted by
imposing temples, worldly show, nor fine
entertainments.” Franklin was offended by the
exorbitant cost of the newly built Central Christian
Church in Cincinnati, with its stained glass window
and $8000 pipe organ. This put a bad taste
in his mouth toward expensive instruments. |
No, he said it because INSTRUMENTS
especially ORGANS are in bad taste in a peaceable church
assembling for quiet study and meditation. The cost
just nailed dow the fact that attracting the masses was
the ONLY object.
Ben Franklin January, 1860: "IF any one had twww us, forty years
ago, that we would live to see the day when those professing
to be Christians; who claim the Holy Scriptures as their only
rule of faith and practice; those
under the command, and who profess to appreciate the meaning
of the command, to "observe all things whatever I have
commanded you," would bring any instrument of
music into a worshiping assembly, and use it
there in worship, we should have repelled the idea
as an idle dream. But this only shows how
little we know of what men would do; or how little
we saw of the power or the adversary to subvert
the purest principles, to deceive the hearts
of the simple, to undermine the very foundation of
all piety, and turn the very worship of God itself
into an attraction for the people of the world,
an entertainment, or amusement.
It appears never to occur to the
multitudes who throng the assemblies to hear instruments, sweet
voices and artistic melodies, that there
is no worship in it, or, at least, divine worship. All that can be heard in a theater,
in a museum, or less godly places, where there is certainly
no worship.
There is no worship in music, in
itself. There is power
in it, enchantment [sorcery says
John Rev 18:23], but as easily associated
with vice as virtue, with cruelty as with
beneficence, with corruption as purity. We find
music where there are no
moral qualities, either good or bad--a mere secular entertainment. We listen to it, and admire it for its own sake, its beauty, its delightful strains, its enrapturing
sounds, its melodies, and the pleasing sensations it produces within us.
But there is no worship in this. It
is simply secular, having neither moral nor immoral
qualities in it.
We listen to a fine performer to see how he can
perform,
and admire the performance, as artistic, dramatic, and elegant,
and give him the praise
due a good performer.
But there is nothing [412] religious in it. There is not a
moral idea in it; it has no moral character--there is nothing spiritual in it; it has no spiritual
character--there is nothing
religious about it;
it has no religious character.
| Debbie Boggs etal: T. B. Larimore
(1843-1929)--never addressed dividing issues such as
instrumental music and missionary societies.
He viewed them as ‘untaught questions among
us.’ Scripture did not address them, he said;
and, though he held his own ‘opinions or
preferences,’ he did not feel it his duty to preach
or write about them. “I am as apt to be wrong
as my brother. . . neither of us is infallible.” |
Larimore preaching for a church
already divided would hardly take sides
when he saw the more urgent need to preach the
gospel to convert the people: especially those so
unchristlike to deliberately sow discord just so they could
hear Nellie PERFORM.
Burnette Writes: Allen says that one time Larimore went to a
church to help them with the organ
Many things lead me to believe that divisions and bickering
are a good sign that we're getting in the way of the gospel
being preached and shown to the world. I could be doing much
better in this.
The city churches know very well how to settle the pastor
question, and stop the division over that issue. Just send
the hired preacher out to preach the gospel, which is his
scriptural duty, and restore the elders to their Bible
functions. But will they do it? Prof. T. B. Larimore once
held a meeting that continued five months. At the
last sermon there were five confessions, and he said the
meeting closed "too soon." He wants to hwww a meeting
(before he dies) that shall continue one year. He is only
seventy-two. issue (the
musical instrument) and instead of talking about being pro
or against organs, he preached the gospel for 22
weeks. After he left, they ended up splitting
anyway and many blamed him for
it, despite the many conversions because of the gospel.
| Debbie Boggs etal: John
Smith in 1832, “Let us, then, my brethren, be
no longer Campbellites, or Stonites, New Lights or
www Lights, or any other kind of lights, but let us
come to the Bible, and to the Bible alone, as the
only book in the world that can give us all the
light we need.” |
His grandson, H. Leo Boles
wrote of the CONDITIONS of the Church of
Christ and the Disciples of Christ working together but
NOT ever united:
They
met on New Year's Day, 1832, and continued in session four
days. "Raccoon" John Smith was selected from the Campbell
group to set forth the New Testament grounds of unity, and
B.W. Stone represented the "Christian Church."
The meeting resulted in the uniting of these two groups.
