Cane Ridge and Babylonian Parallels? The contrived
revival at Cane Ridge has many Babylonian parallels with music and
ritual preaching as the powerful change agent which brought on mental
and emotional breakdown sold as conversion. While we can understand
the urge to bring morals and ethics to the Kentucky Frontier through
revivalism, later writers, including Stone, questioned whether it had
done more harm than good. The charismatics went into holiness groups
and even the Quakers; the more rational went with Campbell-taught
churches.
CLICK BELOW FOR: The Pseudo-Revivals out of Salem and Cane Ridge are Identical to Ancient and Modern Devil Worship in Babylon.
Arnobius, Musical
Mocking arnobius,
instrumental music in worship,
"Mocking the belief that Mellonia introduces herself into
the entrails, or Limentinus,
and that they set themselves to make known what you seek to learn,
Arnobius asks--
May
it not happen, may it not
come to pass, although you craftily conceal it, that the
one should take the other's
place, deluding, mocking, deceiving,
and presenting the
appearance of the deity invoked?
If the magi,
who are so much akin to soothsayers, relate that, in their incantations,
pretend
gods steal in
frequently instead of those invoked; that some of these, moreover,
are spirits of grosser substance, who pretend
that they are gods, and delude
the ignorant by their
lies and
deceit." (Arnobius Against the
Heathen, Ante-Nicene, VI, p.
479).
The low level of church
attendance before Cane Ridge and after is used to prove its worth.
However, it is a fact that my inlaws came in through the Ohio River
and my ancestors came in with Daniel Boone selling (and selling and
reselling) land in the Lexington area. They were churchmen and church builders in Virginia and Kentucky.
The low level of morality in the wild frontier clearly explains how people could be momentarily could be spooked into what Scripture and recorded history defines as sorcery or witchcraft. The
direct command is to PREACH the Word by READING the Word for Comfort
and Doctrine. Jesus came to seek and save lost spirits. The Gospel is
the only POWER to bring salvation and the gospel Jesus and others
preached was the Gospel of the Kingsom or Church of Christ. The
Gospel promise if for an ekklesia or synagogue defined as an UMBRELLA to shelter the lost spirits ia made into A holy spirit and translated into a Heavenly Kingdom. Jesus said that the Kingdom is within and DOES NOT COME with observation: that means RELIGIOUS WORSHIP SERVICES fueled by anything but the spoken WORD.
The so-called Awakenings were CONTRIVED by what in the Scriptures, secular literature and church history were identified as SORCERY or WITCHCRAFT: which means using any method beyond PREACHING the Word by READING the Word for Comfort and Doctrine.
The answer, of course, was
that in addition to
performing the sympathetic magic such as music, you also had to feed
the god by offering sacrifices--which the priests ate.
Mercury
(Logos,
word), also, has been named as though he were a kind of go-between; (mediator) and because
conversation passes between two speakers, and is
exchanged by them, that which is expressed by this name has been
produced.
If
this, then, is
the case, Mercury is not the name of a god,
but of speech
and words
exchanged by persons." (Arnobius
Against the
Heathen, Ante-Nicene,
VI, p. 472).
Arnobius, Musical
Mocking arnobius,
instrumental music in worship,
"Mocking the belief that Mellonia introduces herself into
the entrails, or Limentinus,
and that they set themselves to make known what you seek to learn,
Arnobius asks--
May
it not happen, may it not
come to pass, although you craftily conceal it, that the
one should take the other's
place, deluding, mocking, deceiving,
and presenting the
appearance of the deity invoked?
If the magi,
who are so much akin to soothsayers, relate that, in their incantations, pretend
gods steal in
frequently instead of those invoked; that some of these, moreover,
are spirits of grosser substance, who pretend
that they are gods, and delude
the ignorant by their
lies and
deceit." (Arnobius Against the
Heathen, Ante-Nicene, VI, p.
479).
"Philodemus
considered it paradoxical that music should be regarded as veneration
of the gods
while musicians were paid for performing this so-called
veneration. Again, Philodemus held as
self deceptive the view that music mediated religious ecstasy. He saw the entire
condition induced by the noise of
cymbals and tambourines as a disturbance of the spirit.
He
found it
significant that, on the whole, only women and effeminate men fell into this
folly.
Accordingly,
nothing
of value could be attributed to
music;
it was no more
than a slave
of the sensation of pleasure, which
satisfied much in the same way
that food and drink did.
"Now,
many a man
from
the false
religions, which are
not ashamed of criticising what is noble,
will ask: how can there be a feast without carousing and overeating, without the pleasant
company of hosts and guests,
without quantities of unmixed wine, without richly set
tables and highly stacked
provisions of everything that pertains to a banquet, without pageantry and jokes,
bantering
and
merry-making to the accompaniment of flutes
and citharas, the sound of drums
and cymbals and
other effeminate and frivolous music
of every king,
enkindling
unbridled lusts with
the help of the sense of
hearing. For in and
through the same [pleasures] those persons openly seek their joy, for what true joy is
their they do not
know.
THE FALL FROM GRACE BECAUSE OF THESE EFFEMINATE PRACTICES AFFIRMED BY PAUL IN ROMANS 1
At Mount Sinai after the nation refused to hear the voice of God and
demanded a human mediator, they immediately fell into musical idolatry
of the Egyptian (etal) trinity. The
Levites volunteered to
slaughter
3,000 of the offenders so it is no surprise that the "
eagles"
use the Levites as their authority for "worship leaders." In fact, they
have lost all options.
Luke 16:29 Abraham saith unto him,
They have
Moses and the
prophets; let them hear them.
