Aresko (g700) ar-es'-ko; prob. from 142 (through
the idea of exciting emotion); to be agreeable (or by impl.
to seekto
be so): - please.
- Areskos
- A. pleasing,
mostly in bad sense, obsequious, cringing,
Arist.EN1108a28, 1126b12, Thphr.Char.5.1
- .spondas
theois
aresasthai
make full drink-offerings to the gods, ., please,
satisfy, oute
gar
moi
Polukratēs
ēreske
despozōn
. . Hdt.3.142;
kola^k-euō
,
- Hdt.
3.142 [4]
Only I claim for my own privilege that six talents of
Polycrates' wealth be set apart for my use, and that I
and my descendants keep the
priesthood of Zeus the Liberator, whose temple I
have founded, and now I give you freedom.”
- IV. areskei
is used impers. to express the opinion or
resolution of a public body, also
of prevailing opinions areskonta
the dogmas of philosophers,
- kola^k-euō , A
o be a flatterer, Ar.Eq.48,
Pl.R.538b,
Grg.521b,
- Aristoph.
Kn. 40 45] an arrant rogue, the
incarnation of calumny. This man of leather knows his
old master thoroughly; he plays the fawning cur,
flatters, cajoles,
wheedles, and dupes him at will with little
scraps of leavings, which he allows him to get. ... [60]
when Demos is dining, he keeps close to his side with a
thong in his hand and puts the orators to
flight. He keeps singing oracles to him, so that
the old man now thinks of nothing but the Sibyl.
Then, when he sees him thoroughly obfuscated, he uses
all his cunning and piles up lies and calumnies
against the household;
hairesis
haireō
I.a taking especially, esp. of a
town, Hdt., etc.; hē
basilēos
hair.
the taking by the king,
- II. areskos, ho,
the staff borne by pornoboskoi [brothel keeper] on the stage, Poll.4.120.
- Arist.EN1108a28 Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics book 2
-
- [12] In respect of
truth then,the middle character may be called truthful,
and the
observance of the mean Truthfulness1 ; pretence in the
form of
exaggeration is Boastfulness, and its possessor a boaster;
in the form
of understatement, Self-depreciation, and its possessor
the
self-depreciator.
-
- [13] In respect of
pleasantness and social
amusement,
the middle character is witty and the middle disposition
Wittiness; the
excess is Buffoonery and its possessor
a buffoon; the
deficient man may be called boorish,
and his disposition Boorishness. In respect of general
pleasantness in life, the man who is pleasant in the
proper manner is friendly, and the observance of the mean
is
Friendliness; he that exceeds, if from no interested
motive, is
obsequious, if
for his own advantage,
a flatterer; he that is deficient, and unpleasant in all
the affairs of
life, may be called quarrelsome and surly.
-Romans
15.1 debemus autem nos firmiores inbecillitates infirmorum sustinere et non nobisplacere
-Placeo to please, to be pleasing or agreeable, to be welcome, acceptable, to satisfy (class.).
1. In scenic lang., of players or pieces presented, to
please, find favor, give satisfaction:
“primo actu placeo, Ter. Hec. prol. alt. 31: cui scenico placenti, “populo ut placerent quas fecisset fabulas,”
Făcĭo , 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
= edere, id. Rep. 2, 20;
id. Att. 15, 10;
“also i. q. ludificari,”
4. To represent a thing in any manner, to
feign, assert, 8. In relig. lang., like the Gr
. rhezein, to perform or
celebrate a religious rite; to offer sacrifice,
make an offering, to sacrifice
compositio,
XV.
debemus autem nos firmiores inbecillitates infirmorum sustinere et non nobis placere [2] unusquisque vestrum proximo suo placeat in bonum ad aedificationem
THE PATTERN: WHAT JESUS DIED FOR AND COMMANDED WITH NO
"SILENCE"
Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were
written aforetime
were written for our learning,
that we through patience
and
comfort of
the scriptures might have
hope.
Romans 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to
be likeminded
one toward another
according to Christ Jesus:
Romans 15:6 That ye may
with one mind and one mouth glorify
God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Self-Pleasure includes ALL of the performing arts and crafts:
Please or Areskos inccluding lifting people up with excitement
IN ORDER to take their property and use it for their own.
Musical Idolatry in
the name of God is
without redemption. See
what happened at Mount Sinai.
Sabbath
or REST is
PAUO in Greek: Jesus died to give us
REST
from the laded burdens (music) and burden laders
(parasites). While refusing to listen to God they THOUGH
there was silence. Sabbath means REST: the command for the
synagogue or Church of Christ (the Rock) in the wilderness was
to REST, Read and Rehearse the Word. That was by the command of
Christ and therefore NEVER CHANGED.
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.
8104. shamar, shaw-mar´; a primitive root; properly,
to hedge
about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; .
Keep in Latin: Custodio II. With the access.
idea
of hindering free motion, A. In gen., to
hold
something back, to preserve,
keep: To prevent PLAY or Ludo cautiously, carefully:
“ut parce custoditeque ludebat!” Plin. Ep. 5, 16, 3.
sanctĭtas
Parce
B. To abstain or refrain from doing a
thing; to forbear, leave off, desist,
stop, cease, let alone, Opera
Opera
A. Care, attention, exertion
bestowed on any thing:
Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 52:
“sermoni,”
Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 4
1. A day's work or labor (usu. in
plur.): “quaternis
operis
singula
jugera
confodere,
hired aiders, abettors, tools, etc.
(of political or theatrical parties): “theatrales,”
parties for the purpose of applauding, theatrical
factions, Tac. A. 1, 16:
“VETERES
A
SCENA,
Tac.
Ann. 1.16 This was the beginning of
demoralization among the troops, of quarreling, of
listening to the talk of every pestilent fellow, in short,
of craving for luxury and idleness and loathing discipline
and toil. In the camp was one Percennius, who had once
been a leader of one of the theatrical factions, then
became a common soldier, had a saucy tongue, and had
learnt from his applause of actors how to stir up a
crowd. By working on ignorant minds, which
doubted as to what would be the terms of military service
after Augustus, this man gradually influenced them in
conversations at night or at nightfall, and when the
bettermen had dispersed, he gathered round him all the
worst spirits
Mūsa
,= Mousa,
I.a muse, one of the goddesses of poetry,
music
Mousa
A.“Olumpiades
M.,
Dios
aigiokhoio
thugateres”
Il.2.491,
II. mousa,
as Appellat., music, song, “m.
stugera”
A.Eu.308
(anap.); “euphamos”
Id.Supp.695
(lyr.); “kanakhan
. . theias
antiluron
mousas
Sanctĭtas
Inviolability, sacredness, sanctity:
honor
Plin. Ep. 5, 16, 3.
how eagerly , how intellegenter lectitabat! when
moderately custoditeque ludebat!
Jesus commanded
us to pray in our private places. He
repudiated the men who made an OVSERVATION out of their
prayer or alms.
“Observationi operam dare,” Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 5:
“siderum,” Cic. Div. 1, 1,
Opĕra , A.
Care, attention, exertion
bestowed on any thing:
Ludo A. To
sport, play
with any thing, to
practise as a pastime, amuse one's self with any
thing, B. To sport, dally, wanton Esp.,
to play on an
instrument of music, to
make or compose music or song:
THINKING THAT GOD WAS SILENT THE JEWS VIOLATED THAT WHICH
THEY HAD REFUSED TO HEAR.
Exod
32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and
offered
burnt
offerings, and brought peace offerings;
and the people sat
down
to
eat and to drink, and rose up to play
The golden calf represented Apis a real bull calf in
Egypt. This
represented the always-pagan ftrinitiy of Osiris, Isis and
Horus.
Hebrew: h6711 tsachaq, tsaw-khak´; a primitive root; to
laugh outright
(in merriment or scorn); by implication, to sport:—laugh,
mock, play,
make sport.
