Speaking of the religious ritual
condemned by Amos and others we note that:
"The marzeah had an extremely long
history extending at least from the 14th century
B.C. through the Roman period. In the 14th century
B.C., it was prominently associated with the ancient
Canaanite city of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra), on the
coast of Syria...
The marzeah was a
pagan ritual that took the
form of a social and religious association... Some
scholars regard the funerary marzeah as a feast for--and with--deceased
ancestors (or Rephaim, a proper name in the
Bible for the inhabitants of Sheol)." (King, Biblical
Archaeological Review, Aug, 1988, p. 35, 35)
"These five
elements are: (1) reclining or relaxing, (2) eating
a meat meal, (3) singing with harp or other musical accompaniment, (4) drinking wine and (5) anointing
oneself with oil." (King, p. 37).
"Amos may have
referred to sacred vessels at the marzeah to
underscore its sacrilegious nature. At the same
time, he may be emphasizing their unusually large
capacity, in order to condemn the inordinate
drinking that was an integral part of the marzeah."
(King, p. 42, 43).
"The effect of
this demoralizing religion upon Hebrew society was
seen in the corruption of justice, in wanton and
luxurious living, and in the decay of social unity."
(Living Bible Ency., p. 87).
The rising up to play with
musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. The Agapae began as
a pagan festival. Early Christians adapted the Love
Feast as a way for the PROSPEROUS to feed the
DESTITUTE before they went to work. However, it was
abandoned because it was impossible to bear the name
of a pagan feast withoug the healthy "clouds without
rain" beginning to ride on the POOR.
The Battle of Baal and Yahm
- Aloud they
[summon the assembly of the gods/ do cry to those
near]. They invite
- the distant
ones/ those far away, to the assembly of `El
- they summon/do
cry: "`El remains seated
- [in his marzeah/banqueting
hall/among his cult-guests (dM)] . . .
- The shame of
the Eternal One/The shameful conduct of the
usurper . . .
- O gods, (to)
the house of your lord . . .
- [Who surely
travels (S)/lest he go (D/G) quickly/the Runner
will not walk (dM)] through the land, . . .
- who goes in the dust (of)
destruction/a mess of mud on the
ground . . .
Comments: Smith believes lines
7-8 should be interpreted "Either literally, as `El walking through the underworld,
- or an allusion
to `El being "dead drunk," or both
metaphorical,
- and ironic, as
the marzeah serves as the
setting
- for feasts for
the dead and for the living mourning the
dead (p. 145).
"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).
When Paul warned the Ephesians
"Don't get drunk with wine" the word is METHUEO. Note that the word
fluteIST or PsalmODIA was translated into
the Latin it included the word PARASITE.
Methuôn kai katauloumenos (Drinking and
overpowering with the flute.)
- Kat-auleô , charm by flute-playing, tinos Pl.Lg.790e, cf.
R.411a; tina Alciphr.2.1: metaph., se . . -êsô phobôi I will flute to you on a ghastly
flute, E.HF871
(troch.):--Pass., of persons, methuôn kai
katauloumenos drinking
wine to the strains of the flute,
Katauleô
- I. to play upon
the flute to, tinos Plat.:--Pass., of persons, to
have it played to one, id=Plat.:--Pass. to
resound
with flute-playing, Plut.
-
- II. c. acc.
pers. to overpower by flute-playing:--generally, to
overpower, strike dumb, Eur.
-
- II. in Pass.,
[ton monochordon kanona] parechein tais aisthêsesi
. . katauloumenon SUBDUED by a flute
accompaniment, Ptol.Harm.2.12: metaph., to be PIPED down, RIDICULED,
gelômenoi kai -oumenoi Anon. ap. Suid., cf.
Porph.Chr.34.
-
- I. to play upon
the flute to, tinos Plat.:--Pass., of
persons, to have it played to one,
id=Plat.:--Pass. to resound with flute-playing,
Plut.
- II. c. acc.
pers. to overpower by flute-playing:--generally, to overpower, strike dumb, Eur.
- Methuô
[methu] [only in pres. and
imperf.; the fut. and aor. act. belong to
methuskô]
-
- I. to be
drunken with wine, Od., etc.; m. hupo tou
oinou Under your Wine
- II. metaph.
of things, boeiê methuousa
aloiphêi an ox-hide soaked in oil, Il.