Luke 16:30 And he said, Nay, father
Abraham:
but if one went unto them from the dead,
they will repent.
Luke 16:31 And he said unto him, If they hear not
Moses and the
prophets,
neither will they be persuaded,
though one rose from the dead.
Moses promised
another "prophet" like him as our last warning:
1Corinthians 10:1 Moreover, brethren,
I would not that ye should be ignorant,
how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
1Corinthians 10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
1Corinthians 10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
1Corinthians 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink:
for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them:
and that Rock was Christ.
1Corinthians 10:5 But with many of them God was not well pleased:
for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
1Corinthians 10:6 Now these things were our examples,
to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
1Corinthians 10:20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles [
Gens] [ sacrifice,
they
sacrifice to devils, and not to God:
and I would not that ye should have
fellowship with
devils.
daimonaō , A.
to be under the power of a daimōn, to suffer by a divine visitation, daimona domos kakois A.Ch.566; daimonōntes en ata Id.Th. 1008 (lyr.): abs., to be possessed, to be mad, E.Ph.888, X.Mem.1.1.9, Plu.Marc.20, etc.; daimonas Men.140.
Greek: Daimonios , II.
from Hdt. and Pi. downwds. (Trag. in lyr.), heaven-sent, miraculous, marvellous, bōlax Pi.P.4.37; teras B.15.35, S.Ant.376
2.
of persons, tō d. hōs alēthōs kai thaumastō Id.Smp.219b; ho peri toiauta sophos d. anēr ib.203a; daimonios tēn sophian Luc.Philops.32: Comp. -ōteros D.C.53.8.
Sophos , ē, on, mostly of poets and musicians, Pi.O.1.9, P.1.42, 3.113; en kithara s. E.IT1238 (lyr.),
Sophia A.
cleverness or skill in handicraft and art, in music and singing, tekhnē kai s. h.Merc.483, cf. 511; in poetry, in divination,
1
Cor. 10:7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people
sat down to eat and
drink, and rose up to
play.
1 Corinthians 10.7 mēde eidōlolatrai ginesthe,
kathōs tines autōn:
hōsper gegraptai
Ekathisen ho laos
phagein kai pein,
kai anestēsan paizein.
ONLY THE FEMALES AS HAREM OF THE GODS COULD BE CAUGHT DEAD SINGING, PLAYING AND CLAPPING.
God abandoned the Jews to their old Egyptian and Babylon worship
because of musical idolatry. Heredotus defines the Egyptian and
Jerusalem Temple perfectly. This is the image of even David when
he performed the
naked role of women.
Heredotus II defines the same Rising up to PLAY at Mount Sinai: Men and women come
sailing all together, vast numbers in each
boat, many of the women with castanets, which they strike,
while some of the men pipe
during the whole time of the voyage; the remainder of the voyagers,
male and female,
sing the while, and make a clapping with their
hands.
When they arrive opposite any
of the towns upon the banks of the stream,
they approach the shore, and, while some of the women continue to
play and
sing,
others call aloud
to the females of the place and load them with abuse, while a certain number dance,
and some standing up
uncover themselves. After proceeding in this way all along the
river-course, they reach Bubastis, where they celebrate the feast
with abundant sacrifices. More
grape-wine is consumed at this festival than in all the rest of
the year besides.
The number of those who attend,
counting only the men and women and omitting the children, amounts,
according to the native reports, to seven hundred thousand.
"Let revelry
keep away from our rational entertainments, and foolish vigils, too,
that revel in intemperance. For revelry is an inebriating pipe, the chain of an amatory bridge, that is, of sorrow. And let love,
and intoxication, and senseless passions, be removed from our choir.
Burlesque
singing is the boon
companion of drunkeness. A night spent over drink invites drunkeness,
rouses lust, and is audacious in deeds of shame.
For if people occupy their time
with pipes,
and psalteries, and choirs,
and dances,
and Egyptian clapping of hands, and
such disorderly frivolities, they become quite immodest and intractable, beat on cymbals, and drums, and make a noise on instruments of delusion." (Clement, Instructor, Eerdmans, p.
248)
RISING UP AGAINST GOD IN PLAY
The god Dionysus or Bacchus is best known to us as a
personification of the vine and of the exhilaration produced by
the juice of the grape. His ecstatic worship, characterised by
wild dances, thrilling music, and tipsy excess, appears to have
originated among the rude tribes of Thrace, who were notoriously
addicted to drunkenness. Its mystic doctrines and extravagant
rites were essentially foreign to the clear intelligence and
sober temperament of the Greek race.
Yet appealing as it did to that love of mystery and that
proneness to revert to savagery which seem to be innate in most
men, the religion spread like wildfire through Greece until the
god whom Homer hardly deigned to notice had become the most
popular figure of the pantheon. The resemblance which his story
and his ceremonies present to those of Osiris have led some
enquirers both in ancient and modern times to hold that Dionysus
was merely a disguised Osiris, imported directly from Egypt into
Greece. But the great preponderance of evidence points to his
Thracian origin, and the similarity of the two worships is
sufficiently explained by the similarity of the ideas and customs
on which they were founded.
From: The Golden
Bough : A Study Of Magic and Religion
Paizō
pais I.
properly, to play like a child, to sport, alla pepaistai metriōs hēmin, of the chorus, Ar. Th.1227. 4. play on a musical instrument, h.Ap.206: c. acc., Pan ho kalamophthogga paizōn dance and sing, Pi. O.1.16.
