Because Ronnie Norman as a few friends are reading off the script of the NACC pushed at one time by David Faust, it will help to look at his statement.
David Faust: I . In the Old Testament the Lord didn't merely "permit" the use of musical instruments as aids to worship. He commanded their use.
2. In the old Testament the Lord didn't merely "permit' the use of musical instruments as aids to worship. He blessed their use.
Second Chronicles 5:14 adds an important point about the dedication of the temple. After the instrumentalists and the singers joined together in united praise to the Lord, the next verse says, "Then the temple of the Lord was filled with a cloud, and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God" God's "glory" in the form of a cloud was an expression of God's joy, pleasure, approval, and delight.The Warrior musicians (made noise) under the KING and COMMANDERS of the army engage in joint animal sacrifices with the priests: these are for dedication or purification of the CIVIL leaders or the HOUSE not built for God which might be separated from one another by centuries. It would hardly be a legalistic PATTERNISM for something to do in the ekklesia or church which is a "school of the Bible" only.
God was making known His presence in a very intense and powerfful way. The people not only honored the Lord as they played instruments and sang together, but they did so withh God's full and hearty approval. The Lord didn't just put up with the use of musical instruments; He smiled upon it, and expressed great delight and pleasure in the way His people praised Him through a combination of singing an instrumental accompaniment
c. 960 B.C. Solomon's Dedication of the Temple built with slave labor and by selling some cities into foreign hands.But, that ignores the immediate context and the story line beginning at Mount Sinai. It was because of musical idolatry that God turned the national system over to "worship the starry host" (Acts 7). God removed the covenant of Grace and gave them the Law of Moses.
c. 715 B.C. Hezekiah's Plague Stopping by Cleansing the Temple [247 years]
Still later, when the elders fired God and demanded a king God knew that it was so they could "worship like the nations." If you read the Samuel literature you will hear God warning that the kings would enslave them and carry out the captivity and death sentence imposed at Mount Sinai. One of the curses was that the "senior pastor" would take the young boys to make instruments of chariots with which they would run before the war chariots and mostly get killed.Thriambeuo (g2358) three-am-byoo'-o; from a prol. comp. of the base of 2360 and a der. of 680 (mean. a noisy iambus, sung in honor of Bacchus); to make an acclamatory procession, i.e. (fig.) to conquer or (by Hebr.) to give victory: - (cause) to triumph (over).
Psa. 41:11 By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
7321. ruwa roo-ah´; a primitive root; to mar (especially by breaking); figuratively, to split the ears (with sound), i.e. shout (for alarm or joy):blow an alarm, cry (alarm, aloud, out), destroy, make a joyful noise, smart, shout (for joy), sound an alarm, triumph.Theodoret (Quasten, Music & Worship, p. 65) claimed that the Jews brought liturgical music from Egypt and Philo wrote that "Moses learned rhythm, harmony, meter and everything concerned with instrumental music from the Egyptians." This is why Moses knew that the noise at Mount Sinai was not the sound of defeat or of victory. Rather, it was the "sound of them singing that I hear."
The Jews sang in the type of the Egyptian threnodies (elegies for the dead):
Thus they made a golden bull, the image of an animal that was held to be the most sacred in that land; they offered unholy sacrifices, performed impious dances and sang hymns which differed in no way from the pagan mourning songs. Philo, De specialibus legibus
"The Israelite state was not founded with divine blessing. Rather, it was allowed as a grudging concession, just as a parent lets a child have his way in order that he may learn his folly from experience." (Anderson, Bernard, Theology of the O.T. p. 163).Because the system was Sabazianism we know that the system was identical to that at Tyre, Egypt or in Babylon.
