Music
truly is PERVERTING of the human spirit or the entire band
of men
seemingly flowing out of the stock yards USE THE YOUTH AND
MUSIC and
tell you that your FAITHFULNESS to the Word is JUST
DESTRUCTIVE
TRADITIONALISM.
And, yep, you will follow
the
Pied Pipers (the PANS) right out of your pants and your
inheritance
where STEALING YOUR INHERITANCE is translated from the same
word as
"play the flute, pollute or prostitute."
Prayerful Brinkmanship
RAISES UP A WHOLE GENERATION: That is how Satan did it with
the Jubal
or Genun family:
Farmer's Branch
Church
of Christ: The younger generations of believers in our church family are very
much
acclimated
to
worshiping God with instrumental accompaniment.
With an eye toward
the future,
the leadership wants to ensure that there will be a
place for instrumental accompaniment
in our corporate assemblies for the sake of a new generation of
believers
who are very accustomed to and edified by music with
accompaniment.
Well, that is a TRAVESTY
against common sense: worship to Paul meant to GIVE HEED to
Christ by
giving attention to His Words. He said that the circumsized
worshiped
God IN SPIRIT. That is the human spirit which is the ONLY
place
worship takes place.
Music DIVERTS the mind
and
PERVERTS the soul so tha it is utterly impossible to GIVE
HEED to
Christ and His Word while giving heed to the TEAM and their
words.
Now, that is a TRAVESTY.
Edify means to teach or
instruct: Paul said that musical instruments SPEAK IN TONGUES.
You
CANNOT teach with instruments. This was one of the OLDEST
pagan
superstitions. Even David tried to AWAKEN his harp.
The HARP OF GOD is the human
voice which is supernaturally constructed to be able to TEACH
or
EDIFY. Instrumental music always TEARS DOWN THE BODY and
cannot build
it up.
The ONLY evidence is that
Satan
(Lucifer, ZOE) seduced the youth into perverting and
subverting the
Holy Sethites with instruments. Jubal is Genun the descendant
of Cain
and the Cainites or Kenites who began subverting Israel even
at Mount
Sinai:
That
is the way the MASTER would do it in all of history.
Although Genun's name suggests "Kenan,"
who appears in Genesis V:9 as the son of Enoch, he is a composite Kenite
character:
the
invention of musical
instruments
being
attributed in Genesis
to
Jubal, and
of edged
iron blades to his brother Tubal Cain.
Genun was said to occupy "the Land
of the Slime
Pits,"
namely the
southern shores of the Dead Sea (Genesis 14:10), doubtless because the evil
city of Sodom stood there (see 32:6).
Qeynan
(h7018) kay-nawn'; from the same as 7064; fixed; Kenan, an antediluvian: - Cainan,
Kenan.
Cain is qayin
h7014
Qiynah
(h7015) kee-naw'; from 6969; a
dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts or on instruments): - lamentation.
Quwn (h6969) koon; a prim.
root; to strike
a musical
note, i.
e. chant or wail (at a funeral): - lament, mourning
woman.
Read how the YOUTH are used to seduce
the WHOLE
"family."
"But as to this Genun
(Jubal), Satan came into him in his childhood; and he made
sundry
trumpets and horns, and string instruments, cymbals and
psalteries,
and lyres and harps, and flutes; and he played on them at
all times
and at ever hour. -- Second Adam and Eve 20:2
"And when he
played on them, Satan came into them, so that from among
them were
heard beautiful and sweet sounds, that ravished (raped)
the heart.
Second Adam and Eve 20:3
"Then he
gathered companies
(teams) 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
"In pagan traditions, musical instruments are
invented by
gods or demi-gods, such as titans. In the Bible,
credit is
assigned to
antediluvian patriarchs, for example, the descendants of
Cain in
Genesis 4:21. There
is no other biblical tradition about the invention of musical
instruments Freedman,
David Noel, Bible Review, Summer 1985, p. 51)
The word HANDLE
instruments
means "without authority."
See The
Book of Enoch quoted by Jesus, Peter and Jude for over
128
times.
This writer declares that
he
is
about to tell us how Satan was able to pry the righteous
people of
God off the holy mountain by first getting them to attend
the Cainite
"worship services" and finally get them down into the valley
in a
worship from which they could not--without divine help--ever
extricate themselves so that they could return to God's
presence.
"Where kithara playing and dancing and hand
clapping
find place,
there is the beguiling of men, the corruption of
women, the
sorrow of
angels and a feast for the devil... Today, to all
appearances, they
sing psalms as God ordained, and tomorrow they will
eagerly dance as taught by Satan. Today
they
contradict Satan and tomorrow they follow him... Let it be
far from
you that today, as one loving Christ, you listen attentively to
the reading of the divine
Scripture,
and tomorrow
as a criminal and a hater of Christ you listen to lyre
playing." (St.
Ephraim, quoted by Green, p. 37-38).
In pronouncing his
judgment
upon Israel, Amos gave as one reason--
You strum away
on your harps like David and improvise on musical
instruments. Amos
6:5
Culture has incorporated
SEXUALITY and DRUGS and ALCOHOL as a produce of their music.
