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Isaiah 32 The Church of Christ in Prophecy

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The.Ekklesia.A.Church.of.Christ ANTITHESIS of Religious Institutions built upon the Laws of the Monarchy which had been abandonedd to worship the starry host including Apollon the ruler of the MUSES or His Worship Team.

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Any one who sells themselves in any clergy or CRAFTSMAN role is the meaning of the Greek word PARASITE.  After the fall into instrumental-trinitarian-perverted PLAY God abandoned them to captivity and death.  He set a King over them IN HIS ANGER to carry out the sentence.

Jacob cursed Levi and commanded that the godly not attend their synagogue or "church" nor to enter into covenant with them. The Thesis of ANY kind of music or rhetoric in the assembly PATTERNED as a Reading and Discusing the WORD only.  The Levites as the perhaps God-ordained Pattern for those who hate the Word or Regulative Principle are the Levites an old priesthood who made NOISE while they performed HOLOCAUST on infants.

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Revelation 16 The Mark of the Beast
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The.Mark.of.The.Beastia in the Garden of Eden

IF YOU ARE NOT TERRIFIED BY THE END-TIME "PROGRESSIVES" THEN YOU ARE NOT A FOUND-LOST SPIRIT. serpo  with herpō, repo I. Lit. (only of animals; while repo is also used of persons who creep or go slowly; “v. repo, REPO like SERPO or HERPO dedicated to humans. repO II. Trop.: “sermones Repentes per humum,” i. e. low, common, mean, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 251. “Of fire: ignis per artus,” Lucr. 6, 661.— Of the stealthy advance of a SNARE, Stat. S. 1, 2, 60.— UPDATE. Note that the SONG STARTER is the FIRE STARTER.  God made the sounds of the WORLD such as string, wind and percussion the MARK of IGNORING God's Word and BURNING. ignis ,A. (Mostly poet.) The fire or glow of passion, in a good or bad sense; of anger, rage, fury raving, inspiration, Stat. Ach. 1, 509: ore dabat pleno carmina vera dei,” Ov. F. 1, 473: Incentor, o-ris, m. [id.] , one who sets the tune or begins to sing, a precentor, singer (post-class.).               [2] Căno I. Neutr., to utter melodious notes, to sing, sound, play.              2. Of the faulty delivery of an orator, to speak in a sing-song tone: inclinată ululantique voce more          Asiatico canere,  once canituri,Vulg. Apoc. 8, 13 ) I. Lit.: carminis, Paul. Nol. Carm. 15, 32 : [1] incentore [2] canam [3] Phoebo [4] Musisque [5] magistris,  II. Trop., an [A] inciter, exciter: [B] IGNEUS [C] turbarum, Amm. 15, 1, 2 : civilis belli, Oros. 5, 19 : rebellionis [renewal of war] totius, id. 6, 11 . Flamen Hislop carmen  prophecy; a form of incantation a tune, song, air, lay, strain, note, sound, both vocal and instrumental “also versus, numeri, modi is MUSICAL MELODY NEVER IN SCRIPTURE carmen TUBA ista peregit=         peregit= I. To thrust through, pierce through, transfix   carmen tubā sc. Apollinem) concordant carmina nervis [Bow string or a musical instrument] citharae liquidum carmen, “lyrae carmen USED TO VEX. Collected data from Scripture and especially the Greek and Latin text proves that any metrical or TUNEFUL presentation intends to HURT or DECEIVE. cui liquidam pater Vocem cum cithara dedit,” Hor. Od. 1.1 Now stretch'd beneath the arbute on the sward, Now by some gentle river's sacred spring; Some love the camp, the clarion's joyous ring, And battle, by the mother's soul abhorr'd. To me the artist's meed, the ivy wreath Is very heaven: me the sweet cool of woods, Where SATYRS [CAPELLA] frolic with the Nymphs,           [BEASTS Libethrides, Muses, V.: vocalis Nymphe, ] secludes From rabble rout, so but Euterpe's breath Fail not the flute, nor Polyhymnia fly Averse from stringing new the LESBIAN lyre. [barbiton] O, write my name among that minstrel choir, And my proud head shall strike upon the sky! vexo to shake, jolt, toss in carrying; hence, in gen., to move violently, to shake, agitate. “ita conscientia mentem excitam vexabat,”“oppressa gravi sub religione vit tubae,” Auct. Her. 4, 15, 21: “tubarum, excitam  A. To rouse, excite; to frighten, terrify any one: pello 3. To strike, set in motion, impel: 4. Of a musical instrument, to strike the chords, play: “nervi pulsi,” struck, Cic. Brut. 54, 199: “lyra pulsa manu,” percutio)  AND BIND RELIGION THE OPPOSITE OF THE SCHOOL OF CHRIST. rĕlĭgĭo  bind ceremonies or obligations   “hence the rites and ceremonies, as well as the entire system of religion and worship, the res divinae or sacrae, were frequently called religio or religiones (cf. our use of the word religion) Statius, Silvae Book 1 105 Yet be constant: love thou thy earth: inhabit in person the temples we dedicate to thee. Let not the heavenly court delight thee, but live, live happy to see thy sons’ sons offer incense to this thy statue. II. The marriage of Stella and Violentilla. 1 WHY did the hills of Rome ring with that solemn music? For whom, Paean, dost thou take up the plectrum anew and hang among the tresses on thy shoulders the sounding ivory? Hark, from afar, from murmurous Helicon the Muses are journeying. From their nine torches 5 they shake the ritual flame for the joining of the bridal; and POUR forth a wave of SONG from the Pierian springs Amongst them pert-faced Elegy draws near, prouder than her wont, and courts and counsels the Nine, her limping foot stealthily hidden, and fain would be thought Ah, now I know what day this is, and what the occasion of this solemnity. It is of thee, Stella of thee that these gods sing in chorus. Fling wide thy doors. It is for thee that Phoebus [Apollon] and Euhan and the winged lord of Tegea bring chaplets from bowery Maenalus, Paen the god of healing (an epithet of Apollon)  as the healing deity  The MARK of Apollon leader of the Muses “signum Paeanis,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 57, § 127         A religious hymn, orig. in honor of Apollon, but also transf. to other deities,         a festive hymn, hymn of triumph or praise, a pœan “dicite io Paean, et [and] io bis dicite Paean,” Dico 4. To describe, relate, sing, celebrate in writing (mostly poet.): “tibi dicere laudes,” Tib. 1, 3, 31; so, “laudes Phoebi  [APOLLON as the god of light] et Dianae        Dianae     [afterwards regarded as identical with the Gr. Artemis, the daughter of Jupiter and Latona, the sister of Apollon, the virgin moon-goddess (Luna)     turba  1. Of persons (freq. and class.; cf.: “multitudo, vulgus): “turbae carmin    a tune, song, air, lay, strain, note, sound, both vocal and instrumenta; “citharae liquidum carmen,” lyrae carmen, “barbaricum       Plebs   B. With accessory notion of contempt, the populace, the lower class or order, the mass (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): “multitudo de plebe  Satyrique The BEASTS includes Satyric Drama sătyrus , i, m., = saturos. [CAPPELLA ]II. A Satyr, one of the satyri, a kind of wood-deities resembling apes, with two goat's feet, and very lascivious; The MARK of the BEAST. signum  a MARK, token, sign, indication id. 2, 31 (3, 29), 16; cf.: “sonante mixtum tibiis carmen lyra,”   to advance to the attack, make an assault, to follow the standards, to march in military order 2. A sign, signal; a watchword, password, given by a wind-instrument b. Esp., the standard or ensign of single cohorts and maniples (opp. aquila, the standard of the entire legion):         “cum fasces, cum tubas, 2. A sign, signal; a watchword, password, given by a wind-instrument,         by the tessera, or otherwise: “signum tubā dare The SIGN to Break up the Ekklesia God provided No Lyric words or in measure, metron to be sung. lyra  I.a lute, lyre, a stringed instrument resembling the cithara, fabled to have been invented by Mercury and presented to Apollon. A. Lyric poetry [NONE IN SCRIPTURE], song: Lesbis amica lyrae,  poetic genius: poetic genius: “Inferior lyra,” Stat. Th. 10, 445.— Stat. Theb. 10  Latin1] Dewy Night overwhelmed Phoebus [Apollon] in the gateway of the West, hastened by the commands of Jove;         nought pities he the Pelasgian camp nor the Tyrian forces,         but he grieved that beside the warriors         so many innocent folk should fall by the sword.         Thus in the longed-for embraces of their chiefs do both the noble-minded pair, Aetolian alike and famed Arcadian, breathe out their peerless souls and taste of death. Ye too are consecrate,         though my sons soar for a LESS LIKELY LYRE,         and will go down the unforgetful years.         Perchance too Euryalus will not spurn his comrade SHADES,         and the glory of Phrygian Nisus will not say them nay. plectrum anew mŏvĕo Psallo outlaws a plectrum, a wind instrument, a percussion instrument Strike an instrument with a plectrum.  “citharam cum voce,” id. ib. 5, 112: “tympana,” id. H. 4, 48; to disturb: “novis Helicona cantibus,” Manil. Astron. 1, 4: “signum movere loco  a. To excite, occasion, cause, promote,  “cantūs,” Verg. A. 10, 163: “tantum decus, to undertake any thing that excites disturbanc Sono . Neutr., to make a noise, to sound, resound: aes sonit, the trumpet sounds, Enn. ap. Non. 504, 33 (Trag. v. 213 Vahl.): “plectra,” Prop. 4 (5), 7, 62. tympana, 5 “Pythius in longā carmina veste sonat,” sings, pours forth, accompanies on the lyre, id. 2, 31 (3, 29), 16; cf.: “sonante mixtum tibiis carmen lyra,” Thebaid.4.html LATIN [144] With no military training:. Yet she sends three hundred manly hearts, a company undisciplined for war, without javelin-thongs or the surly gleam of swords; on their heads and shoulders the tawny spoil of lions, their tribe’s adornment, a pinewood stake their weapon, and shafts crammed tight in inexhaustible quivers.       They sing the paean of Hercules and the world swept clear of monsters: the god listens from afar on leafy Oeta.       Nemea gives them comrades and all the might that he sacred vineyards of Cleonaean Molorchus summon to war. Well known is the glory of that cottage; pictured upon its willow doors are the arms of the god who was its guest, and in the humble field ‘tis shown where he laid his club, and under what holm-oak he reposed his limbs at ease, and where yet the ground bears traces of his lying. 580] While the chaste priestess thus recounts the tale to her father, his hoary locks trembling rise erect with lifted chaplet, and his pale visage throbs with a rush of blood. No longer rests he on the supporting staff or faithful maiden, but standing upright cries: “Cease they song, my daughter, enough have I of external light, the sluggish mists depart, black night flees from my face. Comes it from the shades or from Apollon on high, this flooding inspiration?

The Levites Soothsayers or Sorceres
Hebrew mythology and Professor Goldziher told his brethren 20 years ago, they were the ancient Lci-uns or desert sorcerers, Lu-ls or Lavi-s or serpent enchanters — quasi "medicine men," who conjured with serpents like Shamans and many Yogis : hence called aubi, obi (ophi) or obias who arc common throughout Asia and Africa. The Lui, anglice Levite, is from, Lu, "entwin ing or wreathing," hence "the serpent one," and the Tvh, Lute or serpent specialized in Job's dragonian divinity the Lui-ihan \JV"h anglice Leviathan, iii. 8, xxvi. 13 ; Is. xxvii. 1

Is 26:20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers,
        and shut thy doors about thee:
        hide thyself as it were for a little moment,
        until the indignation be overpast.
Is. 26:21 For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place
        to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:
        the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Is. 27:1  In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword
        shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent,
        even leviathan that crooked serpent;
        and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

The Assembly of Christ is a Covert or UMBRELLA as a place to HIDE until the spiritual terrorists are burned.

Worship At Woodmont Takes the Mark

Jeff Brown at Woodmont Hills lead minister provides Visionary Leadership.
               LISTENS for the WORD OF God FOR the people of God

Woodmont Elders explain how they DISCERNED as acceptable what is defined as:
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Singers, instrument players, craftsmen (theater builders and stage managers), Brides (the Hieros Gamos) and the Revelation 18 "lusted after fruits" (same as Amos 8) are called SORCERERS and WILL BE CAST ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.