Aristoph. Frogs 225
Rightly so, you busybody.
the Muses of the fine lyre love us
And so does horn-crested Pan, playing his reed pipe.
And the harpist Apollo delights in us as well,
On account of the reed, which as a bridge for his lyre
Apollōn , ho, Apollo: Abaddon, Apollyon The name of a NUMBER
phorm-iktēs , ou, Dor. phorm-miktas , ho, A. lyre-player, of Orpheus, Pi.P.4.176
phorm-iktos ,
ē,
on,
A.
sung TO the phormigx, kai peza kai ph. (sc.
melē)
S.Fr.16.
Melos ,
eos,
to,
2.
music to which a song is set, tune,
Arist.Po.1450a14;
3.
melody of an instrument,
phormigx d' au phtheggoith' hieron m. ēde kai aulos ;
aulōn pamphōnon m.
Pi.P.12.19;
5. play amorously, pros allēlous X.Smp.9.2;
II. est, sport, Hdt.2.28, 5.4, 9.11; make fun with a person,
Empaizō , fut. To be deluded 2. euphem. in mal. part.,
LXXJd. 19.25.
II. sport in or on, hτs
nebros chloerais e. leimakos hκdonais E.Ba. 866 (lyr.); tois choroisin e. to sport
in the dance,
Ar.Th.975; tτi Luc.Lex.5
Paig-ma , atos, to, A.
play, sport, lōtos hotan . . paigmata bremē whene'er the pipe sounds its sportive strains, E.Ba.161(lyr.); Ludia p. luras Lyr.Alex.Adesp.37.15.II.
'child's play', to toiouto p. tōn logōn
"In the New Testament there
is nowhere any emphasis
laid on the musical form of the hymns;
and in particular none on instrumental accompaniment whereas this is
significantly
paganism." (Delling,
Gerhard, Worship in the New Testament, trans. Percy Scott Phil.
Westminster press, 1962, p. 86).
Paizō
5.
play amorously, pros allēlous
"The
triumphal hymn of Moses had unquestionably a religious character
about it; but the employment of music in religious services, though idolatrous, is more distinctly marked
in the festivities which attended the erection of the golden calf."
(Smith's Bible Dictionary, Music, p. 589).
Long after Cane Ridge, Barton
W. Stone and his followers followed little of what the Restoration
Movement under Campbell later became. Therefore, Cane Ridge was
never the mainstream of the restoration movement. It was made up of
dejected Calvinists trying to find a way to extend salvation to more
than the predestinated. While older, Stone's movement is considered a
tributary to the stream of Campbell.
Throughout history, beginning
in Babylon, what happened at Cane Ridge was more closely identified
with witchcraft or possession by Satan than with pure Christianity.
This article looks at comments of the traveller and Historian,
Layard, to see some parallels.
The "exercises" did not start at Cane Ridge and were not started by
Barton W. Stone. Building on the
revivalistic work of James McGready, Richard McNemar states that the
spread of the revival began in Christian and
Logan Co.,
Kentucky and in the Spring of 1801, had reached Mason Co., Kentucky.
Beginning at Flemingsburgh in April,
moving to Cabin Creek, where a camp meeting was held, then Concord, in Bourbon
County, by the last of May and Eagle
Creek in Adams Co., Ohio in the
beginning of June. There were meetings in quick succession at
Pleasant Point, Kentucky; Indian
Creek, in Harrison county (July);
Cane
Ridge, near Paris, Bourbon county
(August).
The so called religious revival at Cane Ridge
involved loud vocal hymns and the effects were quite identical to Devil worship
described by Layard. The Barton W. Stone movement (largely enveloped
by the Campbell movement) led to instrumental music in many churches
and to charismatic exercises in others. Churches of Christ were
affected by but never a part of the Stone movement. For instance,
many "Disciples" later moved into Weslyan churches such as the
Pilgrim Holiness Church.
Charity makes us look for the good which came
out of Cane Ridge and similar charismatic outbreaks and there was
probably much. However, not all observers were from sympathetic
writers and honesty makes us look for danger signs perhaps just over
the hills. The bad seems to be honored and is increasingly thrust
upon churches not in the "buying" mood under the false banner that
Barton W. Stone was the true father of the Restoration
Movement and he, so they say, was into the "Holy Spirit" and
"exercises" and his wing of the restoration movement added
instrumental music and choirs.
Of course, observers noted that Barton Stone
never got into the exercises but had to, initially, defend them
because he had traveled to find the secret and had turned it loose in
the spooky woods of Cane Ridge. And, of course, Barton Stone, like
many other Restoration leaders thought of the Holy Spirit as the Mind
of God and not a "little person (God) in the big person (me).
Click Here fore the details
After the fires burned themselves out most
Biblically trained churches moved away from the "exercises" and some
attributed them to Satan or to evil spirits.
Luke 4:29 And rose up, and thrust him out of the city,
and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built,
that they might cast him down headlong. As Azazel the Scape-Goat
in Revelation 18 the speakers, singers and instrument players were
called SORCERERS using the same term as the original Babylon mother of
harlots. The religious "staff" are identified as SCAPE GOATS and
like the ANATHEMA word they will be cast alive into the Lake of fire.
Luke 4:30 But he passing through the midst of them went his way,
Luke 4:31 And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee,
and taught [didaskōn] them on the sabbath days. [This is the ONE PIECE PATTERN for Ekklesia or Synagogue]
Luke 4:32 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his WORD was with power.
The Word or Logos is called the Regulative Principle by the Greeks: it is opposite of self speak (outlawed in Isaiah 58 and Paul in Romans 15). Logos is the Opposite of rhetoric, singing, playing instruments or telling self-referenced stories.
