I. having three
forms, shapes, or natures; threefold,
triple, triform (poet.): Chimaera, Hor. C. 1, 27, 23:
canis, i. e. Cerberus,
Sen. Herc. Oet. 1202:
Geryon, id. Agam. 841:
All pagan god heads were trinitarian.
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12.22.22 update The speakers, singers and instrument players under the Babylon Mother of Harlots are called "fruits" and John calls them sorcerers. Rick Atchley will not tell you that his TASK is to hide the fact that they will be CAST ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE: maybe even now as they are spiritually consumed by the breath (spirit) of their mouth.
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HERMES IS LOGOS HERMENEUTIC JESUS SPEAKS LOGOS GOD'S WORD NEW HERMENEUTICS-A LYING SPIRIT
THE NEW COVENANT-MEANING OF SPIRIT
2Chr. 18:21 And he said, I will go out, and be a LYING SPIRIT in the mouth of all his prophets. And the LORD said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so.
2Chr. 18:22 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.
Is. 59:21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My SPIRIT that is upon thee,
and my WORDS which I have put in thy MOUTH,
shall not depart out of thy MOUTH,
nor out of the MOUTH of thy seed, nor out of the MOUTH of thy seeds seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.CLICK FOR HERMES god of liars, thieves,homosexuality ALWAYS Religion-Sex-Music-extortion Heb. 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Rubel Shelly: Ironically, a Greek philosopher named Heraclitus of Ephesus (later John's hometown!), whose work dates from around 500 B.C., speculated about a logos that ruled and gave structure to the world. He saw logos as a mysterious force "by which all things are steered through all things."
Hermes made love to all of the goddesses and "also loved young men in pederastic relationships where he bestowed and/or taught something related to combat, athletics, herding, poetry and music
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Worshipping, however, Cyllenius with especial distinction, they style him Logios. For Mercury [Hermes] is Logos, who being interpreter and fabricator of the things that have been made simultaneously, and that are being produced, and that will exist, stands honoured among them fashioned into some such figure as is the pudendum of a man, having an impulsive power from the parts below towards those above. And that this (deity)-that is, a Mercury of this description-is, (the Naassene) says, a conjurer of the dead, and a guide of departed spirits, and an originator of souls; nor does this escape the notice of the poets,
God's Word is ANTITHESIS: not plagiarism as charged by new hermeneutics. SPEAK or READ is the Gender Trap.
Walter Brueggeman at Lipscomb University
Logos computation, reckoning 2. statement of a theory, argument,
IV. Regulative and formative forces, derived from the intelligible and operative in the sensible universe,
Opposite to epithumia
Theaomai :--gaze at, behold, mostly with a sense of wonder, 3. view as spectators
Opp. Pathos A. that which happens to a person or thing, incident, accident, Moralizing Rhetoric
Opp. Poiein to excite passion, Arist.Rh.1418a12; V. Rhet., emotional style, Enthousi-astikos , ē, on, A. inspired, phusis Pl.Ti.71e; esp. by music,
Prose, OPPOSITE -poiκsis, Id.R.390a;
OPPOSITE -poiκtikκ, D.H.Comp.6; OPPOSITE poiκmata, onomatopoeic word
X. the Word or Wisdom of God, personified as his agent in creation and world-government,
PRIVATE INTERPRETATION-FURTHER EXPOUNDING OUTLAWED:
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WE MERE MORTALS ARE RESTRICTED TO READING THAT WHICH IS WRITTEN FOR OUR LEARN. TRANSLATION OF INSPIRED VISITOR.
Hermēn-eia claimed by those rejecting Holy Scripture hear DEMONS rather than Jesus. They are delusional by using female musical worship leader. They are defined as hated, disreputable and abominable
Rejects all definitions of Apostle, Preacher, Herald
Aeschylus, A Has he, our land's dear lord, travelled safe home and has he returned with you
diermēn-euō allows only translating or explaining the WORD ONLY spoken one speaking a foreign or unknown language.
Rom. 15:4 For whatsoever things were written were WRITTEN for our LEARNING, that we through patience and comfort of the SCRIPTURES might have hope.
Rom. 15:6 That ye may with ONE MIND and ONE MOUTH glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
HERMENEUTICS CLAIMS TO HEAR A SPIRIT GOD WHO BRINGS DEATH AND BURNING
JESUS IN THE STATE OF "HOLY SPIRIT" TEACHES ONLY THOSE WHO "CONTINUE IN MY WORD."
Earl Lavender Lipscomb: There are many commentaries and workbooks for Bible study, BUT this SERIES is different. It employs the classic Christian method of HOLY reading to help you HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD
Then turn to the text and read it slowly, gently. Savor each portion of the reading, constantly listening for the 'still, small voice' of a word or phrase that somehow says, 'I am for you today ...'
DEFINITION OF SORCERY
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Hermēneuon ktl. For the term hermēneuein to describe the mediating office of daimones,
2. in Music, expression, Plu.2.1138a, 1144d. hai Platōnikai he. Plato's gifts of style, D.H.Pomp.1.2.
ekplēssō ,strike out of, drive away from, expel WITH
khraō attack, khreiōn muthēsato Phoibos humnōdian .tē glōssē pros hermēneianExermēneuō A.interpret, translate, eis tēn Hellada glōssan tounoma D.H.1.67, cf. Jul.Or.2.77d:Pass., Plb.2.15.9, D.H.4.67, Plu.2.383d, etc.
John 5:26 For as the Father hath life in himself;
so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
John 5:27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also,
BECAUSE he is the Son of man.
John 6:62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?
John 6:63 It is the SPIRIT that quickeneth;
the FLESH profiteth nothing:
the WORDS that
I SPEAK unto you, [Never Sung]
they are SPIRIT, and they are LIFE
1Tim. 2:5 For there is ONE GOD,
and one MEDIATOR between God and men,
the MAN Christ Jesus;
1Tim. 2:6 Who gave himself a ransom for all,
to be TESTIFIED in due time.
APOLLO, APOLLON, APOLLYON PROPHESIED GUIDE TO ANY MUSICAL WORSHIP
Phoēbē The MOON goddess, sister of Phbus, i. e. Diana, Luna, or the moon [Lectio-Divina]
Phoebus a poetical appellation of Apollon as the god of light: Phbean, Apollinean: carmina, Lucr. 2, 504: lampas, the sun, Verg. A. 4, 6: [Zoe-Eve in Latin Literature] virgo, Ov. P. 2, 2, 82: laurus, id. Tr. 4, 2, 51: Rhodos, where the worship of Apollon FEMALE MUSICAL WORSHIP MINISTERS. C. Phoebas , priestess of Apollo; hence the inspired one, the prophetess
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Mousa , Apollyon's Musical Worship Teams-Locusts
Dios aigiokhoio thugateres [Daughters whatever the sex]
[1] stugeros A .hated, abominated, loathed, or hateful, abominable, loathsome mousa music, song, m. stugera
kanakhan . .1Cor. 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
THEIAS etheiazon obtained inspiration through ritual antiluron responding to the lyre or guitar.
Aoidos , ho, (aeidō) A.singer, minstrel, bard THEIOS a
Enchanter, Sorcerer
[2] adein [singers are] adokimon mousa
adokimon disreputable, discredited, reprobate,
Plat. Phaedrus 259b The story goes that these locusts were once men, before the birth of the Muses, and when the Muses were born and song appeared, some of the men were so overcome with delight [259c] that they sang and sang, forgetting food and drink, until at last unconsciously they died.
From them the locust tribe afterwards arose, and they have this gift from the Muses, that from the time of their birth they need no sustenance, but sing continually,
So for many reasons we ought to talk and not sleep in the noontime
LOCUSTS ARE APOLLYON'S MUSICAL WORSHIP GIRLS.