- 2. of persons,
to be drunken or intoxicated with passion, pride, etc., Xen.,
Plat.
- Katapsallô
,
2. Pass., to be buried to the sound of
music, Procop.Pers.2.23.
3. metaph., katapsalletai . . hodêmiourgosis
drummed out, Porph.Chr.34.
- Phobos , ho, ( [phebomai]
) A.panic flight, the usual sense in
Hom 2.Phobos personified, as son of Ares,
Il.13.299; Deimoste Ph. te11.37 , cf. 4.440, 15.119,
Hes.Th.934,
A.Th.45; worshipped at Selinus, Apollo
-
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if you clicked from above.
Only those not
driven mad (manomai) by wine which DEMANDED the
flute player to totally pipe down the person, could
they SPEAK to one another with THAT WHICH IS WRITTEN
and leave the SINGING and PLAYING in the heart.
In the book of
Revelation the WINE was not just intoxicants.
Rather, the Muses resurrected as LOCUSTS lulled the
people to sleep with music and instruments.
With: "methuôn kai katauloumenos drinking wine to the strains of the flute
- With whom the
kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants
of the earth have been made drunk with the wine
of her fornication. Re.17:2
Methuo
(g3184) meth-oo'-o; from another form of 3178; to
drink to intoxication, i.e. get drunk: - drink
well, make (be) drunk (-en).
- For all nations
have drunk of the wine of the wrath
of her fornication, and the kings of
the earth have committed fornication with her, and
the merchants of the earth are
waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. Re.18:3
-
- Rejoice over
her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and
prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. Rev
18:20
Babylon
is the prostitute religion of performance
preaching and music:
- And a mighty
angel took up a stone like a great
millstone, and cast it into the sea,
saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and
shall be found no more at all. Rev 18:21
-
- And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no
more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft
he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a
millstone shall be heard no more at all in
thee; Rev 18:22
When Samson has to
serve as a GRINDER in the king's house, he did not
grind barley. The grinders were concubines and prostitutes serving the king who
could afford them:
- And the light
of a candle (Truth, the Word, Amos 5) shall shine no more
at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom
and of the bride shall be heard no
more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the
great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations
deceived. Rev 18:23
Singers,
performers
- Trugôidos , ho, ( [trux, ôidê]
) prop. must-singer or lees-singer, = kômôidos,
Ar.V.650 (anap.), 1537; v. trugôidia.
- # kômôidos 1 [v. kômôidia]
a comedian, i. e.,1. a comic
actor
- # 2. a comic
poet,
Pharmakos
- I. a poisoner,
sorcerer, magician, NTest.II. one who is
sacrificed as an atonement for others, a scape-goat, Ar.; and, since worthless fellows were reserved for
this fate, pharmakos became a general
name of reproach,
Sophis-tês , ou, ho, master of one's craft,
adept, expert, of diviners, Hdt.2.49; of poets, meletan
sophistais prosbalon Pi.I.5(4).28 , cf.
Cratin.2; of musicians, sophistês . . parapaiôn chelun
A.Fr.314 , cf. Eup.447, Pl.Com. 140; sophistêi
Thrêiki (sc. Thamyris) E.Rh.924, cf.
Ath.14.632c: with mod
Sophos
I. properly, skilled in
any handicraft or art, cunning in his craft, Theogn., etc; of
a charioteer, Pind.; of poets and
musicians, id=Pind.; of a soothsayer, Soph., etc.
2. clever in
matters of common life, wise, prudent, shrewd, s. andres
Thessaloi shrewd fellows, the Thessalians! Hdt.;
polla sophos Aesch.; meizô sophian sophos Plat.,
etc.; tôn sophôn kreissô better than all craft, Soph.; sophon
[esti] c. inf., Eur.
Plato, The
Sophist
THEAETETUS,
according to our present argument, as it
seems, the art of hunting which is
appropriative, subduing, catches animals
alive, which are tame beasts, men, and
privately, paid in the money changer's trade,
teaches mere opinions, and has become a hunt
of rich and distinguished youth, must be
called, as our present argument concludes,
sophistry.
