FORCING
Paul to say EXTERNAL melody when he clearly
spoke of INTERNAL melody is not honest.
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.
In the parallel in
Colossians it is clear that the INTERNAL melody is GRACE which means
that the external teaching one another with "that which is written"
exercises a real influence FROM God upon your human heart (mind).
Speaking TRUTH externally and worshiping or thinking about truth
INTERNALLY answers to the demand of Jesus that worship be IN SPIRIT
(human mind) and IN TRUTH or that which is written, Spirit or the
Words of Christ.
Charis
(g5485) khar'-ece; from 5463; graciousness
(as gratifying), of manner or act (abstr. or concr.;
lit., fig. or spiritual; espec. the divine influence upon the heart,
and its reflection in
the life; including
gratitude): - acceptable, benefit,
favour, gift, grace (- ious), joy liberality,
pleasure, thank (-s, -worthy).
Misleading: proposing that
there is ANY context, Greek or Hebrew word meaning or CONTINUITY
between Law imposed because of musical idolatry and Grace where Jesus
died to give us REST from the burden of "spiritual anxiety created by
religious ritual."
Chris Seidman
and Farmer's Branch Church of Christ: There are three
areas that should be recognized and addressed concerning what this
Scripture has to say: contextual emphasis; Greek
and Hebrew
word meanings; Old and New Testament continuity.
History universally recognizes that the SPIRIT is
not a person but the Mind of
Christ (1 Cor 2). The Spirit of Christ
was the Spirit of the Old Testament. The Spirit which would rest upon
Jesus would not be a little man but the SEVEN SPIRITS all related to
the knowledge of God's Word.
"That which is
written" in Romans 15, the Spirit in
Ephesians 5 and the Word of
Christ in Colossians are all the Spirit
Words of Christ. We claim that CONTEXT was not even remotely
considered when the writer constructed his CREED OF INSTRUMENTAL
AUTHORITY.
Scholars have ALWAYS noted that all of the
words related to MUSIC or to MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS are derived from
very destructive root: some even Satanic, defiling, perverting,
prostituting.
This has caused
Biblical morons to suggest that God got the whole music idea from
Satan when HE discovered how powerful music was in Satan's stealing
His worshiprs.
Misstating Paul's statement
of fact.
Paul clearly commanded (1)
SPEAK to one another (or PREACH) and (2) sing and make melody IN THE
HEART. Because singing among the Greeks was purely a SECULAR activity
and EXTERNAL MELODY spoke more of attacking someone than music, both
the singing and the melody are INTERNAL while the SPEAKING is
external.
Chris Seidman
and Farmer's Branch Church of Christ: Context
The immediate as well as the
broader context of these verses is very instructive. In the passage
Paul identifies three characteristics of a Spirit-filled person:
singing
to one
another and to the
Lord;
This is kinda like quoting
Shakesphere and believing that the Bible says it. Paul said NOTHING
about singing to one another! Nothing.
Paul used the same
word SPEAK that the preacher abrogates to himself. The word is SPEAK
OR PREACH one to anothe, the resource is "that which is written." The
RESULT is that there is singing and melody IN THE HEART and it is
directed to God.
SPEAKING the "seven spirits
of
Divine Knowledge" is typified by the Menorah in the Holy Place. No
musician was allowed in the Holy Place and that is why the Apostolic
Constitutions says "throw the performers out." Jesus said that
WORSHIP takes place in the Most Holy Place which is our human spirit
as it sings and makes melody in the human spirit.
You learn ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
BY HEARING IT. This is
why filling the pulpits with lecturers guarantees that you have
chosen the LEAST EFFECTIVE way of teaching. Only when we recycle the
teaching in our mind
and "meditate on it" or "make
melody" by cutting it
into bits does the information
impress itself upon our minds so that we can REMEMBER the message
when we get to the steak house an hour later.
Because no time is allowed in
sermonizing and singing, there IS NO LEARNING taking place. Besides,
there was no modern form of singing or melody or harmony at the time
which was defined as TUNEFUL (Britannica) it is teaching error to
translate our practices back into the text of the Word of God.
The Holy Spirit is to us the Mind of Christ
according to Paul in 1 Cor. 2. Peter said that the prophets spoke by
THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST (1 Peter 1:11) and John said that the Testimony
of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy (Re 19:10). Isaiah 11:1-4
prophesied the seven spirits of Christ which are all related to
supernatural KNOWLEDGE. And we noted that Jesus said "My WORDS are
Spirit and Life."
Therefore, to be FILLED WITH THE
SPIRIT is to be filled with the Mind of Christ which is revealed to
us through the WORDS of Christ. Romans 15 says to Glorify God WITH
ONE VOICE and use "that which is written."
