so as to violate the freedom of our members to experience and enjoy instrumental music as a gift from God? Yes.
word means "without warrant." That is, he had no God-given
authority to use instruments for controling others. Of the
Marzeah which was IMPOSED on Israel as they worshiped the
starry host as punishment for their musical idolatry at
Mount Sinai, scholars note:
"With the wine-drinking (which is the literal
meaning of the Hebrew for feasting), went music and dancing." (Heaton, E. W., Everyday Life in Old
Testament times, Scribners, p. 93)
"Worship was form more
than substance; consequently, conduct in the marketplace
was totally unaffected by worship in the holy place. Amos
spoke from the conviction that social justice is an integral part of the
Mosaic covenant, which regulates relations not only
between God and people, but also among people." (King, p.
44).
"In pagan traditions, musical instruments are invented by gods or demi-gods, such as titans. In the Bible, credit is
assigned to antediluvian patriarchs, for example, the
descendants of Cain in Genesis 4:21. There is no other biblical
tradition
about the invention of musical instruments." (Freedman,
David Noel, Bible Review, Summer 1985, p. 51). (Proof Here).
It is also a fact that
this same black
voodoo when
married to hill
country music
gave rise to the revivalistic music seen in all of the so-called Awakenings. Of course, this happened only
after the Wesley brothers drove the church away from singing
the Biblical text to self composed songs which had the magical power of
"spiritual revival."
Wouldn't adding instruments overextend our capacity to meet our
obligations to teach
the Words of
Christ in song and sermon? If God gave musical instruments
as a gift for worship then wouldn't we be under extending our worship practice.
Jubal, father of the word,
Jubilee, taught people to handle instruments where the word "handle" means "without authority." Click to see the Voodoo connection. And Click to see the A Cappella meaning.
It is simply untrue that God gave instruments as a gift to
mankind any further than He gave marijuana or "peyote" which some American Indians
use for "worship" as a gift from God. Otherwise it would not have been Jubal who was "father" of the "family of musicians"
but God. And it would not be David who added instruments to
worship but God. And the Holy Spirit would not have used the
word "handle" which means "without warrant" or authority.
"Women and girls from the different ranks
of society were proud to enter the service of the
gods as singers and musicians. The understanding of this
service was universal: these singers constituted the 'harem of the gods'." Quasten, Music and
Worship in Pagan and Christian Antiquity, beginning on page 41
If the entire Bible and
church history does not condemn "musical performance" as the
"works of human hands" to try to attract a Spirit God then nothing can be proven
wrong. It is
normally the pro-instrumental preachers still on the payroll
of non-instrumental churches which denounce the
non-instrumental position as sinful perversion.
The word ADULTERY and KLEPTO is associated
with this verse. The concept of arousal singing to produce
the outlawed PLEASURING is also connected with KLEPTOMANIA
by the "heretics" who LIFT YOU UP to carry you away for
THEIR OWN PLEASURES.
Hdt.1.155 Heredotus: Cyrus told how to take the
FIGHT out of the enemy: [4] But pardon the Lydians, and give them
this command so that they not revolt or pose a danger to
you: send and forbid them to possess weapons of war,
...........and order them to wear tunics
under their cloaks
........... and knee-boots on their feet,
........... and to teach their sons lyre-playing [kitharizein]
........... and song [psallein] and dance
........... and shop-keeping [huckstering].
........... And quickly, O king,
........... you shall see them become women instead of men,
........... so that you need not fear
them, that
they might revolt."
That proves that Satan us using the
neutered performers to neuter the church.
Rubel Shelly: There is no explicit instruction
that either requires or excludes musical instruments in the church's worship.
The New Testament has
no commandment on the subject.
Aristotle, Athenian Constitution
L. These then are the
matters administered by the Council. Also ten men are elected by lot as Restorers of Temples, who draw 30 minae1 from the
Receivers and repair the temples that most require it; and
ten City Controllers, [2] five of whom hold office in Peiraeus and five in the city;
it is they who supervise
the flute-girls
and harp-girls and lyre-girls to prevent their receiving
fees of more than two drachmas,
and if several persons
want to take the same girl these officials cast lots between them and hire her out to the winner.
And they keep watch to
prevent any scavenger from depositing ordure (dung) within a mile and a quarter of the
wall;
Look at how the meaning is interpreted
in the Dead Sea Translation.
