Rick Atchley: Instrumental Music AntiChristian

PROOF ONE: WHY RICK ATCHLEY AND THE POST-BIBLICAL THEOLOGIANS CANNOT BE CHRISTIANS.

John 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him,
        IF ye continue in my WORD, then are ye my disciples indeed;

The Word or Logos is not and cannot be a God: God's Word has the same meaning as HIS light or life.  LOGOS is god's regulative principle which heaps BURNING on all who are ANTI-LOGOS.

The Word or Logos is used to REPUDIATE Hermes who was the Pagan gender-conflicted god of merchants, thieves and liars.  He is KAIROS used as a pattern for new PLANTS.  He was the messenger or intercessor of all Cults which go beyong the Ekklesia or a School of Christ.

God's WORD or LOGOS  consists of inclusive and exclusive things connected with how God puts His WORD into the MOUTH of Jesus for the last time without the help of A Holy Spirit person.

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-LOGOS or rational discord of God made audible and capable of being recorded.
Opposite to --epithumia A. desire, yearning, longing after a thing, desire of or for it, Theaomai :--gaze at, behold, mostly with a sense of wonder, 3. view as spectators
Opposite -Pathos  A. that which happens to a person or thing, incident, accident,
Opposite Poiein to excite passion, Arist.Rh.1418a12; V. Rhet., emotional style or treatment, represent in poetry, c. describe in verse,
Without   --Prooimion  A. opening, introduction; in Music, prelude, overture, Pi.P.1.4; in poems, proëm, preamble, II. hymn or short poem, such as those attributed to Homer, “Apollōnos” Th.3.104,
VI. verbal expression or utterance, lego, lexis
      -Lexis A.speech, OPPOSITE ôidê

John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth,
        and the truth shall make you free.
John 8:33 They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed,
        and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
John 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
        Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
John 8:35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever:
        but the Son abideth ever.
John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free,
        ye shall be free indeed.
John 8:37 I know that ye are Abraham’s seed;
        but ye seek to kill me, because my WORD hath no place in you.
John 8:38  I SPEAK that which I have seen with my Father:
         and ye DO that which ye have seen with your father.

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A Christian-Disciple-Student Do Pattern

Rom. 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.
Rom. 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation [Recorded Paraclete]
        grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
Rom. 15:6 That ye may with one MIND and one MOUTH glorify God,
        even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

This is defined as UNISON Reading or Speaking Scripture in Romans 15 AFTER silencing the self-pleasure of speaking, singing or Scenic performance

Romans 14:1 Him that is weak in THE THEY receive ye,         but NOT to doubtful disputations.   THEY DON'T GET TO SPEAK, TEACH, SING. Dialog-ismos debate, argument, discussion, consideration V. judicial inquiry,1; thoughts, 3; what...were thinking, 2 Romans 15:1 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. asthen-ēs In body, feeble, sickly, in mind, and the like , “to a. tēs gnōmēs” the weakness, 5.  insignificant, “ouk asthenestatos sophistēs Hellēnōn” Hdt.4.95; paltry, “a. sophisma” A.Pr.1011; sly trick, artifice, “dikēn dounai s. kakōn --Sophis-tēs , ou, ho, A. master of one's craft, adept, expert, of diviners, Hdt.2.49; of poets, “meletan sophistais prosbalon” Pi.I.5(4).28, cf. Cratin.2; of musicians, “sophistēs . . parapaiōn khelun” with modal words added, Prietly person Making Melody in the Assembly “hoi s. tōn hierōn melōn” Ael.NA11.1   Apollōnos [Apollo, Abaddon, Apollyon]  poiētai, humnous idekaisuggrapheis, compose a speech

Hdt. 4.95  then, after being freed and gaining great wealth, he returned to his own country. Now the Thracians were a poor and backward people, but this Salmoxis knew Ionian ways and a more advanced way of life than the Thracian; for he had consorted with Greeks, and moreover with one of the greatest Greek teachers, soph-isma    II. clever device, ingenious contrivance,  stage-trick, claptrap. 3. captious argument, quibble, sophism, The WEAK Latin in-firmus   less nourishing,  Of things, of no weight or consequence, weak, trivial, inconclusive: II.    Trop., weak in mind or character, superstitious, pusillanimous, inconstant, light-minded: “tenuis atque infirmi haec animi videri,” Caes. B. C. 1, 32: “quippe minuti Semper et infirmi est animi voluptas ultio,” [passonate] Juv. 13, 190:      vŏluptas, satisfaction, enjoyment, pleasure, delight  an officer in the imperial household,” master of the revels, Suet. Tib. 42 fin.—A. Of persons, as a term of endearment: “mea voluptas,” my joy, my charmer, B. Voluptates, sports, shows, spectacles, given to the people, Cic. Mur. 35, 74: “ne    "Are you asking employment as a pimp from a band of luxurious youths"  minimo quidem temporis voluptates intermissae,” Tac. H. 3, 83; C. The desire for pleasure, bent, passion: “suam voluptatem explere,” Ter. Hec. 1, 1, 12; cf. Plaut. Am. prol. 19; Romans 15:2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification. Romans 14:19 Let us therefore follow after the things          which make for peace, and things          wherewith ONE may edify ANOTHER. -Aedĭfĭcātĭo (a). Absol.: “loquitur ad aedificationem,” Vulg. 1 Cor. 14, 3; 14, 26.— (b). With gen.: “ad aedificationem Ecclesiae,” Vulg. 1 Cor. 14, 12; ib. Eph. 4, 12. Romans 15:3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

Eph. 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
Eph. 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ
Eph. 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Eph. 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

Rom. 10:17 So then FAITH cometh by HEARING, and hearing by the WORD of God.

-LOGOS or rational discord of God made audible and capable of being recorded.
Opposite to --epithumia A. desire, yearning, longing after a thing, desire of or for it, Theaomai :--gaze at, behold, mostly with a sense of wonder, 3. view as spectators
Opposite -Pathos  A. that which happens to a person or thing, incident, accident,
Opposite Poiein to excite passion, Arist.Rh.1418a12; V. Rhet., emotional style or treatment, represent in poetry, c. describe in verse,
Without   --Prooimion  A. opening, introduction; in Music, prelude, overture, Pi.P.1.4; in poems, proëm, preamble, II. hymn or short poem, such as those attributed to Homer, “Apollōnos” Th.3.104,
VI. verbal expression or utterance, lego, lexis
      -Lexis A.speech, OPPOSITE ôidê

Thuc. 3.104 The Hymn of Apollon-Abaddon from Homer But thou, Apollo, takest most delight In Delos. There assemble in thy sight The long-coat Ions, with their children dear And venerable bedfellows; and there In matches set of buffets, song, and dance, Both show thee pastime and thy name advance. tō Apollōni—Apollo was worshipped much earlier than the time of Polycrates in the rocky island of Rhenea; Hymn to Apollo 44—see on § 4—written not later than 600 B.C. Cf. Theocritus XVII. 70 ison kai Rhēnaian anax ephilēsen Apollōn.

Of the contest of music: But well: let Phoebus and Diana be Propitious; and farewell you, each one. But yet remember me when I am gone: And if of earthly men you chance to see Any toil'd pilgrim, that shall ask you, Who, O damsels, is the man that living here Was sweet'st in song, and that most had your ear? Then all, with a joint murmur, thereunto Make answer thus: [6] A man deprived of seeing; In the isle of sandy Chios is his being.

The Sons of the Devil Boast about using music to seduce your children. They lie, cheat and gleefully steal the churhes of Widows andhonest workers.

John 7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory:
        but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

Devil Do: poiētai 4. after Hom., of Poets, compose, write, p. dithurambon, epea, Hdt.1.23, 4.14; “p. theogoniēn 

Epos  joined with muthos,     1. song or lay accompanied by music, 8.91,17.519.
2. fiction (opp. logos, historic truth),  THE REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE

Hdt. 1.23 Periander, who disclosed the oracle's answer to Thrasybulus, was the son of Cypselus, and sovereign of Corinth. The Corinthians say (and the Lesbians agree) that the most marvellous thing [Lying Wonders] that happened to him in his life was the landing on Taenarus of Arion of Methymna, brought there by a dolphin. This Arion was a lyre-player second to none in that age; he was the first man whom we know to compose and name the dithyramb¹ which he afterwards taught at Corinth.

