This
would be some trick: Ralph cannot find a single instance
of God in Christ approving instruments or any form of
MUSIC which is not speaking to teach "that which is written." He would have to explain
why Lucifer is called the "singing and harp-playing
prostitute"
who was in the garden of Eden. He would have to catch a
glimps of the word stranslated SERPENT in the garden of
Eden to discover that this was a common term for MUSICAL
ENCHANTERS. The serpent in the end times is OPIS which is
included in the word sOPHISst. Rhetoricians, sOPHISts,
singers and musicians practiced SORCERY in the Greek
literature. Because they performed no USEFUL work they
were called PARASITES.
Parasitos, ho, one who eats at the table of another, and repays
him with flattery and buffoonery, parasite
........ II. of priests who had their
meals at the public expense
God permitted a pagan
form of ritual because the elders "fired" God and
demanded a king like the nations. God understood this to
means so we can worship like the nations. He declared
that they would not get by with this and He facilitated
their trip to Babylon.
ALL sacrificial altars
came into disrepute: a house of merchandise and a den of thieves. Those who served these
pagan altars were known as PARASITES. When animal
sacrifices ceased, the priestlings and musicians just
KEPT ON being parasites--even after Jesus put an end to
them all.
Parasite๔ 1 [from parasi_tos]
I. to play the
parasite or toad-eater, Luc.
II. to be honoured with a seat at the public
table,
Plut.
Speaking of those
seduced by music in many documents such as The Book
of Enoch quoted by Jude to explain FOR WHOM God will
come in judgment:
But these speak evil of those things which
they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they
corrupt [waste away from a
musical note] themselves. Jude 1:10
Woe unto them for
they have gone in the way of Cain [meaning a musical
note],
and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for
reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. Jude
1:11
Raging waves of
the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved
the blackness of darkness for ever. Jude 1:13
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they
feast with you, feeding themselves
without fear: clouds they are without water, carried
about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice
dead, plucked up by the roots; Jude 1:12
Paul understood that
one cannot SING externally and SPEAK externally at the
same time. Neither could he find any basis for
supposing that SING and PLAY are one word.
He also knew that
there were words which meant PLAY but he did not use
any of the dozen or so. For instance:
K๔m๔idoloiche๔ 1 [leich๔] to play the parasite and buffoon, Ar.
Kumbal-iz๔ , play the cymbals
Lur๔ide๔ , play the lyre
Cithari-zo kithariz๔, to play on
or strike the cithara
Lucian of Samosata defines
instrumentalist and performers as parasites although
he says that one does not require a musical
instrument to be a parasite.
"This was the lady
whom Dinias's
parasites now associated with them; they played their subordinate part
well, and between them fairly hustled the boy into a
passion
for Chariclea.
"Such a finished
mistress of the art of perdition, who had ruined plenty
of victims before, and acted love-scenes and swallowed fine fortunes
without number, was not likely to let this simple
inexperienced youth out of her clutches..
"The rest, of
course, was easy. How was he to resist this pretty woman, with her captivating
manners, her well-timed tears, her parenthetic sighs? Lingering farewells,
joyful welcomes, judicious airs and graces, song and lyre,--all were brought to
bear upon him. [Does that sound like Jimmy Swaggart?]
Maybe it is because
MUSIC has always been an UNFAIR weapon to massage people
in order to get them to fall into a charismatic state.
Maybe it is NOT that they couldn't carve out a flute
from bamboo. Maybe God thinks that it is EVIL to USE
music in order to USE people when everyone knows that it
like getting a lady drunk on a drug so you can mollest
her. Maybe it is NOT because people knew that pagans
used instruments and the simple-minded red-necks just
wanted to OUTRAGE the people from North Palestine.
From A PORTRAIT-STUDY Lucian notes that MAYBE music and
rhetorical speaking is the MARK of an effeminate
performer and the "treasurers" KNOW that the best way to
attract the masses is to put on a SHOW. Plato notes that
music and drama always subjects the PLAYERS to "gender
bleed."
"The pitch,
exquisitely soft, as far removed from masculine bass as from ultra-feminine treble, is that of a boy before his voice breaks;
sweet,
seductive, suavely penetrating; it ceases, and still vibrating murmurs
play,
echo-like, about the listener's ears, and Persuasion
leaves her honeyed track upon his mind.
But oh! the joy, to hear her sing,
and sing to the lyre's accompaniment.
"Let swans and halcyons and cicalas [locusts] then be mute. There is
no music like hers; Philomela's self, 'full-throated
songstress' though she be, is all unskilled beside
her. Methinks Orpheus and Amphion, whose spell drew even lifeless things to hear them,
would have dropped their lyres and stood listening in
silence to that voice. What should Thracian Orpheus,
what should Amphion, whose days upon Cithaeron were
divided betwixt his lyre and his herd,-
what should they
know of true concord, of accurate rhythm, of accentuation and time, of the harmonious adaptation of lyre and voice, of easy and graceful execution?
Clement notes that all of the
musical gods were perverted: But perhaps when he was such he was a
man; but now these fables seem to have grown old on
our hands. Zeus is no longer a serpent, a swan, nor an eagle, nor a licentious man;
the god no longer flies, nor loves boys, nor kisses, nor offers
violence, although there are still many beautiful
women, more comely than Leda, more blooming than
Semele, and boys of better looks and manners than the Phrygian herdsman. Where is now that
eagle? where now that swan? where now is Zeus himself?
He has grown old with his feathers; for as yet he does
not repent of his amatory exploits, nor is he taught
continence. The fable is exposed before you: Leda is
dead, the swan is dead. Seek your Jupiter. Ransack not
heaven, but earth.
Apollo
The manifold symbols of Apollo correspond
with the multitude of his attributes. The commonest is
either the lyre or the bow, according as he was conceived as the god of song or as the far-hitting archer. The Delphian
diviner, Pythian Apollo, is indicated by the tripod,
which was also the favourite offering at his altars.
Among plants, the bay, used for purposes of expiation, was early sacred to
him. (See Daphn้.) It was planted round his temples,
and plaited into garlands of victory at the Pythian Games. The palm-tree was also
sacred to him, for it was under a palm-tree that he
was born in Delos. Among animals, the wolf, the
dolphin, the snow-white and musical swan, the hawk, raven, crow,
and snake were under his special protection; the last
four in connection with his prophetic functions.
Apollo exercises an
elevating
and inspiring influence on the mind as god of music, which, though not
belonging to him alone any more than atonement and prophecy, was yet pre-eminently
his province.
In Homer he is
represented only as a player on the lyre,
while song is the province of the
Muses;
but in course of time he grows to be the god, as they are the goddesses, of song and poetry, and is therefore Mousaget๊s (leader of the Muses)
as
well as master of the choral dance, which goes with music
and song. And as the friend of all that
beautifies life he is intimately associated with the
Graces [Graces meaning
CHARIS meaning Charismatic meaning the MARK of
homosexual "worship"]
Mousaget๊s 1 [doric for
Mous๊get๊s] leader of the Muses, Lat. Musagetes, of
Apollo, Plat.
Ganymede:
"Upon hearing that
Ganymede was to be cup bearer as well as Zeus' lover, the infinitely
jealous Hera was outraged. Therefor Zeus set
Ganymede's image among the stars as the
constellation Aquarius, the water carrier.
Aquarius was originally the Egyptian god over the Nile. The
Egyptian god poured water not wine from a flagon.
"All of Zeus'
scandalous liaisons have allegorical meanings. Zeus' torrid affair with
Ganymede was a religious justification for homosexuality within the Greek
culture.
Before the
popularity of the Zeus and Ganymede myth spread,
the only
toleration for sodomy was an external form of goddess worship. Cybele's male
devotees tried to achieve unity with her by
castrating themselves and dressing like women.
"While Platonic love
needed women for regeneration purposes (grow the
attendance)
the
philosopher used this myth to justify his
sexual feelings towards his all male pupils.
Cica-da
(tettix). A
species of insect, frequently mentioned
by the classical writers. It is originally a
caterpillar, then a chrysalis, and is converted into
a fly late in the spring. Its song is much louder and shriller than that of the grasshopper.
The ancient
writers, and especially the poets, praise the
sweetness of their song; and Plutarch says they were
sacred to
the Muses. According to Aelian, only the male
cicada sings, and that in the hottest weather. This is confirmed by
the discoveries of modern naturalists. The cicada is
extremely common in the south of Italy. It is found
also in the United States, being called in some
parts "the harvest-fly," and in others, very
erroneously, "the locust."
You CANNOT miss that
Paul speaks of internal MELODY and all of the perverted
"religionists" thought of HARMONY, singing and musical
instruments. We have noted that the meaning of HARMONY
invented by Apollo or Abaddon or Apollyon means MOVING
TOGETHER as in the perverted threskia form of religion.
Then, he would have to
fly over to Revelation and understand that the sOPHISts
or professional, enchanting speakers are the SERPENTS or
OPHIS who are enchanting or charming. He would have to
grasp why John identifies the holy whore who, in his
island world, was burried within view of Patmos: she was
in Legend and therefore John's symbol of false religion
CIRCE whom we worship every time we say the word CHURCH.
And the voice of harpers, and musicians [MUSES], and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more
at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he
be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of
a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; Rev
18:22
The MUSICIANS were the
MUSES employed by Apollo or Abaddon or Apollyon. They
were in the legends John used the LOCUSTS or musical
performers as any reader of the Classics grasps. The
craftsmen are the Greek word TECHNE: they were gifted
rhetoricians, sOPHISts, singers, musicians, house
builders and "stage managers."
Because the Bible does
not identify SINGING in the external ODEING form it
would be pretty strange if Christ authorized
INSTRUMENTAL ACCOMPANIMENT for something which was NEVER
DONE in the synagogue or the churches of Christ.
Singing in the
external ODEING sense created mental excitement which
Paul outlawed as PLEASURING one another in Romans 15.
Only then by following CHRIST'S PATTERN they could speak
"that which is written" with one mind and one voice.
That defines a synagogue and not CHURCH as a pagan
worship center.
Click here
to see how singing externally is connected to LIFTING people
up which in the sacrificial systems was "to cut their
throat." This musical practice of making a great,
crashing sound is the meaning of HERESY: using music to
lift people up to carry them away for YOUR OWN USES.
Ralph will not find
any form of SINGING in the ritualistic sense until
Ephraim INTRODUCED singing as "an act of worship" in the
mid 4th century. Justin and others speak of singing the
PSALMS which is what Paul commanded. Their singing was SAYING or using the normal inflections of
speech to speak GOD'S word which is the only way you can teach
one another.