Tettix , eudaim-ōn being led by demon (devil) o
humn-ētos , ē, on, A.sung of, praised, lauded,
blessed with: eudaimōn kai humnētos
A Joke gunaixin oud' hotioun phōnēs simile for sweet sounds.
Plato calls them hoi Mousōn prophētai, Phdr.262d; but they also became a prov. for garrulity, lalein tettix sēmainousi
Rev. 9:9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
They were thought to sing continually without food or drink
phōn-ē , hē, A. sound, tone, prop., the sound of the voice,4. of sounds made by inanimate objects, mostly Poet., kerkidos ph. S.Fr.595; suriggōn E.Tr.127 (lyr.); aulōn Mnesim.4.56 (anap.); rare in early Prose, organōn phōnai Pl.R.397a
Is. 5:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
Is. 5:13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
Matt. 11:25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
sophos , mantis [Mad women of Corinth] mostly of poets and Poetic Skill: to use fraud for an end,
sophia , Ion. -iē, hē, prop. A.cleverness or skill in handicraft and art in music and singing, tekhnē kai s. h.Merc.483, cf. 511; in poetry, in divination, dēmēgorikos from dēmēgoros
Deceives: kleptō , thievish
disguise, diabolais neais do secretly or treacherously. doloisi k. sphagas execute slaughter by secret frauds,Rev. 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;
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
Pi.N.7.81 Pindar, Nemean Odes 7
The rich man and the poor man alike travel together to the boundary of death. [20] And I expect that the story of Odysseus came to exceed his experiences,
through the sweet songs of Homer
[22] since there is a certain solemnity in his lies and winged artfulness, and poetic skill deceives, seducing us with stories,
and the heart of the mass of men is blind.
For if [25] they had been able to see the truth, then mighty Aias, in anger over the arms, would never have planted in his chest the smooth swordAias, who was the most powerful in battle,Hes. Th. 1 From the Heliconian Muses let us begin to sing, who hold the great and holy mount of Helicon, Thence they arise and go abroad by night, [10] veiled in thick mist, and utter their song with lovely voice, praising Zeus the aegis-holder, and queenly Hera of Argos who walks on golden sandals, and the daughter of Zeus the aegis-holder bright-eyed Athena, and Phoebus Apollo, and Artemis who delights in arrows,...Thence they arise and go abroad by night, [10] veiled in thick mist, and utter their song with lovely voice, praising Zeus the aegis-holder, and queenly Hera of Argos who walks on golden sandals, and the daughter of Zeus the aegis-holder bright-eyed Athena, and Phoebus ApolloNn, and Artemis who delights in arrows, HERMES.APOLLON.HOMOSEXUAL
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Apollo and Admetus[11] Apollo and Adonis[12] And many more Hermes and Perseus[35] Hermes and Pollux[36][37]
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Jackie.Halstead.Lectio-Divina.htmlRubel Shelly and John York: Rubel: Let me give you an example to work with in relation to the question you've raised: homosexuality and the ordination of practicing homosexuals to ministry. Why don't we at least entertain the possibility that the Bible simply reflects an ANCIENT TABOO or homophobic prejudice in a few people like Paul -- a taboo and prejudice we need to outgrow?
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Deut 18 The Abomination of Those Nations
Includes the Diviners, Enchanters or Wizzards Laura rejects. psaltrĭa , ae, f., = psaltria, . a female player on the cithara, a lutist, incantātor , ōris, m. incanto, I. an enchanter, wizard Cantus A. Prophetic or oracular song: 2. With instruments, a playing, music:Sara.Barton.And.Religious.Communal.Sex.Language.html
Chaplin at Pepperdine
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ABSOLUTE LAW: The One-Piece Pattern.
1Pet. 4:11 If any man SPEAK,
let him speak as the oracles of God;
[Logos: Regulative Principle outlawing rhetoric, music,
scenic acts intending to silence the voice of Jesus.
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.
Rom. 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Rom. 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Rom. 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
WHEN GOD ABANDONS A PERSON
Rom. 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves
Psa. 22:16 For dogs [canes] have compassed me: [surrounded legiones] the assembly of the wicked [măligno maliciously ejecting,] have inclosed me: [ob-sĭdĕo to sit down before, to hem in, beset, besiege, invest, blockade a place, possess, take possession othey pierced my hands and my feet.
-Cănis (cănes , Plaut. Men. 5, 1, 18; id. Trin. 1, 2, 133; kuōn, kunos;
a. A shameless, vile person, cŏhors D. A Cynic philosopher:
Diogenes cum choro canum suorum.
Dogs or Catamites who:-irrīto to incite, excite, stimulate, instigate, provoke, exasperate, irritate.
Attack By: ĭmĭtor , To represent, to express, copy, portray, sine [even without] imitandorum carminum actu ludiones,
Attack By: carmen a tune, song, air, lay, strain, note, sound, both vocal and instrumental (sc. Apollinem) concordant carmina nervis, citharae liquidum carmen, lyrae carmen
Set in motion by: actus driving cattle a. Of an ORATOR: motus est in his orationis et ACTIS
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-therap-ōn henchman, attendant Mousaōn therapontes music, song stu^ger-os , Muses (Rev 18) as Apollon's Worshiip Team were known as hated prostitutes, 2. gen. hadou [ein' Aidao domoisi in the nether world, with nouns in adjectival sense, devilish, thuousan ha. mēter' Erōs Aphroditēs th
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Phil. 3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
Phil. 3:3 For we are the circumcision,
which worship God in the spirit, [place]
and rejoice in Christ Jesus,
and have no confidence in the flesh [place]
Christ's ROPHECY OF THE BEAST
Jeremiah 15:2 And it shall come to pass,
if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth?
then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD;
Such as are for death, to death;
and such as are for the sword, to the sword;
and such as are for the famine, to the famine;
and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.
Jeremiah 15:3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD:
the sword to slay,
and the dogs to tear,
and the fowls of the heaven,
and the beasts of the earth,
to devour and destroy.
-Besta 2.As a term of reproach (cf. belua and our beast): mala tu es bestia, Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 21; -Pl. Poen. 5.5.And, humorously, of the odor of the armpits (cf. ala and caper. cappella), Cat. 69, 8. II. Transf., as a constellation, the wotf, Vitr. 9, 4 (7)
cănis (cănes , Plaut. Men. 5, 1, 18; id. Trin. 1, 2, 133;
a. A shameless, vile person, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 40; Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 33
2. As the regular designation of the hangers-on or parasites of an eminent or rich Roman; a follower, dog, creature:
a. Tergeminus, i. e. Cerberus. Ov. A. A. 3, 322; id. Tr. 4, 7, 16; called also viperius, id. Am. 3, 12, 26: Tartareus, Sen. Herc. Fur. 649: triformis, id. Herc. Oet. 1202: Echidnaea. Ov. M. 7, 409; cf.: infernae canes, Hor. S. 1, 8, 35; Verg. A. 6, 257; Luc. 6, 733.
Trĭformis , e, adj. ter - forma,Revelation 16:2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.diva, i. e. Diana, who was also Luna and Hecate, Hor. C. 3, 22, 4; called also triformis dea, Ov. M. 7, 94: mundus, because composed of air, earth, and water, id. ib. 15, 859Pl. Bac. 1.1 Note: Your Bacchanalian den: "Bacchanal" was properly the place where the Bacchanalia, or orgies, were celebrated. He styles them "Bacchantes," and their house a "Bacchanal," in allusion both to their names and their habits
Paul restricted women because he didn't want WRATH or ORGY to Break out. Ken Kukrowski part of the DIVERITING AT acu defending Women in Ministry wants to RESTORE what Paul guarded against.