Or: "the part of appropriative, coercive,
hunting art which hunts animals, land animals, tame animals, man, privately, for pay, is paid in cash, claims to give education, and is a hunt after rich and promising youths, must--so our present argument
concludes---be called sophistry.
Playto,
Cratylus says
Soc. All of them sprang
either from the love of a God for a mortal woman,
or of a mortal man for a Goddess; think of the
word in the old Attic, and you will see better
that the name heros is only a slight
alteration of Eros, from whom the
heroes sprang: either this is the meaning, or, if
not this, then they must have been skilful as rhetoricians and
dialecticians, and able to put the question
(erotan), for eirein is equivalent to legein.
And therefore,
as I was saying, in the Attic dialect the heroes turn
out to be rhetoricians and questioners.
All this is easy enough; the noble breed of
heroes are a tribe of sophists
and rhetors. But can you tell me why men
are called anthropoi?- that is more
difficult.
Henry
George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English
Lexicon
Huperlian, Adv. beyond
measure, exceedingly, sophos Eust.1396.42; to hu.
Id.1184.18 ; hoi hu. apostoloi the 'super-Apostles', 2 Ep.Cor. 11.5,
12.11.
- Ophis a serpent, snake,
Izl., Hdt., Trag.:--metaph., ptênon ophin, of an
arrow, Aesch. [The first syll. is sometimes made
long, when it was pronounced (and perh. ought to
be written) opphis, v. ocheô.]
-
- And Apollo played upon the lyre (kitharisai) and the Muses upon
their flutes (aulesai), and the rest of the gods
spoke them fair and gave the pair their aid in the
celebration of the
wedding DIODORUS
SICULUS (DIOD. SIC.) V.49
-
- For it is through the Muses and far-shooting Apollo that [95] there are singers and harpers upon the earth; but princes are of Zeus, and happy is he whom the Muses
love: sweet flows speech from his mouth. For
although a man has sorrow and grief in his
newly-troubled soul and lives in dread because his
heart is distressed,yet,
when a singer,
[100] the servant of the Muses, chants the
glorious deeds of men of old and the blessed gods
who inhabit Olympus,at
once he forgets his heaviness and remembers not his sorrows at
all; but the gifts
of the goddesses soon turn him away
from these. Hesoid
Aeschylus, Eumenides
Enters from the inner sanctuary.
Apollo
Out, I order you! Go away from this house at once,
leave my prophetic sanctuary, [180] so
that you may not be struck by a winged
glistening snake1
shot forth from a golden bow-string, and
painfully release black foam, vomiting the clots of
blood you have drained from mortals.
[185] It is not right for you to
approach this house; no, your place is where the
punishments are beheading, gouging out of eyes,
cutting of throats, and where young men's
virility is ruined by destruction of seed;
where there is mutilation and stoning,
and where those who are impaled
beneath their spine moan long and piteously. [190] Do you hear
what sort of feast is your delight? You are detested
by the gods for it. The whole fashion of your form
sets it forth. Creatures like you should live in the
den of a blood-drinking lion, and not inflict
pollution on all near you in this oracular shrine. [195] Be gone, you
goats without a herdsman! No god loves such a flock.
1 The arrow sped from Apollo's gold-wrought string
is called a "winged glistening snake" because it stings like a serpent's
bite. There is also a latent word-play: ophis "snake" suggests ios
"snake's poison" which also means "arrow." ]
- Ophis
a serpent, snake, Il., Hdt., Trag.:--metaph.,
ptênon ophin, of an arrow, Aesch. [The first
syll. is sometimes made long, when it was
pronounced (and perh. ought to be written) opphis,
v. ocheô.
- A.opheos
E.Supp.703 , Ba.1026,
1331;
Dor. and Ion. ophiosHes.
Th.322 , Hdt.9.81,
Arat.82:--serpent, aiolosIl.12.208
; glaukôpapoikilonôtonophinPi.P.4.249
, cf.A.Ch.544,
S.Ph.1328,
Hdt.8.41,
Pl.Phd.112d,
R.358b,
etc.; hopsuchros o. Theoc.15.58;
equiv. to drakôn in Hes.Th.322,
825:
metaph., ptênonargêstênophin, of an
arrow, A.Eu.181.