A. Ralph Johnson: I do so with a background of many years of
facing attacks
by anti-instrumentalists calling in question
our intelligence, honesty and courage, but
recognizing that much of this is from those who even
other anti-instrumental brethren call, "Antis."
I have tried to
make my response to the point, even if it
sometimes seems blunt. Some people understand nothing
else.
Honest research
proves thar Ralph's POINT is BLUNT.
I challenge Ralph to
find ONE
published book which attacks the character of
instrumentalists. I know of no book which does not
objectively say what EVERYONE knew until the Christian church in 1878 invented the PSALLO as an
authority argument. However, because of the HIGH CHURCH
view which is just MADE UP theology, there was never any
hint of needing an excuse.
But, since I am a
retired engineer and NOT a preacher I can tell you after
collecting MOST of the world's major works on MUSIC AS
WORSHIP that you cannot be too bright and not see that
the Bible radically repudiates external rituals in the worship of a Spirit
God. ALL of the passages in the Old Testament in a
religious sense relate to dedication of kings and
temples or the purification of same. Because they had
been virtually deserted by God as a result of the MUSICAL IDOLATRY at Mount Sinai, these temples were like
the nation's temples because they wanted to worship
'like the nations."
Ralph should
understand that, without knowing it, people speak in parables long burried in the
Biblical and historical text. The very word MELODY or
MUSIC is the mark of a literal, spiritual or sexual
attack. The deliberately SOW DISCORD without any
Biblical authority (Psallo discovered in 1878) and then SMITE and STING you because you were
mortally wounded.
By focusing on the one
POINT which is the ONLY point, it is easy to get BLIND
SIDED by the ocean of evidence which explain why musical
discorders will devote so much time and NATIONAL
ORGANIZATION trying to force the reluctant dummies to
bow to Baal.
Music was always
repudiated because no FREE PERSON should given a
for-hire rhetorical or musical performer the KEY to
their emotions. This was and is held to be the KEY to
one's sexual pleasure centers. A perfectly rational
person can be MIND ALTERED enough by a bagpipe to march
into the certain jaws of human slaughter with nothing to
be gained by it. If I permitted the "holy bartender" to
ply me with wine I would know that he intended to lower
my resistance to take all of my money.
How can PRO-paganism
gloat in telling everyone that they believe that it is
the "holy" spirit vibrating their "viral membranes" and
readily submit themselves and USE people who are
professionals at shutting down the rational (spiritual)
brain?
The BASE of all
musical terms speak of ANXIETY and STRIFE.
Fragment 10,
Aristotle, de mundo 5, 396b20
Things taken
together are wholes and not wholes, something is being
brought together and brought apart, which is in tune and out of
tune;
out of all things there comes a unity, and out of a unity all
things.
........ The BOW is called
STRIFE, but its WORK is DEATH
Fragment 209,
Hippolytus Ref Ix, 9, I
They do not
apprehend how being at variance it agrees with itself:
there is a palintonos (counter-stretched) harmony, as in the bow and the lyre.(4)
That is the
"musical" connection which is universally a WARFARE
connection! And you notice the "psallo" or twanging
and the counter-stretched strings bring about STRIFE
but they produce HARMONY or "moving together" to get
the job done.
Psallo includes:
I. to touch sharply, to pluck, pull, twitch, Aesch.; toxou neuran [gut, tendon,
lifeless] ps. to twang the bow-string, Eur.; belos ek keraos ps. to send a shaft twanging from the
bow
Or send a SONG
shooting from the lips! THAT is the musical
connection!
Toxeu๔
I. to shoot with the bow,
II. to shoot
or hit with an arrow, to be struck by an arrow,
2. to shoot
from a bow: METAPHOR to discharge, send
forth, humnous.
Pindar Odes He is an eagle, his rivals are ravens
and daws (O. 2.96; [p. xxxvi] N. 3.82). Bellerophon shooting his arrows
from the lone bosom of the chill ether (O. 13.87) is
a prefigurement of his poetic exaltation, his power, his directness, and so he never wearies of calling
his songs arrows or darts
which sometimes
fall in a hurtling shower; but sometimes a single arrow hits the mark, sometimes
a strong
bolt is kept in reserve by the Muse, for Pindar, as an
aristocrat, is a man of reserves.
His lyre has a
various range of notes, his quiver is full of
arrows, and at times such is the shower of
notes, such the rain of arrows, such the sparkle and flash and flame
of the lights, such the sweet din and rumble and
roar of the music of earth and the music of
heaven, that the poet himself, overcome by the
resources of his own art, confesses his defeat,
and by one strong impulse of his light feet, swims
out of the deluge of glory with which he has
flooded the world of song.
Humnos, ho, hymn, ode, in
praise of gods or heroes
We can shoot out
HYMNS or as in PSALLO-- and its PREFERRED and
primary meaning-- we can SHOOT one another with real
arrows or as in all of the paganisn which
"worshipped" rather than "synagogued" shoot one
another with Love Arrows! And that gets you back to
Apollo, Abaddon or Apollyon the "god" of the musical
superstitious and fearful and Sodomites.
- Plato Cratylus on the Musical
Purifier and CHANGES from the ATTIC 360 B.C.
Soc. Then in reference to his
ablutions and absolutions, as being the physician
who orders them, he may be rightly called Apolouon (purifier);
Or: Soc. Then in reference to
his ablutions and absolutions, as being the
physician who orders them, he may be rightly called
Apolouon (purifier); or
........ or in respect of his powers of divination, and his truth and
sincerity,
which is the same
as truth, he may be most fitly called Aplos, from aplous (sincere), as in the
Thessalian dialect, for all the Thessalians call him
Aplos;
........ also he is Ballon (always shooting),
........ because he is a master archer who never misses;
THAT is why Jesus said
worship in the SPIRIT and TRUTH which is the Word of
Christ. And why Paul warned that if you DON'T keep
worship in the PLACE of the spirit you let Apollyon and
his MUSES the DOGS will tell you to BOW or BURN.
He is Apollo, Abaddon or Apollyon:His MUSES were
females whom the mother goddess had turned into LOCUSTS.
Just in time the STAR has again dug up the locusts or
musical performers to MARK and STING people and CHASE
AWAY the believers marked with the WORD.
"And he is the God who presides over harmony, and makes all things move together, both among Gods and among
men.
And as in the words akolouthos and akoitis the a is substituted for
an o, so the name Apollon is equivalent to omopolon;
only the second l
is added in order to avoid the ill-omened sound of destruction (apolon). Akoitis or moving
together or HARMONY is sodomy.
"Now the suspicion
of this
destructive power still haunts the minds of some who do not
consider the true value of the name, which, as I was
saying just now, has reference to all the powers of the God, who is the single one, the everdarting, the purifier, the mover together
(aplous, aei Ballon, apolouon, omopolon).
The name of the Muses and of music would seem to be
derived from their making philosophical enquiries (mosthai);
If PSALLO haunts the
minds about getting SHOT with a real arrow to make
their HEART bleed; or if they are haunted about being
shot with a love arrow, then why not quit using psallo
to any way connect with the BOW and literal warfare.
Literal warfare with the BOW is to SHOOT OUT HYMNS
with a literal stringed instrument rather than the
voice or harp of God.
If Ralph wants to
RESTORE psallo to its ETYMOLOGICALLY base of literal WARFARE
then it is not honest to blame non-instrumental churches
of Christ who NEVER used instruments and just kept on
NOT DOING what they had NEVER DONE.
The only BOW
connection is the included meaning of SHOOTING OUT
HYMNS. The ANTIS who cannot REST (like Jubal or Genun)
until everyone BOW while they PIPE also use the old
DEBATE ploy of ridiculing their betters.
The THERON are the BEASTS of
Revelation including PAN the little perverted half
goat. His HORNS in the Book of Revelation are defined
as MUSIAL HORNS.
Would that be worse
than STILL trying to steal the church houses of widows.
How worse could they be wounded, as in the case of J. W. McGarvey to see the LOCUSTS swarm all over him and
confiscate his church.
Toxeuma arrow, the distance of a
bow-shot. missile of any kind, metaphor of songs and
words, kardias [heart] toxeumata
[arrows]
Pindar, Odes
Isthmian Odes Pi.I.5(4).47; My swift tongue has many
arrows,
to shout
the praises of these heroes.
Kardias [heart]
toxeumata [arrows] S.Ant.1085 ; Sophocles, Antigon
[1080] All the
cities are stirred up in hostility, whose mangled corpses
the dogs
[Cynics
or homosexual priests], or the wild beasts or some winged bird
buried,
........ carrying an unholy stench to the city that held each man's hearth.
There, now, are arrows for your
heart,
since you provoke me, [1085] launched at you, archer-like, in my anger. They fly true--you
cannot run from their burning sting.
Sting is akis, barb of an arrow or hook, stings of desire. Pikros pointed, sharp, keen,
metaph., gl๔ss๊s pikrois kentroisi of sound, piercing,
shrill, phthongos, embittered, angry,
relentless, pedantically, harshly, bitterly, vindictively
Kentron, to, ( [kente๔] )
any sharp
point, a symbol of sovereignty a. sting of
bees and wasps, Ar.V.225, 407 (lyr.), al.; of scorpions,
Kentron (g2759) ken'-tron;
from kenteo, (to prick); a point
("centre"), i.e. a sting (fig. poison) or goad (fig.
divine impulse): - prick, sting
Of the locusts
or MUSICAL PERFORMERS:
And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in
their tails: and their power was to hurt men
five months. Re.9:10
After
disturbing "each man's hearth" they just can't
quit STINGING those who were long ago MARKED with
the Words of Christ in songs and sermons.
The MUSICIANS of
Revelation 18:22 are the MUSES under the rule of Apollo
in John's Patmos area: he is Abaddon or Apollyon. The
LOCUSTS were "musical performers" who have been
resurrected from hell to SEPARATE those with the Mark of
the BEAST. The Beast was known as ZOE who forced the
little "ignorant jehovah" to form MUSICAL WORSHIP TEAMS
to worship Sophia (wisdom) and Zoe (life) or EVE in the
book of Genesis.
Skorpios (g5651) skor-pee'-os;
prob. from an obsol. skerpo, (perh. strengthened from
the base of 4649 and mean. to pierce); a "scorpion" (from its sting): - scorpion
Skopos (g4649) skop-os'
("scope"); from skeptomai , (to peer about ["skeptic"]; perh. akin to 4626
through the idea of concealment; comp. 4629); a watch (sentry or scout), i.e. (by
impl.) a
goal: -
mark
The goal or MARK of
the Stoneites
in the Stone-Campbell Movement is to conceal their goal
to get the non-instrumental defected defectors to help
them build 5500 new "venues for holy entertainment."