Ecclesiasticus 48 which was in the 1611 KJV notes:
1. Then the prophet Elijah arose like a fire, and his word burned like a torch.
8. who anointed kings to inflict retribution,
2. He brought a famine upon them, and by his zeal he made them few in number.
3. By the word of the Lord he shut up the heavens, and also three times brought down fire.
4. How glorious you were, O Elijah, in your wondrous deeds! And who has the right to boast which you have?
5. You who raised a corpse from death and from Hades, by the word of the Most High;
6. who brought kings down to destruction, and famous men from their beds;
7. who heard rebuke at Sinai and judgments of vengeance at Horeb;
and prophets to succeed you.
O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help. Hosea 13:9I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? Hosea 13:10
I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath. Hosea 13:11
Before looking at 2 Chronicles chapter 5 you might look at chapter 4: there you will see the description of many things which are clearly idols. That is not surprising since they were involved in a Goyim or Gentile form of sacrificial system: God had not commanded sacrifices until they fell into musical idolatry and then He simply abandoned them to do what was in their heart.The Image below is of an Egyptian Throne Chair which makes sense that the Ark as a Mercy Seat was a throne. God had turned them back to their old Egyptian paganism.
2Chr. 5:1 Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished:
and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated;
and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments,
put he among the treasures of the house of God.
Stephen has told the Jews that their temple and whole system was not by the command of God. He notes that the Tabernacle made after the heavenly tabernacle and had no musical noise connected with it originally:
Acts 7:44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.Even in the wilderness, the curse of the law BECAUSE of musical idolatry caused the tribe of Levi to bear the burden of the sacrifices. Their service is called hard bondage. The national Levites performed AT but never IN the holy places. At the same time the godly Israelites were QUARANTINED from the temple. Therefore, if you resist the Holy Spirit, build a house and do a temple dedication you MUST restrict it to the preacher and elders NEITHER of which can go into the "church house." You MUST not let the congregation even WATCH you perform this vile ceremony.
Acts 7:45 Which also our fathers that came after brought
in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles,
whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
Who found favour before God, Acts 7:46
A. and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
B. But Solomon built him an house Acts 7:47
C. Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet. Acts 7:48
Acts 7:49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool:
what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?
Acts 7:50 Hath not my hand made all these things?
Acts 7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears,
ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
By building "god a house" which apparently thought about instruments long ago and slowly--as confessed--conditioning people by using instruments in other venues and then appealing to this Temple Dedication animal slaughter, Stephen might say that they resist the Holy Spirit.
Therefore,
2Chr. 5:2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem,
to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
ZION is the place God selected for the TENT and zion is the name for the heavenly rest of God's people. David has built his TENT on Zion but now Solomon has built God a HOUSE without authority. He is REMOVING "God" whom he believes is in the box FROM ZION up to Moriah alongside the Jebusite High Places where Canaanite Baalism is taking place.
2Chr. 5:3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king
in the feast which was in the seventh month.
2Chr. 5:4 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.
2Chr. 5:5 And they brought up the ark,
and the tabernacle of the congregation,
and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle,
these did the priests and the Levites bring up.
The Levitical Warrior musicians who never made music but noise were under the king and the commanders of the army. The Temple was by Solomon's choice for Solomon's glory as a national shrine and bank for the people's confiscated wealth. Whatever part they ever had was in service of the KING and not a religious function.
2Chr. 5:6 Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel
that were assembled unto him before the ark,
sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
WHERE DID SOLOMON GET ALL OF THOSE ANIMALS SINCE HE WAS NOT A FARMER
Now, Solomon was not a farmer and the tithe was intended for the civil services of the Levites: this amounted to 3/7 of the tithe of food only from those given free farms. The priests and levites got a daily dole of food when on duty and when they went home they made their own living. I am quite certain that those "resisting the Holy Spirit" in the words of Stephen have never read WHY there were kings in the first place.
It sounds like preachers have moved from being ministers or servants to wanting to be a KINGS SET OVER YOU. He wants everyone to feed him, entertain him and help him do worship wars. This is predicted of those who try to be mighty nations replacing the tribal leaders:1Sa 8:7 And the LORD said unto Samuel,
Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee:
for they have not rejected thee,
but they have rejected me,
that I should not reign over them.1Sa 8:8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day,
wherewith they have forsaken me,
and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.This is when they rose up in musical idolatry and God truned them over to worship the Starry Host. David's SEER was a Star Gazer, Jerusalem was a Jebusite High Place and the worship was mostly Sabianism.
