JACOB'S WARNING AGAINST LEVI AND PROMISE OF MESSIAH
h3627 instruments of cruelty under the King and Commanders of the Army.
Genesis 49.5 Symeon et Levi fratres vasa iniquitatis bellantia
Gen. 49:5 Simeon and Levi are brethren;
instruments of cruelty
are in
their habitations.
(stabbing, dig through furnace, for burning
Bellor fight, carry on war,
Iniquitas B.
Unfairness, injustice, unreasonableness: luxuria, ≈, unreasonable demands in the shape of taxes,
Both the Sabbath and the tithe or "taxes" came from Babylon.
Cruelty h2555 unjust gain Habitations h4380 Stabbing, a sword a furnace, boiling
Instruments: 7015. qiynah, kee-naw´; from 6969; a dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts or on instruments):—lamentation.
6969. quwn, koon; a primitive root; to strike a musical note, i.e. chant or wail (at a funeral):— ament, mourning woman [from CAIN]
Remember That Cain was of the wicked one and Paul said that Eve was totally deceived as a wife is taken before her husband
Also, Acts 7 God turned them over to the worship of the starry
host. This was the prevailing paganism well documented in Greek
and Latin text who understood the BABYLON ROOTS to which the Jews were
abandoned.
The Levites--an old Egyprian infant burning sect--were under the KING and commanders of the Army.
The Worship of the Starry host is well defined in the Greek and Latin literature.
Verg. A. 11.660
Swift through the midmost slaughter proudly strides
the quiver-girt Camilla, with one breast
thrust naked to the fight, like Amazon.
Oft from her hand her pliant shafts she rains,
or whirls with indefatigable arm
a doughty battle-axe; her shoulder bears
Diana's sounding [sŏno] arms and golden bow.
Sometimes retreating and to flight compelled,
the maiden with a rearward-pointing bow
shoots arrows as she flies. Around her move
her chosen peers, Larina, virgin brave,
Tarpeia, brandishing an axe of bronze,
and Tulla, virgins out of Italy
whom the divine Camilla chose to be
her glory, each a faithful servitress
in days of peace or war. The maids of Thrace
ride thus along Thermodon's frozen flood,
and fight with blazoned Amazonian arms
around Hippolyta; or when returns
Penthesilea in triumphal car
'mid acclamations shrill, [Ulŭlo halal] and all her host
of women clash in air the moon-shaped shield.
Fēmĭnĕus , II.
Transf., with an accessory notion of contempt, womanish, effeminate, unmanly
Clash: exsulto (exult- ), to run riot, to revel; 2. Of an orator or an oration, diffuse, prolix: “fiunt pro grandibus tumidi ... laetis corrupti, compositis exsultantes,”
THIS IS PLAYED OUT THROUGHOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT: NO JEW SHOULD SEEK TO GO BACK
2Kings 23:11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had
given to the sun,
at the entering in of the house of the LORD,
by the
chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs,
and
burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
"Ezekiel was particularly aghast at the sun worship
there and a Canaanite fertility cult, which he calls 'weeping for
Tammuz. The Tammuz cult in the temple was being practiced by women,
and it appears that they must bear their full share of responsibility
for introducing heathen practices into Israel... to the bad record of
women may be added the activities of Solomon's wives who imported
worship of the gods of Moab and Ammon, and of Jezebel, the wife of
Ahab, who brought with her from Phoenicia the cult of the Tyrian
Baal." (Heaton, E. W., Everyday Life in the Old Testament, p.
231-232, Scribners)
H8612 tôpheth to'-feth The same as H8611
; Topheth, a place near Jerusalem:Tophet, Topheth.
H8608 tophaph taw-faf' A primitive root; to drum, that is, play
(as) on the tambourine: taber, play with timbrels.
H8610 taphas taw-fas' A primitive root; to manipulate, that
is, seize; chiefly to capture, wield; specifically to overlay;
figuratively to use unwarrantably: catch, handle, (lay, take)
hold (on, over), stop, X surely, surprise, take.
Gen 4:21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of
all such as handle the harp and organ.
2Kings 23:12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber
of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made,
and the altars which
Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD,
did the
king beat down, and brake them down from thence,
and cast the dust of
them into the brook Kidron.
(3) Chamman ("sun-image"):
chamman, the King James Version
"images," "idols"; the Revised Version (British and American)
"sun-images" (Leviticus 26:30; 2 Chronicles 14:5; 34:4,7; Isaiah
17:8; 27:9; Ezekiel 6:4,6):
This worship may originally
have come
from Babylonia, but the
reverence of the sun under the name Baal-hamman had long been common in Palestine before Joshua and the Israelites entered the country. These
sun-images were probably obelisks or pillars connected with the worship of some local Baal. The
chariot and horses of
the sun, mentioned (2
Kings 23:11) as having an honored place at the western entrance of
the Jerusalem Temple, represented not a local but a foreign cult. In
Babylonian temples, sacrifices were made to the sun-chariot, which
seems to have had a special significance in time of war (Pinches,
HDB, IV, 629; see also CHARIOTS OF THE SUN).
Gen. 49:6 O my soul,
come not thou into their secret;
unto their
assembly,
mine honour,
be not thou united:
for in their anger they slew
a man,
and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
Gen. 49:7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath,
for it was cruel:
I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in
Israel.
Divido I.
To force asunder, part, separate, divide (very freq. and class.; cf.: distribuo, dispertio; findo, scindo, dirimo, divello, separo, sejungo, segrego, secerno).
NOW THAT YOU HAVE THE PROPHETIC WARNING NOT TO GET ENTANGLED WITH THE LEVI TRIBE
THE RULE OF CHRIST IN PROPHECY.
Gen. 49:17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way,
an adder in
the path,
that biteth the horse heels,
so that his rider shall fall backward.
Gen. 49:18 I have waited for thy salvation [yeshû‛âh], O LORD.
Gen. 49:19 Gad, a troop [of robbers] shall overcome him: but he shall
overcome at
the last.
Gen. 49:20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall
yield
royal dainties.
Gen. 49:21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly
words.
Gen. 49:22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough
by a well;
whose branches run over the wall:
Joseph and Jesus (summary)
Gen. 49:23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at
him, and
hated him:
[23]
sed exasperaverunt eum et iurgati sunt invideruntque illi
habentes iacula
ex-aspĕro , āvi, II. Trop., to irritate, provoke, exasperate: “durati (Gallograeci) tot malis exasperatique,” made savage, Liv. 38, 17, 17: “exasperavit animos ferocia nimia Harpali,” id. 42, 14; so, “animos,” id. 28, 25; 33, 39; Cels. 3, 5 fin.; cf.: “animum hoc criminum genere,” Liv. 40, 20 fin.: “Ligures exasperati,” id. 42, 26: “majorem civitatis partem,” Val. Max. 6, 5, 3: “canes,” i. e. to incite, set on, App. M. 4, p. 143; cf. “apes,” Col. 9, 15, 4 et saep.: “rem verbis exasperavit,” exasperated, made worse, Quint. 4, 2, 75.
Āpis , is (abl. Apide, Paul. Nol. 85), m., = Apis,
cănis (cănes , Plaut. Men. 5, 1, 18; id. Trin. 1, 2, 133; . Charis
inritata canes, Lucil. ap. Charis. 1, p. 100 P.: “canem inritatam imitarier,” Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 2
“canibus circumdare saltus,” Verg. E. 10, 57: “hos non inmissis canibus agitant,” id. G. 3, 371: “leporem canibus venari,”
a.
A shameless, vile person,
2.
As the regular designation of the hangers-on or parasites of an eminent or rich Roman; a follower, dog, creature:
Echidnaea. Ov. M. 7, 409; cf.: “infernae canes,” Hor. S. 1, 8, 35; Verg. A. 6, 257; Luc. 6, 733. —
D.
A Cynic philosopher: “Diogenes cum choro canum suorum,” Lact. Epit. 39, 4.
căno , cĕcĭni, cantum (ancient canta pro cantata ponebant; “once canituri,” Vulg. Apoc. 8, 13), 3, v. n. and a. [cf. kanassō, kanakhē, konabos; chanticleer; kuknos,
C.
Transf., of the instruments by which, or (poet.) of the places in which, the sounds are produced, to sound, resound: “canentes tibiae,” Cic. N. D. 2, 8, 22: “maestae cecinere tubae,” Prop. 4 (5), 11, 9. “frondiferasque novis avibus canere undique silvas,”
Grieved
Jurgo , A.
To quarrel, brawl, dispute, scold: “cedo, quid jurgabit tecum?”
II.
Act., to chide, censure, blame: “haec jurgans,” Liv. 8, 33; 10, 35: “istis Jurgatur verbis,” Hor. S. 2, 2, 100.
Shot
In-vĭdĕo , vīdi, vīsum, 2, v. a. “poëta jus suum tenuit et dixit audacius,” Cic. Tusc. 3, 9, 20
D. To hinder, prevent; to refuse, deny
Apollo: “tibi laude, nobis voluptate,” Plin. Ep. 2, 10, 2.
Matthew 23:15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte,
and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
bask-ainō , fut.
Gen. 49:24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of
his hands
were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence
is the shepherd, the STONE of Israel:)
1Corinthians 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink:
for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them:
and that Rock was Christ.
24]
sedit in forti arcus eius et dissoluta sunt vincula
brachiorum et manuum illius per manus potentis Iacob inde
pastor egressus est lapis Israhel
arcus , A. For shooting: intendit crinitus Apollo Arcum auratum, Enn. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89 (Trag. v. 54 Müll.): “arcus intentus in aliquem,” Cic. Sest. 7: “haec cernens arcum intendebat Apollo Desuper,” Verg. A. 8, 704; 9, 665; so Vulg. Psa. 10, 3; 36, 14: “arcum tendere,” ib. 3 Reg. 22, 34; ib. 4 Reg. 9, 24: “adductus,” Verg. A. 5, 507: “remissus,” Hor. C. 3, 27, 67: “arcum dirigere in aliquem,” Pers. 3, 60: “quom arcum et pharetram mi et sagittas sumpsero,” Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 98; so, “arcum suscitare,” Vulg. Hab. 3, 9 et saep. —
Genesis 49:25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee;
and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that lieth under,
blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
Genesis 49:26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed
above the
blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting
hills:
they shall be on the head of Joseph,
and on the crown of the head of
him that was separate from his brethren.
Genesis 49:27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey,
and at night he shall divide the spoil.
THE WARNING IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WHICH IS THE RESOURCE FOR CHRISTIANS
After the demise of the sacrificial system after the Return the people continued to assemble in the Synagogue which was the Church of Christ in the Wilderness. It's only role for those baptized unto Moses and who did not fall into musical idolatry is defined and never changed:
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time
hath in every city them that preach him,
being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
In the New Covenant we are baptized into Christ and assemble (ekklesia, synagogue) for the same purpose.
Romans 15:1 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak,
and not to please
ourselves. [this excludes all of the hypocritic or performing arts0
Romans 15:2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
Romans 15:3 For even Christ pleased not himself;
but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning,
that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
Romans 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
Romans 15:6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 15:7 Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.
The writers of the epistles commanded that they be READ and not disected into songs and sermons.
However, as Christ warns about the "Lying pen of the scribes" writing about the temple, the same groups not only refused to listen to Christ in the Prophets they murdered the prophets.
Luke 11:44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
for ye are as graves which appear not,
and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.
Jesus quoted Isaiah and Ezekiel to give the hypocrites NAMES.
Ezekiel 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.
Ezekiel 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.
Ezekiel 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.
Ezekiel 33:33 And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,)
then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.
Luke 11:45 Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him,
Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.
Luke 11:46 And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! f
or ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne,
and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
Luke 11:47 Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Luke 11:48 Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers:
for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
Luke 11:49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God,
I will send them prophets and apostles,
and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
Luke 11:50 That the blood of all the prophets,
which was shed from the foundation of the world,
may be required of this generation;
Luke 11:51 From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias,
which perished between the altar and the temple:
verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.
Luke 11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge:
ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
Luke 11:53 And as he said these things unto them,
the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently,
and to provoke him to speak of many things:
Luke 11:54 Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
God abandoned the Civil-Military-Clergy complex over to worship the
Starry Host: that is what they worshipped even if they called the
golden calf their "god." They burdened both Jews and Gentiles
with ceremonial legalism and stealing the work product of people to
support the sacriificial system which God did not command but permitted
as He was transporting them back to Assyria and Babylon.