1 The dithyramb was a kind of dance-music particularly associated with the cult of Dionysus.

Devil Do: LATIN:   făcĭo ,  to make in all senses, to do, perform, accomplish, prepare, produce, bring to pass, cause, effect, create, commit, perpetrate, form, fashion,  operor Lying Wonder,  “poëma,” to compose, id. Pis. 29, 70: “carmina,” Juv. 7, 28: “versus,” id. 7, 38: “sermonem,” Cic. Fam. 9, 8, 1; cf. “litteram,” id. Ac. 2, 2, 6: ludos, to celebrate, exhibit, admirationem alicujus rei alicui,” to excite [the Laded Burden],

Devil Do: carmen
 I.a tune, song; poem, verse; an oracular response, a prophecy; a form of incantation (cf.: cano, cantus, and canto). note, sound, both vocal and instrumental “also versus, numeri, modi): carmen tuba ista peregit ( = sonus),” Enn. Ann. 508 Vahl.: “carmine vocali clarus citharāque Philammon,” Ov. M. 11, 317; cf. “vocum,” id. ib. 12, 157: “per me (sc. Apollinem) concordant carmina nervis

“barbaricum,” id. M. 11, 163.—With allusion to playing on the cithara: The Moher o Harlots in John 17 “Carminibus Circe socios mutavit Ulixi,

Devil Do:   Commercium sermonis,”   7  In mercant. lang., to practise, exercise, follow any trade or profession:  8. In relig. lang., like the Gr. rhezein, to perform or celebrate a religious rite; to offer sacrifice, make an offering, to sacrifice:

Devil Do: Mousa   II. mousa, as Appellat., music, song, “m. stugera” A.Eu.308 (anap.); “euphamos” Id.Supp.695 
“Kanakhan .Clanging Brass
 Theias  as many as made them hope by divinations, Madness caused by Ritual
        worship as divine, “Puthagoran  [Of the Cosmos, the Ecumenical, Kingdom of the Devil."
Antiluron mousas” S.Tr.643 (lyr.);  PLAYING THE LYRE
“Aiakō moisan pherein”I. bear or carry a load,  A Laded Burden

PROOF TWO:  WHY RICK ATCHLEY CANNOT BE ONE OF THE FEW LOST SPIRITS.

God  didn't command the King, Kingdom, Priests, Levites, Animal Slaughter, singers, instrument players: God abandoned them to this because of their Instrumental-Trinitarian-Perverted Idolatry at Mount Sinai for which there was no redemption. God saved David from execution:

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,
Acts 7:49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool:
        what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?
Acts 7:50 Hath not my hand made all these things?
Acts 7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears,
        ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

PROOF THREE: 

There is not a single example of God's people, including David, who is ever said to WORSHIP by preaching, by listening, by singing, by making instrumental noise, acting or building houses and forcing the honest believers to PAY FOR PLAY.

http://pineycom.com/Acts.17.25.God.Not.Worshipped.Mens.Hands.html

Gen. 17:3 And Abram FELL ON HIS FACE: and God talked with him, saying,
Gen. 17:17 Then Abraham FELL UPON HIS FACE, and laughed, and said in his heart,
        Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
Gen. 50:18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.
Lev. 9:24 And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and FELL ON THEIR FACES
 
 
Num. 14:5  Then Moses and Aaron FELL ON THEIR FACES before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
Num. 16:4 And when Moses heard it, he FELL UPON HIS FACE
Num. 16:22 And they FELL UPON THEIR FACES and said,
        O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh,
         shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
Num. 16:45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment.
        And they FELL ON THEIR FACES
Num. 20:6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they FELL ON THEIR FACES:
        and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.
Num. 22:31 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head,
         and FELL FLAT ON HIS FACE
Josh. 5:14 And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua 
        FELL ON HIS FACE to the earth,
        and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?
Josh. 7:6 ¶ And Joshua rent his clothes,
        and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD
        until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
Judg. 13:20 For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it,
        and FELL ON THEIR FACES to the ground.
Ruth 2:10 Then she FELL ON HHER FACE,
        and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him,
        Why have I found grace in thine eyes,
        that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?

PROOF FOUR: 

Rick Atchley nor the overwhelming masses of preachers teach what Jesus commanded to b etaught.

Rick.Atchley.Advanced.Homilectics.And.Devil.Worship.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Rick.Atchley.Law.of.Silence.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Rick-Atchley-Old.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Miller.Atchley.1.html

http://pineycom.com/The.Both.And.Church.Rick.Atchley.html

http://www.pineycom.com/DeaconessIndex.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Rick.Atchley.Advanced.Homilectics.And.Devil.Worship.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Truitt.Adair.Rick.Atchley.Instruments.html

http://www.pineycom.com/The.Both.And.Church.Rick.Atchley.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Rick.Atchley.What.Jesus.Hates.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Rick.Atchley.The.Spirit.of.Truth.and.Power.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Rick.Atchley.The.Kingdom.of.God.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Rick.Atchley.The.Deal.About.Baptism.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Rick.Atchley.Pepperdine.2013.Revelation.The.Seven.Churches.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Rick.Atchley.Musical.Mocking.Jesus.to.the.Cross.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Rick.Atchley.Law.of.Silence.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Rick.Atchley.Hearing.From.God.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Rick.Atchley.Chris.Seidman.Instrumental.Music.Delusion.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Rick.Atchley.and.The.Fifth.Trumpet.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Rick.Atchley.Advanced.Homilectics.And.Devil.Worship.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Rick.Atchley.ACU.Sowing.Discord.Among.Brethren.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Rick.Atchley.2013.Revelation.19.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Rick.Atchley.2013.Revelation.19-20.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Rick.Atchley.2013.NACC.Revelation.21.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Psalm.75.Rick.Atchley.Chris.Seidman.html

http://www.pineycom.com/NACC.Victorius.Revelation.Rick.Atchley.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Jay.Guin.Reflections.Rick.Atchley.Chris.Seidman.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Christian.Standard.Interview.With.Rick.Atchley.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Rick-Atchley-Music.html

http://www.pineycom.com/DeaconessElders.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Rick-Atchley-Old.html

http://www.pineycom.com/Rick-Atchley-Music.html

Christians assemble to Read Together the LECTIONS which were circulated before collected to become "that which is perfect" the Perfict Will of God if you are A Christian.

Christians assemble to Read Together the LECTIONS which were circulated before collected to become "that which is perfect" the Perfict Will of God if you are A Christian.

Preaching as HOMILECTICS is the ANTITHESIS and, like Rhetoric, is used by unbelievers to STEAL IN while you are put to sleep by the Locusts or Muses.

Anyone who claims that they can use RHETORIC or Hermeneutics OR Homilectios to that which is once delivered cannot and will never be able to read BLLACK text on BROWN PAPER.

1.Timothy.2.I.Suffer.Not.Woman.to.Teach.html


Rick Atchley and the Law of Silence Invented by the Disciples to permit instruments


It is a fact that Jesus said that God HIDES from the Wise or the SOPHISTS: that is why SILENCE is the only "authority" for deliberately sowing instrumental discord: God hates that and the "music in the temple" in Amos.


Eph 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness [sophos] ,whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

panourg-êma , atos, to, A. knavish trick, villainy, S.El.1387 (lyr.), LXX Si.1.6 (v.l.); sophistry, Gal.5.251; cf. panourgeuma.


panourg-os (properisp.), on, unning, clever, smart,
kai hupokritikôs legein

Romans 14:1 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. disceptationibus cogitationum

Forbidden:

Cogitatio a thinking, considering, deliberating;  thought, reflection,
A. Concr., a thought, opinion, judgment; a resolution, design. plan, project:
phrontides sophōterai): “ista cogitatio de triumpho,” thought as an intellectual power, the ability of thinking, power or faculty of thought, the reasoning power

Forbidden:

sophos , ē, on, A. skilled in any handicraft or art, clever Margites Fr.2; but in this sense mostly of poets and musicians, Pi.O.1.9, P.1.42, 3.113; en kithara s.
trained in speaking all the resources that I have, wisdom overmuch is no wisdom II. of things, cleverly devised, wise, “nomos” [1449a] [1] so is the Margites to our comedies.
sophia , music and singing, tekhnē kai s. h.Merc.483, cf. 511; in poetry, in divination, cunning, shrewdness, craft.