THARGE´LIA   a festival celebrated at Athens on the 6th and 7th of Thargelion (= about May 24, 25) in honour of Apollo [Apollon, Abaddon] and Artemis.... 

Then followed still on the sixth a great purificatory sacrifice (Plut. Symp. 8.1, 2 = 717 Reiske; D. L. 2.44; Harpocrat. s. v. pharmakos). The manner in which this purification was effected is very extraordinary and certainly a remnant of very ancient rites, for two persons were put to death on that day, and the one died on behalf of the men and the other on behalf of the women of Athens.
    On the day when the sacrifice was to be performed the victims were led to the different temples of Apollo in the city,--to those of Apollo Patrous, Delphinius, and Pythius (cf. Mommsen, Heort. p. 421),--and afterwards out of the city to a place near the sea, with the accompaniment of a peculiar melody, called kradiēs nomos, [LAW] played on the flute

pharmakos [v. ad fin.], ho, A.one sacrificed or executed as an atonement or purification for others, scapegoat, Hippon.5, al., Ar.Ra.733

Lys. 6 53 Who ought to tolerate these doings? What person, whether friend or relation or townsman, is to incur the open enmity of the gods by showing him secret favour? You should therefore, consider that to-day, in punishing Andocides and in ridding yourselves of him, you are cleansing the city, you are solemnly purifying it from pollution, you are dispatching a foul scapegoat, you are getting rid of a reprobate; for this man is all of them in one.

IT TOOK 3 DECADES FOR RUBEL SHELLY'S INSTRUMENTAL EGG TO HATCH.

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Claiming to have power to HEAR the WORD which Jesus made Visible and Audible and inspired the
RECORDING "for our memory" is the definition of witchcraft or sorcery.  The "machinery" of the SORCERERS in Revelation 18 were-are those who make up their own sermons, singers, instrument players and the millstone marked the local prostitute..

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.

Jesus and others defimed Holy Scripture as prophecy CONCERNING ME.  God spoke through the PROPHETS to define an Assembly of Christ both inclusively and exclusively.  In these LAST days God spoke only through Jesus of Nazareth his son "first begotten from the dead."

Wherefore the Lord said,
        Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth,
        and with their lips do honour me,
        but have removed their heart far from me,
        and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: Isa 29:13

Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, 
        even a marvellous work and a wonder:
        for the WISDOM of their wise men shall perish,
        and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. Isa 29:14

I. Sapientia ” Mart. 9, 6, 7: “sapisset,” Plaut. Rud. 4, 1, 8), 3, v. n. and a. [kindr. with opos, saphēs, Sophiaand sophos] A. skilled in any handicraft or art, clever

Sophia  A.... in MUSIC and SINGING, tekhnē kai s. h.Merc.483, cf. 511; in poetry, Sol.13.52, Pi.O.1.117, Ar.Ra.882, X.An.1.2.8,

Sophos   A. skilled in any handicraft or art, clever, mostly of poets and musicians,
 en kithara s. E.IT1238 (lyr.), cf. Ar.Ra.896 (lyr.),

Sophis-tês , ou, ho, master of one's craft, adept, expert, of DIVINERS, Hdt.2.49; of poets,
meletan sophistais prosbalon .2; of musicians, sophistês . .
parapaiôn chelun A.Fr.314 , cf. Eup.447, Pl.Com. 140; sophistêi Thrêiki
C.ergy Musicians.  panu thaumaston legeis [LYING WONDERS]
3. later of the rhētores, Professors of Rhetoric, and prose writers

ALL of this is outlawed by the Word, Logos or Regulative Principle: Opposite speakers, singers, instrument players or personal opinions. Anything beyond God as WORD made visible and audible ONLY by Jesus who then TAUGHT the Apostles who left us a MEMORY.

WEEP AND TEAR YOUR HAIR BECAUSE ANYTHING BEYOND HONORING THE WORD OF CHRIST IN THE PROPHETS AND APOSTLES IS THEIR TO MARK YOU:

Matt. 11:25  At that time Jesus answered and said,
            I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
            because thou hast HID these things from the WISE and prudent,
            and hast revealed them unto babes.

Leonard Allen: The very truth about Christ--that he is God in the Flesh,

John who said that Jesus of Nazareth is the Comforter-Paraclete

2John 7 For many deceivers are ENTERED into the world, [Kosmos, Ecumenical, Kingdom of Satan]
        who confess not that JESUS Christ [God's Anointed]
        is come in the flesh.
        This is a deceiver and an antichrist

mundus The Lower World, the world as opposed to the church; this world, the realm of sin and death, as opposed to Christ's kingdom of holiness and life: “princeps hujus mundi (i. e. Satan)

Jesus the Seed of David said:

John 10:36 Say ye of him,
        whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world,
        Thou BLASPHEMEST; because I said, I am the SON OF GOD?
John 10:37 If I do not the works of MY Father, believe me not.

Elders are the Christ-ordained VOCATIONAL Pastor-Teachers: their authority derives from "Teaching that which has been taught."

Eph. 4:3 Endeavouring to keep the UNITY of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

IF THEY ARE APT THEY WILL EJECT THE SPEAKERS, SINGERS AND INSTRUMENT PLAYERS WHO ALWAYS CLAIMED THE POWER TO "BRING YOU INTO THE PRESENCE OF A GOD" (SAYS RUBEL SHELLY)

Eph. 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some,
        evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

An assembly of Christ does not have preachers. The word kerux speaks of a herald who GOES with a message but does not HEAR or READ IT.

Eph. 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, 
        for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: [education only]
Eph. 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of THE FAITH ,  [THE WORD, LOGOS]
        and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man

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.

Eph 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, 
        and carried about with every wind of doctrine,
        by the sleight of men, and
        cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

-Panourg-os (properisp.), on,

A. ready to do anything, wicked, knavish,
II. in a less positively bad sense, cunning, clever, smart, “p. kai deinos” D. 1.3, cf. Pl.Tht.177a, Arist.EN1144a28; “p. te kai sophos” Pl.R.409c; “kompsos kai p.” Plu. 2.28a: Sup., Plb.5.75.2. Adv. “-gōs, p. kai hupokritikōs legein ta epē” Ath.9.407a.

-“p. kai deinos” egein clever at speaking, forcible, vehement, style in oratory,
“d. hupo panourgias”
epē 1. song or lay accompanied by music, 8.91,17.519

-Plat. Rep. 409c But that cunning fellow quick to suspect evil, and who has himself done many unjust acts and who thinks himself a smart trickster, [panourgos te kai sophos]
        when he associates with his like does appear to be clever,
        being on his guard and fixing his eyes on the patterns within himself.
        But when the time comes for him to mingle with the good and his elders,
But when the time comes for him to mingle with the good and his elders, [409d]
          then on the contrary he appears stupid.
        He is unseasonably distrustful and
        he cannot recognize a sound character
        because he has no such PATTERN IN HIMSELF

Sophos , ē, on, A. skilled in any handicraft or art, clever, harmatēlatas s. Pi.P.5.115, cf. N.7.17; “kubernētēs” A.Supp.770; “mantis” Id.Th.382; “oiōnothetas” S.OT484 (lyr.); of a sculptor, E.Fr.372; even of hedgers and ditchers, 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
etc.; also en oiōnois, kithara, E. IT662, 1238

manti^s   Sibulla:— diviner, seer, prophet, ho mantis mantin ekpraxas eme, of Apollon and Cassandra, Id.Ag.1275; of the Pythian priestess, Id.Eu.29   2. metaph., presager, foreboder,

Soph. Ant. 1160. Fortune sets upright and Fortune sinks the lucky and unlucky from day to day, [1160] and no one can prophesy to men concerning the order that has just been established

Sibull-a A.one Sibyl (Sibullai kai Bakides,

ba^kis , idos, ho, Boeotian prophet, Hdt.8.20,77, al.; acc.

A.“Bakin” Ar. Pax1071; others are mentioned in Sch.Ar. l.c.: hence in pl., Bakides, hoi, soothsayers, 

This unity is that you MUST take the MARK OF THE BEAST.

Paul warned that when women take over they will claim that their music and madness was proof that a god was speaking through them.   In all of the keep silence passages for both male and female trying to be a mediator in song or sermon is a rejection of the role of Jesus.

END-TIME PREACHERS CLAIM THE ROLE OF JESUS CHRIST

1Tim. 2:5 For there is ONE GOD
        and one MEDIATOR between God and men,
        the MAN Christ Jesus;

Luke 10:22 All things are delivered to me of my Father:
        and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father;
        and who the Father is, but the Son,
        and he to whom the Son will reveal him.

ti is witchcraft or sorcery to claim that one hears the WORD by some "spirit" when Jesus made the Word audible and visible in the form of WORDS which were recorded for our memory.

John 14:31 But that the world may know that I love the Father;
        and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

Spirit literally means WIND: it is a figurative or PARABLE word to let us know something about how God puts His WORDS into the MOUTH of the PROPHETS and in these latter days HIS SON Jesus of Nazareth.

John 15:15 Henceforth I call you not servants;
        for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth:
        but I have called you friends;
        for all things that I have HEARD OF my Father
        I have made known unto you.

Jesus HEARD the Word of the Father without the need of an INTERCEDING SPIRIT GOD.

Sorcerer (paranormal), a practitioner of magic, the ability to attain objectives or acquire knowledge or wisdom using supernatural means

In Christianity, Lectio Divina (Latin for "Divine Reading") is a traditional Benedictine practice of scriptural reading, meditation and prayer intended to promote communion with God and to increase the knowledge of God's word. It does not treat scripture as texts to be studied, but as the living word.

HORAE
The course of the seasons (or hours) is symbolically described by the dance of the Horae;
        and, in conjunction with the Charites [Pagan GRACE],
        Hebe, Harmonia, and Aphrodite, 
        they accompany the songs of the Muses, 
        and Apollo's [Abaddon-Apollon] play on the lyre, with their dancing.

Yet another version of Aphrodite as Triple Goddess,
        Agape 'love feast,' Agape the ruler of sacred sexual rites
        Irene 'peace,' Irene was the Crone, bringer of the peace of death
        Chione 'snow queen.' Chione was the new year, born at Winter Solstice,
                    unapproachable and serene.

Divina was the Thessalian witch or hag.

Verg. Ecl. 8

DAMON of the Thessalian WITCHES

“Rise, Lucifer, and, heralding the light,
bring in the genial day, while I make moan
fooled by vain passion for a faithless bride,
for Nysa, and with this my dying breath
call on the gods, though little it bestead—
the gods who heard her vows and heeded not.
‘Begin, my flute, with me Maenalian lays.’

Ever hath Maenalus his murmuring groves
and whispering pines, and ever hears the songs
of love-lorn shepherds, and of Pan, who first
brooked not the tuneful reed should idle lie.
‘Begin, my flute, with me Maenalian lays.’

Nysa to Mopsus given! what may not then
we lovers look for? soon shall we see mate
griffins with mares, and in the coming age
shy deer and hounds together come to drink.
‘Begin, my flute, with me Maenalian lays.’

Now, Mopsus, cut new torches, for they bring
your bride along; now, bridegroom, scatter nuts:
forsaking Oeta mounts the evening star!
‘Begin, my flute, with me Maenalian lays.’

O worthy of thy mate, while all men else
thou scornest, and with loathing dost behold
my shepherd's pipe, my goats, my shaggy brow,
and untrimmed beard, nor deem'st that any god
for mortal doings hath regard or care.
‘Begin, my flute, with me Maenalian lays.’

Songs can the very moon draw down from heaven
circe with singing changed from human form
the comrades of Ulysses, and by song
is the cold meadow-snake, asunder burst.
‘Draw from the town, my songs, draw Daphnis home.’

Rubel Shelly: "In the Old Testament God spoke at many times and in a variety of ways.
Through Jesus, God Himself spoke to His people during His lifetime.
Now God speaks through the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will teach you all things, will call to your memory the things Jesus said,will guide you into all truth, will speak what He hears from the Father, will tell you what is yet to come,and glorify Christ as He reveals Christ to you

It's time for you to begin hearing the voice of God speak to you in those moments to tell you,

"Ah, but look at what's inside you!" And then perhaps these explicit words will come ringing in your ears:

        "You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them,
        because the one who is IN you is greater than the one who is in the world" (1 John 4:4).