However, the ROOTS are in the Covenant made to Abraham by God in CHRIST: The Qahal or synagogue was The Church of Christ in the
Wilderness. This quarantined all of the godly people and many
Gentiles from the Sun and Astrial deity worship at the Temple. The only
thing Jesus changes was to prescribed the Reading Resource and to add
the Lord's Supper as a teaching act confessing that He died for us.
The "corner stone" among the Religious Pagans was an inner corner: that
is where all of the secret rituals took place hidden from the people
they fleeced to satisfy their flesh and blood lust. No
citizen--not even Jesus--could see what went on from the inner court
into the holy place and most holy place. They would be defined by the
Levites who were Soothsayers making instrumental noise to hide the evil
cries of the innocent lambs which God never commandef from the priests.
Jesus became the CHIEF or HEAD stone and He declared that there was
nothing hidden from the common people. Jesus NEVER used rhetoric,
singing or instruments to CLOUD the mind so that they could not
properly judge the moronic rituals the merchants of the Word pour forth.
Ephesians 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Ephesians 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
Ephesians 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. [ours]
Ephesians 3:5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men,
as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
Revelation 18:20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, [The "Babylon" mother of harlots]
and ye holy apostles and prophets;
for God hath avenged you on her.
Peter defined the building or teaching
resources as the PROPHETS by the Spirit OF (preposition) Christ and the
prophecies made more perfect by Jesus Christ, revealed to the apostles
with signs and wonders, and the apostles left us their "memory"
declared that not subject to private interpretation (further
expounding) and MARKED as false teachers those who do not teach The
Prophets and Apostles where Christ left the ANTITHESIS to the Law of
Moses.
www.netivyah.org
"Joseph Shulam was born in Sofia, Bulgaria on March 24, 1946. His family
immigrated to Israel in 1948, where they settled in Jerusalem." Because of the dispersions most are not semites. At
any rate there is nothing in the Jewish blood line that would give them
superiority in reading and teaching the Word of God. Christianity is
commanded to teach what Jesus comanded to be taught: Peter identifies
that as the Prophets inspired by the Spirit OF Christ and the
prophecies made more certain. Those who are not satisfied with
that should not pretend that "Jewish Fables" have any authority in the
School of Christ.
Joseph Shulam: Every person has a variety of identities, particularly their personal
and national identities. Neither of the two offers a lot of room for
maneuvering, despite the fact that since the Enlightenment in Europe
and the Declaration of Independence in the United States, there is a
strong feeling in the West that identity is a private issue, open to
free choice any time of the day or night. In fact, a person’s identity
is primarily determined by his national, cultural, ethnic, linguistic
and faith affiliations. Most of these affiliations are attributed to a
person, regardless of his personal preferences, before he ever draws
his first breath.
Gentiles have the same false view that their
culture and preferences have a way of trumping what is defined in the
Bible. Whatever you think of the collected books they are defined by
Scripture as the commanded resource to edify or educate people. Great
epics are cantillated to tell the recorded history of people and in the
telling and retelling a nation absorbs the qualities of justice and
righteousness. There is no way to compose jigsaw songs and
sermons without radically changing the Word which claims to be from God.
Individual believers are grafted into the roots of the Abrahamic
covenant made by God in Christ.
The blessing to all nations involved
teaching and not binding them to a sacrificial system to feed the
priesthod. Since Abraham was a Gentile and Paul declares that
after baptism we become a son of Abraham, there can be no DETOURS into
any personal experience. Paul outlawed doubtul disputations which are
private opinions and commanded us to "use one mind and one mouth to
speak that which is written for our learning." This is the ONLY way to
glorify or praise God.
Abraham was a Gentile as were all of the descendants of Noah: Jew first
appears in Esther 2:5 and Jews first appears in 2 Kings 16:6
- Abraham was a Chaldean from Ur: he was a "national" or Gentile.
- "Isaac was Abraham's son. Isaac was a Shemite and a Hebrew, but not an Israelite or a Jew because neither existed yet.
- A vitally important fact in understanding Bible Prophecy
is that while all Jews are Israelites, not all Israelites are Jews. All
are Hebrews, but only the descendants of Judah are Jews."
- The word "Judean" (later shortened to "Jew) refers to those who lived
in this area. The term "Jew" is from the Greek word "ioudaios"
(Strong's no. 2453). It is actually short for the word Judean or, more
accurately, Ioudas, pronounced ee-oo-dah-yos. A person is termed Jewish:
- Later, the Israelites intermarried with pagans of various
nationalities. It is evident that "Jewishness" is not a matter of
genetics. There actually is no distinct Jewish race; rather, there is a
Jewish culture. The origin of the Jews / Israelites is not a matter of
race. Resource
Jacob never ceased being a Chaldean to becoming a "Jew" or Judean. I
think that means that the people of Judea were the Jews and those who swarmed over them were Gentiles.
Baptism or Conversion or Regeneration means TO MAKE A NEW MAN: we cannot be a nationalistic Christian. You can't remove the circumcision of the flesh but you can remove the Leaven of the Jews. Paul said that you must put the fleshly body to death before you can be baptized into Christ.
Titus 1:12 One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
Titus 1:13 This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
Titus 1:14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
Vocal and
Instrumental music was produced by the Levites "to make the lambs dumb
before the slaughter." This was outlawed for the Synagogue. Jewish
Fables were musical productions in order to fleece the godly
lambs. Jews who become Christians or "disciples of Christ" do not
engage in anything that detracts from the Word. While "messianic
Jews" claim the right to violate that law of common decency, Disciples
understand that they need to sit down and shut up:
THESIS: The SOLE role of an Ekklesia or Synagogue of Christ.
2Timothy 4:2 Preach the WORD; be instant in season, out of season;
reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
TO PROTECT AGAINST THE PAGAN ANTITHESIS
2Timothy 4:3 For [I mean that] the time will come
when they will not endure sound doctrine;
but after their own lusts
shall they heap to THEMSELVES teachers, having itching ears.
Hugiano 2. to be sound of mind, teachings
3. of soundness in political or religious matters, esp. in part., “to hugiainon tēs Hellados” Id.7.15; hoi hugiainontes,
Opposite. turbulent agitators, Plb.28.17.12;
Opposite Kamno work
“hopē anthrōpos ekame” Berl.Sitzb. 1927.158 (Cyrene).--The pf. is always intr. (Cf. Skt. śamnīte 'work hard', 'serve zealously', śamitár- 'sacrificing priest', Gr. eiro-komos, komeō, komizō.)
[looking for sexual love ; epithumia [boy love]by passion,
Opposite. pronoia [forthought, learning]
Teaching to scratch:
knēth-ō , later form of knaō, A.
scratch, “hōs legetai, knēthein oiden onos ton onon
Onos , 1.
o. luras (sc. akouōn), of one who can make nothing of music, o. luras ēkoue kai salpiggos hus; 2.
peri onou skias for an ass's shadow, i.e. for a trifle,
an ass in the rain, of being unmoved by what is said or done,
2.
the upper millstone which turned round, “o. aletēs” X.An.1.5.5 ;
Xen. Const. Lac. 2.13 But if it was clear that the attraction lay in the boy's outward
beauty, he banned the connexion as an abomination; and thus he caused
lovers to abstain from boys no less than parents abstain from sexual
intercourse with their children and brothers and sisters with each
other.
THE ABSOLUTE IDENTIFYING MARK OF THE HISTORIC CLERGY
2Timothy 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth,
and shall be turned unto fables.
FABLES TO FOOL: Fābŭla , ae, f. fari,
B. Of particular kinds of poetry.
1. Most freq., a dramatic poem, drama, play (syn.: “ludus, cantus, actio, etc.): in full, fabula scaenica,” “or, theatralis,” id. 14, 6, 20: “fabula ad actum scenarum composita, ”fabulam, quae versatur in tragoediis atque carminibus non a veritate modo [melod]
FABLES TO FOOL: Cantus , ūs, m. id., I.
the production of melodious sound, a musical utterance or expression, either with voice or instrument; hence, song, singing, playing,
1.
With the voice, a singing, song; in full, cantus vocum, Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 134: “fit etiam saepe vocum gravitate et cantibus ut pellantur animi, etc.,
2.
With instruments, a playing, music: “citharae,” “horribili stridebat tibia cantu,” Cat. 64, 264: “querulae tibiae, “lyrae,” Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 72: “tibicine
FABLES TO FOOL: Scaenĭcus (scen- ), a, um, adj., = skēnikos,
I.
of or belonging to the stage, scenic, dramatic, theatrical (class.) stage-plays, theatrical representations, “fabula,” a drama, Amm. 28, 1, 4: “organa,” Suet. Ner. 44: “coronae,” id. ib. 53: “habitus,” id. ib. 38: “gestus,” Cic. de Or. 3, 59, 220: “modulatio,” Quint. 11, 3, 57:
Gestures of an ōrātōrĭus , a, um, adj. orator. .
Of or belonging to an orator, oratorical II.
Of or belonging to praying; hence, subst.: ōrātōrĭum , ii. n. (sc. templum), a place of prayer, an oratory
1.
scaē-nĭcus , i, m., a player, actor, Cic. Off. 1, 31, 114: “orator plurimum aberit a scaenico 2.
scaenĭca , ae, f., a female player, an actress,
THE MOST POWERFUL WEAPON TO FOOL:
Orgănum , i, n., = organon,Of musical instruments, a pipe, Quint. 11, 3, 20; 9, 4, 10; Juv. 6, 3, 80; Vulg. Gen. 4, 21; id. 2 Par. 34, 12 et saep. an organ, water-organ: “organa hydraulica,” Suet. Ner. 41: aquatica, Mythogr. Lat. 3, 12.—Of a church-organ, Cass. Expos. in Psa. 150; Aug. Enarr. in Psa. 150, n. 7.— B.
Transf.: organum oris, the tongue of a man, Prud. steph
2Timothy 4:5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions,
do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
A CHRISTIAN IS MADE INTO A NEW BEING: THERE CAN BE NO GENETIC BIAS WHERE WORSHIP IS IN THE PLACE OF THE HUMAN SIRIT.
Titus 3.5 not by works
of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy,
he saved us,
through the washing of regeneration
and renewing by the
Holy Spirit,
[giving us A holy spirit or A good conscience]
Pa^lig-genesia , hē,
A.
rebirth, regeneration, of the world, paliggenesias hēgemones, of Noah and his sons, Id.2.144; “hē anaktēsis kai p. tēs patridos” J. AJ11.3.9; renewal of a race, Corp.Herm.3.3; of persons, beginning of a new life, “eis p. horman” Ph.1.159, cf. Luc.Musc.Enc.7: hence of restoration after exile, Cic.Att.6.6.4; transmigration, reincarnation of souls, Plu.2.998c; cf. metempsukhōsis fin.
2.
regeneration by baptism, “dia loutrou paliggenesias” Ep.Tit.3.5.
1Peter 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust,
that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
1Peter 3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
1Peter 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient,
when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah,
while the ark was a preparing,
wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
1Peter 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us
(not the putting away of the filth of the flesh,
but the answer of [request for] a good conscience toward God,)
by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
1Peter 3:22 Who is gone into heaven,
and is on the right hand of God;
angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
Rĕgĕnĕrātĭo , ōnis, f. regenero, I.
a being born again, regeneration (eccl. Lat.), Aug. Civ. Dei, 20, 5; Vulg. Matt. 19, 28; id. Tit. 3, 5: lavacrum regenerationis, of baptism, Aug. Civ. Dei, 22, 8, 5.
Rĕnŏvātĭo , ōnis, f. id..
I.
In gen., a renewing, renewal (Ciceron.): “mundi,” Cic. N. D. 2, 46, 118: “doctrinae,” id. Brut. 71, 250: “timoris,” id. Fam. 11, 18, 3; Vulg. Tit. 3, 5.—
The washing of water was at
baptism. Therefore, it is important to
define the meaning of words. We are baptized and added to the Church as
disciples OF Christ and BY Christ. Our spirits are translated into a
heavenly kingdom and we seek to sacrifice our flesh so we can worship
rationally (of the Word) which is in our own spirit or mind.
Eph. 5:26WEB That he might sanctify and cleanse it
with the washing of water
[INTO] the word, (In Verbo, En, Eis)
Into Converto , epistles of a writer, to be occupied in, Into —
In eccl. Lat., to convert to Christianity, etc.: “aliquem ad fidem Christi,”
2.