7 Mischievous serpent: "Mala tu's bestia." Literally, "you are an evil beast;" which sounds harsh to an English ear, even when applied to such an animal as Bacchis. Bacchanet minister of Bacchus.
13 A soft cloak: It was the custom at entertainments for the revellers to exchange their ordinary clothes for fine vestments, elaborately embroidered.
5 A womanish race: "Muliersous" generally means "fond of women." It clearly however, in this passage means "womanish," or "womanlike."
9 Use a drum: The priests of Cybele, who were either eunuchs, or persons of effeminate and worthless character, walked in their processions beating a "tympanum." a "drum" or "tambourine." The Captain, by his question, contemptuously implies that Agorastocles is such a character. See the Truer lentus, l. 608, and the Note
Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken,
and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him,
with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast,
and them that worshipped his image.
These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Heredotus: Hdt. 5.6 Among the rest of the Thracians, it is the custom to sell their children for export and to take no care of their maidens, allowing them to have intercourse with any man they wish. Their wives, however, they strictly guard, and buy them for a price from the parents. [2] To be tattooed is a sign of noble birth, while to bear no such marks is for the baser sort.
The idler is most honored, the tiller of the soil most scorned;
he is held in highest honor who lives by war and robbery.
Hdt. 5.7 These are most notable of their usages. They worship no gods but Ares, Dionysus, and Artemis.1 Their princes, however, unlike the rest of their countrymen, worship Hermes above all gods and swear only by him, claiming him for their ancestor.
WE SHOUT HALLELUJAH WHEN THE MUSICAL IDOLATERS OR SORCERERS ARE CAST ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.1 Herodotus as usual identifies foreign with Greek deities: v. How and Wells ad loc.
5.7 Dionysus, though the name is probably Greek, had an oracle among the Bessi (vii. 111 n.). His strange cult, prominent features in which are his connexion with the under-world, the orgiastic ecstasy, &c., had no great hold on Greece in the Homeric age, and only won its way to a slow and gradual recognition by becoming Hellenized..... The true home of Dionysus was in Southern Thrace between the Axius and the Hebrus, where he had many local names, e. g. Sabazius. His cult was closely related to the Cybele cult of the kindred Phrygians (Rohde, PsycheREVELATION 17-18
Artemis (cf. iv. 33) is probably Bendis, worshipped even at Athens (Plat. Rep. i. 1. 327 A; Xen. Hell. ii. 4. 11), or the kindred Edonian war-goddess Cotys or Cotytto (Strabo, p. 470). Both may be connected with the great Mother of Asia Minor, a goddess of fertility of whom the Ephesian Artemis is a form; worshipped the Cabiri
Because of MUSICAL IDOLATRY at Mount Sinai, God abandoned Israel to Worship the Starry Host restricted to inside the walls in Jerusalem. While the Jews deny it: Plutarch maintained that the Jews worshipped Dionysus, and that the day of Sabbath was a festival of Sabazius.[18] Plutarch also discusses the identification of the Jewish god with the "Egyptian" (actually archaic Greek) Typhon
"Despite the differences between the Mosaic and the Egyptian cults, it can hardly be denied that Egyptian influence on Jewish musical practices were quite significant. They 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 blown for decampment, at the gathering of the people and on different cultic occasions, especially during sacrifices (2 Chron. 30:21; 35:15; Num 10:2), was the signaling instrument of the Egyptian army.
The sistrum, according to 2 Sam 6:5, was used by the Israelites and bore the name mena'aneim. It was the same as the Egyptian kemkem which was employed in the cult of Isis.
Strab. 10.3.15 The solemnity celebrated on the occasion of the transferring of the Ark to Sion, as well as the dances of the daughters of Israel at the annual feast of the Lord of Shiloh (Judg 21:21), were similar in thier musical embellishments to Egyptian customs in the liturgy and at parades. As Herodotus reports,
women sang the praises of Osiris while likenesses of the gods were born about and, during the festival of Diana at Bubastis,
choirs of men and women sang and danced to the beating of drums and the playing of flutes." (Quasten, Johannes, Music and Worship in Pagan and Christian Antiquity, p. 65)
and they also invented some of the names by which to designate the ministers,
choral dancers, and attendants upon the sacred rites,
I mean "Cabeiri" and "Corybantes" and "Pans" (gender-bent) and "Satyri" and "Tityri,"is the child of the Mother, since he too transmitted the rites of Dionysus.and they called the god "Bacchus," and Rhea "Cybele" or "Cybebe" or "Dindymene" according to the places where she was worshipped. Sabazius also belongs to the Phrygian group and in a way
(Priests of Cybele were effeminate and emasculated themselves. Paul said in Galatians 5:12, "As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!" The agitators "drove people out of their homes (churches?)) All pagan gods or goddesses and therefore their priests were homosexual.
JOHN IDENTIFIES THE END TIME MOTHER OF HARLOTS CHURCH.
John identifies this as the end time Mother of Harlots church: Apollo is Apollyon and the Muses are the Locusts or musical ministrels under Apollo:
Rev 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
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.
See Amos 8 where the leaders used wine, women and music with songs in the temple and were called FRUITS. History knows no exception
Amos 8:2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
Aristophanes Archarnians
DICAEOPOLIS
Peace, profane men! Let the basket-bearer come forward, and thou Xanthias, hold the phallus well upright.
- The maiden who carried the basket filled with fruits at the Dionysia in honour of Bacchus.
kanēphoros: [pherτ]carrying a basket:-- Kanκphoroi, hai, Basket-bearers, at Athens, maidens who carried on their heads baskets containing the sacred things used at the feasts of Demeter, Bacchus and Athena, Ar. title of priestess, k. theas Artemidos - The emblem of the fecundity of nature; it consisted of a representation, generally grotesquely exaggerated, of the male genital organs; the phallophori crowned with violets and ivy and their faces shaded with green foliage, sang improvised airs, call `Phallics,' full of obscenity and suggestive `double entendres.'
DICAEOPOLIS
Xanthias, walk behind the basket-bearer and hold the phallus well erect; I will follow, singing the Phallic hymn; thou, wife, look on from the top of the terrace.Forward!
DICAEOPOLIS
Oh, Phales, [god of generation, worshipped in the form of a phallus] companion of the orgies of Bacchus, night reveller, god of adultery, friend of young men, these past six years I have not been able to invoke thee.
We can shout Hallelujah with God's permission when we see the end-time Babylon Mother of Harlots being avenged.
Rev 18:20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets;
for God hath avenged you on her.Rev 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.Rev 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians [Apollyon's muses or locusts] and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, [theater builders and stage managers] of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone [called a pipe, made a wistling sound to attract with spread legs.] 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.
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.
All religious music or names of instruments point to soothsaying (Miriam) or Sorcery (Levites} or a "Musical Worship Team" invading your congregation. It INTENDS to AIDE God's Word which is blasphemy.