Did we forget about Jesus
putting out the Musical Mourning Team "more or less
violently"?
The APPROVED EXAMPLE of
Jesus condemns MUSICAL WORSHIP TEAMS. These teams performed
at weddings, funerals or religious festivals:
"Long before Israel's
existence, we find in Akkadian tablets the word halhallatu for 'double clarinet,' and
we have many ancient representations of this
instruments... Extremely popular for SECULAR purposes, the
clarinet was played at WEDDINGS, BANQUETS, and FUNERAL. At
funerals it served as accompaniment to the customary WAILING women; this is the meaning of
Matt. 9:23. The chief characteristics of the clarinet
were: popularity, juxtaposition with hand drum and lyre,
expression of extreme emotionalism, and symbolic meaning of FERTILITY and RESURRECTION." (Int. Std. Bible Dict., p.
472).
Again, Paul outlaws
this for the SYNAGOGUE:
Aresko (g700) ar-es'-ko; prob. from
142 (through the idea of exciting emotion); to be agreeable (or by
impl. to seek to be so): - please.
"Matthew alone mentions
the hired 'flute players'; beside them would be found the hired wailing women with hair streaming, beating their breasts and
filling the air with loud moans and bursts of sobs...
"Paid mourners were professionals at the
business, and the custom of having them in houses of mourning and at funerals dates far back, even beyond
the times of Jeremiah (9:17), and is found among Jews and
pagans alike. Naturally, Jesus would order these people
out and hush them;
........... "a deed such as he was about
to do
...........
called for the
decency and the dignity of silence." (Lenski, Matt. p. 375).
But when the people were
put forth, he went in, and took her by
the hand, and the maid arose. Matthew 9:25
PUT FORTH IS:
Ekballo (g1544) ek-bal'-lo; from
1537 and 906; to EJECT (lit. or fig.): - bring
forth, CAST (forth, out), drive (out),
expel, leave, pluck (pull, take, THRUST) out, put forth
(out), send away (forth, out).
Ballo (g906) bal'-lo; a prim.
verb; to THROW (in various applications, more or less
violent or intense): - arise, cast (out), * DUNG,
lay, lie, pour, put (up), send, strike, THROW (DOWN),
thrust. Comp. 4496. (Meaning: a quick toss).
ekballô , Arc. esdellô IG5(2).6.49
(Tegea, iv B.C.), fut. -ba^lô: aor. -ebalon : pf. -beblêka
: Pass., fut.
A. -beblêsomai E.Ba.1313 :-- throw or cast
out of, c. gen., Odion megan ekbale diphrou Il.5.39 , etc.
: abs., throw out, ek d' eunas ebalon 1.436 , etc. ; kai tên
men..ichthusi kurma genesthai ekbalon threw her overboard,
Od.15.481, cf. Hdt.1.24 : then in various relations,
ekpiptô being freq. used as its Pass. :
ballô , b. sporon cast the seed,
Theoc.25.26; b. kopron POxy.934.9 (iii A. D.): hence b.
arouras
manure
kopros , hê,
A. excrement, ordure, of men and cattle, Od.9.329, al., Hdt. 3.22,
etc.: in pl., Euph.96.4; esp. as used in husbandry, dung, manure, Pl.Prt.334a,
Thphr.HP2.7.4.
2. generally, filth, dirt, kulindomenos kata kopron
Il.22.414 , 24.640, cf. BGU1116.14 (i B. C.).
II. dunghill, byre, Il.18.575, Od.10.411,
Call.Dian.178; kathisai tinas epi koprou Men.544.5 . (In
this sense oxyt. kopros acc. to Eust.1165.15.) (Cf. Skt.
s'ákr.t, gen. s'aknás 'excrement'.)