[6]
surgentesque mane obtulerunt holocausta et hostias pacificas et sedit populus comedere ac bibere et surrexerunt ludere
Surgo they rose up in
insurrection AGAINST God.
Hêdonais 3. Pl., desires
after pleasure, pleasant lusts, X.Mem.1.2.23, Ep.Tit.3.3,
"The
triumphal hymn of
Moses had
unquestionably a religious character about it; but the
employment of
music in
religious
services,
though idolatrous, is more distinctly marked
in the festivities which attended the erection of the golden
calf."
(Smith's Bible Dictionary, Music, p. 589).
Ludo A. To
sport, play
with any thing, to
practise as a pastime, amuse one's self with any thing,
B. To sport, dally, wantonly Esp., to
play on an
instrument of music, to
make or compose music or song: “carmina pastorum,”
Vellem a
comedy which wishes (i. e. is meant) to
be in demand, b. Of the wishes
of those that have a right to command, the gods,
masters, parents,
commanders, etc., I want, wish, will,
am resolved, it
is my will:
Canto I. Neutr.,
to produce
melodious sounds (by the voice or an instrument), to
sound, sing, play, Less
freq. of instrumental music, and only with abl. of the
instrument, in comedy, to sing and play while the
actor accompanies the song with gestures or dancing,
Tuba
war trumpet, Apart from military purposes, it was used on
various
occasions, as at religious festivals, games, funerals, a
signal for
wor, exciter, instigator.
Empaizō , fut. To be
deluded 2. euphem.
in mal. part.,
LXXJd. 19.25.
Jdg 19:25 But the men would not hearken to him: so the
man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them;
and they
knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning:
and when
the day began to spring, they let her go.
II. sport in or on, hôs
nebros chloerais e. leimakos hêdonais E.Ba. 866 (lyr.); tois choroisin e. to sport
in the dance,
Ar.Th.975; tôi Luc.Lex.5
Paig-ma , atos, to,
II. 'child's play',
to toiouto p. tōn logōn
Again, the penalty was:
Exod 32:34 Therefore now
go,
lead the people
unto the
place of
which I have spoken unto thee:
behold, mine Angel
shall go before
thee:
nevertheless in
the day when I
visit I will visit their
sin
upon them.
JESUS
SAID THAT THE KINGDOM DOES
NOT COME WITH RELIGIOUS
OBSERVATION
The Kingdom is not: “alicui,” to attend
to one, listen to him,
Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 52:
“sermoni,” Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 4:
2Thessalonians 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the
working of Satan with all power and signs and lying
wonders,
The Kingdom
is not: Opĕrātĭo A. A
religious performance, service,
or solemnity, a bringing of offerings:
operationes denicales, offerings
B. In Christian authors, beneficence,
charity,
The Kingdom
is not: E. Display, outward
show (eccl. Lat.): “non venit regnum Dei cum observatione,” Vulg. Luc. 17, 20.—
“p. patheōn allotriōn”
IF YOU ARE SO PROUD THAT YOU ARE A
DEDICATED RELIGIOUS MUSICIAN YOU ARE ANATHEMA: THAT MEANS YOU CANNOT BE REDEEMED AND MUST BE
BURNED.
Anything
or any one who is DEDICATED to
God as having some mediating
power is defined by the word
ANATHEMA. That means that
it CANNOT be redeemed and MUST
be burned.
That burning appears
throughout the Bible as the result of people
who use musical sounds
which have a physical and
emotional effect which
thieves SELL as
"spiritual" or "worship."
This
musical performance
was in the hands of
women until the time
of David who was KING
over the Levites and
NOT a worship
leader. All such
pagan religious
rituals MUST be
performed by males but
they must perform the
ROLES of women. When
Paul said that the
women must be silent
including sedentary he
laid down a MARKER to
identify the rise of
the Mother Goddess
worship led by the
daughters of Eve the
mediatrix.
The
Word
was PREACHED by
being READ: there
can
be no other
religious
operatives as
mediators or
meditrix:
1Timothy 2:1 I exhort therefore,
that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions,
and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
1Timothy 2:2 For kings, and for all that are in authority;
that
we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness
and honesty.
1Timothy 2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of
God our Saviour;
1Timothy 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved,
and
to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
Women performing
preside over roles are exercise the authority of
AUTHRENTIA which means both sexual and murderous.
The DO and intend to force everyone to GIVE ATTENDANCE
to them and their performance which is the ONLY worship
concept in A Church of Christ where people are DISCIPLES and not ceremonial
legalists.
MIRIAM IS THE PATTERN
OF THE PROTYTYPICAL USURPING WOMAN.
As part of the household of the king
Miriam would have been a prophetess of Hathor. She
claimed the right to speak for JEHOVAH and He slapped
her with a dose of leprosy and she disappears from view. The golden calf Apis ws the male
consort of Hathor:
Gregory
Nazianzen Nor are these Thracian orgies,
from which the word
Worship (threskia) is
said to be
derived; nor rites and mysteries of Orpheus,
whom the Greeks
admired so much for his wisdom that
they devised for him a lyre which draws all
things by its
music.
Nor the tortures of Mithras
which it is just
that those who can endure to be initiated into
such things should suffer;
nor the manglings of
Osiris,
another calamity
honoured by the Egyptians; nor the ill-fortunes of
Isis
and the goats more venerable than the Mendesians,
and the stall of
Apis,
the calf that luxuriated in the folly of the Memphites,
nor all those
honours with which they outrage the Nile, while themselves
proclaiming it in song to be the Giver of fruits and corn,
and the
measurer of happiness by its
cubits.
"Of The
Golden Calf "From time immorial
music
had been especially valued in the
service of prophecy. Pliny the Elder
gives us a report of the cult of Apis:
"In Egypt an ox is honored in place of the
god. He is
called Apis
and he lives in isolation. If he ever goes among the
people he stalks
along while the lictors make way for him and throngs of
boys
accompany him, singing
songs in his honor. He
appears to understand what is happening and seems to
wish to be
adored. The throngs [of boys] sudddenly become inspired and prophesy the
future. (Pliny,
Natural History)
Consequently Apollo (Abaddon, Apollyon) was
god of prophets and musicians and Pan was
god of medicine, music
and divination.
"Here singing served as a means of inducing ecstatic prophecy (speaking in tongues).
Thus the
essential
relationship between music
and prophecy
can be
clearly seen. This relationship also explains
why the expression for "making
music" and "prophesying" was often identical in the
ancient tongues. origen
contra celsum 8.67.
The Hebrew word Naba signifies not only "to prophesy" but also "to make music." (Quasten,
Johannes, Music and Worship in Pagan and
Christian Antiquity, p.
39)
The BEASTS
in the book of Revelation are defined by
"A new style of music or drama."
WHAT
THEY DID AND CONTINUED TO DO WHEN
JESUS CHRIST PROMISES TO BE PRESENT AS
THE ONLY TEACHER WHEN THE ELDERS TEACH
THAT WHICH HAS BEEN TAUGHT.
Matthew 27:31 And after
that they had mocked him, they took the robe
off from him,
and put his own raiment
on him, and led him away to crucify him.
Empaizō
, fut. A.“-xomai”
LXXHb.1.10:
pf. empepaikha
ib.Nu.22.29:—
mock at, mock, “tini”
Hdt.4.134;
3. Pass., to be deluded, Ev.Matt.2.16,
AP10.56.2 (Pall.), Vett.Val.16.14;
to be defrauded, of the revenues, Cod.Just.1.34.2.
II. sport in or on, “hōs
nebros
khloerais
e.
leimakos
hēdonais”
E.Ba. 866
(lyr.); tois
khoroisin
e.
to sport in the dance, Ar.Th.975;
“tō
gumnasiō”
Luc.Lex.5.