"Raccoon" John Smith was my grandfather. May the present
meeting on this occasion have the same happy results. It
will have the same results if all have the same spirit
that actuated there, for we all have the same New
Testament.
That agreement to disagree ceased with
the missionary society in 1849.
"But an
amalgamation of sects is not such a union as Christ
prayed for and God enjoins. To agree to be one upon any
system of human inventions would be contrary to his
will, and could never be a blessing to the church or the
world; therefore, the only union practicable or desirable
must be based on the word of God as the only
rule of faith and practice...
"I have the
more cheerfully resolved on this course, because the gospel
is a system of facts, commands, and promises, and no
deduction or inference from them, however logical or true,
forms any part of the gospel of Jesus Christ. No heaven is
promised to those who hwww them, and no hell is threatened
to those who deny them. They do not constitute, singly or
together, an item of the ancient and apostolic
gospel. While there is but one faith, there may be ten
thousand opinions; and, hence, if Christians are ever
to be one, they must be one in faith, and not in opinion.
When certain subjects arise, even in conversation or social
discussion, about which there is a contrariety of opinion
and sensitiveness of feeling, speak of them in the words
of the Scripture, and no offense will be given and no
pride of doctrine will be encouraged. We may even come, in
the end, by thus speaking the same things, to think the same
things.
"For several
years past I have stood pledged to meet the religious
world, or any part of it, on the ancient gospel and
order of things as presented in the words of the Book.
This is the foundation on which Christians once stood, and
on it they can, and ought to, stand again.
From this I cannot depart to meet any man,
or set of men, in the wide world. While, for the sake of peace
and Christian union, I have long since waived the public
maintenance of any speculation I may hwww, yet no one gospel
fact, commandment, or promise will I surrender for the world"
(Life of Elder
John
Smith, pages 452-454.)
John Smith was one of those who proposed to
UNIFY the Disciples of Christ and whe we call The Church of
Christ. This proves that they were not of the same
roots even then as Alexander Campbell knew. They agreed on
"unity" but ONLY among those who attended the meeting. This
was rejected by most of the Church of Christ congregations.
At it best the "unity" existed only in a few agreeing
to meet in the same building and NOT discuss any doctrinal
issue. When these few were invated by the Organ that
had nothing ot do with The Church of Christ. When the 1849
Missionary Society from a converted Baptist was proposed
that mad even evangelical cooperation impossible. When the
organ was imposed as SECTARIANISM the effort to work
together ceased. The Disciples always sought to seduce
The Church of Christ even counting them in 1906 which the
Census man knew to be a lie. The Christian Church is the
only group which SECTED OUT of the Disciples beginning in
1927.
Yet Brother Clubb would have
us believe that Alexander Campbell was not only president,
but leader of the society. Certainly the society brethren
kept Mr. Campbell president of the society--not so much for
his counsel and advice, but for the influence and magic of
his name.--John T. Lewis.] Boys and women there cast votes,
and rushed the party papers through, while men, like John
Smith, hung their heads in shame. For this act no
justification can be pleaded. It is a stain upon the records
of the society which it will take long years to efface.
The Church of Christ
at this time was no closer to the Disciples than to the
Baptists.
| Debbie Boggs etal: Throughout
church history, instrumental music has been a
topic of fierce debate. Those who oppose it
have made it a test of fellowship.
Those who support it do not generally deem
it worthy of causing divisions, and
often have bowed to the opposition
for the sake of unity. |
No, that's a lie: those who IMPOSED instruments into a
peaceable church made it a test of fellowship!
No one gave any Biblical defences until the Disciples
discovered "psallo" in about 1878.
The only reason it is debated is because
latter day people are willing to kiss off many of their owners
so that the "musical crowd" can find "acceptance in the
mainstream."
In fact, those who INTRODUCED instruments destroyed
fellowship knowing that they were sowing discord.
However, this is something that went on primarily among the
Disciples as the instrumentalists took over churches often
known as the Christian church. If the above statement
were true they would never have become a musical sect and they
want unity based only on one's affirmation that they are
right. I would like to see any bowing since the debates have
been instigated by instrumentalists attempting to lead away
non-instrumental churches.
Men like McGarvey was not allowed to reject instruments in his
own church because HE would be "sowing discord." Then as now
they pretty much said "get over it or get out."