- Hesiod,
Theogony
From the Heliconian Muses let us begin to sing,
who hold the great and holy mount of Helicon, and dance on soft feet
about the deep-blue spring and the altar of the
almighty son of Cronos, [5] and, when
they have washed their tender bodies in Permessus or in the Horse's Spring
or Olmeius, make their fair, lovely
dances upon highest Helicon and move with vigorous
feet. Thence they arise and go abroad by night, [10] veiled
in thick mist, and utter their song with lovely
voice, praising Zeus the aegis-holder, and queenly
Hera of Argos who walks on golden sandals,
and the daughter of Zeus the aegis-holder bright-eyed Athena, and Phoebus Apollo, and Artemis who delights
in arrows,
- [820] But when Zeus had driven the Titans from heaven, huge Earth bore
her youngest child Typhoeus of the love of Tartarus, by the aid of golden Aphrodite. Strength was with his
hands in all that he did and the feet of the
strong god were untiring. From his shoulders [825] grew
a
hundred heads of a snake, a fearful
dragon, with dark, flickering tongues, and from
under the brows of his eyes in his marvellous
heads flashed fire, and fire burned from
his heads as he glared.
- And there were voices in all his dreadful heads
[830] which uttered every kind of
sound unspeakable; for at one time they made
sounds such that the gods understood, but at
another, the noise of a bull bellowing aloud in
proud ungovernable fury; and at another, the sound
of a lion, relentless of heart; and at another,
sounds like whelps, wonderful to hear; [835] and
again, at another, he would hiss, so that
the high mountains re-echoed.
- And truly a thing past help would have happened
on that day, and he would have come to reign over
mortals and immortals, had not the father of men
and gods been quick to perceive it. But he
thundered hard and mightily: and the earth around
[840] resounded terribly and the wide
heaven above, and the sea and Ocean's streams and
the nether parts of the earth
Apollo is Satan: he is the
Abaddon or Apollyon of the book of Revelation who
LOOSES the LOCUSTS to sting with THEIR MARK. The locusts were the MUSES of
Apollo who had, in
the Legends of John's Patmos, offended the mother of
the gods (Eve, Zoe, Mary) and been turned into
locusts (musical performers) and sent into the
underworld.
The MUSICIANS are the locusts who
DRIVE AWAY those with the Mark of The Word of God:
the SEAL or stamp given at baptism where we REQUEST
A clear consience which is A holy spirit.
They then CAPTURE those with the
mark of Apollo and TORTURE them with music until
Jesus returns. Sure, music produces endorphins
(morphine within) which have the effect of FIGHT,
FLIGHT or SEXALITY. No one captured is going to ever
get loose according to writings contemporaneous with
the Bible.
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See Rick Atchley on INSTRUMENTAL MUSICapplauded by Restoration Forum of Christian Church. See that MUSIC connects to Satan and PERVERTED religion: "There is no other tradition."
Background to "Look To The Hills Leadership and Worship Conference." This is not a direct command worthy of sowing discord to introduce Feminist-Gnostic worship. Rather, the verse is a Question: "Shall I look to the Hills or Mountain Gods?? The answer is, "No, I will look to the CREATOR of the hills for my salvation." This is a coded invitation to end-times pagan ritualizing but NOT to worship.
This symbol is also called, "Ouroboros", but its meaning is deeper.
"This snake, sometimes called the Ouroboros, is a symbol of
Time, from which alone Wisdom (Sophia) springs. The snake encircles the
two symbols of the extremes of created life (Zoe) -- the child and the
death-symbol of the skull. Between them, the child and skull
are intended to symbolize the 'beginning and then end'. As a
whole, the emblem may be interpreted as meaning, 'In the end,
is my beginning', or 'The End is Found in the Beginning',
which is approximately what the Latin around the circle
means." [ Magic Symbols, Ibid.] These two statements are
speaking of the pagan belief in Reincarnation I also am
offended by the fact that the Satanist views the entire
created world as being surrounded and controlled by the
serpent, as this second Ouroboros depicts. But, I guess the
Bible states that Satan is the "Lord of this World", is the "Prince of the Power of
the Air", and is generally in control of this wicked
world until Jesus Christ returns. From