Jesus came to remove the clergy off the backs of the
congregation. This burden was spiritual anxiety from religious
ritual. Remember that much of the Bible is to show the before and the
after--the wrong and then the right way to serve a God of mercy and
not harsh judgment from the "teams."
See 2 Chronicles 33: 2 Chronicles 29 is the PATTERNISM
used to impose musical instruments into the "School of Christ" where He
commanded that we teach what HE COMMANDED to be taught. Before and
after chapter 29 the evidence is that the worship of the starry host
proves that MUSIC in God's presence where HE teaches is in fact
witchcraft.
See Matthew 11 to prove that those violently taking the kingdom by force
and their laded burdens specificially point to the Scribes and
Pharisees Jesus called hypocrites by naming self-speakers, singers and
instrument players.
Almost without exception Paul begins by warning
about the legalism of pagan religions before he defines the ekklesia
or synagogue which is a school of the Bible and of Christ. A
legalist usually does something in the belief that they can attract,
appease or even seduce the "gods" into giving some reward. In
paganism this could be a threat that the "god" might be abandoned if
they did not deliver rain or more lambs.
This leagalism began as the world's oldest
profession by those "making self a prophet." Perhaps accidentially
they did some song, dance or even act of perversion and it rained.
Thus people who were relieved of productive work to become
witchdoctors, priests or even preachers were often physicially or
sexually abnormal. That is because sexual activities "ferterlized"
the lands.
All kinds of "praise singing" by the
encomiast was a
legalistic WORK intended to help the gods do their work. Not
surprising, the STAFF in Babylon included prostitutes and sorcerers.
This was prophetic of the end time church where John identifies the
"Babylon Harlot" and identifies her singers, musicians and other
religious operators as sorcerers (Revelation 18)
When Jesus was laden, Judas came to him to
betray him. Psalm 41 prophesied that Judas would attempt to triumph
over Jesus. The word meant to "make a loud instrumental noise and
make a joyful noise before the Lord." This was the warrior's panic
sounds and was outlawed for the assembly or synagogue (Num 10:7).
This "triumph" put the enemy into panic because captives were often
sodomized and then killed. Remember that Samson "ground" and was
forced to "sport" or "play."
The real David was burdened and Nabal was the
one who prospered and refused to lift the burden.
1 Sam 25:3 Now the
name of the man was Nabal,
and the name of his wife Abigail; and she was a woman of good
understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was
churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of
the house of Caleb.
H5036 Nabal naw-bawl' From
H5034 ; stupid; wicked (especially impious):fool (-ish, -ish man,
-ish woman), vile person.
1 Sam 25:25 Let not my lord, I
pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is,
so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine
handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst
send.
ALL musical instruments
point to some Satanic or Vile concept.
Nabel
(h5034) naw-bale'; a prim. root; to wilt; gen. to fall away, fail,
faint; fig. to be foolish or (mor.) wicked; causat. to despise,
disgrace: - disgrace, dishonour, lightly esteem, fade (away, - ing),
fall (down, -ling, off), do foolishly, come to nought, * surely, make
vile, wither..
Nebel (h5034) neh'-bel; or nebel nay'-bel;
from 5034; a skin- bag
for liquids (from
collapsing when empty);
hence a vase (as similar in shape when full); also a lyre (as having a body of like form): - bottle, pitcher,
psaltery, vessel, viol
Because he refused to UNLOAD
David's burden he met the same fate as Judas and all such traitors.
Being churlish also points to the homosexual meanings attached to
using music to further burden people to prevent the Word of God from
being spoken.
kunikos
, ê, on, (
[kuôn] ) dog-like, churlish, Vulgate 1 Sa 25.3 (?). Adv. -kôs, spômenoi Heliod. ap.
Orib.48.38 tit.; in doglanguage, opp. boïkôs, etc.,
Porph.Abst.3.3.
Vulgate
1 Samuel 15: [3] Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail; and the woman was
of good understanding, and of a beautiful face: but the man was
churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb. [4]
II.
Kunikos, ho, Cynic, as the followers of the philosopher Antisthenes were called, from the gymnasium (Kunosarges) where he taught, D.L.6.13; or from their resemblance to dogs in several respects, Diog.Cyn. ap. eund.6.60, Metrod.16, Polystr.p.20 W., Elias in Cat.111.2, etc.; “Kratēti tō k.” Men.117; k. hairesis, askēsis, philosophia, Ph.1.352, J.AJ6.13.6, Jul.Or.6.187a; “parrēsia k.” Plu.2.69c; “to k. tēs parrēsias” Id.Brut. 34. Adv. Comp. -ōteron Id.2.601e.