No one
doubts that most modern music destroys the power of people
to
exercise their rational minds.
The ancient pagans
included
both SEXUALITY and MUSIC even at the tower of Babylon. The
MUSICIANS
and a musical worship team of women was part of the
MINISTRY. Why,
because you can seduce people out of their money that way.
Prostitutes both male and
female were on the MINISTRY TEAM. Why? Why to attract the
money.
This went on in the
Jerusalem
temple. Why didn't Jesus decide to CONTINUE music and
sexuality to
ATTRACT the sinners? Because He is not a pagan but God
Incarnate.
EDIFICATION IS
EDUCATION
Paul spoke of MUSICAL
worship
in the culture of the Orphics and Dionysians. The only way
not to SOW
DISCORD was for "church" to be a school of the Bible and not
a pagan
worship center BOWING to either musical preference in Rome.
Some OTHER FAILED
attempts
to EXPERIMENT with MUSIC to replace the Word.
Farmer's Branch
Church of Christ The
leadership believes it is time to launch a third worship
assembly for
the sake of making a proactive effort to make more space for more
people to "park"
- 'outside and 'inside' FBCC.
It also believes
this third service would be an appropriate time to explore and experiment more thoroughly in regard to
instrumental
accompaniment in a worship
assembly.
Experimenting,
inventing
or
improvising is the TERMINAL SIN
for those who ONCE believed the WORD and understood
that church is where people are exposed to the WORDS OF
GOD so that
they might imbibe the HOLY SPIRIT and not an unholy
spirit. Of the
Israelites:
EXPLORE: To travel in a
region previously unknown. To examine a wound by
operation,
experimentation. Webster
Experimenting was the
TERMINAL SIN in the garden of Eden. See table above where
total
history TRUMPS those willing to EXPERIMENT in the face of a
Holy
Spirit God!
In explaining
Pauls' Warning about DEMON
WORSHIP in
First
Corinthians 10, Lenski notes that the
DEMONS worshiped under the BULL CALF which was identical to
the
Egyptian MUSICAL IDOLATRY:
But something does exist, something that
is far more terrible than
these pseudo-gods, namely an entire kingdom
of darkness
which is
hostile to God, a host
of demons or
fallen
angels who are
ruled by the greatest of their number, namely Satan, Eph.
2:3;
6:12.
Lucifer (Zoe) and the
fallen
angels brought instruments with them as they draw away
angels by
stealing worship for themselves.
Satan was LUCIFER or
the
harp-playing prostitute in the garden of Eden.
At that time Tyre will be forgotten for
seventy years,
the span of a king's life. But at the end of these seventy
years, it
will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute: Isaiah 23:15NIV
Take up a harp,
walk through the city, O prostitute forgotten; play the
harp well,
sing many a song, so that you will be remembered." Isa
23:16
The prostitute here
is:
Zanah
(h2181) zaw-naw'; a prim. root [highly fed and therefore
wanton]; to
commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of
simple
fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); fig. to commit
idolatry
(the Jewish
people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah)...
The words for SING and
PLAY
INSTRUMENTS are all related to PROSTITUTION or polluting:
Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to
be a whore; lest the land fall to
whoredom, and the land become
full of wickedness. Lev 19:29
Chalal (h2490)
khaw-lal';
(by impl.)
to wound, to dissolve; fig. to profane
(a person... denom. (from 2485) to play (the flute)... take inheritance, pipe, player on
instruments,
pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow,
stain, wound.
Therefore, to PLAY the
prostitute and PLAY musical instruments speak of literal
or spiritual
ADULTERY.
Beyond the scope of
this
brief review, Eve being WHOLLY SEDUCED and Adam "going
willingly" are
related to prostitution and sodomy.
The SERPENT or NACHASH
was
a
"musical enchanter" or the Fallen Angel.
He will be returned
specifically
Experimenting was the
terminal sin at Mount Sinai.
When the Jews attempted to force
Jesus into this it was mocking Him playing a concert of instruments and
trying to
get him to lament for Bacchus and dance.
"Not to be
overlooked here is the accompaniment of music and dancing which, with the character of
the ensuing phenomena,
makes the diagnosis
(of
idolatry) certain."
(Schaff-Herzog, Ecstasy, p. 71).
Ephraim Syrus On Our
Lord notes that Sinai
was a test
19. But when Moses came down, he saw their heathenism revelling in the wide plain with drums and cymbals.
Comparing the musical
worship
of Israel to all of those nations whom Israel demanded to
be like as
they "fired" the God of righteousness and justice, Gurney
notes of
the successful movement of the ark by the king and his
civil team
after his musical move including the "congregation"--
"we recognize the
same elements: the sacrifices and libation, the cultic feast in which the congregation
gets a share
of food and
drink after it has been blessed by the king, and the merry-making, now in the form of instrumental and vocal music.