They make it SOUND like the truth singers have gone
INSTRUMENTAL by adding a few sowers of discord who
ALREADY preach the musical madness. In truth, The
Christian Chronicles laments that only about 5 out of
13,000 congregations have added instruments and these
are in "alternative" services.
Ophis (g3789) of'-is; prob.
from 3700 (through the idea of sharpness of vision); a snake, fig. (as a
type of sly cunning) an artful malicious person,
espec. Satan: - serpent.
And he laid hold
on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a
thousand years, Re.20:2
Aeschylus Out, I order you! Go away from this house
at once, leave my prophetic sanctuary, [180] so
that you may not be struck by a winged glistening
snake Note
1 shot forth from a
golden bow-string, and painfully release black foam, vomiting the clots of blood you
have drained
from mortals. [185]
It is not right
for you to approach this house; no, your place is
where the punishments are beheading, gouging out of
eyes, cutting of throats,
........and where young men's
virility is ruined by destruction of
seed;
where there is mutilation and stoning,
........ and where those who
are
impaled beneath their spine
........
moan long and piteously.
[190]
Do you hear what
sort of feast is your delight? You are detested by
the gods for it. The whole fashion of your form
sets it forth. Creatures like you should live in
the den of a blood-drinking lion, and not
inflict pollution on all near you in
this oracular
shrine. [195] Be gone, you goats without a herdsman!
No god loves such a flock.
"Enters from
the inner sanctuary.
Note 1 The arrow sped from Apollo's gold-wrought string is called a "winged glistening
snake" because it stings like a serpent's bite. There is also a
latent word-play: ophis "snake" suggests ios
"snake's
poison" which also means "arrow."
ophis a serpent, snake, Il.,
Hdt., Trag.:--metaph., pt๊non ophin, of an arrow, Aesch. [The first
syll. is sometimes made long, when it was pronounced
(and perh. ought to be written) opphis, v. oche๔.]
"In one manuscript,
instead of Apollyon the text reads "Apollo," the Greek god of death and
pestilence as well as of the sun, music, poetry, crops and herds, and
medicine. Apollyon is no doubt the correct
reading. But the name Apollo (Gk Apollon) was often linked in ancient Greek
writings with the verb apollymi or apollyo, "destroy." From this time of
Grotius, "Apollyon" has often been taken
here to be a play on the name Apollo. The locust was an emblem of this god, who poisoned his victims, and the name "Apollyon"
may be used allusively in Revelation to attack the pagan god
and so indirectly the Roman emperor Domitian, who liked to be
regarded as Apollo incarnate. (Anchor Bible
Dictionary)
Apolluon (g623) ap-ol-loo'-ohn;
act. part. of 622; a destroyer (i.e. Satan): -
Apollyon.
Apollumi (g622) ap-ol'-loo-mee;
from 575 and the base of 3639; to destroy fully
(reflex. to perish, or lose), lit. or fig.: -
destroy, die, lose, mar, perish.
APOLLO (Gr. Apollon), a Greek
god, the son
of Zeus,
the father
of the gods, and Leto, daughter of the Titan Coeus, and the twin
brother of Artemis, goddess of the moon. The twins
were born on the island of Delos, whither their mother
had fled to escape the jealous anger of Zeus' wife,
Hera. Apollos is one of the most versatile of the
Olympian gods. As the god of youth, manly beauty, music, and song, he represents the Greek
mind at its best. He was the god of prophecy, with his oracle at Delphi, the protector of flocks and
herds,
the helper and averter of evil, and also the god of
righteous punishment.
"Abaddon = (ab-ad-dohn'); of Hebrew origin [11];
a destroying angel: Abaddon = "destruction" 1) ruin
2) destruction 3) the place of destruction 4) the
name of the angel-prince of the infernal regions, the minister of death and the author of havoc on the earth. *2
Apollyon = (ap-ol-loo'-ohn); active participle of
622; a destroyer (i.e. Satan): Apollyon =
"Destroyer" the angel of the bottomless pit, the
Destroyer."
David (king) and the
commanders of the army used the surplus warrior,
Levitical "musicians" to give glory to the future
temple which would be like the nations. Their SERVICE
was not worship in the spiritual sense but EXTERNAL.
The made music while priestly DESTROYERS slaugthered
innocent animals in an attempt to do their OWN works
of self-righteousness after they repudiated God's
covenant of grace. They were destroying TYPES of God
in Christ in a futile to find peace. Their service was
ABODAH:
And they overcame
him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not
their lives unto the death. Rev 12:11
Apollumi (g622)
ap-ol'-loo-mee; from 575 and the base of 3639; to
destroy fully (reflex. to perish, or lose), lit.
or fig.: - destroy, die, lose, mar, perish.
See Charles
Dailey restoring the MUSICAL PROPHESIERS as he STINGS those he
considers ignorant.
Id.O.2.98 Pindar, Odes Olympian Odes
[str. 5] Achilles,
who laid low Hector, the irresistible, unswerving
pillar of Troy, and who consigned to death Memnon [King of Ethiopia, son
of Eos and Tithonos] the Ethiopian, son of the Dawn (Venus, Lucifer, Zoe). I have many swift arrows in the quiver under my
arm, [85] arrows that speak to the initiated. But the masses need interpreters. The man who knows a great
deal by nature is truly skillful, while those who have
only learned chatter with raucous and indiscriminate tongues in vain like
crows
When the Jewish
clergy still afflicted with praying that Dionysus
would be their MESSIAH would PIPE hoping that Jesus
and His disciples would sing and dance the perverted
Dionysus choral. These arrows had something to do
with bowing to Baal. Apollo or Abaddon or Apollyon shot love arrows.
The word AUTHORITY Paul outlawed for
women (or effeminate men) is AUTHENTIA which is both erotic
and murderous.
[ant. 5] against the
divine bird of Zeus. Now, bend your bow toward
the mark; tell me, my mind, whom are we trying to
hit
........ [90] as we shoot arrows of fame from a gentle mind?
I will aim at
Acragas, and speak with true intent a word sworn by
oath: no city for a hundred years has given birth to a
man more beneficent in his mind or more generous with
his hand
[epode 5] [95] than
Theron [The hunter].
But praise is confronted by greed,
which is not accompanied by justice,
........but stirred up by depraved men,
........eager to babble and
to bury the fine deeds of noble men.
Since the sand of
the shore is beyond all counting, [100] who could
number all the joys that Theron has given others?
9.[1] The resounding strain of Archilochus, the
swelling thrice-repeated
song of triumph, sufficed to lead Epharmostus to the hill of Cronus, in victory-procession
with his dear companions.
[5] But now, from the bow of the Muses who, shooting from afar,
send a shower of
such arrows
of song as these on Zeus of the red lightning-bolt and on the sacred
height of Elis, which once the Lydian hero Pelops
[10] won as the very fine dowry of Hippodameia.
[11] And shoot a winged sweet arrow to Pytho [the serpent. Paul healed
the Pythian prophetess USED for profit]; for your words will not fall to the
ground, short
of the mark,
when you trill the lyre in honor of the wrestling of the man from renowned Opus.
Praise Opus and her son; [15] praise her whom Themis
and her glorious daughter, the savior Eunomia, have received under
their protection; she flourishes with excellence
beside your stream, Castalia, and beside the
Alpheus. From there the choicest garlands [20]
glorify the famous mother-city of the Locrians with her splendid
trees.
[21] I am lighting up that dear city with
fiery
songs,
and more swiftly than a spirited horse or a winged ship
[25] I will send that message
everywhere, so surely as I, by some destined
skill, am cultivating the exquisite garden of the Graces; for they are the givers of delight, but men become brave
and skillful by divine will
Grace is
Chara or Charis which is Charismatic which is
sexual and homosexual.
You might have
noticed that the brand new preachers don't say Jesus
but Je-Zeus!
This is
the end time appearance of Lucifer who was cast out of
heaven long ago.
Wherefore if they
shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go
not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. Matt 24:26
........ For as the lightning cometh out of
the east,
........ and shineth even unto the west;
........ so shall also the coming
of the Son of man be. Matt 24:27
And he said unto
them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
Lu.10:18
Behold, I give
unto you power to tread on serpents [ophis or sOPHISts] and scorpions [Abaddon's dug-up
locusts or musical performers], and over all the
power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means
hurt you. Lu 10:19
The enemy is the
adversary or Satan. He is like an adder or other
poisonous. Jesus called the Jewish clergy vipers or
the sons of the Devil because "they speak on their
own."
Astrape (g796) as-trap-ay';
from 797; lightning; by anal. glare: - lightning,
bright shining.
Aster (g792) as-tare';
prob. from the base of 4766; a star (as strown
over the sky), lit. or fig.: - star.
2. H๊liou ast๊r, of the
planet Saturn
aster Choerob.):--star (v.
astron), aster' op๔rin๔i Il. 5.5 ; oulios a.
11.62 ; Seirios a. Hes.Op.417 ; a. Arktouros the chief star in the
constellation, ib.565, etc.; shooting star or meteor
2. flame, light, fire, E.Hel.1131 (lyr.).
II. metaphor of illustrious persons, etc., phaner๔taton aster' Ath๊nas E.Hipp.1122
(lyr.); Mousa๔n astera kai Charit๔n AP7.1.8 (Alc. Mess.)
The muses are
the MUSICIANS of Revelation 18:22: they are
"prophesiers" peddling songs, sermons and the new
GRACE-CENTERED movement:
Charis
2. esp. in erotic sense, of favours
granted (v. charizomai 1.3 ), charites aphrodisi๔n er๔t๔n Pi.Fr.128 , cf.
Pl.Phdr.254a, al.
Chariz๔ , 3. in erotic sense, grant favours to a
man, COMEDY.
Chain๔ 2. of sound, make it clear to the
ear, make it ring clear, aoid๊n phainein salpinx
aoid๊, Att. contr. ๔id๊
(q. v.), h๊, : ( [aeid๔] ):--song, whether:
Music has a better
repudation for inducing and seducing people into a charismatic,
musical worship than any drug.
Aphrodite is
ZOE or LUCIFER:
Heylel (h1966) hay-lale';
from 1984 (in the sense of brightness); the morning-star:
- lucifer.
Heliou or
heylel is LUCIFER which is defined by the PRAISE
word
Halal (h1984) haw-lal'; a
prim. root; to be clear (orig. of sound, but usually of color); to shine; hence to make a
show, to celebrate; also to stultify: give
[light], be (make, feign self) mad (against), give
in marriage, [sing, be worthy of] praise, rage, renowned, shine.