1 Sam 25:17 Now therefore know
and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our
master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of
Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.
Abigail helped David
but:
1 Sam 25:36 And Abigail came to
Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a
king; and Nabals heart was merry
within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing,
less or more, until the morning light.
1 Sam 25:37 But it came to pass
in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had
told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became
as a stone.
1 Sam 25:38 And it came to pass
about ten days after, that the Lord smote Nabal, that he died.
See
more musical burdens here.
See
how Jesus died to give us rest from "spiritual anxiety created by
religious rituals."
Of God, Isaiah wrote--
He shall see of the
travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied:
by his
knowledge shall my
righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Is.53:11
In addition to loading the people of God down
with their own burdens, Jesus pronounced:
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.
Luke11:52
When Jesus came He was
assaulted by the musical "game-playing" children who wanted Him to
grieve and lament to prove that they had defeated him or triumphed
over him. Of the poor, oppressed lambs "laden" down by the
nomos or doctors of the law, Jesus delivered a primary bit
of good news of the gospel is that Christ takes away the burdens laden on the backs of people used by the
clergy as pack animals. He said:
Come unto me all ye
that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Matthew
11:28
Take my yoke upon
you, and learn of
me; for I am meek and
lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Matthew 11:29
For my yoke is
easy, and my burden is light. Matthew 11:30
Come unto me all ye that labor and are
heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Mt 11:28
And he said, Woe
unto you also, ye lawyers for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be
borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your
fingers. Lu.11:46
The Lawyers had changed the Laws of God and
imposed their own. This gave occupation to the Pharisees, Saducees
and "hypocrites." The hypocrits were a sectarian group of singers,
musicians and actors. Jesus pointed to Isaiah also quoted by Ezekiel
33 to specify "speakers, singers and talented musicians." The
hypocrites or actors worked for money and the audience paid for
entertainment.
Nomos
(g3551) nom'-os; to parcel out, especially food or grazing to
animals; law through the idea of prescriptive usage, regulation of
law or Gospel...
-Nomos , ho, ( [nemô] ) can mean "the Law of God" without respect to
MOSES.-
A.
that which is in habitual practice, use or
possession, not in
Hom. (cf.
J.Ap.2.15), though read by
Zenod. in
Od.1.3.
I.
usage, custom, “Mousai melpontai pantōn te nomous kai ēthea kedna” Hes.Th.66; “n. arkhaios aristos” Id.Fr.221; entha n. (sc. esti) c. inf., where it is the custom .
b. in VT, of the law of
God,
b. in VT, of the law of God, en
tôi nomôi Kuriou to thelêma autou LXXPs.1.2 , al.,
cf. Is.2.3;
-Mousa
1 [*maô]
I. the Muse, in pl. the Muses, goddesses of song, music, poetry, dancing, the drama, and all fine arts,
Hom.: the names of the nine were Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene,
Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia or Polyhymnia, Urania, and Calliope,
Hes., d.24.60; named in Hes.Th.75 sqq.
II. mousa, as Appellat., music, song, “m. stugera” A.Eu.308 (anap.); “euphamos” Id.Supp.695 (lyr.); “kanakhan . . theias antiluron mousas” S.Tr.643 (lyr.); “Aiakō moisan pherein” Pi.N.3.28; tis hēde mousa; what strain is this ? E.Ion757; “aluros m.”
-Homer,
Odyssey 1:[1] Tell
me, O
Muse, of the man of
many devices, who wandered full many ways after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy. Many
were the men whose cities he saw and whose mind he learned, aye, and
many the woes he
suffered
in his
heart upon the
sea
-[30] whom far-famed Orestes,
Agamemnon's son, had slain. Thinking on him he spoke among the
immortals, and said: "Look you now, how ready
mortals are to blame the gods. It is
from us, they say, that evils come, but they even of themselves,
through their own blind
folly, have sorrows
beyond that which is ordained.
-Pind. N. 3 Queenly Muse, our mother! I entreat you, come in the sacred month of Nemea
to the much-visited Dorian island of Aegina. For beside the waters of
the Asopus young men are waiting, craftsmen of honey-voiced [5]
victory-songs, seeking your voice. Various deeds thirst for various
things; but victory in the games loves song most of all, the most
auspicious attendant of garlands and of excellence.