The "deacons" were to be "filled with the
Spirit" and Paul said that this meant "holding the mysteries of the
faith with a pure conscience."
Therefore, don't exect a LITTLE PERSON to be
with you to make your body move. Jesus said "I" will be with
you.
Paul ACTUALLY said SPEAK or PREACH to one
another. Then the worship which Jesus limited to IN THE HUMAN SPIRIT
would be the internal singing to replace the Greek singing which was
ALWAYS SECULAR. The melody was to be INTERNAL because melody or
psallo is what you do when you TWANG a bowstring to send a SINGING
arrow to grind the enemy's heart into a fine powder. Jesus did that
with a related word meanint SOP.
The seven candlesticks or the Menorah
represented spiritual LIGHT to the Holy Place which was fulfilled in
the church of Christ.
The seven BRANCHES are the seven
spirits OF god. These are not seven little men bouncing around in
your body as the result of music: that is sexual seduction for some
but creating FLIGHT or FIGHT among others.
NO MUSICIAN OR SINGERS were ever
allowed in the Holy Place which was where the CANDLESTICK or Menorah
was protected from the NOISE of animal sacrifices.
All of these SEVEN spirits have to do
with the fact
that JESUS HIMSELF said: "MY Words ARE Spirit and they are
Life."
AND there shall
come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: Isa 11:1
And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom
and understanding, the spirit of counsel
and might,
the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; Isa 11: 2
And shall make him of quick
understanding in the
fear of the Lord:
and he shall not judge after the sight of
his eyes,
neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
Isa 11: 3
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove
with equity
for the meek of the earth:
and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth,
and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. Isa 11: 4
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Jesus validated his role as SON by insisting
that having the Spirit without measure meant that He would speak ONLY
what HE heard from the Father Whom He had "with Him."
Since the church
is SYNAGOGUE or school of the Bible, Paul
told them to glorify God by teaching HIS
words. Therefore, the clear direct
command is to TEACH. That means to speak the Word or to PREACH.
There is no MUSIC word used in
the entire Bible related to the Spiritual worship of
God. On the other hand, the MUSIC word
universally tells God: "We will not listen to your Word." Teaching
was the direct command and you cannot do that and RISE UP TO PLAY in
what was always know as MUSICAL IDOLATRY.
Jesus said that the Father DOES NOT EVEN SEEK
worship except IN THE SPIRIT. The human spirit is the PLACE of
worship opposed to the place of the temple. The human SPIRIT must be
devoted to THE TRUTH or it is not worship. YOU cannot facilitate
anything but pagan worship for someone else.
Paul said SING to the Lord!
Therefore, to be CHRISTIAN worship, the singing
is IN THE HEART and is the RESULT of glorifying God with one voice (Rom
15). Singing is the effect but NOT the act.
Farmer's Branch: giving thanks to God
in
Jesus' name; being submissive to one another.
You cannot do it IN JESUS'S name unless you have a command from Jesus: all
scholars from the beginning insist that church is related to the
DIRECT COMMANDS of God. No, churches of Christ did not invent that
doctrine. You cannot be submissive if you get up in the Holy Place or
church and overpower others with YOUR talent when they would like to
DO THEIR OWN WORSHIP.
Defining preachers as LEADERSHIP is the
grandest of presumptious RULING OVER the one another flock.
Using the MUSIC word adds
something which is not ONCE used by the Old or New Testament related
to Spiritual worship.
Music was always a PAGAN
practice. The Greek had a word for MUSIC but Paul didn't use it. The
word is SUMPHONIA which includes SINGING and
INSTRUMENTS and usually includes dancing and drinking wine.
Therefore, the Spirit of Christ
is BELITTLED when we assume that He was not smart enough to use
SUMPHONIA which is clearly what people LUST FOR in their new WINESKIN
worship. Why did he use PSALLO which at that time did not included
instruments. In all periods psallo included the HUMAN VOICE as the
first instrument of choice. To keep our LEADERSHIP from going beyond
redemption Paul emphasized MAKE MELODY IN THE HEART.
Chris Seidman
and Farmer's Branch Church of Christ: Within this framework the music which
genuinely speaks
to the believer and expresses
praise to the Lord is
that which issues from a heart filled
with the Spirit.
There is absolutely nothing which SPEAKS TO THE
BELIEVER which can be used to VALIDATE one's own new revelation. What
SPEAKS to the believer is "that which is written, the Spirit or the
Words of Christ." If you speak anything else
To the law and to
the testimony: if they speak not according to this
word, it is
because there is no light in them. Is.8:20
And I fell at his
feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am
thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of
prophecy. Rev 19:10
The church is not to OBEY the
Law but the task of the church is to TEACH the Old Testament. Without
that we have no foundation to even believe that there is a God Who
was prophecied.