Which has the
same meaning as:
Chalal (h2490) khaw-lal'; a
prim. root [comp. 2470]; prop. to bore, i. e. (by
impl.) to wound, to dissolve; fig. to profane (a
person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to
begin (as if by an "opening wedge"); denom. (from
2485) to play (the flute): eat (as common
things), gather the grape thereof, * take
inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane
(self), prostitute, slay (slain),
sorrow, stain, wound.
Which explains why
Lucifer was CAST out of heaven and showed up as the
serpent or nachash or musical enchanter in the
garden of Eden. According to Paul he seduced Eve as
a new bride is seduced:
Thou hast been
in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone
was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the
diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the
sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and
gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee
in the day that thou wast created. Ezek 28:13
Workmanship speaks
of ANGELS (fallen). It means deputyship, i. e. ministry; general employment (never servile)
If any man teach
otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord
Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according
to godliness; 1 Tim 6:3
He is proud [filled with smoke], knowing nothing,
but doting about questions and strifes of words,
whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil
surmisings, 1 Tim 6:4
Perverse
disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute
of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw
thyself. 1 Tim 6:5
Workmanship is the
use of Lucifer's MUSICAL WORSHIP to make merchandise
of people. No one can possibly believe that they can
take the high ground and REPUDIATE the direct command to
"teach that which has been taught" or glorify God "with
that
which is written" or refuse to speak "the words of our
Lord Jesus Christ."
The other motive
is that they are willing to sow discord damage,
falsify, create injustice, be the oppressor, or do
violence to the peacable kingdom is making
merchandise.
By the multitude
of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast
sinned: therefore I will cast thee as
profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy
thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the
stones of fire. Eze.28:16
ANTI-imposers of
instrumental "worship" may have it all wrong but why
is it that EVERY Biblical and historical reference
to music as a "worship" concept speaks of pollution,
prostitution and identifies one with the "singing
and harp-playing prostitute" who INDWELLED the king
of Tyre, Babylon and the CIRCE model of the holy
whore religion returned to hell in Revelation 18.
The word TREAD is
connected to the "sting of a scorpion." Those marked with the
Word can defeat Satan by his own sting.
Again, Behold, I give unto you
power to tread
on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power
of the enemy: and nothing shall by any
means hurt you. Luke 10:19
Notwithstanding in
this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you;
but rather rejoice, because your names are written
in heaven. Luke 10:20
In that hour Jesus
rejoiced in
spirit,
and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and
earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise [sophists] and prudent, and hast revealed them
unto babes: even so, Father; for so
it seemed good in thy sight. Luke 10:21
For it is written,
I will destroy the wisdom of the
wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of
the prudent. 1Co.1:19
In spirit does not mean
"charismatically" but IN the SPIRIT of Christ even as
we worship God IN the new place of OUR spirit and not
in "houses built by human hands" or by the "works of
human hands." Satan and his musical enchanters obscure
the SUN so that people cannot grasp what is happening
until it is too late.
AND the fifth
angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to
him was given the key of the bottomless pit. Rev 9:1
And he opened the
bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the
smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke
of the pit. Rev 9:2
This is what
happened when Solomon dedicated the "like the nation's temple" in 2 Chr.5:13.
Because of the darkness produced when all of
the music or noise began the priests COULD NOT MINISTER.
That
is a message to the new swarm of sowers of discord
among peacable churches who WILL NOT bow to baal.
Click for more details for those with eyes
and ears.
And there came out
of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and
unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the
earth have power. Rev 9:3
Speaking in tongues
or "making music" is equated by Paul in First
Corinthians. The sounding and clanging are identical
to the NEBEL or HARP which speaks of a vile person.
The booming was the bronze echo chamber used in
temples and on the battle field to FOOL the FOOLS.
Lale๔ [lalos]
I. to talk, chat, prattle, babble
II. the proper sense, to chatter, is sometimes opposite to
articulate speech, as of monkeys, of locusts, to chirp.
III. of musical sounds, aul๔i lalein
aulos [a๊mi to blow] 1. a flute or rather clarionet (for it was played
by a mouthpiece, gl๔ssis,
The Judas Bag
was for carrying the mouthpieces of wind
instruments!
Echeion drum, gong,
tambourine, as head-dress, used for
stage-thunder, sounding-boards in the theatre
........II. in the lyre, = chalk๔ma, apptly.
........ a metallic
sounding-plate, so of the palate,
2.
Adj. ๊cheion organon sounding instrument
Echet๊s ( [๊che๔] ) clear-sounding, musical, shrill, donax achetas, epithet of the cicada, chirping, ๊cheta tettix, the chirper, i.e. the male cicada, ๊cheta porthmon the
sounding strait [locusts]
And when they
say to you, "Consult the mediums and the wizards who chirp and mutter," should not a
people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the
living? Isa 8:19
However, the
word SPEAK or SAY in later literature and in the
Bible agrees with Paul's ABOLUTE DEMAND TO speak
to one another;
3. in later writers, = leg๔, speak, Scriptures pointed to
are:
So Abram
departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with
him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when
he departed out of Haran. Gen 12:4
And when the
devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the multitudes
marvelled, saying, It was never so
seen in Israel. Matt 9:33
For Moses truly
said unto the fathers, A
prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you
of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear
in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. Acts 3:22
And he trembling
and astonished said, Lord, what wilt
thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him,
Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must
do. Acts 9:6
Theron is the god of the BEASTS
in the book of Revelation. The INITIATION was musical to
HIDE the truth from those who were to be INITIATED into
sodomy with Apollo's LOVE ARROWS. The clergy were
defined by Jesus as just such CHILDREN in the agora or
public assembly place and market who PIPED hoping that
He would SING and DANCE the perverted Dionysus choral.
They piped, Jesus didn't bow and neither should you.
MUSICIANS have always believed that they were the "harem
of the gods." While they are reaching a sexual climax
with their demon "gods" they are trying to get you to be
their sexual partner. History knows no exception.
I can go on and on
to prove that the MUSIC ploy began with Lucifer trying
to BLEED OFF worship to him or herself. Typified as
the king/queen of Tyre she was the "singing and harp
playing prostitute." She/he had been in Eden and
wholly seduced Eve but Adam went willingly. The story
of Wen Amun--a real historical account--shows how the
king used the Egyptian female singer to STEAL his
property.
History knows of no
exception. This is why there is such outright
hostility trying to make one word carry the weight of
2,000 years of deliberate discord among both
Christians, Jews and Muslims.
The claim that
those who will not bow when the pipers pipe are just
ignorant southerners is psychological violence.
Stephen in Acts 7
confirms the EVENT and the prophets who prove that God
turned them over to worship the starry host. Amos 5f and Isaiah 5f
illustrates the form of such pagan musical idolatry.
However, not in the most vile pagan temples did singers
or musicians or preachers ever enter into the Holy Place
as a type of the body or church of Christ. Any singer
who attempted to enter into this type of the church or
the Most Holy Place would have been executed on the spot.
Other
than that, music is always attributed to Satan or
to prostitutes. Why would the Jesus who CAST OUT the
musical minstrels as one ejects dung then approve
instrumental music for CHRISTIAN WORSHIP?
The founding principle
is that NOT trying to worship a Spirit God in the new
PLACE of the human spirit totally devoted to truth--in
spirit and in truth--somehow causes people to see us as
fratricidal (brother killers), fire bombers of
restaurants and muggers of ladies wearing fur coats. A.
Ralph Johnson may know many who will not be cowed into
silence and still teach that such "music" is idolatry
and founded on paganism but in the old days that was not
considered an ATTACK. A attack is when an instrumental
church steals the church houses of widows so they can
PLEASURE themselves in violation of the first principle
of what Paul defined as a "synagogue" in Romans 15.
You can be BLUNT
only when you are ACCURATE. If you cannot be accurate
then you SHOLD NOT be blunt. There is NO authority for
doing what is universally destructive and divisive.
Notice how Ralphy tries to SOW DISCORD to divide and
conquor. There are now a GOOD sect which does not use
instruments and an EVIL, rancorous and rude SECT who
just will not affirm Ralph and the church wrecking
crew by AGREEING that something universally associated
to Satan, prostitutes, Sodomites and the Warrior
Levites in the sacrifice of tens of thousands of TYPE
of Jesus Christ is NOW SANATIZED. As Rubel Shelly
says: we NOW can baptize about ANYTHING and make it
Christian. That
includes thinking of the S.O.N. God as the S.U.N.
God which is APOLLO. Rubel will also JOIN
because he has books to peddle.
You have to explain
why Jesus CAST OUT the musical ministrels LIKE DUNG
while He was doing His healing work. And why the CAST
OUT word of Lucifer or Satan means to "play the flute,
profane, pollute or prostitute."
Ther is a lot of
MESS to clean off music and musicians before those who
have NEVER approved of instruments can obey Rubel
Shelly and the Stoneites and APOLOGIZE for not
affirming their deliberate sowing of discord and then
perverting all known truth to make the VICTIM feel
guilty. Sure, the musical warrior Levites
MOCKED Jesus the same way.
A. Ralph Johnson: Personally, I am much impressed
with our non-instrumental and anti-instrumental brethren.
Most are intelligent, caring, and God fearing. They love the Lord
and cherish the scriptures. I could want no better
friends. I regard each of them individually on their
own
merits,
........ not on the basis of
those who have shown rancor and rudeness.
As far as I am
concerned, they are some of the best people in the
world.
God must have let a
few slip in! A common ploy is to paint those who will
not JOIN in as ignorant rednecks. It has been true even
in the time of Calvin that not using instruments was
sold as a sign of mental or spiritual backwardness.
Perhaps Ralph Johnson can point out why playing
instruments proves that you are smarter than people who
just sing. The history known even by Nimrod is that
MUSIC IS FOR ENTERTAINMENT and has no other purpose.
That is why public speakers, singers and musicians were
called PARASITES.
So, please
understand that while I write with a sharp pen to pique interest and to puncture fallacies, I have no intention
of lumping all together. I simply want people to
think so they can free themselves from misconceptions, and further our unity
together in Christ.
Didn't Aeschylus above tell us the
universal, 100% connection between music AS worship
and young men getting their masculinity destroyed
was..
...where those
who are impaled beneath their spine moan long and piteously.