1Sa 8:9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice:
howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them,
and show them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
1Sa 8:10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.
1Sa 8:11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you:
He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots,
and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
1Sa 8:12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties;
and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest,
and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
1Sa 8:13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
1Sa 8:14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards,
even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
1Sa 8:15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards,
.......... and give to his officers, and to his servants.
"When tribes grew too large for effective co-operation (and inbred), they often became subdivided into smaller kinship groups (clans, sibs, gentes) which continued to regard each other as close allies. Government was exercised by individual chieftains assisted by councils of elders" (p. 26).
"In this fashion evey common tribal interest--the recurrence of the seasons, the increase of the food supply, successful hunting--was likely to become embodied
This is always to BIND people to the KING set over us because it brings glory to him.in some regularly repeated ceremony, which usually included group dancing, singing, and feasting.
Besides enabling men to express, and thereby to allay, ANGER and ANXIETY, such ceremonies also promoted tribal UNITY and strengthened the loyalty of the individual to TRIBAL TRADITION, for the emotional excitement they aroused had the effect of breaking down the barriers between individuals and thus fusing all tribesmen into a collective whole. Meanwhile, whole systems of magical devices were gradually elaborated." (H. Bamfort Parkes, Of Gods and Men p. 29)So, the expense of broken families and the cost of a musical performance is born by those who are FLEECED since the church volunteers but has no LAW OF GIVING."The development both of religion and of the arts can be traced back in a continuous line to the hunting era. The group ritual of the primeval tribesmen were the origin not only of all religious ceremonial, but also of the drama and of poetry and music, while magic gave birth to the visual arts." (Parkes, Henry Bamford, On Gods and Men, p. 30).
"Awed by the mysteries of his own spirit no less than by those of nature, primitive man was likely to attribute to divine influence any abnormal emotional state, whether above or below the usual level. Medicine men customarily went into states of trance in which they were believed to be in communication with the gods, and many tribes supposed lunatics and sexual deviants to be divinely possessed.
However, the Spirit of Christ spoke through the prophets who always repudiated the sacrificial system because it had been IMPOSED as part of the "worship of the starry hosts. That is what Stephen was trying to tell them by referring to the musical idolatry at Mount Sinai and recorded by Amos:
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel;
Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. Jeremiah 7:21
For I spake NOT unto your fathers, nor commanded them I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Amos 5:21 in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: Jeremiah 7:22Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. Amos 5:22
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs;
for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. Amos 5:23BUT 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. Jeremiah 7:23BUT let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream Amos 5:24
Amos 5:25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?BUT they HEARKENED NOT, nor inclined their ear,
but walked in the counsels
and in the imagination of their evil heart,
and went backward, and not forward. Jeremiah 7:24Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day,
I have even sent unto you all MY servants the PROPHETS, daily rising up early and sending them: Jeremiah 7:25Yet they HEARKENED NOT unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. Jeremiah 7:26
Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them;
but they will not hearken to thee:
thou shalt also call unto them;
but they will not answer thee. Jeremiah 7:27Amos 5:26 BUT ye have borne the tabernacle of your and Moloch and Chiun [#666] your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
They burned infants to the beat of instruments in 2 Chron 28 just before the PURGE and EXORCISM and in chapter 30 just AFTER Hezekiah's ceremony SOLELY to get the priests to return to Jerusalem to help defend it.
Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity
beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
This was the sentence conditionally imposed because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. Canaan as the promised land became the Killing Fields as God let the kings lead them into captivity and death.