Jesus called these hypocritic by quoting Ezekiel 33 where the Spirit OF
(a preposition) Christ named preachers, singers and instrument players:
these were marks of telling God they had no intention of listing to
Christ's free water of the Word.
Notice that because
SPIRIT means wind, breath or a person's Mental Disposition, the word OF
is almost always used to prevent disciples from thinking of the Spirit
OF Christ as another people: John identifies that as the mark of ANTI-Christ'
Luke 4:33 And in the synagogue there was a man,
which had a spirit OF an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice,
daimonion ,
to,
2. evil spirit,
d. phaula
Chrysipp.Stoic.2.338, cf.
LXXDe.32.17,
To.3.8,
Ev.Matt.7.22, al.,
PMag.Lond.1.46.120 (iv A. D.).
NOTICE THAT UNCLEAN SPIRITS CAUSE PEOPLE TO SHOUT:
Anakrazō , cry out, lift up the voice, shout, I
raised my voice too high,
of a dying man,
Megas 3. of sounds,
great, loud,
alalētos, iakhē, patagos, orumagdos,
Il.12.138,
15.384,
21.9,
256;
thoruboi, kōkutos,
S.Aj.142 (anap.),
E.Med.1176;
ouk esti hokōs ti neikos estai ē mega ē smikron
Hdt.3.62;
mē phōnei mega
S.Ph.574.
5. with a bad sense,
over-great,
mega eipein to speak
big, and so provoke divine wrath,
Phōn-ē ,
hē,
A.sound, tone, prop.,
the sound of the voice, whether of men or animals with lungs and throat
4. of
sounds made by inanimate objects, mostly Poet.,
kerkidos ph.
S.Fr.595;
suriggōn
E.Tr.127 (lyr.);
aulōn
Mnesim.4.56 (anap.); rare in early Prose,
organōn phōnai
Pl.R.397a; freq. in
LXX,
hē ph. tēs salpiggos
LXX Ex.20.18;
ph. brontēs ib.
Ps.103(104).7;
hē ph. autou hōs ph. hudatōn pollōn
Apoc.1.15.
organon , to, (ergon, erdō) Ergon: MACHINES for doing HARD WORK: SHOCK AND AWE
3. musical instrument, Simon.31, f.l. in A.Fr.57.1 ; ho men di' organōn ekēlei anthrōpous, of Marsyas, Pl.Smp.215c ; aneu organōn psilois logois ibid., cf. Plt.268b ; o. polukhorda Id.R.399c, al.; met' ōdēs kai tinōn organōn Phld.Mus.p.98K.; of the pipe,
JUBAL HANDLED Musical instruments both without authority and in a sexual sense.
For those without an UNCLEAN spirit and the Mark (music) of the Beast (A new style of music or drama)
2. organ of sense or apprehension, ta peri tas aisthēseis o. Pl.R.508b
The men HAVING harps from
God means that they had the instrument of DISCERNING or APPREHENDING the
Word of God: the Beasts and Elders repented.
Luke 4:34 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth?
art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.
Luke 4:35 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.
And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not.
Luke 4:36 And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying,
What a WORD is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.
Luke 4:37 And the fame of him went out into every place of the country round about.
THE UNCLEAN SPIRITS NEVER INVOLVED WHAT BECAME CHURCHES OF CHRIST AND WAS RECOGNIZED AS WITCHCRAFT
Acts 16:16 And it came to pass, as we went to
prayer,
a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met
us,
which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:
G4436 Puthōn poo'-thone From Puthō
(the name of the region where Delphi, the seat of the famous oracle,
was located); a Python, that is, (by analogy with the supposed diviner
there) inspiration (soothsaying): divination.
-puthiazτ , to be inspired by
Apollo, prophesy, St.Byz. s.v. Puthτ.
-Puthτ Pytho, older name of that
part of Phocis at the foot of Parnassus, in which lay the city of
Delphi, Hom., etc. of Delphi itself, Pi.P.4.66, 10.4, Hdt.1.54, etc. (Acc. to the legend, derived from the rotting of the serpent, h.Ap.372.)
punthanomai , Od.2.315, etc.; poet. also peuthomai (q.v.): Ep. impf.
-Pind. P. 4 Today you must stand beside a beloved man, Muse, the king of Cyrene with
its fine horses, so that while Arcesilas celebrates his triumph you may
swell the fair wind of song that is due to the children of Leto and to Pytho, where once the priestess seated beside the golden eagles of Zeus,
[5]
on a day when Apollo happened to be present,
Used With:
(THIA A) translate
A to be inspired, frenzied, oposoi this theiasantes epilpisan as many as made them hope by divinations, Th.8.1; i And godbearer is divinely inspired, Ph.1.479; oposoi teletais etheiazon obtained inspiration through ritual, Philostr. Her. 5.3. 2 prophesy, that stratopedefsoito DC Fr. 57.48:-Pass., [reason] on tῇ teleftῇ Alexander etheiasthi Arr. An . 7.18.6? scholar under the Group theiasthen DC62.18. II worship as divine, Id.59.27; Pythagoras and Plato Dam. Isid. 36:-Pass., Max.Tyr.8.9.
--theiazτ
A.to be inspired, frenzied, hoposoi autous theiasantes epēlpisan as many as made them hope by divinations, Th.8.1; th. kai theophoreitai is divinely inspired
aoidos , ho, (aeidō)
A.singer, minstrel, bard, Il.24.720,
Od.3.270, al.,
Hes.Th.95,
Op.26,
Sapph.92, [Lesbian] etc.;
a. anēr
Od.3.267;
theios a.