THE ALWAYS PAGAN WORSHIP WAS IDENTICAL TO THAT OF GREECE, EGYPT, CANAAN OR BABYLON
Strab. 10.3.15 hey invented terms appropriate to the sounds of the pipe, of the crotala, cymbals, and drums; to the noise also of shouts; to the cries of Evoe; and to the beating of the ground with the feet. They invented certain well-known names also to designate the ministers, dancers, and servants employed about the sacred rites, as Cabeiri, Corybantes, Pans, Satyri, Tityri, the god Bacchus; Rhea, Cybele, Cybebe, and Dindymene, from the places where she was worshipped. [The god] Sabazius belongs to the Phrygian rites, and may be considered the child as it were of the [Great] Mother. The traditional ceremonies observed in his worship are those of Bacchus.The solemnity celebrated on the occasion of the transferring of the Ark to Sion, as well as the dances of the daughters of Israel at the annual feast of the Lord of Shiloh (Judg 21:21), were similar in thier musical embellishments to Egyptian customs in the liturgy and at parades. As Herodotus reports,
women sang the praises of Osiris while likenesses of the gods were born about and, during the festival of Diana at Bubastis,
choirs of men and women sang and danced to the beating of drums and the playing of flutes." (Quasten, Johannes, Music and Worship in Pagan and Christian Antiquity, p. 65)
and they also invented some of the names by which to designate the ministers,
choral dancers, and attendants upon the sacred rites,
I mean "Cabeiri" and "Corybantes" and "Pans" (gender-bent) and "Satyri" and "Tityri,"is the child of the Mother, since he too transmitted the rites of Dionysus.and they called the god "Bacchus," and Rhea "Cybele" or "Cybebe" or "Dindymene" according to the places where she was worshipped. Sabazius also belongs to the Phrygian group and in a way
(Priests of Cybele were effeminate and emasculated themselves. Paul said in Galatians 5:12, "As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!" The agitators "drove people out of their homes (churches?)) All pagan gods or goddesses and therefore their priests were homosexual.
The Elders who then and now FIRE god so they can be A KING SET OVER US will BEND THEIR KNEES
Revelation 19:1 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven,
saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:
Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments:
for he hath judged the great whore,
which did corrupt the earth with her fornication,
and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
Revelation 19:3 And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC USED TO TRIUMPH OVER GOD AND HIS WORD IS ALWAYS CONNECTED TO A FIERY END
Revelation 19:19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies,
gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken,
and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him,
with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast,
and them that worshipped his image.
These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Revelation 19:21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse,
which sword proceeded out of his mouth:
and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
Jesus has and is making a new thing on the earth which is His spiritual kingdom. Don't look for it because the kingdom of God is within you. We worship IN THE SPIRIT and not IN THE FLESH where the world for whom Jesus refused to pray can still break in and steal. It's visible identifying mark is that it is outside the camp where in type the refuse of the sacrificial system was burned. However, that is the place where Jesus preached the gospel by promising the twos and threes "come, rest and learn of ME.'
God offered Israel The Book of The Covenant: this was the Abrahamic Covenant made by God in Christ and was the only spiritual covenant.
Israel fell into musical idolatry at Mount Sinai and God assigned the Jacob-Cursed tribe of Levi to operate their abandonment to "the worship of the starry host."
Later when David sinned so that he could not return to the Tabernacle at Gibeon, God gave him an old Jebusite High place on Zion to build a tent. God never intended that anyone build a HOUSE on Mount Moriah were with Abraham God had already PROVIDED.
This intended a FAMILY for David not not a flimsy tent.
When Jesus went into the heavenly Tabernacle it was not to replace animal slaughter but to purify the "chuch" as HiHebrews 9:9 Which was a figure for the time then present,
in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices,
that could not make him that did the service perfect,
as pertaining to the conscience;
parabol-ē, A. juxtaposition, comparison
Hebrews 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings,
and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
Hebrews 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands,
that is to say, not of this building;
Hebrews 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves,
but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place,
having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Hebrews 9:23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these;
but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Acts 15:12 Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul,
declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
Acts 15:13 And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:
Acts 15:14 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
James explains that calling the Gentiles out of the world where they are lost spirits is THE meaning of the Tabernacle or Tent or Church.
Acts 15:15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
Acts 15:16 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down;
and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
JESUS MADE A NEW THING WITH A NEW DAY AND A NEW NAME: THIS IS FULFILLED IN PROMISE NOW.Acts 15:17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord,skēnos , Dor. skanos , eos, to,= skēnē,
A. hut, tent, CIG3071 (Teos).2. dead body, corpse, IG3.1330, 12(5).591 (Ceos), CIG3123 (Teos), etc.; of an animal, moskhou, taurōn, Nic.Al.447, Th.742 (pl.).
moskhos (A), ho,
and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord,
who doeth all these things.
Acts 15:18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
Acts 15:19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, paren-okhleō, annoy
which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
Acts 15.19 dio egō krinō mē parenokhlein tois apo tōn ethnōn epistrephousin epi ton theon,epi-strephō , pf. A. [select] epestropha Diog. (v. infr. 1.2a):turn about, turn round
epi 1. with Verbs of Rest, upon or on, keisthai epi khthonos
II. 1. [select] of the object or purpose for which one goes, epi Tudē
3. keisthai en tini to rest entirely or be dependent on him, en agathoisi k. poliōn kubernasies Pi.P.10.71;
Keimai , A. keisai 2. lie down to rest, repose,
S.Tr.1182; e. tēn phalagga bring it into action, Plu. Ant.42: hence,
2. turn towards, noēma Thgn.1083; ēthos kata tina Id.213; e. tina turn his attention towards one, Luc. Tim.11; tina pros ti, eis heauton, Plu.2.21c,69f, cf. Hdn.5.3.8; hoi tēn Hellada epestrophotes epi sophian
b. intr., turn (oneself) towards, X.Eq.8.12, etc.; e. eis or pros heauton, of nous, reflect, Procl.Inst.15; to epistrephon bathrikon the steps leading to the sarcophagus, Judeich Altertόmervon Hierapolis 152.
3. turn the mind towards, pay attention to, regard (cf. epistrophē 11.3), tinos Anacr.96, S. Ph.599, Phld.Lib.p.15 O., AP5.47 (Rufin.); tōn idiōn ouden e. Thgn. 440; eis ti Alex.Aphr.in Sens.57.18: abs., return to oneself, pay attention, epistrapheis Hdt.1.88; ouk ēlthes, . . oud' epestraphēs E.Rh. 400; ouk epestraphē, = ouk ephrontise (just above), D.23.136, cf. 10.9, AP11.319 (Autom.).
Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth:
for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away;
and there was no more sea.
For now, that defines the Church of Christ as the reign of Jesus Christ. He came to destroy the Old Jerusalem, it's worship center, it's clergy and it's harps: they NEED the harps to RESTORE the Sacrificial system.
Galatians 4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia,
and answereth to Aerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
Hebrews 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God,These are collected notes and not organized.
The golden calf and worship in Egypt Number One
The golden calf and worship in Egypt Number TwoThe golden calf at Mount Sinai
The interpretation of the golden calf throughout the Bible
Interpreted in the Kabbalah
Pictures from Source:"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).
Professor Robert Briffault's introductory words to his article titled "Sex in Religion" published in the book "Sex in Civilization" (Garden City Publishing Co.).
"The elaborate mystic theology of Egypt was replete with sexual symbolism; hierodular [sacred] prostitution, ritual bestiality were among the observances of its cult. The religions of Babylonia, of Asia Minor, of the far-flung Semitic colonies, were notorious for the licentiousness of their rites: their priestesses were sacred prostitutes and prostitution was incumbent upon every woman.
To this common description of early religious beliefs, we have the incident of Aaron bringing out the bull for the Israelites to worship when Moses remained longer on Mount Sinai than the people thought. The people were getting edgy so Aaron made a festivity for them by fashioning the golden calf and told them to worship the calf in a sexual manner (Exodus 32:25-35). God was angry with Aaron and the people for this. But the people thought that by their sexual actions they were actually worshipping God in a proper way. Their worship was to "Baal-Peor" (Hebrew: "Lord of the Opening," that is, "Lord of the Vagina") (see Psalm 106:28,29 for this identification). The rebellious Israelites were making images (and setting up pillars) in honor of this pagan deity that demanded gross sexual actions as a part of the "nature rituals" by the worshippers. This was nothing strange to the Israelites because most Gentile religious activities involved a measure of sexual activity as a part of their liturgies and rituals."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).