Pregn., to change the nature of a thing; i. e. to change, alter, transform, turn.
En en paidotribou, en kitharistou, at the school of Ar.Nu.973,
That was the Covenant made by God in Christ to Abraham: we are baptized into Christ and enabled to hear the Word of Christ.
Why
would anyone who is baptized into a NEW NATION born in one day and made
into a NEW PERSON need to hold on to Jewish prejudices which also
plagued the early church.
Joseph Shulam: Imagine a tall, blond, blue-eyed man enters this auditorium and in a
perfectly clear voice declares: “I am a black African.” I have no doubt
that all the eyes in the room will raise their eyebrows in bewilderment
and interpretations will begin to circulate, such as: “He only thinks
that he is black!”
Imagine a tall, blond,
blue-eyed man declares "I am a Jew." Well, we know that he is not a
semite. If he is connected to the Law, the Temple and Jerusalem
then we know that he may be an Edomite when Jesus came to save us from that crooked race.
The Black African thesis seems to continue so that if you
have a tiny fraction of black blood then you classify yourself and
others classify you as Black. The same thing happens in the so-called
"Jewish Identity." No one can define a Jew but generally a Jew is one
who practices the religion of the Jews. The fact is that people still
clinging to Jewish superiority may have little to no Semite Blood out
of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob.
We have shown and will continue
to show that the lawless people legislated to control them and which
are defined by what Christ calls Hypocrites and "the Lying Pen of the
Scribe" are NOT part of the WAY. The WAY of the Lord was always
secreted and protected from the Jesish (Edomite etc) roots.
CHRISTIAN ROOTS ARE FIRMLY BASED ON THE COVENANT BY GOD IN CHRIST TO ABRAHAM
The word ISRAEL defines the believers who are under the covenant
made by God in Christ to Abraham 430 years BEFORE the Law of Moses and
was NOT affected by the Law as a curse to legislate the lawless and
protect the poor.
Spiritual Israel comes from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Gen 25:19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son:
Abraham begat Isaac:
Gen 25:20 And Isaac was forty
years old when he took Rebekah to wife,
the daughter of Bethuel the
Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
Gen 25:21 And Isaac entreated the LORD for
his wife, because she was
barren:
and the LORD was entreated
of him, and Rebekah his wife conceive
Gen. 25:22 And the children struggled together within her;
and she said, If it be so, why am I thus?
And she went to inquire of the LORD.
Gen. 25:23 And the LORD said unto her,
Two nations are in thy womb,
and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;
and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;
and the elder shall serve the younger.
CHRISTIAN ROOTS INCLUDE THE NEW TESTAMENT.
Not just "arabs" were the bad nation: as Esau is defined as a nation..
Hagar actually includes the Law of Moses given at Mount Sinai where
God turned them over to worship the starry host. She represents the
JEWISH thread running through the Old and New Testament in contrast to
the godly people under the Abrahamic covenant which was the God in
Christ or Christian roots.
Christ warned that truth had been hidden from the foundation from the Jewish clergy of His day (Matthew 13).
Now, fast forward to Paul who connects
THE FAITH to Abraham and NOT to the Law which was
HAGAR and ESAU and
SINAI and JERUSALEM and
SODOM and the end time harlot religion with her musical
locusts trying to silence the Isaacs of the world.
The SEED (singular) of Abraham either nationally or specific is not connected this race of people.
FULFILLED: Jacob was not a Jew and he warned and prophesied for the godly people:
Gal. 4:21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law,
do ye not hear the law?
Gal. 4:22 For it is written,
that Abraham had two sons,
the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
Gal. 4:23 But he who was of the bondwoman
was born after the flesh;
but he of the freewoman was by promise.
While claiming that the Arabs are the mortal enemy,
since God often speaks in parables to fool the clergy and in
allegories, HAGAR is the mother of everything defended as Jewish Roots.
Gal. 4:24 Which things are an allegory:
for these are the two covenants;
the one from the mount Sinai,
which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Gal. 4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia,
and answereth to Jerusalem which now is,
and is in bondage with her children.
This repudiates Joseph Shulam claiming that the most important thing is the fact that the first
congregation in Jerusalem, as described in the pages of the New
Covenant, was a Messianic Jewish congregation, which was 100% faithful
to our Lord Yeshua and 100% faithful to the Torah of Israel.
THERE IS NOT A SINGLE THING COMMANDED FOR A CHURCH OF CHRIST OUT
OF THE OLD TESTAMENT BUT THE SYNAGOGUE OF CHRIST ORDAINED IN THE ONLY
SPIRITUAL COVENANT MADE BY GOD IN CHRIST.
There is not a single example anywhere of the godly Jews engaging in
congregational singing with instrumental accompaniment. By absolute
command they would PREACH the word by READING the Word and discussing
it: they were disciples and not ceremonial legalists.
CANCEL JERUSALEM AND ALL OF ITS WORSHIP THE STARRY HOST: Jesus was
murdered in Jerusalem but He often went OUT of the Jew''s territory.
After David numbered the people and
could not be redeemed, God did not let him be killed: He gave David an
old Jebusite High place alreaddy operating as a center for the
worship of the starry host. Therefore, if you try to restore
JERUSALEM ROOTS you are not under the Covenant made by God in Christ to
Abraham. The godly Jews did not go to Jerusalem on the sabbath or REST
day but rested from pagan worship of the Starry Host always on the
superstitious seventh day. They attended synagogue while the Jewish Roots were profaning the Sabbath (Rest, not Saturday).
Gal. 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free,
which is the mother of us all.
Gal. 4:27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry,
thou that travailest not: for the
desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
Gal. 4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
Gal. 4:29 But as then he that
was born after the flesh
persecuted him that was born after the Spirit,
even so it is now.
Gal. 4:30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture?
Cast out the bondwoman and her son:
for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
Gal. 4:31 So then, brethren,
we are not children of the bondwoman,
but of the free.
Jewish Identity, Hebraic Roots and other forms of Judaism is Mount Sinai, bondage, Hagar, and Jerusalem SHALL NOT be heir of those under the Covenant made with Abraham by God in Christ
and therefore the Church of Christ in the wilderness The godly people
had God deny "faith only" but were told to walk through the Red Sea
where they were baptized INTO the school of Moses. The Holy Spirit of
Christ followed them as the Pillar and the Rock.
JEWISH ROOTS APPEALS PRIMARILY TO THE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM OPERATED BY THE TRIBE OF LEVI
Christian Roots from Abraham were then and after Christ "outside the walls" or "outside the camp."
National or Racial identity was not something established by God:
Abraham was a Gentile and there were no other distinctions based on
accidental DNA--real or pretended. God in Christ commanded
Abraham to be a Blessing to all nations which spread out into the world. That Covenant made by God in Christ was given by God in the form of The Book of The Covenant.
The separation of some Israelites from godly humanity happened
because of musical idolatry of the same STAR worship or Sabazian always
practiced by the Civil-Military-Clergy complex. God gave The Book of The Law because the "Jews" refused to obey the Covenant of Grace
to all nations. At the same time He sentenced them to captivity
and death in Assyria and Babylon. The land promise was forfeited
then and there because it was a CONDITIONAL promise.
This separation
was made clear after the musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. God ordained
the Levites to stand in ranks to make a loud noise to warn the godly
peoplle away from the HOLOCAUST inside the walls of Jerusalem. When
they prophesied with instruments the meaning is that they were
SOOTHSAYERS with noise NOT PERMITTED in the Church of Christ in the Wilderness.
The Spirit of Christ wrote the ANTITHESIS to the Jewish THESIS
which was identical to the Egyptian, Greek, Canaanite and Babylonian
NATIONAL system to which God abandoned them and promosed no redemption.
See First Samuel Eight
Isa
28:14 Wherefore hear the word of the
Lord,
ye scornful men, that rule
this people which is in Jerusalem.
Is.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:
"A
vital focus of
questioning was the world of the dead. The recently deceased might exert influence
on the living for good or for
bad. Offerings to the dead, which were required by custom, were
intended, among other purposes, to make them well disposed. People occasionally
deposited with
their offerings a letter telling the deceased of their problems and
asking for assistance. A few of these letters are complaints to the
deceased person, alleging that he or she is afflicting the writer. This written
communication with the
dead was confined to the very few literate members of the population,
but it was probably part of a more widespread oral practice. Some tombs of
prominent people acquired minor cults
that may have originated in frequent successful recourse to them for
assistance. Britannica Online
See The Feast of Tabernacles
in Jerusalem
The Marzeah in
Amos 5
"The
marzeah had an extremely
long history extending at least from the 14th century B.C. through
the Roman period. In the 14th century B.C., it was prominently
associated with the ancient Canaanite city of Ugarit (modern Ras
Shamra), on the coast of Syria...[note the source of many of the warrior chant psalms]
The
marzeah was a pagan ritual that took the
form of a social
and religious association... Some scholars regard the funerary marzeah as a feast for--and with--deceased ancestors (or Rephaim, a proper name in the
Bible for the inhabitants of Sheol)." (King, Biblical
Archaeological
Review, Aug, 1988, p. 35, 35)
"These
five elements are: (1)
reclining or relaxing, (2) eating a meat meal, (3) singing with harp
or other musical accompaniment, (4) drinking wine and (5) anointing
oneself with oil." (King, p. 37).
"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)
"The
normal order of events was
a meal, followed by a drinking party. Entertainment might include
anything from a rhetorcian or philosopher discoursing on some topic,
to musical entertainment, to sexual dalliance."
"Plutarch
implicitly contrasts
a serious dinner featuring a sage as the after-dinner speaker with
the other sorts of dinners--where sexual play with the girl
flute-players or hetairae was common." (Witherington, Ben, Why Not
Idol Meat, Bible Review, June 1994, p. 41-42).
The Battle of Baal and Yahm
Aloud
they [summon the assembly
of the gods/ do cry to those near]. They invite
the distant ones/ those far away, to the assembly of `El
they summon/do cry: "`El remains seated
[in his marzeah/banqueting hall/among
his cult-guests (dM)] . . .
The
shame of the Eternal
One/The shameful conduct of the usurper . . .
O gods, (to) the house of your lord . . .
[Who surely travels (S)/lest he go (D/G) quickly/the Runner will not
walk (dM)] through the land, . .who goes in the dust (of) destruction/a mess of mud on the
ground . . .
Comments: Smith believes lines
7-8 should be interpreted
"Either literally, as `El walking through the underworld,
or
an allusion to `El being "dead drunk," or both metaphorical,
and ironic, as the marzeah serves as the setting
for feasts for the
dead and for
the living mourning the dead
(p. 145).
Isa
28:16 Therefore
thus saith the Lord
God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone,
a
precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall
not make haste.
Festīno , (b). With acc. (not in Cic.): festivum festinant diem, hasten to celebrate “ad singulare Antonii factum festinat oratio,” Cic. Phil. 1, 1, 3: “ad probationem,” Quint. 4, 3, 8; cf. id. 4, 5, 10: “quis te festinare jubet?” Juv. 14, 212
hastily, speedily, quickly (class.): “improbe, turbide, festinanter, rapide omnia videtis esse suscepta, Cic. Scaur. § 37: nimium festinanter dictum,” id. Fin. 5, 26, 77.—Comp.: “compositius cuncta quam festinantius agerent,” Tac. A. 15, 3: “factum quid,” Gell. 10, 11, 8: “publicatum,” Suet. Aug. 29
- God permitted lost David to build a TENT on Zion when he sinned without redemption.
- But, Solomon built God a HOUSE on Moriah where God had already PROVIDED the sacrifice.
- But, God does NOT live in houses built by human hands NOR by the works of human hands (Acts 7)
Isa 28:17 Judgment also will I lay to the
line, and righteousness to the plummet:
and the
hail shall
sweep away the refuge of lies,
and the waters shall overflow the
hiding place.
Isa
28:18 And your covenant with
death
shall be
disannulled,
and your agreement with hell shall not stand;
when
the overflowing
scourge shall pass through,
then ye shall be
trodden down by it.
Jesus came to PUT
DOWN the Jewish claim to superiority so that everyone can be ONE IN
CHRIST. We might say, I am different: I am a Messianic Frenchman.
Wow, that still hurts like all of the people were hurt before Jesus
came to disabuse the Jews that they were chosen because they were
superior. The command to Abraham was that his disciples (not Jews) be a
BLESSING to all nations. The promise made to Abraham in the sense
of a Land Promise expired the day the Israelites ROSE UP against God at
Mount Sinai in the musical idolatry of Apis the Calf an image of the
Egyptian Trinity. The Levites were priests of the worship of
Molech in Egypt and never ceased.