2Chr. 5:7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place,
to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place,
even under the wings of the cherubims:
2Chr. 5:8 For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark,
and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
Like Jachin and Boaz which were Hermes or vivid phallic pillars, the Cherubim were idols. Because the temple was built by Hiram the Masonic Architect it comes as no surprise that it looked like the one at Tyre and other areas. Here is a picture of Hiram's Throne Chair:
The Bible noted that the Cherubim's wings were "extended," and this is a feature of the Late Bronze Age thrones. The winged sphinxes' wings extend to become side arms, so that the god seated on the throne, can be said to be enveloped by the Cherubim's wings- perhaps this feature explains the statement made of the King of Tyre in Phoenica, and the allusion to a "covering Cherub"? Phoenician Cherubim thrones exist in stone as bas-reliefs and as three-dimensional thrones as late as the 3rd century BCE. Phoenician art portrays gods and goddesses seated in these thrones in bas-reliefs, seals, and three-dimensional forms.
Of course, when David danced before the LORD he believed that God was really capture IN the box and not ON the Box.
2Chr. 5:9 And they drew out the staves of the ark,
that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle;
but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.
2Chr. 5:10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb,
when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
Now, it is perfectly clear that the symbolic presence of God in a small open tent where everyone could see it has been moved into a blacked-our HOUSE because he thought that God should dwell in DARKNESS. That, of course, would put Jehovah which the monarchy did not worship away in His "closet" and Solomon could be in total charge.
2Chr. 5:11 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place:
(for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:
2Chr. 5:12 Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun,
with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen,
having cymbals and psalteries and harps,
stood at the east end of the altar,
and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
From this plan it is very clar that altar was OUTSIDE of the Holy Buildings and walled in from anyone. At that time the civilians woud be OUTSIDE the gates. Herod's Temple (not God's) was probably similar.H622 Asaph aw-saf' A primitive root; to gather for any purpose; hence to receive, take away, that is, remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.); assemble, bring, consume, destroy, fetch, gather (in, together, up again), X generally, get (him), lose, put all together, receive, recover [another from leprosy], (be) rereward, X surely, take (away, into, up), X utterly, withdraw.
"Such terms as 'Asaph,' 'Heman' and 'Ethan' or 'Jeduthun' are evidently used by the Chronicler to designate musical guilds, and in the case of 'Heman' and 'Ethan' are closely paralleled by scores of abbreviated names found at Ugarit and elsewhere, and are characteristically Canaanite and early, not appearing in later Hebrew lists of contemporary names." (Unger, Merrill, Archaeology and the Old Testament, Zondervan, P. 217)
"David introduced innovations in the age and service of the Levites (I Chron. 23-26). Certain Levites, particularly Asaph, became musicians and probably wrote some of the Psalms." (Living Bible Ency., p. 1143)
women prior to David
The more ancient drawings picture the temple as a Ziggurat because it served the same function with the same officials and practices as a Babylonian temple. It also fleeced the people so that THEY served the agents of the gods. The two pillars flanking the "vagina" into all pagan temples and many churches as a womb are Jochin and Boaz. There were seen in most Greek temple areas are were hermes or phallic symbols with a real "head" of Hermes on top.
2Chr. 5:13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one,
to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD;
and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick,
and praised the LORD, saying,
"For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: "
that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;
Sound is never music in the Bible:H6051 Anan aw-nawn' From H6049 ; a cloud (as covering the sky), that is, the nimbus or thunder cloud: cloud (-y).
H6049 Anan aw-nan' A primitive root; to cover; used only as denominative from H6051 , to cloud over; figuratively to act covertly, that is, practise magic: bring, enchanter, Meonemin, observe (-r of) times, soothsayer, sorcerer.
6963. qowl, kole; or lOq qol, kole; from an unused root meaning to call aloud; a voice or sound: aloud, bleating, crackling, cry (+ out), fame, lightness, lowing, noise, + hold peace, (pro-)claim, proclamation, + sing, sound, + spark, thunder(-ing), voice, + yell.