2. cast out of a place,
Kimmerious ekbalontes ek tês Eurôpês Hdt.1.103 ; e. ek tês
chôras, of an enemy, Lycurg.99, cf. D.60.8 ; esp. of banishment, drive out, cast out of the synagogue, Ev.Jo.34 ; ek tou tagmatos J.BJ2.8.8
; exorcize, cast out evil spirits, Ev.Marc.1.34,
4. e. gunaika ek tês
oikias divorce he
Here is the way to be
Pro-Christ. The essentials of the "Son's" commission from
the "Father" is identical to the Commission of Christ to
Paul and to Paul's commission two of the passages which
mention "singing." If you are not "for" Christ then you are
"Against" Christ and here is the test:
appeased or the worshiper improved by
music. This was so well understood that physical or carnal
rituals had no place in Christian, spiritual worship. If you
remember that the Exodus event is now the pattern for
"worship and community" being taught at Woodmont Hills and
the idolatrous Israelites have become their "spiritual
fathers" you can understand that while church means
"assembly" with no "standing army" outside of assembly time
while the Nimrod principle wants to collect people into
"families" then you can understand why music of many forms
are necessary to keep the tribal chiefs in power and keep
the tribal members from wandering:
"In this fashion evey common tribal interest--the recurrence of the seasons (Jubilee), the increase of the food
supply, successful
hunting--was
likely to become embodied in some regularly repeated
ceremony, which usually included group dancing, singing, and feasting.
Besides enabling men to express, and thereby to allay, anger and anxiety, such ceremonies
also promoted tribal unity and strengthened the loyalty of the individual to tribal traditions,
for the emotional excitement they aroused had the effect of
breaking down the barriers between individuals and
thus fusing all tribesmen into a collective whole.
Meanwhile, whole
systems of magical devices were gradually
elaborated." (H Bamford Parkes, God and Men, p. 29)
"Awed by the mysteries
of his own
spirit no
less than by those of nature, primitive man was likely to attribute
to divine influence
any abnormal emotional state, whether above or below
the usual level. Medicine men customarily went into states of trance in which they were believed to be in communication with the
gods,
[All music produces a trance-like state]
and many tribes
supposed lunatics and sexual deviants to be divinely possessed.
In most early
societies, moreover, men evolved techniques for deliberaly inducing the abnormal
forms of consciousness in which they supposed themselves to
achieve union
with divine power, sometimes by the use of drugs and other
physiological stimuli,
sometimes by hypnotic dances and music. The wild utterances to
which they gave vent on such occasions
were regarded as
the words of a god and
were interpreted as divine commands or
predictions of future events." (Parkes, p. 32-33).
And instrumental music is a gift from God?
Well all of the
evidence claims that it is a gift from the "gods" or demons.
A contemporary Bible
Scholar notes that:
"In pagan traditions,
musical instruments are invented by gods or demi-gods, such as titans (Satans). In the Bible, credit is
assigned to antediluvian patriarchs, for example, the
descendants of Cain in Genesis 4:21. There is no other biblical tradition about the invention of
musical instruments." (Freedman, David Noel, Bible Review,
Summer 1985, p. 51). (Proof Here).
Lucifer is
represented by Sophia-ZOE where Sophia is the serpent
and Zoe is the BEAST or "female instructing principle."
Jubal was father of
those who handle instruments. "Handle" is defined as
"without warrant" or without authority.
JUDGMENT KETCHJERSICE
Rubel Shelly: Thus a Catholic source
says the following: "For almost a thousand years
Gregorian chant, without any instrumental or harmonic
addition, was the only music used in connexion [sic]
with liturgy." And a widely respected Protestant
scholar writes:
"There is no
evidence for the use of musical instruments;
and if we picture the
believers as men and women drawn from the poorer strata of
society and meeting clandestinely,
the non-mention of musical
instruments is not surprising. The making melody psallontes: Eph. v.19 is in the
heart
The Catholic Encyclopedia disagrees with Dr. Shelly about the legal loopholes about time and place and
commands:
"(a) The first testimony
is found in the Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians (v,
19): "Speaking to yourselves in psalms, and
hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing and making melody
in your hearts to the Lord".
"Cardinal Bona finds
in these words a witness to the fact that "from the very
beginnings of the Church, psalms and hymns were sung in the assembly
of the faithful", and understands them to
refer to an alternated chant (mutuo et alterno cantu). [That excludes Fanny Crosby]
Since this was not
really "singing" but teaching the Bible, this was not
"responsorial singing" of modern composers with two
choirs.
And you will note that
the FAITHFUL used the Biblical material.