But
the central act of the ritual, which was performed by the
king, is
called
literally 'drinking'
the
god
(Gurney, O. R. Some
Aspects of Hittite Religion, p. 33-34, Oxford University
Press,
1977)
Theodoret (Quasten, Music &
Worship, p. 65)
claimed that the Jews
brought liturgical music from
Egypt and
Philo wrote that "Moses learned
rhythm,
harmony, meter and everything concerned with instrumental
music from
the Egyptians." This is why Moses knew that the noise at Mount Sinai was not the sound of defeat
or of
victory. Rather, it was the "sound of them singing that I
hear."
The Jews sang in the type of the Egyptian threnodies
(elegies for the
dead):
Thus they made a golden
bull,
the image of an
animal that was held to be the most sacred in that land;
they offered
unholy sacrifices, performed impious dances
and sang
hymns
which differed in
no way from the pagan
mourning songs. Philo, De specialibus
legibus
[Jesus threw them
out
more
or less violently]
"This reference probably
indicates the use of songs from the cult of Osiris... it can hardly be denied
that
Egyptian influence on Jewish musical practices was quite
significant.
This would stand to reason because of the high quality of
Egyptian
cultic music. The tambourine or timbrel, a hoop of bells over which a
white skin
was stretched, came from Egypt. Miriam
used this instrument to accompany the singing and dancing on the shores of the Red Sea
(Ex. 15).
"The trumpet... was the signaling instrument of the Egyptian army. The name of the Sistrum
(2 Sam 6:5) was mena'ane'im. It
was the Egyptian kemken used in the cult of Isis.
The music during
the transferring
the Ark
to Sion (David rose up to play)
and the dances of the women at
the
Shiloh
(Judges 21:21),
were similar to the Egyptian
liturgy
and parades.
"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).
|
Gerhard
Delling.
"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).
In 1964. the prestigious Theological
Dictionary of the New Testament (edited by Kittel,
Friedrich, and
Bromiley) issued from
the press. The article which dealt with psallo
was written by Gerhard Delling. Relative to Ephesians
5:19, Delling
contended that the literal use of psallo, as "found in
the LXX, is
now employed figuratively" (Kittel, et al., p. 499).
In an abridgement of this work,
published in
1985, Bromiley expressed it this way: ". . .
psallontes does not now
denote literally playing on a stringed instrument" (p.
1226).
b. Theological wordbooks, etc. It is
important to notice that of the many articles by
various authors in The Theological Dictionary of the
New Testament, every artic!e that so much as touches
on the meaning of Ephesians 5:19 and Colossians 3:16
consistently explains the passages simply in terms of
"sing," "sing praises."
G. Delling wrote the articles on
psallo and related words. Speaking at first of
"singing and making melody," he says:
The expression adontes kat psallontes in v.
19b.underscores v. 19a. The combination of verbs in
this order is found in the OT, Ps. 26:6; 56:8;104:2,
107:2. The literal sense "by or with the playing of
strings, " still found in the LXX, is now employed
figuratively (VIII, 498-99).
No translation ever translated psallo other than to SING.
|
"They sat down to
eat and drink and rose up to play. They practiced rites in
which they
made themselves naked,
perhaps similar to those which were carried out by naked Babylonian priests." (Woodrow, p. 158).
John
Chrysostom
defined
EXPERIMENTING as the MARK imposed at Mount Sinai BECAUSE
OF musical
worship of the same Satanic agent of experimenting:
"See how hard
they were to tear away from the customs of Egypt! What sayest thou? What, not
wait for
him that brought thee out, but flee the benefit, and deny the Benefactor? And mark
how insulting they are: "For as for this
Moses," they
say:-"which
brought us out of the land of Egypt" nowhere the name of God: instead of that, they
ascribed all to Moses.
Where they ought to give thanks
(to
God), they
bring Moses
forward: where it was, to do as the Law bade them, they no
longer
make account of Moses. "We know not what is become of
him." And yet
he told them that he was going up to receive the Law: and
they had
not patience to wait forty days. "Make us gods"-
Editor's Note 6:
This clause, omitted by A. b.c., is preserved by N. and
the Catena.
The calf
was
one, yet
they called it Gods: on which St. Chrys. remarks elsewhere,
that they added
polytheism
to idolatry.-The
next
sentence may perhaps be completed thus:
"that they did not even know that there is One
God."-Edd. from E.F.D.
"So frantic are
they, that they know not what they say." Note 7 in this document.
Of course, the worship of Apis under
the
golden calf was the worship of the Egyptian trinity of
Osiris, Isis
and Horus.
they did not say, "a God."-And yet one may well
wonder at
this, that they do not even know.-"And they made a calf in
those
days, and offered sacrifices unto the idol, and rejoiced in the
works of their own hands"
(v. 41):
for which they
ought to have hid their faces.
What wonder that ye know not Christ, seeing ye knew not Moses, and God Who was
manifested by such wonders? But
they not only knew Him not:
they also insulted in another way, by their idol making.
"Then God turned,
and gave them up to worship
the
host of heaven" (v.
42.)
Hence these same "customs" date their origin, hence the sacrifices:
they were
themselves the
first
that made sacrifices to their idols! For that is why it is marked,
Being turned over to
paganism and legalism was the MARK stamped on them
because of MUSICAL
IDOLATRY.
Editor's Note
7: dia gar
touto
epishmainetai. The meaning
is:
Stephen was accused
of speaking against "the customs,"-sacrifices, temple, feasts, etc.