Romans 14:19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace,
         and things wherewith one may edify another.

aedĭfĭcātĭo , “loquitur ad aedificationem,” Vulg. 1 Cor. 14, 3; 14, 26.—“ad aedificationem Ecclesiae,” Vulg. 1 Cor. 14, 12; ib. Eph. 4, 12.
Speaking is in "whispering or conversational tones." Logos is the opposite of music, poetry or rhetoric (sermonizing.

“deliramenta,” id. Am. 2, 2, 64: “quas tu mulieres quos tu parasitos loquere,” id. Men. 2, 2, 47:

Rick Atchley defining strong delusions and THE meaning of Lying wonders

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

We sent them to youth rallies and Church of Christ events
        with some of the finest Christian bands in the world.
  We discipled our children to leave our Movement!

Richland Hills & Instrumental music: A Plea to Reconsider by Dave Miller exposes the folly of Rick Atchley and the elders. However, Dave Miller fails to take the high road of universal knowledge of the Old Testament by agreeing with Rick Atchley and his enablers that God "commanded instrumental praise" as an ACT of Worship.  This unawareness exposes the flank to those attacking with the "law of silence" that "God hath not said 'thou shalt not do instrumental praise'." Dave Miller and most of our fellowship gives up the battle by the use of theology trying to decide which ACTS of Worship God once enjoyed and which ones He does not lust after anymore.

Summary: Because finding the truth is not easy when widely distorted, we should note the premise:

1. Dave Miller works from the premise that the Monarchy and the Sacrificial System was God's first PATTERNISM for "worship with singing and instrumental music."  

2. However, God changed His mind and began some NEW ACTS of worship to replace the OLD ACTS of worship. 

3. Because God LEFT OUT commanding instrumental worship WE should not use instruments.

4. Dave Miller agrees with Rick Atchley that there is only a small number of ANTI-instrumentalists who believe that God did NOT command the ACT of singing with instrumental music but changed His Mind.

The Spiritual truth is taught by the Spirit OF Christ through the prophets and not through the KIng's Scribes whom we are told often lied.  Not to be trouble: God abandoned the nation to worship the starry host.

The FACT is that the Law of Moses was IMPOSED because of transgression which was MUSICAL IDOLATRY.  Stephen and many prophets say that God TURNED THEM OVER to worship the starry host.  Is it really true that worship of the Starry Host quarantined to Jerusalem which was called "Sodom" was God's APPROVED PATTERNISM for worship with singing and instrumental music? No.

The failure of both extremes is that it never understood the Mount Sinai event and the separation of people into TWO THREADS: The Civil-Military-Priestly complex, and the Qahal, Synagogue or Church in the wilderness. That continued throughout that period where the decent people were quarantined from the sacrificial system.

Apis the golden calf or calves represented Osiris, Isis and Horus: the pagan trinity of father, mother and son.

Horus was the posthumous son and heir of the god Osiris, the primordial king and giver of life. He was invited by his uncle, Seth, to spend a day. Seth’s real motive was not to show him hospitality but to disqualify him from inheriting his father’s royal power. To this end, while Horus slept Seth committed an act of sodomy upon him. Since sodomy was inflicted as a punishment on a defeated enemy and was a symbol of domination, Seth could then claim that he had conquered Horus and demand the kingship in his place.

Historically, the rape of males was more widely recognized in ancient times. Several of the legends in Greek mythology involved abductions and sexual assaults of males by other males or gods. The rape of a defeated male enemy was considered the special right of the victorious soldier in some societies and was a signal of the totality of the defeat. There was a widespread belief that a male who was sexually penetrated, even if it was by forced sexual assault, thus "lost his manhood," and could no longer be a warrior or ruler. Gang rape of a male was considered an ultimate form of punishment and, as such, was known to the Romans as punishment for adultery and the Persians and Iranians as punishment for violation of the sanctity of the harem (Donaldson, 1990). Donaldson, Donald. (1990). "Rape of Males," in Dynes, Wayne, ed. Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. New York: Garland Publications.

h2490 Chalal to polute or profane the Sabbath or holy things: no singer, instrumentalists or speaker could enter into the type of the body or Church of Christ. It has the samemeaning as David's "praise" word meaning "to make self vile." As king this was to threaten the enemy with sodomy as the unique way to prove superiority.  What connection does that have to usurping clergy? Can't say. 

Ezek 20:22 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth. ht for my names sake, Ezek 20:23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness,           that I would scatter them among the heathen,           and disperse them through the countries; Ezek 20:24 Because they had not executed my judgments,           but had despised my statutes,           and had polluted my sabbaths,           and their eyes were after their fathers idols. Ezek. 20:25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live; Ezek. 20:26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD. Ezek. 20:27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me. Ezek. 20:28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings. However, the people's "congregation" was put outsidethe gates during this slaughter of innocent animals and the Levitical Warrior Musicians made NOISE and not music.  Their service was "hard bondage" as they served the priests survive the holocaust quite identical to Hiram's system over at Tyre.  The congregation consisted of King, Priestly class and the princes. Even so, the recorded events may be separated by several centuries. No singer or instrumental noise maker could come NEAR the Holy things. No "civilian" not of the Tribe of Levi and not on duty could come near the slaughter and burning court. At the same time--contrary to Rick Atchley--God commanded the Qahal, synagogue or church in the wilderness for the citizens.  It was the synagogues that remained after AD.70, NOT the Temple! The original purpose of the synagogue was primarily for Scripture-reading and exposition of the passages read (Lk.4:16-22; Mt.13:54; Mk.1:21-22; Jn.6:59). That element was the reading and exposition of Scripture. Worship in the Early Church involved "Word-of-God" services. Ralph Martin very appropriately called the reading and exposition of Scripture "the centre of gravity of the synagogue's service, with the blessings and prayers gathered around it" These sacrificial systems are identical to all other Sabazianism or Star worship of which Jerusalem ruled by the moon and planets was the QUARANTINED CENTER off limits to the general population who always met in synagogues as "schools of the Bible." That is why God lumps Hagar, Egypt, Mount Sinai, The Law, Jerusalem and Sodom. Sirach in Ecclesiasticus 48:

David Faust of the NACC thinks this is something worth trying to impose in what they call ANTI-instrumental churches of Christ: 

I . In the Old Testament the Lord didn't merely "permit" the use of musical instruments as aids to worship. He commanded their use.

2. In the old Testament the Lord didn't merely "permit' the use of musical instruments as aids to worship. He blessed their use.

Second Chronicles 5:14 adds an important point about the dedication of the temple. After the instrumentalists and the singers joined together in united praise to the Lord, the next verse says, "Then the temple of the Lord was filled with a cloud, and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God" God's "glory" in the form of a cloud was an expression of God's joy, pleasure, approval, and delight.

The "congregation" as in all of these rituals included only the priests, kings and the kings Levitical Warrior musicians. The people were EXCLUDED or quarantined outside the camp which is where Paul said we have to go to find Jesus and suffer reproaches.

The shofars were tuned to one note so the Levites made ONE SOUND which is to blow a blast of a single note and hold it.  If you have 120 of these people making a crashing sound of ONE NOTE the effect is spiritual terror. This was an expression of outright panic and proof of INSECURE relationship with God. Even if a singer or blower stumbled into the Holy Place he would be instantly executed as defined by the law.  Therefore, not in the vilest Jezebel temple could a singer of musician enter into the presence of the "god."  No one did WORSHIP in a pagan temple. David Faust and the NACC discorders portray God as literally having an orgy because ALL musical forms induce endorphins and a sexual, climax type experience says the Vineyard lady and the New Wineskinners.

By bringing male and female musical performers (called hypocrites, pharisees and Scribes by Jesus) who claim to bring you into the presence of God, they are fulfilling the FULL MARK of the Abomination of Desolation.

David Faust's NACC: God was making known His presence in a very intense and powerfful way. The people not only honored the Lord as they played instruments and sang together, but they did so with God's full and hearty approval. The Lord didn't just put up with the use of musical instruments; He smiled upon it, and expressed great delight and pleasure in the way His people praised Him through a combination of singing and instrumental accompaniment

I have discussed this under David Faust. Stephen makes a telling repudiation of this statement:

God promised David a TENT 
 But, Solomon built God a HOUSE 
But, God does not dwell in HOUSES built by human hands nor BY human hands.