Empaiktês ,
ou, ho,A. mocker,
deceiver,
LXXIs.3.4, 2
Ep.Pet.3.3, Ep.Jud. 18.
Paison paizô [pais] 2. esp. dance,
“paisate”
Od.8.251; “dōma
peristenakhizeto
possin
andrōn
paizontōn”
23.147, cf.
Hes.Sc.277;
“p.
te
kai
khoreuein”
alla
pepaistai
metriōs
hēmin,
of the chorus,
4. play on a musical instrument,
h.Ap.206:
c. acc., “Pan
ho
kalamophthogga
paizōn”
Ar.Ra.230;
dance and sing, Pi. O.1.16.
5. play amorously,
Psalms
41 The prophecy was that the Levites who were soothsayers
or sorcerers would treat Jesus like a never-commanded
animal sacrifice.
THE JACOB-CURSED AND
GOD ABANDONED PEOPLE HAVE RETURNED.
GOD WILL NOT LET DELIBERATE
SOWERS OF DISCORD AND OFFENDERS
READ:
Acts 7:41 And they made a calf in those
days,
and
offered sacrifice unto the idol,
and rejoiced in the
works of their own hands.
> For I spake NOT unto your
fathers, nor commanded
them
in the
day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning burnt offerings or
sacrifices: Jeremiah 7:22
> But this
thing
commanded I them,
saying,
Obey my
voice, and I will be your
God, and ye shall
be my people:
and
walk ye in all the ways that I have
commanded you,
that
it may be well unto you. Jeremiah
7:23
> But they HEARKENED NOT, nor inclined their
ear,
but
walked in the counsels and in the imagination
of their evil heart,
and
went backward, and not forward.
Jeremiah 7:24
Euphrainō , Ep. euphr-, fut. Att.155.12, Pi.I.7(6).3
II. Pass., make merry, enjoy oneself,
Pind.
I. 6 Just as we mix
the second bowl of wine when the men's symposium
is
flourishing, here is the second song of the Muses for
Lampon's children
and their athletic victories: first in Nemea, Zeus, in your
honor they
received the choicest of garlands,
Xen. Sym. 7.5 However,
these questions also fail to promote the same object that wine
does; but if the young people were to have a flute
accompaniment and
dance figures depicting the Graces, the Horae
[whores],
and the Nymphs, I believe that they would be far less
wearied
themselves and that the charms of the banquet would be
greatly
enhanced.”
“Upon my word, Socrates,”
replied the Syracusan, “you are quite right; and I will
bring in a spectacle that will delight you.”
Acts 7:42 Then God turned,
and gave
them up to worship the
host of heaven;
as it is
written in the book of the prophets,
O ye
house of Israel, have ye
offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices
by the
space of forty years
in the wilderness?
Acts 7:43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch,
and the
star of your god Remphan,
figures
which ye made to worship them:
and
I
will carry you away beyond Babylon.
THE BOAST WAS TO "INFILTRATE AND DIVERT" THE CHURCHES OF
CHRIST AND TURN THEM INTO THEATERS FOR HOLY ENTERTAINMENT.
For
all of the stealing of church property and
imposing instrumental music
meaning as played by religious
parasites: To make the Lambs Dumb Before the
slaughter.
The PATTERN of Jesus
was/is:
Luke 6:29 And
unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the
other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to
take thy coat also.
And Peter warned:
1Peter 4:7 But the end of all
things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto
prayer.
1Peter 4:8 And above all things have fervent charity among
yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
1Peter 4:9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
1Peter 4:10 As every man hath received the gift, even so
minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the
manifold grace of God.
1Peter 4:11 If any man speak, let him speak as the
oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as
of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may
be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and
dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
1Peter 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the
fiery trial which is to try you, as though some
strange thing happened unto you:
1Peter 4:13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of
Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be
revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
1Peter 4:14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ,
happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth
upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your
part he is glorified.
1Peter 4:15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as
a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s
matters.
1Peter 4:16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him
not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
1Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must
begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us,
what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of
God?
1Peter 4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where
shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
1Peter 4:19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the
will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well
doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
WORKING WITH THE NACC SINCE 1927 THEY HAD FEW "CONVERSIONS"
The
OWNERS of churches "
taken away" gladly give
up their "investment" and are separated from friends and
families. The 'locusts' or musicians in John's language to
fool the foolish DRIVE OUT the godly and hold the liars,
cheaters and stealers captive until Jesus returns.
Ben Ries of Federal Way Church of Christ: another one
STOLEN
to give a place of respectability to musical performers which
Jesus qoting Ezekiel 33 called HYPOCRITES and so the word
universally means. Proving that those who boast about
INFILTRATING AND DIVERTING churches--Milton Jones had a VANGUARD
movement much like the ICOC:
We.
Are. Declining. In the year 2000, our church was
averaging a robust attendance of around 325 [now
125] in Sunday morning worship. The decline
started slowly in the early 2000s. People began
voicing discontent and eventually began leaving our
[their] congregation
over changes
in worship and leadership.
Changes like singing
during communion, [Mocking the
Death of Jesus]
a
worship team, [a
blasphemous concept]
rearranging
the chairs for worship, [Just
to sow discord or upset the comfort zone]
women teaching
mixed Sunday
morning Bible class, [REFUTING
Scripture:
Evah means an abomination and the feminist or effeminate
MEDIATRIX]]
and women
ministry leaders [Deaconesses]
forced the hand of many
individuals
and families
to either adjust
with the changes or find another church.
Many—if
not most—have chosen the latter.
From J.W.McGarvey onward, those who OPPOSE having their property
stolen are told to
GET OVER IT OR GET OUT. Since
all of these Discipling Movements fail, the only person who wins
is Satan.
1Samuel 19:20 And Saul sent
messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the
prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed
over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul,
and they also prophesied.
1Chronicles 25:1 Moreover David and the
captains of the host separated to the service of the
sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy
with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals:
and the number of the workmen according to their service
was:
Saul was turned into 'another man' or
perverted: the prophesiers including the Levites were not
"musical worship teams" but they Prophesied
or Soothsayed with instruments. Israel
had already been
abandoned to worship the starry host including Abaddon or Apollyon.
prophēt-ēs
, ou,
Dor. and Boeot. prophatas
[a_,
a,
Pi. (v. infr.), Corinn.Supp.2.68: ho:
（pro,
phēmi):—
prop.
A.one who speaks for a god
and interprets his will to man, Dios
p.
interpreter, expounder of the will of Zeus,
of Tiresias, Pi.N.1.60;
Bakkhou
p.,
perh. of Orpheus, E.Rh.972;
[Dionusou
p.,
of the Bacchae, Id.Ba.551
(lyr.); Nēreōs
p.,
of Glaucus, Id.Or.364;
esp. of the Delphic Apollo, “Dios
p.
esti
Loxias
patros”
A.Eu.19;
of the minister and interpreter
at Delphi, Hdt.8.36,37; at
the Ptoön, ib. 135, IG7.4135.13 (ii B.C.);
cf. prophētis.
Prŏphēta
and prŏphētes
, ae, m., = prophētēs,
I. a foreteller, soothsayer,
prophet (post-class.; cf. “vates):
prophetas
in
Adrasto
Julius
nominat
antistites
fanorum
oraculorumque
interpretes,”
Fest. p. 229 Müll. (Trag. Rel.
p. 194 Rib.): “prophetae
quidam,
deorum
majestate
completi,
effantur
ceteris,
quae
divino
beneficio
soli
vident,
App.
de
Mundo,
p.