Send an abundance of it, from my wisdom; [10] begin, divine daughter,
an acceptable hymn to the ruler of the cloud-filled sky, and I will
communicate it by the voices of those singers and by the lyre. The hymn
will have a pleasant toil, to be the glory of the land where the
ancient Myrmidons lived, whose marketplace, famous long ago
[25] where he reached the goal that sent him back home again, and he
made the land known. My spirit, towards what foreign headland are you
turning my voyage? I bid you to summon the Muse in honor of Aeacus and
his race; consummate justice attends the precept, “praise the noble.”
[30] And no man should prefer to desire what is alien. Search at home;
you have won a suitable adornment for singing something sweet.
That is EXACTLY what God
always says.
Rom
VIII WEB. There is
therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who
don't walk
according to the
flesh, but according to the Spirit.
Paul defines this in Romans
1 which is NOT the Covenant of Grace.
[2] For the law of the Spirit of life
in
Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death. [3] For what
couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he
condemned sin in the flesh;
Aristos The best of its kind, speaking,
Isa 2:[2] It shall happen in the latter days, that the
mountain of Yahweh's house shall be established on the top of the
mountains, And shall be raised above the hills; And all nations shall
flow to it. [3] Many peoples shall go and say, "Come, let's go up to
the mountain of Yahweh, To the house of the God of Jacob;
And he will teach us of his
ways, And we will walk in his paths.
For out of Zion the law
shall go forth, And the
word of
Yahweh from Jerusalem.
lex, to fasten; Lat. ligo, to bind, oblige; cf. religio]
,
I. a proposition or motion for
a law made to the people by a magistrate, a bill (cf.
institutum).
[nomokos]
[4] He will judge between the nations, And will decide
concerning many peoples; And they shall beat their swords into
plowshares, And their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not
lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war any more.
[5] House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.
[6] For you have forsaken your people,
the house of Jacob, Because they are filled from the east, With those
who practice divination like the Philistines, And they clasp hands
with the children of foreigners.
augur , ŭris (earlier also auger , Prisc. p. 554 P.), comm. (cf. Prob. p. 1455 P., and Phoc. p. 1695 P.) [avis and Sanscr. gar, to call, to show, make known. Van.],
II.
[select]
Transf., any soothsayer, diviner, seer, in gen.: augur Apollo, as god of prophecy (v. Apollo), Hor. C. 1, 2, 32; so, “augur Phoebus,” id. C. S. 61: “Argivus,
2Chr 33:6
And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of
the son of Hinnom:
also he observed times, and used enchantments, and
used witchcraft,
and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he
wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD,
to provoke him to anger.
[6]
transireque fecit filios suos per ignem in valle Benennon
observabat somnia sectabatur auguria maleficis artibus
inserviebat habebat secum magos et incantatores multaque mala
operatus est coram Domino ut inritaret eum
Augŭrātrix , īcis, f. id.,I.
a female soothsayer or diviner (post-class.), Vulg. Isa. 57, 3 (as transl. of the Heb. ; but in Paul. ex Fest. p. 117, the correct reading is argutatrix; v. Müll. ad h. l.).
Augŭrĭum , ii, n. (plur. augura, heterocl., like aplustra from aplustre, Att. ap. Non. p. 488, 2, or Trag. Rel. p. 217 Rib.) [augur : augurium salutis, an augury instituted in time of peace, for the inquiry whether one could supplicate the Deity for the prosperity of the state
C.
The art of the augur, augury: “cui laetus Apollo Augurium citharamque dabat,” Verg. A. 12, 394 (v. Apollo and augur): “Rex idero et regi Turno gratissimus augur,” id. ib. 9, 327; Flor. 1, 5, 2.
The Art used by Apollo (Abaddon, Apollon) was the
cĭthăra , ae, f. kithara,
I.
the cithara,
cithern,
guitar, or
lute (very freq. in the poets, esp. in Hor.),
Lucr. 2, 28;
4, 981;
Tib. 2, 3, 12;
2, 5, 2;
Verg. A. 6, 120;
9, 776;
Hor. C. 1, 15, 15;
2, 12, 4; Varr. L. L. S, § 61 Müll.;
id. R. R. 2, 1, 3;
Auct. Her. 4, 47, 60;
Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 204;
Quint. 1, 10, 3;
1, 10, 10;
2, 8, 15;
Tac. A. 14, 14;
15, 65 al.— “
decantare,”
Cic. Div. 1, 47, 105: accipere,
to understand or
receive as an omen,
Liv. 1, 34;
10, 40;
Val. Fl. 1, 161
II.
Meton., the music of the cithara, or, in gen., of a stringed instrument, the art of playing on the cithara, Prop. 2 (3), 10, 10; Verg. A. 12, 394; Hor. C. 1, 24, 4; id. S. 2, 3, 104 and 105.