The One God the Father puts His WORD into the MOUTH of Prophets and His Son the MAN Jesus of Nazareth.
SPIRIT is never a PERSON much less A GOD.  Spirit means BREATH as a parable word to aid in explaining how God speaks to Prophets and Jesus ONLY.
Jesus in His state of Holy Spirit (without flesh and bones) is the COMFORTER and in that STATE He REMINDED the Apostles only of what He had said while in the body of FLESH.

John 16:12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now.
John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit [mental disposition] OF TRUTH,

People DESPISE or BLASPHEME Jesus by having Him so ignorant that he did not say THE Holy Spirit Person!

 is come, he will guide you into all truth:
        for he shall NOT speak of himself;
        but whatsoever he shall hear,
        that shall he speak:
        and he will shew you things to come.

THE NAME OF THE PARACLETE IS REVEALED BY THE SAME JOHN TO SILENCE EVERYONE BUT JESUS

1John 2:1 My little children, these things WRITE I unto you, that ye sin not.
        And if any man sin, we have an advocate [PARACLETE] with the Father,
        JESUS CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS

1Tim. 2:5 For there is ONE GOD
        and ONE mediator between God and men,
        The MAN Christ Jesus;

Again, SPIRIT as Wiind or figurative or a PARABLE for BREATH is not another God person and Jesus will not lie for you.

G3316.  mesites, mes-ee´-tace; from 3319; a go-between, i.e. (simply) an internunciator, or (by implication) a reconciler (intercessor): — mediator.

Is. 59:16 And he saw that there was NO MAN and wondered that there was no INTERSESOR:
        therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.

h6293. paga ´; a primitive root; to impinge, by accident or violence, or (figuratively) by importunity:—come (betwixt), cause to entreat, fall (upon), make intercession, intercessor, intreat, lay, light (upon), meet (together), pray, reach, run.

1John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
1John 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, IF WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS
1John 2:4 He that saith, I know him,
        and keepeth not HIS commandments, is a LIAR, and the TRUTH [logos] is not in him.
1John 2:5 But whoso KEEPETH his WORD, in him verily
         is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are IN him.

JESUS OF NAZARETH IN HIS HOLY SPIRIT STATE WILL REMIND THE APOSTLES ONLY OF WHAT JESUS IN THE FLESH HAD TAUGHT THEM.

John 16:14 He shall glorify ME: for he shall receive of MINE, and shall shew it unto you.
John 16:15 All things that the Father hath are MINE:
        therefore said I, that he shall take of MINE, and shall shew it unto YOU.
John 16:16 A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again,
        a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.

 Jesus in the form of blinding light was SEEN and HEARD by Paul to qualify Him to be an Apostlle.
        John 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying,
                I am the LIGHT of the world: he that followeth me
                shall not walk in DARKNESS, but shall have the light of life.

Jesus appeared at Paul's baptism and on the road to Bithynia The Holy Spirit was the Spirit OF Jesus.

Rom. 16:25 Now to him that is of POWER to stablish you
        ccording to my gospel, and the PREACHING of Jesus Christ,
        according to the revelation of the mystery,
        which was kept secret since the world began,
Rom. 16:26 But NOW is made MANIFEST,  [The Word or Logos was made visible-audible NOT God]
        and by the SCRIPTURES of the PROPHETS,
        according to the commandment of the everlasting God,
        made known to all nations for the OBEDIENCE of faith:

THE CHURCH OR "UMBRELLICUM" AS SAFE HOUSE WAS DEFINED INCLUSIVELY AND EXCLUSIVELY BY GOD PUTTING HIS WORDS INTO THE MOUTH OF THE PROPHETS.

Rom. 1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, CALLED to be an apostle, separated unto the GOSPEL of God,
Rom. 1:2 (Which he had promised afore by his PROPHETS in the HOLY SCRIPTURES,)
Rom. 1:3 Concerning his SON Jesus Christ our Lord,
        which was made of the seed of David according to the FLESH;
Rom. 1:4 And declared to be the Son of God with power,
        according to the spirit OF holiness, BY the resurrection from the dead:
Rom. 1:5 By whom WE have received grace and apostleship,
        for OBEDIENCE to THE FAITH among ALL nations, for his name:

The TESTIMONY of JESUS is the SPIRIT of the PROPHETS. (Rev. 19:10). That is why Jesus MARKED anyone who claims to HEAR the WORD for other DISCIPLES. There are only Disciples or Students in the School of Christ: the HOUSE or CHURCH is LAOS excluding Priests or Levites, Scribes and Pharisees.  Jesus was our BROTHER and the only TEACHER.

THE PROPHETS ARE THE ONLY HOLY SCRIPTURE AND THEY MARK INSTRUMENTAL SOUNDS AS GOD DRIVING HIS ENEMIES INTO HELL.

Acts 1:20 For it is written in the book of Psalms,
        Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein:
        and his bishoprick let another take.
Acts 1:21 Wherefore of these men which have companied with us
        all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
Acts 1:22 Beginning from the baptism of John,
        unto that same day that he was taken up from us,
        must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.

THEY SELECT TWO OUT OF MANY QUALIFIED MEAN AND LET GOD DO THE PICKING.

Acts 1:25 That he may take part of this MINISTRY and APOSTLESHIP,
        rom which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.

JUDE WARNED THAT THE MOUNT SINAI INSTRUMENTAL AND PERVERTED PLAY WOULD BE A SIGN.

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.

Acts 6:7 And the WORD of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly;
        and a great company of the priests were obedient to THE FAITH
Rom. 10:8 But what saith it? The WORD is nigh thee,
        even in thy MOUTH, and in thy heart:
        that is, the WORD OF FAITH which we PREACH;
Rom. 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the WORD of God.
2Pet. 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us
        all things that pertain unto life and godliness,
        through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

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.
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 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.
Jude 8 ¶ Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

g1797. enupniazomai, en-oop-nee-ad´-zom-ahee; middle voice from 1798; to dream: — dream(-er).
g1798.enupnion, en-oop´-nee-on; from 1722 and 5258; something seen in sleep, i.e. a dream (vision in a dream): — dream.

2Pet. 1:15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
2Pet. 1:16 ¶ For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
2Pet. 1:17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
2Pet. 1:18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
2Pet. 1:19 ¶ We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
2Pet. 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
2Pet. 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

May the God of endurance and encouragement grant us to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together we may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Romans 15:5-6)

Rom. 14:19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace,
        and things wherewith one may edify [educate] another.

That's misquoting Paul who said:

Rom. 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation
        grant you to be LIKEMINDED one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

John 8:38  I [SPEAK] that which I have seen with my Father:
        and ye DO
        that which ye have seen with your father.

POIEO    Anything you make. works of art  create, bring into existence, compose, write, describe in verse, a professon, sacrifices, assemblies, ekklēsian” Epos
        Epos 'hymn', cf. eipon):  1. song or lay accompanied by music, 8.91,17.519.

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 it.

No Spirit Person involved. Spirit is a parable word to show that WE do our own BREATHING (spirit) and articulate our own words.

John 12:49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me,
        HE gave me a commandment, what I should SAY, and what I should SPEAK.

God didn't delivery any LYRIC material to be performed with a LYRE.

God the Father puts His Word into the Mouth of Prophets and Jesus only.  

1Cor. 2:6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect:
        yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
1Cor. 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom,
        which God ordained before the world [g165 Messianic age] unto our glory:
1Cor. 2:8 Which none of the princes of this world knew:
        for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

Leonard Allen: The very truth about Christ--that he is GOD in the Flesh, Son Saviour, and Messiah--becomes INTELLIGIBLE through the deep work of the Spirit. 

Leonard Allen and LU believe that A spirit has been POURED OUT on THEM but not on YOU.  This spirit has "HIS" own Mission especially in these last days. I CAN CONFIRM THAT THE END-TIME TEMPLE ROBBERS ARE CORRECT.


spīrĭtus   2. The breath of a god, inspiration: “haec fieri non possent, nisi ea uno divino et continuato spiritu continerentur,” by a divine inspiration, Cic. N. D. 2, 7, 19; 3, 11, 28; cf.: “poëtam quasi divino quodam spiritu inflari,” id. Arch. 8, 18.

Cic. Arch. 8.18 And, indeed, we have constantly heard from men of the greatest eminence and learning, that the study of other sciences was made up of learning, and rules, and regular method;
BUT that a poet  POIEO  was such by the unassisted work of nature, and was moved by the vigour of his own mind, and was inspired, as it were, by some divine WRATH. Wherefore rightly does our own great Ennius call poets holy; because they seem to be recommended to us by some especial gift, as it were, and liberality of the gods

II. Trop.  Sing.: “quoslibet occupat artus Spiritus,” Ov. M. 15, 167; Tac. A. 16, 34: spiritum Phoebus mihi, Phoebus artem Carminis dedit, poetic spirit or inspiration,

Camena   poetry, a poem, song: “summā dicende Camenā,
Numa devoted a grove to the Muses in the vicinity of Rome before the Porta Capena, Their Temple

Mousa , Apollon's Worship Team consisting of 9 daughters (whatever the sex)
II. mousa, as Appellat., music, song, “m. stugera” A.Eu.308 (anap.); “euphamos” Id.Supp.695 (lyr.); “kanakhan . . theias antiluron mousas

X.Mem.1.6.13  Xen. Mem. 1.6.13

But we think it virtuous to become friendly with
              a lover who is known to be a man of honour.

        So is it with wisdom. Those who offer it to all comers for money
               are known as sophists [singers, instrument players], prostitutors of wisdom, 

        But we think that he who makes a friend of one whom he knows to be gifted
               by nature, and teaches him all the good he can,
               fulfils the duty of a citizen and a gentleman.

Antichrist is marked by denying that Jesus of Nazareth made both Lord and Christ 30 years after HE CAME IN THE FLESH, the seed of Abraham and David.

Acts 13:27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their RULERS,
        because they knew him not,
        nor yet the voices of the PROPHETS
        which are READ every sabbath day,
        they have fulfilled them in condemning him

Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that PREACH him,
        being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
 

Rom. 15:6 That ye may with ONE MIND and one MOUTH
        glorify GOD, [Theos]
        even the Father
        of our LORD [Kurios] Jesus Christ. 
        [The ONLY Lord-God made the Man Jesus to be both Lord and Christ thirty years after He was born in the FLESH.]

Reading Ability and all Historical Scholars understood that this commanded UNISON speaking of "that which is written for our LEARNING."

Paul commanded that we SPEAK the Biblical Text. Most of Scripture can be "sung" to a 1, 2 or 3 note MELODY.  The "notes" in Hebrew denote EMPHASIS and not pitch.
ALL false teachers say and may READ
        1. that Paul commanded SINGING the Psalms, hymns and spiritual song
        2A. Sing and make HARMONY with the voice.
        2B. Sing and make Harmony WITH flutes, guitars, banjos, voodoo drums.

The gradualism path to apostasy by Rubel Shelly and planted professors called Jubilee "for the atonement."
        1.  Singing recomposed psalms to a simple melody permitted by John Calvin.
        2.  Alexander Campbell's book of NON SCRIPTURE songs without notes.
        3.  Confiscating and adding four part harmony to that song book.
        4.  Group singing with loud and perfected harmony.
        5.  Adding Worship Teams as Clergy performers singing Instrumental-based praise songs.
        6.  Using occasional instruments to "teach our youth to leave our movement."
        7.  After a decade or more of removing the faithful claiming that A SPIRIT led them to go instrumental.
        8.  Jude said they had no choice: he says they are FOREORDAINED.
        9.  John calls them SORCERERS.

PERFORMING NON BIBLICAL TEXT IS ANTI-LOGOS OR ANTI-GOD AND CHRIST.