[190]
Did Ralph just say
that the anti-instrument position is based on fallacies? Are they under a misconception with most of 2,000 years
of scholarship? Are they ENSLAVED by not trying to worship
in the human spirit as the NEW PLACE of worship like the
closet? Why is the Cain (from a musical note) family the
fathers or HANDLERS (meaning without authority or Divine
warrant) which used INSTRUMENTS and literal weapons to
TAKE CAPTIVE the people so they could sell the people
their own animals the SECT which got the MARK for
removing people's FREEDOM?
MAKING MUSIC in the
presence of a Holy, Spiritual God has been the almost
universal way to DELIBERATELY SOW DISCORD. The way to
stop the DISCORD is to stop the HARMONY. Certainly:
musical harmony creates dissonance which is like the
Chinese torture WATER DRIPS or the DOG BARKS in the
middle of the night. The harmony MASKS the change of
tones but the discording effect is intrinsic in harmony
or it would not CREATE such a drug high.
Hide me from the
secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection (noisy crowd) of the workers of
iniquity: Psalm 64:2NIV
They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their words like deadly arrows. Psalm 64:3
Shanan (h8150) shaw-nan'; a
prim. root; to point (trans. or
intrans.); intens. to pierce; fig. to inculcate: - prick, sharp (-en), teach
diligently, whet.
Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows
bent, their horses hoofs shall be counted like
flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind: Is.5:28
Iniquity is:
Aven (h205) aw'-ven; from
an unused root perh. mean. prop. to pant (hence to exert
oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught);
strictly nothingness; also trouble, vanity,
wickedness; spec. an idol: - affliction, evil,
false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners (-ing),
naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity,
wicked (-ness.) Comp. 369.
People have always
known that setting lies to melody is the very best,
Satan devised way to prick you real good:
"According to Philo, the gods of the
pagans exploit this weakness of men. For the sake of a better effect, and
........ with the intention of
more easily cheating their devotees,
........ they have set their lies to melodies, rhythms and meters.
Celsus said that it was well
known that "music pertained only to the lowest
gods,
the demons,
and that the highest divine
being had no need of melodies and sounds. And
again, Philo claimed that:
One cannot
truly offer thanks to God as the vast majority
of men do, with external effects, consecrated gifts
and sacrifices..., but rather with songs of
praise and hymns - not such as the audible voice sings, but such as
are raised and re-echoed by the invisible mind. (Philo, De
Plantations 126 (II 148 Cohn-Wendland)
Didn't Paul tell us
to sing AND make melody IN THE HEART? Didn't Jesus say
that God only SEEKS those who can worship in the NEW
PLACE of the human heart as it gives heed (worships)
to God through HIS words. Didn't Paul say that the
converted Jews now worshipped IN THE SPIRIT?
The Greek MUSIC
concept almost demands choric dancing. If a religious
group has NEVER danced as an act of worship as the
Stoneites added SHOUTING as an act of worship, and
someone tries to FORCE them to dance and shout and says
"bow or burn," and they REFUSE to join in, there is
nothing which belongs to the human species which would
define them as DIVISIVE.
Is disunity based on people NOT using instruments whereas history proves
that every forceful introduction of such machines has
radically sowed discord? Even among the Jews who KNEW
that the "music" called NOISE by God NEVER had any
legitimate role to play outside of Canaan, outside of
Jerusalem and outside of the temple COURTS. No, they
NEVER played instruments to congregational singing in
the Holy Place as a type of the body or church of
Christ. A singer, musician or speaker who entered into
the Holy Place--even to clean out garbage--would have
been executed as a vile sinner. How is it that Ralph
Johnson can now INSIST on musicians standing in the Holy
Place claiming to "bring you into the presence of God"
or as MUSICAL MEDIATORS or you are MARKED as a vile,
ignorant sinner. Music always INTENDED to pique or prick ones
emotions
to SHUT DOWN the rational brain which otherwise would
not FUND THE PARASITES known as musician.
To pique one must
presume to be a piquer? Can one get pricked on his
own pique?
Pique: 1. To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger. 2. To excite to
action by causing resentment or jealousy; to
stimulate; to prick; as, to pique ambition, or curiosity. 3. To pride or value.
"Men . . . pique themselves upon their
skill." - Locke
Erasmus says that they "blind themselves on
the sharp corner of their wit."
"Wars had arisen . . . upon a personal pique." --De
Quincey.
Semnun๔, exalt, magnify, thus
did he throw a cloak of majesty about himself. To be proud of . . , pique oneself on it,
Puncture: Kent๊ma wound inflicted, sting, k. gl๔ss๊s [through love of
talking] A.Fr.169 ; of poisonous bites, prick, Glosses: the tongue or
mouthpiece of a pipe
See the musical
locusts and vipers which sting above.
Fallacies: Kseud๊s of persons, lying, false, to betake
oneself to falsehood,
Erasmus had nothing
but contempt for people who RIDE on the backs of widows
and the poor. He spoke of some monk who was "blinded on
the corner of his sharp wit." My mom disputed that I was
a wit but allowed that I was at least a half wit. So,
when you hoist your pittard it would be nice if you had
a horse. Remember, Lucian said that "you can't ride a
horse if you don't have a horse" and "you cannot play
LYRIC poetry without a LYRE." That is NOT authority for
instrumental music AS worship because the early
discorders told the Judge in New Bern, TN that IF the
organ they were forcing is WAS worship THEN it would be
SINFUL. Lucian who made a fortune advising to "play the
flute" and cause all of the "fat heads and simpletons"
to leave their money, might have said to make fools of
us: you cannot ride a MOTORCYCLE without a MOTORCYCLE.
People have THOUGHT
for these 2,000 years and almost universally connected
MUSIC to pagan idolatry. There is NO music remotely
suggested in the Christian System which is a synagogue
so any MISconceptions will have to come from people who
have SOME KIND OF AGENDA for adding music when they knew
when they formed a new SECTARIANISM that they had no
authority and NEEDED no authority.
MUSIC after 1850 years
of unity among most non-Catholics which repudiated MUSIC
as worship was the very thing that created DISCORD and
DISUNITY. The STONEITES who followed the charismatic
path of the Shouting Methodists came out of a more Anglican
background and saw no need to consult the Bible when
they wanted to do something. They mistakenly thought
that church councils had given them the High Church
authority to do whatever they wished-even if they knew
that it would sow discord. However, the High Church
scheme was never radified just as the Church of
England's vote to oust the organ was vetoed by Queen
Elizabeth the HEAD of the church who wanted the POMP for
civil rituals just as David improvised music for STATE
rituals.
Churches of Christ who
were the ONLY REFORMERS had roots in John
Calvin's RESTORATION MOVEMENT which attempted to move
beyond the REFORMATION. Therefore, there is no more
likely to UNITY two radically different groups than
there is to unite the Church of Christ with the
Baptists.
A. Ralph Johnson: In writing this I find
myself in much the situation of Paul in 1Cor. 7:8- 11. What
I write may
seem painful but sometimes a little pain is
necessary to get action. Think what is said
through carefully. Accept what is true. Discard what is
not. I am not insisting that anyone wear a shoe that
does not fit. The reader is accountable only to God.
Please pray for me as I try to suggest some thoughts
for consideration in the problem of a divided house.
There is nothing in
the Bible or history to refute the claim that MUSIC intends to INFLICT
PAIN. Sure, makes you FEEL
"spiritual" but it is the impulse of FIGHT, FLIGHT or
SEXUALITY. Nimrod and modern medicine proves it. People
who TRAFFICK in religion have known even from the garden
of Eden that music is a way to RUB or ABRADE all of the
pleasure centers. Melody or PSALLO derives from:
Psocho (g5597) pso'-kho; prol.
from the same base as 5567 [psallo=to rub or touch
the surface]; to triturate [grind into a fine powder], i.e. (by anal.) to rub
out (kernels from husks with the fingers or hand): - rub.
The women at the millstones [perforated and
therefore like a flute] or the GRINDERS in Hebrew were
concubines or prostitutes who GROUND just as
Samson GROUND or rose up to PLAY just as at Mount
Sinai and by David moving the Ark.
The "church music"
VIBRATES every nerve ending in the body. However, God
has created PRIVATE PARTS and sense connections to the
brain. This is why the king of Tyre who personified or
INCARNATED Lucifer was called the "singing and harp
playing prostitute."
Paul in 2 Cor 7: A. Ralph is so certain
that a human impulse to become musically sectarian was
the gift of God that he wants--as many have stated
openly--those who had their property stolen and their
lives disruped to REPENT. Apparently if you BLEED on
them when they SHOOT you with a literal harp you must
repent for being so southern and ignorant. And if you
don't sorrow and repent you have death working in you.
For though I made
you sorry
with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent:
for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you
sorry, though it were but for a season. 2 Cor 7:8
Now I rejoice, not
that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed
to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly
manner, that ye might receive damage by us in
nothing. 2 Cor 7:9
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented
of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. 2 Cor 7:10
Before you begin to
tremple with your lostness just read the facts and
understand that the PRO musical sectarians have built on
the sands of error. We grant them permission to do that
if they do not boot us out of our churches. However, to
be so evangelist in the URGENT NEED to be affirmed by
those who have 100% of the truth on their side is a
deep-seated urge which goes back to the first attack of
Satan using music in at least three dozen accounts we
have posted on this site.
For behold this
selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort,
what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing
of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear,
yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge In all things ye have approved yourselves to
be clear in this matter. 2 Cor 7:11
Because Paul was an
inspired apostle that is a strange place to find
oneself: especially when Paul radically OUTLAWED any
form of MUSIC or CELEBRATIVE activity when the gathering
(synagogue) was uniquely for worship meaning to GIVE
HEED TO THE WORD. Remember that Paul told Timothy to
LABOR so he could sponsor the AGAPE and then told him to
"give attendance to the public reading of the Word." No
music.
Just over to the right
in chapter
ten Paul
warns about 'RISING UP TO PLAY' in worship: this was the
musical worship of the Egyptian Triad and was idolatrous and
caused God to take away THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT and
give them THE BOOK OF THE LAW to legislate for the
lawless on their way through Canaan and into captivity
and death. Yes! this was MUSICAL IDOLATRY. Paul issues
the same warning in Romans 10.
See the
Egyptian Musical Idolatry background
See the Mount
Sinai Musical Idolatry
See how the
prophets grasp that this was a BEYOND REDEMPTION
fall from grace.
The problem with
quoting ancient scholars is that you are apt to dip into the sauce
dish and
pick up a fish head instead of fish. The scholars who
are used to prove that psallo included instruments AFTER
Paul wrote did not get a good tidbit out of the sauce
dish which was indispensible to the homosexual symposia
where the males USED the flute girls for entertainment
but NOT for "birth control" while their wives had their
own homosexual relationships.