Joseph Shulam: “Maybe he was born in Africa and his parents gave
him the name ‘Black’.” “Perhaps he’s impersonating a black person?”
“He’s only teasing us!” However, it would be clear to all of us that
regarding the question of identity, here we are talking about something
peculiar and irregular.
Maybe he says that he
is a "Jew" but a Jew is a religious distinction: the people in Canaan
are not Semites to any extent. Assuredly at the time of Christ many
Israelites had fled Jerusalem. If he says that he is a Jew but his DNA
says that he is a German then he has no claim to the Land Promise and
God proved it by destroying the not-commanded temple three times.
Joseph Shulam: Every person has different types of identity:
a) His national identity, which is usually not acquired: a child who is
taken from his parents in infancy and raised by strangers acquires the
identity of his adoptive parents and the place where he is raised.
b) One’s personal identity is given to acquisition and change. For
example, a person may study a profession and add another characteristic
to his identity. A son is born to a man and he becomes a father, thus
acquiring another characteristic of his identity and even a new name. A
person receives a doctorate from university and his identity changes,
etc.
The School of Christ which has no "religious observations" to find the kingdom is
COUNTER-CULTURAL. If you think that your culture can change a jot
or tittle of the Word of God then you are in a lot of trouble.
Joseph Shulam: An individual’s personal identity derives from the following sources:
a) The history that a person shares in common with his environment,
including culture, language, and national and personal vision.
b) The public opinion that shapes the character and behavioral patterns of the individual.
c) The willingness of a person to live in society and participate in
community life and the personal sacrifice of the group to which he
belongs. This might be the Lutheran, Methodist or Catholic Church or
perhaps Islam, Buddhism or Judaism. A person’s professional
association, his guild, also attributes identity to a person; at times
even the clothes that he wears are part of his identity.
Ephesians 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity,
even the law of commandments contained in ordinances;
for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
If Joe wants to live like a first century Jew there is no objection.
If he takes pay to teach the Word or uses music to "make the lamb
dumb before the slaughter" or observes festivals which were
Warrior Aged Musters, then maybe the enmity is still there.
The Synagogue was popular with all nations because it was distinct from
all animal slaughter religions where the priests lived off YOUR land
and was A School of the Word as a system of EDUCATION ONLY. Romans 14
insists that your IDENTITY be left in the marketplace so the synagogue
could take place in Romans 15 which was reading "that which is written
for our learning."
THAT IS THE THESIS OF THE JEWS, JESUS AND PAUL REPUDIATED:
the rituals under the Law had NO redeeming or Spirit cleansing power.
If you return to Jewish Roots you will return to a
Civil-Military-Clergy complex Christ called robbers and parasites.
Those oppressed were the godly Jews which had no role to play in the
abandonment to blood and flesh lust.
Acts 15:9 And put no difference between us and them,
purifying their hearts by faith.
Romans 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ
unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
Romans 10:12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek:
for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
The National Identity of the
People of God in the Holy Scriptures must be turned loose. That was the
plague in the first century church.
Joseph Shulam: The Bible recognizes the identity of the people of Israel as the people
of God. In no place in the Old or New Covenants is there a divesting of
the Israeli nation from their position as the people of God – in the
past, the present, or the future. The same principle applies to all of
the Land of Israel, and particularly to Jerusalem.
The northern tribes of Israel were taken into Assyrian captivity and evaporated off the pages of Scripture and history.
The tribe of Judah was worse than Israel in the worship of the stars
and were later taken into captivity where the death sentence imposed at
Mount Sinai was consumated. National Judaism has no claim on the
land of Canaan especially where the Semite blood is about as thin as my
French blood. Being chased out of France does not give me any land
claim by now.
Israel does not means Jews:
Israel spaks of those under the Covenant God in Christ made with
Abraham. Only those who are baptized into Christ connect to the
Abrahamic Covenent (Gal 3)
Isaiah 4:2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious,
and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
Isaiah 4: 3 And it shall come to pass,
that
he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem,
shall be
called holy, even every one that is written among the living in
Jerusalem:
Isaiah 4: 4 When the Lord shall have
washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion,
and shall have purged the
blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof
by the spirit of judgment,
and by the spirit of burning
Isaiah 4:5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion,
and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day,
and the shining of a flaming fire by night:
for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
Isaiah 4:6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat,
and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
Dwelling: 168. ohel, o´-hel;
from 166; a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance):—covering,
(dwelling)(place), home, tabernacle, tent.
Assembly: 4744. miqra,
mik-raw´; from 7121; something called out, i.e. a public meeting (the
act, the persons, or the place); also a rehearsal: assembly,
calling, convocation, reading.
Of those who returned there was only a tiny remnant which were "still alive in Jerusalem"
at the time of Christ. Israel is now a spiritual nation where the
kingdom of God cannot be located on the earth. The land covenant was
conditional: the nation of Israel violated the covenant before the ink
could dry on The Book of the Covenant.
The only spiritual covenant was made by God in Christ to Abraham.
Abraham was not a "Jew" and he was justified by keeping the laws of God
in effect at that time. God turned the national system over to
"worship the starry host" because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.
The Bible and the Jewish Encyclopedia agree that the sacrificial system
which God had not commanded at a literal temple God did not command was
the "worship of the starry host." If God abandoned them to worship the
starry host just what are the nameS of the starry host worshiped at the
Temple from which the godly Israelites were quarantined. They attended
the Qahal, synagogue or Church of Christ in the wilderness.
THE JEWISH ROOTS WAS A FATAL DETOUR FROM THE GODLY CLASSES STILL TAUGHT BY CHRIST IN THE SYNAGOGUES.
Under "Star Worship" the Jewish Encyclopedia
states:
"Star Worship" is perhaps the oldest form
of
idolatry practiced by the ancients. The observation of the stars in the East very
early led the people to regard the planets and the fixed stars as
gods. The religion of the ancient Egyptians is known to have
consisted preeminently of Sun-worship. Moses sternly warned the
Israelites against worshipping the Sun, Moon, stars, and all the
hosts of heaven (Deuteronomy 4:19; 17:3). The Israelites fell
into
this kind of idolatry and as early as the time of Amos they had the
images of Siccuth and
Chium, 'the stars of their god' (Amos
5:26); the latter name is generally supposed to denote the planet
Saturn. That the Kingdom of Israel fell earlier than that of Judah is
stated (II Kings 17:16) to have been due, among other causes, to its
worshipping the host of heaven.
But the Kingdom of Judah in its later
period seems to have outdone the Northern Kingdom [Israel] in
star-worship." Of Manasseh it is related
that he built altars to all the hosts of
heaven in the two courts of the house of YHWY, and it seems it was the practice of even Kings before him to
appoint priests who offered sacrifices to the Sun, the Moon, the planets, and all the hosts
of heaven. Altars for star-worship were built on
the roofs of the houses, and horses and chariots were dedicated to
the worship of the Sun. (II Kings 21:5; 23:4-5, 11-12)
Star-worship
continued in Judah until the 18th year of
Josiah's reign (621 B.C.) when the King took measures to abolish all
kinds of idolatry. But although star-worship was then abolished as a public
cult, it was practiced privately by individuals who worshipped the
heavenly bodies, and poured out libations to them on the roofs of
their houses (Zephaniah 1:5; Jeremiah 8:2; 19:13) Jeremiah,
who
prophesied in the sixth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin (591
B.C.) describes the worship of the Sun as practiced in the court of
the Temple (Ezekiel 8:16) and that even after the destruction of the
Temple the women insisted on continuing to worship the Queen of
Heaven.
"The ancient Hebrews, being nomads like the
Arabs, favored the Moon, while the Babylonians, who were an
agricultural nation, preferred the Sun. But, as appears from Ezekiel
20:7-8 the Moon-worship of the Israelites, even while they were still
in Egypt was combined with
Sun-worship."
HOW CAN YOU BE A DISCIPLE AND MISS IT:
> For I spake NOT unto your
fathers, nor commanded
them
in the
day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning
burnt offerings or sacrifices: Jeremiah 7:22
> But this
thing commanded I them,
saying,
Obey my voice, and I will be your
God, and ye shall
be my people:
and
walk ye in all the ways that I have
commanded you,
that
it may be well unto you. Jeremiah
7:23
> But they HEARKENED NOT, nor inclined their
ear,
but
walked in the counsels and in the imagination
of their evil heart,
and
went backward, and not forward.
Jeremiah 7:24
Euphrainō , Ep. euphr-, fut. Att.155.12, Pi.I.7(6).3
Pind. I. 6
Just as we mix the second bowl of wine when the men's symposium is
flourishing, here is the second song of the Muses for Lampon's children
and their athletic victories: first in Nemea, Zeus, in your honor they
received the choicest of garlands,
Pind. I. 7 In which of the local glories of the past, divinely blessed Thebe, did
you most delight your spirit? Was it when you raised to eminence the
one seated beside Demeter of the clashing bronze cymbals,
flowing-haired [5] Dionysus? Or when you received, as a snow-shower of
gold in the middle of the night, the greatest of the gods,
when he stood in the doorway of Amphitryon, and then went in to the
wife to beget Heracles?
But since ancient grace sleeps, and mortals are forgetful
of whatever does not reach the highest bloom of skillful song, joined to glorious streams of words,
[20]
then begin the victory procession with a sweet-singing hymn for Strepsiades;
> Acts 7:42 Then God turned,
and gave them up to worship the host of heaven;
as it is written in the book of the prophets,
O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts
and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
Then said I unto
them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile
not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. Ezekiel 20: 7
But they
rebelled
against me, and would
not hearken unto me: they did not
every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of
Egypt:
........... then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them,
........... to accomplish my anger
against them
........... in the midst of the
land of
Egypt. Ezekiel 20: 8
But I wrought for my names sake, that it should not be polluted before
the heathen, among whom
they were,
in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing
them forth out of the land of Egypt. Ezekiel 20: 9
........... Wherefore I caused them to
go forth out of the
land of Egypt,
........... and brought
them into the wilderness. Ezekiel 20:10
THE NEW TESTAMENT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TRIBE OF LEVI:
John knew that the Jewish Roots were an evil detour from the Church of
Christ ordained by the Rock to be a School of the Word and quarantined
from the Levite roots at the slaughter pits.
Matthew 3:5 Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,
Matthew 3:6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
Matthew 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism,
he said unto them, O generation of vipers,
who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Matthew 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
Matthew 3:9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father:
for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Matthew 3:10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees:
therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good
fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Matthew 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance:
but he that cometh after me is mightier than I,
whose shoes I am not worthy to bear:
he shall baptize YOU with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
The sign in
the upper room was of Wind (spirit) and Fire: this was a judgmental
sign that God made Jesus of Nazareth to be the sole king and priests
over HIS kingdom. This was to proovide REST from the laded burdens and
burden laders of the Jewish clergy.
pneuma A.
blast, wind, 2.
metaph., thalerōterō p. with more genial breeze or influence
II.
breathed air, breath,
Isaiah 4: 2 In that day shall the branch of
the Lord be beautiful and glorious,
and the fruit of the earth shall
be excellent and comely
for them that are escaped [remnant] of Israel.
Isaiah 4: 3 And it shall come to pass,
that
he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem,
shall be
called holy, even every one that is written among the living in
Jerusalem:
Isaiah 4: 4 When the Lord shall have
washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion,
and shall have purged the
blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof
by the spirit of judgment,
and by the spirit of burning
Matthew 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand,
and he will throughly purge his floor,
and gather his wheat into the garner;
but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
History says that a million Jews
who still refused to listen to God in Christ experienced a holocaust at
the garbage pit called "HELL."
Jesus affirms the Covenant made by Christ (the Rock) made with Abraham:
He does not say that he is the God of the nation because he sentenced
them to Assyria and Babylon to captivity and death.
Matthew 22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
The Jews treated Jesus as a mortal enemy:
John 8:59 Then took they up stones to cast at him:
but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple,
going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
John 10:31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
Why would anyone think that Jesus continued to worship like the Jews?
Christ speaks through the prophets
and apostles: in the prophets he warns about the Lying Pen of the
Scribes and calls them hypocrites.