56, 29: sacerdotes
Aegyptiorum,
quos
prophetas
vocant,”
Macr. S. 7, 13, 9: “Aegyptius,
propheta
primarius,”
Exodus
15.20 sumpsit ergo Maria prophetis soror Aaron tympanum in manu egressaeque sunt omnes mulieres post eam cum tympanis et choris
prīmārĭus
, a, um, adj. id., I.one of the first, of
the first rank, chief, principal, excellent,
remarkable (class.): “primarius
parasitus,”
Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 73:
“quoad
primarius
vir
dicat,”
the first speaker, he who has a right to be heard,
id. Rud. 4, 4, 29:
“primarius
vir
populi,”
Cic. Sen. 17, 61:
“femina
Of the Jewish prophets, Lact. 1, 4, 1;
4, 11, 1; 7,
24, 9; Vulg. Luc. 1, 70.
[Only the Writing prophets]
Because the INSTRUMENTAL PROPHESIERS were fed from the
NOT COMMANDED sacrificial system, all religious workers
claiming to SERVE between God and man were called PARASITES.
Părăsītus
, lit. one who eats with another; hence,
Hence, parasitus Phoebi, a player, actor,
Mart. 9, 29, 9.—
The tutelar deity of parasites was Hercules,
Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 79.
He introduced homosexual performers in religion.
BECAUSE THE INSTRUMENTAL
NOISE MAKERS PERFORMED A SERVICE WE NEED TO KNOW THAT
H10 ’ăbaddôh ab-ad-do' The
same as H9 , miswritten for H11 ; a perishing:—destruction.
H11 ’ăbaddôn ab-ad-done' Intensively
from H6 ; abstractly a perishing; concretely Hades:—destruction.
WHAT JOHN KNEW AND MERCINARY CLERGY ARE NEVER PERMITTED TO
KNOW OR CONFESS
Plat.
Crat. 404d for since things are in motion (
pheromena),
that which grasps (
ephaptomenon)
and touches (
epaphōn)
and is able to follow them is wisdom. Pherepapha, or something
of that sort, would therefore be the correct name of the
goddess, because she is wise and touches that
which is in
motion (
epaphē
tou pheromenou）—and
this is the reason why
Hades, who is wise, consorts with
her, because she is wise—but people have altered her name,
attaching more importance to euphony than to truth, and they
call her Pherephatta.
Likewise in the case of Apollo,
[405a] for no
single name could more aptly indicate the four functions of
the god, touching upon them all and in a manner declaring his
power in music, prophecy, medicine,
and archery.
Socrates speaking of Abaddon or Apollyon
who UNLEASHED the LOCUSTS or Muses for Bible students
His name and nature are in harmony; you see he is a musical
god [mousikou]. For in the first
place, purification and purgations used in medicine and in
soothsaying, and fumigations with medicinal and magic
drugs iatr-ikos
, Ion. iētr-
, ē,
on,
,
THE MARK OF ABADDON OR APOLLYON:
1.
mousi^kos , ē,
on,
Dor. mōsikos
II. of persons, skilled in music, musical,
X.l.c., etc.; “poiētikoi
kai
m.
andres”
Pl.Lg.802b;
“kuknos
kai
alla
zōa
m.”
Id.R.620a;
“peri
aulous
-ōtatoi”
Ath.4.176e;
lyric poet, opp. epic, Pl.Phdr.243a
(but opp. melopoios,
Phld.Mus.p.96 K.); m.,
hoi,
professional musicians, OGI383.162
(Commagene, i B. C.), PFlor.74.6
(ii A. D.); “mousikos
kai
melōn
poētēs”
SIG662.6 (Delos, ii B.
C.).
III. of things, elegant, delicate, “brōmata”
Diox.1; “hēdion
ouden,
oude
-ōteron”
Philem.23; harmonious,
fitting,
2.
mantikos Paul warned against the
Mad Women of Corinth
I. Of or for a soothsayer
or his art, prophetic, oracular, Trag.
2. hē
mantikē
tekhnē,
manteia,
the faculty of divination, prophecy,
Soph.; so, hē
mantikē
alone, Hdt., Plat.
II. of persons, like a prophet,
oracular, Plat.:—adv. -kōs,
Ar.
3.
mantikos ,
ē,
on,
2. tekhnē
m.
faculty
of divination, prophecy,
S.OT709,
Arist.Pol.1274a28,
etc.; more freq.
hē
mantikē
alone,
Hdt.2.49,
4.68;
hē
. . m.
hē
tou
daimoniou,
of Socrates,
Pl.Ap.40a:
in Poets without Art.,
A.Pr.484,
S.OT311;
also in
Pl., “
mantikēn
Apollōn anēuren”
Smp.197a;
“
m.
entheos”
Phdr.244b,
cf.
Th.5.103.
4. iatr-ikos
, Ion. iētr- , ē, on, , 3.
[select] of drugs, efficacious,
“pharmaka”
Hp.Ep.16 (Sup.).
to,
tax for maintenance of doctor,
pharma^kon
[v. sub fin.], to, 3. enchanted
potion, philtre: hence, charm, spell,
Od.4.220
sq., Ar.Pl.302,
Theoc.2.15,
PSI1.64.20 (i
B. C.); “pharmakois ton andr' emēnen” Ar.Th.561;
toiauta ekhō ph. such charms
have I, Hdt.3.85,
cf. Apoc.9.21.
pharmakos [v.
ad fin.],
ho,
A one
sacrificed or executed
as an atonement or purification
for others, scapegoat, Hippon.5, al.,
Ar.Ra.733
(troch.),
Ister 33;
and, since criminals were reserved for this
fate, a general name of reproach,
Ar.Eq.1405,
Lys.6.53,
Call. in Diēgēseis
ii 29,
D. 25.80.
[
a_ Hippon. and
Call.,
a^ Ar.Eq. l.c.; on
the accent v.
Hdn.
Gr.
1.150; “
pharmakos”
Did. ap.
Harp.]
Revelation 18:21 And a mighty
angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast
it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that
great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found
no more at all.
Revelation 18:22 And the voice of harpers,
and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters,
shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no
craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found
any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall
be heard no more at all in thee;
Revelation 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 [pharmakeia]
were all nations deceived.
Revelation 18:24 And in her was found the blood of
prophets, and of saints, and of all that were
slain upon the earth
Christ
said that the Wind, String and Percussion
instruments MARKS God driving His enemies into Hell.
Now, John says that the speakers, singers, instrument
players as sorcerers will fulfill that prophetic type.
Revelation 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.
Revelation 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers,
and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and
whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Milton Jones Sermon Review
Pro Musical Worship Number
One based on No
Dispensational Distinction. This is refuted by
Campbell, John Locke, John Knox,
Martin Luther, John Calvin and Justin Martyr. To that we can
add the
Old Testament prophets, Jesus, Paul and the collective host of
church
Fathers.
We
have found no historical
scholar outside of the liberal-tainted 19th century who
agrees that
Old Testament ceremonial ritualism can be added to
Christian worship
without also resting on the animal sacrifices to which music
was
exclusively attached to
warn any godly person that they would be executed if
they were not OUTSIDE the gates.
Christian
Chronicle Worship
Forum Reviews:
Dan Dozier
--And--Jack
Reese
In
order to ignore direct
commands of
Paul about
music it is convenient to riducule commands, examples and
inferences
as God's way of communicating His will
for our lives. This riducles all of history's scholars and
assumes a
post-Biblical authority.
Commands,
Examples,
Necessary Inferences
In
the need to impose
instrumental music in worship it is not uncommon to claim
that
Restoration Movement theology gets its authority from John
Locke
rather than from Jesus. Or that Alexander and Thomas
Campbell somehow
slipped into southern, red-necked mentality to invent this
method of
determining God's will.
However,
it is difficult for
this writer to think of any other way to express my will to
my
children than the generally-recognized methods unless you
have a
direct connection to God. For instance,
If
we command our child to do
something they might
assume the "doctor of the law" pose and try to find a
legal way to
get around it.