4.17,
8.87, al.;
tou aristou anthrōpōn a.
Hdt.1.24;
polla pseudontai a.
Arist.Metaph.983a4: c.gen.,
goōn, khrēsmōn aoidos, E.HF110,
Heracl. 403;
pratos a., of the cock,
Theoc.18.56.
III. = eunoukhos, Hsch.; cf. doidos. The song of the eunuch or or the EMASCULATED in Paul's warning
theios 1. of or from the gods, divine, genos Il.6.180; omphē 2.41; Oneiros ib.22; epipnoiais
of heralds and bards, Il.4.192, Od.4.17, al.; so perh., of kings, ib. 691.
b. matters of religion, errei ta th. religion is no more, S.OT910 (lyr.), cf. OC1537, X.Cyr.8.8.2, etc.
BARTON W. STONE REALLY SAID:
"The prophets of God were not like
the raving Pythoness of heathen
temples, nor are the saints of God
converted into whirling
dervishes by an influence which is the
author. There can be little doubt that Paul would have severely
reprobated such scenes as frequently occurred during the revival of
which we are speaking.
"He would have said to the people
substantially what he said to the Corinthians. If any unbeliever or
ignorant man come to your assemblies and hears one shouting in ecstasy, and
another howling in
anguish; if he sees some falling, some
jumping, some lying in convulsions, others in trances,
will he not say ye are
mad?" (Hodge, History Presbyterian
Church quoted in Barton W. Stones' Biography, p. 368, 369)
There were Cane Ridge and Babylonian Parallels
in that both were contrived efforts by the "authorities" to try to
make up for the imagined lack of God and His Word:
At Cane Ridge: "To some extent they were
contrived, both by those who exhorted
and by those who listened and responded.
Certain
techniques, which ministers
conscientiously learned, helped push audiences toward an
ecstatic
frenzy.
Certain hymns,
certain tunes worked better than others.
Certain repeated and familiar verbal
images, those with great
resonance
for an audience, worked better than others. In many of the greatest
revivals
the spark was a type of confession--the telling
of what had happened to oneself there or at an earlier revival.
Some ministers learned the most evocative
ways of telling their stories.
Several sermonic devices
-- timing, phrasing, pauses, and
above all the display of intense
feeling--worked." (Conkin, Paul,
Cane Ridge America's Pentecost, p. 106, U ofWis.)
In all ancient tradition, Satan, Lucifer or
whatever you call him gave man musical instruments to worship
him so
that people forget God and his Word.
Of the Transmission of the Art of Playing the
Harp, that is to say of Music and Singing and Dancing. For more of the
Babylonian origins of music Click
Here.
Some of the following might describe the
degenerated state of the huge revivals which followed Cane Ridge. In
fact, they had to be abandoned because they encoraged more evil than
good as roudy, blaspheming youth, prostitutes and liquor salesmen
took control. As always, the effect whether from sexual fertility
rituals, wine, music or preacher-induced enthusiasm, was believed to
be the effect of the "gods." The ancients knew that the god was Satan
and his agents while modern revivalists pretend that the Lord Jesus
Christ is in these dances of death:
"Yobal (Jubal). (Note: Jubilee or "a blast of
trumpets" is from Jubal which means "to lead with triumph or
pomp.") and Tobalkin (Tubal-Cain), the
two brethren, the sons of Lamech, the blind man, who killed Cain,
invented and made all kinds of instruments (or metal weapons) of
music.
"Yobal made
reed instruments, and harps, and flutes, and
whistles,
and the devils went and
dwelt inside them. When men blew into
the pipes, the devils
sang inside them, and sent out sounds
from inside them.
"Tobalkin made cymbals, and
sistra,
and tambourines (or drums). And lasciviousness and fornication
increased among the children of Cain, and they had nothing to occupy
them except fornication--now they had no obligation [to pay] tribute,
and they had neither prince nor governor--and eating, and drinking,
and lasciviousness, and drunkenness, and dancing
and singing to instruments of
music, and the wanton sportings of the devils,
and the laughter which
affordeth pleasure to the devils, and
the sounds of the furious lust of men neighing after women. And
Satan,
finding [his] opportunity in this work of error, rejoiced greatly,
because thereby he could compel the sons of Seth to come down from
that holy mountain. There they had been made to occupy the place of
that army [of angels] that fell [with Satan], there they were beloved
by God, there they were held in honour by the angels, and were called
"sons of God," even as the blessed David saith in the psalm, "I have
said , Ye are gods, and all of you sons of the Most High." Ps. 82:6
(In Rev 18 the craftsmen and musicians will go with Babylon).
Satan came into the musical instruments as well
as the people so that the musical instruments were often the idol
itself:
And when he played on them,
Satan came into them, so that from among them were heard beautiful and sweet
sounds, that ravished (raped or enchanted) the heart. -- Second Adam
and Eve 20:3 Click for more.
There were Cane Ridge and Babylonian Parallels
in the darkness, the flickering lamps and campfires, the terror of
the enemy perhaps lurking not far away, not yet subdued like the
animals of Nimrod fame. The feeling of personal helplessness and
women forced into insecurity permitted by "church" with little
Biblical foundation made the hair stand up on the back of the neck
when the hymns floated in and out of the shadows where God and the
dead were supposed to be close. However sincere the promoters, this
was not the restoration movement to restore New Testament
Christianity.