The rule is still 100%
as Ralph's examples prove: when any of the psao forms are used the context
is of something involving warfare or perverted paganism.
When the psallo type words are used they are as far as I
can detect ALWAYS attached to another word which defines
the singing. You know, the song of the prostitute: "Sing
beautiful songs and Play on the harp." Ezekiel 33
repeats this.
Secondly,
any WRITER would almost without exception write in ATTIC Greek
because the goal was to peddle scribal material to the
rich and famous--even the kings.
A. Ralph Johnson: b. The non-Christian world, in
and following New Testament times, defined and used
Psalmos and psallo to indicate instrumental music.
That is true but the BASE
UNDERPINNINGS or "sand" on which the word is built is
WARFARE and perverted forms of worship prophesied for
the end-times. Why would the Spirit of Christ use the
term "A-BOMB DROPPING" as the WORD to define CHARITY?
They both help clean up cities. NONE of Ralph Johnson's
or Tom Burgess' PROOF TEXTS are of the post Biblical
writers.
But it is never in the Koine language
which God used SPECIFICIALLY to reach the common,
working people. The only Koine evidence would probably
come out of the later
papyri. Not even in the
Attic language of preachers and kings does PSALLO as far
as I can find include instruments unless they are named.
The word PSALLO has its primary
meaning of just PLUCKING. It can mean plucking an old
hen or of twanging a bowstring and the sound created.
Psallo specificially EXCLUDES using a plectrum or pick
and LIMITS its meaning to "pulling with the fingers."
Therefore, you CANNOT use any definition of the word and
play a guitar with a pick: guitarISTS were known as
parasITES.
You cannot play the flute because the same word in
Hebrew defines "play the flute, pollute and
prostitute." You cannot psallo a flute because it has
no strings to pluck.
You cannot play a piano because the strings are
struck with a hammer and not pulled with the fingers.
You cannot use a pipe organ because it was called a
"cist of whistles" and the MARK of BAAL.
You cannot PLAY an electronic
organ
because it has no strings to pluck with the FINGERS
ONLY.
And, Lucian would
say, you cannot ride a horse without a horse just as you cannot
RECITE lyric poetry without a LYRE. Simple! Lucian
wrote in Attic!
If Paul HAD NOT said
"make melody IN THE HEART" and just said "sing and
make melody" he could NOT have possibly permitted an
instrument unless he NAMED the instrument. No one just
says PLUCK: you have to tell the person WHAT is to be
plucked or it is nonsense.
If Paul had remotely
meant to SING and pluck a literal harp he would have used
the compound word PSALMODIA. I cannot think up an
English word which means to SING and PLAY a specific
instrument at the same time. If we told out children
to sing AND play they would undoubtedly do "ring around
the rosy." If we told them to sing they would NOT play
the piano.
Nor, can I think of
a word which includes both SPEAKING and SINGING in the external
sense. Good reason: it is a physical impossibility.
So, why should we try to make a fool out of the Holy
Spirit for INVENTING some new language for which we
can find no evidence.
Ralph Johnson will find NO Classical
or church Father writer who does not connect all forms
of MUSIC to the homosexual
practices of paganism. All
Greek festivals were religious and worship events. Consistent with the Wimber
Wineskin Lady, the next to last ACT was having
a sexual experience
with the "gods" through the god's agents.
A. Ralph Johnson: Anti-instrumentalists claim that psalmos and
psallo came to mean a-cappella by New Testament
times.
Not a literate one. They probably said
and someone missed it that PSALLO means to PLUCK.
Nothing more and nothing less.
Psallo does not DEFINE playing an instrument but it is a known
fact that you CAN pluck a harp string. But, they would
know that PSALLO issues you a direct command to PREVENT you from
blowing a flute.
Psallo does not DEFINE making a mark with a chalk line but
everyone knew that in making the mark you must first PLUCK the line. No! Don't try to PLUCK a chalk
line with a GUITAR PICK. This proves that psallo is
something you do with your FINGERS and no other
device.
Psallo does not DEFINE SINGING because
Paul used BOTH ode and psallo. Psallo does not INCLUDE
singing or Paul would have used just one word. But,
the Bible, ancient literature and modern usage knows
that we
SHOOT out curses against the ANTI-instrumentalists. We have provided numerous
examples of people SHOOTING out hymns.
No, A cappella means 'ala
castratos' USED by the
Pope in the Sistine chapel because no instruments could
be used in the worship involving the Pope because he was
the agent of Jesus Christ. And no Christian will play
music in the presence of the Incarnate God of the
universe. Click
for the sordid mess. This will connect you to lots of stuff
which will define why non-instrumentalists may be stupid
but they are NOT like that..... A cappella used a form
of singing called ORGANUM or "after the pipe organ." It
was the pope's legalism to make a pipe organ out of
castrated human voices.
The Greek world is FILLED with proof
that PSALLO is not a musical term but a WARFARE word.
With the meaning of Abaddon's twanging
bow string to send a singing
arrow into the LITERAL heart of the enemy one SHOULD understand that the
OLD Pagan and therefore Attic psallo--even with
allowable changes in the civilized society--was EXCLUDED
by prohibiting it from being an OUTWARD thing in a meeting intending to create UNITY through UNISON
speaking of "that which is written."
Therefore, it really could matter
less: "singing" was "telling" or reciting as we amply prove in our Tom Burgess review. A SHARP
person should hear paul say SPEAK, or TEACH or ADMONISH
one another using the BIBLE AS RESOURCE. Then, SING and
MAKE MELODY in the heart. Why? Why, because making
melody or PSALLOING externally meant that you twanged
your bowstrinng to send a singing arrow into the literal
heart. It has no pure connection with music. Indeed, a
sharp pointed person should grasp that you cannot TEACH
the WORD of Christ with music. In Romans 15 Paul
outlawed PLEASURING yourself. This included getting
EXCITED. Then you could with ONE MIND and ONE MOUTH
glorify God using "that which is written."
Psalmos is identical to SONG: the first
instrument of choice is the HUMAN VOICE according to the
Britannica. If you intend something OTHER than the voice
then you MUST specify it as ALL of the Old Testament and
Greek examples prove. First, the recorded view is that
you don't SING and PLAY an instrument at the same time
unless you are a prostitute, sodomite or DRUNK: we have
lots of proof and NO case of PSALLO being used to
include both singing and playing unless the INSTRUMENT
IS NAMED.
Paul knew the word psalmODIA if he
wanted to include SINGING and PLAYING at the same time.
He had lureIST or harpIST if he wanted to specify
singing and harping. This and no example in the Greek
literature proves that PSALMOS by itself ever includes
an instrument unless it is named. Then, of course, they
would specify a psalmODIA or a flute-girl if they wanted
someone for their festivls. In the often-perverted
symposia, if they wanted to "speak to one another" as
discourse the would cast out the flute-girls even as
Jesus cast them out for His healing session.
There was NO music in the early
churches and even much later in the historical churches.
A. Ralph Johnson: How did they do so? Did
first century Christians invent a special
language of their own? They lived in the culture of the times and spoke
the language in which they were brought up. I give
here only a few of the many references that show the
instrumental nature of the word. For more examples,
see Documents
On Instrumental Music by Tom
Burgess, or Instrumental Music Is Scriptural by
O. E. Payne.
Now, that is sharp:
that is EXACTLY what they did. They didn't actually invent but they
DEVELOPED a special language which could be understood
in most of the world where Greek or Roman traders went
even into Britian before the time of Christ. While David
"made melody" in his heart as he psalmed on his bed,
making meldy IN THE HEART was a radical departure from
what the pagans would understand if you combined both
ODEING and MAKING MELODY externally. We told you that
you cannot use PSALLO and use a plectron BECAUSE psallo
is primarily a warfare word of grinding to bits and
polluting others. Well, words DID grow obsolete as
everyone knows:
pl๊k-tron , Dor. plaktron , to,
anything to strike with:
1. instrument for striking the lyre, plectrum
2. spear-point, diobolon p., of lightning, a bee's sting, cock's
spur, 4. = p๊dalion, 5. goad, 6. = gl๔ssa,
gl๔ssa 2. obsolete or foreign
word,
which needs
explanation, 3. people speaking a distinct
language, III. anything shaped like the tongue 1. in
Music, reed or tongue of a pipe,
Kata-pl๊ktikos, ๊, on, striking, astonishing, terrible, but expressly opp.
phoberos in Muson.
Phoberos is similar to phobos
of Apollo or fear. The twang of a bowstring
creates PANIC. I. Act., causing fear, terrible, 3.
Rhetoric: of style, impressive, awe-inspiring,
Phobos creates panic flight.
2. Phobos personified, as son of Ares, I
worshipped at Selinus, IG14.268.2. Apoll๔n th๊ras phob๔i
Pi.P.5.61
Striking is
also BALLO as when Jesus cast
out the musical minstrels as one throws out dung.
Another word
for strike is
Pai๔, to strike with a beak or instrument of war.
3. drive away, 4. of sexual intercourse,
Aristophanes, Peace The girl has quitted
the bath; she is charming from head to foot, belly
and buttocks too; the cake is baked and they are
kneading the sesame-biscuit; [870] nothing is
lacking but the bridegroom's tool. Trygaeus: Let us first hasten
to lodge Theoria in the hands of the Senate. Servant: Tell me, who is
this woman? Trygaeus: Why, it's the same
Theoria.Servant: The one we used to go
to Brauron with, to get tipsy and
frolic?
5. hit hard in
speaking,
Which is the
meaning of Children PLAYING in the agora or
marketplace.
paiz๔ , play like a child,
sport, dance, 4. play on a musical instrument, ance
and sing, 5. play amorously. Similar to the Latin
psallo , i, 3, v. n., = psall๔. I. In gen., to play
upon a stringed instrument; esp., to play upon the
cithara, to sing to the cithara: psallere saltare
They are like
unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to
another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to
you, and ye have not wept. Lu.7:32
If you are in the middle of trying to
panic the enemy warriors, the Generaly screams PLUCK
[psallo] and everyone just seems to know that he is not
telling you to MAKE MUSIC and SING simultaneously. The
twanging bowstrings were, however, ZITHERS.
If the harp-girl [prostitute almost
without exception] is standing in the symposium and
someone says PLUCK she will probably [but not always]
pluck her harp strings. If you tell the male musical
performer to PLUCK he probably grasps that he needs to
get attention from the HAIR PLUCKERS. If a singer is
getting reading to sing, Socrates might raise his hand
and say, "SHOOT" and the singer knows to BELT OUT a
song.