1898 --Braden vs. Warlick debate
Debbie Boggs etal: 1900 --Calhoun
vs. Kurfees in series of articles. Calhoun
defended instrumental music. M.C. Kurfees responded.
Kurfees suggested that he had no objections to the instrument
in the place of worship if it were only seen
like a bouquet of flowers.
|
I think that he meant that if it was neither SEEN nor
HEARD.
M.C.Kurfees Origin of Instrumental music
Who is not so easily kissed off.
See
Tom
Morris on M.C.Kurfees
Again, I need to tell you that all of Tom Burgess' proof texts
are of wwwer men seducing young men.
Kurfees repudiated all of the false arguments which began only
in 1837 when the disciples discovered the word PSALLO.
However, not even their scholarly source would agree
with them. Tom Burgess has tried to refute Kurfess
with poor results. The troubling part of
O.E.Payne and Tom Burgess collection of proof texts is that
all of the wwwer males PLUCKING were seducing young men for
the "act" of sodomy.
1903 --Stark vs. Warlick debate centered
around the word psallo.
1908 --Briney vs. Otey
1914 --Payne answers Kurfees book
with his own. Payne argues that instrumental music is
included in the Greek word psallo as baptism
by immersion is included in the Greek word baptizo.
Whatever you prove about Psallo, Paul insist that it be of the
KIND which is in the heart.
The man who was
dying blessed me; I made the widow's heart sing. Jb.29:13
So my heart laments for Moab like a flute;
it laments like a flute for the men of Kir
Hareseth.
The wealth they
acquired is gone. Je.48:36
My heart laments for Moab like a harp,
my inmost being for Kir Hareseth. Is.16:11
And my spirit
hath rejoiced in God my
Saviour.Lu.1:47
Therefore did my heart rejoice,
and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh
shall rest in hope: Ac.2:26
In that hour Jesus rejoiced in
spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of
heaven and earth, that thou
hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast
revealed them unto babes:
even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Lu.10:21
There is NO connection between psallo (melody) and music.
Because psallo is PRIMARILY a shooting with an arrow to hit
the literal heart, and because "hymns" impact the heart or
feelings, "shooting out hymns" was a metaphor and you
"twang" the heart strings.
- The bowstring touch'd her breast,
so strong she drew;
- Whizzing in air the fatal arrow
flew.
- At once the twanging bow and sounding dart
- The traitor heard, and felt the
point within his heart.
- Thy scarlet-tinctured foot? or
from my bow
- The lyre of Phoebus [Apollo,
Apollyon] to thy notes attuned
- Will not protect thee; farther
stretch thy wings;
-
- Go, wanton, skim along the Delian
lake,
- Or wilt thou steep thy melody in blood.
-
- Look, what strange bird comes
onwards; wouldst thou fix
- Beneath the battlements thy
straw-built nest?
-
- My singing bow shall drive thee hence; begone,
- Or to the banks of Alpheus, gulfy
stream, grace
- Or to the Isthmian grove; there
hatch thy young;
Plautus, Curculio CAPPADOX
My
spleen is killing
me, my reins are
in torment, my lungs
are being torn asunder, my liver is being tortured, my heart-strings are giving way, all my intestines are in
pain.
Hecuba Alas! a dreadful trial is near, it
seems, [230] full of mourning, rich in tears. Yes, I too
escaped death where death had been my due, and Zeus did
not destroy me but is still preserving my life, that I
may witness in my misery fresh sorrows surpassing all
before. But if the bond may ask the free of things that
do not GRIEVE
them or WRENCH
their heart-strings, you ought to speak in answer to my
questions and I ought to hear what you have to say.
When there was only
one instrumental church in Nashville (as I remember it) they
ORGANIZED A Unity Organization. The began by sending out
copies of Payne's book to all of the preachers of the Church
of Christ with a note to return it to the new society which
consisted apparently of one congregation: I have one of
those copies with the request for return. Payn does
not prove that PSALLO ever meang more than "a noise made by
plucking." It includes ONLY THE FINGERS and excludes a
plectron or PICK. So, at best you could not even associate
psallo with a flute, trumpet, organ, piano or guitar picked.
The word is firstly a WARFARE word denoting Apollo as
the "father of twanging bows to send a singing arrow into
your literal heart, the father of musical harmony, the
father of homosexual worship, the father of thieves and
liars. He is the Apollyon in Revelation.