Perhaps, the only pure gnostics still
practicing their religion live in Iraq where Babylonian religion
began, right off the Ark. They are Mandaeans who tell the story of
God breathing a soul into Adam, a less-than-human being who couldn't
find a wife among the animals. The soul picked to indwell
Adam was Hiwel Ziwa
and she was disgusted with him and demanded terms. She, like the
women in Amos, wanted conditions to be like that of heaven:
"Hiwel Ziwa returned and told them
(the House of Life) and brought back a letter . It would not open,
but spoke, and promised that the House of Life would give all that
the Soul had asked. So the Soul (Nishimta) entered the body of Adam
and he stood erect and talked, and Hiwel Ziwa taught him reading and
writing, how to marry, how to bury the dead, how to slaughter a
sheep, and all knowledge. Ruha saw this, and she wished that she
might have her race, her people, and her portion. She came to Adam
son of Adam, and killed a
sheep, and took its skin and
made a drum, and of its bones she made a
flute, and
she and her children the Seven
(planets) played and sang and danced. Ruha went to Adam
son of Adam and said to him, 'Come, amuse yourself with us!'
and he went. Liwet (Venus) made herself
like a beautiful woman, and Adam son of
Adam took her and became the father of children. Ruha, too, disguised
herself as Hawa, and went to Adam, and Adam went into the water with
her (i.e. performed purifications after cohabitation). When they
reproached him afterwards, saying, 'Did you not see how big she was
in the water?', he replied that he had
known nothing, for she employed sorcery.
Note: My dog
has been playing with an old deer bone for about four years. I kept
looking at it and desided that it would make a good flute. I cleaned
it out, ground a mouth hole, drilled some holes and, yes it works.
Such a bone is "pierced" and probably "died of itself" and was,
therefore, polluted or pierced gave rise to the word for flute, flute
player, pollute or prostitute.
Identical Devil Worshiping "Christians" Layard picks up where ancient stories end and
brings us up to the date of 1854 where he saw these same Chaldean
people worshiping musically
Discoveries At Nineveh Devil Worship
by
Austen Henry Layard,
Esq., D.C.L.
In chapter 8 Layard described the Yezidis and their musical
worship in about 1854. His description has many of the earmarks of
the Cane Ridge exercises which are defended because of their "speedy"
change of frontier morals. However, many of these changes were based
on fear and observers note that in many respects the disrespect among
the youth engendered by the outrages of their elders did more harm
than good.
Layard begins:
"As the twilight
faded, the fakirs, or lower order of priests,
dressed in brown garments of coarse cloth, closely fitting to their
bodies, and wearing black turbans on their heads, issued from the tomb, each
bearing a light in one hand, and a pot of oil, with a bundle of cotton
wicks, in the other. They filled and trimmed lamps placed in niches
in the walls of the courtyard, and scattered over the buildings on
the sides of the valley, and even on isolated rocks and in the
hollow trunks of trees. Innumerable stars appeared to glitter on the black
sides of the mountain, and in the dark recesses of the fores
"As the priests
made their way through the crowd, to
perform their task, men and women passed their right hands through
the flame, and then devoutly carried them to their lips, after
rubbing the right eyebrow with the part which had been purified by
the sacred element. Some, who bore children in their arms, anointed
them in like manner, while others held
out their hands to be touched by those who, less
fortunate than themselves, could not
reach the flame.
"The lamps are
votive offerings from pilgrims, or from those
who have appealed to Sheikh Adi in times
of danger or disease, and a yearly
sum is
given to the guardians of the tomb for oil, and for the
support of
the priests. They are lighted every evening as long as the supplies last. In the daytime the smoked walls mark where they are
placed; and I have observed the Yezidis devoutly kissing the
blackened stones.
"About an hour
after sunset the fakirs, who are the
servants of the tomb,
appeared with platters of boiled rice, roast meat, and fruit. They
had been sent to me from the kitchen of the (Page 185) holy edifice.
The wife of Sheikh Nasr also contributed some dishes toward the
repast.
"As night advanced, those who had assembled - they must now have amounted
to nearly five thousand
person - lighted torches, which they
carried with them as they wandered
through the forest. The effect was magical; the
varied groups could be faintly distinguished through the darkness;
men hurrying to and fro; women, with their children, seated on the house-tops;
and crowds gathering round the peddlers who exposed their
wares for sale in the court-yard.
"Thousands of lights were reflected in the
fountains and streams, glimmered among
the foliage of the trees, and danced in the
distance. As I was gazing on this extraordinary scene, the
hum of human voices was suddenly
hushed, and a strain, solemn and melancholy, arose from the
valley. It resembled some majestic
chant which years before I had listened
to in the cathedral of a distant land. Music so pathetic and so
sweet I had never before heard in the East. The voices of men and
women were blended in
harmony with the soft notes of many flutes.
At measured intervals the song was broken by the loud clash of
cymbals and tamborines; and those who were without the precincts of
the tomb then joined in the melody.
"I hastened to the sanctuary, and found Sheikh
Nasr, surrounded by the priests, seated in the inner court. The place was
illuminated by torches and lamps, which threw a soft light over the
white-walls of the tomb and green foliage of the
arbor. The sheikhs, in their white
turbans and robes, all venerable
men with long gray beards, were ranged
on one side; on the opposite, seated
on the stones, were about thirty
cawals (Preacher-Musicians) in
their motley dresses of black and white - each performing on a tambourine or a flute. Around stood the fakirs in their dark garments, and
the women of the orders of the
priesthood arrayed in pure white.
No others
were admitted within the walls of the court.