If
we example refusing to accept a
social drink our child absorbs
it like a sponge even though we have said nothing.
If
we say "I would not do that"
they will infer
that perhaps they should not either.
Because
power corrupts, our
"think sos" become a direct revelation from God and our
"claiming so"
exerts that authority on others. In the end, the error in
the book
of
Enoch for which God will come with ten thousand of his
saints to
execute judgment is
a way to corrupt the Word and the people so that they will
not be
able to evaluate anything beyond "sound bytes" put to the
tune of
pagan or contemporary replacements for the Word of God. If
one
professes to be Post-Modern then getting rid of the Bible as
the
product of Jesus' assignment for His time is a reasonable
conclusion.
Therefore,
to reject commands,
examples and inferences is often accompanied with the claim
of some supernatural
connection
with God in
which one learns His will in some mysterious way. Experiencing God by Henry T. Blackaby
and Claude V. King
infuses such notions among those needing power.
Tertullian
noted
that:
For
such is the
power of earthly
pleasures, that, to
retain the opportunity of still partaking of them,
it contrives
to prolong swilling
ignorance, and bribes
knowledge into playing
a dishonest
part. To both things,
perhaps, some among you are allured by the views of the heathens who in this matter are
wont to press us
with arguments, such as these:
(1)
That the
exquisite enjoyments of ear and eye we have in things
external are not in the least opposed to religion in the mind
and conscience; and
(2)
That surely no offence is
offered to God, in any human enjoyment, by any of our
pleasures,
which it is not sinful to partake of in its own time and
place, with
all due honour and reverence secured to Him.
But this is
precisely what we are ready to prove: That these things are not
consistent with true religion and true obedience
to the
true
God. Tertullian De Spectaculis
The
only true worship in a
physical sense is to "fall on your face" in the awareness of
the
greatness of God. And you cannot fall on your face when you
are
confronting a holy God trying to "move the worshipers into
His
presence" with authentia which is the sexual
authority absolutely outlawed by
God because authentia is "both erotic and murderous."
Worship,
even under the Law, in
a spiritual sense was "giving heed to God and His Word." We
worship
whatever or whomever we "give attention to." If feminine and
effeminate performers present themselves as the Willow Creek
"image
of what a Christian should look like" then we are practicing
"the
idolatry of talent." We are FORCING people to give heed to
the
performers and their words. This is another violation of
Paul's
direct command to give heed to Christ's Word or Spirit
power.
The
rejection of God's only
avenues of communicating authority is as hostile to the
Spirit of
Christ as any "heretical" view we could invent. Therefore,
"If
I profess with
the loudest voice and clearest exposition every part of
the truth of
God except
precisely that little point which the world and the devil
are at the
moment attacking, then I am not confessing Christ, however
boldly I
may be professing Him. Where the battle rages, there the
loyalty of
the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all
battlefields besides
is merely flight and disgrace if he flinches at that
point." Martin
Luther
Jefferson
stated: "Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the
accidental opinion of a day;
but a series
of
oppressions,
begun at a
distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every
change of
ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematical
plan of reducing
us
to
slavery."
Rejecting
Rituals Connected
to the Sacrificial System as Christian "acts of worship."
- David,
my servant, whom I chose
- To
guard my flock, to crush my foes,
- And
raised him to the Jewish throne,
- Was
but a shadow of my Son."
- Sir
Isaac Watts Psalm 89
Sirach
in Ecclesiasticus 48:
1. Then
the prophet Elijah
arose like a fire,
and his word
burned like
a torch.
2. He brought a famine
upon them, and by
his zeal he made them
few in number.
3.
By the word of
the Lord he shut up the
heavens, and
also three
times brought down fire.
4.
How glorious you were, O Elijah, in
your wondrous deeds! And who has the right to boast which
you
have?
5.
You who raised
a corpse from death and from
Hades,
by the word of
the Most High;
6.
who brought kings down to destruction,
and famous
men
from their beds;
7.
who heard
rebuke at Sinai and judgments of vengeance
at Horeb;
8. who anointed kings to
inflict
retribution,
and
prophets to
succeed you.
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
When
the "king set over us"
is a dominant, Post-Modern preacher then God has appointed
him to
inflict retribution because you believed his childish
belief in the
Post Modern (Post-Biblical) children's gibberish.
"The
same basic
thought is in view throughout all these references,
including II
Peter 3:3 and Jude 18. Mockers, in the Word of God, are
those who "belittle,"
"ridicule," "scorn," "make light of" both the living Word and the written Word.
Jude
and Peter allude to the
Book of Enoch and comparable documents. These show that
mixed-sex
choirs, instrumental music and eye and other sense appeal
was
introduced by Satan to take the worship away from God and
direct it
to him.
This
ignoring of the Word in
order to introduce human forms of worship define one as a
liar and
Satanic because Jesus defined the Devil based on the fact
that he
speaks on his
own.
Jesus
also defined the
Pharisees in the same term and identified all of the
Jewish leaders
as sons of their lying father the Devil for committing
the same
sin.
God
will come with ten thousand of His saints for
just these people.
There
are many Psalms which ask
God to crush
my
foes
but the weapons of
Christian warfare are not carnal or lifeless instruments.
The
second effort to
transfer authority from Christ to a secular society passes
Judgment
upon Alexander Campbell and others for rejecting playing
of loud
instruments.
We
have found no historical
scholar outside of the liberal-tainted 19th century
scholarship who
agrees that Old Testament ceremonial ritualism can be added to
Christian
worship
without
also resting
our faith on the
animal sacrifices to
which music was exclusively attached in a worship sense.
This has
historically included rejecting instrumental music.
Hebrews
6 makes this the
unforgivable sin.
Contrary
to the need to diminish
Locke
and
Campbell in
order to
personally replace them as authority, both taught principles
which
would increase
religious
toleration
by limiting,
in the collective assembly representing many opinions, only
those
"acts" for which there is a direct command. This was not to be
exclusive but to be inclusive by
not doing things not necessary for salvation which would
deliberately
offend those who did not have the votes to force their will.
Thomas
and
Alexander Campbell went further than most by teaching that
approved
examples
which seem
approved in the Bible also be allowed. Even further toward
toleration
was to allow "necessary inferences." For instance, the
command for the Lord's Supper
does not need a direct command to get in out of the rain
so we infer
that we can meet in a building without changing the nature
of the
Supper. Nor would we offend anyone.
Later
American Restoration
participants did not add things such as instrumental music
to their existing practices -- rejected
by most
Protestants and even Catholics at least intellectually --
because
there was no command, example or even inference that Christ
or Paul
or anyone had ever hinted that it would be productive.
Furthermore,
it would be sectarian because it would automatically
"include" in a
fraternal sense those who agreed, and it would "exclude"
those who
could not add music to the historical practice. It also
answered to
being sectarianism because those who added music had a
vested
financial interest in increasing attendance (See Vine's
definition of
sect and heresy). Locke
Letter of Toleration
Mass
religion fails
when the individual believer becomes Post Modern. A
gravestone in
Rome reads: 'I didn't exist, then I existed, then I died.
I don't
care.'
Ain't
it the truth? for
now....
ON
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN
DOCTRINE AND LIFE
Therefore
doctrine and life
should be distinguished as sharply as possible.
Doctrine belongs to God, not to
us; and we are
called only as its ministers.
Therefore
we cannot
give up or change
even one dot of it
(Matt. 5:18).
Life
belongs to
us;
therefore when it
comes to this, there is nothing that the Sacramentarians
can demand
from us that we are not willing and obliged to undertake,
condone,
and tolerate (LW 27:37).