DOES THAT RING A BELL?

Of the unlawful "house" for God Click Here.

When Solomon moved the tent and the Ark into the Temple made with human hands, the solid "darkness" filled the temple so that the priests could not serve.  Not to worry: the people outside the gates prayed to God and God answered from heaven. This was a sign that God was not IN the house but that easy acces to the symbolic presence of His mercy and word had been removed: The Shekinah went into exile.

The building of the temple with slave labor PUSHED by the musical sounders caused a civil war, the DIVISION of the nation and within five years of Solomon's death the Egyptians came to recover theri gold.

The same message in Revelation 17-18 is that the musical "sorcerers" will be shut down and God blows out the candles.

Both the affirmation and the agreement of those not versed in the Old Testament misses the point that ALL of the Monarchy under human kings was the final step in God's sentencing them to return to Assyria and Babylon. The reason for the curse of the Law of Moses and later the King set over them was musical idolaltry at Mount Sinai.

Since the proof texts -- all of which lie to God and about God are at the END of Israel's "idolatry of nationhood" with kings to carry out the curse -- it would be a good idea to return to the beginning for the reason for the curse of the sacrificial system. Those who think that God wanted, needed or approved of slaughtering innocent animals with loud "exorcism" noise--never music--have a diminished view of God as holy or wholly Spirit who owns all of the cattle on a thousand hills and said "If I got hungry I would not tell YOU."

IT IS HOPELESS TO DISCUSS THE PROOF TEXTS USED BY BOTH SIDES WITHOUT KNOWING THE STORY LINE WHICH PROVES THAT BOTH SEE A CURSE AS A PATTERNISM FOR ACTS OF WORSHIP.

It is important to return to Mount Sinai to see that God gave Israel The Book of the Covenant: this was the Abrahamic Covenant restated.  The Israelites refused to listen to the voice of God and demanded Moses as a mediator.  They subscribed to the Covenant but while Moses was up on the mountaing getting the 70 laws in writing, the people returned to their musical idolatry of the Egyptian trinity under Apis the golden calf (or calves).  God "turned them over to worship the starry host" (Acts 7 and many other passages). The Covenant of Grace was withdrawn and God gave them The Book of The Law (the Second Law) to legislate for the lawless until they were returned to captivity and death. At the same time, the qahal, synagogue or church in the wilderness was defined to INCLUDE rest, reading and rehearsing the Word of God. It excluded both vocal and instrumental rejoicing. The faithful Israelites never forgot that until an Jewish "Atchley" imposed an organ in a German synagogue in 1815 and also used the LAW and sowed discord.

The Bible makes it perfectly clear that the later abandonment to a Goyim or national temple state was against God's will and that included all of the worship under the Monarchy and especially at the Temple which was against God's will. He never commanded animal sacrifices.

How did this fall from Grace into pagan idolatry happen. First, remember that SABBATH means rest and never meant a day of worship other than as a school of the Bible which continued under the ekklesia or New Testament assembly. You will notice that a musical instrument is a MACHINE for doing hard work: "making music" is the most works-intesive ACT anyone could perform and it is therefore ceremonial legalism and making war on God's people to who He gave REST.

The curse because of musical idolatry was Sabazianism or worship of the starry host as Amos and Stephen confirm. This pagan system was quite identical to the wild excesses of the Greeks some of which was learned from Babylon.  

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ARE MACHINES FOR DOING HARD WORK AND MAKING WAR.

Because all WORK was outlawed for the Sabbath intended for rest, reading and rehearsing the Word it is important to show that music has always been one of the most works-intensive ACTS of pagan religion. It's only intent was to exorcise the evil spirits, call down the good spirits or to induce a form of madness without which the "prophets" could not hear the gods.

It was Jubal who taught people to handle musical instruments: Handle means without authority and carries the universal meaning of sexuality and perversion?

-Energeo  To be in action,  of troups, of making war, of sexual intercourse, erōt-ikos. of or caused by love,  melos a love song. Pharmakon 3. enchanted potion, philtre: hence, charm, spell. Pharmakos A. poisoner, sorcerer, magician, LXXEx.7.11 (masc.), Ma.3.5 (fem.), Apoc.21.8, 22.15.

Speakers, singers, instrument players and craftsmen are called sorcerers in Revelation 18:22-23 

Rev. 21:7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Rev. 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers,
        and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake
        which burneth with fire and brimstone:
        which is the second death.

-Organon [*ergô]  -ergon1. in Il. mostly of works or deeds of war, 2. result of work, profit or interest, 
I. an organ, instrument, tool, for making or doing a thing,  
3. a musical instrument, id=Plat. * II. a work, product, laïnea Amphionos organa the stony works of Amphion, i. e. walls of Thebes
3. musical instrument, Simon.31, f.l. in A.Fr.57.1 ; ho men di' organōn ekēlei anthrōpous, of Marsyas, Pl.Smp.215c ; aneu organōn psilois logois ibid., cf. Plt.268b ; “o. polukhorda” Id.R.399c, al.; “met' ōdēs kai tinōn organōn” Phld.Mus.p.98K.; of the pipe,

The god Hermes taught Amphion music and gave him a beautiful golden lyre. Both brothers were supposed to have build the walls of Thebes, while Amphion played his lyre. The magic of his music caused the stones to move into place on their own accord.

• receives a lyre from Hermes and practises minstrelsy: Apollod. 3.5.5
• draws stones and beasts after him by music of lyre: Paus. 9.5.7 ff., Paus. 9.17.7
• adds new strings to lyre: Paus. 9.5.7, Paus. 9.8.4
• in fortifying Thebes, the stones follow his lyre: Apollod. 3.5.5
• moves stones into walls by magic: Paus. 6.20.18 

Solomon makes the same claim for the temple built by slaves where music was a work song and the stones just moved silently into place. The fact is that the loud musical rhythm relieved the pain of slavery much like: Lift that Bale or Drive that Nail.

-Orgi-azô  A. celebrate orgia, E.Ba.415 (lyr.), etc.: c. acc., o. teletên Pl.Phdr.250c ; hiera Id.Lg.910c ; thusias, pompas, choreias Plu.Num.8 : c. dat., pay ritual service to a god or goddess, tautêi Str.10.3.12 :--so in Med., orgiazesthai daimosi, orgia 

Alalazo 2. generally, cry, shout aloud, Pi.l.c., E.El.855; esp. in orgiastic rites, A.Fr.57; of Bacchus and Bacchae, E.Ba.593 sound loudly, psalmos d'alalazei A.Fr.57 ; kumbalon alalazon1 Ep.Cor.13.1 

-Orgi-aiôn, ta, secret rites, secret worship, practised by the initiated, of the rites of the Cabeiri and Demeter, of Orpheus, Aphrodite, of Cybele, most freq. of the rites of Dionysus .2.81, E.Ba.34, al., Theoc.26.13. II. generally, RITES, orgia Mousôn [Rev 18:22] Ar.Ra.356 . Aphroditês [ZOE]

-Organ-ikos especially of war-engines, of speech which is brought to bear on the mob

of musicians, practical OPPOSITE. logikoi (theoretical),
      Logikos of speech OPPOSITE mousikē,  Plu.Cor.38:
                                 Mousikos OPPOSITE Epic
       logical, l. sullogismoi, OPPOSITE rhētorikoi, Rh.1355a13.
OPPOSITE Megaloprepes A. befitting a great man, magnificent, other than CHRIST.
-Plut. Cor. 38 [2] It is possible also that statues may emit a noise like a moan or a groan, by reason of a fracture or a rupture, which is more violent if it takes place in the interior. But that articulate speech, and language so clear and abundant and precise, should proceed from a lifeless thing, is altogether impossible; since not even the soul of man, or the Deity, without a body duly organized and fitted with vocal parts, has ever spoken and conversed.  

-Organum , organon, Vitr. 10, 1.—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.—Of hydraulic engines, an organ, water-organ: “organa hydraulica,” Suet. Ner.
Used With: Machina , ae, f. = mechane, I. a machine, i. e. any artificial contrivance for performing work,
II.Trop., a device, plan, contrivance; esp. a trick, artifice, stratagem

-Dis-turbo I. to drive asunder, to separate by violence, to throw into disorder,

Music is a WORKS intensive effort which only a few can perform: Therefore it is a way to DIVIDE the body.