John 7:16 Jesus answered them, and said,
        My doctrine is NOT mine, but his that sent me.
John 7:17 If any man will DO HIS WILL,
        he shall know of the doctrine,
                whether it be OF God,
                or whether I SPEAK OF MYSELF.
John 7:18 He that SPEAKETH OF himself seeketh [worship] 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 it.

John 17:14 I have given them thy WORD;
        and the world hath hated them,
        because they are not OF the world, even as I am not of the world.

ONE MIND WOULD OUTLAW A CLERGY VERSUS LAITY AND DEMAND UNISON.

g3661 homothumadon, hom-oth-oo-mad-on´; adverb from a compound of the base of 3674 and 2372;
        unanimously: — with one accord (mind).
g2372 homoios at the same place or time: — together.

ONE MOUTH OS   only as far as his tongue, only so as to talk, , to begin to speak
       
        Job 33:2 Behold, now I have opened my MOUTH, my tongue hath SPOKEN in my mouth.
       
    Exodus 19.8 All the people answered together,
                and said, "All that Yahweh has spoken we will do."
                Moses reported the words of the people to Yahweh.
                 sĭmŭl at the same time, together, at once, simultaneously

1Cor. 1:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
        that ye all speak the same thing,
        and that there be no divisions among you;
        but that ye be perfectly joined together
        in the SAME MIND and in the same judgment.

SPEAK THE WORD HAS NOT, CANNOT EVER MEAN TO SING THE WORD. MUCH LESS SING YOUR WORDS dīco , dicio, to say, tell, mention, relate, affirm, declare, state; to mean, intend (for syn. cf.: for, loquor, verba facio, dicto, dictito, oro, inquam, concionor, pronuntio, praedico, recito, declamo, affirmo, assevero, contendo; also, nomino, voco, alloquor, designo, nuncupo; also, decerno

legō   to say, speak, to say something, i. e. to speak to the point or purpose, all the truth,
all, the whole, all things as a unity
        OPPOSITE Oligos  of Number, few, or of Quantity, little the community,
        Opposite SCHIZO or split into groups.

Skhis-ma , atos, to,
division of opinion, Ev Jo.9.16.

John 9:16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.

Skhis-ma Name of an orkh-ēstikos , “tetrametrō ekhrōnto dia to saturikēn kai -ōteran einai tēn poiēsin” Arist.Po.1449a23 ; o. metron ib.1460a1 ; “o. melos” Id.Fr.583 ; “II. pantomimic  Luc.Salt.31

The BEAST or Therion means "A new form of songs and singing AND Satyric Drama.

Poieō 2. create, bring into existence, b. Math., make, produce, tomēn, skhēma, orthas gōnias, 4. after Hom., of Poets, compose, write, p. dithurambon, epea, Hdt.1.23, 4.14; “p. theogoniēn Hellēsi” Id.2.53; p. Phaidran, Saturous,

HISTORY PROVES SPEAKING IN UNISON: Cantillation where any Scripture can be broken into syllables and sung with just one note.
The Pope's castrated worship team was in the CAPEL but the form was UNISON singing.

MELOS is the only Greek MELODY word in the MUSICAL sense and that confirms all of Scripture and recorded History that the singing--even by the Castrated ACappella team was in UNISON with one, two or three notes and NEVER tuneful in the modern sense.

THE COMMAND IS TO SPEAK THAT WHICH IS WRITTEN FOR OUR LEARNING
GOD PROVIDED NOTHING WHICH CAN BE SUNG.
NO ONE SUNG UNTIL CALVIN ALLOWED SOME PSALMS TO BE REWRITTEN TO A SIMPLE MELODY SUNG IN UNISON.
MELODY IS NOT HARMONY
HARMONY EXCLUDED MORE THAN ONE SUNG IN UNISON: MAGADIZING WAS CHILDREN AND WOMEN SPEAKING ONE OCTIVE ABOVE THE MELODY.

"Although the music of ancient Greece consisted entirely of melodies sung in unison or, in the case of voices of unequal range, at the octave, the term harmony occurs frequently in the writings on music at the time  "Harmony was simply a scale type." Britannica

"When children sing the ditty found throughout Europe, "It's raining, it's pouring" (g-g-e-a-g-e), they sing a melody that uses a scale of three tones; two intervals are used, a wide one (minor third) and a narrow one (major second).

Ancient Greek Music If they were familiar with the ancient Greek culture, attempts to reconstruct the music would not result in monotonous recitations, based on stereotyped assumptions that Greek music consisted entirely of melodies sung in unison, and that there was no polyphony or complex arrangements. In my view, this music, being the product of a highly sophisticated culture, which encouraged free thinking and creativity and thus created masterpieces in all fields of artistic expression, could not be an exception.

Hilary (A.D.. 355) says:

"In the songs of Zion, both old and young, men and women, bore a part; their psalmody was the joint act of the whole assembly in unison." Chrysostom says: "It was the ancient custom, as it is still the custom with us, for all to come together and unitedly join in singing. The young and old, rich and poor, male and female bond and free all join in the song." Jerome says: "Go where you will, the plowman at his plow sings his joyful hallelujahs, the busy mower regales himself with his psalms, and the vinedresser is singing one of the psalms of David."

EUSEBIUS

"Of old at the time those of the circumcision were worshipping with symbols and types it was not inappropriate to send up hymns to God with the psalterion and cithara and to do this on Sabbath days... We render our hymn with a living psalterion and a living cithara with spiritual songs. The unison voices of Christians would be more acceptable to God than any musical instrument. 

Accordingly in all the churches of God, united in soul and attitude, with one mind and in agreement of faith and piety we send up a unison melody in the words of the Psalms." (commentary on Psalms 91:2-3)

THAT'S WHAT PAUL COMMANDED:

Rom. 15:6 That ye may with ONE MIND and one mouth
        glorify GOD, [Theos]
        even the Father
        of our LORD [Kurios] Jesus Christ.  [The ONLY God made Jesus to be borth Lord and Christ]

Any kind of Performance Music will and has man times including the joke of a Worship Team will SOW DISCORD AMONG BRETHREN and God hates you.

Martin Luther Romans 15

53. Service to God is praise of him. It must be free and voluntary, at table, in the chamber, cellar, garret, in house or field, in all places, with all persons, at all times. Whosoever teaches otherwise is no less guilty of falsehood than the Pope and the devil himself.

As a further consequence it is necessarily impossible for divine service to exist.

Even if all the choristers were one chorister, all the priests one priest,
all the monks one monk, all the churches one church,
all the bells one bell; in brief if all the foolish services offered to God in the institutions,
churches and cloisters were a hundred thousand times greater and more numerous than they are,
what does God care for such carnivals and juggling?

54. Therefore, God complains most of the Jews in the second chapter of Micah,

because they silenced his praise, while at the same time,
        they piped, blared and moaned like we do.
        True divine service of praise cannot be established with revenues,
        nor be circumscribed by laws and statutes.
        High and low festivals have nothing to do with it.
        It emanates from the Gospel, and certainly is as often rendered by a poor,
        rustic servant as by a great bishop. [51]

Michah.2.Instrumental.Music.Replaces.Gods.Word

The other thing in Amos which God hates so much that He LEAVES the people to captivity and promises NEVER TO PASS BY AGAIN.

Tyre is defined by the Spirit OF Christ as the "singing and harp-playing prostitute."

A BASKET OF SUMMER "FRUITS" WHO SING IN THE HOLY PLACES.

All religious singing and playing instruments includes women and effeminate males.

Amos 8:1 THUS hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. 
Amos 8:2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit.
        Then said the Lord unto me,
        The end is come upon my people of Israel;
         I will not again pass by them any more. 
Amos 8:3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, 
        saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.

Romans 15 begins after Romans 14 silences anything that does not EDIFY or EDUCATE.

THE WEAK GREEK;   -Asthen-ēs , es,  weak in the mind 5. Insignificant, “ouk asthenestatos sophistēs Hellēnōn” Hdt.4.95; paltry, “a. sophisma” A.Pr.1011;

THOSE WHO ARE WEAK:--Sophis-tēs , ou, ho, A. 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, “sophistēs . . parapaiōn khelun” with modal words added, Prietly person Making Melody in the Assembly “hoi s. tōn hierōn melōn” Ael.NA11.1   Apollōnos [Apollo, Abaddon, Apollyon]  poiētai, humnous idekaisuggrapheis, compose a speech

The WEAK Latin in-firmus   less nourishing,  Of things, of no weight or consequence, weak, trivial, inconclusive: II.    Trop., weak in mind or character, superstitious, pusillanimous, inconstant, light-minded: “tenuis atque infirmi haec animi videri,” Caes. B. C. 1, 32: “quippe minuti Semper et infirmi est animi voluptas ultio,” [passonate] Juv. 13, 190:

vŏluptas, satisfaction, enjoyment, pleasure, delight  an officer in the imperial household,” master of the revels, Suet. Tib. 42 fin.—A. Of persons, as a term of endearment: “mea voluptas,” my joy, my charmer,
B. Voluptates, sports, shows, spectacles, given to the people, Cic. Mur. 35, 74: “ne    "Are you asking employment as a pimp from a band of luxurious youths"  minimo quidem temporis voluptates intermissae,” Tac. H. 3, 83; C. The desire for pleasure, bent, passion: “suam voluptatem explere,” Ter. Hec. 1, 1, 12; cf. Plaut. Am. prol. 19;

Romans 14:19 Let us therefore follow after the things
         which make for peace, and things
         wherewith ONE may edify ANOTHER.

-Aedĭfĭcātĭo
(a). Absol.: “loquitur ad aedificationem,” Vulg. 1 Cor. 14, 3; 14, 26.—
(b). With gen.: “ad aedificationem Ecclesiae,” Vulg. 1 Cor. 14, 12; ib. Eph. 4, 12.

1Corinthians 14:19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

Rom. 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Rom. 15:1 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Plăcĕo  1. In scenic lang., of players or pieces presented, to please, find favor, give satisfaction: “primo actu placeo, Ter. Hec. prol. alt. 31: cui scenico placenti
2. Placere sibi, to be pleased or satisfied with one's self, to flatter one's self, to pride or plume one's self:
        scaenĭcus (scen- ), a, um, adj., = skēnikos,  

        I. of or belonging to the stage, scenic, dramatic, theatrical (class.).

        I. Lit.: “poëtae,” dramatic poets, Varr. L. L. 9, § 17 Müll.: “artifices,” players, actors 
       “gestus,” Cic. de Or. 3, 59, 220: “modulatio,” Quint. 11, 3, 57:
        2. scaenĭca , ae, f., a female player, an actress, organa,”
Orgănum , i, n., = organon, I. an implement, instrument, engine of any kind
Vitr. 10, 1.—Of musical instruments, a pipe, Quint. 11, 3, 20; 9, 4, 10; Juv. 6, 3, 80; Vulg. Gen. 4, 21; id. 2 Par. 34, 12 et saep.

organon , to/, (ergon, erdō) . instrument, implement, tool, for making or doing a thing
A. 3. musical instrument, Simon.31, f.l. in A.Fr.57.1 ; ho men di' organōn ekēlei anthrōpous, of Marsyas, 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.

Rom. 15:2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

Aedificatio, I. Abstr., the act of building, a building or constructing. II. Concr., a building, a structure, edifice,
III. Figurative, building up, instructing, edification.
    Absolute: loquitur ad Aedificationem 
    aedificationem Ecclesiae,Vulg. 1 Cor. 14, 12 ; ib. Eph. 4, 12.

The BEAST is a "new style of Music or Satyric Drama."  The MARK

Isaiah 3:4 et dabo pueros principes eorum et effeminati dominabuntur eis
        dominabuntur Ruler,  MARK Women or the Effeminate as  oratio,
        MARKWomen or effeminate who are consilium the person who forms the purpose, 
        MARKWomen or the effeminate who Teach Over  aedĭfĭco  in a religious sense, to build up, instruct, edify.