But PLUCK never at any time ORIGINALLY
meant or CAME not to mean "singing with instrumental
accompaniment." You simply MUST know that the performer
would understand just WHAT to pluck. The absolute proof
is that none of the ANTI-Biblical
performers can find a Biblical or any other literature
where PSALLO meant to SING to the HARMONY of a musical
instrument.
Word mean different things at
different places and often depending on tradition.
Plato in Cratylus lists many of
the changes to the Attic even in 360 B.C.
Her. Yes, Socrates, I can
conceive no correctness of names other than this; you
give one name, and I another; and in different cities
and countries there are different names for the
same things; Hellenes differ from barbarians in their use of names,
and the several Hellenic tribes from one another.
Soc. Shall I tell you what I
suspect to be the true explanation of this and several
other words?-
My belief is that
they are of foreign origin.
For the Hellenes, especially those who
were
under the dominion of the barbarians, often borrowed from
them.
Soc. To say that names which
we do not understand are of foreign origin; and this
is very likely the right answer, and something of this
kind may be true of them; but also the original forms
of words may have been lost in the lapse of ages;
names have been so
twisted in all manner of ways, that I should not be
surprised if the old language when compared with
that now in use would appear to us to be a barbarous tongue.
Soc. Nor uttered nor
addressed? For example: If a person, saluting you in a
foreign country, were to take your hand and say:
"Hail, Athenian stranger, Hermogenes, son of
Smicrion"- these words, whether spoken, said, uttered,
or addressed, would have no application to you but
only to our friend Hermogenes, or perhaps to nobody at all?
Crat. In my opinion, Socrates,
the speaker would only be talking nonsense.
Soc. Well, but that will be
quite enough for me, if you will tell me whether the
nonsense would be true or false, or partly true and
partly false:- which is all that I want to know.
Crat. I should say that he
would be putting
himself in motion to no purpose; and that his words would
be an unmeaning
sound
like the noise of hammering at a brazen pot.
This to Paul was
speaking in tongues which was like playing
instruments to SPEAK.
People who write lexicons or
dictionaries do not have a first century TEXT BOOK. They
define PSALLO based on how it is used in the GREEK
LITERATURE. They found what I have found: there is NO
example of psallo meaning both
to sing and play at the same time. While the word PSALMOS is metrical and
CAN be twanged out on the steps of a harp, it does not
DEMAND or even INCLUDE instruments. A song MAY BE
played. Therefore, I know of no exception to the rule
that when a PSALM is sung the name of the INSTRUMENT
which makes melody (maybe three or more notes with no
harmony) is ALWAYS INCLUDED: The "song of the
prostitute" included SINGING of songs and MAKING MELODY
with a harp.
The "musical" content
was inserted because they believed that Paul was
speaking about MUSIC. Older scholars grasped that one
twangs out or shoots out an arrow and one also shoots
out a song: Psallo is NOT a musical term but a WARFARE
word. I will look at some of Ralph's proof texts later.
For now:
Josephus: (A.D.
70)
A. Ralph Johnson: So Samuel, when he had
given him these admonitions, went away. But the Divine Power departed
from Saul, and removed to David; who, upon this
removal of the Divine Spirit to him, began to prophesy. But as for Saul, some
strange and demoniacal disorders came upon him, and
brought upon him such suffocations as were ready to
choke him; for which the physicians could find no
other remedy but this, That if any person could charm those passions by singing [exadein] and playing
[psalein], upon the harp,
CHARMING is not what we want to
perform in ASSEMBLY. Better leave incantation, charming, magical earrings,
enchantment, orators or performance prayer to the
WITCHES of Endor.
Adam Clark notes of a later event
of prophesying:
The next day an evil spirit from God came forcefully upon
Saul. He was prophesying in his house, while David was playing the
harp, as he usually did. Saul had a spear in his
hand 1
Sam 18:10
"He prophesied in the midst of the
house. He was beside himself; made prayers,
supplications, and incoherent imprecations: 'God preserve my
life,' 'Destroy my enemies,' or such like prayers,
might frequently escape from him in his agitated state. The Arabic intimates
that he was actually possessed by an evil spirit, and that through it he
uttered a sort of demoniacal predictions." (Clark, 1 Sam 18, p.
270).
"In ancient
times, says Justin, kings used a spear instead of
a diadem: And as spears were the emblems of supreme
power, hence they were reputed as attributes of the
Divinity, and were worshipped as representatives
of the gods." (Adam Clark, 1
Sam. 18, p. 270)
God was allowing
David's music to drive Saul "over the edge." The spear was Saul's badge
of superiority: he didn't even need a
priest to make an animal sacrifice. By driving Saul into
charismatic
prophesying or 'making self vile' people would hold Saul in
contempt as they originally had.
"Most likely, Israel
first became acquainted with ecstatic prophecy in Canaan, where it was
connected with Baal religion. The Egyptian story of Wen Amon tells of a religious
festival in the Phoenician port of Byblos where 'the
god seized one of the youths and made him possessed'--that is, he fell into
an ecstatic
state.
Centuries later, prophets of Baal, imported from
Phoenicia,
worked themselves into an ecstatic frenzy on the top of Mount
Carmel as they danced around the altar, cut themselves with knives, and
raised their cultic shouts (I Kings 18:20-29).
This type of orgiastic prophecy was also known in Asia
Minor, from which it spread into the Mediterranean
world and later took the form of the orgies of the cult of
Dionysus" (Anderson, Theology of the O.T., p.
229).
(This always included musical instruments)
"The ecstatic condition appears to
have been normal to the prophetic guilds of the period of the judges and the
early kingdom, and for the first time in 1 Sam.
10:5-10, 19:20-24 the contagiousness of the condition
comes to light, in the case of Saul.
"The trained musicians which eventually
appear around the time of David and Solomon mark a distinctive change in the history of
Jewish music. Before this time much of the music was made by women." (Zondervan Pict.,
Music p. 313).
"The Hithpa'el of nb', in the ancient texts,
refers to ecstasy and delirium rather than to the emission of a
'prophecy'." (de Vaux, Roland, The Bible and the
Ancient Near East, p. 243 Doubleday
"Maniac inspirations, the
violent possession which threw sibyls and priestesses into contortions--the foaming lip and streaming hair and glazed or glaring eyes-- have no place in
the self-controlling dignity of Christian inspiration.
Even Jewish prophets, in the paroxysm of emotion,
might lie naked on the ground and rave (1 Sam. xix.
24);
but the genuine
inspiration in Christian ages never obliterates the
self-consciousness or overpowers the reason. It
abhors the hysteria and stimulation and frenzy which have sometimes disgraced revivalism and filled lunatic
asylums." (Pulpit Commentary, 1 Cor., p. 460).
"In the environment
in which Christianity
arose
was surcharged with such phenomena (raving prophecy). In the Greek oracles messages were uttered by
priests or priestesses in a state of ecstasy,
consciousness
being in
abeyance, and it was necessary to interpret them to the
laity,
as both Plutarch and Heraclitus testify... In the
orgies of the cult of Dionysus music, dancing, drink, and other means were
employed to supereninduce the ecstatic state, in which the devotees
ate raw flesh, disported themselves with frenzied enthusiasm in the forests, and indulged in wild
phallic excesses.
The ecstatic
person was 'in the divinity' and out of normal
consciousness. Cicero makes prophecy and madness practically
synonymous." (Clark, Elmer T., The Small Sects in
America, p. 86, Abingdon)
"The religious ecstasy induced by music expressed itself either
in an outburst of emotions, thus giving rise to
religious catharsis,
........ or in a transfer to the state of prophecy. [Lord, Lord sayers]
In this way music became an important
factor in divination. In the mysteries of the
Magna Mater this relationship
between music
and divination is particularly clear.
........ Through the din of tambourines, cymbals and flutes
........ the ecstatic worshiper of the goddess prophesied the future to those
present.
I would MAKE SELF A PROPHET if I
said: "Jesus will return tomorrow." However, I would
be a false prophet. I would likely NOT sing the truly
anti-Biblical and erotic praise songs unless I first
fell into "prophesying" which meant to sing and play
instruments to PIQUE my pleasure centers. Paul would
see us as DRUNK on wine or on passion and pride or
perverted.
A. Ralph Johnson has been blinded by his own statement: it
is a Biblical and literary fact that while a SONG is
metrical and the tune can be twanged out with a harp, it
is also a fact that when the SINGING word is used an
instrument, if intended, is always named.
Ralph Johnson has just quoted another WITHOUT EXCEPTIONS
from Josephus.
A. Ralph Johnson: they advised them to inquire of such a one, and
observe when these demons came upon him and
disturbed him, and to take care that such a person
might stand over him,
one: and play [psalein] upon the
harp
two: and recite hymns to
him....skillful in
playing [psalein] on the harp, and
in singing [exadein] of
hymns,...
whensoever it was that it came upon him, and this
by
two: reciting of hymns, and
one: playing [psalein] upon the
harp... -Antiquities, Bk. 6, chap. 8, #2; Pages
185-186. (6.166 Whiston)
If PSALEIN
included BOTH singing and PLAYING on a harp then why
did the Spirit of Christ use two words. This proves the
point. Furthermore, psalein ia not psalmos or psallo.
Singing is NEVER used to include both VOCAL reciting
and playing an instrument.
This was not
"worship" but singing Saul's swan song as CHARMING or
EXORCISM:
Exaidein dunamenos kai psallein epi kinurai
Exaid๔ , A. sing out, sing one's last song, of
the swan 2. sing the exodos, of a chorus II. sing away by means of
a spell
exaidein dunamenos kai psallein epi kinurai
Dunamai I. to be able, strong
enough to do, having influence with him, c. of
things, mean, 'spell',
Cunning of David is yada (h3045) includes prognosticator, regard, have
respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be
sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understood,
have [understanding], * will be, wist, wit, wot.
For God doth
know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your
eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods,
knowing good and evil. Ge.3:5
exaidein dunamenos kai psallein
epi kinurai
Psallein psallo meaning
purely to play or pluck
exaidein dunamenos kai psallein epi kinurai
Kinura A. kinnor, a stringed
instrument played with the hand, LXX 1 Ki.16.23; with
a plectron,
J.AJ7.12.3. However,
Josephus says:
The viol was an
instrument of ten strings, it was played upon with
a bow; the psaltery had twelve musical
notes, and was played upon by the fingers;
Of this event,
Josephus reads:
they advised them
to inquire for such a one, and to
observe when these demons came upon him and
disturbed him, and to take care that such a person
might stand over him, and play upon the harp, and recite hymns to him.
Playing or
plucking has no meaning unless you define WHAT is
to be plucked WITH THE FINGERS ONLY, please.
stanta psallein
te kai tous humnous epilegein.