-Aristotle Politics 1341b and all the instruments that require manual skill. And indeed there is a reasonable foundation for the story that was told by the ancients about the flute. The tale goes that Athena found a flute and threw it away. Now it is not a bad point in the story that the goddess did this out of annoyance because of the ugly distortion of her features; but as a matter of fact it is more likely that it was because education in flute-playing has no effect on the intelligence, whereas we attribute science and art to Athena

And since we reject professional education in the instruments and in performance  (and we count performance in competitions as professional,  for the performer does not take part in it  for his own improvement, but for his hearers'  pleasure, and that a vulgar pleasure, owing  to which we do not consider performing to be proper for free men, but somewhat menial; and indeed performers do become vulgar, since the object at which they aim is a low one, as vulgarity in the audience usually influences the music, so that it imparts to the artists  who practise it with a view to suit the audience a special kind of personality,

The Organ was often used with Cymbals in pagan, perverted religion.  Remembering that the worship in Egypt had been of the Mother of the dods (mother of harlots)

Organum used with: -cymbălum I. Prop., an instrument consisting of two hollow plates of brass, which emit a ringing sound when struck together. They were used in the festivals of Cybele and Bacchus, and on other festive occasions; also to hinder the flight of bees

Catullus, Carmina 63
Thy timbrel, Mother Cybele, the firstings of thy rite,
And as her tender finger-tips on bull-back hollow rang
She rose a-grieving and her song to listening comrades sang.
"Up Gallae, hie together, haste for Cybele's deep grove,
Hie to the Dindymnean dame, ye flocks that love to rove;
Musical performers in the worship of the Mother of Harlots (Rev 17-18) were emasculated (in Paul's words) and even had their sex changed.

Galli or Click Here  

Singular GALLUS, priests, often temple attendants or wandering mendicants, of the ancient Asiatic deity, the Great Mother of the Gods, known as Cybele, or Agdistis, in Greek and Latin literature. The galli were eunuchs attired in female garb, with long hair fragrant with ointment. “saltatur Venus, saltatur et Magna Mater,” Arn. 4, n. 35.

Rev. 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Rev. 18:14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all. 

Together with priestesses, they celebrated the Great Mother's rites with wild music and dancing until their frenzied excitement found its culmination in self-scourging, self-laceration, or exhaustion. Self-emasculation by candidates for the priesthood sometimes accompanied this delirium of worship.

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

The name galli may be Phrygian, from the two streams called Gallus, both tributaries of the Sangarius (now Sakarya) River, the waters of which were said to inspire religious frenzy.


Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him, 1 Co.11:14

but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering. 1 Cor 11:15

Before David males rarely fell into this folly. However, all clergy had to be male but LOOK and SOUND like females and be able to SERVE as females: Prostitutes and Sodomotes prowled all sacrificial systems.

2 Sam 6:16 And as the ark of the Lord came into the city of Davi  Michal Sauls daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord and she despised him in her heart Hillel, Judgex 12:1 For questioning the King's vile conduct, David made certain that all of Saul's seed (Abner saved one cripple) were offered up for human sacrifices!

-Salax , a-cis, adj. [salio; cf. sagax, from sagio] . I. Fond of leaping, esp. of male animals, lustful, lecherous, salacious: galli, Vulgarly applied to Priapus, that provokes lust, provocative. -saltō āvī, ātus, āre, freq. [salio] , to dance: in convivio saltare nudus coeperat: nemo enim fere dancing a girl's part, “saltatur Venus, saltatur et Magna Mater,” Arn. 4, n. 35. tibicĭna , ae, f. [tibicen] I. a female fluteplayer 2Sam. 6:20 Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself! -Nudo I.to make naked or bare; to strip, bare, lay bare, expose to view, uncover  -scurra 1. A city buffoon, droll, jester (usually in the suite of wealthy persons, and accordingly a kind of parasite; syn.: -Of the clown in a pantomime, Juv. 13 2Sam. 6:21 And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD. Mount Sinai Play Judges Samson 2 Samuel David h6711 h6711 He ground :-) h7832 h7832 Latin -lu-do sport, frolic, play an instrument, B. To sport, dally, wanton Verg. E. 6, 1.—Esp., to play on an instrument of music, to make or compose music or song: "We know that all of the Israelites brought Egyptian gods and practices with them and it is not far-fetched to think that Miriam, who had not yet been exposed to the Covenant, was part of the consciousness-altering rhythms and which was part of a priestly myth-play brought to destructive consummation at Mount Sinai as the golden calf was called back into action. This "rising up to play" involved eating, drinking, nakedness and musical worship. The goddess, Hathor, is the best candidate for the Mother Goddess of the Mount Sinai idolatry. Here priestessess or prophetesses were highly trained with musical instruments, cultic songs and be able to join in the religious dance. "Music and drugs were co-consiprators in religious ecstasy. They may have used some product of the sycamore fig which both intoxicated and induced an altered state of consciousness. The ergo of barley was well known.

"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, Music, p. 590).

This, according to myth, was the first manifestation of dionysus, benefactor of mankind, giver of good things.

"dionysus's worship is thus established by the simple means of killing the opposition. It has been suggested that every tragic hero who suffers and dies on stage at the Dionysia, the great dramatic festival at Athens (of the South?), is in fact dionysus himself, being killed."

In the Eleusian mysteries, the wine was not noted for its alcohol but for drugs perhaps from fermented barley or from mushrooms used to bring on the exhilaration. Of the priest, it is said that:
"As he performed the service, he intoned ancient chants in a falsetto voice, for his role in the Mystery was asexual, a male who had sacrificed his gender to the Great Goddess. Resource
 
Galli   A form gallantes, as if from gallare, "to rave like a priest of Cybelé." In Amos the impulse was by the Cows of Bashan and thus the symbol of "a basked of summer fruits" which means Catamites RIPE for plucking.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=galli&la=la&prior=s%C4%83lax#lexicon

The "ancient serpent symbolism and Semitic philology discloses that Bashan has two meanings.  When most biblical scholars studied Hebrew philology they were told that "Bashan" denoted a mountain east of the Kinnereth (the Sea of Galilee). Now, the contributors to the most recent Hebrew lexi- cons rightly point out that "Bashan" in the second millennium BCE denoted both a mountain and a mythological creature that was a ser pent, the "dragon-snake." 41 The most help in comprehending !vb as having a second meaning, "dragon-snake," comes from cognate languages.  "The "Mountain of God' in Psalm 68:16," James Charlesworth

EXODUS 20 THE "NOT SILENT" OUTLAWING OF WORKS WORSHIP

Ex. 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Ex. 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Ex. 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: 
        in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter,
        thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Ex. 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is,
        and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

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EXODUS 31 FOR GOD'S FURTHER DIRECT COMMANDMENTS

Exod 31:12 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Exod 31:13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: 
        for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations;
        that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.

Joel 1:14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly,
        gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God,
        and cry unto the LORD,
Joel 1:15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand,
        and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

H6113 ‛âtsar aw-tsar' A primitive root; to inclose; by analogy to hold back; also to maintain, rule, assemble:— X be able, close up, detain, fast, keep (self close, still), prevail, recover, refrain,  reign, restrain, retain, shut (up), slack, stay, stop, withhold (self).

The Sabbath was the pagan EVIL day: that was the day they held "worship services." God restricted their travel to about 700 feet from their own precincts where they were to hold a holy convocation. This was the Qahal, synagogue or Church of Christ in the wilderness.  Here is how you hold synagogue or Church even as Paul commanded.

h4744 Miqra

Exod 31:14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore;
        for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death:
        for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.  

A Sabbath Fast excludes doing your own pleasure (music has no other motive) or even speaking your own words (Isaiah 58) as did the synagogue defined in Paul's "singing" passages and demanding that the elders teach that which has been taught. Jesus said that "speaking on your own" is the MARK of a son of the Devil.
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. Isa 58:12

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him,

not doing thine own ways,

nor finding thine own pleasure,

nor speaking thine own words: Isa 58:13

Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord;
and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth,
and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father:
for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. Isa 58:14 

HOW DID THEY DEFILE THE SABBATH

The word Halal is most often used as a PRAISE WORD meaning to "make self vile. This boast song could drive the enemy into cowardice and panic because to lose the battle meant to be "Robbed, raped and raptured" in that order. Halal is the root meaning of LUCIFER (Zoe)

Chalal (h2490) khaw-lal'; to wound, to dissolve; fig. to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), denom. (from 2485) to play (the flute): - begin (* men began), defile, * break, defile, * eat (as common things), * first, * gather the grape thereof, * take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, cast as profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound. 