Isaiah 3:12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them.
        O my people, they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

mŭlĭer as a term of reproach, a woman, i. e. a coward, poltroon: arbĭtror to make a decision, give judgment or sentence: OR mŭlĭĕro, to make womanish, render effeminate

Boys: -Effemino II.Trop., to make womanish, effeminate, to enervate, A.Womanish, effeminate,
II. Trop., to make womanish, effeminate, to enervate: “fortitudinis praecepta
“illa elocutio res ipsas effeminat,” Quint. 8 prooëm. § 20.—
A. Womanish, effeminate (cf.: “mollis, luxuriosus, dissolutus): ne quid effeminatum aut molle sit,” Cic. Off. 1, 35, 129; cf. id. Tusc. 4, 30: “intolerabile est servire impuro, impudico, effeminato,  “furialis illa vox, religiosis altaribus effeminata,” Cic. Planc. 35, 86 —B. In mal. part., that submits to unnatural lust: “pathicus,” Suet. Aug. 68;

Thērion , to (in form Dim. of thēr),
A. wild animal, esp. of such as are hunted, mala gar mega thērion ēen, of a stag, Od.10.171, 180 (never in Il.); in Trag. only in Satyric drama,  “hē mousikē aei ti kainon thērion tiktei”

Paul silenced men beyond the teacher because they might enjogy wrath or an ORGY breaking out. This would be natural for those who attended Greek worship to enjoy the music and girls.

Paul silenced women or effeminate males (Phil 3:1-2) because they believed that they were favored by the "gods" and were PROFESSIONED as mediators.

Everyone should be silenced because the singular pattern for the ekklesia-synagogue from the wildernesss onward was to READ and REHEARSE the Word of God and be able to return home to discuss it.

1Tim. 2:5 For there is one God,
        and one mediator between God and men,
        the MAN Christ Jesus;

THE FAITH has been delivered once for all. A church of Christ is built upon or EDUCATED by the Prophets and Apostles.  Paul left us his memory of his eye-- and ear-- witness validated by signs and wonders by Jesus the SON as the only speaker for these last days. 

He outlawed private interpretation or Further Expounding to MARK anyone who would speak on their own.

2 Pet 1:15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease 
        to have these things alway in remembrance.

2Pet. 1:16  For we have not followed cunningly [sophizo]  devised fables,    
when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
         but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.              

Fables are myths from MUO [to shut the mouth: music forces the lambs to be silent before the slaughter]

Muthos   2. fiction (Opposite. logos, historic truth) Opposite of speaking, singing, playing instruments.

GOD'S SPIRIT BEGAN WITH THE SERPENT CALLED THE SINGING AND HARP-PLAYING PROSTITUTE AND ENDED WITH THE BABYLONIAN MOTHER OF HARLOTS.  HER PRIESTS ARE "LUSTED AFTER FRUITS" SEE AMOS 8.

We are excited about these discussions and the MOVEMENT of the Spirit in this PLACE. We are confident that God will continue to guide us and lead us as we seek to Love Him, to Love Each Other and Love the World!

SPIRIT is a humanoid word to hint at how God the Father puts HIS WORDS into the MOUTH of Jesus Christ only.

G4151 pneuma pnyoo'-mah From G4154 ;
        a current of air, that is,
        breath (blast) or a breeze;
        by analogy or figuratively a spirit,
                that is, (human) the rational soul,
        (by implication) vital principle, mental disposition, etc.,
               or (superhuman) an angel, daemon, or (divine) God,
        Christ’s spirit, the Holy spirit:—ghost, life,
            spirit (-ual, -ually), mind. Compare G5590 .

G4154 pneō pneh'-o  A primary word; to breathe hard,
        that is, breeze:—blow. Compare G5594

APOLLON was-is the leader of the locusts who were his worship team of MUSES and HE was the evil SPIRIT with Abaddon the definition of the SERVICE of the Jacob-Cursed and God-Abandoned Levites.

-Spiritus  2. The breath of a god, inspiration: by a divine inspiration.
spiritum Phoebus [Apollon] mihi, Phoebus artem Carminis [singing and playing, enchantment, sorcery] dedit, poetic spirit or inspiration

Ventus literally wind. , i, m. Sanscr. vā, blow; vatas, wind; Gr. root aw-, aō, aēmi,
      to blow; whence aēr, aura, etc.; Goth. vaia, to breathe; vinds, wind,
i. e. of the plans, designs, id. Fam. 2, 6, 4: loqui est coeptus

John confirms Jesus Who said that HE would be the COMFORTING HOLY SPIRIT.

1John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate [Paraclete] with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

Jesus as Holy Spirit guided the Apostles--only into ALL TRUTH. Jude warning about the Musical Idolaters at Mount Sinai said that were FOREORDAINED.  So is anyone who does not know that INSTRUMENTS intended to silence God and are always associated with BURNING.

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.

It is despising Father who put His WORD into the MOUTH of the Son without another "god" person to ENABLE THEM.

1John 2:15 Love not the WORLD,
        neither the things that are in the WORLD.
        If any man love the WORLD, the love of the Father is not in him
1John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes,
        and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is OF the WORLD.
1John 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof:
        but he that DOETH the will of God abideth for ever.

The World or Kosmos is the ECUMENICAL or the Kingdom of Satan who is the father of instruments to shut down the human SPIRIT.

The ancient Middle East constituted an ecumene. The term ecumene comes from the Greek word oikoumene, which means the inhabited world and designates a distinct cultural-historical community. The material effects of the commercial and cultural interconnections that permeated the component regions of the ancient Middle Eastern ecumene are richly supplied by archaeological excavations, which provide evidence of the spread of architectural, ceramic, metallurgical, and other products of ancient Middle Eastern man's industry.

Manufacturing and services tended to be monopolized by professional guilds, including religious personnel specializing in sacrifices, oracles, divination, and other kinds of priestcraft. The mobility of such guilds throughout the entire area helps to explain the spread of specific religious ideas and techniques over great distances. Just as guild potters spread ceramic forms and methods, so also guild priests spread their religious concepts and practices from the Indian Ocean to the Aegean Sea, and from the Nile River to Central Asia. The Greek poet Homer, in the Odyssey, noted the mobility of guildsmen, mentioning religious personnel as well as architects, physicians, and minstrels. Guild priests called kohanim were found at ancient Ugarit on the Mediterranean coast of northern Syria as well as in Israel. Moreover, Mycenaean Greek (late Bronze Age) methods of sacrifice are similar to the Hebraic methods, which are preserved in many countries to this day in the traditional techniques of Jewish ritual slaughter.

"The ancient Middle East made a place for homosexuality and bestiality in its myths and rites. In the Asherah cult the qedeshim priests had a reputation for homosexual practices, even as the qedeshot priestesses for prostitution. Israel eventually banned both the qedeshim and qedeshot, while in Ugarit the and kohanim were priestly guilds in equally good standing. Baal is portrayed in Ugaritic mythology as impregnating a heifer to sire the young bull god. The biblical book of Leviticus (18:22--27) bans homosexuality and bestiality expressly because the Canaanite population had been practicing those rites, which the Hebrews rejected as abominations. Middle Eastern Religion

The MARK is engaging in Singing and Playing instruments which is always the MARK of trying to silence the Word and also associated with BURNING.

IN NO LANGUAGE CAN THE WORD TRANSLATED "SPIRIT" BE UNDERSTOOD AS A "PERSON."

Paul commanded that both male and female be SILENT in the church so that:

1Tim. 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved [SAFE],
        and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. [The Word, Logos, Regulative Principle]

Men are to pray so that WRATH or an ORGY does not break out.
Women are to be silent because they always claimed to speak FOR the gods in their music or drug induced madness. In all of the "silent passages" the people could not grasp that:

1Tim. 2:5 For there is ONE GOD
        and one mediator between God and men,
        The MAN Christ Jesus;

GOD PUTS HIS WORDS INTO THE MOUTH OF A PROPHET WITHOUT A "SPIRIT PERSON"

John 8:38 I SPEAK that which I have seen with my Father:
        and ye DO that which ye have seen with your father.

No Spirit Person involved. Spirit is a parable word to show that WE do our own BREATHING (spirit) and articulate our own words.

DO specificially speaks of anything you COMPOSE or PERFORM which is a WORK.
SPEAK or READ is the way to separate out the gender-confused.

John 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my WORDS,
        hath one that judgeth him:
        the WORD that I have spoken,
        the same shall judge him in the last day.
John 12:49 For I have not spoken of myself;
        but the Father which sent me,
        HE gave me a commandment,  [He did not need a Spirit God]
        what I should SAY, and what I should SPEAK. [never sing God's Words]

John 12:50 And I know that his commandment is [LIFE] everlasting:
        whatsoever I SPEAK therefore,
        even as the Father SAID unto me, so I SPEAK.

How blasphemous to say that God NEEDS a Spirit God to Speak.

John 6:63 It is the SPIRIT that quickeneth;
        the flesh profiteth nothing:
        the WORDS that I SPEAK unto you,
        they are SPIRIT, and they are [LIFE].

Leonard Allen: WE can say that there was a doube sending--two missions
        the mission of the Spirit AND the mission of the Son. [ p 107]
The very truth about Christ--that he is God in the Flesh, Son Saviour, and Messiah--becomes INTELLIGIBLE through the deep work of the Spirit. 

The Jews and the Nashville Wrecking Crew strongly deluded and not able to read BLACK text on BROWN paper.

John 10:33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not;
        but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a MAN, makest thyself God.

Jesus and all of Scripture:

John 10:36 Say ye of him,
        whom the Father hath sanctified,  [when baptized 30 years after He came IN THE FLESH]
        and sent into the world,
        Thou [BLASPHEMIST]; because I said, I am the SON OF GOD?
John 10:37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.

Woodmont NOT APT: read on behalf of the shepherds on sunday, August 26, 2018 

THE PEOPLE PROMOTING INSTRUMENTS AS "WORSHIP" ARE PURPOSE DRIVEN.  God PROVIDES: they lie about 2 Chronicles 29 and are FORCED to try to lead the flock to a HOLOCAUST.

2Chr. 29:25 And he SET the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps,
        A. according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer,
        B. and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.

God had abandoned the Jews to worship the STARRY HOST so it is natural that Dad was a STAR GAZER

Thanksgiving Hymn (1QH 7

 

And they, teachers of lies and seers of falsehood,

have schemed against me a devilish scheme,

to exchange the Law engraved on my heart by Thee

for the smooth things which they speak to Thy people.

 

And they withhold from the thirst the drink of Knowledge, (Amos 5, 6, 8, Isa 5)

and assuage their thirst with vinegar,

that they may gaze on their straying,

on their folly concerning their feast-days (Jubilee, Feast of Tabernacles)

on their fall into their snares.

They have overtaken me in a narrow pass (gap) without escape

        And there is no rest for me in my trial.

They sound my censure upon a harp

and their murmuring and storming upon a zither." Ps.41:11

ALL OF THE APOSTATES SAY THAT THIS IS GOD'S COMMAND FOR INSTRUMENTS IN THE EKKLESIA OR SCHOOL OF CHRIST

NOTE THAT ALL OF THE ATONING AND RECONCILLIATION OFFERINGS ARE COMPLETE.
Finally we are having the HOLOCAUST: TO TOTALLY CONSUME IT.

2Chr. 29:26 A. And the Levites stood with the instruments of David,
                    B. and the priests with the trumpets.
2Chr. 29:27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar.
        And when the BURNT offering began,
        B. the song of the LORD began also with the trumpets,
        A. and with the INSTRUMENTS ordained by David KING of Israel.

HOWEVER, GOD ABANDONED THE JEWS AND YOU CONGREGATION AND NEVER COMMANDED THE HOLOCAUST OF GOATS AND INFANTS.

Jer. 7:21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
        Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
Jer. 7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers,
        nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
        concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
Jer. 7:23 But this thing commanded I them, saying,
        Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people:
        and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

Woodmont NOT APT: At the beginning of the year, the shepherds and ministers set aside 90 days for prayer and study regarding God’s desire for worship. Importantly, we were reminded that the lives we live are our worship to God. But our worship assemblies are also an important element of worship.

The kingdom does not come with observation meaning Religious Observation PERFORMED by hirelings for which God gave no ROLE and no DOLE.

THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST DEFINED THE CHURCH BOTH INCLUSIVELY AND EXCLUSIVELY IN THE PROPHETS.

Isaiah 32:1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness,
        and princes shall rule in judgment.
Isaiah 32:2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind,
        and a covert from the tempest;
        as rivers of water in a dry place,
        as the shadow of a great rock [Pē^tra] in a wearyland.