Therefore he significantly points to that critical
conjuncture from which
these "customs" date their introduction:
namely, the
Provocation
at Horeb.
Prior
to that, he tells of "living
oracles,"
life-giving
precepts:
after it, and as its consequence, sacrifices, etc.,
those statutes which were not
good,
and ordinances by
which a man shall not
live, as God says by Ezekiel.
Not a word of
sacrifice
till then:
and the first mention is, of the sacrifices offered to the
calf. In like manner, "they
rejoiced," "the
people ate and drank, and rose up to play:"
PLAY was MUSICAL
IDOLATRY
where
all musical terms and names of instruments POINT to
idolatry which
was also marked by sodomy.
MUSICAL experimenting is
both a
CAUSE and a CONSEQUENCE of rejecting God's GRACE or His
Words. Since
MUSICAL IDOLATRY was their "prayer," Stephen says that God
ABANDONED
THEM to musical EXPERIMENTING.
The MUSICAL ATTEMPT to
worship
a Spirit God and the continuing MUSICAL WORSHIP was the
MARK of the
Beast who in this case was various forms of SATURN whose
NAME had the
number 666. Chrysostom agrees that
MUSICAL FESTIVALS
was the MARK OF THE BEAST or 666.
and in
consequence of this,
the feasts were prescribed: kai eufrainonto, fhsin:
dia touto kai
eortai.-'Epishmainetai might be rendered, "he
marks,"
"puts a mark upon
it" (so the innovator, who
substitutes, touto kai Dauid epishmainomenoj
legei): we take it passively, "there is a mark set over
it-it is
emphatically denoted." In the
active, the verb taken intransitively means
"to betoken or
announce itself," "make
its first appearance."-
In the Treatise adv. Judaeos, iv. §6. tom. i. 624. C.
St.
Chrysostom gives this account of the legal sacrifices: "To
what purpose unto Me is
the multitude of your sacrifices?
etc. (Isaiah i., 11, ff.)
Do ye hear how it
is most plainly declared, that
God did
not
from the first require these at
your
hands?
Had He required
them,
He would
have obliged those famous saints who were before the Law to observe this
practice.
Then wherefore has He
permitted
it now?
In condescension to your infirmity.
As a physician in his treatment of a delirious patient, etc.:
thus did God
likewise.
For
seeing them so
frantic
in their lust
for
sacrifices, that they
were ready, unless they got them, to desert to idols:
nay not only ready,
but
that they
had already
deserted, thereupon He
permitted sacrifices. And that this is the reason, is
clear from the
order of events.
After the feast which they made
to
the demons, then it
was that He permitted sacrifices: all but
saying: `Ye
are
mad, and
will needs sacrifice:
well then, at any
rate sacrifice to Me. -(What follows may serve to
illustrate the
brief remark a little further on, Kai h aixmalwsia
kathgoria thj
kakiaj.)
The MUSICAL LEVITES made
a
great sound which EXCLUDED the people from the national
animal
sacrifices. This was God QUARANTINING the musical
HOLOCAUSTS behind
closed doors.
See
Alfred Edersheim's
explanation.
"But even this,
He did not permit to continue to the end, but by a
most wise method,
withdrew them from it ...
For He did not
permit
it to
be done in any place of the whole world,
but in
Jerusalem only.
Anon, when for a short time they
had sacrificed,
he destroyed the
city.
Had He openly
said,
Desist, they, such was their insane passion for sacrificing, would
not readily have
complied. But now perforce, the place being taken
away,
He secretly withdrew them from their frenzy." So
here: "Even the captivity
impeaches the wickedness
(which was the cause of the permission
of sacrifice.")
"They made a calf in
Horeb,
and
offered sacrifices to the idol:" seeing that,
before this the
name of sacrifice is nowhere mentioned,
but only lively
ordinances, and "lively
oracles.
And rejoiced"-that is the reason for the feasts. Exod. xxxii.
5, 6.) "As
it is written in the Book of the Prophets"-and observe, he
does not
cite the text without a purpose, but shows by it that there is no need of sacrifices; saying: "Did
ye offer
slain beasts and sacrifice to Me?"-He lays an emphasis on
this word
(to Me?).
"Ye cannot say that it was from sacrificing
to Me, that ye proceeded to
sacrifice to them:-"by the space of forty
years:" and this too, "in
the wilderness," where He had most signally shown Himself
their
Protector.
"Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of
Moloch,
and the star of
your god Remphan: images which ye made to
worship them.
"Ye cannot say that it was from sacrificing
to Me, that ye proceeded to
sacrifice to them:-"by the space of forty
years:" and this too, "in
the wilderness," where He had most signally shown Himself
their
Protector.
"Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of
Moloch,
and the star of
your god Remphan: images which ye made to
worship them.
Editor's Note 8:
Our passage here follows the lxx. which speaks of Moloch and Remphan. The terms in the original
(vid. R. V.:
Amos v.
25-27) are "Siccuth" and "Chiun."
It is a disputed point whether these are in the prophecy
names of divinities or whether they mean
respectively
"tabernacle" and
"shrine" (or image). The difficulty lies in the
ambiguity of the
Hebrew text.