Acts 3:25 Ye are the children of the prophets,
and of the covenant which God made with our fathers,
saying unto Abraham,
And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
PROVEN BY PAUL:
Galatians 3:1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you,
that ye should not obey the truth,
before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
Galatians 3:2 This only would I learn of you,
Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Galatians 3:3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit,
are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
Galatians 3:4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
Galatians 3:5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit,
and worketh miracles among you,
doeth he it by the works of the law,
or by the hearing of faith?
Paul continued to connect the Christian Roots to Abraham and not to the
cursed detour of the Jews where "Jew" does not necessarily define a
semite or a descendant of the sacred blood line from Abrham downward.
Gentiles were never under the Law of Moses which engendered pride and
prevented them from being grafted into the Abraham-Christ stock.
Galatians 3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law,
shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Phrour-eō ,II. trans., watch, guard, keep watch over it
c. Astrol., occupy, in Pass., Vett.Val.106.18.
custōdĭo ,
II.
With the access. idea of hindering free motion,
B.
Esp., to hold in custody, hold captive: “noctu nervo vinctus custodibitur,” Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 71; Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 9, 3, 50: “ducem praedonum,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 27, § 68: “obsides,” Caes. B. G. 6, 4: “Domitium,” id. B. C. 1, 20: “bovem,” Verg. A. 8, 218 et saep.—Hence, * cu-stōdītē , adv. (acc. to I.), cautiously, carefully: “ut parce custoditeque ludebat!” Plin. Ep. 5, 16, 3.
Shut Up
sug-kleiō
Galatians 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ,
that we might be justified by faith.
A schoolmaster is not a good term: in the Greek educational system this
slave often abused the young boys which was and is a habit of all known
priesthoods.
paida^gōg-os , ho, A. = paidos agōgos, slave who went with a boy from home to school and back again, Hdt.8.75, E.Ion725, El.287, Antipho 3.3.7, Lys.32.28, Pl.Ly.208c: coupled with titthē, trophos, Id.R.373c; with hēgemōn, ib.467d; with didaskalos, X.Lac.3.1; of Phoenix, as the p. of Achilles, Pl.R.390e, etc.; Fabius is called the p. of Hannibal, because he always followed him about, Plu.Fab.5:
Metaphor., ho nomos p. eis Khriston has guided us until attainment of faith in Christ, Ep.Gal.3.24: generally, leader, dēmokratias, turannidos, Plu.Arat.48, Galb.17.
The
synagogues were more devoted to reading the Law and specificially the
prophets: there is nothing in the cursed kingdom period which
contributed one bit to the moral development of the people.
Galatians 3:25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
Galatians 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:27 For [what I mean is] as many of you
as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Galatians 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.
Galatians 3:29 And if ye be Christ’s,
then are ye Abraham’s seed,
and heirs according to the promise.
Romans 4:13 For the promise,
that he should be the heir of the world,
was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law,
but through the righteousness of faith.
Joseph Shulam: The national identity of “God’s people” is always Israel.
It remains
Israel in the New Covenant and also at the second coming of the
Messiah. According to the prophecies, the return of the Messiah is a
return to Israel, the people of Israel and to Jerusalem. The Gentiles
join the people of Israel. In the parable of the olive tree, the
Gentiles are grafted on to the natural, cultivated tree, but not in
place of the pruned and burnt branches.
The
Gentiles were not grafted into Judaism but THE FAITH of Abraham: that's
why Paul leapfrogs the whole Monarchy and reconnects to the Covenant
made by God in Christ to Abraham.
The
Covenant made with Abraham preceded the Law and later Jewish
traditions. Jesus fulfilled the terms of the law by being murdered by
the Jews using the Romans. We must DIE to thelaw so that we may
be joined to Jesus.
Galatians 3:6 Even as Abraham believed God,
and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
Galatians 3:7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith,
the same are the children of Abraham.
Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the
heathen through faith,
preached before the gospel unto Abraham,
saying,
In thee shall all nations be blessed.
Galatians 3:9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
The Christian Gospel give REST from the laded burden and burden
laders. If you conduct synagogue or School (only) of the Word (only)
then no godly disciple could object to assemblying with Gentiles where
all doubtful disputations or personal opinions are silenced in Romans
14 so you can use ONE mind and ONE mouth to speak "that which is
written for our learning." (Romans 15
Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the
curse:
for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in
all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Galatians 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
THE FAITH was pronounced by God in Christ to Abraham. The Christian system was alwatys ANTITHETICAL to THE LAW.
Galatians 3:12 And the law is not of faith:
but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
Galatians 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law,
being
made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that
hangeth on a tree:
Galatians 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.
As long as THE LAW continued then all Gentiles knew that they were held captive by the pedagogues or tyrants.
THE FAITH or the Christian System was violently opposed by the Jews who killed the Prophets who spoke by the Spirit OF CHRIST.
God made Jesus of Nazareth to be both Lord and Christ so that the
fulness of Deity dwelled in him. The cross was the final
sacrificial act which proved to the Jews that the virtual sacrifice of
their "gods" really happened when they murdered Jesus. This defanged
the Jewish Roots and proved that they were NOT by God's command but a
curse.
Romans 10:1 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
Romans 10:2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
Romans 10:3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness,
and going about to establish their own righteousness,
have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Romans 10:5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law,
That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
The Gentiles were grafted into is Abraham and Israel which is spiritual
Israel: the Jews were PRUNED AWAY from any Abrahamic Root to prove that
they were NOT superior but rested on their own self-righteousness.
Romans 11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid.
For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Paul connects his Israelite roots to ABRAHAM and not to the tribe of Levi.
Romans 11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.
Wot ye
not what the scripture saith of Elias?
how he maketh intercession to
God against Israel, saying,
Romans 11:3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars;
and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
See the prophecy of Jacob above.
Romans 11:4 But what saith the answer of God unto him?
I have reserved to myself seven thousand men,
who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
Romans 11:5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Romans 11:6 And if by grace,
then is it no more of works: [The Law]
otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works,
then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Romans 11:7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for;
but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
Romans 11:8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit
of slumber,
eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should
not hear;) unto this day.
Romans 11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree,
wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
Romans 11:19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
The Jews were BROKEN OFF and Gentiles were grafted into the ROOT: Gentiles are not grafted into the Jews
once they have been deprived of connection to the root. if a Jew wants
to be spiritual Israel they must be baptized into Christ to become a
son of Abraham.
Romans 11:23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief,
shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
Romans 11:24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature,
and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these,
which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
Gentiles were not LOST because they had never been under the JUDGMENT of the Law of Moses. They were not natural seed of Abraham
THE UNBELIEVING JEWS ARE NOT AND NEVER WERE SPIRITUAL ISRAEL.
Romans 9:1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
Romans 9:2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
Romans 9:3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren,
my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Most were only Israelites according ot the flesh which counted for nothing
Romans 9:4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants,
and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
Romans 9:5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came,
who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Romans 9:6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect.
For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
Romans 9:7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children:
but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Romans 9:8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh,
these are not the children of God:
but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
JEWS ARE GRAFTED INTO ABRAHAM ON THE SAME TERMS AS GENTILES
Galatians 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:27 For [what I mean is] as many of you
as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Galatians 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.
Galatians 3:29 And if ye be Christ’s,
then are ye Abraham’s seed,
and heirs according to the promise.
Joseph Shulam: Jewish identity should be defined by the Jewish People and not by a group of Gentile missionaries disguising themselves as Jews
That's true: but the Bible is defines the experience of MANY nations with God. There is no DNA so superior that it can change the Word of God. Church or Synagoge is a school (only) of the Word
of God in Christ (only). This SEPARATED the godly Israelites from
the Jacob-Cursed tribe of Levi. One's identity cannot modify the Old
and New Testament.
However, in Romans 14
you have to set aside your doubtful disputations or cultural
preferences which have nothing to do with edifying or educating God's
children.
Joseph Shulam: Jewish identity should be defined by the Jewish People and not by a
group of Gentile missionaries disguising themselves as Jews.
Evangelical Missionary Building Boon in Jerusalem
But here’s the catch… Shulam doesn’t think Jews need missionaries…well…sort of…
“We all appreciate what the missionaries have done. Most of the
Jewish believers in my generation became believers through a Christian
missionary, pastor or individual. And we appreciate it very much. But
now we have matured. But the Christian missionaries have never said
‘now you are on your own, you can make your own decisions, we trust
you’. That has happened in Africa, in China, but not with the Jews. So
the best thing is that they go home now. And I believe that we can
present Jesus to our people just fine…I think it is a primary thing,
for Christians to support Israel, but is a different thing than sending
missionaries, dominating the local believers but rather dealing with
them as brothers in Yeshua.”
But Joseph Shulam exposes a problem that runs very deep. The many
millions of dollars in funding for all of these missionary messianic
institutions in Israel is coming from the evangelical “Christian
Zionist” communities in America. And they just won’t go home and leave
Israel alone…ever.
It is possible to be a religious Jew but not be a Semite: Most are probably Europeans.
A person
cannot say that he is a “carpenter” if he has never held a hammer,
nail, saw or awl in his life. If a person has never in his life made a
bureau or wardrobe or table or door or any other thing that carpenters
make in their daily labor, he cannot call himself a“carpenter.”The
Apostle Shaul, in a biting argument with his opponents, said: “But what
things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Messiah. Yet
indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge
of Messiah Yeshua my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all
things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Messiah”
(Philippians 3:7-8). But at the same time, he knew who he was and his
identity: “I was circumcised on the eighth day, of the nation of
Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the
Torah, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning
the righteousness which is in the Torah, blameless” (Philippians 3:5-6).
JOE MISSED THE FIRST PART OF THE CHAPTER:
Philippians 3:1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord.
To write the
same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is
safe.
Philippians 3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
Those once
of the circumcision NOW Worship God IN THE SPIRIT and not IN THE FLESH.
The mutilators took pride in extreme circumcision.
Philippians 3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in THE
spirit,
and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the
flesh.
Philippians 3:4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh.
If
any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the
flesh, I more:
Philippians 3:5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin,
an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
Philippians 3:6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church;
touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Philippians 3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
Philippians 3:8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss
for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord:
for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
It would not be wise to suggest that Paul still defends his wholly erroneous faith system as a Jew.
IF
PAUL COUNTED HIS ROOTS LOSS IN ORDER TO HAVE A HOLY SPIRIT AND LEARN OF
CHRIST WHY ARE SO MANY TRYING TO UNDO THE CHRISTIAN ROOTS WHICH WAS TO
THE COVENANT MADE WITH ABRAHAM AND NOT WITH THE JEWS?
Philippians 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven;
from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Philippians 3:21 Who shall change our vile body,
that it may be
fashioned like unto his glorious body,
according to the working whereby
he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
PAUL WAS APOLOGIZING NOT BOASTING OF SUPERIORITY.
IN ROMANS 9-11 PAUL REPUDIATES THE SUPERIORITY AND PREDESTINATION OF THE JEWS.
After being saved by
Grace and receiving The Book of the Covenant the Jews fell back into
their past and future Sabaxianism: Paul uses this event to prove that
the Jews were neither superior nor predestinated:
The Jews denied that the Gentiles were "pure" enough to be baptized and
insist that they be circumcised and keep the Law of Moses. They
believed that they were PREDESTINATED just because God ELECTED them for
a purpose.
However, the Law of Moses did not produce salvaton because it was ADDED when the nation fell from grace at Mount Sinai.
Paul's ONLY issue in discussing THE FAITH and THE LAW is to prove that
there is no predestinated class. All are sinners and they all need to
have their sins REMITTED. No one has their sins remitted without
Baptism. Therefore, because the Gentiles are not less worthy than the
Jews, they could not FORBID baptism for the Gentiles. This conflict
PROVES that Baptism is that time and place where people are elected
(invited) and become the elect ONLY if they are baptized. This puts
them under the only covenant of Grace given to Abraham in promise and
fulfilled by Baptism INTO Christ.
Rom. 9:29 And as Esaias said before,
Except the Lord of Sabaoth had
left us a seed,
we had been as Sodoma,
and been made like unto
Gomorrha.
Isaiah 1:9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant,
we should have been as Sodom,
and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
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?
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.
They were nor reserved because of the Law but because BY FAITH they refused to bow to Baal.
The Gentiles and the godly Israelites practiced personal righteousness
and social justice: God did not command anything associated with the
"Jewish" worship. He imposed that because they had sinned beyond
redemption.