The second major use is the polluted red rope used to drive
and MARK those who loitered in the marketplace around the
singing boys and girls INTO the ekklesia for verbal
instruction only. Therefore, the PSALLO word MARKS anyone
who went into the ekklesia as a bad person who could not
participate.
Psallo at not time or place ever meant to "play a harp."
You have to define WHAT is to be plucked: it miight be
the hairs of the young boy used as "minister" for the wwwer
male. You have to say play or pluck THEN say what is
to be played or plucked--WITH YOUR BARE FINGERS ONLY.
| Debbie Boggs etal: 1923 --Boswell vs.
Hardeman |
The effort to seduce a few preachers with
the Payne book TRAPPED the instrumentalists into a
debate they did not want. They picked the BEST of the
crop but one immediately feels pity for Boswell when
Hardeman begins to quote REAL scholarship.
See some notes on Psallo from the
debate
Psallo NEVER had any musical connection: it simply
means to pluck something with your fingers but never with a
plectrum: no piano, organ, flute or drum because you cannot
PLUCK them with your fingers to make a SOUND. One PLUCKS
bow strings in the first instance. One stretches the polluted
rope to MARK those who dallied around the singing boys and
girls and were late going to the ekklesia for vocal
instruction only. One can pluck a lyre or you can pluck one's
hair and you can shoot out hymns.
| Debbie Boggs etal: J.S.
Lamar—1880’s--was amazed that some of the leaders
could have been so petty and trivial in their
concerns, as if Christ had died to prevent
the formation of societies and to keep organs
out of churches. |
We MIGHT say that leaders were petty and admittedly mercinary
when they IMPOSED instruments which were rejected by ALL of the
groups which swarmed into the Church of Christ.
"To Lamar goes the credit for phrasing the 'guilt clause' which became a cardinal refrain of the organ apologists. The organ was in the churches to stay. The
next move was to fasten
'guilt' upon any person
or church who would commit one of the 'seven deadly sins' by dividing the church over the organ."
Rejecting the Law of Expedience by the Instrumentalists, John T.
Lewis has the following to say:
But the moment we abandon this we will be at sea, without
compass or rudder and our ship will be driven by the
merciless blasts of the headwinds of sectarianism in the d
rect on of the port of Rome; and in this state of case we
may well haul down our colors and seek recognition in
"courts ecclesiastic." We will need the sympathy of such
courts, then. It is no matter of astonishment that, when the
foregoing principle was enunciated, such a thoughtful man as
Andrew Munro should make the following statement: "If we
adopt that as a basis, then there is an end of
infant baptism." I beg leave to make the following
respectful suggestion to Brother J. S. Lamar:
"If we adhere to that as a basis, then there is an end
of instrumental we must adhere to that, or
else the "reformation is a failure." This brings us to the
main point had in view in the preceding essays. That singing
as worship is a divine appointment, is abundantly clear,
from the following Scriptures: "What is it, then? I will
pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding
also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the
understanding also." (1 Cot. 14: 15.) "And be not drunk with
wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the spirit;
speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual
songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord."
(Eph. 5: 18, 19.) "By him therefore let us offer the
sacrifice of praise music in the worship.
With Hayden's reply to Grubbs, W. K. Pendleton, editor
of the Harbinger, closes the discussion, or rather called off
Brother Hayden and turns Brother J. S. Lamar loose on
Brother Grubbs.
Debbie Boggs etal: As Leroy Garrett says, “Our sin has
been in violating the principles of our own heritage:
making an opinion or a preferred
method a test of fellowship.”
Allen, Richard C. and Hughes, Richard T.
Discovering Our Roots. ACU Press, 1988.
p.
3 “This call back to the source of our
religion--the Scriptures--was a powerful
and much-needed call. It was, and still is,
the genius of the movement in which we stand.”
“While claiming to reject all human traditions,
we have created and perpetuated traditions all the
more entrenched for being unrecognized.
Rather than escaping tradition, we who are the
heirs of Barton Stone, Alexander Campbell, and
David Lipscomb simply have failed to recognize the
traditions at work in our midst.”
|
Hughes says with a
slanted view:
We were wrong in objecting to
the introduction of Missionary Societies and instrumental
music in the worship of the church. "(T)he origins of the
instrumental music debate appear to lie in a struggle
over social class..." (P. 57).
We splintered away from the real
Camp-Stone Restoration Movement.