The name Moloch being
akin to
the Hebrew word for king
(rlm), confusion might easily arise. The N. T. text
varies from the
lxx. only in adding the word proskunein
(43) to lay emphasis upon the charge of idolatry,
and in replacing Damascus by Babylon
(43), an interpretation from the standpoint of
subsequent history.
The statement of our
text
that
the Israelites fell into
the worship of these divinities in the
wilderness rests upon
extra-Pentateuchal tradition, derived, perhaps, from
such
prohibitions of Moloch-worship
and similar idolatries as are found in Lev. xviii. 21,
and Deut.
xviii. 10.
The charge in
the prophecy of Amos is a general one referring to
the frequent
lapses of the people into image-worship down to his
own time.-G.
B.S.
This was
Saturn
specifically
worshiped in the Greek-Roman world and who gave his name
to the Sabbath. The Sabbath had been under
Judaism a
day of solemn rest.
However, in Rome it
was a day of wild entertainment. While Christians always
met in
assembly on the First Day of the week, the church
outlawed the
Sabbath paganism for Christians.
They EXPERIMENTED! What
was
the nature of the DEMONS they worshiped?
Demon: "It is used in the
Septuagint, Deut. 32:17, to translate the Hebrew word which
seems,
originally, to have meant a supernatural being inferior to the
gods proper,
applied
among the Assyrians to the bull
deities
which guarded the
entrances to temples and palaces."
(Vincent, p. 244)
"Why do the wicked live
on,
growing old and increasing in power? They send forth their
children
as a flock; their little ones dance about. They sing to the music of tambourine and harp; they make
merry to the
sound of
the flute. They spend their years in prosperity and go down
to the
grave in peace.
Yet they say to
God, 'Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.
Who is the
Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by
praying to
him?' -- Job 21:7, 11-15
"Paul,
however, fixes attention on the feast
which was entirely
after
the manner of
idol
worship.
By doing this
Paul
strikes home directly at the Corinthians
who thought that they, too,
could preserve their
relation
to Jehovah while, pretending
to
make use of their liberty,
they ate, drank, and amused themselves at
idol celebrations.
This very thing the
Israelites
of old attempted when they feasted upon the offerings
brought to the golden calf and then rose up 'to play,' to dance and to have a gay time
after the fashion they had learned from
the idolatrous Egyptians."
(Lenski, 1 Cor., p. 397-398).
"It is a great mistake to
imagine that back of their idolatry and their idol sacrifices there is
nothing but an
empty vacuity. True enough, as 8:4 makes plain, the gods of
the idols
have no existence whatever; no being by the name of Jupiter
exists,
and this is true with respect to all other gods.
But something does exist, something that
is far more terrible than
these pseudo-gods, namely an entire kingdom
of darkness
which is
hostile to God, a host
of demons or
fallen
angels who are
ruled by the greatest of their number, namely Satan, Eph.
2:3;
6:12.
All altars, all
sacrifices,
and
all worship that
are not
intended to serve the true God are thus actually though not
necessarily consciously
and intentionally devoted to these demons...
Hence
all idol sacrifices, whatever
the
pagan ideas concerning them
may be, are really sacrifices unto devils." (Lenski, on 1 Cor. p.
415).
Because of this MUSICAL
IDOLATRY God MARKED those who EXPERIMENTED or substituted
for the
WORD of God.
"For
a
while
in the Middle Ages, the bishops banned
the use of brass
instruments
in churches
because they were brash and produced what was perceived as "
Devil tones " and "Satan's music ".
This proscription
was intended to sever
the link with all ancient, Old Testament forms of worship
ritual and
its associated
Egyptian
ritual.
However, it is
interesting
that, from the Reformation, secular music was almost
totally dedicated
to the use
of brass
instruments with composers like
Purcell, Handel and Bach at the forefront of great choral
and brass-dominated
works.
The fact is that, today,
both Church and State ceremonies inherit their musical traditions from
the priestly
ritual and military
pomp of the
early time-frame. Adrian Wagner
> Ephraim of
Syria:
For the sons of Levi did
not
know whom
they should slay, because those that worshipped were mingled with
those that worshipped
not.
But He, for Whom it was easy to distinguish, distinguished (MARKED) those
who
were defiled
from those who were not defiled;
so that the innocent might give
thanks
that their
innocence had not passed [unseen by] the Just One; and the
guilty
might be convicted that their offence had not escaped [the
eye of]
the Judge.
But the sons of Levi were the open
avengers.
Accordingly
Moses set a
mark upon
the
offenders, that it might be easy for the avengers to avenge.
For the draught of the calf entered
those in
whom the love
of the calf
was dwelling, and displayed in them a manifest
sign, that
the drawn
sword might rush upon them. The congregation therefore
which had committed
fornication
in [the
worship of] the calf, he caused to drink of the water of
ordeal, that
the mark of adulteresses
might appear in it.
The ELDERS EXPERIMENT
with a
DOMINANT PASTOR.