The Covenant is with the HOUSE or the LAITY excluding priests or Levites. Someone has turned you into SERFS because they want to be ALPHA MALES never moved beyond tribalism. APT elders as the only Pastor-Teachers are limited to "teaching that which has been taught." They never have to PRAY to be able to READ or SPEAK as the MARKS to exclude the Dogs, Catamites prowling around seeking someone to "devour."

THE SAFE HOUSE OF JESUS IS MARKED ALREADY.  THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE PATTERN THEY ARE HIDING FROM YOU.

Abs-condo  to put away, conceal carefully, hide, secrete (the access. idea of a careful concealmen
B. In gen., to make invisible, to cover: “fluvium et campos caede,” 

Tempestas  , a time, season, period, weather  2.  A storm, shower, i. e. a throng, multitude, etc.: “querelarum,” Cic. Pis. 36, 89: “turbida telorum,” Verg. A. 12, 284;

cēlo , to hide something from one, to keep secret, to conceal;
hospĭtālis , e, adj. hospes, I. of or relating to a guest or host, hospitable
a. Apartments for guests, guest-chambers, Vitr. 6, 10.—

umbra 4. A shade, shady place, that which gives a shade or shadow (as a tree, house, tent, “studia in umbrā educata,” in the closet, study, Tac. A. 14, 53; cf.: “rhetorica,” i. e. the rhetorician's school, Juv. 7, 173\
C.  Rest, leisure: “ignavā Veneris cessamus in umbrā,” Ov. Am. 2, 18, 3
stŭdĭum I. a busying one's self about or application to a thing; assiduity, zeal, eagerness, fondness, inclination, desire, exertion, endeavor, study (b). A place for study, a study, school (late Lat.): “philosophum (se egit) in omnibus studiis, templis, locis,”

doctrīna , ae, f. doctor, I.teaching, instruction (class.; cf.: litterae, artes, disciplina, praecepta, scientia, humanitas).
A. Object., the knowledge imparted by teaching, i. e. science, erudition, learning
B. Subject., the habit produced by instruction, principle: “mala studia malaeque doctrinae,” Cic. Leg. 2, 15 fin.: “neque id fecit naturā solum, sed etiam doctrinā,” Nep. Att. 17, 3

The Woman at the Well was smarter and more ethical than all of the end-time preachers.  She said that "When Messias comes He will TELL US ALL THINGS.  Jesus said that He was the Christ and that worship is IN THE SPIRIT which is a PLACE in contrast to Gerezim or Zion. Worship is IN TRUTH so that the only operative words for the "straight" sector is SPEAK or READ that which is written for our learning.

This began at Jubilee 1989 100 years after the Christian Church invented the PSALLO word to justify instruments and attempted to subvert churches of Christ.  This also lead up to the year 2000 which begins the SEVENTH day.

THIS IS IN THE BOOK.   Jesus doesn't pray for the WORLD, Kosmos, the ecumenical or the kingdom of Satan.
God hides from the Wise or SOPHISTS who are self-authoring preachers, singers or instrument players. Jesus called them HYPOCRITES.
Those who SPEAK the Word, Logos or Regulative principle will be HATED, HOUNDED and Cast out of their Synagogues by Demoniacs claiming that A spirit told them that sowing discord is now in style. The personified SPIRITUS is Apollon the leader of all MUSICAL WORSHIP TEAM where the Muses are LOCUSTS for Bible Readers. 

The BEAST is "a sudden, new style of music or Satyric drama."

Jeremiah 15:3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD:         the sword to slay,         and the DOGS to tear,         and the fowls of the heaven,         and the Beastias of the earth,         to devour and destroy. h3611  keleb, keh´-leb; from an unused root means. to yelp, or else to attack; a dog; hence (by euphemism) a male prostitute:—dog. Mălus , “gramina,” id. A. 2, 471: carmen, i. e. an incantation, As a term of abuse, plague, mischief, torment: “male tibi esse malo quam molliter,” I would rather you should be unfortunate than effeminate, THE Beastia -Besta 2.As a term of reproach (cf. belua and our Beastia): “mala tu es bestia,” Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 21; -Pl. Poen. 5.5.—And, humorously, of the odor of the armpits (cf. ala and caper. cappella), Cat. 69, 8.— II. Transf., as a constellation, the wotf, Vitr. 9, 4 (7)  cănis (cănes , Plaut. Men. 5, 1, 18; id. Trin. 1, 2, 133; B. “bestiarum vocabulum proprie convenit leonibus, pardis et lupis, tigribus et vulpibus, a. A shameless, vile person, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 40; Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 33 2. As the regular designation of the hangers-on or parasites of an eminent or rich Roman; a follower, dog, creature: a. Tergeminus, i. e. Cerberus. Ov. A. A. 3, 322; id. Tr. 4, 7, 16; “called also viperius,” id. Am. 3, 12, 26: “Tartareus,” Sen. Herc. Fur. 649: “triformis,” id. Herc. Oet. 1202: Echidnaea. Ov. M. 7, 409; cf.: “infernae canes,” Hor. S. 1, 8, 35; Verg. A. 6, 257; Luc. 6, 733. —— Trĭformis , e, adj. ter - forma, I. having three forms, shapes, or natures; threefold, triple, triform (poet.): “Chimaera,” Hor. C. 1, 27, 23: “canis,” i. e. Cerberus, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1202: “Geryon,” id. Agam. 841: All pagan god heads were trinitarian. diva, i. e. Diana, who was also Luna and Hecate, Hor. C. 3, 22, 4; called also triformis dea, Ov. M. 7, 94: “mundus, because composed of air, earth, and water,” id. ib. 15, 859 Pl. Bac. 1.1 Note: Your Bacchanalian den: "Bacchanal" was properly the place where the Bacchanalia,  or orgies [Paul's WRATH], were celebrated. He styles them "Bacchantes," and their house a "Bacchanal," in allusion both to their names and their habits 7 Mischievous serpent: "Mala tu's bestia." Literally, "you are an evil Beastia;" which sounds harsh to an English ear, even when applied to such an animal as Bacchis. Bacchanet minister of Bacchus.

This is the PATTERN of the Angels of Light: "We have an agenda to IMPOSE instruments and so Discord but you might BOLT.  However, if we pray for 40 days or 90 days then YOU will know that the Holy Spirit Person has given us "his" permission."

This is the PATTERN of the Angels of Light: we don't intend to study but just READ all of the music passages supplied by the Christian Church.

The Proof Texts are from the period of the Monarchy which God abandoned to WORSHIP THE STARRY HOST which included ABADDON. a word defining the service of the Jacob-cursed and God-abandoned Levites an old infant burning or HOLOCAUST priesthood from Africa.

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 Euphrainō , Ep. euphr-, fut. Att.155.12, Pi.I.7(6).3 II. Pass., make merry, enjoy oneself,  Xen. Sym. 7.5 ai. mēkhanēn, in the theatre, Antiph.191.15; so “epi tas mēkhanas katapheugousi theous 4. take up and bear, as a burden, “moron” A.Pers.547; “athlon” S.Tr.80; “algos” A.R.4.65. 2. raise by words, hence, praise, extol, E.Heracl.322, etc.; ai. logō to exaggerate, D.21.71 mēkha^n-ē  “panta sophismata kai pasas m. epepoiēkee es autous Dareios” Hdt. 3.152; mēkhanais Dios by the arts of Zeus, “sophistōn m.” Pl.Lg.908d

The practice in the wilderness, tyre and Jerusalem 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?

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 MADEto worship them:          and I will carry you away beyond Babylon. The Babylonian mother of Harlots in Revelation 17 in chapter 18 uses priests who are LUSTED AFTER FRUITS (the same as Amos 8) Rev. 18:21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. Rev. 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; Rev. 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy SORCERERS were all nations deceived. Rev. 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and SORCERERS, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Mark.10.They.Shall.Mock.Him.With.Music 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 2Peter 3:3 Knowing this first,         that there shall come in the last days scoffers,         walking after their own lusts, Empaig-ma , atos, to,  A. jest, mocking, delusion, LXX Is.66.4; magikês empaigmata technês Paizō , prop., play like a child, sport, “tē de th' hama Numphai . . agronomoi paizousi 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” X.Smp.9.2; “meta tinos” LXX Ge.26.8; of mares,

PAUL IN EPHESIANS 4 OUTLAWED CUNNING CRAFTSMEN OR SOPHISTS: SPEAKERS, SINGERS, INSTRUMENT PLAYERS.
They were not Spiritually and Biblically illiterate. Paul said THEY ARE LYING IN WAIT TO DECEIVE.

Jude referenced the Musical and Perverted PLAY at Mount Sinai which was without redemption.  Anyone not sticking with the WORD, he says, were FOREORDAINED.  They are old spirits unleashed by Apollon and His Muses who were adulterers (selling anything of God)

For our worship times together, four foundational principles were identified:

-Worship should honor God;

-Worship should be transformational;

WORSHIP IN SPIRIT. IS READING THE WORD, LOGOS OR REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE

Romans 12:1I 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.  
        ēn logikēn latreian humōn:

Rom. 12:2 And be not conformed to this world:
        but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,
        that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.


The Word or Logos is God's Spirit or Mind put into the mouth of Jesus. The Logos outlaws personal opinions or experiences, preaching, singing, playing instruments or acting all of which are known to MAKE THE LAMBS DUMB BEFORE THE SLAUGHTER.

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 himself
        is transformed 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.

Acts 17:23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription,
        TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you

[1.2.5] One of the porticoes contains shrines of gods, and a gymnasium called that of Hermes.In it is the house of Pulytion, at which it is said that a mystic rite was performed by the most notable Athenians, parodying the Eleusinian mysteries. But in my time it was devoted to the worship of Dionysus. This Dionysus they call Melpomenus (Minstrel), on the same principle as they call Apollo Musegetes (Leader of the Muses). Here there are images of Athena Paeonia (Healer), of Zeus, of Mnemosyne (Memory) and of the Muses, an Apollo, the votive offering and work of Eubulides, and Acratus, a daemon attendant upon Apollo; it is only a face of him worked into the wall.

After the precinct of Apollo is a building that contains earthen ware images, Amphictyon, king of Athens, feasting Dionysus and other gods.

Apollōn , ho, Apollo: gen. ōnos (also ō An.Ox.3.222): acc.

A.“Apollō” IG1.9, al., A.Supp.214, S.OC1091, Tr.209 (lyr.) (mostly in adjurations, nēton Apollōn, etc.), “Apollōna” Pl.Lg.624a, freq. later, Agatharch.7, etc.: voc. “Apollon” Alc.1, A.Th.159(lyr.), Cratin.186, etc.; “Apollōn” A.Ch.559; cf. Apellōn, Aploun.

II. Pythag. name of a number,

-[1.1.4] The Athenians have also another harbor, at Munychia, with a temple of Artemis of Munychia, and yet another at Phalerum, as I have already stated, and near it is a sanctuary of Demeter. Here there is also a temple of Athena Sciras, and one of Zeus some distance away, and altars of the gods named Unknown

Pausanias Greece Paus. 1.2 But in my time it was devoted to the worship of Dionysus. This Dionysus they call Melpomenus Apollo [Abaddon, Apollyon] Musegetes (Leader of the Muses). 

Mousagetēs ¹ doric for Mousēgetēs leader of the Muses, Lat. Musagetes, of Apollo, Plat1 Mous-a_getēs, ou, ho



Acts 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;Acts 17:25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands,
        as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;


Rom. 12:2 And be not conformed to this world:
         but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,
        that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and PERFECT WILL OF GOD




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 himself
        is transformed 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.

Woodmont NOT APT

-Worship should be edifying; and

-Worship should be missional.

After the end of the 90-day period of discernment, the shepherds and ministers affirmed that we found no scriptural requirement that the worship music in our Sunday morning assemblies remain a capella only.
        We also believed that including instrumental worship in our assemblies
        could enhance the four foundational principles for some of our members.

-Worship should honor God;

-Worship should be transformational;

-Worship should be edifying; and

-Worship should be missional.