"In the New Testament there is nowhere any emphasis laid on the musical form of the hymns; and in particular none on instrumental accompaniment whereas this is significantly paganism." (Delling, Gerhard, Worship in the New Testament, trans. Percy Scott Phil. Westminster press, 1962, p. 8
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.
Galatians 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.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,
Aristoph. Ach. 5 I was in ecstasy and I love the Knights for this deed; it is an honour to Greece. But the day when I was impatiently awaiting a piece by Aeschylus, what tragic despair it caused me when the herald called, Theognis, introduce your Chorus! Just imagine how this blow struck straight at my heart!
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, 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.
Or, the Seasons. Or it may be used here in the Homeric sense of the maidens who kept the cloud gate of Heaven.
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 heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
Revelation 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out:
and I will write upon him the name of my God,
and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem,
which cometh down out of heaven from my God:
and I will write upon him my new name.
Rev 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem,
coming down from God out of heaven,
prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.Rev 21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying,
Behold, the tabernacle of God IS with men,
and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people,
and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
The Tabernacle was a Tent of Witness: the altar was to gather people to one place to preven pagan altars or pagan churches. There was never any so-called music involved with the Tabernacle.
Rev 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying,
neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.THIS LAW IS STILL IN EFFECT FOR ALL WHO "REFUSE TO OBEY THE GOSPEL" WHERE OBEY IS AN ACTIVE VERB.
Rev 21:5 And HE that sat upon the throne said,
Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me,
Write: for these words are true and faithful.Rev 21: 6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.
I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.Rev 21: 7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
WHO WILL NOT BE IN THE NEW JERUSALEM
Rev 21: 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, [He that believeth not. will not comply. Not to be trusted.]
and the abominable, Proverbs 28:9 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
Jewish boys were forced to "wear the hat of hermes" and perform vile acts even in the holy places.
52 - Many of the people, every one who forsook the law, joined them, and they did evil in the land;
53 - they drove Israel into hiding in every place of refuge they had.
54 - Now on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in the one hundred and forty-fifth year,
they erected a desolating sacrilege upon the altar of burnt offering.
They also built altars in the surrounding cities of Judah,1 Maccabees 1:54 et iusserunt civitatibus Iudae sacrificare imposed as a condition of membership
33 - Then they fortified the city of David with a great strong wall and strong towers, and it became their citadel.
34 - And they stationed there a sinful people, lawless men. These strengthened their position;
35 - they stored up arms and food, and collecting the spoils of Jerusalem they stored them there, and became a great snare.
36 - It became an ambush against the sanctuary, an evil adversary of Israel continually.
2 Maccabees 3 - Harsh and utterly grievous was the onslaught of evil.
4 - For the temple was filled with debauchery and reveling by the Gentiles,
who dallied with harlots and
had intercourse with women within the sacred precincts,
and besides brought in things for sacrifice that were unfit.and murderers, phon-eus is so much more justly accounted a murderer
and whoremongers,
pornos , ho, A. catamite, Ar.Pl.155, X.Mem.1.6.13, D.22.73,
2. sodomite, D.Ep.4.11, Phalar.Ep.4.II. idolater,
Dem. L. 4.11 He is an enemy to his own parents but a friend to Pausanias the whoremonger, and though he swaggers like a man he allows himself to be used like a woman. He lords it over his own father but submits to degenerates. He regales his fancy with things by which all are disgusted, with foul language and with stories by which his hearers are pained; yet he never ceases to talk, as if he were a simple fellow and the soul of frankness
1 Cor 5:[9] I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;
and sorcerers,
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 [Pharmakon] 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.
pharma^kos (on the accent v. Hdn.Gr.1.150), ho, hē,A. poisoner, sorcerer, magician, LXXEx.7.11 (masc.), Ma.3.5 (fem.), Apoc.21.8, 22.15.
Exodus 7:11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.
Exodus 7.11 vocavit autem Pharao sapientes et maleficos et fecerunt etiam ipsi per incantationes aegyptias et arcana quaedam similiterpharma^kon 3. enchanted potion, philtre: hence, charm, spell
săpĭo
sophos A. skilled in any handicraft or art, clever, mantis Id.Th.382Margites Fr.2; but in this sense mostly of poets and musicians, Pi.O.1.9, P.1.42, 3.113; en kithara s. E.IT1238 (lyr.),lso en oiōnois, kithara, E. IT662, 1238 (lyr.);
incantātĭo , ōnis, f. id., I.an enchanting, enchantment (post-class.): magicae, Firm. Math. 5, 5: incantationum vires,
2. c. gen. also, a means of producing something, ph. sōtērias [salvation] Id.Ph.893; mnēmēs kai sophias ph.
"Applied to Persian priests or astrologers of Babylon. Pharmakos (g5333) an adjective signifying "devoted to magical arts," is used as a noun, "a sorcerer," especially one who uses drugs, potions, spells, enchantments, Rev 21:8, in the best texts (some have pharmakeus) and 22:15" Vine
aoidos [a^], ho, ( [aeidτ] ) singer, MINSTREL, polla pseudontai a. Arist.Metaph.983a4 : c.gen., goτn, chrκsmτn aoidos,, of the cock, Theoc.18.56.
Epōdē , Ion. and poet. epa^oidē ,
A. song sung to or over: hence, enchantment, spell, epaoidē d' haima..eskhethon Od.19.457, cf. Pi.P.4.217 ; ou pros iatrou sophou thrēnein epōdas pros tomōnti pēmati S.Aj. 582 ; of the Magi, Hdt.1.132 ; meliglōssois peithous epaoidaisin A.Pr. 174, cf. S.OC1194 ; epōdas epadein X.Mem.2.6.10 sq.; epōdais haliskesthai Anaxandr.33.13; oute pharmaka..oud' au epōdai Pl.R. 426b ; thusiai kai e. ib.364b ; tas thusias kai teletas kai tas e. Id.Smp.202e, etc.: c. gen. obj., charm for or against.., toutōn epōdas ouk epoiēsen patēr A.Eu.649.II. apptly., = epōdos 11, Poet.Oxy.661.21 (pl.)
Watching and giving all of your attention to Musical Worship Teams then you are worshipping THEM and it is not a good testimony to your character.
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. Re.18:2
and idolaters, and all liars,
If you make certain that slick speakers and "musical worshipers" suck up all of the attention demanded by Christ and His WORD, they you are an idolater. If you claim that Scripture is not FILLED with condemnation of musical instruments used by those "who make the lambs dumb before the slaughter" then you ARE a liar.
pseudēs lying, false, untrue, of things, Opposite. alēthēs, ps. logoi Hes.Th.229; muthoiIf you do not speak "that which is written for our learning" then you ARE preaching and singing myths and this was always considered lying to fool the fools.
shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
IT IS LEFT TO THE SCHOLARS TO JUSTIFY FULFILLING ALL OF THE MARKS.
IMPOSING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS TO SUBDUE PEOPLE HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE MARKS OF BEING CAST ALIVE INTO A BURNING HELL.
Rick Atchley's and all of his defenders uses the Burnt Offering for God-Abandoned Israel as the pattern for "instrumental praise" which he says is not God's Command. It might be. God permitted the Jacob-Cursed tribe of Levi to burn goats and children
From the Golden Calf: From the earliest times (c. 4000 BCE), there were triads formed of Enlil, Anu and Enki. The second triad was formed from Ur, moon-god of Ur, Utu sun-god of Sippar, and Nana goddess of Erech (ibid., p. 296). The moon-god of Ur can be identified with Sin. The Semitic term Bel was used among the Babylonian Semites derived from Baal in the same sense as it was used by the other Semites and in addition used it as master or lord (ibid.).