With
a straight face, yet,
people will tell you that music has been the universal rule
and to
oppose the forced introduction into Christian worship is
legalism and
sectarianism:
"Those
of us who
protest against this revolution in Presbyterian worship
are by some
pitied, by others ridiculed, and by others still
denounced as fanatics.
If
we are, we share
the company of an innumerable host of fanatics extending from the day
of Pentecost to tile middle
of the nineteenth
century.
We
refuse not to be classed, although
consciously unworthy of the
honor, with apostles, martyrs and reformers. But neither
were they mad, nor are we. We "speak
the words of
truth and soberness." Mindful of the apostolic
injunction, "Prove all
things," we submit arguments derived from Scripture,
from the
formularies of our church and from the consensus of Christ's people, and
respectfully invoke for them
the attention of our brethren. George Girardeau,
Presbyterian
Review
of
Sermon, Milton
Jones, Northwest Church of Christ, Seattle, Washington.
A
visitor taped this sermon and
because the preacher outlawed taping it it is not clear
enough to
transcribe directly. However, Milton Jones makes the common
proof-text apology which we wil review:
First,
I
gather that Alexander Campbell is
represented as the first person in the history of the world
to have
taught that there is a dispensational difference
between the Law of
Moses (added because of transgression, and that
transgression being
musical idolatry at Mount Sinai) which
also betrayed The Book of
The Covenant of God in Christ
to Abraham and restated..
Perhaps
his uniqueness was to
declare the fact to theologians who often "saw godliness as
a means
of financial gain." Furthermore, Campbell argues that
Calvinists need
to preach the law in order to radically panic the prospects
into some
emotional experience which could be translated as conversion
and a
sign of God's acceptance. This dissociation -- an integral
part of
the new marketing schemes -- terminated the process and
therefore
baptism was placed under the "New Covenant" as an optional
act. That
is, people were saved under law and baptized under grace. In
"believer's baptism" one actually "becomes" Christ or Christ
comes as
in the "mass" and dies again for the personal salvation of
the
believer.
What
I grasp from
the words and their tone is that the audience is to see this
new, unique but presumptious wall between law
and grace as so radical that
no "modern" person could possibly agree with them.
Connect this with
the theme of "breaking down the walls" to any and
every system of
religion and you see why dispensational distinction stands
as an
obstacle to ceremonial worship with music.
Grace, like Word, is God's gift to mankind to
REMOVE the laded burdens and burden laders. "Burdens" in Greek and Hebrew were the
arousal songs with instruments used to ENCHANT or
perform sorcery on people.
Titus 2:11 For the grace
of God
that
bringeth salvation
hath appeared to all
men,
Titus 2:12 Teaching us that,
denying meaning to contradict, reject,
refute
ungodliness means irreverent,
impious: that will get you burned
Heb 12. Zoe "calls down the fires."
and worldly lusts, "A longing for that
which is
FORBIDDEN." Don't ring a bell?
we should
live soberly, Sound mind: music
deranges
the mind.
righteously, innocent giving NO
offense.
and
godly, devout
or reverent without which you get burned.
in this present world;
Charis (g5485) khar'-ece; from
5463;
graciousness (as gratifying), of manner
or act
(abstr. or concr.;
lit., fig. or spiritual; espec.
the
divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in
the life;
including
gratitude)
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his
glory,
the glory as of
the only begotten
of the Father,)
full of
grace and truth. John 1:14
John 1:16 And of his fulness have all we received,
and grace for
grace.
John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses,
but grace and
truth came by
Jesus Christ.
While
many of Campbell's
contemporaries believed that they could pick parts of the
legalistic,
ceremonial "like the nations" worship under the Monarchy,
the problem
with this approach is that Campbell and all of his Reformed
and
Baptist friends had always rejected instrumental music based
on the
"Regulative Principle" that -- out of respect for God and
mankind --
"where the Bible speaks, we speak but where the Bible is
silent we
are silent." Many Presbyterians and Baptists are still
faithful to
that rejection of instruments.
They
fully understood that to
restore the music was to trust in that part of the Law which
governed
Israel after they rejected God and lived like the Canaanites
in their
midst.
And,
long before Locke or
Campbell we hear: "In essentials, unity, in doubtful
matters,
liberty; in all things charity." - Pope John XXIII, Ad
Petri
Cathedram and popularly attributed to Augustine
Second, the
Campbells, and
therefore the
American Restoration Movement, is charged with being disciples
of Locke rather than the
disciples of Christ.
This, of course, denies that they were true-blue scholars
and
question Locke's Christianity.
John
Mark Hicks in defining the Hermeneutics of the
Stone-Campbell
First, the
false claim that the Churches of Christ and the
Christian Churches were ever united
or held a SINGLE doctrine in common when Jones etal claim that the groups UNITED
in 1832. We will debunk that under John Mark
Hicks false document review.
Second,
without having read John Locke who gave
HIM both religious and civil
lliberty, Jones and Hicksmake the
false claim that the Campbells taught that they could use
their OWN rationalistic, distorted mind
to DETERMINE THE WILL OF GOD. That is
false: God, Jesus, the writers and
all humanoid history teaches that people WRITE
documents knowing that readers
can read BLACK text on BROWN paper.
The Disciples on the other
Anyone who read understands that the SNAKE
in Revelation was called a Musical
Enchanter(ess). Christ in the prophets
identifies the King of Tyre as a LUCIFER type and "She is
called a singing and harp playing prostitute
in the graden of Eden.
The
implication is
that Locke was some kind of rationalistic creature who
operated from
his God-given mind rather than listening to the voice of
the Spirit.
Locke was not fond of the Calvinistic demand for
supernatural signs
and this may explain why those who distort Calvin don't
like
Locke.
Because
the audience (nor do
most of those camp-following lectureship guys whose "buzz
code" is
"down with John Locke.") know little about Locke it is
easy to
minimize one who stands at the top of the heap
intellectually and
promoted religious
tolerance
when it was
dangerous to do so. Both Locke and Campbell taught that if
you don't
rely only on direct commands it is not
possible to function as a united local body. And that is a
self-evident fact of life.
The
freedom which we enjoy as
citizens under the Constitution of the United States and
as
free-to-choose worshipers of God depends heavily upon the
work of
Locke.
As
a result of his
work, Campbell's approach would promote religious
toleration in a
polluted ocean of tribal warfare among too many clergy
chasing too
few dollars.
Third, besides
questioning
the motives and
spirituality of those who oppose music in the modern sectarian movement, the motive
seems to be to
aggrandize the period of the Monarchy or the Kingdom where
God
granted Israel a human
king
to replace Him so
that they could worship like
the nations and
fulfill their
sentence at Mount Sinai because of musical "play."
This
would not allow, but
totally prohibit, women or younger men from being "musical
overseerers." If we need a "law" to answer to Paul's
absolute
prohibition of "non-sedantary" women in the assembly, this
is
it.
Quoting Psalm
150 as
"proof text" shows
that the preacher does not share any understanding of the
difference
between the covenant
of
grace
offered at Sinai
and the Book
of the
Law
given to govern a
people who turned back to the musical worship of their Egyptian
gods.
There
is a problem when a Psalm
is used as "proof-text" or legal
authority to add instruments even if we never see David as
a
theatrical performer in ceremonial legalism or "church
worship." We do see him playing himself
into a naked
dance with the slave girls. The word "play" of David is
identical to
the Mount Sinai experience and Condemned by Paul to the
Corinthians.
The word "halal" means that he "made himself vile" and
bragged that
the slave followers would hold him in honor.
Nor
does he share any
understanding with the audience that some of these
instruments were not allowed in the temple
service
(never congregational) and
were not allowed on
the seventh day sabbath which was to "be kept holy."