Ezek. 28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.


Ezek. 28:13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 

Ezek. 28:16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

Work outlawed for the Sabbath now PAUO or rest under Christ:

Melakkah (h4399) mel-aw-kaw'; from the same as 4397; prop. deputyship, i. e. ministry; gen. employment servile) or work (abstr. or concr.); also property (as the result of labor): - business, * cattle, * industrious, occupation, (* -pied), * officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work ([man], -manship). (never

Malok (g4397) mal-awk'; from an unused root mean. to despatch as a deputy; a messenger; spec. of God, i. e. an angel (also a prophet, priest or teacher): - ambassador, angel, king, messenger.

Exod 31:15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

Shabbathown (h7677) shab-baw-thone'; from 7676; a sabbatism or special holiday: - rest, sabbath. 

Exod 31:16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

EXODUS 32 FOR HOW THEY DEFILED THE SABBATH

Exod 32:4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Exod 32:5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the Lord.

What they did besides calling the golden calf "Jehovah."

Exod 32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

What God did not command.

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
Therefore, sacrifices and instrumental music done in the NAME of Jehovah is sin.

What is rising up to PLAY? 

Ludo  

A.To sport, play with any thing, to practise as a pastime, amuse one's self with any thing: Esp., to play on an instrument of music, to make or compose music or song:

Vergil, Eclogues 1
O Meliboeus, 'twas a god vouchsafed
this ease to us, for him a god will I
deem ever, and from my folds a tender lamb
oft with its life-blood shall his altar stain.
His gift it is that, as your eyes may see,
my kine may roam at large, and I myself
play on my shepherd's pipe what songs I will.

Vergil Ec 6
Laughing at their guile,
and crying, “Why tie the fetters? loose me, boys;
enough for you to think you had the power;
now list the songs you wish for another meed for her”--forthwith began.
Then might you see the wild things of the wood,
with Fauns in sportive frolic beat the time,
and stubborn oaks their branchy summits bow.
Not Phoebus [Apollo, Apollyon] doth the rude Parnassian crag
so ravish, nor Orpheus so entrance the heights
of Rhodope or Ismarus: for he sang

B.To sport, dally, wanton (cf. "amorous play,")

GOD AND MOSES RECOGNIZED FATAL IDOLATRY BY THE SOUND OF SINGING

Exod 32:17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.

Lam. 2:6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: 
he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: [Synagogues]
the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts [Set Time] and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, 
and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.  

The Lord hath cast off his altar (candlestick), he hath abhorred his sanctuary,
he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces;
they have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast. Lam 2:7

Ex. 32:18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
Ex. 32:19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.

WES: 2:7 They - The enemies with their triumphs and blasphemies, made as great a noise, as those that sang holy songs, or played on instruments, were wont to make to the glory of God.

Exod 32:18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome; but the noise of them that sing do I hear.

SING: H6031 anah aw-naw' A primitive root (possibly rather identical with H6030 through the idea of looking down or browbeating); to depress literally or figuratively, transitively or intransitively (in various applications). (sing is by mistake for H6030 .):--abase self, afflict (-ion, self), answer [by mistake for H6030 ], chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness, humble (self), hurt, ravish, sing [by mistake for H6030 ], speak [by mistake for H6030 ], submit self, weaken, X in any wise.

Anath: This Canaanite Goddess' name means 'to answer' and may be related to the Akkadian word ettu meaning 'active will.160' She was a major deity all over the western parts of the Near East, including Egypt where she was later considered to be the same Goddess as Libyan Neith. Titles for her include Belet'net 'virgin Anath,' 'Nethebely161 'the destroyer,' and Yebemet-limm 'widow of the nation(?)'162. Her worship extended from the 2nd millenium BCE deep into the Hellenistic Age, when it began to be forced underground. Like the original Athena, she ruled battle, the hunt, and the passage of souls from one world to the next. She was also a Death Goddess who wore the goatskin aegis -- or at least, the Egyptians attributed Neith's aegis to her. This sacred garment has been described as a cloak, apron, breastplate, or shield. In Anath's case, it shifted in function as religious ceremony changed. Originally it was probably a garment worn by each Libyan woman when she came of age, made of cloth and marked with snakes and Moon symbols, or made of many braids of string.

Later it was remade, parts of its feminine symbolism removed and turned into a garment worn during animal sacrifices. Then it was decorated with severed penises, representing both types of death men experience, loss of erection and the ending of their lives. 

Exod 32:19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing:  and Moses anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
WHAT BIBLE SCHOLARS UNDERSTAND AS THE CAUSE OF THE FALL FROM GRACE.

"And the people celebrated this feast with burnt-offerings and thank-offerings, with eating and drinking, i.e. with sacrificial meals and sports, or with loud rejoicing, shouting, antiphonal songs, and dances, in the same manner in which the Egyptians celebrated their feast of Apis (Herod. 2, 60, and 3, 27)." (Keil and Delitzsch, Vol. II, p. 222).

Theodoret (Quasten, Music & Worship, p. 65) claimed that the Jews brought liturgical music from Egypt and Philo wrote that "Moses learned rhythm, harmony, meter and everything concerned with instrumental music from the Egyptians."  Furthermore, he contended that during the apostasy to idol worship at Mount Sinai the Jews sang in the style of the Egyptians threnodies.  

This is why Moses knew that the noise at Mount Sinai was not the sound of defeat or of victory. Rather, it was the "sound of them singing that I hear."

The Jews sang in the type of the Egyptian threnodies (elegies for the dead):
Thus they made a golden bull, the image of an animal that was held to be the most sacred in that land; 
they offered unholy sacrifices, performed impious dances and sang hymns
which differed in no way from the pagan mourning songs. Philo, De specialibus legibus 

"This reference probably indicates the use of songs from the cult of Osiris... it can hardly be denied that Egyptian influence on Jewish musical practices was quite significant. This would stand to reason because of the high quality of Egyptian cultic music. The tambourine or timbrel, a hoop of bells over which a white skin was stretched, came from Egypt. Miriam used this instrument to accompany the singing and dancing on the shores of the Red Sea (Ex. 15). 

"The trumpet... was the signaling instrument of the Egyptian army. The name of the Sistrum (2 Sam 6:5) was m^ena'an^e'im. It was the Egyptian kemken used in the cult of Isis.

The music during the transferring the Ark to Sion (David rose up to play)
and the dances of the women at the Shiloh (Judges 21:21), were similar to the Egyptian liturgy and parades.

"As Herodotus reports, women sang the praises of Osiris while liknesses of the gods were born about and, during the festival of Diana at Bubastis,
........... Women's singing was a vital part of all pagan worship. In early
........... times women became priestly singers of the gods in the temple.

"Women and girls from the different ranks of society were proud to enter the service of the gods as singers and musicians. The understanding of this service was universal: these singers constituted the 'harem of the gods'." (Johannes Quasten. In Music and Worship in Pagan and Christian Antiquity, beginning on page 41)

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

DAVID'S AROUSERS: don't get upset: God turned Israel over to worship the starry host.

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

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

The Egyptian Opis (The Golden Calf or Apis) and others which Israel worshipped at Mount Sinal were worshipped throughout the area. "In preference to all other hymns these choirs generally sang the so-called epiphany hymns, which were intended to invite the gods to appear. Plutarch wrote:

Why do the women of Elis call upon God in song to approach them with the bull's foot? Their song is the following:

Come, Dionysus, Hero,

into the holy temple of Elis,

together with the Graces

come violently into the temple with the bull's foot!

Then they sang twice at the end: "Sacred Bull!" (Johannes Quasten, Music & Worship
in Pagan and Christian Antiquity, p. 76)

Choirs of young girls often officiated and they wore garments of the dancers consecrated to the gods. (The ephod was once a feminine apron) 

The Law of Moses was to legislate for the lawless: the folly of trusting it to create righteousness was and is folly.

The pagan sacrificial system was common to all of the national temple states for national sacrifices.

This never applied to the "civillians" who synagogued to rest, read and rehearse the Word.  It excluded vocal and instrumental rejoicing which was a sound of warfare or other SURE signals.