The Israelites rose up in PLAY or musical idolatry at Mount Sinai: the trinity was Osiris, Isis and Hathor: The Canaanites were under Assyro-Babylonian dominance from 3000 to 1700 BCE. Even by circa 1400 BCE, their influence was still so great that all correspondence with Egypt and the Pharaoh was conducted in Babylonian,
The Trinity of Rubel Shelly at Sodom when those who rose up to PLAY attacked.
The Trinity of Rubel Shelly at Sodom when those who rose up to PLAY attacked.
The Egyptian trinity worshipped musically at Mount Sinai.
NO ONE CAN MISS PAUL'S WARNING ABOUT THE SAME FOLLYT IN GALATIANS:-Gallus , i, m., = Gallos Strab., 2. (Acc. to II. A., of or belonging to the priests of Cybele; hence, transf.) Of or belonging to the priests of Isis, Gallic: turma, the troop of the priests of Isis, Ov. Am. 2, 13, 18.
-turma Iliae, id. C. S. 38: cristatae exercitus. Claud. III. Cons. Hon. 133; id. in Ruf. 2, 343: Alexan dri, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 64: feminea, Ov. P. 4, 10, 51: Gallica, i. e. of priests of Isis, id. Am. 2, 13, 18.
-Fēmĭnĕus , a, um, adj. id., II. Transf., with an accessory notion of contempt, womanish, effeminate, unmanly: vox, Quint, 1, 11, 1; cf. Ov. A. A. 3, 286: pectus, Ov. M. 13, 693: amor praedae, Verg. A. 11, 782: lunae femineum et molle sidus, Plin. 2, 101, 104, § 223.
AFTER He had turned them over to worship the starry host. Chris in the Prophets says that Rick Atchley and Mike Cope are WRONG: God never commanded king, kingdom, civil, military or clergy to do HIS work.Gal 5:12 As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves! CHRYSOSTOM IDENTIFIES those who drive you out of your homeland:
That by lying about the Spirit OF Christ universal condemnation of music a the MARK of telling God to "Shut your face."For they had compelled them to abandon their own fatherland, their liberty, and their heavenly kindred, and to seek an alien and foreign one; they had cast them out of Jerusalem which is above and free, and compelled them to wander forth as captives and emigrants.....But in truth neither the eye nor any other part of us is to blame, but the depraved will only.
But if you will not allow this, why do you not mutilate the tongue for blasphemy, the hands for rapine, the feet for their evil courses, in short, the whole body?
For the ear enchanted by the sound of a flute hath often enervated the soul; and the perception of a sweet perfume by the nostrils hath bewitched the mind, and made it frantic for pleasure. Yet this would be extreme wickedness and satanic madness. Note 1.
ALL musical terms speak of enchantment or SORCERY: why else would people LIE about the Bible, lie TO God and lie ABOUT God? A note reads:
Philippians 3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.Note 1: Paul wishes that the circumcisers would not stop with circumcision but go beyond it to mutilation (make themselves eunuchs) like the priests of Cybele. A severe irony and similar to the one in Philip. iii. 2, 3, where Paul calls the boasters of circumcision the Concision. Self mutilation was a recognized form of heathen worship especially in Pessinus in Galatia and therefore quite familiar to the readers. Thus by their glorying in the flesh the Galatians relapsed into their former heathenism,--Schaff and Lightfoot. The Revised Version here has, would even cut themselves off, the American Committee has, would go beyond circumcision.G.A.]
These are the DOGS Paul told us NOT to permit into the assembly in Phi 2: that is why worship must be IN THE PLACE of the human spirit and not acted out.
Revelation 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters,
and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
In Isaiah 30 the Spirit OF Christ (not another people) identified the MARKS in Sight and Sound affirmed by Mike Cope and Rick Atchley.
And his breath [SPIRIT], as rushing water in a valley, reach reach as far as the neck, and be divided, to confound the nations for their vain error; error also shall pursue them and overtake them. Isaiah 30:28 LXX
Must ye always rejoice, and go into my holy places continually, as they that keep a feast? and must ye go with a pipe, as those that rejoice into the mountain of the Lord, to the God of Israel Isaiah 30:29 LXX
and the Lord shall make his glorious voice to be heard and the wrath of his arm, to make a display with wrath and anger and devouring flame: he shall lighten terribly, and his wrath shall be as water and violent hail. Isaiah 30:30 LXX
For by the voice of the Lord the Assyrians shall be overcome, even by the stroke where with he shall smite them. Isaiah 30:31 LXX
And it shall happen to him from every side, that they from whom their hope of assistance was, in which he trusted, themselves shall war against him in turn with drums and with harp. Isaiah 30:32 LXX
For thou shalt be required before thy time: has it been prepared for thee also to reign? nay, God has prepared for thee a deep trench, wood piled fire and much wood: the wrath of the Lord shall be as a trench kindled with sulphur. Isaiah 30:33 LXX
THE ABOMINABLE WILL BE CASE ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.
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Chapter XXVIII.-Why Eve Was Formed of Adam's Rib.Therefore said Adam to Eve, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh." And besides, he prophesied, saying, "For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they two shall be one flesh; " which also itself has its fulfilment in ourselves. For who that marries lawfully does not despise mother and father, and his whole family connection, and all his household, cleaving to and becoming one with his own wife, fondly preferring her? So that often, for the sake of their wives, some submit even to death.
This Eve, on account of her having been in the beginning deceived by the serpent, and become the author of sin, the wicked demon, who also is called Satan, who then spoke to her through the serpent, and who works even to this day in those men that are possessed by him, invokes as Eve. And he is called "demon" and "dragon," on account of his [a0podedrake/nai] revolting from God. For at first he was an angel. And concerning his history there is a great deal to be said; wherefore I at present omit the relation of it, for I have also given an account of him in another place.
58 Referring to the bacchanalian orgies in which " Eva " was shouted, and which the Fathers professed to believe was an unintentional invocation of Eve, the authoress of all sin.
Worship Androgyny The Pagan Sexual IdealThe word "abomination" is also key to understanding the context. In Hebrew, the word "to 'evah," (abomination) is almost invariably linked to idolatry. In the passages from which both verses are taken, God tells Moses to tell the people not to follow the idolatrous practices of the people around them, people who sacrificed their children to Molech, or who masturbated into the fire to offer their semen to Molech, for example. Chapter 20 starts off with the same warning.
"To 'evah" also means "something which is ritually unclean," not something evil in itself, like rape or theft. Eating pork or having sex during menstruation are ritually unclean.