When the ELDERS
fired God and demanded a KING PASTOR, God warned them that
this meant
their SLAVERY and captivity under the kings. Because the new
sacrifices were to be a LIKE THE NATION'S ritual, the laws
were
changed:
"Beginning with David and throughout
the entire
period of the
monarchy,
for about
four centuries, Israel's worship on Zion gave a central
place to the
king, not simply as officiant but substantively, as the figure who in his office and person
embodied the relationship between
God and the
nation.
In contrast, the premonarchic worship of Israel, at
Shechem and
elsewhere, had
featured a Covenant between
God and
the people, through their tribal
heads, as the bond in the relationship.
By taking over and adapting Jerusalem's
ancient cult, David provided Israel with a new
worship,
one that
featured his
own
status
and its sacral
significance. Britannica
- David's Additions to the Law of Moses
"The covenant festival
celebrated in the south
was unique in some respects, owing to the profound changes
brought
about by the Davidic monarchy. It will be remembered that
David, in
order to support
his
regime with the religious sanctions of the Tribal Confederacy, had
brought the Ark to his capital and planned
to install it in a temple. David's plan, which was realized
by
Solomon, called for a reinterpretation
of
Yahweh's covenant with
Israel. The
royal court
of Jerusalem advanced a new theology of king and temple, the
substance of which was that Yahweh had elected the Davidic
king as
his 'son' and had elected Zion as his sanctuary, the place
of his
sacramental presence.
"The effect of this
new theology, especially under Solomon's influence, was to
modify Israel's
worship.
The covenant
renewal festivals of the former Confederacy were
transformed into
fall New
Year
celebrations of the
foundation of the Temple and the election of the Davidic
house.
It was not until the
great
reformation of Josiah that the Mosaic covenant tradition
was discovered."
(Anderson, p. 519).
When DAVID could not go to
GOD'S altar at Gibeon, God allowed him to sacrifice at
Jerusalem a
Jebusite High Place to stop the PLAGUE caused by David's own
sins.
However, it was only as a
provision for the LIKE THE NATIONS TEMPLE that David changed
the LAWS
and made the temple sacrifices into a STATE sacrifice for
the king,
officials and clergy: the people were excluded.
Therefore, DAVID
IMPROVIZED
OR
EXPERIMENTED AFTER He was estranged from God at Gibeon. All
of the
evidence proves it.
Therefore, God through
AMOS
MUST BE BELIEVED when He said that Amos EXPERIMENTED with
music:
That chant to
the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves
instruments of
musick, like David; Am.6:5
All scholars know that
they
EXPERIMENTED with music to produce a drug high but this was
NOT the
worship of Yehovah but Saturn (666) as Molech, Remphan,
Chiun or
other idols:
"they employed on
their light, enervating
unmeaning
music, and
if
they were in earnest enough, justified their inventions by the example
of David... The word can mean no other than devise. He introduced into the Temple-service the use of the stringed
instruments, the kinnor,
(the lyre) and the nebel (the harp) in addition to the
cymbals.
Whence these, in
contrast to the trumpets, are called the instruments of David." (Barnes, Albert, Amos,
p. 308
"It is commonly used
with
abstract nouns as, devices, evil, vanity; but always in the meaning of 'devising,' 'inventing.'...
It is used also of war-like machines." (Barnes, Albert, Amos, p. 308)
The PROPHETS experimented
with Music (Amos 5, 6; Isaiah 5). "Prophesying was with
Instrumental
Music."
God predicted
that the KINGS would take their youth and make them
instrumentalists
to RUN BEFORE HIS CHARIOTS. One of the first things David
provided
was:
Moreover, David and the commanders
of the army
set apart for
the service some of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun,
who were to prophesy with lyres, harps,
and cymbals; and the number of those who
performed
their service
(hard bondage) was: 1 Chr.25:1
As a result, Ezekiel
could
look at the result of EXPERIMENTING or IMPROVIZING like
David.
And mine hand shall be
upon
the
prophets that see
vanity,
and that divine lies: they shall
not
be in the
assembly of
my people, neither shall they be
written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall
they
enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am
the Lord
God. Ezek 13:9
Because, even because they
have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and
there was
no peace; and one built
up a wall (experimented), and, lo, others daubed
it with untempered morter: Ezek 13:10
Shav
(h7723) shawv; or 7775 shav; from the same as 7722 in the
sense of desolating; evil
(as destructive), lit. (ruin) or mor. (espec. guile); fig.
idolatry (as false, subj.), uselessness
(as deceptive, obj.; also adv. in vain):
- false
(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity.
For the idols have
spoken vanity, and the diviners have
seen a lie, and have told
false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went
their way as
a flock, they were troubled, because there was no
shepherd.
Zec.10:2
Shavah
(h7775) shav-aw'; fem. of 7773; a hallooing: - crying.
All pagans including
Samaria
and Judah believed that MUSICAL
INSTRUMENTS
were the
idols or that the "gods" lived inside of them. When
someone STRUCK
the musical strings the "gods" from within spoke to the
musician. The
musical PROPHESIER could then peddle his message as a
HIRELING.
Untempered is:
Taphel (h8602) taw-fale'; from an
unused root
mean. to smear; plaster (as gummy) or slime; (fig.) frivolity: - foolish
things,
unsavoury,
untempered.