"The authentic followers of
Campbell, therefore eventually shifted their commitments
from the restoration of the ancient church to the
unity of all Christians, separate and apart from
any concern with primitive Christianity" (p. 7).
We emerged as a separate
denominational body in 1906.
"In 1906 the first federal religious
census lists 'Churches of Christ' as a new denomination
whose most visible characteristic was their adamant
refusal to use instrumental music in their worship"
(p. 57).
The Church of Christ never SPLINTERED.
Because The Church of Christ as Methodists, Presbyterians and
Baptists had NEVER used instruments and ALL "adamantly refuse to
BOW" it continued with what it believed and knew from HISTORY
for 1850 years. Hughes seems pouty-mouth that the Church of
Christ REFUSED to bow. That means that it was NOT part of the
deliberate sowing of Discord. These are not scolars in any sense
of the word.
Both of these gentlemen get their history from historians and
not from the original resources now available for the 6th
grade without a Phd.
Burnett
Stone-Campbell Movement
Debbie Boggs etal: VI.
“Safety” [i.e. cowardice]
In the 1860’s, Benjamin Franklin wrote “There is not
a saint who cannot without any violation of
conscience worship without it [instruments].
. . We can remain on safe ground. . .” |
Ben Franklin
We can
NOT worship, and maintain a good conscience, with the organ.
We are certain that we can worship acceptably without the organ.
The friends of the organ do not
doubt this. They entertain not one doubt that they
can worship acceptably without it. Here is something that
is safe. There is no doubt or uncertainty about
it. There is no one that has the least doubt that we can
worship acceptably without the organ.
No one ever
REJECTED instruments on the basis of fright but on sound
Biblical, historical, moral and mental-health
grounds. The musical sectarians can be save to NOT use
instruments.
This is not just
being CAUTIOUS without much conviction but SAFE GROUND is
what the Campbells tried to establish: a community meeting
where ALL can gather to carry out the ONLY role of the
church whatever one's private musical practices.
We are perfectly aware that it is
calling down on us the disfavor
of many or the rich,
the influential and popular; and that, on account of it, we are cut
off from many amiable
people, and can
not meet and worship with them.
We are perfectly aware that it is
against our temporal interests. We have not been,
and are not, blind to all this, but have it before us, and
have considered it carefully, and made up our mind to take
all the consequences, and bear with meekness and patience
whatever shall come.
We do not court these consequences,
nor desire them, but we see no way to avoid them, and
maintain what we solemnly believe to be [422] right. We, then, cheerfully accept
the situation, and take the consequences, rather than give
up the fullest, strongest and most settled conviction of
our inmost soul.
Here, then, is safe ground,
and here we can all meet
and worship acceptably, in harmony
and without any doubt.
1. Those who use the organ, instead
of showing indifference about it, push
it into the worship,
against the [429] will and
conscience of many good brethren, and compel them to worship with it, submit
to it, or not worship with them.
This is an utter repudiation,
in that which "speaks louder than words," of all professions of indifference. No man can think they look on it as a
matter of indifference while they, with such persistence
and determination, press it into the worship.
Many of them show more zeal in this
than they ever did to spread the gospel, or build up the
kingdom of God. The profession of indifference is without
foundation, only as they wish those opposed to it to be indifferent enough to submit meekly, and let them bring it in. Their
indifference never leads them to think of leaving it off
for the sake of peace.
2. They violate the law of God in
bringing a dumb instrument into the worship, that can not teach, admonish, sing, praise God, or give
thanks, but confuses
the worshipers, so that they can not teach, admonish, or sing to edification, as commanded in
Scripture; or, in other words, it prevents doing precisely
what the Lord commanded. To this no Christian, with due
consideration, can submit.
3. Instead of devout worship, in song, teaching and admonishing one another, the whole affair is
turned into a musical
entertainment, an attraction, for the people of the world, and professors
of religion, who have lost their taste, or never had one,
for pure, devout and spiritual worship, in spirit and in
truth, with the spirit and understanding. This is turning
the worship of God into an entertainment, an amusement, an
attraction for the people of the world, and others who have
no spiritual relish. It is a perversion of the
divine worship, and defeating the very thing commanded to be
done. Can he be guiltless who does this? [430]
| Debbie Boggs etal: In 1902, David
Lipscomb wrote “All may worship without the
organ. This is safe ground.” |
But, he was NOT just being "cautious" as implied. The
Church of Christ made no such cowardly decision: they said
that the INSTRUMENTAL SECTARIANS could be safe and NOT
deliberately sow discord.