De-canto , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (in the class. per. freq. in Cic.; elsewh. rare).
I.
To sing a thing off, to repeat in a singing manner (v. cano and canto). A.
Usually with the secondary idea of something trite, worn out, absurd; to repeat often, to say over and over again ( = semper repetere, in ore habere
C.
Esp., to repeat as a charm, and hence to bewitch, enchant, charm: “nullo decantatus carmine,” App. M. 3, p. 138, 35: “verbis et amplexibus aliquem,” id. ib. 5, p. 165, 6; id. ib. 3, p. 137, 12; Vulg. Isa. 54, 1 al.—
B.
To play (upon an instrument): “decantandi jus tibicinibus ademit,” Aur. Vict. Vir. Illust. 34, 1.
The burden was:
Phortizo (g5412) for-tid'-zo; to load up (as a vessel or
animal), figurative: to overburden with ceremony or spiritual
anxiety: - lade, be heavy laden. (Lots of "invoices")
However, Jesus carries the burden and we just
"sing" about the paperwork. Therefore,
However, our "burden" is:
Phortion (g5413) for-tee'-on; an invoice
as part of freight...
The Jewish clergy (who took away the key to
knowledge) treated the people like mules and piled on more and more
programs and rituals which, science fully knows, just creates endorphins or
"morphine-like" drugs and creates
spiritual anxiety--"do this and God
will not chastise you and you will prove your worth to the
institution." "Don't pick up sticks or psallo the grain on the
Sabbath or we will have to have a party at the foot of a Roman
cross." The burden Jesus absolutely removed, others want to tie
around our necks is the planned anziety which the clergy imposed upon
the "worshipers" to force them to conform even if it emotionally
damaged them.
Does loud preaching or singing work? Certainly,
on many. By rousing the group, spiritual
anxiety is created and the pagan
soothsayer could sell that as "spirituality." It has always been that
way.
Many self-doubting sermons and musical worship
teams have anxiety as their most important product. That is why they
come out. However, this is a violation of a direct command of Jesus
and repeated by Paul:
Take therefore no
thought (do not be anxious) for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought
for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof. Mt.6:34
Jesus didn't tell people not to do the
impossible. We all worry. However, He demanded that we not be overly
concerned over those things beyond our control:
And he said unto
his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. Lk 12:22
The life is more
than meat, and the body is more than raiment. Lk12:23
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with
thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. Ph.4:6
While it may sound "spiritual," science knows
fully well that that music is effective by creating endorphins or
morphine-like drugs. After a short period (very short for some of us)
the grating, abrading nature of "show and tell" begins to
short-circuit our nerve-endings and we feel like fleeing--but the low
bass or the "booming" nails our feet to the floor in appeasement.
Later, that which seemed so spiritual (like LSD), turns and rends the
people and "your assemblies do more harm than good" (1Cor 11:17).
However, Jesus said that if we are not willing
to leave the war-like rituals of family and city and follow Him
"outside the gate" then we will just have to continue to be some
rabbi's pack mule. When we give it up and follow Him, He removes this
burden and "church" will be quiet, peaceful and no one will "lay a
guilt trip" on you and then fail to lift the burden.
Because he knows that he is assualting God's
people "able to instruct one another" he is forced to feed them
fermenting wine (song or sermon) from his now-open wineskin:
For the earth shall be filled with the
knowledge
of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. Hab 2:14
Woe unto him that
giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and
makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness Hab 2:15
Thou art filled
with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be
uncovered: the cup of
the Lords right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy
glory. Hab 2:16
The loud speaker or singer believes that his
self-induced hypnotic trance is enthusiasm and he believes that this
means that god is within. He doesn't even know that Philo coined this word to
describe those afflicted, as in Corinth, with enthus o mania - just
momentary insanity.
Loud music from living or dead idols, often
musical instruments, was sold to the fools as the voice of the gods
or demons. However, God warned:
What profiteth the
graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image,
and a teacher of
lies, that the maker of
his work trusteth therein, to make dumb
idols? Hab 2:18
Woe unto him that saith to the
wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and
there is no breath
at all in the midst
of it. Hab 2:19
Jubal and family or Genun or
Geni (magi) in the Babylonian world proves that they were
superstitious. When the strings twanged it was "shooting out" a hymn.
They believed that the "gods" lived in the instruments. Down through
history instruments were "baptized" and organs are still "dedicated"
believing that it is a RADIO from God.
This was an almost universal connection between
instruments and demons.
But
the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before
him. Hab.2:20