After publicly announcing those understandings in April, the shepherds and ministers hosted listening sessions, inviting all to come, ask questions and share their perspectives. The listening sessions were well attended and provided a richness in varied perspectives – with some excitement and some angst. Also in the month of April, a Worship Renewal Team was commissioned to study our worship assemblies… get feedback from our members… get feedback from other churches who had already wrestled with the same questions… and then to bring a recommendation back to the shepherds and ministers, for the consideration of the shepherds.

During May and June, Jeff and the teaching team presented a series of lessons painting a grand image of worshipping the God of creation. We were exhorted to love one another, assuming the best motives in our brothers, and to submit ourselves and our own personal preferences to our brothers and sisters in unity.

Throughout the months of May, June and July, the Worship Renewal Team met and worked on their charge. Most of you – 578, to be exact – participated in the church-wide worship survey. All of the survey responses were not only considered in the formation of the recommendation, but significantly influenced the recommendation. The team was also influenced by best practices of other churches like us.

Next, the Worship Renewal Team presented their recommendation to a larger focus group of our church members, to receive feedback on how it was being heard. That process largely affirmed the recommendation. At the beginning of August, the Worship Renewal Team met with the shepherds and ministers to present their recommendation, provide its rationale, engage in conversation and answer questions.

At this point, we want to thank the members who participated on the Worship Renewal Team, including: Jeff Brown, Calvin Channell, Helen Derryberry, Brad Fisher, Sara Harvey, Lauren Sheppard, Jon Tate and Will Walker.

After hearing the recommendation, we met together on two other occasions to further discuss our worship assembly practices. I want to let you know that the shepherds are in agreement with each other and have decided to make the following changes in our worship assemblies.

First, concerning worship music in our Sunday morning assemblies, the second service on Sunday morning will begin to use instrumental praise in a significant way. The first service will continue the tradition of a capella music as it has been done to this point.

Second, as to our communion practice, worship leaders are encouraged to think creatively and use variety in the form of communion. While some enjoy the regular practice of family-style communion, many of you felt that the current practice of family-style communion does not uphold our four foundational worship principles.

Third, worship leaders are encouraged to increase the number of testimonies shared, as they can be one of the most transformative aspects of our assembly time.

Fourth, worship leaders and the church are encouraged to invite a broad and diverse group of people to share their gifts with the church family during and in support of our assembly times.

Finally, the church will make available the necessary resources to support these changes, specifically, by hiring a full-time worship minister to work alongside Michael and the other ministers.

So what comes next?

The full text of this announcement will be available on our website later today. Also, sessions are being scheduled for this Wednesday and next Sunday so that you can provide feedback to shepherds and ministers and ask questions you may have about the upcoming changes.

We have not yet developed specifics about how any new practices will be implemented, but we will certainly communicate them once they are confirmed.

I want to assure you that from the very beginning of this process, our desire has always been to be led by God’s Spirit. Our study showed God’s desire for our worship to be authenticated by the lives we live in the 167 other hours each week when we are not in the Great Hall. Even so, God’s word also emphasizes the importance of our assemblies. We know a capella music has been a defining characteristic of our tradition, but we wanted this process to be much more than a question of a capella versus instrumental music. Considering how to embrace the freedom we enjoy in Christ and introduce instrumental praise into our assemblies was the issue that was most difficult to discern. Some want to embrace both styles of music in all of our assemblies, yet we do not believe that right now is the time to make that move. Ultimately,

different worship practices are transformative to different groups of our body, and we want to make space for all.

We do not believe we have now reached the finish line. You may see other new worship practices at Woodmont Hills that were not specifically mentioned in the four points that were just presented. Worshipping the infinite God of the universe is not something that we have “solved.” If we were to spend 100% of our collective lives pursuing this end, our efforts would still be a thin glimpse of the glorious praise the angels know.

So… thank you for the grace you have shown to each other and to us throughout this process. And please continue to pray that God’s Spirit will lead us forward in unity and beautiful harmony.

 

Worship at Woodmont

Read on behalf of the shepherds on Sunday, April 8 2018

An Update from Shepherds and Ministers on Our Discernment Process

Woodmont Church Family,

On January 14, we announced that the shepherds and ministers were entering a 90-day period of DISCERNMENT concerning worship at Woodmont. 

Matt. 16:3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring.
        O ye HYPOCRITES, ye can discern the face of the sky;
        but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
Heb. 4:12 For the WORD of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword,
        piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit,
        and of the joints and marrow, and is a DISCERNER of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Heb. 5:14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age,
        even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Psa. 35:15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced,
        and gathered themselves together:
        yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not;
        they did tear me, and ceased not:

Psa. 35:16 With hypocritical MOCKERS in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

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

ludo to Especially to play on an instrument of music, to make or compose music or song: “ludere quae vellem calamo permisit agresti,” “quod tenerae cantent, lusit tua musa, puellae,” id. Am. 3, 1, 27: “coloni Versibus incomptis ludunt,” Verg. G. 2, 386: “carmina pastorum
B. to sport, dally, wanton (cf. "amorous play,"

Sabbath was never a day of WORSHIP but of REST.  A Holy Convocation was held on the first and eighty days of all gatherings for festivals or education.

A Holy Convocation never changed even for the NEW DAY OF REST.

Sabba^t-ismos , ho,

A.a keeping of days of rest, Ep. Hebr.4.9, cf. Plu.2.166a (codd., baptismous Bentley).

skholē , hē, A.leisure, rest, ease,
amphi heauton for one's own business, 2. c. gen., leisure, rest from a thing, “en tini skholē kakou
esp. learned discussion, disputation, lecture 2. a group to whom lectures were given, school,

skhol-azō , A.to have leisure or spare time, to be at leisure, have nothing to do, Devote oneself to a Master: Jesus is the ONLY Master Teacher even when Senior Pastors claim that THEY are.
II. s. apo tinos have rest or respite from a thing, cease from doing, X.Cyr. 7.5.52; apo tou Krōmnou were set free from the operations at K., Id.HG7.4.28; also “s. ergōn” Plu.Nic.28.
s. kalōs spend one's leisure well, Id.Pol.1337b31; s. eleutheriōs kai sōphronōs ib.1326b31:
3. abs., devote oneself to learning: hence, give lectures (cf. “skholē”
peri logous” Plu.Brut.22; “pros ennoia . . pros hauton” Id.Num.14.
esp. of students, study, attend lectures, devote oneself to a master, attend his lecture
3. abs., devote oneself to learning: hence, give lectures (cf. “skholē” 11), Apollon.Perg. Con. 1 Praef.; “s. Athēnēsin” Phld.Rh.1.95 S.; “en Lukeiō”

For several weeks we have been praying, reading, listening, and discussing the intersection of worship, mission, and heritage in our church life. We are considering the core values that should shape our practices, including, but not limited to, our practices concerning instrumental music. While we have not completed that 90-day period, we want to update you on what we are discerning at this point, and we want to invite you to join us in this process.

WHAT IS THE MARK?

Ezek. 33:30 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.
Ezek. 33:31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh,
        and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words,
        but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love,
        but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
Ezek. 33:32 And, lo,
        thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice,
        and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Ezek. 33:33 And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,)
        then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.

A SHEPHERD FEEDS LAMBS AND DOES NOT ENTERTAIN GOATS.

Ezek. 34:2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them,
        Thus saith the Lord God unto the shepherds;
        Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves!
        should not the shepherds feed the flocks?

We spent considerable time discussing the theological aspects of our worship practices. Years ago, Woodmont concluded that there are no scriptural prohibitions against the use of instruments and that this practice was a matter of opinion, tradition, and heritage.

2 Peter 2 Instrumental Music Marks Corruption.

2 Peter 2:13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness,\
        as they that count it pleasure [Hedonism: sensual pleasure, LUST. Outlawed Rom 15]
        to riot in the day time.
       Spots they are and blemishes,
       sporting themselves  Rising up to PLAY
        with their own deceivings
        while they feast with you

Truph-ē ,softness, delicacy, daintiness, 2 Ep.Pet.2.13; II. luxuriousness, wantonness, “tōn gunaikōn hē t.” Ar.Lys.387; t. kai akolasia, t. kai malthakia,

Paison paizô [pais] 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” X.Smp.9.2; “meta tinos” LXX Ge.26.8; of mares

[See Plato-Symposium]
Symposium;
Then, said Eryximachus, as you are all agreed that drinking is to be voluntary, and that there is to be no compulsion,
I move, in the next place, that the flute-girl, who has just made her appearance,
        be told to go away and play to herself, or, if she likes, to the women who are within.
        To-day let us have conversation instead; and, if you will allow me, I will tell you what sort of conversation. 

Jesus CAST OUT the flute girls and minstrels like dung to speak HIS Word.
tên...aulêtrida. It was the fashion at convivia to provide pipers, dancers, jesters, jugglers et hoc genus omne to amuse the guests.  aul-êtris , idos, hê, A.flute-girl,

Demosthenes 8 [34] As it is, by persuasive arts and caresses they have brought you to such a frame of mind that in your assemblies [Ekklesiais] you are elated by their flattery and have no ear but for compliments, while in your policy and your practice you are at this moment running the gravest risks. For tell me, in Heaven's name, if the Greeks should call you to account for the opportunities that your carelessness has already thrown away, and should question you thus:

truphaô , ( [truphê] ) 
2.revel in, entoisagathoistinos LXXSi.14.4 ; delight in, enagathôsunêisou ib.Ne.9.25.
A. live softly, luxuriously, fare sumptuously,, en ankalais mêtros truphêsai, of a child, E.Ion 1376, cf. Ba.969; t. en tais esthêsi Isoc.2.32 ; t. kai megaloprepôs diaitasthai X.Ath.1.11 ; leukos anthrôpos, pachus, argos . . , eiôthôs truphan Sosicr. 1 , cf. Ep.Jac.5.5, Gal.6.416, etc.; paison, truphêson, zêson: apothanein se dei Epigr.Gr.362.5 (Cotiaeum, ii/iii A. D.).
III.give oneself airs, be dainty, fastidious, connected to the Polus , Spoiled pets: en tais ekklêsiais t. kai kolakeuesthai, of the people,
Spoiled pets or demagogues in the ekklesia (church) who uses flattery to appease the masses.

A Christian is a Disciple and a Disciple is a STUDENT and the only textbook is the Word, Logos or regulative Principle. That which Jesus taught and commanded to be taught. There is ONE WAY decisions in a MASTER and his students.  Furthermore, THEOLOGY which dismisses Scripture, is the MARK of APOLLON who is the leader of the MUSES or LOCUSTS.

Theolog-os A.one who discourses of the gods, of poets such as Hesiod and Orpheus [one of the sects silenced in Rome] Arist.Metaph.1000a9, cosmologists
“theologoi kai poiētai” [poet, singers you make yourself] of diviners and prophets, “th. kai manties” Philol.14; hoi Delphōn th

This speaks of the Mad WOMEN of Corinth well documented.

Arist.Metaph.1000a9, The school of Hesiod, and all the cosmologists,
        considered only what was convincing to themselves,
        and gave no consideration to US.
For they make the first principles Gods or generated from Gods, and say that whatever did not taste of the nectar and ambrosia became mortal—
        clearly using these terms in a sense significant to themselves;
        but as regards the actual applications of these causes
        their statements are beyond our comprehension

manti^s  female witchcraft of Spiritual Formation. ho mantis mantin ekpraxas eme, of Apollo and Cassandra,
“ho Thrēxi m.” E.Hec.1267 (of Dionysus), That Thracian or Threskia as IMPURE religion. 2. metaph., presager, foreboder,
II. a kind of grasshopper, the praying mantis, Mantis religiosa, Theoc.10.18,

Delphoi , ōn, hoi, A.Delphi, “Delphōn es piona dēmon sacrificial meat.   [Paul cast out the Delphian spirit who used music]

Theolog-eō ,

A.discourse on the gods and cosmology, Arist. Metaph.983b29; “peri tinōn”c.; Dia auton ton Phaethonta [Jupiter, son of Apollon] zōogonon theologousi call him Zeus z. Antig.Mir. 10b:—Pass., ta theologoumena discourses about the gods,, Suet. Aug.94; “treis hai Moirai theologountai” Theol.Ar.16.