"McEvilly in his
"Commentary"
"applies them to public and private meetings. St Augustine (Ep. cxix,
ch. xviii) says:
"As to the singing of psalms and hymns, we have the proofs, the examples, and the instructions of the Lord
Himself,
and of the Apostles". (Cf. also Col., iii, 16;
I Cor., xiv, 26.)
That means "Direct
Commands and examples" and do not need to infer
anything.
We know that these
were all INSPIRED BIBLICAL TEXTS as Paul insists because
a great controversy resulted when people began to
introduce their own compositions as CO-INSPIRED along
with God's poetic material.
Augustine went on to
say:
"In such a case we ought
by all means to adopt it,
especially if it be
something in defence of which Scripture can be alleged:
as in the singing
of hymns and psalms,
........ for which we have on record both the example and the precepts
........ of the Lord and of His apostles.
........ [Is that something like
"Commands, Examples and Inferences?"]
"In this religious
exercise, so useful for inducing a devotional frame of mind and inflaming the strength
of love to God, there is diversity of usage, and
in Africa the members
of the Church are rather too indifferent in regard to it;
on which account the
Donstists reproach us with our grave chanting of the divine songs of the
prophets
in our churches,
while they inflame their passions in their revels by the singing of psalms of human composition,
........ which rouse them like the stirring notes of
the trumpet on the battle-field.
Rubel Shelly: Second, some of the early
Christian writers often cited about
non-instrumentation also inveigh against females being
allowed to participate in congregational
hymn-singing. Scripture alone is normative for
Christian faith and practice, not post-biblical
history.
To show that Dr. Shelly's
prejudicial statement was not official, the Catholic Encyclopedia notes that:
"In the ancient congregational singing both sexes took part; the words of St. Paul
imposing silence on women in church being interpreted to
refer only to exhorting or instructing.
"Duchesne describes
how the earliest worship of the Christians was parallel
to that, not of the Temple of the Jews
at Jerusalem, but of the local synagogues, the Christians borrowing
thence their four elements of Divine service-the
lections (reading parts of Scripture), the chants (of the Psalter), the homilies (explaining
those passages of scriptures), and the prayers. Catholic Encyclopedia
Paul's word "authority"
is AUTHENTIA which is sexual authority,
both erotic and murderous. You cannot USE a woman in a non-silent,
non-sedentary role without knowing and planning to USE her
to exercise sexual authority which is very powerful in
sucking in the seekers. The singing was never "musical"
but TEACHING or PREACHING and rather than singing the word
READING is called chanting.
"But considerable
prominence was given to the hymns by the Gnostic, Bardesans, who composed a
psalter of 150 psalms. However, the 59th canon of the
Synod of Laodicea, 360 A. D., enjoined that 'No psalm composed by private individuals nor any uncanonical books may be read in the Church,
but only... the Canonical Books of the OT and NT." Int
Std Ency., p. 2494
"In competition with pagan musical art, congregational singing
began to wane. Basil states that he had 'the Psalms rendered by skillful presentors after the manner of the triumphal Odes of Pindar,
the congregation joining at the closing verse,
with the accompaniment of lyres." Int Std Bible Ency.,
p. 2494A
Not even David sang his songs and simultaneously played to create harmony. Rather, after the
ending of a verse it was common to strum the strings.
This may be the meaning of 'selah' which meant "now,
meditate on this verse in the heart."
Classical writers and the fathers
recognize the simultaneous singing and playing as the
arena of the female entertainers or prostitutes where
there was no intention of communicating information.
They note that to read a man's poem or song and play
instruments would be to insult him. And so is Christ
insulted.
Having someone INVEIGH agains women is not going to
add anything to the instrumental music issue. They
inveighed against instruments because of universal
Biblical opposition and the practices of all pagans. Most
of the church Fathers did not object to sit down women
reciting the Biblical text. So that argument is mute.
Men like Alexander the Oracle Monger explained by Lucian of
Samosata shows that people who want to construct Seeker-Centers have to resort to using women as their primary "ministers." Without them you could not extort money. He knew that
you only needed women and flute players to get the money
out of "fat heads and simpletons."
Apollo had his oracle just up the coast from
Corinth and he also used women and instrumental music for
the best Seeker-Center in the ancient world. Amazingly, he
"navigated the winds of change" to kidnap his male
ministers from another "oracle" in Crete.
Apollo is the model
of Apollyon or Abbadon in the book of Revelation.