Instruments of Music in
the Service of God
By David Lipscomb
Gospel Advocate, Vol. XLIII, No. 44 (October 31, 1901),
696.
It seems there cannot be a doubt but that the use of
instrumental music in connection with the worship of God,
whether used as a part of the worship or as an attractive
accompaniment
is unauthorized by God and violates
the oft-repeated prohibition to add nothing to, take
nothing from, the commandments of the Lord.
It destroys the difference between the clean and the
unclean, the holy and the unholy, counts the blood of
the Son of God unclean, and tramples under foot the
authority of the Son of God. A Christian loyal and
true to the Lord Jesus Christ cannot do this, nor in any way
countenance the setting aside the order of God by adding to
or taking from his appointments, even in the smallest
matters, as washing of hands, while forbearance and love
should be exercised in showing them the error of the
way.
When the church determines to introduce a service not
required
by God, he who believes it wrong is compelled to
refuse in any way to countenance or affiliate with the
wrong.
To do so is to commit a double sin. It is to
sin against God and their own consciences and to encourage
by example others to violate their consciences and the law
of God; it is to lower the standard of regard for
right.
It is generally insisted that the peace of the congregation
should not be disturbed by as small a matter as the use
of instruments. The test of a congregation of
Christ is: It recognizes God as the only Lawgiver. It
serves God alone. When it consciously changes the
smallest appointment of God, it dethrones God as the
only Lawmaker and ceases to be a church of God.
So it is a false
foundation to claim that people are lacking grace and are
cowards when people speak of SAFE GROUNDS.
Probably a lot of people were at wits
end by seeing their church family destroyed and their
property turned over to others. You don't HAVE to
have instruments. You can be SAFE without them, but one
thing God hates with a terminal passion: those who would
sow discord among brothers. Can there BE any redemption?
Debbie Boggs etal: This
concern over “safety” is disturbing for several
reasons:
1. It nullifies the cross’ saving
grace. It implies that we are saved by what we
do - by being right. This may be the
root problem, of which the issue of instrumental
music is only a symptom. |
Again, it is not OUR safety we are
concerned about: we are absolutely sure that instruments
are the mark of telling Jesus Christ to "shut your face."
It is a fact that Psalm 41
prophesied that Judas would try and fail to triumph over
Jesus: this is what is outlawed for the synagogue and
means "vocal and instrumental rejoicing." The Levites
however musically mocked Jesus right up to the cross
because they had identified Him as Beliar or Beel-zebul:
the dung god.
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that
bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Titus 2:12 Teaching us that,
denying meaning to contradict, reject,
refute
ungodliness means irreverent,
impious: that will get you burned
Heb 12.
and worldly lusts, "A longing for that
which is FORBIDDEN." Don't ring a bell?
we should
live soberly, Sound mind: music
deranges the mind.
righteously, innocent giving NO
offense.
and godly, devout or reverent
without which you get burned.
in this present world;
| Debbie Boggs etal: 2. It
implies a God who is watching, trying to catch
us doing something wrong, putting ‘trick questions’
on the test. Our God is a loving Father who
earnestly desires relationship with us. |
No, it is a fact that music and
especially PRAISE SINGING was the wwwest
professionand was intended to make SURE that the
gods did not fail AGAIN. Because all musical terms
speak of vile people trying to dominate, and because
God removed Grace because of musical idolatry at Mount
Sinai we are DOGMATICALLY CERTAIN that God is watching but
Paul said that we MUST worship God in reverence and Godly
fear, because God IS STILL a
consuming fire. We do NOT
call down "holy fire" because we are cowards but
because we are rational, spiritual or left-brained
people who CANNOT be seduced by the Siren's Song.
Any interest in the Bible and its background should
make people AFRAID that they are THE fallen angels
sent to LIGHT THE FIRES, but they have an agenda.
Incentor,
o-ris,one who sets the tune
or begins to sing, a precentor,
singer
I. Lit.: carminis, [1] incentore [2] canam [3] Phoebo [4] Musisque [5] magistris,
II. Trop., an [A] inciter, exciter: [B] igneus [C] turbarum, : rebellionis [renewal
of war] totius, id. 6, 11 . Flamen Hislop
Incensor
I. one who kindles or sets fire to, II. Trop., an inciter,
instigator: turbarum,
[2] Căno
I. Neutr., to utter melodious
notes, to sing, sound, play. 2. Of
the faulty delivery of an orator, to speak in a sing-song
tone: inclinată ululantique voce more Asiatico
canere, once canituri,Vulg.