(Note: the restricted
communion by the Presbyterian priests dispensing their little metal
tokens is believed to have motivated many new
arrivals to get the sign so they might be accepted for communion even though
they were already accepted by God. It is tough to be an
outsider!)
Note: these people sang to
Jesus but they were really worshiping the Devil. A lot of both was
probably taking place at Cane Ridge because many were spectators with
nothing better to do. Only 800 to a thousand were considered church
members. (Preacher-count went higher).
"The same slow and solemn strain, occasionally
varied in
the melody, lasted for nearly an hour; a part of it was called
(Page 186) "Makam Azerat Esau," or the song of the Lord Jesus.
It was sung by the sheikhs, the cawals, and the
women; and
occasionally by those
without. I could not catch the words;
nor could I prevail upon any of those present to repeat them to me.
They were in Arabic (Note: similar to the unknown tongues of
Isa 28 and 1Cor 14) ; and as few of the Yezidis can speak or pronounce that
language, they were not
intelligible, even to the experienced
ear of Hodja Toma, who accompanied me: The tamborines only
interrupted at intervals the song of the priests.
Note: I have
tried desperately hard to think about Jesus when the musical worship
team is "speaking in tongues" with hands flailing and words hidden in
harmony. It cannot be done.
"As the time quickened they broke in more frequently. The chant gradually gave way
to a lively melody, which, increasing in measure, was finally lost in a
confusion of sounds. The tamborines were beaten with extraordinary energy;
the flutes poured forth a rapid flood of
notes; the voices were raised to their highest
pitch; the men outside joined in the cry; while
the women made the rocks resound with the shrill tahlehl.
"The musicians, giving way to the excitement,
threw their instruments into the air, and strained their limbs into every
contortion, until they fell
exhausted to the ground. I never heard a more frightful yell than that
which rose in the valley. It was midnight. The time and place were well suited to
the occasion; and I gazed with wonder upon the extraordinary scene
around me.
Note: history
shows that these charismatic rituals were intended to or accidentally
drove the "worshipers" into musical ecstasy which gives rise (through
endorphins) to fight, flight or sex. This was not present in the
actual ceremony.
"I did not marvel that such wild ceremonies had
given rise to those stories of unhallowed rites, and
obscene mysteries, which have rendered the name of Yezidi an abomination
in the East. Notwithstanding the uncontrollable
excitement
which appeared to prevail among all present, there were no indecent
gestures nor unseemly ceremonies. When the musicians and
singers
were exhausted, the noise suddenly died
away; the various groups resumed their
previous cheerfulness, and again wandered through the valley, or
seated themselves under the trees.
Note: like their
ancient ancestors, the charismatic "exercises" produced by music was
their way of making sure that Satan was honored because Christ did
not finish his work on earth.
"They believe Satan to be the
chief of the Angelic
host, now suffering punishment for his
rebellion against the divine will; but still all-powerful, and to be
restored hereafter to his high estate in the celestial hierarchy. He
must be conciliated and reverenced, they say; for
as he now has the means of doing evil to mankind, so will he
hereafter have the power of rewarding them. Next to Satan, but
inferior to him in might and wisdom, are seven archangels who
exercise a great influence over the world; - they are Gabrail,
Michail, Raphail, Azrail, Dedrail, Azrapheel, and Shemkeel. Christ,
according to them, was also a great angel, who had taken the form of
man. He did not die on the
cross, but ascended to heaven.
As a result of the Nadab-Abihu
"fire" worship they stumbled before an incense altar (not commanded
chronologically) and fire broke out. The Azazel or Scape Goat
(Capella) was an offering to the Devil and later became the sacrifice of
Goats to the sounds of instruments commanded by DAVID: Christ said that God had commanded nothing of the God-abandoned Civil-Military-Clergy complex He called robbers and parasites in the prophets. In addition an ATONEMENT sacrifice was added because the God-Abandoned Israelites (Acts 7)
"They hold the Old Testament in great
reverence, and believe in the cosmogony of Genesis, the Deluge, and
other events recorded in the Bible. They do not reject the New
Testament, nor the Koran; but consider them less entitled to their
veneration. Still they always select passages from the latter for
their tombs, and holy places. Mohammed they look upon as a prophet;
as they do Abraham, and the patriarchs.
"They expect the second coming of Christ,
as well as the (Page 190) reappearance of Imaum Mehdi, giving
credence to the Mussulman fables relating to him.
Note: Like the
Babylonian religious team of priests, musicians, soothsayers and even
prostitutes, the Yezidis have:
"The Pirs, or saints, are
most reverenced after the great sheikh, or religious head of the
sect. They are believed to have the power, not only of
interceding for the
people, but of curing disease and insanity. They are expected to lead a life of great sanctity and
honesty; and are looked up to with great reverence. They are not
confined, I believe, to any particular fashion of dress. The only pir
I knew was one Sino, who was recognized as the deputy of Sheikh Nasr,
and had suffered imprisonment in his stead.
Note: the
musical instruments are magical devices and the hymns are like
speaking in tongues. That is, they are written in an "unknown tongue"
and have to be memorized by the singers. The "audience" need not know
the true meaning.
"(Page 193) The Sheikhs are next in
rank. They are acquainted with the hymns, and
are expected to know something of
Arabic, the language in which the hymns
are written. Their dress should be
entirely white, except the skull-cap beneath the turban, which is
black.
As servants of Sheikh Adi, they are the
guardians of his tomb, keep up the holy
fires, and bring provisions and fuel to those who
dwell
within its precincts, and to pilgrims of
distinction. They always wear round
their bodies a band of red and black, or red and orange plaid, as the
mark of their office; with it they bind together the wood, and other
supplies which they bring to the sacred edifice.