WHEN THE ELDERS FIRED GOD

There was never any religious "instrumental praise" under the Law of Moses.  Only when the elders fired God and demanded a right to "worship like the nations" God carried out the conditional captivity and death sentence imposed because of musical idolatry of the triad at Mount Sinai.  However, God solemly warned that the kings would destroy them.  How can that be an old system of ACTS OF WORSHIP?

One of the warnings of God was that the King would add the tithe, set up a "ministry staff" for his pals and even take the young boys to make musical instruments and run before the chariots: slavery and never worship.  See what Samuel warned.

The Israelite state was not founded with divine blessing. Rather, it was allowed as a grudging concession, just as a parent lets a child have his way in order that he may learn his folly from experience." (Anderson, Bernard, Theology of the O.T. p. 163).

"In one sense the creation of the monarchy was providential...In retrospect, one can say that events which brought about the collapse of the Confederacy and the rise of the Israelite state were not...devoid of divine purpose. God's revelation is relevant to the whole of human life--to economics, politics, and every sphere of human activity.

If God would speak to the nations through Israel,

then Israel must undergo the experience of being a nation in order that she might appreciate the wealth of nationhood and attack the idolatrous power of nationalism." (Bernard Anderson, p. 163)

Not in the vilest pagan temples were the speakers, singers and instrument players permitted into the Holy Places which represented "the presence of the deity."  In Hezekiah's reform used as proof text, the Levitical Warrior Musicians under the king and commanders of the army were not permitted into the Holy, covered places even to clean out the garbage: they would have been instantly executed.

After David numbered the people, he brought down a curse on the nation. When the PLAGUE was finally stopped God conceded David a TENT (Acts 7) on Mount Zion.  Stephen then says BUT Solomon built God a HOUSE on Moriah. BUT, God does not dwell in houses built by human hands nor by the works of human hands: waving, raising, clapping, plucking or twanging!

Jerusalem was a Jebusite High place given to David when he was too afraid to go to Gibeon.  That was the final CULT center of the worship of the Starry Host and never a "worship center."

Coffman's Commentary Speaks for the total Bible view that Israel's rejection of God as King, Judge and Priest set the stage for their later repudiation of Jesus Christ in order to keep the evil Temple-System like all other nations. Remember that the clergy was still seeking a king "like the nations" and had not a hint of looking for a Spiritual King, Prince and Mediator:

The great Cambridge scholar, Henry McKeating, has the following comment on this passage from Hosea:

"Hosea is not only antagonistic to the northern kings but to the monarchy as such. The monarchy is powerless to save the nation. Israel was wrong to ask for a king. Her punishment was that she got what she asked." 7: Henry McKeating, Amos, Hosea, and Micah (Cambridge: University Press, 1971), p. 148.

Coffman: "We are aware that it is popular among many able commentators today to make apologies for Israel's monarchy and to apply what the Scriptures plainly say about it to some specific monarch, Saul, for example, as did Dummelow, or to the kings of Northern Israel as did Hailey;

but it is the conviction of this writer that
Israel was totally and completely wrong in asking a king and that this rejection of God (that is what the text calls it) contained embryonically all of the later sorrows of the Chosen People.
Throughout the whole history of Israel, there were very few monarchs who even tried to serve the Lord. Solomon was to be blamed for the division of the kingdom under his son, because the people simply rejected the excesses of Solomon; and yet, even after God took the monarchy away from them, the nation wanted nothing in heaven or on earth as much as they wanted the restoration of that scandalous Solomonic empire.

It was this, more than anything else, that motivated their rejection of God Himself,

finally and irrevocably,
in their rejection of God's Son, Jesus Christ the Holy One.

O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help. Hosea 13:9

I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? Hosea 13:10

I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath. Hosea 13:11

Those reading the prophets who were the only definers of Spiritual Religon under the Spirit OF Christ makes it impossible for anyone to believe that the CURSE of the Law and Monarchy was Gods failed ACTS OF WORSHIP.

That is why the "worship of the starry host" continued and was CONTRARY to the Law of Moses:

Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. Isaiah 1:10

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. Isaiah 1:11

When ye come to appear before me,
        who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? Isaiah 1:12

Bring no more vain oblations;
        incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths,
        the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with;
        it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Isaiah 1:13

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

There is no evidence that the Spirit OF Christ was ever involved with commanding or approving of the King-Priest-Temple state. On the contrary the evidence is overwhelming that the Spirit OF Christ spoke through the prophets and universally condemned the sacrificial system and used the instrument as a MARK that people had not and would not listen to the Words of God. The concept of quenching or grieving the Holy Spirit means that they rejected the Words of God through the prophets.

Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day,
        I have even sent unto you all my servants the PROPHETS,
        daily rising up early and sending them: Jeremiah 7:25
Yet they HEARKENED NOT unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. Jeremiah 7:26
The prophets were the enemies of the priestly class.

Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them;
but they will not hearken to thee:
thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee. Jeremiah 7:27 

But thou shalt say unto them,
This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God,
nor receiveth correction: truth is perished,
and is cut off from their mouth. Jeremiah 7:28

1. Those who concede a PATTERNISM of ACTS of worship defined by the sacrificial system lose all "speak where the Bible speaks" and rest on The O Lites and are the troublers in Zion.
2. If God ONCE commanded and lusted after instrumental praise (whatever that be), why would He CEASE being God who is appeased by the lust of the ears and eyes?
3. If god hath not made a law: "thou shalt NOT use musical instruments."
Then, the burden is on YOU to prove that God has changed His Mind and added new ACTS OF WORSHIP.

That means that the FAILURE rests on non-instrumental preachers for not teaching the facts from the "singing and harp playing prostitute" in the garden of Eden to the Mother of harlots (Rev 17) who uses "lusted after fruits" as rhetoricians, singers and players of the same instruments attributed to Lucifer. The same "baskets of summer fruits" in Amos identify dogs or Catamites common to ALL pagan, musical rituals.

Assuredly, if God lusted to eat the feast while we burn the fat with loud jubilation (John Mark Hicks) then by what logic has He lost his taste for burning flesh (yea, infants at Jerusalem) while we beat the drums?

Dave Miller: Christ and the Christian system were certainly foreshadowed in the Old Testament, being woven into the fabric of Scripture from the beginning. Types and shadows abound in the Old Testament (Colossians 2:17; Hebrews 8:5; 10:1). The various aspects of the Old Covenant were clearly designed and preordained to prefigure and foreshadow the New—they were “copies of the true” (Hebrews 9:24). Israelite life and worship conducted in 1500 B.C. was preplanned and divinely orchestrated to anticipate Christian living after A.D. 30. 

Paul does not identify the Monarchy as a type of what God would later add. That would deprive all of those "civillians" of the Mind or Spirit of Christ and they would have died before the time of Christ.  Paul was speaking of the TABERNACLE which had no singing or music in any sense: this was God's PATTERNISM to prove that He would tabernacle where His people moved. While the Civil-Military-Clergy or NOBILITY were CONDEMNED to keep up that to which God had abandoned them, the SPIRITUAL PEOPLE attended synagogue or church in the wilderness. This was inclusive of rest (from ritual), reading and discussing the Word of God. It was exclusive of vocal or instrumental rejoicing.  This triumph over was reserved as a MARK to identify the enemies of God in Christ.

Heb 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

No singer or musician or speaker could enter this PARABLE of the body or church of Christ EVEN TO CLEAN OUT GARBAGE left over from Assyrian musical worship and burning of infant.


Heb 9:3 And after the second veil,
............ the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;

Rather, the Law of Moses was added because of transgression: that being musical idolatry which polluted the Sabbath or rest day.  This was the "patternism" of all of the "falls from grace" beginning in the garden of Eden.  The king of Tyre is "patterned" as Lucifer the singing and harp playing prostitute."  Paul said that she / he / it 'wholly seduced' Eve as a new bride is seduced before her husband.  The total background of the "serpent" in the garden of Eden is that of a "musical enchanter(ess).

The Holy Place contained the symbols of the synagogue or church: the Table of fellowship, the Menorah or seven spirits OF Divine knowledge resting on Jesus the Branch and looking into the Most Holy Place where we approach God in utter silence and the harps are held or silenced and our incense is the fruit of OUR lips.

The Qahal, synagogue or church in the wilderness always existed and the meaning of worship was to "read and rehearse" the Word of God.  That is exactly how David defines his personal worship.