MUSIC is singing:
7892. sheer; or feminine h∂rˆyv shiyrah, shee-raw´; from 7891; a song; abstractly, singing: musical(-ick), x sing(-er, -ing), song.
PRAISING:
1984. halal, haw-lal´; a primitive root; to be clear (orig. of sound, but usually of color); to shine; hence, to make a show, to boast; and thus to be (clamorously) foolish; to rave; causatively, to celebrate; also to stultify:--(make) boast (self), celebrate, commend, (deal, make), fool(-ish, -ly), glory, give (light), be (make, feign self) mad (against), give in marriage, (sing, be worthy of) praise, rage, renowned, shine.
2Chr. 5:14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud:
for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.
The darkness was so thick that light would not shine. Whether it is glory in a good way or an evil way, the message is that YOU cannot minister or serve in the presence of God. This cut off the symbolic presence of God, the Word of God in the Ark and Grace under the mercy seat.
3519. kabowd, kaw-bode´; rarely -glorious(-ly), glory, honour(-able).
Exodus 24:17
2 Chronicles 7:2
3513. kabad, kaw-bad´; or dEb;Dk kabed, kaw-bade´; a primitive root; to be heavy, i.e. in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable; causatively, to make weighty (in the same two senses):—abounding with, more grievously afflict, boast, be chargeable, x be dim, glorify, be (make) glorious (things), glory, (very) great, be grievous, harden, be (make) heavy, be heavier, lay heavily, (bring to, come to, do, get, be had in) honour (self), (be) honourable (man), lade, x more be laid, make self many, nobles, prevail, promote (to honour), be rich, be (go) sore, stop.
The Kabod or glory of God means that "You are not able to come into my presence." When Israel rose up in musical idoaltry the people became STRANGERS. Thereafter only the High Priest could come close to God once a year. God is not getting sexually aroused as all pagan musical idolaters believed.
1. Kabad (h3513) A primitive root; to be heavy, that is, in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) abounding with, more grievously afflict, boast, be chargeable, be grievous, harden,
Ge 18:20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
Isaiah 47:5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans (astrologer, etc.): for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
Isaiah 47:6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand:
thou didst shew them no mercy;
upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
Isa 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
H3514 kôbed ko'-bed From H3513 ; weight, multitude, vehemence:--grievousness, heavy, great number Vehemence of fire, Isa 30:27, multitude, Nah 3:3, Heaviness, grievousness of war, Isaiah 21:15Polluted is:
Chalal [h2490] to wound, to dissolve; fig. to profane (a person, place or thing), denom. (from 2485) to play (the flute): defile, gather the grape thereof, take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute,
2. "At the calf of Beth-aven the inhabitants of Samaria tremble, for its people will mourn over it and wail over it, over its kabôd which has gone into exile. The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria, as tribute to the great king. Ephraim shall be put to shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of its idol." - Hosea 10:5-6This means that YOU will never be able to approach God again: you are SENTENCED to exile BECAUSE of the musical idolatry at Mount Sinai and BECAUSE you demanded a king of whom I WARNED you would take you into exile and death.
The True House of Israel which existed at the Tabernacle until the mortal sin of David.
"I will be for them a sanctuary in small measure in the lands where they have gone." - Ezekiel 11:14-16
"From now on, Ezekiel affirms, it will be among the exiles that Yhwh's presence is manifested at all, albeit in small measure. Yhwh will henceforth be found in the midst of the true house of Israel, which now consists of the community in exile (11:15). Far from abandoning the exiles, Yhwh has abandoned Jerusalem."
When God's glory in PITCH BLACKNESS too thick to enter except once a year by the High Priest, when the glory removes to OUTSIDE in the COURT it is bright and shiny.
Ezek. 1:28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake
Ezek. 10:4 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD’S glory.
Ezek. 10:18 Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims.
5051.núnogahh, no´-gah; from 5050; brilliancy (literally or figuratively):—bright(-ness), light, (clear) shining.
Jer. 13:16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
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