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Philology at the University of Zurich, comments upon this testimony: Scholars at one time gave advice not to believe in slander of this sort, but we can hardly be sure. Parallels from initiations elsewhere are not difficult to find.33 In other words, Burkhardt recognizes that there was something going on related to the cultic nature of the event, not simply a frenzied lack of control.34 Examples of religious androgyny can be found in various forms in Syria and Asia Minor in the third century BC,35 but its clearest and closest expression in that area comes from the Roman Empire at the beginning of the Christian era. It is well documented that the Great Mother under the names of Atargatis or Cybele had androgynous priests, called Galli, who castrated themselves as a permanent act of devotion to the goddess.36 A particular version of the goddess is worshipped under the name of Artemis
from the people of Yahweh (Deut 23:2; cf. cf. Isa 56:35) and the command against cross-dressing [equally a pagan cultic common place, as we noted above] (Deut 22:5). Since the context refers to pagan worship activities like child sacrifice to Moloch (18:21; 20:15) and the calling of ghosts and spirits (20:6, 27), religious homosexual androgyny may well be implied. Further proof is (a) the use of the term tτebβ, translated abomination or detestable custom, which evokes the notion of pure and impure worship; (b) the reference to both male and female shrine prostitution in Deut 23:18; (c) the mention of the quarters of male shrine prostitutes in the temple of the Lord and where women did weaving for [the goddess] Asherah. According to Richard J. Pettey, Asherah: Goddess of Israel (American University Studies VII, Vol. 74; New York: Peter Lang, 1990) 25ff., Asherah shows similarities to . For other work on Asherah, see Tilde Binger, Asherah in Israel [New Translation of Khirbet el-Kom Inscription], JSOT 9 (1994) 318; John Day, Asherah in the Hebrew Bible and Northwest Semitic Literature, JBL 105 (1986) 385408; William G. Dever, Asherah, consort of Jahweh: New Evidence from Kuntillett Arjrϋd, ASORB 255 (1984) 2137; Judith M. J. Hadley, The Fertility of the Flock: The Depersonalization of Astarte in the Old Testament, in On Reading Prophetic Texts (Leiden: Brill, 1996) 115133; Othmar Keel, Gods, Goddesses, and Images of God (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1997); Saul M. Olyan, Asherah and the Cult of Jahweh in Israel (SBLM 34; Atlanta: Scholars, 1988); Mark S. Smith, God Male and Female in the Old Testament: Yahweh and His Asherah, TS 48 (1987) 333340
In Revelation 17 John warns about the Babylonian Mother of Harlots.Pausanias Attica and Anagyrus a sanctuary of the Mother of the gods. At Cephale the chief cult is that of the Dioscuri, for the in habitants call them the Great gods.[2] At Prasiae is a temple of Apollo
Catullus 63 The worship was orgiastic in the extreme, and was accompanied by the sound of such frenzy-producing instruments as the tympana, cymbala, tibiae, and cornu, and culminated in scourging, self-mutilation, syncope from excitement. and even death from hemorrhage or heart-failure (cf. Lucr. 2.598ff.; Varr. Sat. Men. 131 Bόch.ff.; Ov. Fast. 4.179ff.). The worship of the Magna Mater, or Mater Idaea, as she was often called (perhaps from identification with Rhea of the Cretan Mt. Ida rather than from the Trojan Mt. Ida), was introduced into Rome in 205 B.C. in accordance with a Sibylline oracle
In Revelation 18 he warns about the "lusted after fruits." These are the same fruits Amos warned about as the sign that "God had been there and would not pass by again..[9] mater: Cybele was the Magna Mater Idaea of the Romans, as well as mater deorum; cf. intr. note; Hymn. Cyb. mētera moi pantōn te theōn, pantōn t' anthrōpōn
[9] tubam Cybelles: as the blare of the tuba is the summons and incitement to warriors, so is the beat of the tympanum to the votaries of Cybele; the phrase is further explained by tua initia .[9] mater: Cybele was the Magna Mater Idaea of the Romans, as well as mater deorum; cf. intr. note; Hymn. Cyb. mētera moi pantōn te theōn, pantōn t' anthrōpōn
[13] pecora: cf. Ov. Ib. 457 pecus Magnae Parentis (mother of the Galli)
Gallus , i, m., = Gallos Strab., A. [select] Galli , ōrum, m., the priests of Cybele, so called because of their raving, a priest of Cybele, Mart. 3, 81; 11, 74; cf. Quint. 7, 9, 2: resupinati cessantia tympana Galli, Juv. 8, 176.And satirically (on account of their emasculated condition),
2. (Acc. to II. A., of or belonging to the priests of Cybele; hence, transf.) Of or belonging to the priests of Isis, Gallic: turma, the troop of the priests of Isis, Ov. Am. 2, 13, 18.
"Asherah (symbolized by errect poles with fertility symbols pouring out the top): She is the Queen of Heaven, in other languages and ages identified as Ashtoreth, Athirat, Astarte, and Ishtar. Yahweh, the Hebrew God elevated to become the sole deity , was Her consort.
Her "male" priestesses were known as kelabim, the faithful "dogs" of the Goddess,
- who practiced divinatory arts,
- danced in processions,
- and served as hierodules, qedeshim,
- in the company of other priestesses.
Elements of the goddess worship were largely erased in a cultural purge c. 630 BCE by King Yosiah, at the behest of Yahweh's priests, who required supremacy.
Since the Hebrew term, qedeshim, sacred ones, parallels the way the Syrian priests (galli ) were described as holy (hieroi ), there does seem to be reason to conclude, with Nissinen, that the qedeshim were thought of as men who had assumed an unusual gender role and thereby expressed their life-long dedication to the deity (Homoeroticism). Ringgren, Religions 167, mistakenly says that this was the only kind of homoeroticism prohibited by Scripture, for he fails to see the theological connection between androgynous homosexuality, religious or not, and pagan monism. In other words, there does seem to be some similarity between the assinnu of Mesopotamia and the qedeshim of Canaan. Egyptian goddess worship (Ishtar, Astarte, Isis or Anat) is also evident in Jeremiah 7:18 and 44:1725see Robert P. Carroll, Jeremiah: A Commentary (OT Library; Philadelphia: Westminster, 1986) 213 and 734735.
33Walter Burkert, Ancient Mystery Cults (London: Harvard University Press, 1987) 105.
34Richard Seaford, In the Mirror of Dionysus, in The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece (ed. Sue Blundell and Margaret Williamson; London/New York: Routledge, 1998) 133, shows that transvestism functions as a right of passage into the cult of Dionysus. In the cult females may be like males and males like females (131). This is because liminal inversion of identity [is] required for mystic initiation. Such confusion is also seen not merely between male and female but also between human (or god) and animal, and between living and dead (132L).
Heredotus II XLVIII To Bacchus [Dionysus], on the eve of his feast, every Egyptian sacrifices a hog before the door of his house, which is then given back to the swineherd by whom it was furnished, and by him carried away.In other respects the festival is celebrated almost exactly as Bacchic festivals are in Greece, excepting that
the Egyptians have no chorals.
They also use instead of phalli another invention,consisting of images a cubit high, pulled by strings, which the women carry round to the villages.A piper goes in front, and the women follow, singing hymns in honour of Bacchus. They give a religious reason for the peculiarities of the image.35Ibid. 31. See Nissinen, Homoeroticism 149, n. 73.
36See Lucian, De Syria Dea 5051.JUST ABOUT NOW:50. On certain days a multitude flocks into the temple, and the Galli in great numbers, sacred as they are, perform the ceremonies of the men and gash their arms and turn their backs to be lashed.
51. During these days they are made Galli. As the Galli sing and celebrate their orgies, frenzy falls on many of them and many who had come as mere spectators afterwards are found to have committed the great act. I will narrate what they do. Any young man who has resolved on this action, strips off his clothes, and with a loud shout bursts into the midst of the crowd, and picks up a sword from a number of swords which I suppose have been kept ready for many years for this purpose. He takes it and castrates himself and then runs wild through the city, bearing in his hands what he has cut off. He casts it into any house at will, and from this house he receives women's raiment and ornaments. Thus they act during their ceremonies of castration.
Many bystanders play on the pipes the while many beat drums;
others sing divine and sacred songs. All this performance takes place outside the temple,
and those engaged in the ceremony enter not into the temple.
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 18:21 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 [Hieros Gamos] 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.
Revelation 18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
AND ALL OF THOSE WHO WERE DRIVEN WEEPING OUT OF THEIR OWN CHURCH SO THE LUST OF THE FLESH COULD BE SATISFIED BY MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL PERFORMERS.