Everyone from God to
Paul to the church Fathers to the Seekers today know that "female authority" is sexual power where women
are used to attract with authentia
which is both cruel and deadly.
The missing fact is that
while much later monastic writers "inveighed" against
women just for breathing valuable air, we have none of
them even suggesting that effeminate clergy males dressed
up and singing like women ever add musical instruments.
Inveigh: to assail, attack with
words, to make a violent verbal attack. Webster.
In reviewing DeGroot we
quoted
Augustine
to say what everyone understood:
"but because it was
obvious to remark that all sound,
which is the material
of song,
is by nature of three kinds.
........ > For it is either produced by
the voice,
........ ........
as in the case of
those who sing with the mouth without an instrument;
........ > or by blowing, as in the case of trumpets and flutes;
........ > or by striking, as in the case of harps and
drums, and all other instruments
........... that give their sound when struck.
Yet, when they rose up to
play, God took the Book of the Covenant away from them, gave them The
Book of the Law and a priesthood to keep the
people out of His symbolic presence at
the Tabernacle. This is why Paul demands that a Christian
has to "go to Him outside the camp" which later became outside the walls
of the temple separating the priests and noise-makers from
the people who prayed outside the gates while God heard from
heaven.
Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it
is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 1 Corinthians 10:7
"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).
"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, Music, p.
589).
And Isaiah and Jeremiah
is a powerful warning about the high places to worship
MOLECH with singing and instrumental music:
And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of
the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters
in the fire;
which I commanded
them not, neither came it into my heart. Jeremiah 7:31
Therefore, behold, the
days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be
called Tophet (Tabret, Tambourine, King's Music grove), nor
the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of
slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be
no place. Jeremiah 7:32
Then will I cause to
cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets
of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice
of the bride: for the land shall be desolate. Jeremiah
7:34
God warned Israel about
the Asherah poles and the high places but they never
listened. When they fired God and demanded a king so that
they could worship like the nations this is what God was
silent about in that He ruled by law and not by silence.
While not authorized for all of the people:
"The ritual observances
at the Hebrew and at a Canaanite sanctuary were so similar that to the mass
of the people Jehovah worship and Baal worship were not separated by any
well-marked line... A sacrifice was a public ceremony of a
township or clan...
Then the crowds
streamed into the sanctuary from all sides, dressed in
their gayest attire, marching joyfully to the sound of music, and bearing with them not
only the victims appointed for sacrifice, but store of bread and wine set forth the feast... Universal hilarity prevailed." (Gurney, p.
37).
Music was a powerful tool
to "lead the worshipers into the presence of God while even
Israelites were sacrificing their children." Therefore, God
used the sacrificial, musical procession to Topheth to warn
of what he would do to Syria -- And God never told Assyria:
"Thou shalt not oppress my people." The version Jesus read
always treats the musical passages radically different. For
instance, Isaiah 30:29:
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 mountains of the Lord, to the God of Israel? Isaiah
30:29LXX
And the Lord shall cause
his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with
scattering, and tempest, and hailstones. Isaiah 30:30
For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian
be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
Isaiah 30:31
And in every place where
the grounded staff shall pass, which the Lord shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it. Isaiah
30:32
For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made
it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood;
the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth
kindle it. Isaiah 30:33
Of the king of Babylon as
a Lucifer (king/queen) type, they will all go to the place
of eternal fire: Topheth.
All your pomp has been brought down to the
grave, along with the noise of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you and
Rubel Shelly: You can also make a
pretty good case for biblical silence being concessive. Take the synagogue as
an institution, for example.
The Old Testament says
nothing about a synagogue with its worship
rituals, officers, and authority in the daily lives
of devout Jews.
There is neither a
command nor example to authorize one. The
institution appears to have been created during the
400-year
period
between the testaments. More specifically, most
scholars believe it evolved when the Jewish nation
was in exile in Babylon.
During the festivals God
commanded a holy
convocation
for the first and seventh day. Because of the very meaning
of sabbath as rest, and its related words, travel
and specificially "sending out ministers" was prohibited.
There were no Shelly-like organizations but the word means
to rehearse or read the Word of God. The Qahal or
assembly or church in the wilderness existed in the
wilderness. The "strangers" could never enter the
Tabernacle.
And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work
shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat,
that only may be done of you. Ex.12:16
Miqra (h4744) mik-raw'; from 7121;
something
called
out, i. e. a public meeting (the act, the persons, or the
place); also a rehearsal: - assembly, calling,
convocation, reading.
And he read therein before the street
that was before the water gate from the morning until
midday, before the men and the women, and those that could
understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive
unto the book of the law. Ne 8:3
Read is:
Qara (h7121) kaw-raw'; a prim.
root [rather ident. with 7121 through the idea of
accosting a person met]; to call out to (i. e. prop.
address by name, but used in a wide variety of
applications): - bewray [self], that are bidden, call
(for, forth, self, upon), cry (unto), (be) famous,
guest, invite, mention, (give) name, preach, (make) proclaim (- ation), pronounce, publish, read,
renowned, say.
And what nation is there so great, that
hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law,
which I set before you this day? Deut 4:8
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy
soul diligently, lest thou
forget the things which
thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart
all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy
sons sons; Deut 4:9
Specially the day that thou stoodest
before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said unto
me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days
that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may
teach their children. Deut 4:10
Qahal
(h6950) kaw-hal'; a prim. root; to convoke: - assemble
(selves) (together), gather (selves) together).
Gather the people together, men, and
women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates,
that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear
the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of
this law: De.31:12
This is he, that was in the church in
the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the
mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the
lively oracles to give unto us: Ac.7:38
Ekklesia (g1577) ek-klay-see'-ah; from a comp. of
1537 and a der. of 2564; a calling out, i.e. (concr.)
a popular meeting, espec. a religious congregation (Jewish synagogue,
or Chr. community of members on earth or saints in
heaven or both): - assembly, church.
Most preachers deny the SYNAGOGUE which
always existed because it has no SADDLE upon which a
preacher, singer or clapper can sit on the backs of
widows:
Men and brethren,
children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you
feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
Acts 13:26
For they that dwell at
Jerusalem, and their rulers,
because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the
prophets
which are
read every sabbath day,
they have
fulfilled them in condemning him (Setting Him at Nought).
Acts 13:27
Wherefore my sentence
is, that we trouble not them, which from among the
Gentiles are turned to God: Acts 15:19
But that we write unto
them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and
from fornication, and from things strangled, and from
blood. Acts 15:20
For Moses of old
time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
Ac.15:21
Sunagoge (g4864) soon-ag-o-gay';
from (the redupl. form of) 4863; an assemblage of
persons; spec. a Jewish "synagogue" (the meeting or
the place); by anal. a Christian church: - assembly,
congregation, synagogue.
The Dead Sea Scroll translation of Psalm
41
promises that Judas as the agent of Satan and the
temple-music wing of Judaism would not triumph over Jesus.
Triumph is to blow trumpets and make a loud, sound of
rejoicing which was usually passing judgment over the
defeated. The temple builders and the Levitical musicians
had no wars to lead so they attacked Jesus. They saw Jesus
as "among their
idols" where idols always demanded music or idols were
often the musical instrument:
A root bearing poisoned and bitter fruit
...........
is in their
designs;
they
walk in stubbornness of heart
........... and see Thee among idols,
then
they set before them
........... the stumbling-block of
their sin.
Thy members of my Covenant have rebelled
........... and have murmured round about me;
They have gone as talebearers
...........
before the
children of mischief
...........
concerning the
mystery which Thou hast hidden in me...
Teaching false doctrine
was a deliberate preliminary effort to overtake Jesus and
triumph over (sound my censure) with the musical
instruments of warfare which would include harps and
trumpets.
They have overtaken
me in a narrow
pass (gap) without escape
........... And there is no rest for
me in my
trial.
They sound my censure upon a harp
...........
and their murmuring and storming upon a zither." Ps.41:11
However, in victory,
the resurrected Jesus would defeat military instruments
with the "sword of His Spirit" the "fruit of the lips."
I will groan with
the zither
of
lamentation
........... in all grief-stricken
mourning and bitter complaint
until iniquity and wickedness are consumed
........... and the disease-bringing scourge is no more.
Then will I play on
the zither
of deliverance
...........
and harp of joy,
on the tabors
of
prayer and the pipe of praise
........... without end.
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