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:
Isaiah 58:13
If
we use Psalm 150 as proof
text for modern instrumental music what will we do with
Psalm 149
which says:
Let
the high
praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword
in their hand;
Psalm 149:6
- To
execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments
upon the
- people;
Psalm 149:7
David
"sang to the Gentiles"
with his feed on their necks as he shed the blood OF the
Gentiles.
However, Christ shed His blood FOR the gentiles and when
He sings we
"preach."
The
church "fathers" understood
these either
as written
by a vengeful God or
must be interpreted in a spiritual sense as Christ "playing" on
our heart as we teach His
Words (Col 3) or Spirit (Eph 5) to one another.
Fourth, with
the destruction
of
"dispensational distinctions" the legalistic Levitical
Musical Teams
become the authority for many modern musical worship teams
to replace
the elders. These teams are now allowable if it can be
proven to the
audience that songs are to be sung using mechanical
instruments with
Psalm 150 as the "proof-text."
Once
the walls
have
been
broken down between the
sacrificial system and the Christian dispensation it is
just as
reasonable to replace the communion table with
sacrificial bodies
offered up with musical noise. Paul would associate them
with the
shaven heads of the pagan
prophetesses (1 Cor
11:5)
In
fact, the
instrumentalist "noise makers" played panic "music"
during the
sacrifices but this was not "worship."
In
the wilderness, the Levites
stood between the people and the Tabernacle to prevent
them from
"coming boldly into the presence of God."
The
fact is that the Levitical
musicians were later
added
to the like
the
nations
temple services
when Israel fired God and got their "own assignment" from the pagans around
them. This put the temple,
animal sacrificial and the Levitical musicians under the
control of
the king and the commanders of the army. This also meant that
the literal songs, weapons and
instruments were to punish anyone who ventured into the temple rituals
or who did not
fall down during animal sacrifices.
"To
the priests was committed
the charge of the sanctuary and the altar,
while the Levites were to take
care of everything else about the tabernacle. The Levites
were to
attend the priests as
servants--
bestowed on
them as
"gifts" to aid in the service of the tabernacle--
while the high and dignified
office of the priesthood was a
"service of gift."
"A stranger," that is, one, neither a priest nor a
Levite,
who should intrude into any departments of the
sacred office, should
incur the penalty
of
death. ROBERT
JAMIESON
The "musical noise makers"
served in the court
which represents the world: they never entered the holy
place
(church) nor certainly the Most Holy Place where one
worshiper at a
time goes boldly before the throne of grace. A "musician"
who
attempted to follow the priest into either place (church
or spirit)
would be run through with a sword: any theatrical
performers who
attempts to do it today has been run through with the
Sword of the
Spirit.
Therefore, to adopt a
Monarchy pattern is to
adopt "worship like the nations" and to deny the work of
Christ Who
permits us all to come boldly before the throne of grace.
Anyone who
pretends to bring you into God's presence has been hatched
in
downtown Babylon.
It
is also a fact that most
complex harmony "panics" the enemy into "flight, fight or
sex" before
the induced morphine-like drug produces the "high" which
can be
peddled as a "spiritual" feeling.
Fifth, because
many might not
buy the "no
dispensational distinction" argument, the word psallo is dredged up when no
one understanding the Bible,
the classical writers, church history or that no informed
by scholars ever attempted to wrestle
Paul's words until
challenged about the forceful introduction of instrument.
Psallo is rooted in the word SOP: never in recorded history does psallo have any MUSICAL MELODY content. If you pluck a bow
string it TWANGS and you send
forth a SINGING arrow: if you pluck a HARP
strings "with your fingers
and NEVER with a plectrum (guitar pick) they
you make it sing. However, Psallo in the
Bible never means more that smite or sing.
Except
to
"poison
the
wells"
it is difficult
to understand the string of logic connecting Locke to
Campbell to the
Greek word "psallo." Rather than the Bible, an obscure but
real-life
"parasite" called Lucian of Samosata is used as
proof that psallo demanded
the use of instruments well past the time of Paul.
'It
is impossible to pipe
[aulein] without a pipe or to strum
[psallein] without a lyre or to ride without a
horse' (Parasite 17)
This
doesn't work either
because Lucian of Samosata needed patrons out of the
intellectual and
ruling classes and therefore used the Attic Greek he had learned in his
native land from the Classical
writers. That is, his use of "psallo" dates perhaps 400
years before
the time of Paul. Furthermore, he always associated this
music with pagan or secular rituals dominated by performing women. His writings help
explain the Marzeah held by Israel and
condemned by Amos.
In Alexander
the Oracle Monger, Lucian shows how to
construct a seeker
form of religion with women a primary attraction.
In
addition, external "melody"
has its foundation in twanging arrows, plucking hair or
abrading the
enemy to death with "playing instruments and making a
joyful noise
before the Lord" which was the Israelite battle cry.
Twanging a
literal arrow makes the string twang and the arrow sing on
its way to
your heart: when you hear the twang of a bowstring,
therefore, you
panic because you know that the arrow is making its
"melody" in your
heart. See the
background to twanging arrows. A similar word defines
the SOP Jesus hand abraded as
a sign to Judas that He was the prophesied agent of Psalm
41 who
would try to triumph over Jesus with the musical warriors
of the
priests.
Well,
it is pretty hard to blow
a pipe without a
pipe!
I can buy that.
However, if this is supposed to prove that it is impossible
to psallo
without a lyre then:
- This
demands that every singer have their own lyre or harp.
- This
would exclude theatrical performance for the "audience." .
Sorry,
but history, including
Lucian, never treats "divine" musicians much better than when
Jesus insinuated that the Jews
were seeking John because he might be "soft"
and Jesus because He might sing
and dance
the effeminate
chorus of
Dionysus
while they played the pipe:
Pseudo-Apollodorus notes of the word strum
that:
"The infants were
exposed, but a neatherd found and reared them, and he
called the one Zethus and the other Amphion.
Now Zethus
paid
attention to cattle-breeding,
but Amphion
practised
minstrelsy,
for Hermes had given him a lyre
The
two brothers are said to
have quarrelled, the robust
Zethus
blaming
Amphion for
his passionate addiction to music and
urging him to abandon it for
what he deemed the more manly pursuits of
agriculture, cattle-breeding and war.
The
discussion between the two
brothers,
the one
advocating
the practical life and
the other the contemplative or
artistic, seems to have been famous. The gentle Amphion
yielded to
these exhortations so far as to cease to strum
the lyre."
It
is illustrated by a fine
relief in which we see Amphion standing and holding out
his lyre eagerly for the
admiration of his athletic
brother,
who
sits regarding it
with an air of smiling disdain
This
repeats the well-known
story of Cain and Able. Cain's descendant, Jubal, was the musical
performer. And the story of Genun
shows that Satan always leads the musical performers.
Hermes was
the
agent who
was the father of musical instruments, the bow twanging
melodious arrows, of
liars and of thieves. Because "cows" in the book of Enoch
represents
people, Hermes represents the Satanic agents who can "walk
backward"
and hide the cattle he stole from the senior god, Apollo.
Apollo is Abbadon or Apollyon or
Satan
or the beast
(Zoe type) who formed an early Seeker Center at Delphi as a
theater
for "holy entertainment."
However,
you cannot blame
Locke, or Alexander Campbell or those who insinuated
instruments into
even non-musical churches by rhetorical force.
Lipscomb
wrote
as late as 1878 that:
We
do not think anyone has ever claimed
authority from Scriptures to use
the organ in worship.
They only claim it is not condemned. It is used as an
assister in
worship...Prayer, praise, thanksgiving and making melody
in the heart
(mind) unto the Lord are acts of worship ordained of God,
but no
authority do we find for the organ."
Sixth, the Lucian
quote demands
the use of instruments. Therefore, Arndt and Gingrich are
used as the
modern authority for the allowance of instruments in some,
but not
all, of the New Testament usages. We have some notes on Arndt-Gingrich
here. Many
of the Lexicons note that Lucian used a pre Koine Greek
language.