The women carry
the same badge, and are employed in the same services. There are always several sheikhs residing in the
valley of Sheikh Adi.
They watch over the tomb, and receive pilgrims;
taking charge in rotation of the offerings that may be brought, or
selling the clay balls and other
relics.
Note: the preachers are more
musical performers than teachers. They have trouble getting their
work done without magical instruments and chants or hymns. However,
this is all just "speaking in tongues."
"The Cawals, or
preachers,
appear to be the most active
members of the priesthood. They are
sent by Hussein Bey and Sheikh Nasr on missions, going from village
to village with the symbol of the bird as teachers of the doctrines of the sect.
They alone are the performers on the flute and tambourine; both instruments being looked upon, to a certain
extent, as sacred.
I observed that before, and after, using the
tambourine
they frequently kissed it, and then held it to those near them, to be
similarly saluted.
They are taught
singing at a very early age, are
skillful musicians, and dance occasionally at festivals.
They usually know a little Arabic, but barely
more than necessary to get through their chants and hymns.
"The Fakirs are the lowest
in the priesthood. They wear coarse dresses of black, or dark brown
cloth, or canvas, descending to the knee and fitting tightly to the
person; and a black turban, across which is generally tied a red
kerchief. (Page 194) They
perform all menial
offices connected with the
tomb, trim
and light the votive lamps, and keep clean the sacred
buildings.
Note: In the book
Second Adam and
Eve Genun is a
composite of Jubal, Jabal, Tubal-Cain and Naamah. Satan picked out
Genun because of his youth and taught him wine making, songs,
instruments and choirs to seduce the holy Sethites:
And when he
played on
them, Satan came into them, so that from among them were heard
beautiful and sweet sounds, that ravished (raped or enchanted) the
heart. -- Second Adam and Eve 20:3
Then he gathered
companies upon companies to play on them; and when they
played, it pleased well the children of Cain, who inflamed themselves
with sin among themselves, and burnt as with fire; while Satan inflamed their hearts, one with
another, and increased lust among them. -- Second Adam and Eve
20:4
Satan also taught
Genun to bring strong
drink out of corn; and
this Genun used to bring together companies upon companies in
drink-houses; and brought into their hands all manner of fruits and
flowers; and they drank together Second Adam and Eve 20:5
Layard then continues his trip and enters some
of the Yezidis villages and found that they were the pillaged and
pillagers. Always with musical instrument and weapons in hand they
were ready to murder any "invaders." This, too, fits the tale of
Jubal and his Babylonian counterparts.
This is not unlike the history of most
religious revivalism
Thus did
Genun multiply sin exceedingly; he also acted
with pride
and taught the children of Cain to commit all manner of the grossest
wickedness, which they knew not; and put them up to manifold doings
which they knew not before. Second Adam and Eve 20:6
Then Satan, when he
saw that they yielded to Genun and hearkened to him in every thing he
told them, rejoiced greatly, increased Genun's understanding, until
he took iron
and with it made weapons
of war. Second Adam and
Eve 20:7
Then when they were
drunk, hatred
and murder
increased among them; one man used violence against another to teach him
evil, taking his
children and defiling them before him. Second Adam and Eve
20:8
"We have seen that enthusiasm and
fanaticism, in their wildest shapes, have attended them--that jealousy, envy, hatred,
evil surmisings, bitter revilings, heart-burnings, unholy schism and strifes,
have followed close in their train--that spiritual pride,
censoriousness, a Pharisaic disposition, and a spirit that trusts too
much in suggestions, impulses, and consequently, that underrates the
word of God, is always associated with them." (Stone Biography, p.
384)
Just like the First Great Awakening
"Divisions in the
churches accompanied and
followed the Great
Awakening. The more ardent preachers of
the revival had sharp words for those ministers whom they deemed
unconverted. Whitefield occasionally
spoke caustically of those who did not
follow him. Others were even more vehement. On the other side were
many, both clergy and laity, who were alienated by the emotional excesses, were angered by the denunciations of the more ardent
itinerant preachers... 'New lights' 'Old lights' in Presbyterian and
Congregational churches often separated into distinct units."
(Latourette, p. 960).
"While there were examples of church groups
which increased in numbers and strength as a result of the appearance
of glossolalia, more
usually friction and divisive factions
developed. In extreme examples, up to one-third of the congregation
stopped going to church and/or dropped their formal membership."
(John P. Kildahl , p. 66 The Psychology
of Speaking in Tongues, Harper and Row).
"When God had withdrawn, as abruptly as he had
come,
his place was-again, quite literally-taken by Satan.
Exaltation was succeeded by suicidal despair...
There were no more conversions, but the people
who survived the experience were calmer and more joyful than they had
been before the Awakening,
or so Edwards would have us
believe." (Armstrong, Karen, A History
of God, p. 324).
Cane Ridge is frequently lusted after by those
who would like the "kingdom to come with exhilaration" as if
empowered by wine from a new wineskin. We are told that a lot of this
happened at Cane Ridge and many converts lost their religion when
they couldn't get past the "watering holes" always on the outskirts
of many revivals or on the way home.
Cane Ridge and Babylonian Parallels do not mean
that Cane Ridge served no useful purpose for some. However, it is as
lost to the modern world as the towers of Babel. We should not
concern ourselves with artificial ways of trying to "bring the
worshipers into the presence of God."
Or goal should always be to go beyond the
restoration movement "fathers" and back to Jerusalem and Christ.
Don't overshoot and land in downtown Babylon.
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