Praise is not saying: "Lord,
Lord" or "Yah, Yah" or "Hallelujah, Hallelujah" because that will be
the MARK that God doesn't even know your name. Praise is telling the
world the story of God's mighty deeds by using "that which is
written" without "private interpretation" or "further
expounding."
Pulpit and musical performance is SOARING up
into the mountains or lifting SELF UP. If they had any remote
interest in lifting up Jesus they would speak His sermons and sing
His songs.
Musical instruments were compared to Paul with
SPEAKING IN TONGUES because instruments HAVE NO BREATH and cannot
praise God. If instruments artificially PUMP YOU UP to make you
believe that it is Jesus you are praising, then when the music dies
the praise is gone.
Paul called musical instruments "lifeless
instruments" or "carnal weapons." We don't do battle with
supernatural powers by using a SOULLESS machine often made of animals
"which died of themselves" and had to be abraded or PSALLOED into
bits to make instruments or FAMILIAR SPIRITS out of old
wineskins.
The ONLY thing which can issue from a heart
filled with the SPIRIT is the Word of the Spirit. And the only way to
Glorify God is to speak HIS words because "your thoughts are not His
thoughts."
For whatsoever things were written
aforetime were written
for our learning,
Produces grace
in the heart: that we
through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. Rom
15:4
Now the God of patience and
consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according
to
Christ Jesus: Rom 15:5
That ye may with one mind (spirit, heart) and one
mouth
glorify
God, even the Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ. Rom 15:6
As "son" Jesus spoke only what He heard from
the "father." If we do not speak what we have heard from the SON then
we ARE NOT SONS of God. We are simply praising
ourselves
because all idolatry is the worship
of self.
Paul identified music as "speaking in tongues."
Everyone has always know that music and drama are one or two steps
removed from the truth. Paul said SPEAK to ONE ANOTHER using Psalms,
Hymns and Spiritual songs which the Septuagint identifies as forms of
the BOOK of Psalms. The command SPEAK is the same as PREACH. Music
CANNOT SPEAK.
What the LEADERSHIP is speaking of
is the SEXUAL STIMULATION created by music calculated to vibrate ever
nerve ending in the body. SPEAKING is addressed to the Ears and
Heart: music is addressed to the sexual nerve endings.
This form of SENSUAL STIMULATION is NOT
Christian but Anti-Christian.
God never commanded PRAISE SINGING. This was
one of the oldest superstitions that you could feed, clothe, house,
sexually stimulate or appeas the 'gods' in order for YOU to get
GOODIES from the gods.
See
the
PRAISE LEADER from the Core of
Babylon.
Of singing or "speaking to one
another":
"In English, unfortunately,
the
distinction is not sharp, and the word singing
is frequently employed to refer to the sacred
activity of chanting.
A Greek would
never, never say tragoudo (I sing),
-----instead of psallo; the two terms have connotations and
-----associations which are worlds apart --
the first is related to the earthly realm,
----- the second to the heavenly." (Letter to
James D. Bales of Harding University, September
22,
1959, from Constantine Cavarnos, of the Institute
for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies.)
CONEYBEARE AND
HOWSON
"Ephesians 5:19
enjoins:
(1) Speaking TO ONE
ANOTHER in
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs;
----- (2) singing (adontes) and making melody (psallontes, psalming)
----- with your heart TO THE LORD.
One is done with voice and lips,
----- the other with the heart.
God's plan is that GOD speak to the worshipers NOT with music but with HIS WORDS.
There is no SPIRIT or truth or WORD OF CHRIST which does not condemn
music: therefore, you cannot DO Instrumental music and still be
FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST.
Music has been called "low level glossolalia" or
speaking in tongues. You have to translate many of the human hymns
which in the beginning of the Restoration
Movement were called IDOLS. They
are IDOLS because they replace the WORDS OF JESUS as Spirit and Life.
Musicians are IDOLS because it is impossible to GIVE HEED to God
while giving heed to musical performance.
There is no PRAISE SINGING in the church as
there WAS NO PRAISE SINGING in Temple or Synagogue. See
Edersheim for the Temple
The PRAISE word often used in Jewish
lostness IS THE HEBREW:
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 boast; and thus to be
(clamorously) foolish; to
rave;
causat. to celebrate; also to stultify: -
(make) boast (self), celebrate, commend, (deal,
make), fool (-
ish, -ly), glory, give [light], be (make, feign self) mad (against), give in marriage, [sing, be worthy of]
praise, rage, renowned, shine.