At the same time the godly Jews and Gentiles attended the
synagogue which was to REST from the horrors of animal slaughter, to
READ and to REHEARSE the Word of God as delivered in the Covenant and
later in the prophets. The Gentiles and a tiny remnant of Jews
were prepared when Christ came to stop the Jew's "Covenant with death."
The Apostles being guided by the Spirit in the Word do not appeal
to the Law of Moses but to the synagogue as the place of assemble to
quarantine the godly people from the sacrificial system.
THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN THE WILDERNESS ONWARD AS QAHAL OR SYNAGOGUE QUARANTINED FROM THE JEWISH ROOTS.
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time
hath in every city them that preach him,
being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
To repudiate the Judaizers along with Peter, he said;
Acts 10:35 But in every nation he that feareth him,
and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
Christ in Isaiah said:
Isaiah 64:4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard,
nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen,
O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
Isaiah 64:5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness,
those that remember thee in thy ways:
behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned:
in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing,
and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags;
and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities,
like the wind, have taken us away.
One's Jewish Roots or Arab roots can never be used as a way to interpret the Word of God
Rom. 9:30 What shall we say then?
That the Gentiles, which followed not
after righteousness, [The Law of Moses]
have attained to righteousness,
even the
righteousness which is of faith.
pist-euo trust, put faith in, rely on a person, thing, or statement
2. comply, hôs ouch hupeixôn oude pisteusôn
legeis; [625] Are you resolved not to yield or believe
A.
pepisteukein Act.Ap.14.23 : ( [pistis] ) :--trust, put faith in,
rely on a person, thing, or statement, tini
Hdt.1.24 ; tôi logôi Id.2.118 2.
comply, OPPOSITE to APISTEO
Those who
COMPLY NOT
Apist-eô to be apistos, Apist-eô I.
disbelieve, distrust, was distrusted, i.e. no one could be sure of knowing,
II. = apeitheô, disobey, to be DISOBEDIENT, they refuse to comply, They
are not to be trusted, and so of persons and their acts,
not
trusty, faithless, Act., mistrustful, incredulous, suspicious, Treacherously, cause to REVOLT
from. also
kleptô
meaning: seize or
occupy secretly,
effect or bring about clandestinely, gamon, to be 'smuggled in' get rid of imperceptibly
Joseph Shulam: I am not opposed to my Gentile brothers having their own identity,
their own culture, and a style of worship that differs from mine, and
even that they be Pentecostals, Lutherans, Baptists, or Afro-Americans.
But as for me, the most important thing is the fact that the first
congregation in Jerusalem, as described in the pages of the New
Covenant, was a Messianic Jewish congregation, which was 100% faithful
to our Lord Yeshua and 100% faithful to the Torah of Israel.
That is not a fact:
Christ ordained the synagogue or Church of Christ (the Rock) in the
wilderness. The Law of Moses and the national Jews were the COVENANT
WITH DEATH which burdened all people so that the nobility could live at
ease. The meaning of salvation is salvation FROM the Crooked Race
of vipers. The first people to be FREED from Judaism were the
godly Jews who always attended synagogue. The first asssemblies were
defined.
GIVING HEED TO THE
WORD OF GOD IS THE ONLY WORSHIP CONCEPT IN THE CHURCH OF CHRIST.
The Synagogue for the godly Jews and Gentiles is the eternal pattern:
it is in the words of everyone including the Campbells A School of
Christ. Worship is reading and musing the Word of God.
Joseph Shulam: By the
same measure, Shaul the apostle was totally faithful to the Lord
Yeshua, who revealed Himself to him on the road to Damascus, and also
100% faithful to the Torah of Moses and Israel.
The Sabbath means REST: the faithful Jews never held 'worship services' on the Sabbath: they synagogued to read the Word of God.
In fact the "Jewish roots" profaned the Sabbath and got away with it
because they had been abandoned to Sabazianism beyond redemption.
After
the resurrection--still hiding from their Jewish Roots--Jesus
synagogued with the disciples two first days of the week in a row.
John 20:19 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week,
when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews,
came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
Acts 20:7 And upon the first day of the week,
when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto
them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until
midnight.
Sunagō from which synagogue is derived.
John 20:26 And after eight days
again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them:
then came Jesus,
the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto
you.
John 20:30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:
John 20:31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God;
and that believing ye might have life through his name.
If
the Christians were worshipping like in the Torah (just the law) then
why were the fearful of the Jews seeking the Messiah so that they could
murder Him consistent with all sacrificial systems which began with the
Sacrifice of Kings yearly, then the sacrifice of a surrogate and
finally the sacrifice of animals along with infants.?
Paul had to repent of a religion which gave him authority to murder believers.
Joseph Shulam: The most important thing is the fact that the first
congregation in Jerusalem, as described in the pages of
the New Covenant, was a
Messianic Jewish congregation, which was 100% faithful to our Lord
Yeshua and 100% faithful to the Torah of Israel
That's not a fact: Christ in Spirit, the Rock, ordained the Qahal, Synagogue or Church of Christ in the wilderness. This QUARANTINED the godly Jews from the sacrificial system and the curse of Jacob on the tribe of Levi specificially.
Acts 2:41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized:
and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
Acts 2:42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship,
and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
Jesus never went beyond the outer court of the Temple and would have
been executed if he went into the inner court where the Jews
slaughtered innocent animals to satisfy a blood and flesh lust.
Jesus never "worshiped" in anything similar to The Law of Moses but in
the synagogues which are defined in the Torah but not remotely similar
to Israel's abandonment to "worship the starry host." Stephen
repudiated the Jewish system because the promise when they practiced
musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.
The synagogue continued parallel to the temple and sacrificial system
which effectively died after the Jews returned from Babylon with a NEW
STYLE OF WORDHIP. The acted parables of Jews were to repudiate the
rituals learned and practiced in Babylon.
The SYNAGOGUE was ANTITHETICAL to the
Sacrificial system: Jesus and the early disciples came togther two
FIRST DAYS OF THE WEEK IN A ROW. The Synagogue had just ONE ACT:
Reading and discussing the Word:
Qahal
(h6951) kaw-hawl'; from 6950; assemblage (usually concr.): -
assembly, company, congregation, multitude.
"A community, qahal in Hebrew, is a Jewish community of any size. The
qahal was a well established concept and was called an
ekklesia in the Nazarean Codicil. In English we translate the Greek ekklesia as church. So, whenever we see the word church in
our Nazarean Codicil's, we should have in mind the concept of a qahal, a community or
congregation.
The Septuagint uses the word Ecclesia seventy
times when it translates the Hebrew word: kve (qahal could also be spelled Cahal), from which we get our English word call. It means to call together, to assemble, or gather together.
The synagogue serves the same
purpose for a community that the Temple served for the nation.
(Greg Killian)
From this midrash
we learn that the study and application of the scriptures and the
oral law, are the work that a group of people put in
to establish a qahal. However, without a structure to impart this wisdom,
the qahal will not prosper. The structure that establishes and
prospers a qahal is the synagogue.
- The church #1577 ekklesia
- assembly, called out
ones, set apart ones, congregation; in Hebrew this word is #6951 qahal
(kahal) - a "synagogue" (E. W.
Bullinger, Commentary on Revelation, p. 165-166),
an
assemblage, congregation, company from the root #6950 qahal
meaning specifically a coming together, an
assembling, a convocation, congregation; this word
is used mostly for
religious purposes (see William Wilson's Old Testament Word
Studies, p. 92)
The
LXX uses the word
ekklesia to translate the Hebrew
qahal. Qahal
means to call, to assemble, and the noun form means a congregation or
assembly. Solomon is called
koheleth the Preacher,
translated by the LXX ekklesiastes.
The earliest known occurrence of the word is found in Job 30:28, ‘I
cried in the congregation’. In the books of the
law, qahal
is rendered by the Greek word
sunagoge,
showing that the synagogue is the beginning of the New Testament
church. Stephen in his speech which ended in his martyrdom referred to
the history of Israel, and dwells for considerable length upon the one
great leader Moses, saying in Acts 7:38:
And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the
seventh day there shall be an holy
convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them,
save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
Ex.12:16
Miqra (h4744) mik-raw'; from 7121; something
called out, i. e. a public meeting (the act, the persons, or the
place); also a rehearsal: - assembly, calling, convocation, reading.
And he read therein before the street that was before the water
gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and
those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were
attentive unto the book of the law. Ne 8:3
Read
is:
Qara (h7121) kaw-raw'; a prim. root [rather
ident. with 7121 through the idea of accosting a person met]; to call
out to (i. e. prop. address by name, but used in a wide variety of
applications): - bewray [self], that are bidden, call (for, forth,
self, upon), cry (unto), (be) famous, guest, invite, mention, (give)
name, preach,
(make) proclaim (- ation), pronounce, publish, read, renowned,
say.
And Ezra the scribe stood upon
a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him
stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and
Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and
Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and
Meshullam. Ne 8:4
And Ezra opened the book in the
sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when
he opened it, all the people stood up: Ne 8:5
And Ezra blessed the Lord, the
great God. And all the people answered, Amen,
Amen,
with lifting up their
hands:
and they bowed their
heads,
and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground. Ne 8:6
Also Jeshua, and Bani, and
Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita,
Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people
to understand the law: and the people stood in their place. Ne 8:7
So they read in the book in the law of God
distinctly, and gave
the sense,
and caused them to understand the reading. Ne.8:8
Sekel
(h7922) seh'-kel; or sekel say'-kel; from 7919; intelligence; by
impl. success: - discretion, knowledge, policy, prudence, sense,
understanding, wisdom, wise
International Standard Bible
Encyclopedia)
Thus
these meetings, which at first were only held on Sabbaths and feast days,
came also to be held on
other days, and at the same hours with the services in the
temple.
The essential aim, however, of
the synagogue was not
prayer,
but instruction in the Law for all classes of the people.
Philo calls the synagogues
"houses of
instruction, where the
philosophy of the fathers and all manner of virtues were taught"
And he came to Nazareth, where
he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the
synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. Lu.4:16
This was Christ's command
for the Synagogue or church of Christ in the wilderness but this was
ANTITHETICAL to the worship of the Jacob-cursed tribe of Levi.
And after the reading of the law and the
prophets, the rulers of
the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye and brethren, if ye have any
word of exhortation for the people, say on. Ac.13:15
Till I come, give attendance to
reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 1Ti.4:13
"The
word that is
employed for this "anaginosko, anagnosis)
is the technical term for
the cultic
reading
aloud
of the Old
Testament in the synagogue. By
applying this terminology to the
reading of his own epistles he not only ascribes the same authority
to the apostolic word as to the Old Testament writings...he also
combines a quotation from the Old Testament with a word of Jesus and
introduces the whole with the familiar formula: 'for the Scripture
says.'" (Ridderbos, Hermon, Paul, P. 483 an Outline of His Theo.,
Eerdmans)
"Anaginosko--of written characters, know
them again, and so, read, 6.
Med., attach oneself to a thing, cling,
cleave to, 7. Pass., to
be held fast by a thing
1.
know well, know certainly, “ou gar pō tis heon gonon autos anegnō” Od.1.216, cf. 21.205, Il.13.734.
b.
perceive, Theoc.24.23.
2.
know again, recognize, Od.4.250; once in Hdt., acknowledge, own, “anagnōnai tous suggeneas” Hdt.2.91, cf. Pi.I.2.23: aor. Pass. once in E., “ei men gar ezē posis, anegnōsthēmen an” Hel.290.
II :—of written characters, know them again, and so, read, first in Pi.O.10(11).1, cf. Ar.Eq.118, 1065, Th.3.49,
books read aloud, hence, published, opp. ta anekdota, [unpublished] Lycon ap.D.L.5.73.
Homologia (g3671) hom-ol-og-ee'-ah; from the same
as 3670; acknowledgment: - con- (pro-) fession, professed.
Of the unconverted Jews in Rome:
But even unto this day, when
Moses is
read, the vail is upon
their heart. 2Co.3:15
Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the
mystery of Christ) Ep.3:4
And when this epistle is
read
among you, cause that
it be read
also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise
read the epistle from Laodicea. Col.4:16
I charge you by the Lord, that
this epistle be read
unto all the holy brethren. 1Th.5:27
Blessed is he that
readeth, and they that hear the words of this
prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the
time is at hand. Re.1:3
And I wept much, because no man
was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. Re.5:4
WHEN THE JEWS FELL INTO IDOLATRY AT MOUNT SINAI MOSES PROMISED ANOTHER PROPHET LIKE HIM WHO WOULD BE HEARD.