When the elders fired God and demanded a king God understood that they wanted to worship like the nations. He warned them that the kings would destroy them and carry out the captivity and death sentence. One of the curses would be taking the tithe to support the king and his favorite "ministry team." It included taking young boys from their farms and causing them to run before the chariots of the king and army with instruments.

Therefore, rather than being God's obsolete "worship system" Paul confirms what the Prophets all say: that the Law was a curse whereby the upper class stole from the poor as parasites.

Col. 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances
        that was against us, which was contrary to us, 
        and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Col. 2:15 And having spoiled principalities and powers,
        he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Col. 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink,
        or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Col. 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

Paul outlawed "lifeless instruments" in 1 Corinthians which are also defined as "carnal weapons" by which you cannot make war upon evil--especially in the type of the Holy Place where musicians were to be executed.

2Cor. 10:4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

One of the "weapons" of war under the law was to blow the trumpet to create panic. All pagans believed that musical sounds could attract the "good gods" or dispel the demons. Because Paul identified the "musical play" at Mount Sinai (1 Cor 10) as DEMONIC, you cannot fight off demons by using CARNAL machines.

The Monarchy added as a curse was NOT God's old, obsolete system of Acts of worship: the common people were quarantined from these rituals and attended a form of the Synagogue. They were limited in travil to keep them away from the temple or similar Canaanite systems which rested on wine, women and music.

A shadow is not just a type of something good but something which hides the truth

We get side tracked on the idea of a SHADOW thinking that a shadow is REALLY a two-dimension of the SPIRITUAL law.  In your passage.

G4639 skia skee'-ah Apparently a primary word; “shade” or a shadow (literally or figuratively [darkness of error or an adumbration]):--shadow.

Skia
2. reflection, image (in a bowl of oil), Sch.Il.17.755.
3. shade of one dead, phantom, Od.10.495,  A.Th.992,
of worthless things, that phantom at Delphi,
4. evil spirit, Hippiatr.130, PMasp.188.5
also, of one worn to a shadow, A.Eu.302;

It is a fact that Israel was abandoned to worship the starry host: this is defined in both Egyptian and Greek accounts. The Sabazianism or Dionysus worship was the RISING UP TO PLAY at Mount Sinai and that which God abandoned them to as a curse. Therefore, look at one count:

-Aeschylus, Eumenides
Orestes


-276 Taught by misery, I know many purification rituals, and I know where it is right to speak and equally to be silent; and in this case, I have been ordered to speak by a wise teacher. For the blood is slumbering and fading from my hand

-299 Chorus No, neither Apollo nor Athena's strength can save you from perishing abandoned, [300] not knowing where joy is in your heart--a bloodless victim of the gods below, a shadow.

You do not answer, but scorn my words, you who are fattened and consecrated to me? Living, you will be my feast, not slain at an altar; [305] now you will hear this hymn, a spell to bind you.


When Paul outlawed the musical sects in Rome in Romans 14 as not to be dialoged, in Romans 15 he defined the synagogue which excluded loud rejoicing in Numbers 10.  Self-pleasing specificially means creating mental excitement which is the laded burden Jesus died to remove. The concept means "heresy" which means to lift the victim up to cut its throat.  In the Temple, as a Goyim, sacrificial system the "noise" never called music was to serve the priests in the midst of slaughter of the innocent, blood, guts, dung and burning flesh.  A demagogue uses "performing arts to appease the masses" and the word is always connected to kleptoma.

Further, all Greek words (used in the Hebrew Bible) for musical instruments and hymn singing speak of charming or enchantment is called SORCERY (pharmakea) by John in Revelation 18:23 defining the task of the speakers, singers and instrument players as agents of the Mother of Harlots (Rev 17).

-307 Chorus Come now, let us also join the dance, since we are resolved to display our hated song and to declare our allotted office, how our party directs the affairs of men. [310] We claim to be just and upright. No wrath from us will come stealthily to the one who holds out clean hands, and he will go through life unharmed; [315] but whoever sins, as this man has, and hides his blood-stained hands, as avengers of bloodshed we appear against him to the end, presenting ourselves as upright witnesses for the dead.

Paul was both Bible and culturally literate. Therefore, when he writes he is always pointing to the FOLLY of things like the "mad women in Corinth" to communicate to the literate.  Israel had a COVENANT WITH DEATH: this is the MEANING of the WINE, WOMEN AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC: 

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: Is.28:15

Remembering that Jesus cast out the musical minstrels "like dung" it is unforgiveable to say that the New Testament never speaks of the musicians: 

"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
This is why Jesus CAST OUT the Musical minstrels using a word meaning "like dung."

NEHEMIAH IDENTIFYING THE PARASITES 

The False preachers also missed that the Spirit OF Christ spoke ONLY through the prophets: it is a lie that the "holy spirit" guided the elders and preachers to lie about all of the Bible. The prophets thought that the kings, our princes, our priests, and  our fathers were lawless parasites. 

So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would. Neh 9:24

And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance:

so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted

Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee,
          and cast thy law behind their backs,
          and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee,
          and they wrought great provocations. Neh 9:26
Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them. Neh 9:34

For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works. Neh 9:35

Behold, we are servants this day, [and so are you]
        and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof,
        behold, we are servants in it: Neh 9:36

And it yieldeth 
        much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us 
        because of our sins: 
        also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle,
        at their pleasure, 
        and we are in great distress. Neh 9:37

        They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: 
        they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: 
        and they shall be ashamed of your revenues 
        because of the fierce anger of the Lord. Je.12:13

I have detailed the FALL FROM GRACE in our review of Terry Rush and shown the MARKS proven by musical instruments.

Because the Law was added as a curse but never included anything but blowing loud trumpets as signals, we know that when God finally abandoned the nation to a King Set Over Us (Senior Pastor) he abandoned them to Sabazianism which was a form of Dionysus  worship--the god of the new wineskins.

Therefore, there are NOT ACTS included under Rick Atchley's "proof texts" which were ACTS of worship: even when animals were being burned as signalled by both the KING'S instruments and the PRIEST'S trumpets.  In the case of Hezekiah's ritual it was a Plague Stopping contract with God and was in fact exorcism of the King, Kingdom, Judah, Jerusalem, Temple and priests.  The rituals was not an outpouring of worship TO God but an extreme act of WORKS to purge the Temple of Assyrian worship which would have included music.

Paul's unique worship words mean to "give heed to the Word of God" in the assembly used "synagogue" words and we know from the definition of the church in the wilderness, throughout the history of Israel, exampled by Jesus and commanded by Paul and practiced for centuries. History knows that "there was no praise in the synagogue" by direct command and minimal common decency.

THE UNIVERSAL MARK OF IMPOSING MUSIC AND MUSICIANS

Ancient literature from Babylonian tablets and beyond agree with Johannes Quasten. In Music and Worship in Pagan and Christian Antiquity, beginning on page 41 He uses many of the church Fathers and Classical resources we also rely upon:

"Philodemus considered it paradoxical that music should be regarded as veneration of the gods while musicians were paid for performing this so-called veneration. Again, Philodemus held as self deceptive the view that music mediated religious ecstasy. He saw the entire condition induced by the noise of cymbals and tambourines as a disturbance of the spirit.

He found it significant that, on the whole, only women and effeminate men fell into this folly.

Accordingly, nothing of value could be attributed to music; it was no more than a slave of the sensation of pleasure, which satisfied much in the same way that food and drink did.

See the Greek meaning and background to "charismatic" which includes singing and dancing.

"Of particular interest is the way that early modern playwrights, music theorists, and theater apologists addressed this conflated language of the "enemy," by echoing the same connections between sexuality and playing found in the most virulent antitheatrical tracts.

"As this paper will demonstrate, by "playing" with the conflated language, these writers defended their art,

justifying their existence in a society that was both seduced and repulsed by them. By claiming the polemical antitheatrical language, these players escaped from the ideological margins to which their opponents had tried to relegate them.

Using the artifices of mimesis (imitation) and comedy they pointed out and

defused their opponents' anxieties about music, theater, and sexuality,
creating a space for players in the cultural mainstream."

Sorry that because you did not care enough to be a disciple, you have been cuckold.  Don't let them pervade and divert your "church house of widows." No, they are not redeemable.

Rough notes to be continued:
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