THE SORCERERS WILL BE CASE ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.
WHY ARE THERE NO INSTRUMENTS IN REVELATION 19
Rev. 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls,
having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Rev. 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
The FRUITS are the same as the SUMMER BASKETS in Amos
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.
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 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.
Hom. Od. 4.219. Such cunning drugs had the daughter of Zeus, drugs of healing, which Polydamna, the wife of Thon, had given her, a woman of Egypt, for there the earth, the giver of grain, bears greatest store [230] of drugs, many that are healing when mixed, and many that are baneful; there every man is a physician, wise above human kind; for they are of the race of Paeeon. Now when she had cast in the drug, and had bidden pour forth the wine, again she made answer,Then the other Trojan women wailed aloud, but my soul [260] was glad, for already my heart was turned to go back to my home, and I groaned for the blindness that Aphrodite gave me, when she led me thither from my dear native land, forsaking my child and my bridal chamber, and my husband, a man who lacked nothing, whether in wisdom or in comeliness.
Pharmakon 3. enchanted potion, philtre: hence, charm, spell,
"Applied to Persian priests or astrologers of Babylon. Pharmakos (g5333) an adjective signifying "devoted to magical arts," is used as a noun, "a sorcerer," especially one who uses drugs, potions, spells, enchantments, Rev 21:8, in the best texts (some have pharmakeus) and 22:15" Vine
pharmakos 1
I. a poisoner, sorcerer, magician, NTest.
II. one who is sacrificed as an atonement for others, a scape-goat, Ar.; and, since worthless fellows were reserved for this fate, pharmakos became a general name of reproach, id=Ar., DemThey are of the race of Paeon, Apollo, Abaddon, Apollyon
Paian-ias , ou, ho, A. paean-singer. The physician of the gods, 2. title of Apollo (later as epith., Apollτni Paiani)
THAT' why Paul never used a word for external melody: Psallo in the heart means to TOUCH or PLUCK the heart.
Paean, i.e. choral song, addressed to Apollo or Artemis (the burden being iκ or iτ Paian, v. supr. 1.2),
2. song of triumph after victory,
Melōd-ia ,A. singing, chanting, E.Rh.923, etc.II. chant, choral song, melōdias poiētēs Pl.Lg.935e, cf. 812d; lullaby, ib.790e: generally, music,
Plat. Gorg. 513a and so therefore now, whether it is your duty to make yourself as like as possible to the Athenian people, if you intend to win its affection and have great influence in the city: see if this is to your advantage and mine, so that we may not suffer, my distinguished friend, the fate that they say befalls the creatures who would draw down the moonthe hags of Thessaly;1 that our choice of this power in the city may not cost us all that we hold most dear. But if you suppose that anyone in the world can transmit to you such an art as will cause you
tas Thettalidas: [Th. sophisma a Thessalian trick, E.Ph.1407; ] the Thessalian women were very skilful in sorcery and poisoning. They stood in close relation to the night-goddess Hecate; hence people ascribed to them the power to draw the moon from the heavens. Strepsiades says in Ar. Nub. 749 gunaika pharmakid' ei priamenos Thettalēn | katheloimi nuktōr tēn selēnēn kthe. Cf. Hor. Epod. 5. 45 quae sidera excantata voce Thessala | lunamque caelo deripit. For this, however, the goddess exacted punishment, for Suidas says hai tēn selēnēn kathairousai Thettalides legontai tōn ophthalmōn kai tōn paidōn (v. l.podōn) steriskesthai. eirētai epi tōn heautois ta kaka epispōmenōn hē paroimia. Cf. also Plin. N. H. XXX. I. 2 (6). Aristophanes' designation of them under the name pharmakis,
1.2.5 The tribes of female flute-players,1 quacks, vagrants, mimics, blackguards;2 all this set is sorrowful and dejected on account of the death of the singer Tigellius; for he was liberal [toward them]. On the other hand, this man, dreading to be called a spendthrift, will not give a poor friend [5] wherewithal to keep off cold and pinching hunger. If you ask him why he wickedly consumes the noble estate of his grandfather and father in tasteless gluttony, buying with borrowed money all sorts of dainties;
1 Ambubaiarum , "Women who played on the flute." [ambubajarum ministeria,] It is derived from a Syrian word; for the people of that country usually excelled in this instrument. Pharmacopolae is a general name for all who deal in spices, essence, and perfumes.
2 Mendici, mimae, balatrones . The priests of Isis and Cybele were beggars by profession, and under the vail of religion were often guilty of the most criminal excesses. Mimae were players of the most debauched and dissolute kind; and balatrones, in general, signifies all scoundrels, buffoons, and parasites, who had their name, according to the old commentator, from Servilius Balatro. Balatrones hoc genus omne, for omne hoc balatronum genus, is a remarkable sort of construction.
Jesus CAST OUT the minstrels LIKE DUNG. Here is what he thought of them:
They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept Lu.7:32
Agora (g58) ag-or-ah'; from ageεiro, (to gather; prob. akin to 1453); prop. the town-square (as a place of public resort); by impl. a market or thoroughfare: - market (-place), street
THESE will be identified as the SECTARIAN HYPOCRITES of preachers who just PERFORM but are not faithful, singers, musicians, "theater builders and stage managers," grinders (prostitutes) one and all.
The Old Jerusalem as the Pattern for Instrumental "Worship" is defined as the Mother of Harlots and Sodom.
Is. 1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Rev. 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city,
which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Is. 1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD:
I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts;
and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Is. 1:12 When ye come to appear before me,
who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
Is. 1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths,
the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Is. 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.Many Biblical scholars[45] and theologians point out that although Rome was the prevailing pagan power in the 1st century when the Book of Revelation was written, the symbolism of the whore of Babylon refers not to an invading infidel of foreign power,
but to an apostate false queen, a former "bride" who has been unfaithful and who,
even though she has been divorced and cast out because of unfaithfulness,
continues to falsely claim to be the "queen" of the spiritual realm.[46][47][48] This symbolism did not fit the case of Rome at the time. Proponents of this view suggest that the "seven mountains" in Rev 17:9 are the seven hills on which Jerusalem stands and the "fall of Babylon" in Rev 18 is the fall and destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD[49] The dress of the whore of Babylon is similar to the Jerusalem High Priest (Exodus 28:6).Several Old Testament prophets referred to Jerusalem as being a spiritual harlot and a mother of such harlotry (Isaiah 1:21; Jeremiah 2:20; Jeremiah 3:111; Ezekiel 16:143; Ezekiel 23, Galatians 4:25). Some of the these Old Testament prophecies as well as the warnings in the New Testament concerning Jerusalem are in fact very close to the text concerning Babylon in Revelation, suggesting that John may well have actually been citing those prophecies in his description of Babylon.[50]
For example, in Matthew 23:3437 and Luke 11:4751, Jesus himself assigned all of the bloodguilt for the killing of the prophets and of the saints (of all time) to the Pharisees of Jerusalem, and, in Revelation 17:6 and 18:20,24, almost identical phrasing is used in charging that very same bloodguilt to Babylon. This is also bolstered by Jesus' statement that "it's not possible for a prophet to be killed outside of Jerusalem." (Luke 13:33).[51]
Rev 21:9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
Rev 21:10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain,
and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem,
descending out of heaven from God,
The Spiritual Jerusalem is the Church (Ekklesia, Synagogue) of Christ
Micah 3:12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field,
and Jerusalem shall become heaps,
and the mountain of the house as the high places [pagan worship] of the forest.
Micah 4:1 But in the last days it shall come to pass,
that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains,
and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
Micah 4:2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob;
and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths:
for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.