Apoc.
8, 13 )
Rev 8:10 And the third angel sounded, and there
fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a
lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers,
and upon the fountains of waters;
G2985 lampas lam-pas' From G2989
G2989 lampō lam'-po A primary verb; to beam, that is,
radiate brilliancy (literally or figuratively): give light,
shine.
Lampas lights used in Bacchic ceremonies Id.Ra.340 , or in festal processions, phainete,
faggot, luchnis, helios identified with Apollo, Abaddon or Apollyon
of the book of Revelation. 4.
meteor,
Eos is
used of the Musae who were the musical arbitrator. They
are life or phôs, Êôs the goddess of dawn, Latin aurora.
2. day, katêïen es dusin ê. Musae; mesatê ê (arbitrator).
lucĭfer fe(ra, fe(rum, adj.
[lux-fero] , light-bringing: itaque ut apud Graecos Dianam,
eamque Luciferam, sic apud nostros Junonem
(Juno)
A. The morning-star, the planet Venus: stella Lucifer
B. The fabled son of Aurora [Eos] and Cephalus,
Eôs
2. day, Il.1.493, al., Od.19.192, Theoc.12.1,
Call.Aet.1.1.1; ê. de moi estin hêde duôdekatê, hote. .
Il.21.80 ; katêïen es dusin ê. Musae.110; mesatê
ê (arbitrator). Orph.A.649.
3. Life
II. pr. n., Êôs the goddess of
dawn, Il.
11.1, Hes.Th.372,378,
e
Thespian
E. Thespias , a(dis, adj. f., Thespian: Musae
(a muse, one of the nine Muses, as dwelling on Mount
Helicon), Ov. M. 5, 310 ; also called, absol., Thespiades,
Varr. L. L. 7, § 20 Müll.; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 2, § 4; Plin.
36, 5, 4, § 39.
Hêlios II. as
pr. n., Helios, the sun-god, Od.8.271, identified with
Apollo,
2. Hêliou astêr, of the planet Saturn, [Lucifer, Zoe, daughters of Eve]
If
God is watching us we want to be CERTAIN that we are not
presuming to HELP keep Him from failure. God was
watching when Israel rose up to play in musical idolatry:
it was such a terminal sin that He turned them over to
worship the stars: that which people are so anxious to
impose again and again fall from grace.
"The development both of religion and
of the arts can be traced back in a continuous line
to the hunting era. The group ritual of the primeval tribesmen were the origin not only of all religious
ceremonial, but also of the drama
and of poetry and
music, while magic gave
birth to the visual arts."
"Awed by the mysteries of his own spirit no less than by those of nature, primitive
man was likely to attribute to divine influence any abnormal
emotional state,
whether above or below the usual level. Medicine men
customarily went into states
of trance in
which they were believed
to be in communication with the gods,
and many tribes supposed lunatics and sexual
deviants to be divinely possessed. (Parkes, Henry Bamford, On Gods and Men,
p. 30).
"In ancient Mesopotamia its main
purpose appears to have been the enhancement of what was seen as beneficial. With the
sole exception of wisdom literature,
the core genres are panegyric in nature (i.e.,
they praise something or someone),
and the magical power
and use of praise
is to instill, call up, or activate the virtues presented in the praise.
"That praise is of the essence of
hymns, for instance, is shown by the fact that over and
over again the encomiast, the official praiser, (See
Kantor, Precenter, Worship Leader) whose task it was to
sing these hymns,
closed with the standing phrase: "O
[the name of a deity or human hero], thy praise is
sweet." The same phrase is common also at the end of
myths and epics, two further praise genres that
also belonged in the repertoire of the encomiast.
"They praise not only in description
but also in narrative,
by recounting acts of valour done by the hero,
thus sustaining and enhancing
his power to do such deeds,
according to the magical view.
- dialekt-os ,
hê, discourse, conversation, discussion, debate,
argument
- IV. style, panêgurikê, poiêtikê d., D.H.Comp.23,21: esp. poetical diction
- panêgurikos
1. fit for a public festival, ho logos ho p., or ho p. alone, a
panegyric, eulogy, Isocr., Arist. 2. ostentatious, pompous,
Ephesians.4