The
real division over the
forced introduction of musical instruments happened after Locke, Campbell or
Alexander Campbell
Even
though some of the
churches had adopted an Old Testament structure to their
organization, Alexander Campbell noted that:
"The argument
drawn
from the Psalms in favor
of instrumental music,
is exceedingly apposite to the Roman
Catholic,
English Protestant, and Scotch Presbyterian churches, and even to
the Methodist communities. (Catholic
scholarship still rejects the
authority of musical instruments)
This
proves that the base of
the Restoration Movement was consistent with 2,000 years
rejection of
instrumental or mechanical devices as "the works of human
hands" to
worship a Spirit God. Therefore, those who add instruments
are the
MUSICAL SECTARIANS. They know beforehand and with a high
hand "sow
discord among the brethren" and the claim to being Post
Modern
includes the right to lie, cheat and steal. Bill Clinton: "I
know
that I lied but the Republicans made me do it."
"There
were those saying that they could "not abide the
election of a
Republican President." In which event they
would destroy the Union. "And then, you say, the great
crime of having destroyed it will be upon us!
That is
cool. A highwayman
holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth,
"Stand and
deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you
will be
a
murderer." Abraham
Lincoln, Frost, Vol. 1, p. 274
However,
his primary argument
was made against worship directed to the body or carnal
nature and
to the
spirit:
"So
to those who have
no
real devotion or
spirituality in them,
and whose animal nature flags under the oppression of
church service,
I think with Mr. G., that instrumental music would be not
only a
desideratum, but an essential prerequisite to fire up their souls
to even animal devotion.
But
I presume,
to all spiritually-minded Christians, such aids would
be as a cow
bell in a concert.
Therefore,
it is simply wrong
to hang the sectarian music issue around the necks of these
Godly and
scholarly men who are probably chuckling in their graves
over the
second incarnation of the psalm argument.
Thus
ends the major points
expressing my opinion to interested parties about the first
half of
the sermon trying to justify the introduction of instruments
into a
Christian "worship in spirit and in truth." And, indeed,
most of
these old scholars would see the self-promotion of
performance
worship as neither Biblical, rational nor quite as
entertaining as
all artists believe. This is not "rationalism" but rational
which is
another word for "spiritual" because God gave us a mind to
understand
Him and not an antenna to suck truth out of the air.
Seventh. It is easy to get into
the "church
growth" fad but Paul said that the order is "plant and water
and let
God give the increase." When there is a deliberate sense of
panic to
escape the hard work the crowd- or hype-induced new
marketing schemes
seem so attractive.
However,
don't forget that of
those whom Paul called the "many" and prophecy calls the
"multitite"
there will always be witting or unwitting efforts to add
ritual to
take away the key to knowledge.
In
the Post-Modern sense the
question is asked:
"Are
you having
difficulty discerning or receiving this "new
revelation"? Then you have been interpreting your Bible in
the "old way,"
comparing
Scripture
with Scripture, studying diligently to account for every
jot and
tittle and being careful to rightly divide the Word of
truth.
If this describes you, then you
belong to the "Old
Generation"
which will not enter in to "possess
the land" in the Latter Rain
Revival.
You may even be a member of a denominational
church, with its
dogmatic confession of faith and statement of doctrine.
These legalistic
forms
will be relics of the past in the up
and coming
"Postdenominational Church." Paul Cain advises
that you "dump all that carnal
stuff" (doctrine) and listen to what the "spirit" is saying to the
churches through
the Latter Rain Prophets and
Apostles,
who are dispensing many "new, sacred truths."
Source
More
Details on Blackaby and your incarnation as
Christ.
See
what Preachers trying to destroy the Word believe.
In so
many of the "uniquely
American" churches "testing the spirits" is between relying
on the
inspired Word which has stood the test of time or rely on
those who
believe that you should rely on them for faith and practice.
The
following added verbage
should be considered resources to decide whether you want to
trust
Jesus and His word which produces unity or the opinions of
men who
almost always do not understand or who misuse the historical
evidence.
In an
article on the Second
Great Awakening we document the very legalistic nature
of the charismatic recapitulation one had to experience to
effectively save themselves by bringing Christ to them
literally and
personally to die for them. In the modern Baptist scheme,
which never
died in some of the Restoration Movement, God personally
picks the
person for salvation and in a quieter Presbyterian system
makes that
known. However, to repudiate Calvinism at Cane Ridge, men
like Barton
W. Stone still needed some supernatural "exercises" to prove
that one
could work themselves through the legalistic phase of law
and then
receive the Atonement. Because these experiences rarely
happen in any
system, you just have to manufacture them.
Campbell,
looking at all of the
signs and results, saw this as Satanic and therefore denied
that a
Christian has to go through the Law and effectively redeem
themselve.
Then and now music was a powerful machine to "move the
worshipers
into the presence of God."
Background
to the Quoted
Resources
We
have added the factual
information which you can read for yourself to show that:
1.
The Law of Moses was added because of Transgression: Instrumental Idolatry
2.
Historical
scholars agree that the New Covenant dispensed with
national legalistic
rituals of all kind.
3.
They also agree that
authority comes -- like all possible authority -- through
commands,
approved examples and inferences.
4.
Lucian did not authorize
instruments by using a Post-Paul definition of the Greek
word for
melody: psallo. His Greek was perhaps 400 years older than
Paul's.
5.
Only in an after the fact
effort to soothe the division caused by adding instruments
has psallo
ever been used to justify their use.
While
the artistics "amphions"
of the world are sowing discord by devoting too much
attention to
their own theatrical performance wouldn't it be wonderful if
instead
of tackling men like Locke and Campbell the "audience" could
have the
huge body of information "unchained from the pulpit." While
they are
creating "body worship" we believe that:
Amphion
stands and
holds out his lyre
eagerly for the admiration of his athletic brother, they sit regarding it
with an air of smiling
disdain.
Did
you know that the Judas bag
was for "holding the mouth pieces of wind instruments"?
But,
according to Psalm 41, Judas would not triumph over (blow
the trumpet
and rejoice) over Jesus. Look and see
how the Judas goats try to triumph over us.
Theologians
cannot find God by
themselves. Therefore Locke said that God revealed His Word
through
Jesus Christ, and that this revelation is reasonable to the
common
mind. He never taught that Christianity can be found by
human
reasoning. Nor did he advocate using direct commands to
regulate the
affairs of others but to create the broadest area of
reconciliation.
Whence
This Judgmentalism
Against the American Restoration Movement Founders?
Like
the charge
of
racism
against those who refuse to worship with
musical
instruments, the charge of Locke contamination flows out of
those who
opposed the Campbell's rejection of ceremonial legalism such
as
musical worship. Of course they hated Locke for many
reasons. They
didn't like him or Campbell because both opposed
professionalizing
the clergy. They didn't like either because they opposed
authority
which reached outside of the local congregation.
Dr.
Robert Richardson wrote
in a letter to Isaac Errett:
"The
philosophy of
Locke with which Bro. Campbell's mind was deeply imbued in
youth has insidiously
mingled
itself
with almost all
great points in the reformation and has been all the whole
like an
iceberg in the way - chilling the heart and benumbing the
hands, and
impeding all progress in the right direction."
What
Richardson and the Post
Modern Sucked Dry of Scripture detested was that John
Locke
understood that collective worship cannot take place if we
violate
the commands of Paul to the Romans in chapter fourteen.
Both the
Dionysiacs and Orphics both had in common was the use of
instrumental
music to "make the spirit come" in a sexual sense. Paul
issued
another "speaking rather than singing" commands in Romans
15 which
demands.
The
Romans
Pattern:
