Russ Adcox The Great Debate affirming Instrumental Music

6.26.23 Scripture contains no one said to worship with preaching, listening, singing, playing instruments, acting or Pay to Play. The Greeks called these PARASITES and SORCERERS. Jude says that they were foreordained with no personal choice.

There is NO debate: Sons FROM God are taught BY God to listen only to His Son. The New Covenant is the last will and testament of Jesus: God sent SCRIBES to PROBATE the Will and leave us a MEMORY. Only profane people would use music and get paid to TAMPER with the will of even an evil person.

Musical instruments are "machines to produce great works" are always the MARK OF:
FIRST: Those who preach for hire but makes up their own commands such as Parasisee.

SECOND: those who sing with a beautiiful voice and can play on musical instruments. This is the mark in Ezekiel 33 of a collected mass intended to burning.

CLICK: THE END [KAIROS] HAS COME: MUSICIANS IN HOLY PLACES THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION!

CLICK: ONLY APT OR BIBLE-LITERATE ELDERS ARE VOCATIONALPASTOR-TEACHERS OF SCRIPTURE ONLY

CLICK: GRACE MEANS LITERATE ELDERS-ONLY EDUCATE-ONLY GRATUITUOUSLY. PHARISEES ROB PEOPLE

CLICK: GOD IS NOT WORSHIPPED BY HANDS OF MEN: THE BEAST SO IS WORSHIPPED.



THE END [KAIROS] HAS COME: MUSICIANS IN HOLY PLACES THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION!

Ex. 32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings [holocausta], and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to PLAY. [ludere]

1 Cor. 10:7 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 mēde eidōlolatrai ginesthe, kathōs tines autōn: hōsper gegraptai “Ekathisen ho laos phagein kai pein, kai anestēsan paizein

Paizō pais  I. properly, to play like a child, to sport,  alla pepaistai metriōs hēmin, of the chorus, Ar. Th.1227.  4. play on a musical instrument, h.Ap.206: c. acc., “Pan ho kalamophthogga paizōn”   dance and sing, Pi. O.1.16.

Aristoph. Frogs 225
Rightly so, you busybody.
the Muses of the fine lyre love us
And so does horn-crested Pan, playing his reed pipe.
And the harpist Apollo delights in us as well,
On account of the reed, which as a bridge for his lyre

Apollōn
, ho, Apollo: Abaddon, Apollyon The name of a NUMBER
phorm-iktēs , ou, Dor. phorm-miktas , ho, A. lyre-player, of Orpheus, Pi.P.4.176
phorm-iktos , ē, on, A. sung TO the phormigx, kai peza kai ph. (sc. melē) S.Fr.16.

Melos
, eos, to, 2. music to which a song is set, tune, Arist.Po.1450a14;
3. melody of an instrument, “phormigx d' au phtheggoith' hieron m. ēde kai aulos” ; “aulōn pamphōnon m.” Pi.P.12.19;
5.  play amorously, “pros allēlous” X.Smp.9.2; “
II. est, sport, Hdt.2.28, 5.4, 9.11; make fun with a person,

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)

 "We know that all of the Israelites brought Egyptian gods and practices with them and it is not far-fetched to think that Miriam, who had not yet been exposed to the Covenant, was part of the consciousness-altering rhythms and which was part of a priestly myth-play brought to destructive consummation at Mount Sinai as the golden calf was called back into action.

This "rising up to play" involved eating, drinking, nakedness and musical worship. The goddess, Hathor, is the best candidate for the Mother Goddess of the Mount Sinai idolatry. Here priestesses or prophetesses were highly trained with musical instruments, cultic songs and be able to join in the religious dance.

"Music and drugs were co-consiprators in religious ecstasy. They may have used some product of the sycamore fig which both intoxicated and induced an altered state of consciousness. The ergo of barley was well known. Anton Marks
 
"They sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play. They practiced rites in which they made themselves naked, perhaps similar to those which were carried out by naked Babylonian priests." (Woodrow, p. 158)
 
"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. 86). s

Deuteronomy.18.Abomination.Of.Those.Nations.html

Deut. 18:1 The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi,
        shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel:
        they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.
Deut. 18:9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
Deut. 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
hărĭŏlus  soothsayer, prophet, prophetess augur
  somnĭo , to dream; to dream of or see in a dream, to dream, i. e. to think idly or vainly, to talk foolishly:
AUGUR any soothsayer, diviner, seer, in gen.: augur Apollo, as god of prophecy (v. Apollo), Hor. C. 1, 2, 32; so, “augur Phoebus,”

Phoebus,
” Apollo as the god of light: “quae mihi Phoebus Apollo
B. Phoe-bēus , a, um, adj., Phœbean, Apollinean: “carmina,
“Rhodos,” where the worship of Apollo prevailed, id. M. 7, 365: “lyra,
FEMALE WORSHIP LEADER: C. Phoebas , ădis, f., a priestess of Apollo; hence the inspired one, the prophetess,
psaltrĭa , ae, f., = psaltria, . a female player on the cithara, a lutist, “ineptias,” Col. 1, 8, 2: “ah stulte! tu de Psaltriā me somnias Agere,” Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 6; Plaut. Pers. 2, 3, 5Absol.: “vigilans somniat
“portenta non disserentium philosophorum sed somniantium,” Cic. N. D. 1, 8, 18.
Deut. 18:11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromance
incantātor , ōris, m. incanto, I. an enchanter, wizard (post-class.), Tert. Idol. 9; Isid. 8, 9, 15; Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 15, 1, 2. pythones
      Pȳtho   Pythian, Delphic, Apollonian: Delphis prognatus Pythius Apollon the priestess who uttered the responses of the Delphic Apollo, the Pythoness, Pythia celebrated games with “qui Pythia cantat Tibicen,
Antiquity set Apollon as their leader, Apollon Mousagetēs ("Apollo Muse-leader").[9] Not only are the Muses explicitly used in modern English to refer to an artistic inspiration, as when one cites one's own artistic muse, but they also are implicit in words and phrases such as "amuse", "museum" (Latinised from mouseion—a place where the muses were worshipped), "music", and "musing upon".[10]
Hor. Ars 414 Orpheus, the priest and interpreter of the gods, deterred the savage race of men from slaughters and inhuman diet; hence said to tame tigers and furious lions: Amphion too, the builder of the Theban wall, was said to give the stones motion with the sound of his lyre,...Oracles were delivered in poetry, and the economy of life pointed out, and the favor of sovereign princes was solicited by Pierian1 strains, games were instituted, and a [cheerful] period put to the tedious labors of the day; [this I remind you of,] lest haply you should be ashamed of the lyric muse, and Apollo the god of song.
2 “Pythia cantica” Hor. Ars 414, songs like the hymns which were sung in honor of Apollo, by the chorus in some comedies. A player, called Pythaules, played during the intervals when the chorus left off singing.
consŭlo (a). In the lang. of religion, to consult a deity, an oracle, omens, etc.: “Apollinem de re,” Cic. Leg. 2, 16, 40: “deum consuluit auguriis, quae suscipienda essent,” Liv. 1, 20, 7: “deos hominum fibris,” Tac. A. 14, 30 fin.: “Phoebi oracula,” Ov. M. 3, 9; Suet. Vesp. 5: “Tiresiam conjectorem,” Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 76:

Cantus A. Prophetic or oracular song: “veridicos Parcae coeperunt edere cantus,” Cat. 63 cf. Tib.
B. An incantation, charm, magic song, etc.: cantusque artesque magorum.
“cantus e curru Lunam deducere tentat,”
2. With instruments, a playing, music: “in nervorum vocumque cantibus,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 2, 4; id. Rosc. Am. 46, 134: “citharae,” Hor. C. 3, 1, 20: “horribili stridebat tibia cantu,” Cat. 64, 264: “querulae tibiae,”

Isa 57:4 Against whom do ye sport [lusistis] yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood, mendax

Lu-sus , lūdo
a, um, Part., from ludo.
, ”Thalia,” Verg. E. 6, 1.—Esp., to play on an instrument of music, to make or compose music or song: “ludere quae vellem [WISHES TO THE GODS] calamo [REED F;ITE] permisit agresti,” Verg. E. 1, 10:

Verg. G. 2.386
For no offence but this to Bacchus bleeds
The goat at every altar,
    and old plays
    Upon the stage find entrance; therefore

Make merry with rough rhymes and boisterous mirth,
Grim masks of hollowed bark assume, invoke
Thee with glad hymns,
 
Therefore to Bacchus duly will we sing
Meet honour with ancestral hymns, and cates
And dishes bear him; and the doomed goat
Led by the horn shall at the altar stand,
Whose entrails rich on hazel-spits we'll roast.

lūdo  to play, play at a game of some kind: 1.—Esp., to play on an instrument of music, to make or compose music or song: “ludere quae vellem calamo permisit agresti,” Verg. E. 1, 10: “talia fumosi luduntur mense Decembri,” Ov. Tr. 2, 491: “quod tenerae cantent, lusit tua musa, puellae,” id. Am. 3, 1, 27: “coloni Versibus incomptis ludunt,” Verg. G. 2, 386: “carmina pastorum,” id. ib. 4, 565; Suet. Ner. 3: “si quid 
B. To sport, dally, wanton (cf. "amorous play,"
“ludere opus,” to imitate work, make believe work,Delude or Deceive.quod tenerae cantent, lusit tua musa, puellae,” id. Am. 3, 1, 27: “coloni Versibus incomptis ludunt,” Verg. G. 2, 386: “carmina pastorumo delude, deceive:
Is. 57:18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him
        I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
Is. 57:19 I create the fruit of the lips;
        Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near,
        saith the LORD; and I will heal him.
Is. 57:20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea,
        when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Is. 57:21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

Heb. 13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
Heb. 13:13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
Heb. 13:14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
Heb. 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
Heb. 13:16 But to do good and to communicate forget not:
2842. κοινωνία koinonia, NEVER A COMMAND
         for with such sacrifices God is well pleased

Matt. 13:37 He answered and said unto them,
        He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
Matt. 13:38 The field is the world;
        the good SEED are the children of the kingdom;
        but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
Matt. 13:39 The enemy that sowed them is the DEVIL;
        the harvest is the end of the world;  [Aion messianic Age]
        and the REAPERS are the angels. [aggeloi

Matt. 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand,
      Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire,
      prepared for the devil and his angels: [Aggelos]

2Cor. 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers,
        transFORMING themselves into the apostles of Christ.
2Cor. 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan transFORMED himself i
     into an angel of light.
2Cor. 11:15 Therefore it is no great thing
        if his ministers also be transFORMED as the ministers of righteousness;
        whose end shall be according to their works.

Jude 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares,
        who were before of old ordained to this condemnation,
        ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness,
        and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this,
        how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt,
        afterward destroyed them that believed not. [See Exodus 32] above
Jude 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation,
         he hath reserved in everlasting chains
         under darknecss unto the judgment of the great day.

Jude 4 For there are ertain men crept in unawares,
        who were before of old ordained to this condemnation,
        ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness,
        and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this,
        how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt,
        afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Jude 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation,
         he hath reserved in everlasting chains
         under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

[Angĕlus , i, m., = aggelos].
B.  In mal. part.: “Diabolus et angeli ejus,” Vulg. Matt. 25, 41: “angelus Satanae,” ib. 2 Cor. 12, 7 al.
Aggelos  2. generally, one that announces or tells, e.g. of birds of augury, Il.24.292,296; Mousōn aggelos, of a poet, Thgn.769; “aggele earos . . khelido

Mousa , ēs, , Aeol. Moisa II. mousa, as Appellat., music, song,
III“m. stugera” [  pathos 2. hateful, wretched, “bios” A.Eu.308 (anap.); “euphamos” Id.Supp.695 (lyr.);
“kanakhan . .
theias antiluron mousas” S.Tr.643 (lyr.);
“Aiakō moisan pherein” Pi.N.3.28; tis hēde mousa;
Mousa , Apollyon's Musical Worship Teams-Locusts
Dios aigiokhoio thugateres” [Daughters whatever the sex]

[1] MUSICIANS ARE 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
bios II. livelihood, means of living (in Hom. biotos)“, bios epēetanos” Hes.Op.31, Pi.N.6.10; ton bion ktasthai, poieisthai, ekhein apo tinos, to make one's living off, to live by a thing,
poieisthai 4. after Hom., of Poets, compose, write, p. dithurambon, epea,
write poetry, write as a poet, c. describe in verse, “theon en epesin

Plat. Laws 936c There shall be no beggar in our State; and if anyone attempts to beg, and to collect [synagogue] a livelihood by ceaseless [making Poieo meter, hymns] prayers,
--the market-stewards shall expel him from the market,
--and the Board of city-stewards from the city, and from any other district        
--he shall be driven across the border by the country-stewards,
--to the end that the land may be wholly purged of such a creature

Enchanter, Sorcerer

[2] MUSICIANS “adein [singers are] adokimon  mousa 
            adokimon   disreputable, discredited, reprobate,

[3] MUSICIANS They are from  Aidēs” Haidēs   Aidao domoisi in the nether world to the nether world, 2. place of departed spirits,
     2. gen. hadou with nouns in adjectival sense, devilish,
        “thuousan ha. mēter'” A.Ag.1235; “ha. mageiros”
thuousan Silenced in Romans 12 so that Worship is Spiritual, rational or teaching the Word, Logos, Regulative Principle only
[4] MUSICIANS are FOREORDAINED to this JUDGMENT and a "Locusts" chase the GODLY out.
        Jude.There.Should.Be.Mockers.in.the.Last.Time.html

[5] MUSICIANS MOCKED
     Worship.Androgyny.The.Pagan.Sexual.Ideal.html
     Jeanene.Reese.LGBT.MUST.be.Included.html

[6] MUSICIANS They Do NOT know God nor Christ
       2.John.1.9.The.Doctrine.of.Christ.html
2John 9 Whosoever transgresseth,
        and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God.
        He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ,
        he hath both the Father and the Son


ONLY APT OR BIBLE-LITERATE ELDERS ARE VOCATIONAL PASTOR-TEACHERS OF SCRIPTURE

James A. Harding, "The pastor is not a necessity. He is a FUNGUS GROWTH upon the church, the body of Christians, DWARFING its growth, PREVENTING its development of its members; and until the church GETS RID of him it will NEVER prosper as it should. In the Bible we can find all the necessities.

"I can testify from my own observation that a good eldership will lose its efficiency, and its members become both UNABLE and UNWILLING to do the work of elders, in a very few years after the employment of a pastor. And if under the pastor system a good eldership has ever developed, I have never seen or heard of the case. I don't believe that has or ever will be done." --  Gospel Advocate, May 20, 1885

1Tim. 5:17 Let the ELDERS that rule well be counted worthy of double honour,
        especially they who labour in the WORD and DOCTRINE.
TItus 1:6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife,
        having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Titus 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God;
        not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
Titus 1:8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
Titus 1:9 Holding fast the faithful word AS HE HATH BEEN TAUGHT t,
        that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
Titus 1:10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers,
        specially they of the circumcision:

1Tim. 5:[17] qui bene praesunt presbyteri duplici honore digni habeantur maxime qui laborant in verbo et doctrina
1 Timothy 5:17 hOi kalōs proestōtes presbuteroi diplēs timēs axiousthōsan, malista hoi kopiōntes en logō kai didaskalia
kop-iaō  II.   work hard, toil, Ev.Matt.6.28, etc.; “meth' hēdonēs k.” V
prae-sum    to be before a thing; hence, to be set over, to preside or rule over, to have the charge or command of, to superintend to have charge of it, to carry it on, id. ib. 3, 61: “ei studio,”
stŭdĭum , ii, n. studeo, ego de studiis dicam cognoscendi semper aliquid atque discendi?”
“doctrinae,” id. Rosc. Am. 16, 46; id. Balb. 1, 3: “dicendi,” id. de Or. 2, 1, 1: “scribendi,” id. Arch. 3, 4: “nandi,” Tac. H. 4, 12: “scribendi,” Plin. Ep. 1, 13, 5: vitae studium, way of life,
B. Application to learning or studying, study; in the plur., studies (very freq.; also in Cic.; cf.: “studeo and studiosus): pabulum studii atque doctrinae,
(b). A place for study, a study, school (late Lat.): “philosophum (se egit) in omnibus studiis, templis, locis,”

Matt. 23:34  Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and SCRIBES:
        and some of them ye shall kill and crucify;
        and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues,
        and persecute them from city to city:

 : “oratio dicta [SPEAK] de scripto,”  Tac. A. 15, 25 fin.—In eccl. Lat. as a formula of quotation from the Scriptures: “scriptum est,” i. e. it is said in Holy Writ, Vulg. Matt. 4, 4; id. Luc. 19, 46; id. Rom. 11, 8

Matthew 4.4 But he answered, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone,
         but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'" 
Luke 19:[46] saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!"

Romans 11.8 According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day."
presbytĕrĭum , ĭi, n., = πρεσβυτέριον,
1 Tim 4:I  a presbytery, assembly of elders, August. ap. Hier. Ep. 116, 33 fin.; Vulg. 1 Tim. 4, 14.
14] Don't neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.

hŏnor or hŏnos    1 Public honor, official dignity, office, post, preferment (cf. munus): Out of respect, in order to show honor (class.): “A. [select] Concr., any thing given as a mark of honor, an honorary gift, a reward, acknowledgment, recompense, fee; a sacrifice; funeral rites; a legacy,
ti_maō honour, revere, reverence (in this sense the Med. is used only by Hom.); of the honour rendered to superiors, as by men to gods, by men to their elders, rulers, or guests, GIFTS

Exodus 1012] "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
1Tim. 5:18 For the scripture saith,
        Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn.
        And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
MUZZLE in-frēno (infraen- ), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,
I.   to put on a bridle.
I.   Lit., to furnish with a bridle, to bridle: “equos,” Liv. 37, 20, 12; cf.: “non stratos, non infrenatos equos habere, ib. § 4: currus,” to harness the horses to a chariot, Verg. A. 12, 287: “infrenati manipli,” on bridled horses, Sil. 4, 316

ŏpĕrārĭus , a, um, adj. opera, I. [select] of or belonging to labor (class.): “homo,” Cic. Att. 7, 2, 8: “pecus,”
merces
phim-ōsis , eōs, ,
A.  muzzling, silencing, of death,
1Tim. 5:19 Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.
1Tim. 5:20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
1Tim. 5:21 I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels,
        that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
1Tim. 5:22 Lay hands suddenly on no man,
        neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure.



GRACE MEANS GRATUITUS NEVER FILTHY LUCRE FOR THOSE OVER THE HOUSE OF GOD.

GOD IS THE FATHER OVER HIS OWN HOUSE OR FAMILY.  GOD DOES NOT TOLERATE IMPORTING A FATHER, PATER OR TEACHER OF HIS FAMILY

1Pet. 5:1The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
1Pet. 5:2 FEED the flock of God which is among you,
        taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly;
        NOT FOR FILTHY LUCRE , but of a ready mind;

aiskhro-kerdēs greedy for gain.
Hdt. 1.187 If any king of Babylon in the future is in need of money, let him open this tomb and take as much as he likes: but let him not open it unless he is in need; for it will be the worse for him.”----
     [5] After opening the tomb, he found no money there, only the dead body, with writing which read: “If you were ever satisfied with what you had and did not disgrace yourself seeking more, you would not have opened the coffins of the dead.”

Eur. Andr. 451 Andromache 445] Dwellers in Sparta, most hateful of mortals in the eyes of all mankind, wily plotters, masters of the lie, weavers of deadly contrivance, with thoughts that are always devious, rotten, and tortuous, how unjust is the prosperity you enjoy among the Greeks!

Andoc. 4 32
It is the spendthrift, with his endless wants, who stoops lowest to fill his pockets. In fact, it will be a public disgrace, if you show tolerance towards a man who has achieved his success only with the help of your money
lū^crum   lucro est, it is profitable, advantageous, A. Love of gain, avarice: B. Wealth, riches: “omne lucrum tenebris alta premebat humus,”
prothu_mos     ready, willing, eager,  bearing goodwill, wishing well, devoted
“manthanein” Plat. Lach. 201b
The fasting peasant, who, in gain of gold,
Will sell his little all! And now the hills

Plat. Lach. 201b to go to school at our time of life, I think we should appeal to Homer, who said that ““shame is no good mate for a needy man.””Hom. Od. 17.347 So let us not mind what anyone may say, but join together in arranging for our own and the boys' tuition.

Lysimachus
I gladly approve of your suggestions, Socrates; and as I am the oldest, so I am the most eager to have lessons with the young ones. Now this is what I ask you to do:

GRATUITUS adj. GRATIA done without pay, not for reward, free, spontaneous, voluntary, gratuitous : iiberalitas: amicitia: suffragia spontaneous , L.: crudelitas, unprovoked , L.: praeterita parricidia, in vain , L.

grātĭa   favor, esteem, regard, liking, love, friendship, partiality “gratis dare alicui (OPPOSITE. pretium accipere ab aliquo),
Opp. for payment:
(OPPOSITE pretium

            pretium
 
  a price, money value, value in exchange 

SPIRIT produces WORDS of God only




GOD IS NOT WORSHIPPED BY HANDS OF MEN: THE BEAST SO IS WORSHIPPED.

Acts.17.25.God.Not.Worshipped.Mens.Hands.html

Acts 17:25 Neither is WORSHIPPED with MEN'S HANDS hands,

        as though he NEEDED any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

g2323. THERAPEUO, ther-ap-yoo΄-o; from the same as 2324; to wait upon menially, i.e. (figuratively) to adore (God), or (specially) to relieve (of disease): — cure, heal, worship.

-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

thera^p-euō   to be an attendant, do service Dionuson, Mousas, E.Ba.82     “daimona , etc.; “daimona” Pi.P.3.109, IT1105(lyr.); th. Phoibou naous serve them, Id.Ion111 (anap.): abs., worship,
thera^p-eia   I. of persons, th. tōn theōn service paid to the gods  worship of Apollo Agyieus, E.Ion187;
2. service done to gain favour, paying court,   worshipper, “Apollōnos” Pi.O. 3.16, cf. Pl.Phd.85a 
“Mousaōn “kanakhan [clanging brass, gnashing of teeth, . . theias antiluron mousas”   aulōn sound of flutes, of the lyre,
theias  etheiazon obtained inspiration through ritual A.to be inspired, frenzied

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HOWEVER: IN FULFILLING PROPHECY THE FEMINIST IN CONTROL AS ISAIAH 3 PROMISES asserts that Adam served the EARTH as a FEMALE.

The BEAST from the EARTH exerciseth all the POWER of the first BEAST before him,
        and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein
        to WORSHIP the first BEAST, whose deadly wound was healed. Rev. 13:12
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Revelation 13 12 kai tēn exousian tou prōtou thēriou pasan poiei enōpion autou. kai poiei tēn gēn kai tous en autē katoikountas hina proskunēsousin to thērion to prōton, hou etherapeuthē plēgē tou thanatou autouplague

Worship
Thera^p-euō   II.   do service to the gods, athanatous, theous th., Hes.Op.135, Hdt.2.37, X.Mem.1.4.13, etc.; “daimona” Pi.P.3.109; Dionuson, Mousas, E.Ba.82 (lyr.), IT1105(lyr.); th. Phoibou [“Apollon”] naous serve them, Id.Ion111 (anap.): abs., worship, Lys.6.51; do service or honour to one's parents, E.Ion183 (lyr.), Pl.R.467a, Men.91a; serve, wait upon a master, Id.Euthphr.13d, cf. Ar.Eq.59, 1261, etc.; th. tas thēkas reverence men's graves, Pl.R.469a.
APOLLYON- Phoebus , i, m., = Phoibos (the radiant), I. a poetical appellation of Apollon as the god of light: “quae mihi Phoebus Apollon, Val. Fl. 1, 228: “Circe,” [CHURCH AS WORSHIP CENTER] daughter of Sol, Petr. 135

Phoebus , i, m., = Phoibos (the radiant), I.a poetical appellation of Apollo as the god of light: “quae mihi Phoebus Apollo, Val. Fl. 1, 228: “Circe,” daughter of Sol, Petr. 135
B. Phoe-bēus , a, um, adj., Phœbean, Apollinean: “carmina,” Lucr. 2, 504: “lampas,” the sun, Verg. A. 4, 6: “virgo,” Daphne, Ov. P. 2, 2, 82: “laurus,” id. Tr. 4, 2, 51: “Rhodos,” where the worship of Apollo prevailed, id. M. 7, 365: “lyra,” id. H. 16, 180: “sortes,” oracle, id. M. 3, 130: “tripodes,” id. A. A. 3, 789: “Phoebeā morbos pellere arte,” id. F. 3, 827
Female Worship Leater C. Phoebas , ădis, f., a PRIESTESS of Apollo; hence the inspired one, the PROPHETESS Ov. Am. 2, 8, 12; id. Tr. 2, 400; Luc. 5, 128; 165.



The QUESTIONING in WHAT THE LAW SAYS many times, is CHALLENGING the READ-ONLY text in the same way that Miriam that did.  She and the Levite PROPHESING with instruments is defined as Soothsaying often defined as SORCERY. As a defacto princess she would be a priestesses of Hathor and Primary Parasite or first speaker.  That is why the SILENCE word used of women is used of ALL MEN Because there is ONE GOD and ONE MEDIATOR, the MAN Jesus Christ.

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Oracle-Monger

“But when the wolves and the white crows shall dwell together between Corinth and Sicyon ...”
Korinthos  II.  son of Zeus, reputed founder of Corinth, Paus.2.1.1: prov., Dios Korinthos, used of persons who are always repeating the same old story, Pi.N.7.105, cf. Ar.Ra. 443, Ec.828, Pl.Euthd.292e.
Plat. Euthyd. 292e since we have discredited all the business commonly called politics, and it is merely a cas of the proverbial “Corinthus Divine”1; and, as I was saying, we are equally or even worse at fault as to what that knowledge can be which is to make us happy.
1 Cf. Pind. N. 7. Megara, a colony of Corinth, revolted, and when the Corinthians appealed to the sentiment attaching to Corinthus, the mythical founder of Megara, the Megarians drove them off taunting them with using a “vain repetition.
elegos , ho,
A. [select] song, melody, orig. accompanied by the flute, cf. aluros e. E.Hel.185 (lyr.), IT146 (lyr.);
nomos [law] aulōdikos, derived from e e legein, to cry woe! woe!
“Corinthus Divine” dios    of goddesses, “dia thea”  “daimona dion” Hes.Th.991. dia gunaikōn noblest of women,
Hes. Th. 991  [965] Now sing the company of goddesses,
        sweet-voiced Muses of Olympus, daughter of Zeus who holds the aegis,—
        even those deathless ones who lay with mortal men and bore children like gods.
when he was a young boy in the tender flower of glorious youth with childish thoughts,
        laughter-loving Aphrodite [990] seized and caught up and made a keeper of her shrine by night,
        a divine spirit. And the son of Aeson by the will of the gods led away from Aeetes the daughter of Aeetes the heaven-nurtured kin

Pisthetaerus
But how do the Corinthians concern me?

Oracle-Monger
[970] It is the regions of the air that Bacis indicates in this manner.

Pisthetaerus
This oracle in no sort of way resembles the one Apollo dictated to me: “If an impostor comes without invitation to annoy you during the sacrifice and to demand a share of the victim, [985] apply a stout stick to his ribs.” “They must first sacrifice a white-fleeced goat to Pandora, and give the prophet who first reveals my words a good cloak and new sandals.”


Religious Brainwashing
Time Magazine Endorphins.Music.Brain.html
Musical Worship Teams Pushing drugs

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Scientific American: The Power of Music: Mind Control by Rhythmic Sound

Jude warns against turning away from SCRIPTURE and repeating the prophesied Mount Sinai Instrumental-Trinitarian-Perverted PLAY

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Jude 16 These are
murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having mens persons in admiration because of advantage.

-Goēs , ētos, ho, A. sorcerer, wizard, Phoronis 2, Hdt.2.33,4.105, Pl.R. 380d, Phld.Ir.p.29 W.; “g. epōdos Ludias apo khthonos” E.Ba.234, cf. Hipp.1038; prob. f.l. for boēsi Hdt.7.191.

-Epōd-os , on, (epadō
A. singing to or over, using songs or charms to heal wounds, “epōdoi muthoi” Pl.Lg.903b.
b. Subst., enchanter, “e. kai goēs” E.Hipp. 1038 (but “goēs e.” Ba.234): c. gen., a charm for or against, “ethusen hautou paida epōdon Thrēkiōn aēmatōn” A.Ag.1418 ; e. tōn toioutōn one to charm away such fears, Pl.Phd.78a.
c. c. dat., assisting, profitable, “e. gignesthai neois pros aretēn” Id.Lg.671a ; “duspraxia lēphtheis e. esti peirōmenō” Trag.Adesp.364.4.
2. Pass., sung to music, “phōnai” Plu.2.622d ; fit for singing, “poiētikēn e. parekhein” S.E.M.6.16.

Plato, Euthydemus
[289e] For not only do these speech-writers themselves, when I am in their company, impress me as prodigiously clever, Cleinias, but their art itself seems so exalted as to be almost inspired. However, this is not surprising; for it is a part of the SORCERERS's art, epōdōn tekhnēs
Latin 289e:  kai mentoi ouden thaumaston: [LYING WONDERS] esti gar tēs tōn epōdōn tekhnēs morion mikrō te ekeinēs hupodeestera.

-epōdē , Ion. and poet. epa^oidē , , A.song sung to or over: hence, enchantment, spell, BURDEN
ou pros iatrou sophou thrēnein epōdas pros tomōnti pēmati
of the Magi, Hdt.1.132
  oute pharmaka..oud' au epōdai” Pl.R. 426b ; thusiai kai e. ib.364b ;
charm for or against.., “toutōn epōdas ouk epoiēsen patēr” A.Eu.649.

epōd-os , on, (epadō
A.singing to or over, using songs or charms to heal wounds, “epōdoi muthoi” Pl.Lg.903b.
muthos
  Opposite LOGOS.
“muthoisin skoliois” or Crooked Sermos
2. fiction (opp. LOGOS, historic truth)

MANY SCHOLARS HAVE NOTED THAT FEMINIST THEOLOGY PROMOTES THE 'TRINITY' AND 'INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC.'  HITLER NOTED THAT AS A WAY TO STEAL THE KINGDOM.

Huxley.The.Devils.of.Loudun Without an understanding of man's deep-seated urge to self-transcendence, of his very natural reluctance to take the hard, ascending way, and his search for some bogus liberation either below or to one side of his personality,
        we cannot hope to make sense of our own particular period of history or indeed of history in general,
        of life as it was lived in the past and as it is lived today.
For this reason I propose to discuss some of the more common Grace- substitutes,
        into which and by means of which men and women
         have tried to escape from the tormenting consciousness of being merely themselves.

Everyone now knows how to read and everyone consequently is at the mercy of the propagandists, governmental or commercial, who own the pulp factories, the linotype machines and the rotary presses.

Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of newspapers;
        treat them to amplified band music, bright lights,
        and the oratory of a demagogue who (as demagogues always are)
        is simultaneously the exploiter and the victim of herd-intoxication,

and in next to no time you can reduce them
        to a state of almost mindless subhumanity.

Never before have so few been in a position
        to make fools, maniacs or criminals of so many.
       
Intimately associated with the ecstasy-producing rite of rhythmic movement
        is the ecstasy-producing rite of rhythmic sound.
Music is as vast as human nature and has something to say to men and women on every level of their being,
        from the self-regardingly sentimental to the abstractly intellectual,
        from the merely visceral to the spiritual.
In one of its innumerable forms music is a powerful drug,
        partly stimulant and partly narcotic
, but wholly alterative.
No man, however highly civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming,
        or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn-singing,
        and retain intact his critical and self-conscious persona





Self-Exhibition or Musical Religion has always be a Gender MARK:

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Sarah.Barton.Song.of.Solomon.html
Mike.Cope.2017.PBL.Hieros.Gamos.html

Laura Buffington SEX and SALVATION: the Song of Solomon or the Hieros Gamos.
Laura Buffington: With sex playing such a prominent role in the art and life of our culture, the church would be wise to reclaim the metaphor of sex as salvation. Making the whole story of our lives about the salvation found in physical intimacy is to miss the grander picture of intimate salvation promised to Beloved Humanity by God the Lover. 
   With sex playing such a prominent role in the art and life of our culture, the church would be wise to reclaim the metaphor of sex as salvation. Making the whole story of our lives about the salvation found in physical intimacy is to miss the grander picture of intimate salvation promised to Beloved Humanity by God the Lover.

    Hollywood did not invent the concept of mixing sex and salvation, and was not the first to hijack the metaphor. Ancient fertility cults and Eastern religions have been mixing sex and salvation for a very long time.


Mystical Eroticism Pg 59.The worship of Aphrodite in Greece and Astartis (Ishtar) in Mesopotamia involved ritual prostitution.  Under Canaanite influence, this same abominable practice was introduced into Israel.. 1 Kings 15:12; 1 Kings 22:47; 2 Kings 23:7. . . being a gay man or lesbian entails far more than sexual behavior alone . . . [it entails] a whole mode of being-in-the-world.

Lamenting for Tammuz in Ezekiel
 
Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi or Tammuz in Ezekiel 8

WOE: 
for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath,  because he knoweth that he hath but a short TIME  [kairon  ekhei ETHOS.’] Rev. 12:12  
diabolos


Worship cannot be PERFORMED by preaching, listening, singing, playing instruments, acting or the great swindle of PAY FOR PLAY.  Worship is individual, cannot be performed by a group. Worship is falling on your face IF you grasp the meaning of God or demon.

Not even David ever WORSHIPPED by playing an instrument. He would not be qualified to make a great noise when the Jews burned goats or infants.

The assembly is PROPHETIC in Genesis 39 and is based on SHILOH or REST.  Jesus die to give us REST so that we can "Come outside, Rest and LEARN OF ME."


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Worship of the Pagan God was always, as at Mount Sinai, Instrumental-Trinitarian-Perverted. Any self exhibition is a real or literal gender confusion.

 


By 2010 Russ Adcox declared himself as:

Russ Adcox:  1) Why did you include the senior minister position with the elders? The reason I included this position as a restriction is because in many churches (including Maury Hills) the senior minister operates in a very similar capacity as an elder in that he provides authoritative teaching and oversees the affairs of the church. In our context, the elders have delegated a good deal of authority to me in regards to preaching/teaching, leading the staff, overseeing the daily operations/ministry of the church, having a vote in key decisions, etc.

Contrary to JESUS:
Rom. 15:8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the TRUTH of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
 
Diakonos to Run errands, an attendant, a waiter, menial duties

Contrary to All Christians:

1Tim. 4:6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things,
        thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ,

        nourished [FED] up in the WORDS of faith and of good DOCTRINE,
        whereunto thou hast attained.

The Word or Logos repudiates Hermes or Kairos as the messenger of God. The Logos outlaws personal opinions, personal experiences, rhetoric, singing, Playing instruments or acting.

Those who reject the Logos or Regulative Principle stated exclusively by the Prophets and Apostles is ANTI Christs and ANTI God..

The Elders as the only Pastor-Teachers and the Deacons who understand the mysteries of THE FAITH or THE LOGOS have only one role: to bring that Word to the remembrance of the Ekklesia as a School (only) of the Word or Regulative Principle (only). Ephesians 4 dismisses cunning craftsmen or sophists who are speakers, singers or instrument players. By definition they WILL NOT be in a Christian Assembly because THEY ARE LYING IN WAIT TO DECEIVE.

There is no Role and no Dole for a Senior minister or Servant.  The only speaking job where speak is the opposite of ODE is:

1Pet. 4:11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; [CENI]
         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.

THIS IS A MARK:

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

John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of i

The Devil is violently active because he knows that his time or KAIROS is Short.
 
"He comes at critical or dangerous moment Like Hermes [Who makes the thief, protector of thieves] , he has wings in his feet to fly with the wind.Caerus is sometimes considered a daimon spirit rather than a God due to his aggressive nature towards humans. He sought to drink their blood, killing many to do so. Kairos or Caerus is the yougest son of Zeus:

Now as the new spawn pronounces Je-Zeus to fool you. But once he has passed by, no one can grasp him, the back of his head being bald. The Always "mother goddess" name is Occasio.  As a sign to men that I am sharper than any sharp edge."



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Kairos the Demon Son of Zeus in all paganism referenced by Scripture

Dt 18:9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee,
        thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
Dt 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that
        maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire,
        or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

hărĭŏlus  soothsayer, prophet, prophetess
somnĭo , to dream; to dream of or see in a dream, to dream, i. e. to think idly or vainly, to talk foolishly:
psaltrĭa , ae, f., = psaltria, . a female player on the cithara, a lutist, “ineptias,” Col. 1, 8, 2: “ah stulte! tu de Psaltriā me somnias Agere,” Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 6; Plaut. Pers. 2, 3, 5Absol.: “vigilans somniat
“portenta non disserentium philosophorum sed somniantium,” Cic. N. D. 1, 8, 18.

Deut. 18:11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer

Amos 5:26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images,
        the STAR of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

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

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The Babylon Mother of Harlot rises again and uses lusted after fruits (Same as in Amos 8) as speakers, singers, instrument players and ANY religious craftsmen always called like the Levite's SORCERERS and PARASITES.  In Revelation 18 John says that they are sorcerers who HAD once deceived the whole world.  That is the justification for them to be CAST ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. Christ in Isaiah uses the practices of the Jews as their anticipated punishment.

Jude 3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation,
        it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you
        that ye should earnestly contend
        for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

Jude 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares,
        who were before of old ordained to this condemnation
,
        ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness,
        and denying the ONLY Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.  [Trinitarians are called antichrists by John]
Jude 5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this,
        how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt,
        afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Jude 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate,
         but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains
        under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Jude 7 Even as Sodom [earthly Jerusalem] and Gomorrha,
        and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication,
        and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example,
        suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

A Charmer is an Abomination: This was outlawed for the Church of Christ (the Rock) in the wilderness as "vocal or instrumental rejoicing or speaking your own words.

incantātor , ōris, m. incanto, I. an enchanter, wizard (

consŭlo (a). In the lang. of religion, to consult a deity, an oracle, omens, etc.: “Apollinem de re,” Cic. Leg. 2, 16, 40: “deum consuluit auguriis, quae suscipienda essent,” Liv. 1, 20, 7: “deos hominum fibris,” Tac. A. 14, 30 fin.: “Phoebi oracula,” Ov. M. 3, 9; Suet. Vesp. 5: “Tiresiam conjectorem,” Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 76:

Cantus A. Prophetic or oracular song: “veridicos Parcae coeperunt edere cantus,” Cat. 64, 306; cf. Tib. 1, 8, 4
B. An incantation, charm, magic song, etc.: cantusque artesque magorum.
“cantus e curru Lunam deducere tentat,”
2. With instruments, a playing, music: “in nervorum vocumque cantibus,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 2, 4; id. Rosc. Am. 46, 134: “citharae,” Hor. C. 3, 1, 20: “horribili stridebat tibia cantu,” Cat. 64, 264: “querulae tibiae,”
What is never taught to those "among the scholars" or they deliberately lie about the music issue.
Amos 5:23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs;
        for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
Amos 5:24 BUT [INSTEAD] let judgment run down as waters,
        and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Amos 5:25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness
         forty years, O house of Israel?
Amos 5:26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images,
        the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,
         saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.

This is a picture of the instrumental worship at Jerusalem and Mount Gerizim just before and just after Russ and David claim that God commanded them to impose instrumental Worship. Perhaps He did:
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?
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Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into
        captivity beyond Damascus,
        saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
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.

Isaiah 30 has the Spirit OF Christ saying that the Jews and their Assyrian worship

And his
breath [SPIRIT], as rushing water [Free Word] 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

Judas  was a thief: his bag or box was
always attached to the spotted flute case.

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And God WATCHED the prophesied and fulfilled Musical Worship Team
Trumpet, drums, flute, cymbals and castinets with buffoons
Psallo permits ONLY smiting a string with your FINGERS: not a plectrum
Psallo and SOP have the same root meaning.
Mark.10.They.Shall.Mock.Him.With.Music

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AS PROPHESIED: one of my old "investments with the Lord"

Kairos insists that existing churches cannot keep up with the growth in my local area.  NEW churches must be established to replace the old ones defunct AC or after computers. In fact, anyone interested in obeying the command of Jesus to go TEACH and not plant neo-pagan worship centers would grasp that the whole county could be taught and "screened" by e-mail. One of the clients having abscounded with my "investment" with the lord had to move to another county. After sowing massive discord while claiming the office of Jesus as master teacher claims that instruments brought in about 150 new "audience." 

Giant frame drums were used in the temples of ancient Sumer, and Mesopotamian objects from about 3000 BC depict frame drums and small cylindrical drums played horizontally and vertically. Early Egyptian artifacts (c. 4000 BC) show a drum with skins stretched by a network of thongs.

Frame drums were played in the ancient Middle East (chiefly by women), Greece, and Rome and reached medieval Europe through Islamic culture. Their shape varies (round, octagonal, square, etc.), they may have one or two heads, and they may have attached jingles or snares.

Possibly of different origin are the frame drums used in the magico-religious ceremonies of shamans (a priest or priestess who uses magic for the purpose of curing the sick, divining the hidden, and controlling events) in Central Asia, the Arctic regions, and North America. Double-headed frame drums with enclosed pellets (found in India and Tibet) are known as rattle drums. https://www.britannica.com/art/drum-musical-instrument


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By 2010 Russ Adcox declared himself as:
Russ Adcox:  1) Why did you include the senior minister position with the elders? The reason I included this position as a restriction is because in many churches (including Maury Hills) the senior minister operates in a very similar capacity as an elder in that he provides authoritative teaching and oversees the affairs of the church. In our context, the elders have delegated a good deal of authority to me in regards to preaching/teaching, leading the staff, overseeing the daily operations/ministry of the church, having a vote in key decisions, etc.

Since Russ has the Authority of Christ and repudiates the direct Commands as just a cultural thingy, he is announcing the HIDDEN AGENDA to give the "wimmen" SOME authority not to exceed that of the Authoritative Teacher or elders.  This is the Purpose Driven Cult: get YOUR new property in order and THEN confess that WE gonna diver your money. Isn't that the cutest thing you have heard since the garden of Eden defining the SERPENT. 

WE made the decision to PERMIT women SOME  authority not to meet or exceed the authority of the Senior Minister (servant)

Maury Hills Church of Christ, Columbia: defines THE meaning of the SERPENT or the BEAST of Revelation.

Russ Adcox: Tonight in class we addressed the question of “is the use of instrumental music in worship wrong

Russ follows the PATTERNISM of the sellers of Snake Oil. You FIX the debate and make people think that they are not OURSIDE of the Grace which APPEARED to teach us AGAINST religious rituals.   Your are SAVED BY GRACE through FAITH but Russ doesn't tell you how you KNOW that you are saved (present perfect tense) by Grace.

RELIGIONISTS OUTSIDE OF GOD'S GRACE

Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this WORLD,
        according to the prince of the power of the air,
       
the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

Kosmos , ho,  natgural, II. ornament, decoration, esp. of women; “hieros k.”metaph., of ornaments of speech, such as epithetsto sing sweet songs of praise,
men in general, “phanerōson [FAMOUS] seauton k.” Ev.Jo.7.4, cf. 12.19; esp. of the world as estranged from God by sin, ib.16.20, 17.9, al., 1 Ep.Cor. 1.21, etc.
Jesus refused to PRAY for the World and God HIDES from the wise or Sophists which are speakers, singers, instrument players or actors to feel the need to HELP make certain that God doesn't fail them AGAIN.

sophos , ē, on, A. skilled in any handicraft or art, clever, Margites Fr.2; but in this sense mostly of poets and musicians, Pi.O.1.9, P.1.42, 3.113; en kithara s. E.IT1238 (lyr.all the en oiōnois, kithara, E. IT662, 1238 (lyr.) en oiōnois, kithara, E. IT662, 1238 (lyr.)
THIS IS WHAT SATAN HAD THE RIGHT TO OFFER JESUS
Hēdu^-melēs , A. sweet-singing, “khelidoi” Anacr.67, cf. Sapph.122(Comp.), Pi.N.2.25; sweet-sounding, “xoana” S.Fr.238, etc.: poet. fem., “hēdumeleia surigx” Nonn.D.29.287.

Surigx , iggos, , A. shepherd's pipe, Panspipe2. cat-call, whistle, hiss, as in theatres, Id.Lg.700c; cf. “surizō” 11.2, surigmos:—the last part of the nomos Puthikos was called surigges, prob. because it imitated the dying hisses of the serpent Pytho, Str.9.3.10. 3. mouthpiece of the aulos,  

First, you would want to define "worship." The only worship concept in the Prophets by the Spirit of Christ and in the Qahal, synagogue, Ekklesia or what we call "church" it too give attendance to the public reading of the Word in the Prophets and Apostles.

Jesus directly refuted the legalistic view that the kingdom has anything to do with "doubtful disputations" (Romans 15) or private opinions.  He said that the kingdom DOES NOT come with OBSERVATION: that means Religious Observations which He died to remove as the Laded Burden (arousal songs or a TAX not in time of war) and the godly people were never burdened on their rest day to perform ceremonial legalism.

THAT WHICH WAS OUTLAWED AS DEMON WORSHIP OR RELIGIOUS OBSERVATIONS

Moses promised another "prophet" like him as our last warning:

1Corinthians 10:6 Now these things were our examples,
         to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
1Corinthians 10:7 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.

Paizō  4. play on a musical instrument, h.Ap.206: c. acc., “Pan ho kalamophthogga paizōn” Ar.Ra.230; dance and sing, Pi. O.1.16. 5. play amorously, “pros allēlous”

"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).
Adding instrumental music on the REST day  at Mount Sinai violated a direct command which the people had refused to hear. The silence, says Moses and Paul, was that they were not permitted to READ or HEAR the word which was PREACHED by being READ. God ABANDONED them to worship the Starry host common to Egypt, Greece, Canaan and Babylon. God sentenced them to be returned "beyond Babylon" which means that musical idolatry after being saved by grace was WITHOUT REDEMPTION. There are many accounts which teach that Satan teaches th Youth how to form mixed-sex choirs, play instruments and the women wear apparel or clergy garb. This in all of the accounts causes a fall into sexual or homosexual worship rituals.

The Spirit OF Christ affirmed that the Jews fell without redemption BECAUSE of musical idolatry. Instruments are so evil because the SOUNDS created by the discovery of brass (the Serpent concept) was USED by evil men such as Jubal to claim that the GODS spoke through these sounds. They in fact have a drug-like power to disable your rational or spiritual mind.

Again, Christ in the wilderness defined the Church as a set-time-place to READ the Word of God and discuss it: even the Lord's Supper is a teaching or educating event.  Anything performed a religious observation or ritual is a sign of a DEAD BODY: that's when the ministry team will pick your bones and pick the purse of the widows.Latin:

Jesus Christ as the ONLY Paraclete or Holy Spirit (mind) of God will NOT be called into Hist temple by instrumental sounds.  That would maye the musicians (prophesiers) more powerful than Jesus.

Observātiō ōnis, observo, a watching, observance, investigation: observationes animadvertebant, your searches for evidence: siderumCircumspection, care, exactness: summa in bello movendo.

Religious observations are carefully crafted to take control of all of one's attention. That is the worship concept with is to be directed only to God.

Tendo: In the pagan religions they gave lots of attention to tuning or playing their musical  instruments: cornu,” “barbiton,” to tune, “tympana tenta tonant palmis, stretching out their bow strings. To shoot, to hurl.

(b). To exert one's self, to strive, endeavor (mostly poet.
b. n partic., to exert one's self in opposition, to strive, try, endeavor, contend   “adversus, etc.,” id. 34, 34, 1: “contra,
Lucr. 6, 1195: “tormento citharāque tensior,” [Tendo]
2. In partic.: “nervum tendere, in mal. part.,” Auct. Priap. 70; cf. Mart. 11, 60, 3.—Hence, tentus, a lecherous man,
ēlŏquĭum , ii, n. id..
I. In Aug. poets, and their imitators among prose writers, for eloquentia, eloquence, * Hor. A. P. 217; * Verg. A. 11, 383; Ov. Tr. 1, 9, 46; id. M. 13, 63; 322 al.; Vell. 2, 68, 1; Plin. 11, 17, 18, § 55
II. In late Lat., declaration, communication in gen., Diom. p. 413 P.; Mamert. Pan. Maxim. 9: “eloquia pulchritudinis,” fine words, Vulg. Gen. 49, 21; id. Prov. 4, 20 al.
Lucr. 6.1195  Signs of death from lack of water:
The heralds of old death. And in those months
Was given many another sign of death:
The intellect of mind by sorrow and dread
Deranged, the sad brow, the countenance
Fierce and delirious, the tormented ears
Beset with ringings, the breath quick and short

THE CHRISTIAN ANTITHESIS: Psallo never at any time or place in recorded history had any musical content: it means plucking with your fingers and NEVER with a plectrum.  It has the root of SOP meaning to grind or meditae on what you are eating.

1Timothy 4:13 Till I come, give attendance [adtende] to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

Exhortātĭo  an exhorting, exhortation, encouraging
(a). The fruits of study, works
(b). A place for study, a study, school (late Lat.): “philosophum (se egit) in omnibus studiis, templis, locis,”
Pagan THESIS: The persona of performing musicians is illustrated by Nero:
“studia ad voluptatem exercere,” id. ib. 6, 8, 6: “famam ex studiis petere,” id. ib. 6, 11, 3; Tac. A. 16, 4;

Tac. Ann. 16.4 First, he recited a poem on the stage; then, at the importunate request of the rabble that he would make public property of all his accomplishments (these were their words), he entered the theatre, and conformed to all the laws of harp-playing, not sitting down when tired, nor wiping off the perspiration with anything but the garment he wore, or letting himself be seen to spit or clear his nostrils. Last of all, on bended knee he saluted the assembly with a motion of the hand, and awaited the verdict of the judges with pretended anxiety. And then the city-populace, who
NERO COMPETES FOR PRIZES
were wont to encourage every gesture even of actors, made the place ring with measured strains of elaborate applause. One would have thought they were rejoicing, and perhaps they did rejoice, in their indifference to the public disgrace.
Christian ANTITHESIS

1Timothy 4:14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee,
        which was given thee by prophecy, [teaching]
        with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

2Timothy 1:6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God,
        which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.

If you claim that you have the gift of GOD (or gab) here is what you will do.

1Timothy 4:15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them;
        that thy profiting may appear to all.

3191.  meletao, mel-et-ah΄-o; from a presumed derivative of 3199; to take care of, i.e. (by implication) revolve in the mind: — imagine, (pre-)meditate.

Because never in recorded history did PSALLO relate in any sense to MUSICAL MELODY Paul intends that we SPEAK the Word of God and  sing and meditate on the Word of God.
Melet-aō , “tauta meleta” 1 Ep.Ti.4.15; esp. practise speaking, con over a speech in one's mind, “logaria dustēna meletēsas” D.19.255; “apologian” Id.46.1; also, deliver, declaim (cf. 11.5 b), “logous”

Logos 2. generally, account, reckoning, phunai ton hapanta nika l. excel
Opposite. ek tēs epagōgēs
Opposite. muthos, as history to legend, Ti.26e; “poiein muthous all' ou logous”
Opposite. epilogos,
Opposite. prooimion,
Opposite. phōnē, Arist.Pol.1253a14;
prose, Opposite. poiēsis,
Opposite. emmetra, ib.1450b15 (

l. pezoi, Opposite. poiētikē, D.H.Comp.6; Opposite. poiēmata, ib.15; “koina kai poiēmatōn kai logōn”
1Timothy 4:16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine;
        continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself,
        and them that hear thee.


Russ follows the Christian Church preacher and says that SILENCE gives him the right to NOT continue in the doctrine as it has been taught. Then YOU must just shut up.

There is no statute of limitations for the Great Commission which is limited to GO, preach, baptize and continue to teach what Christ in the Prophets and Jesus was the FINISHER of the prophetic teaching.
Lectĭo , ōnis, f. lego. I.  A gathering, collecting.
II. A reading, perusal; a reading out, reading aloud.
B. Transf. (abstr. pro contr.), that which is read, reading, text (post-class.)
“juris lectiones,” passages of the laws,

3191. meletaΏw meletao, mel-et-ah΄-o; from a presumed derivative of 3199; to take care of, i.e. (by implication) revolve in the mind: — imagine, (pre-)meditate.

Quint. Inst. 10 1.16 But the advantages conferred by reading and listening are not identical. The speaker stimulates us by the animation of his delivery, and kindles the imagination,
        not
by presenting us with an elaborate [p. 13] picture,
         but by bringing us into actual touch with the things themselves.

Russ Adcox: The class is called Got Questions and the format is such that people anonymously submitted questions at the first of the year and we’ve tried to answer one each week. The way we decided to tackle this question was by having an actual debate.
        I took the position that it’s wrong (even though I don’t actually believe it is)
        and one of our Shepherds took the position that it is not wrong.

The NACC has set up several such DEBATES:

  1. They use a PRO instrumentalist but still wants to wear the mask of being "ACappella" to "infiltrate and divert" and still get paid when there is no ROLE and no DOLE without fleecing the widows. Lucado and Atchley have been favorite stalking horses: both lied about all of the "instrumental" text and claim that God's ABANDONMENT of the Levites is THEIR "spirit" command to add instrumental praise whatever that may be.
  2. He debates a PRO instrumentalists from the NACC.
  3. They have their Professional Wrestling bout, get paid and the INSTRUMENTALISTS come out wearing the belt.

Since there are not one Command, example or remote inference in the whole Bible or pre-Reformation history of congregational singing WITH or WITHOUT and instrument, it would be honest if he posted his data.

Since, Scripture ALWAYS asssociates singers with instruments as performing soothsaying (the Levites) or the speakers, singers and instrument players of the Babylon Mother of Harlots whom John calls SORCERERS [rev 17-18], one wonders why that constitutes SILENCE.

Aristotle Politics notes of music:

For it is not easy to say precisely what potency it possesses, nor yet for the sake of what object one should participate in it--whether

1. for amusement and relaxation, as one indulges in sleep and deep drinking (for these in themselves are not serious pursuits but merely pleasant, and 'relax our care,' as Euripides says;

owing to which people actually class music with them and (sleep and deep drinking) employ all of these things,  sleep, deep drinking and music, in the same way, and they also place dancing in the same class); (Aristotle isn't kind) [Music INCLUDES dancing]

2. or whether we ought rather to think that music tends in some degree to virtue (music being capable of producing a         certain quality of character
        
just as gymnastics are capable of producing a certain quality of body,
         
music accustoming men to be able to rejoice rightly);
3. or that it contributes something to intellectual entertainment and culture (for this must be set down
        as a
third alternative among those mentioned).
       
Now it is not difficult to see that one must not make amusement the object of the education of the young;
        for amusement does not go with learning--learning is a painful process.
That is why it is OUTLAWED for the synagogue, ekklesia or A true Church of Christ. You cease to be a CHRISTIAN assembly when you decide that you can impose what Jesus did NOT teach.

[1339b][1] instead of learning to enjoy it rightly and be able to judge it when they hear others performing, as the Spartans do? for the Spartans although they do not learn to perform can nevertheless judge good and bad music correctly, so it is said. And the same argument applies also if music is to be employed for refined enjoyment and entertainment; why need people learn to perform themselves instead of enjoying music played by others?

And we may consider the conception that we have about the gods: Zeus does not sing and harp to the poets himself.

But professional musicians we speak of as vulgar people,
and indeed we think it not
manly to perform music, except when drunk or for fun.

Plat. Laws 936c There shall be no beggar in our State; and if anyone attempts to beg, and to collect a livelihood by ceaseless  [making Poieo meter, hymns] prayers, the market-stewards shall expel him from the market, and the Board of city-stewards from the city, and from any other district he shall be driven across the border by the country-stewards, to the end that the land may be wholly purged of such a creature. 

Plato Republic 3
True, he said. 
And therefore when any one of these pantomimic gentlemen, who are so clever that they can imitate anything, comes to us, and makes a proposal to exhibit himself and his poetry [hymns], we will fall down and worship him as a sweet and holy and wonderful being;
        but we must also inform him that in our State such as he are not permitted to exist; the law will not allow them.
And so when we have anointed him with myrrh, and set a garland of wool upon his head, we shall send him away to another city. For we mean to employ for our souls' health the rougher and severer poet or story-teller, who will imitate the style of the virtuous only, and will follow those models which we prescribed at first when we began the education of our soldiers.

Corrupt is Phtheiro to spoil, ruin by moral influences.

Russ Adcox: We both studied up on our positions, loaded up on Scripture, and let it fly!

Now that’s it over I feel very awkward. I didn’t like arguing with my brother, even though it was only pretend arguing. It still made me uncomfortable.

Fact: there is no command, example or remote inference that God's Covenant people ever CONGREGATED to hear preaching or sing congregationally with or without instruments.  They collected to REST, read and rehearse the Word. Christ OUTLAWED vocal or instrumental rejoicing. That would be a LAW only for the infantile who imagined that their antics were more important than hearing the Book of The Covenant for Spiritual formation and the Book of the Law to guard the people against breaking of any law of the Jacob-cursed and God-abandoned triibe of Levi. The Levites used instrumental noise to WARN any godly person that if they came NEAR any of the Worship of the Starry host the Levites were commanded to execute them: they were NOT musical worship ministers but under the King and commanders of the army who stole from the poor to support the Civil-Military-Clergy.

Probably no preacher trained in the post-modern ONCE Christian schools knows exactly WHY recorded history is on their side and SOWING OF DISCORD should teach the teachable.  However, the did not ATTACK: the posted papers out  of the NACC and their dupe are the ATTACK DOGS.

Russ Adcox: My attack plan was to throw out as much Scripture as possible,
make broad generalizations and absolute statements,
and accuse him of being all kinds of things (heretic, apostate, hypocrite, false teacher, etc.) So I did.
But I didn’t like it. I was surprised at how saying those things made me feel.

THIS STATEMENT DEFINES THE MEANING OF A HYPOCRITE: pretending to DEFEND something he DOES NOT BELIEVE. Of course, the best way to define AUTHORITY for sowing musical discord is to DEMONIZE those who just refused  to be as they say "Infiltrated and diverted." No doubt members of Maury Hills believes that there is NO defense for NOT letting instruments be imposed and furthermore as the ANTI-singing discorders use all of the RACA words to define the 2,000 historical faithfulness as the product of ignorant, southern, rednecks.  No one can have ever read the Bible "as is is written" and miss the fact that the Spirit OF Christ defined Tyre or Babylon as 'the singing and harp-playing prostitute in the garden of Eden" This is the LUCIFER principle.  This ends in Revelation where the Mother Goddess Whore is restored (Revelation 17). She uses lusted after fruits (same as in Amos) as self-speakers, singers and instrument players. John calls them SORCERERS who HAD deceived the whole world and would be cast alive into the Lake of Fire.

The foundational teachers were Bible teachers and not cherry pickers. They understood that the Church is built upon or educated by the Prophets and Apostles. Since ALL of the prophets repudiate and mark instruments as the CAUSE and SIGN that the leaders intended to STARVE the people of the Word:: clergy cannot tolerate a literate laity.

Mark 7:5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him,
        Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders,
        but eat bread with unwashen hands?
Mark 7:6 He answered and said unto them,
        Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written,
        This people honoureth me with their LIPS, but their heart is far from me.
Mark 7:7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me,
        teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. (songs, sermons)
Mark 7:8 For laying aside the commandment of God,
        ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups:
        and many other such like things ye do.
Mark 7:9 And he said unto them,
        Full well ye reject the commandment of God,
        that ye may keep your own tradition.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites for ye devour widows houses, and for a pretence make long prayer [HYMNS]: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. Matt 23:14

The Spirit OF Christ in the Prophets (missed that?) defined a hypocrite. The first meaning of a hypocrite is an orator or one who sees Godliness as a means of financial gain when the only ROLE is to teach that which HAS been taught and rebuke (shame) those who oppose it.
Ezekiel
Jesus
Isaiah 29
Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are

talking against thee
by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying,

Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the Lord. Eze 33:30 
Ye hypocrites (actors), well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, Matt 15:7 

This people draweth nigh unto me
with their mouth,
 
and honoreth me with their lips;
but their heart is far from me. Matt 15:8
Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. Is. 29:9

For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit
of deep sleep,
and hath closed your eyes:
the prophets and your rulers,
the seers hath he covered. Isa 29:10
My people come to you, as they usually do, and sit before you to listen to your words, but they do not put them into practice. With their mouths they express devotion but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain  Eze 33:31
Luke 16:14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Matt 15:9  
And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:Matt 15:10
 
But He spoke to them in parables and they couldn't understand
And the vision of all is become unto you
as the words of a book that is sealed,
which men deliver to one that is learned, saying,
Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: Isa 29:11
Indeed, to them you are nothing more 
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man;
And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, 
   Read this, I pray thee:
  and he saith, I am not learned. Isa 29:12
than one who sings love songs with a beautiful voice and plays (make melody on) an instrument well,

Chalal (h2490) khaw-lal';.. figurative to profane (a person, place or thing),.. (from 2485) to play the flute.. defile, eat (as common things), gather the grape thereof, take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, prostitute, slay

for they hear your words but do not put them into practice. Ez 33:32
but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. Matt 15:11

Koinoo (g2840) koy-no'-o; from 2839 [shared by all or several]; to make (or consider) profane (cer.): - call common, defile, pollute, unclean.

Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? Matt 15:12 
But he answered and said, Every plant [doctrine], which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Matt 15:13
Wherefore the Lord said,
Forasmuch as this people draw near me
   with their mouth
,
  
and with their lips do honour me,

Is. 29:20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
Luwc (h3887) loots; a prim root; prop. to make mouths at, i. e. to scoff; hence (from the effort to pronounce a foreign language) to interpret, or (gen.) intercede: - ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker, scorn
When all this comes true--and it surely will--then they will know that a prophet has been among them." Eze 33:33 
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind.
And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. [pit] Matt 15:14

Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols:the worm is spread under thee, and the maggots cover thee. Isaiah 14:11

Isaiah 14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

but have removed their heart far from me,

and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: Isa 29:13

Matt. 15:9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men

Jameson Fawcett Brown notes: Vulgate translates, "They turn thy words into a song of their mouths." heart goeth after covetousness--the grand rival to the love of God; therefore called "idolatry," and therefore associated with impure carnal love, as both alike transfer the heart's affection from the Creator to the creature.

In Galatians Paul defines these musical performers as practicing WITCHCRAFT because it intends to manipulate people 'beyond the sacred pages."

Galatians 5:11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision,
        why do I yet suffer persecution?
        then is the offence of the cross ceased.

Galatians 5:12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

A. Based on the words Paul uses pointed to the emasculated priests of the mother goddess, Paul intends to CUT OFF the musical performers in the same way the priests were made eunuchs:

First:
Apo-koptō
, a.ta gennētika, of eunuchs, Ph.1.89: abs., “apokekommenos” eunuch, LXXDe.23.1, cf.Luc.Eun.8:—Med., make oneself a eunuch, Ep.Gal.5.12, cf. Arr.Epict.2.20.19.

This would apply to the musical fall from grace at Mount Sinai:  the worship of the Mother Goddess allowed males to "perform the role of women." David's stola was worn by the office of prostitute and the Ephod was a phallic symbol which David cast off and went naked.

Deuteronomy 23.1 non intrabit eunuchus adtritis vel amputatis testiculis et absciso veretro ecclesiam Domini
The folly of Israel was common throughout history. An emasculated priest served as the DOGS of Cybele the Mother of the Gods.  The Babylon mother of harlots in Revelation 17 used these "lusted after FRUITS" as speakers, singers and instrument players (Rev 18).  Paul called the SORCERERS who HAD deceived the whole world.
Deuteronomy 23.1He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh.

Galatians 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like:
         of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past,
         that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Second:
3. esp. of voice or breath, cut short, “ton tou pneumatos tonon” D.H.Comp.14, cf. 22:—Pass., “apokekoptai tini phōnē” Plu.Dem.25, cf. Dsc.Eup.1.85.
Ton-os , o(, (teinō) 2. of sounds, raising of the voice, Aeschin.3.209,210, D.18.280, Phld.Lib.p.19 O., etc.: hence, a. pitch of the voice, Pl.R. 617b, Arist.Phgn.807a17, etc.; including volume, “tonoi phōnēs: oxu, baru, mikron, mega” X.Cyn.6.20; of a musical instrument, Plu.2.827b, etc.; diatonic scale,
3. esp. of voice or breath, cut short, “ton tou pneumatos tonon” D.H.Comp.14, cf. 22:—Pass., “apokekoptai tini phōnē” Plu.Dem.25, cf. Dsc.Eup.1.85
phōn-ē4. of sounds made by inanimate objects, mostly Poet., “kerkidos ph.” S.Fr.595; “suriggōn” (pipe) E.Tr.127 (lyr.); “aulōn”(flute) Mnesim.4.56 (anap.); rare in early Prose, “organōn phōnai” Pl.R.397a; freq. in LXX, “ ph. tēs salpiggos” (harp) LXX Ex.20.18; ph. brontēs ib. Ps.103(104).7; “ ph. autou hōs ph. hudatōn pollōn” Apoc.1.15.

Plat. Rep. 397a [397a]
“the other kind speaker, the more debased he is the less will he shrink from imitating anything and everything. He will think nothing unworthy of himself, so that he will attempt, seriously and in the presence of many, to imitate all things, including those we just now mentioned—claps of thunder, and the noise of wind and hail and axles and pulleys, and the notes of trumpets and flutes and pan-pipes, and the sounds of all instruments, and the cries of dogs, sheep, and birds; and so his style will depend wholly on imitation

Cut off the Organs of sound:
Organon , to/, (ergon, erdō) A. instrument, implement, tool, for making or doing a thing,
“polemika (war) hopla te kai organa” Pl.R.374d, cf. Lg. 956a
3. musical instrument, Simon.31, f.l. in A.Fr.57.1 ; ho men di' organōn ekēlei anthrōpous,Pl.Smp.215c ; aneu organōn psilois logois ibid., cf. Plt.268b ; “o. polukhorda” Id.R.399c, al.; “met' ōdēs kai tinōn organōn” Phld.Mus.p.98K.; of the pipe, Melanipp.2, Telest.1.2.

Ergon , 1. in Il. mostly of works or deeds of war, “polemēia e.” Il.2.338, al., Od.12.116 ; “ergon makhēs” Il.6.522
of Marsyas,

B. John Chrysostom understood Paul's message.

Chrysostom's Commentary on Galatians:

Galatians 5:1.-"With freedom did Christ set us free; stand fast therefore.115 ."
Ver. 12.
"I would that they which unsettle you would even cut themselves off." And he says well "that unsettle you."  "A man that is heretical after the first and second admonition refuse." (Tit. iii: 10) If they will,
let them not only be circumcised, but mutilated. Where then are those who dare to mutilate themselves; seeing that they draw down the Apostolic curse, and accuse the workmanship of God, and take part with the Manichees? ... 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
.