Acts 3:22-23 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the
Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear
in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, [that]
every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the
people.
Acts 7:37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet
shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall
ye hear.
Deuteronomy 18:15 Masoretic (AV) The Lord thy God shall raise up to thee a prophet of
thy brethren,
like me; him shall ye hear:
Deuteronomy 18:18-19 I will raise up to them a prophet of their brethren, like thee;
and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them as I shall command
him.
And whatever man shall not hearken to whatsoever words that prophet shall speak
in my name,
I will take vengeance on him.
That means that when the Jews were abandoned to worship the starry host the DID NOT hear the Word of God anymore.
Jesus spoke only what He heard from the Father and Jesus didn't hear any message about saving Judaism.
Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and
[A] teach all nations,
[B] baptizing them in the name [singular] of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matthew 28:20 [C] Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Jesus didn't teach or quote favorably anything of the Jewish Roots spread in Jerusalem
Joseph Shulam: Please refer to the following selections from the New Covenant Scriptures:
1. Matthew 5:17-20: “Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah [Law] or
the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly,
I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle
will by no means pass from the Torah till all is fulfilled.
The so called Torah five books defines the history of the Hebrew
people and their utter rebellion against God. Thse books contain
many things ANTITHETICAL to both the Law of Moses and warn against new Laws
defined by David and others for the not-commanded king, kingdom,
temple, sacrificial system or slaughter of others to get their income
producing property.
Matthew 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till
heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass
from the law, till all be fulfilled.
The Law would be in effect until the
Church came with POWER on the day of Pentecost. The Law regulated the
outward flesh but the Spirit or Truth or Gospel will allow the law to
abide in the hert or spiri
gignomai, come into a new state of being. come into being opposite to "that which exists." To be born.
The Law of Moses would pass out of force WHEN the new state of being came into existence.
The TORAH or first five books of Moses is not The Law of Moses which was given because of transgression.
Luke 24:44 And he said unto them, These are the words
which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled,
which were written in the law of Moses,
and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
plēr-oō 2. fill full of food, gorge, satiate, Pass., to be filled full of, satisfied,
Matthew 5:16 Let your light so shine before
men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which
is in heaven.
Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am
come to destroy the law, or the prophets:
I am not come to destroy,
but to fulfil.
Hebrews 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners
spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Hebrews 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son,
whom he hath appointed heir of all things,
by whom also he made the worlds;
Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory,
and the express image of his person,
and upholding all things by the word of his power,
when he had by himself purged our sins,
sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Hebrews 1:4 Being made so much better than the angels,
as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Hebrews 1:5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time,
Thou art
my Son, this day have I begotten thee?
And again, I will be to him a
Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
1Peter 1:17 And if ye call on the Father,
who without respect of
persons judgeth according to every man’s work,
pass the time of your
sojourning here in fear:
1Peter 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed
with
corruptible things, as silver and gold,
from your vain conversation
received by tradition from your fathers;
1Peter 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ,
as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
1Peter 1:20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world,
but was manifest in these last times for you,
THE LAW WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL:
gignomai, come into a new state of being. come into being opposite to "that which exists." To be born.
CHRIST PROPHESIED OF THE END OF THE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM AND THE BIRTH OF A NEW NATION
Isaiah 66:3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man;
he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck;
he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood;
he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol.
Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
Isaiah 66:4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them;
because when I called, none did answer;
when I spake, they did not hear:
but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
Isaiah 66:5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word;
your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake,
said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
Isaiah 66:6 A voice of noise from the city,
a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
Isaiah 66:7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
Isaiah 66:8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things?
Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day?
or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
Joseph Shulam: Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and
teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but
whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom
of heaven. For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the
righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter
the kingdom of heaven.”
The Law of Moses spoke only of the kingdom of IMPOSED
on those who refused to obey the Word of God. The kingdom of Chrst on
the other hand was the Church of Christ which makes one dead to the
Law. Even demanding circumcision would repudiate the work of Christ and
put Messianic Jews back under the Covenant with Death.
James makes the point that if one shows
partiality they are guilty of all of the tenets of the Law of Moses.
Anyone without baptism into Christ would would be Apistos or
treacherous to Christ. That left them under the 613 rules of the Law of
Moses. Anyone
Matthew 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break
one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be
called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and
teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of
heaven.
Matthew 5:20 For I say unto you,
That except
your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness
of the scribes and
Pharisees,
ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of
heaven.
Matt 5:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is
given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Matt 5:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matt 5:20 Teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I have
commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you alway,
even unto the end of the
world. Amen.
Peter Prophets by Christ and prophecies made more certain.
Mark as false teacher.
Gregory the Great
Matthew 28:19. 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.
Joseph Shulam: 2. 1 Corinthians 7:17-20: “But as God has distributed to each one, as
the Lord has called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all
the congregations. Was anyone called while circumcised? Let him not
become uncircumcised. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? Let him
not be circumcised. Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is
nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters. Let each
one remain in the same calling in which he was called.”
A person who was mutilated at birth often sought to have the evidence
removed. Circumcison had to do with the flesh only. Being a
Christian did not demand that a person seek to redo that which was
related to the flesh and not the conscience. However, Paul
made it certain that if a person insists on circumcision repudiates Christ: we are spiritually circumcised at baptism.
Circumcision was given to Abraham as a sign of the Covenant made with GOD IN CHRIST.
Galatians 3:17 And this I say, that the covenant,
that was confirmed before of God in Christ,
the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after,
cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Acts 7:38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness
with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina,
and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
Acts 7:39 To whom our fathers would not obey,
but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
Acts 7:40 Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us:
for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt,
we wot not what is become of him.
Acts 7:41 And they made a calf in those days,
and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Acts 7:42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven;
as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel,
have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices
by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
Acts 7:43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan,
figures which ye made to worship them:
and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
"the star of your
god--R. ISAAC CARO says
all the astrologers represented Saturn
as the star of Israel. Probably there was a figure of a star on the head of the image of the idol, to represent
the planet Saturn;
hence "images"
correspond to "star" in the parallel clause. A star in hieroglyphics
represents God (Nu
24:17). "Images" are either a Hebraism for "image," or refer to the
many images made to represent Chiun.
Remphan, (hrem-fan') is the King James Version of the Bible's rendering of the Greek word variously appearing in Acts 7 verse 43 as Ρομφα, Ρεμφάν, Ρεμφαμ, Ραιφαν, and Ρεφαν. It is part of a quotation from Amos 5 verse 26 where the Septuagint's reading raiphan or rephan stands the Hebrew Chiun or Kewan. The Greek forms are probably simple mistakes for the Hebrew, k (qoppa) having been replaced by r (resh) and ph substituted for v (yod). Kewan is probably the Old Babylonian Kayawanu, the planet Saturn, another (the Akkadian) name for which is Sakkut, which appears as Siccuth in the earlier part of the verse.
By incorrect transliteration for a word of Hebrew origin [H3594];
Remphan (that is, Kijun), an Egyptian idol: - Remphan. In the book of
the Acts of the Apostles chapter 7 Stephen points about this deity
Remphan the star of your god whose images you made to worship.(verse 43)
Acts 7:44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness,
as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses,
that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
Acts 7:45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in
with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles,
whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
Acts 7:46 Who found favour before God,
and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
Acts 7:47 But Solomon built him an house.
Acts 7:48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
Hebrews 9:1 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service,
and a worldly sanctuary.
This
was not the Temple but the Tabernacle: it was important to have a
central sanctuary which bound all of the tribes together: this
had nothing to do with the weekly asssembly of the godly people where
Sabbath meant REST and not a "worship service" which means a laded
burden. The people remained in their own area and were to read and
rehears the Word of God. This was not a Jewish institution but a
Christ-ordained institution.
Hebrews 9:2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first,
wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
Hebrews 9:3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
Hebrews 9:4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant
overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had
manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
Hebrews 9:5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
Hebrews 9:6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went
always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
Hebrews 9:7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every
year,
not without blood, which he offered for himself,
and for the
errors of the people:
Hebrews 9:8 The Holy Ghost this signifying,
that the way into the
holiest of all was not yet made manifest,
while as the first tabernacle
was yet standing:
Hebrews 9:9 Which was a figure for the time then present,
in which were
offered both gifts and sacrifices,
that could not make him that did the
service perfect,
as pertaining to the conscience;
Hebrews 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks,
and divers washings,
and carnal ordinances,
imposed on them until the time of reformation.
Hebrews 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to
come,
by a greater and more perfect tabernacle,
not made with hands,
that is to say, not of this building;
Hebrews 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves,
but by his own
blood he entered in once into the holy place,
having obtained eternal
redemption for us.
Hebrews 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats,
and the ashes of
an heifer sprinkling the unclean,
sanctifieth to the purifying of the
flesh:
Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ,
who through the
eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God,
purge your
conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Hebrews 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new
testament,
that by means of death,
for the redemption of the
transgressions that were under the first testament,
they which are
called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free,
and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Galatians 5:2 Behold, I Paul say unto you,
that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
Galatians 5:3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised,
that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
Galatians 5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you,
whosoever of you are justified by the law;
are fallen from grace.
The New Testament makes many contrasts between THE LAW and THE FAITH or FLESH and SPIRIT.
Galatians 5:5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
Galatians 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything,
nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
Galatians 5:7 Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
Galatians 5:8 This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.
Galatians 5:9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
1Corinthians 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not
with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but
with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Galatians 5:10 I have confidence in
you through the Lord,
that ye will be none otherwise minded:
but he
that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
Galatians 5:11 And I, brethren, if I
yet preach circumcision,
why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the
offence of the cross ceased.
Galatians 5:12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
Galatians 5:13 For, brethren, ye have
been called unto liberty;
only use not liberty for an occasion to the
flesh, but by love serve one another.
Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word,
even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Joseph Shulam: 3. Acts 21: 17-24: “And when we had come to Jerusalem, the brethren
received us gladly. On the following day Paul went in with us to James,
and all the elders were present. When he had greeted them, he told in
detail those things which God had done among the Gentiles through his
ministry.
And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord. And they
said to him,
‘You see, brother, how many myriads of Jews there are who
have believed,
and they are all zealous for the Torah; [Me too! The Torah defines the synagogue or Church of Christ]
but they have
been informed about you that you teach all the Jews
who are among the
Gentiles to forsake Moses,
saying that they ought not to circumcise
their children nor walk according to the customs.
What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that
you have come.
Therefore do what we tell you:
We have four men who have
taken a vow.
Take them and be purified with them,
and pay their
expenses so that they may shave their heads,
and that all may know that
those things of which they were informed
concerning you are nothing,
but that you yourself also walk orderly and keep the Torah.’”
LOOKING AT THE WHOLE PURPOSE
Acts 9:14 And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name.
Acts 9:15 But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me,
to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
Acts 9:16 For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.
Paul had been given a true sanctifying act by Jesus Christ Who as
Spirit appeared to Paul and let him hear His voice to qualify as an
apostle.
Acts 21:10 And as we tarried there many days,
there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus.
Acts 21:11 And when he was come unto us,
he took Paul’s girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said,
Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem
bind the man that owneth this girdle,
and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.
Acts 21:12 And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place,
besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.
Acts 21:13 Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart?
for I am ready not to be bound only,
but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Acts 21:14 And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.
The Jews in Jerusalem practiced ceremonial washings over and over
but none of them or anything under the Law of Moses had any redemptive
value. Paul went to Jerusalem not to confirm the practices of the
Jews but to Preach baptism. He clearly understood that the
preaching of the Gospel instead of the Law imposed on them would bring
on the wrath of the Jews in Jerusalem.
Paul was a devout Jew and knew the Law but he DID NOT know God's will.
Paul gave notice of men taking a vow but Paul did not keep the Law of
Moses. Here he is in Jerusalem preaching a REAL method of
cleansing which repudiated all that the Jews knew or had been taught.
Acts 21:26 Then Paul took the men,
and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple,
to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.
They served notice: they had to wait for 7 days. Paul served
notice of the Jews whom he knew would not hear about Baptism as a TRUE
method of cleansing. Sure enough the Jews were incited and:
Acts 21:27 And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia,
when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,
The Jews did NOT believe that Paul was a Legalist: Paul had to be rescued from the Jews
Acts 21:40 And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs,
and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a
great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,
Paul then preached the sermon which he knew would get him
murdered or taken captive: His statement was that he was Zealous toward
God.