K๊le๔, A. charm, bewitch, beguile, esp. by music epaid๔n k. charm by incantation, k๊leitai aoidais
Epaeid๔ means to sing AND
play 2. sing as an incantation, sing to one so as
to charm or soothe him, use charms or
incantations, by means of charms
However, this
was not singing but RECITING by David.
Epileg๔, 2. . say besides, repeat, 4. . utter, pronounce a spell (cf.epeipon ), rh๊sin
mustik๊n. III 2. . in Hdt. also, con over, read, 3.
. recount, in speaking
Or in Latin
Recito , a-vi, a-tum, 1, v.
a. I. In the best prose, a publicist's t. t., to read out, recite a document.. it became customary
to recite one's own works before audiences; cf.:
pronuntio, declamo): B. To repeat from memory, say
by heart, recite.
The "pharmakea" or
sorcery in the book of Revelation were written
enchantments or incantations to perform magic.
Remember that Saul had turned to the Witch of Endor
and that her 'familiar spirit' was an old wineskin
or water skin. It produced a hollow sound or echo.
This is quite identical to the meaning of the nebel
or harp and of the "sounding brass" of 1 Cor. 13.
God then used the young child David to perform magic
or exorcism as a sign or MARK for those with eyes
and ears.
Steve Mason, Professor (Humanities
& Ancient History notes that: Things that didn't sound
particularly Pharisaic in his writing could easily be
explained away by his notorious opportunism: he would
happily
"Hellenize" certain concepts for the benefit of his Greek-speaking audience, and to this end he
didn't mind corrupting his true beliefs quite badly. It seemed reassuring to
know that, no matter what stunts he pulled for his own
dubious ends, we knew what he really was. In fact,
from time to time his allegedly despicable character
was cited as but further evidence--in addition to the
gospels--of what was held to be the sordid character of all
Pharisees.
In any case,
Josephus was writting for the offended Hellenists who
considered him a traitor and he would NOT have written
in the Koine. Assuredly, the Attic Greek language
continued but there are NO instances we can find where
either Zamar or Psallo INCLUDES both singing and
playing.
Neither Psallo nor
Zamar DEFINE both singing and
playing: BOTH are used where the action is BOTH to
sing or rather RECITE a song and emphasize the
specific NOTE with the same tone on the harp.
In the same way the
English SONG might be used in connection with playing
an instrument but it does not MEAN to play an
instrument.
When God gave Moses
his song at the Red Sea, he and others RECITED it because they were in
'synagogue' and the purpose was to teach the song so
that the rest of the two or three million could learn
it. Miriam, whose name means bitter waters, decided to
lead the women OUT to escape and just sang one little
part with clanging brass and tinkling cymbals and
dancing because the MUSIC word almost demands dancing. Click to see how Miriam helped
facilitate idolatry.
One of the things well
known by science is that MUSIC entertains by inducing
spiritual anxiety. At the beginning it sounds good but
in time--as the pagans knew--the soul SWELLS UP and you
get a backlash and fall into what Paul called MADNESS.
Music was most valuable in this activity. Perhaps this,
as is much of the story, a secret message which
associates MUSIC with the charismatic prophesying.
And it came to pass
on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the
house: and David played with his hand, as at other
times: and there was a javelin in Sauls hand. 1 Sam
18:10
And A.
Ralph
Johnson agrees: "And when the evil spirit again came upon him to
trouble and confuse him, he called David to the
chamber wherein he lay, and, holding his spear in
his hand, bade him charm away the spell with his harp [psalmoi] and songs [humnois]. -Antiquities, Bk. 6, Chap. 9, #3
(6.213 Whiston)
One cannot help but
notice that Josephus is paraphrasing the Old Testament
where the Greek Version existed from one to two hundred
years before he was born. I don't believe there was a
Greek Version in Koine! The MUSIC-INDUCED charming or
soothing was an end-time MARK of the beast:
"Jingling, banging, and rattling accompanied heathen cults, and the frenzying shawms of a dozen ecstatic
cries intoxicated
the masses. Amid this euphoric farewell feast of a
dying civilization, the voices of nonconformists were
emerging from places of Jewish and early Christian
worship ..." (Encyclopedia Judaica, 1971 ed., s.v.
"Music."
Such CHARMING is like sorcery: this was NOT an act of
worship but a MARK that Saul was lost and beyond
redemption. When people are totally repudiated by God he
may allow "music" to soothe away the delusions:
Josephus
chapter 8.
And when Samuel mourned for
him, God
bid him
leave
off his concern for him, and to take the holy
oil, and go to Bethlehem, to Jesse the son of Obed,
and to anoint such of his sons as he should show him
for their future king. But Samuel said, he was afraid
lest Saul, when he came to know of it, should kill
him, either by some private method or even openly. But
upon God's suggesting to him a safe way of going
thither....
(2)[166] 2. So Samuel, when he
had given him these admonitions, went away.
........But the Divine Power departed
from Saul,
........and removed to David;
who,
........upon this removal of the
Divine Spirit to him, began to prophesy.
But as for Saul,
some strange and demoniacal disorders came upon him, and
brought upon him such suffocations as were ready to choke
him; for which the physicians could find no other
remedy but this, That if any person could charm those passions
........ by singing, and
........ playing upon the harp,
Note: if "singing and
playing the harp" is implied in Bill
Swetmon's use of psallo then we must of
necessity translate this passage as follows:
- By singing and
- By [1] singing and [2] playing upon the[3] harp
This is also true
of Ephesians 5:19. It does not say "singing and singing on a harp in the
heart." It puts the speaking on the outside with the
absolute demand to teach the Words of Christ. The melody is on
the inside where its "abrading" meaning implies to
"break the heart." It does not mean to celebrate ala
voodoo.
This is why it is
impossible to read SPEAK or PREACH and not
understand the words to mean sing.
Josephus condemns
those who would SOW DISCORD by adding music by
relegating its value only to the mental conditions
of mankind who have LOST connection to the Head.
they advised them to
inquire for such a one, and to observe when these
demons came upon him and disturbed him, and to take
care that such a person might stand over him,
- and play upon the harp,
- and recite hymns to him.
(16) Accordingly
Saul did not delay, but commanded them to seek out
such a man. And when a certain stander-by said that he
had seen in the city of Bethlehem a son of Jesse, who
was yet no more than a child in age, but comely and beautiful, and in other respects
one that was deserving of great regard,
who was skillful
in playing on the harp,
and in singing of hymns,
Note 1: 1
Spanheim takes notice here that the Greeks had
such singers of hymns; and that usually children or
youths were picked out for that service; as
also, that those called singers to the harp, did the
same that David did here, i.e. join their own
vocal and instrumental music together.
Or, if Bill
Swetmon is right, we must translate this:
Who was skillful
in singing and playing on the harp
and in singing of hymns
[and an
excellent soldier in war,]
Psallo is a
WARFARE word and NOT a musical word. One twangs
and one shoots out hymns but one does not TWANG a
bow and SHOOT hymns unless they are sounding a
Saul's doom.
he sent to Jesse,
and desired him to take David away from the flocks,
and send him to him, for he had a mind to see him, as
having heard an advantageous character of his
comeliness and his valor. So Jesse sent his son, and
gave him presents to carry to Saul. And when he was
come, Saul was pleased with him, and made him his
armor-bearer, and had him in very great esteem; for
he charmed his passion,
and was the only physician against the trouble he
had
from the
demons, whensoever it was that it came upon
him,
and this by reciting of hymns, and playing upon the
harp,
and bringing Saul to his right mind again.
Modern research
admits that music may have some advantage in calming
those suffering
mental
illness. Even this, therapists
insist, should be very simple or even single, pure tones (as in unison). They are
also agreed that one can play music and bring on an
"evil spirit" which, if God's will is ignored, is from
the Lord.
The church needs
musical physicians or soothsayers only if it is possessed of a mad
demon.
Because we
know that God permitted the temple for civil-state
animal sacrifices, and because of the 'like the
nation's sacrifices," the loud noise DURING animal
sacrifices is identified as exorcism.
However, he sent to
Jesse, the father of the child, and desired him to
permit David to stay with him, for that he was
delighted with his sight and company; which stay, that
he might not contradict Saul, he granted.
And when Samuel
mourned for him, God bid him leave off his concern
for him. It is historical in The Book of Enoch,
Jubilees, Adam and Eve and three dozen accounts of
how Satan seduced people to NOT WAIT FOR GOD, God
turned them over, as at Mount Sinai, to "worship the
starry host."
"God, the Great Physician had abandoned Saul and told Samual
not to be concerned with him anymore. Only then was
the MUSICIAN the "only physician" who could soothe
Saul's delusions. The short lapse into sanity was
the last gasp of lucidity.
See how
Elisha sending for a harpist to "prophesy" was the MARK of God's
judgment against the family of Ahab andJezebel. The
king was led to destroy his source of income!
Click to see that Josephus
connects the MUSICAL LEVITES to the destruction of
the nation with music.
As David PLANNED to
use the surplus Levites as temple musicians for the
STATE TEMPLE, Josephus shows how that was repeated in
his time. Click to see
how the MUSICAL LEVITES are treated by Joshepus.
This makes my point: MELODY and music
was associated with WARFARE or helping the King keep everyone on the
job even as slaves building Solomon's temple.
Furthermore, Paul made it so clear
that no one WHO HAS NOT BEEN DELUDED can grasp that he
was not speaking of MAKING
MUSIC but of TEACHING
the inspired Word. Remember that Jesus said of the twos
and threes: "Come learn of me."
So, the PSALLO argument which was
first DISCOVERED by the Christian church preachers in 1878 can no
more be seen as an ACT OF LEGALISTIC WORSHIP more than
shooting the deacons with a real bow.
6. Now as many of the Levites, (26) which is a tribe of ours, as were singers of hymns, persuaded the king to
assemble a sanhedrim, and to give them leave to wear linen garments, as well as the priests
for they said that
this would be a work worthy the times of
his government, that he might have a memorial of such a
novelty, as being his doing.
Nor did they fail
of obtaining their desire; for the king, with the
suffrages of those that came into the sanhedrim,
granted the singers of hymns this privilege, that
they might
lay aside their former garments,
and wear such a linen one as they desired;
and as
a part of this tribe ministered in the
temple,
........
he also
permitted them to learn those hymns as they had besought
him for.
........ Now all this was contrary to the
laws of our country, which,
........ whenever they have been
transgressed,
........ we have never been able
to avoid the punishment of such transgressions.
See the Catholic Restoration of
the Levites.
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