Tiphlah (h8604) tif-law'; from the
same as
8602; frivolity: - folly, foolishly.
Taphaph (h8608) taw-faf'; a prim.
root; to drum, i. e. play (as) on the tambourine:
- taber, play
with
timbrels.
The singers went before, the players
on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
Ps.68:25
Both SINGING and
PLAYING
speaks of the PROSTITUTES and SODOMITES who plagued
Jerusalem and
most temple states.
And I have seen folly in
the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused
my people Israel to err.
Exek 13:13
I have seen also in
the prophets
of
Jerusalem
an horrible
thing: they commit
adultery,
and walk in
lies: they
strengthen
also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from
his
wickedness: they are all of
them unto
me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof
as Gomorrah. Exek 13:14
Let's hear the plan to
EXPERIMENT again.
Farmer's Branch
Church of Christ The
leadership believes it is time to launch a third worship
assembly for
the sake of making a proactive effort to make more space for more
people to "park"
- 'outside' and 'inside' FBCC.
It also believes
this third service would be an appropriate time to explore and experiment more thoroughly in regard to
instrumental
accompaniment in a worship
assembly.
No one in the Bible other
than
pagans "worshiped" with instrumental music: you CANNOT
worship with
the works of human hands.
The DIRECT COMMAND for the
literate was to SPEAK INSPIRED TEXT without Mike Armour to
interpret
it for the poor Ukrainians. A Psalm is:
Psalmos
(g5568) psal-mos'; from 5567; a set piece of music, i.e. a
sacred ode
(accompanied with the voice, harp or other instrument; a "psalm"); collect. the book of the
Psalms: -
psalm. Comp. 5603 (an ode).
- A sacred (inspired) ode
- Accompanied by the
- Voice
- Harp
- or other
Instrument.
The Holy Spirit is very
careful
to NEVER associate MUSIC with the worship of a Spirit God.
The Holy Spirit is always
careful to associate MUSIC with idolatry: Exerimenting with
"worship"
tells God with music as the MARK: We just don't CARE what
you
inspired.
In the Greek world
SYMPHONIA
was something the perverted males and females did to
entertain at
FEASTS which, as among the Jews, was always religious:
Music
with the Greeks, therefore, included, besides
- vocal and instrumental music,
- choral dancing,
- rhythmic motions,
- and various modes of harmony expressed in action,
perhaps most
particularly
that
part of education which we should now classify as a striving for harmony (Kosmos
unity) in life
> combined with aesthetic (art and human creativity),
v - in contrast with
intellectual and physical branches of
study
and development.
> It was culture
of the essential person, the ego or
soul,
v - whereas the other two divisions
care for and supply the
needs of the mind
and of the body.
The clergy would have PERVERTED Jesus if
they
had been able to PIPE to get Him to sing and dance the
effeminate
choral:
These choruses became more elaborate and
more dramatic
and eventually evolved into Greek tragic
drama.
Poetic texts
were also sung by
individuals, the most striking example being the epic
poems of Homer,
in which the singer
accompanied
himself on a lyre.
On the other hand, confirming that
PSALLO in
the Greek was not a "musical" term in the above sense.
Ancient Greek was a pitched
language, so melody
had to be an outgrowth of the natural inflections of
the spoken language.
Greek vowels had long and short
values that
corresponded to long and short notes in the musical
settings. Thus
musical rhythms were derived from metric
forms, and melodic movement was governed by the natural rise and fall of
the
text.
Ancient Greece
appears never
to have had a developed instrumental art. Britannica
Aristotle, Rhetoric" Melody Deceives "for instance "having
gone and having
conversed with him," or, "having
gone, I
conversed with
him."Also the practice of
Antimachus is useful,
that of describing a thing
by
the qualities it does not possess; thus, in speaking of the
hill Teumessus, hesays,
There is a little
windswept
hill;
"for in this way amplification may be carried on ad
infinitum. This
method may be
applied to things good and bad, in whichever way it may be
useful.
"Poets also make
use of this in inventing words, as a melody "without strings"
orâ "without the lyre"; for they employ
epithets from negations, a course which is approved in
proportional
metaphors..
The form of diction should be neither metrical nor without
rhythm.
If it is metrical, it lacks
persuasiveness, for it appears
artificial,
and at the
same time it distracts
the
hearer's attention,
since it sets him on the watch for the recurrence of such and such
a cadence..
Of the different rhythms the heroic is dignified, but
lacking
the harmony
of ordinary
conversation;
the
iambic is the language of the many, wherefore of all meters
it is
most used in common speech;
but speech should
be dignified
and
calculated to rouse the hearer.
Paul spoke of the normal
Greek
MELODY as purely INTERNAL. However, the normal Greek was a
pitched
language and SPEAKING TO ONE ANOTHER would sound more like
the
cantillation of the Hebrew in a liturgical sense with NO
MUSIC.