2. refer to a divine influence, tous tokous Sch.Ptol.Tetr.103.

zōogonos2 zōē  zōē
tēn zoēn poieesthai or katastēsasthai apo or ek . . to get one's living by .
II. zōē,= “graus” 11, the scum on milk,
zôos alive, living, Homer, Hdt., etc.; zôon helein [heresy or sectarianism] tina to TAKE PRISONER,

Zoe is EVE or Evah in feminine or effeminate worship so they have to slander Paul.  Evah means an abomination because she is the MEDIATRIX as the dirty Muses were called the SHEPHERDS.  There is a mother behind every progressive.

While we maintained our acapella HERITAGE  in the Sunday morning assembly,
        we have used instruments in many other settings,
        including First Wednesday Worship, Good Friday Services, Youth Worship, Camps,
        Children’s Worship, Sanctuary for college students,

WOODMONG AND JUBILEE BEGAN WITH THE PURPOSE OF DOING AN END-RUN AROUND THE OLDER MEMBERS WHO PURCHASED THE PROPERTY AND PAID THE DECEIVERS.

Also, I said, the State, if once started well, moves with accumulating force like a wheel. For good nurture and education implant good constitutions, and these good constitutions taking root in a good education improve more and more, and this improvement affects the breed in man as in other animals.

Very possibly, he said. Then to sum up: This is the point to which, above all, the attention of our rulers should be directed, -- that music and gymnastic be preserved in their original form, and no innovation made. They must do their utmost to maintain them intact. And when any one says that mankind most regard

The newest song which the singers have,
        they will be afraid that he may be praising, not new songs,
        but a new kind of song;
        and this ought not to be praised, or conceived to be the meaning of the poet;
        for any musical innovation is full of danger to the whole State, and ought to be prohibited.

So Damon tells me, and I can quite believe him;-
        he says that when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

Yes, said Adeimantus;  and you may add my suffrage to Damon's and your own. 

Then, I said, our guardians must lay the foundations of their fortress in music?

Yes, he said; the lawlessness of which you speak too easily steals in.
        Yes, I replied, in the form of amusement; and at first sight it appears harmless. 
            Why, yes, he said, and there is no harm; were it not that little by little this spirit of licence,
            finding a home, imperceptibly penetrates into manners and customs;
            whence, issuing with greater force,
            it invades contracts between man and man,
            and from contracts goes on to laws and constitutions, in utter recklessness,
            ending at last, Socrates, by an overthrow of all rights, private as well as public  (The Great Dialogs, Plato, Classic edition, p. 312)

ELDERS ARE COMMANDED TO TEACH THAT WHICH HAS BEEN TAUGHT: THEY DO NOT HAVE LIBERTY TO REMOVE THE LIBERTY OF THE LAMBS

AND MORE During this season of discernment, WE have unanimously affirmed that there is no Scriptural command to use acappella singing only, and that WE are free in Christ to reconsider this practice. So we have determined it is time to lift that restriction and begin a process of evaluating what changes should be made as we think more broadly about our worship. Affirming this freedom means we must now think about our assemblies theologically and missionally. We are in full agreement that the way we worship should be determined by how WE honor God, are led by the Spirit, build each other up, and are transformed by our time in worship and fellowship.

We THEN MOVED from theological discussions to consider the relationship between our assemblies and our mission.

Paul used Synagogue words for gathering, assemblying or coming together.  The synagogue was the church of Christ (the Rock) in the wilderness and was never changed.

Edersheim defined the synagogue.
John Calvin called for the Restoration of the Church of Christ
Defined the Synagogue from Numbers 10

And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, Deut 31:10

 

When all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. Deut 31:11

 

Gather (h6950) the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates,

that they may hear, and that they may learn,

and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: Deut 31:12

        This is the synagoguing which also outlaws instruments and loud rejoicing:

Gahal (h6950) kaw-hal'; a prim. root; to convoke: - assemble (selves) (together), gather (selves) together).

 

Qahal (h6951) kaw-hawl'; from 6950; assemblage (usually concr.): - assembly, company, congregation, multitude.

The church #1577 ekklesia - assembly, called out ones, set apart ones, congregation; in Hebrew this word is #6951 qahal (kahal) - a "synagogue" (E. W. Bullinger, Commentary on Revelation, p. 165-166), an assemblage, congregation, company from the root #6950 qahal meaning specifically a coming together, an assembling, a convocation, congregation; this word is used mostly for religious purposes (see William Wilson's Old Testament Word Studies, p. 92)

The LXX uses the word ekklesia to translate the Hebrew qahal. Qahal means to call, to assemble, and the noun form means a congregation or assembly. Solomon is called koheleth the Preacher, translated by the LXX ekklesiastes. The earliest known occurrence of the word is found in Job 30:28, ‘I cried in the congregation’. In the books of the law, qahal is rendered by the Greek word sunagoge, showing that the synagogue is the beginning of the New Testament church. Stephen in his speech which ended in his martyrdom referred to the history of Israel, and dwells for considerable length upon the one great leader Moses, saying in Acts 7:38:

‘This is he, that was in the CHURCH in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sinai’.

Over the years, much has changed in our culture, our church, and even among other Churches of Christ and our shared institutions.
        WE believe that we must consider whether our current practices in our assemblies
                will help us or hinder us from reaching unbelievers,
                discipling our children,
                and welcoming those we invite to our gatherings.

Matt. 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,
        All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Matt. 28:19 GO ye therefore, and TEACH all nations,
         baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matt. 28:20 TEACHING them to OBSERVE all things whatsoever I have COMMANDED you:
        and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

This is the end of g165 aion the MESSIANIC PERIOD.  There is no statute of limitations and Jesus promised to BE Holy Spirit Comforter guiding the Apostles into ALL TRUTH.

Our focus cannot be on what any of us personally prefer.

The Word or Logos is God's Regulative Principle and outlaws PERSONAL PREFERENCES. The elders have no authority to add THEIR PREFERENCE.  This is to accuse the faithful of being SELFISH.

Our focus must be on the mission that sent Jesus into this world and called us into God’s family.

Matt. 2:1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king,
        behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,

Thirty Years Later:

John 10:36 Say ye of him,
        whom the Father hath sanctified,
        and sent into the world,
        Thou blasphemest; because I said,
        I am the Son of God?
John 10:37 If I do not the works of my FATHER, believe me not.
John 10:38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works:
        that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

Whatever decisions we make should be driven by our mission to LOVE GOD, love each other, and LOVE THE WORLD  discernment has led us to a consensus that reconsidering some aspects of our assemblies could help us accomplish God’s mission.

JESUS PROMISED TO RETURN AS HOLY SPIRIT AND GUIDE THE APOSTLES INTO ALL TRUTH.  If one could DISCERN something contrary to Jesus' Word then Jesus died in vain and is no longer King, Teacher and High Priest.

1John 2:1 My little children, these things WRITE I unto you, that ye sin not.
        And IF any man sin, we have an advocate [PARACLETE] with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
1John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins:
        and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
1John 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him,
         IF we keep HIS commandments.
1John 2:4 He that saith, I know him,
        and keepeth not his commandments,
        is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
1John 2:5 But whoso keepeth his WORD,
        in him verily is the LOVE OF GOD perfected:
        hereby know we that we are in him.
1John 2:6 He that saith he abideth in him o
        Ought himself also so to WALK, even as he walked.

THE NEW COVENANT DEFINED INCLUSIVELY AND EXCLUSIVELY BY THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST IN THE PROPHETS::

Isaiah 59 command to SEEK THE OLD PATHS (roads, ways, Patterns)

Is. 59:16 And he saw that there was no MAN, and wondered that there was no INTERCESSOR: t
        herefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
Is. 59:17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate,
        and an helmet of salvation upon his head;
        and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.

Is. 59:18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay,
        fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies;
        to the islands he will repay recompence.
Isa 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west,
           and his glory from the rising of the sun.
           When the enemy shall come in like a flood,
           the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.

Isa 59:20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion,
        and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.

Is 59:21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD;
        MY SPIRIT that is upon thee , and
        My WORDS which I have put in thy mouth,
                shall not depart out of thy mouth,
                nor out of the mouth of thy seed,
                nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed, saith the Lord,
                from henceforth and for ever.

 

Our most recent discussions surrounded the pastoral implications of any decisions we may make about our assemblies and worship practices. We know that each of us is impacted personally by how we worship. We know that some have left our church family because of changes we have not made, and some may consider leaving if we do make changes. And we recognize that many of us have strong feelings about worship that involve aspects of our assemblies other than the way we sing—including the way we pray, take communion, and more. Whatever decisions come from this season, we are committed to lead us to love each other, listen to each other, and respect each other.

When Mark Phillips made the initial announcement on January 14, we pledged that this season would conclude with open and honest communication and that we would create space for dialogue as a church family. We are inviting you now to join us in that dialogue. We are asking you to continue to pray about these matters and to share with us what comes from your time in prayer. We aren’t asking for us all to push for our personal preferences. We are asking you to join with us in prayerfully discerning what God’s will is for our assemblies, how we can best fulfill our mission to reach people with the good news, and how can we continue to join together in worship and life as the Family of God at Woodmont Hills. And we want to hear what you feel God is saying.

We value your input, so on Wednesday, April 11, and Sunday, April 15, we will provide some focused opportunities to talk together about our assemblies, with more opportunities to follow. We also anticipate a survey of our church family. In the days ahead, we will take time for study, teaching, and prayer. No decisions have been made about what specific changes will be made in our Sunday assemblies, nor about when such changes will be made; and we will not make any changes without time for us to talk and pray together. Please continue to pray with us as we seek God’s will.

May the God of endurance and encouragement grant us to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together we may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Romans 15:5-6)

Your Shepherds and Ministers

Worship at Woodmont

read on behalf of the shepherds on sunday, january 14, 2018

At Woodmont, our desire is to be led by the Holy Spirit into worship that honors the Father and transforms us to become more like Jesus. Last January, we, as your shepherds, made a commitment to prayerfully consider the intersection of worship, mission and heritage. In the 2017 Vision and Mission Booklet that we handed out, we communicated, “Where heritage gives us effective and helpful expression to our love for God, we should listen. Where it does not, we must find other and new ways to express this love.” We said, “It is wise to keep our focus on mission rather than heritage as we encourage others to love God.”

We want you to know that the shepherds and ministers have been engaged in continual dialogue about worship at Woodmont. In the first three months of 2018, the shepherds and ministers will enter a time of discernment as we seek God’s will with regards to worship at Woodmont. Over the next 90 days, we will look intently at the intersection of worship, mission and heritage. We will be discussing different ways to structure our Sunday assemblies to engage seekers and longtime members alike. We will be evaluating our current policy regarding the use of instrumental music. And we will be looking for new ways to call more people into the mission of God. We are overwhelmed by God’s heart for the lost. The Good Shepherd left 99 sheep in the open field to pursue the 1 that was lost. We believe God’s people should reflect God’s heart!

This period of discernment will conclude with open and honest communication to the Woodmont family. We will consider worship policies and practices through the lens of our mission: Love God, Love Each Other, and Love the World. Yesterday, the shepherds and ministers gathered to consider worship from a theological perspective. We seek to honor God, above all others, as we worship. In February, we will be considering worship from a missional perspective. We want to mirror God’s love for the world with our assemblies. And in March, we will assemble to consider the pastoral implications of changing or maintaining our current worship policies and practices.

Insights that emerge from our time of discernment will be shared through congregational teaching in both large and small groups. We invite and encourage your questions, concerns, encouragement, and prayers. We value your input and we will create space for dialogue. While we know that we cannot “please” everyone we fully intend to lead everyone. Any changes in policy will be communicated well in advance of implementation. We are asking you to pray that God would lead us all. We are asking you to pray for us and to trust us. We are committing to open and honest communication. Above all, we are committing to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit.

We are excited about these discussions and the movement of the Spirit in this place. We are confident that God will continue to guide us and lead us as we seek to Love Him, to Love Each Other and Love the World!

And they all said, Amen!  Elders are narrowly circumscribed as APT and "teach that which has been taught."

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