The evil spirit, ever delighting in slaughter, hath seduced them to crush the instrument, as if its Maker had erred, whereas it was only necessary to correct the unruly passion of the soul. How then does it happen, one may say, that when the body is pampered, lust is inflamed?

The speakers, singers and instrument players were sorcerers. They are called lusted after fruits which Amos used to define the emasculated clergy.

Those who emasculate a church by imposing instruments accuse those who refuse to participate of sowing discord. This is known as the Guilt Clause and the most profound of people who use lying wonders (theatrical-musical).

Russ Adcox: Even though they weren’t real, they felt real. I felt like a heel for taking such a caustic approach. At the end of class I made the disclaimer that I was simply playing a role and that I actually agreed with my opponent. But I still felt like I’d given Christianity a bad name.

Instead Russ is trying to give anyone who speaks the Truth about the use of "machines for doing hard work" a BAD NAME.

The sad reality is that I based my style on many of the articles/sermons I read in preparation for the debate. There has to be a better way to talk about this topic! And that was the main lesson I took from the class. Regardless of your position you MUST find a way to talk about it in a loving, humble way. The way of Christ demands no less.

God hates musicians in the holy places says Amos and He hates those who sow discord: no one has ever IMPOSED instruments without knowing that he was sowing discord.  The Purpose Driven Cult lets you REPLENISH the old owners with a new group.
  1. Jesus cast out the musical minstrels (flute players) like dung from His presence when healing the young girl.
  2. Jesus called the MEN of the clergy CHILDREN.  The Piped hoping that Jesus would lament and dance. This was the Dionysus "initiation" into the gay brotherhood which afflicts ALL such hoods.
  3. Jesus cast out the money changers--the collection plates were called trumpets.
  4. Under the rule of the Spirit OF Christ Jesus fulfilled the prophets who repudiate the Civil-Military-Clergy complex which defines an modern institute.
  5. Jesus pronounced WOE on the Scribes and Pharisees by calling them HYPOCRITES.  The Ezekiel 33 version names speakers, singers and instrument players ALL who work for money and have no intention of obeying the Word. The Scribes and Pharisees believed in or practiced the Law of Silence by composing their own songs and sermons and SELLING them by fleecing the widows.
Russ has never read a sermon or article which has not been PROMPTED by the NACC and the Stone-Campbell Movement getting pretty violent because the ANTI-instrumentalists REFUSE to let them invade and take over a happy congregation. You cannot get any more violent than to lie, cheat and steal the church houses of widows CLAIMING that God commanded instrumental praise when God commanded the LEVITES to stand guard as instrumental soothsayers or sorcerers to EXECUTE you if you come NEAR any of the NEVER-COMMANDED sacrificial system

A BETTER WAY is to quite defining as MINOR that which Scripture utterly condemns but Russ did not have any of those passages available. A better way would NOT deceive people with false teaching and a RIGGED DEBATE: sounds like professional wrestling.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that
YE present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
which is your reasonable service. Romans 12:1 
            
tēn logikēn latreian humōn:

First, the body of flesh must be sacrificed or burned up:
Thu^si-a , Ion. -, h(, (thuō) prop. A. burnt-offering, sacrifice, “en thusiēsi einai” Hdt.8.99;
Then, it is possible to engage in RATIONAL or SPIRITUAL worship:

Latin: Romans 12.1
obsecro itaque vos fratres per misericordiam Dei ut exhibeatis corpora vestra hostiamviventemsanctam Deo placentem rationabile obsequium vestrum
Rătĭōnābĭlis , e, adj. ratio (post-Aug.; = rationalis, which is in better use), I. reasonable, rational: he pure milk of reason, id. 1 Pet. 2, 2: “sententia vera et rationabilis,”
Sententĭa , ae, f. for sentientia, from sentio,
I. a way of thinking, opinion, judgment, sentiment; a purpose, determination, decision, will, etc.
I. Transf., of words, discourse, etc., sense, meaning, signification, idea, notion, etc.
1. In gen., a thought expressed in words; a sentence, period: dum de singulis sententiis breviter disputo

The direct command is to SPEAK that which is written for our learning. If you quit PREACHING the Word (only) by READING the Word then there sill be no division and BLINDING people to the Word.

Greek rational worship demands:

logi^k-os , ē, on, (logos)
A. of or for speaking or speech, merē l. the organs of speech, Plu.Cor.38:
logikē, , speech, Opposite. mousikē,
Opposite
phantasia” expressed in speech, cf. 71, al. 2. imagination, i.e. the re-presentation of appearances or images, primarily derived from sensation (cf. “aisthēsis” 11), hotan kath' hauto alla di' aisthēseōs parē tini to toiouton au pathos
c. creative imagination, “ph. sophōtera mimēseōs dēmiourgos” Philostr.VA6.19.

Iamblichus 3.8 OTHER MODES OF ENTRANCEMENT.
In regard to another kind of divination thou makest this statement, namely: "Others who understand themselves in other respects become divinely inspired through the fancy:4 some taking darkness as accessory, others employing certain potions, and others depending on singing and magic figures. Some are affected by means of water, others by gazing on a wall, others by the hypζthral air, and others by the sun or some other of the heavenly luminaries."

4. Greek, fantastikon (Phantasia, or imagination) is defined by Chrysippos and Plutarch as the faculty which reveals itself and its causes; phantastikon or fancy, the term here used, as a vain impulse of the mind with no real cause; phantaston as the imaginable, anything that may make an impression; phantasma, a phantom, an apparition.

Logos: II. possessed of reason, intellectual, “meros” Ti.Locr.99e, al.; “to l. zōon”    
        dianoētikai, Mind Opposite. ēthikai, Arist.EN1108b9.
        And:
        Ethi^k-os , A. “ēthos” 11) moral, Opposite. dianoētikos, Arist.EN1103a5,
        al.; ta ēthika a treatise on morals,
Logos: 2. dialectical, argumentative, hoi l. dialogoi
    logical, l. sullogismoi, Opposite. rhētorikoi, Rh.1355a13.
peri logikōn title of work, Opposite to phusikon, to ēthikon,
And Phusikos is the opposite of logikos
phu^sikos , ē, onA. natural, produced or caused by nature, inborn, native,
II. of or concerning the order of external nature, natural, physical, “ ph. epistēmē”
2. “ho ph.” an inquirer into nature, natural philosopher,
4. Adv. “-kōs” according to the laws of nature,
phu^sikos  is the Opposite of logikōs,
Logos , Opposite. kata pathos, Arist.EN1169a5 or personal experiences
Opposite matēn , Dor. mata_n ma^, Adv. random, balse, dreams
Opposite human reasoning.
Opposite muthos, as history to legend,
intelligent utterance,  Opposite phōnē, 3. any articulate sound,
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; freq. in LXX, “ ph. tēs salpiggos” LXX Ex.20.18; ph. brontēs ib. Ps.103(104).7;
Opposite inarticulate noise (psophos
psoph-os , also of musical instruments, lōtou, kitharas, E.Ba.687, Cyc.443; of a trumpet, Paus.2.21.3.
prose, Opposite poiēsis, Id.R.390a; Opposite. psilometria, Arist.Po.1448a11; Opposite. emmetra, l. touto tōn metrōn (sc. to iambeion)“
pezoi, Opposite poiētikē,

pezos , ē, on, (v. pous) : 2. of verse, unaccompanied by music, “kai peza kai phormikta” S.Fr.16 ; pezō goō: aneu aulou ē luras, without the lyre
2. without musical accompaniment (cf. 11.2), “pausai melōdous' alla p. moi phrason” . Pl.Sph.237a.

Matthew 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
373.  anapano, an-ap-ow΄-o; from 303 and 3973; (reflexively) to repose (literally or figuratively (be exempt), remain); by implication, to refresh: — take ease, refresh, (give, take) rest.
3973. pauo, pow΄-o; a primary verb (“pause”); to stop (transitively or intransitively), i.e. restrain, quit, desist, come to an end: — cease, leave, refrain.
Stop the:  Melōd-eō ,A. chant, sing, Ar.Av.226, 1381, Th.99:—Pass., to be chanted, “ta rhēthenta ē melōdēthenta” Pl.Lg.655d, cf. Chamael. ap. Ath. 14.620c; to be set to music, Cleanth. ap. Phld.Mus.p.98 K.; ta melōdoumena diastēmata used in music, Plu.2.1019a.
pauō , Il.19.67, etc. ;
Stop the: lupas ōdais p. E.Med.197 (anap.), etc. ; p. toxon let the bow rest, Od.21.279
Stop the: 2. c. acc. pers. et gen. rei, hinder, keep back, or give one rest, from a thing, p. Hektora makhēs, ponoio Akhilēa, Thamurin aoidēs,
Stop the: 3. c. pres. part., stop a person from  leave off doing . . , hoth' hupnos heloi, pausaito te nēpiakheuōn when he stopped playing
Stop the: later paēsomai ana-) Apoc.14.13
Stop the: of one singing or speaking, 17.359, Hdt.7.8.d : generally, Med. denotes willing, Pass. forced, cessation.
Stop the rhapsōd-os , o(, A. reciter of Epic poems, sts. applied to the bard who recited his own poem, professional reciters, esp. of the poems of Homer, Hdt.5.67, Pl.Ion 530c, etc.: also rh. kuōn, ironically, of the Sphinx who chanted her riddle, S.OT391
(Prob. from rhaptō, aoidē; Hes.Fr. 265 speaks of himself and Homer as en nearois humnois rhapsantes aoidēn, and Pi.N.2.2 calls Epic poets rhaptōn epeōn aoidoi:
Stop the orkheomai , 2. represent by dancing or pantomime,
III. Act. orkheō , make to dance (v. Pl.Cra.407a), is used by Ion Trag.50, ek tōn aelptōn mallon ōrkhēsen phrenas made my heart leap

Rev 14.13] I heard the voice from heaven saying, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them."

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