However, if Farmer's
Branch
wants to EXPERIMENT like the worshipers of Saturn (666)
condemned in
Amos and Isaiah based on the Greek language, then this is
what the
ELDERS have received in response to their PRAYERS:
Music
with the Greeks, therefore, included, besides
- vocal and instrumental music,
- choral dancing,
- rhythmic motions,
- and various modes of harmony expressed in action,
But as to this Genun
(Jubal), Satan came into him in his childhood.
Farmer's Branch
Church of Christ: Steven
Polk, the worship
minister,
would lead this assembly. It would be a
"blended" worship experience,
with much of
the worship
time incorporating instrumental accompaniment,
while
still occasionally incorporating the a capella
form.
The instruments
used would vary from time to time but may include a guitar, a keyboard, a cello, electronic
percussion
(the volume
level can be better regulated), and a bass guitar.
They
would often be used together, but may also be
used individually depending upon the songs.
In the "old" Biblical
churches
of Christ the elders were the LEADERS of the congregation.
Their job
description is to STAND OVER the flock and Paul explicitely
silenced
the FEMALE component by using the word SILENCE which
includes being
SEDENTARY and by excluding AUTHENTIA as sexual authority
"both erotic
and murderous."
"But as to this Genun
(Jubal), Satan came into him in his childhood; and he made
sundry
trumpets and horns, and string instruments, cymbals and
psalteries,
and lyres and harps, and flutes; and he played on them at
all times
and at ever hour. -- Second Adam and Eve 20:2
"And when he
played on them, Satan
came
into them, so
that from
among them were heard beautiful and sweet sounds, that ravished (raped) the heart. Second
Adam and Eve
20:3
"Then he
gathered companies
(teams) 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
Percussion is a necessary component of
inducing
the feelings of SEXUALITY. It is not possible to reverence
God in
SILENCE in the human SPIRIT or MIND while sexual feelings
are
stimulated with an African beat. And, for PAY.
F. LaGard Smith blames all of the church
division on
YOUTH MINISTERS. The remedy is to FIRE
THEM ALL.
PAGAN EXPERIMENTING was
ENDED by DIRECT COMMANDS from Paul
His solution is
the same as Ephesians 5:19 and Colossians 3:16:
The OLD Restoration
Movement would blame ALL problems of the POPISH (stolen from
paganism) practice of HIRING ministers to PERVERT the Biblical
direct
commands. All of
church History warns along with Paul with letting the
doctors of the
Law fired by Jesus get another grasp.
"Give money to make poor pious youths
learned clergy, or vain pretenders to erudition; and they pray
that they may preach to you; yes, and pay them too.
Was
there ever such a craft
as priestcraft? No, it is
the craftiest of all crafts. It is so
crafty that it obtains by its craft the means to make
craftsmen, and
then it makes the deluded support them!" (Campbell,
Alexander,
Christian Baptist, Dec. 1, 1823, Vol. 1, p. 91).
"Money is of vital
consequence
in the kingdom of the clergy. Without it a clergyman could
not be
made, nor a congregation supplied with a 'faithful pastor.'
O Mammon, thou
wonder-working god!"
(Ibid., p. 124).
"'Will you,' said an
honest
inquirer, 'allow the clergy no salary at all? Will you not
allow the
poorer class of the clergy a decent little competence?' I replied I have no
allowances to
make. Let
them have what the Lord has allowed them. 'How much is
that?' said
he, Just
nothing at
all, said I.
A church
constituted upon New Testament principles, having its own
bishop or
bishops, or, as sometimes called, elders, will not, and ought
not to suffer them to be in want of any thing necessary,
provided
they labor in word and doctrine, and provided also, they are
ensamples to the flock in industry, disinterestedness,
humility,
hospitality, and charity to the poor. Such bishops will now be esteemed very
highly in love for their
words sake; but especially those who, by their own hands, minister not only to their
own wants, but also to
the wants of their brethren." (Ibid, p. 140).
"That any man is to be
paid
at
all for preaching, i.e. making sermons and pronouncing them;
or that
any man is to be hired for a stipulated sum to preach and
pray, and
expound scripture, by the day, month, or year, I believe to be a relic of
popery."
(Ibid., Vol.
3, p. 185).
"Our Elder labors with his
own
hands, that he may live honestly..." (Vol. 5, p. 163).
"... our elders labor...
for
their support, and are not burdensome to the church; but in
case of
need..." (Vol, 5, p. 95).
Sure, children are BENT
by
drugs, sex and music including ROCK AND ROLE. But , you
cannot
worship GOD when you are stuffing your CARNAL SENSES WITH
JUNK
FOOD.
Lucifer, the harp-
playing
prostitute asked "did God really say that"? He was
EXPERIMENTING with
Eve as the Musical Enchanter.
It is the 600th Jubilee
and
YOU ARE THERE.
Total
review of
Farmer's Branch Distortion of the
Entire Bible on Instrumental Music.
Part
B
Further
notes on the
word NAGAN
as "proof
text" but which speaks of
sexuality as do ALL of the singing and playing instruments
in the
Bible.
See our collection of Research on
Instrumental Music
as both Satanic and Pagan.
Home
Page
Ken
Sublett
Counter added 7.09.05 12:27p 2200
11.17.10 12000
<img
src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=piney/counter_Farmers-Branch-Experiment.html.dat">