Acts 22:1 Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.
Acts 22:2 (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them,
they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
Acts 22:3 I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in
Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and
taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and
was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
The Old Testament is for our learning: the synagogue read it and discussed it: they did NOT look for a MODEL to replace Christ.
Jesus Christ now The Holy Spirit picked Paul to know His Will: Paul was an educated Jew but he did NOT know God's willd.
Acts 22:14 And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee,
that thou shouldest know his will,
and see that Just One,
and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.
Acts 22:15 For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.
Acts 22:16 And now why tarriest thou?
arise, and be baptized,
and wash away thy sins,
calling on the name of the Lord.
Acts 22:17 And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem,
even while I prayed in the temple [court], I was in a trance;
As a good Jew:
Acts 22:18 And saw him saying unto me,
Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem:
for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.
Acts 22:19 And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue
them that believed on thee:
Acts 22:20 And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed,
I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death,
and kept the raiment of them that slew him.
Acts 22:21 And he said unto me,
Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.
Joseph Shulam: 4. Acts 24: 14-18: “But this I confess to you,
that according to the
Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fathers,
believing all things which are written in the Torah and in the
Prophets.
Acts 24:14 But this I confess unto thee,
that after the way which they call heresy,
so worship I the God of my fathers,
believing all things which are written in the law
and in the prophets:
The Law is not the five books: Both Moses
and the Prophets defined the future REST the Jews never entered because
they were unbelievers.
Paul worshipped as a Christian: he did not worship according to the Torah: he
believed what was written in the Torah and the Prophets. The worship of
the godly Jews under the Law was at the synagogue which quarantined
them from participating in the worship of the sacrificial system
Joseph Shulam: I have hope in God, which they themselves also accept, that
there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the
unjust. This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience
without offense toward God and men. Now after many years, I came to
bring alms and offerings to my nation, in the midst of which some Jews
from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with a mob nor with
tumult.”
Bringing offerings to the hungry Jews was the only "lay by in store" commanded in the Bible. The poor box was for the poor.
Joseph Shulam:
5. Acts 28: 17: “And it came to pass after three days that Paul called
the leaders of the Jews together. So when they had come together, he
said to them:
‘Men and brethren, though I have done nothing against our
people
or the customs of our fathers,
yet I was delivered as a prisoner
from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.’”
When
Paul claim to be an inspired apostle and contradicted the Jewish
washings for purification this was NOT against the people but against the Jewish clergy. Paul had to
repudiate everything connected with the Law of Moses only when the
first century Judaizers persecuted Christians to their death.
Acts 22:14 And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee,
that thou shouldest know his will,
and see that Just One,
and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.
Acts 22:15 For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.
Acts 22:16 And now why tarriest thou?
arise, and be baptized,
and wash away thy sins,
calling on the name of the Lord.
There
is nothing in the Jewish Roots which could cleans the conscience. There
is no example in the New Testamentof any church doing anything similar
to the Jewish sacrificial system.
The Church of Christ and real
baptism into Christ was not contrary to the Law of Moses. This
certainly enraged all of those with a vested interest in keeping the
den of thiever or house of merchandise operating like a mega-church.
Dialogue of Justin Martyr to Trypho, a Jew Jesus Christ
is God Chapter
Chapter XVII.-The
Jews Sent Persons Through the Whole Earth to Spread Calumnies on
Christians.
"For other nations have not inflicted on us and on Christ this wrong to such an
extent as you have, who in very deed
are the authors of the wicked prejudice
against the Just One, and us who hold
by Him. For after that you had crucified Him, the only blameless and
righteous Man,-through whose swipes those who approach the Father by
Him are healed,-when you knew that He had risen from the dead and
ascended to heaven, as the prophets foretold He would, you not only
did not repent of the wickedness which you had committed, but at that
time you selected and sent out from Jerusalem chosen men through all
the land to tell that the godless heresy of the Christians had sprung
up, and to publish those things which all they who knew us not speak
against us
XVIII.-Christians Would Observe the Law, If They Did Not Know Why It
Was Instituted.
"For since you have read, O Trypho, as you
yourself admitted, the doctrines taught by our Saviour, I do not
think that I have done foolishly in adding some short utterances of
His to the prophetic statements.
- Wash therefore, and be now clean, and put
away iniquity from your souls,
- as God bids you be washed in this laver,
- and be circumcised with the true
circumcision.
For we too would observe the fleshly
circumcision, and the Sabbaths, and in short all the feasts, if we
did not know for what reason they were enjoined you,-namely, on
account of your transgressions and the
hardness of your hearts. For if we
patiently endure all things contrived against us by wicked men and
demons, so that even amid cruelties unutterable, death and torments,
we pray for mercy to those who inflict such things upon us, and do
not wish to give the least retort to any one, even as the new
Lawgiver commanded us: how is it, Trypho, that we would not observe
those rites which do not harm us,-I speak of fleshly circumcision,
and Sabbaths, and feasts?
Moreover, all those righteous men already
mentioned, though they kept no
Sabbaths, were pleasing to God; and after them Abraham with all his descendants
until
Moses, under whom your nation appeared unrighteous and ungrateful to God,
making a calf in the
wilderness:
wherefore God, accommodating
Himself to that nation,
enjoined them also to offer
sacrifices,
as if to His name, in order that you might not serve idols.
Which precept, however, you have not observed; nay, you
sacrificed your children to
demons.
And you were commanded to keep Sabbaths, that you might
retain the memorial of God. For His
word makes this announcement, saying, "That ye may know that I am God
who redeemed you.'
Chapter XXI.-Sabbaths Were Instituted on Account of the
People's Sins, and Not for
a Work of Righteousness.
"Moreover, that God enjoined you to
keep the Sabbath, and impose on you other
precepts for a sign, as I have already
said, on account of your unrighteousness, and that
of your fathers,-as He declares that for the sake of the nations,
lest His name be
profaned among them, therefore He
permitted some of you to remain alive,-these words of His can prove to
you: they are narrated by Ezekiel thus:
"I am the Lord your God; walk in My
statutes, and keep My
judgments, and take no part in the
customs of Egypt; and hallow My
Sabbaths;
and they shall be a sign between Me and you,
that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.
Notwithstanding ye rebelled against
Me
, and your children walked not in My statutes,
neither kept My judgments to do them: which if a man do, he shall
live in them.
But they polluted My Sabbaths.
And I said that I would pour out My fury upon them in the
wilderness, to accomplish My anger upon
them; yet I did it not; that My name might not be altogether profaned
in the sight of the heathen.
I led them out before their eyes, and I
lifted up Mine hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the
heathen, and disperse them through the countries; because they had not
executed My judgments, but had despised My statutes, and polluted My
Sabbaths, and their eyes were after the devices of their fathers.
Wherefore I gave them also
statutes which were not good, and judgments whereby they shall not
live. And I shall pollute them in their own gifts, that I may destroy
all that openeth the womb, when I pass through them. Ezek. xx. 19-26. '
The Covenant made by God in Christ to Abraham and Jacob who were
Gentiles. That covenant never changed to the time of Jesus Christ. His
mission was to dismantle the Temple and the curse of the sacrificial
system. That was the only way His "school of the Word' could be
somewhat safe from the pseudo Jews and their synagogue of Satan.
FULFILMENT OF ISAIAH 3 AND END TIME DELUSIONS
You simply cannot be a Christian or disciple of Christ commanded
to observe what HE commanded to be observed and seek to Judaize again
after these 2,000 years. Some few churches of Christ have fallen into
the Levites as authority for musical worship: seeking to AID Christ as
our only Teacher is of course blasphemous and the answer to Isaiah 3
warning about the rise of women and effeminate men.
Psa. 81:2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel,
the pleasant harp
with the psaltery.
[3]
sumite psalmum et date tympanum psalterium iucundum cum cithara
"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)
Psalm.Delitzsch.Psalm.html
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. We therefore adopt
Perret- Gentil's rendering, chant avec voix de femmes, and still more
readily Armand de Mestral's, en soprano; whereas Melissus' rendering,
"upon musical
instruments
called Alamoth (the Germans would say, upon the virginal),
Tympanum
A. Esp., as beaten by the priests of Cybele,
Lucr. 2, 618;
Cat. 63, 8 sq.;
Verg. A. 9, 619;
Ov. M. 3, 537;
4, 29;
4, 391;
id. F. 4, 213;
Plaut. Poen. 5, 5, 38;
Caes. B. C. 3, 105;
Curt. 8, 11, 20;
8, 14, 10;
Tac. H. 5, 5, —Also by the
Bacchantine
females,
Ov. M. 11, 17.—Beaten
by the Parthians as a signal in battle in place of the tuba,
Just. 41, 2, 8.—
Tympanotriba , ae, m., = tumpanotribês,
I. a taborer, a
timbrel-player, a term of reproach for a soft, effeminate person
(alluding to the priests of Cybele), Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 49; cf.
tympanum.
T. Maccius Plautus, Truculentus, or The
Churl
STRATOPHANES (to
PHRONESIUM.) What say you? Why have you dared to say that you love
another man?
PHRONESIUM I chose to.
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
(608)
7 , a fellow not worth
a
nutshell?
GETA What new thing's
this?
Do you dare, you rogue, to speak ill of my master, you spring-head of
vice and perjury?
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
"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'." (Quasten)
-Psaltērĭum , ĭi, n., = psaltērion (e scanned short, Ven. Fort. 2,
19, 43).
I.A stringed instrument of the lute kind, a psaltery,
Varr.
ap.
Non. 215, 16; Cic. Har. Resp. 21, 44; Verg. Cir. 178; Quint. 1, 10, 31; Arn. 6, 209; Aug. in Psa. 32;
70; Tert. Cor.
Mil. 9; Vulg. 1 Par. 13, 8; id. Psa. 56, 8.—
Cic.
Har.
21.44 All these men had a reason,—not an adequate one,
indeed, (for no one can have an adequate reason for proving a bad
citizen to the republic,) but still they had a serious reason, and one
connected with some indignation of mind not unbecoming to a man.
Publius
Clodius
came out as a popular character from saffron gowns and
turbans, and woman's slippers, and purple bands, and stomachers, and
singing, and iniquity, and adultery. If the women had not caught him in
this dress, if he had not been allowed to escape by the indulgence of
the maid servants, from a place which it was impious for him to enter,
the Roman people would have lost their devoted friend, the republic
would have been deprived of so energetic a citizen. It is in
consequence of this insane conduct, amid our dissensions, for which we
are by these recent prodigies admonished by the immortal gods, that one
of the patricians has been taken from their number to be made a tribune
of the people, in direct violation of the laws.
"Allegory
and metaphor elevated
the art over the humdrum of
life. The Baroque belittled theatrical
realism
and dramatic
truth as commonplace.
It created the castrato, a creature without sex but with a heavenly voice instead.
It saw the emergence of virtuosity
which
transported
the
listener into a world of marvels.
"The Baroque invented
sentimental shepherds and shepherdesses with salon manners and salon language.
It created melodies with virtuoso ornaments and opera became a theatre
in which singing
replaced ordinary speech.
"It invented the wig and female
knickers with flounce, lace and ribbons, all of which was to
imbue reality
with a more poetic
character. It created
the gallant
style and the theory of affections, which isolated and catalogued human
emotions and
feelings. The opera was the most eloquent manifesto of the escape from reality
into
a better world.
"The name of psaltery entered Christian literature in the 3rd century B.C.
translation of the Old 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
NEBUCHADNEZZAR the king made an image of gold, 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
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 golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:
Dan 3:5
-jūcundus (jōcundus ),dv.: jūcundē , agreeably, delight fully:
“vivere,” Cic. Cael. 6, 13: “cantare et psallere,” Suet. Tit. 3: “jucundissimi ludi,”
-lūdĭus , ĭi, m. ludus.
I. A stageplayer,
pantomimist: “fite caussā meā ludii barbari,” Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 63: “ipse ille maxime ludius, non solum spectator, sed actor et acroama,” Cic. Sest. 54, 116; id. Har. Resp. 11; Plaut. Aul. 2, 9, 6: “ludius aequatam ter pede pulsat humum,” Ov. A. A. 1, 112: “triviales ex Circo ludios interponebat,” Suet. Aug. 74; cf.
ludio.—
II. A gladiator:
“comitata est Hippia ludium ad Pharon,” Juv. 6, 82.
-lūdo , si, sum 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," Milton, P. L. 9, 1045): “scis solere illam aetatem tali ludo ludere,
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