The word LUCIFER (Modern
ZOE) HAS THE SAME MEANING. And Lucifer or the Nachash was the musical
enchanter in the garden of Eden.
A similar Hebrew word can
be
translated as "play the flute, pollute or prostitute."
First: The
Israelites had been sentenced to WORSHIP
THE STARRY HOST because of their musical
idolatry at Mount Sinai. Because they did
not repent but
demanded a king so that they could rule and WORSHIP like the nations
or pagan Goyim, God abandoned them. Therefore, David was often trying
to AWAKEN God.
"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).
Second: David's
naked RISING UP TO
PLAY in moving the ark had him agreeing
that he would be held in honor by the SLAVE GIRLS who often did the
naked music. He said that he would make himself EVEN MORE VILE. If
you take DAVID as your musical mediator you had better strip off your
clothes and do the choral dance which was called "bowing the knee to
Baal" because Baal would be worshiped more in Jerusalem than
Jehovah.
Third, PRAISE
SINGING is one of the most ancient pagan
superstitions that you can AID THE GODS
to keep them from failing. Praise
singing has the towers of Babylon as its mother.
Fourth, There
is no clue in the Bible that Jesus wants artificial PRAISE SINGING RITUALS: in fact, his
warning against "Lord, Lord" sayers as "prophesiers" directly repudiate musical singers trying to flatter or SEDUCE Him as they did in all
paganism.
Fifth, there
was no PRAISE SERVICE IN THE SYNAGOGUE.
Sixth, there
was no PRAISE SERVICE in the early historical church. They obeyed
Paul and spoke the INSPIRED POETRY which were God's Songs.
Seventh, when
MUSICAL PRECENTORS were added to the Catholic church this is
identified as "the first heresy largely pervading the church."
The Catholic church models both its
priesthood and its clergy singers after the LEVITICAL order.
The HUMAN HEART is NOT the
SOURCE of inspiration.
Paul asked the people singing
or preaching out of their "own spirit" whether truth originated with
them. It did not. If they needed further instructions then Paul would
write them.
The earthen vessel is God's
storage place for HIS WORDS so that they can last for thousands of
years. If we pour out anything other than "that which is written, the
Spirit or the Word of Christ" we are just pouring out old stump
water.
Chris Seidman
and Farmer's Branch Church of Christ: Put another way, the musical expression is an outpouring of the human vessel
from the Spiritual content contained within.
God put the Word
of God in earthen vessels to protect it.
For instance, a copy of Isaiah from before the time of
Christ was put into an earthen vessel and discovered in about 1945 in
the Dead Sea Caves. This discovery proved that our texts were
faithful copies. The copiest made a new copy and counted letters
forward and backward. Therefore, the FAITHFUL SCRIPE as the faith
PREACHER will not knowingly rewrite the Bible.
Nor, will any sane person believe or teach that
he or she is a latter day apostle and that God
speaks to them. You
need to watch your back when around these people. By putting deeds to
property into earthen vessels
Thus saith the Lord
of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is
sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen
vessel, that they may continue many
days. Je.32:14
For thus saith the
Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be
possessed again in this
land. Jeremiah 32:15
By definition, a Christian is a disciple of the
WORDS of Christ. If burried them 2 thousand years ago and we dug them
up then we could become a Christian without a preacher.
If we were taken to another planet and the
earth left uninhabited for ten housand years, and some of us came
back, we could open the earthen vessels which is about all that would
survive and practice the Christian religion. If pseudo-preachers
propose to rewrite the Scripture to invalidate 2,000 of testimony
about "music" as idolatry then he is not working for the Holy
Spirit.
Sometimes the best place for God to HIDE His
words, as in the parables of Jesus, is to leave them in plain
sight:
But if our gospel
be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 2 Cor 4:3
In whom the god of this world
hath
blinded the minds of
them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of
Christ, who is the image of God, should
shine unto them. 2 Cor 4:4
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind,
that ye may see. Isaiah 42:18
Who is blind, but
my servant? or deaf, as
my messenger that I sent?
who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lords servant? Isaiah 42:19
Who in all the
world is as blind as my own people,
who are designed to be my
messengers of truth? Who is so blind as my "dedicated one," the "servant of the Lord"? Isaiah
42:19LIV
Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
Isaiah 42:20
The Lord is well
pleased for his
righteousness sake;
he will
magnify the
law, and make it
honourable. Isaiah 42:21
The way to DEFEAT Jesus Christ is to
presumptiously present the preacher's OWN views. The burden Jesus
died to remove was "spiritual anxiety created by religious ritual."
And we saw that the WRATH of God is revealed when the WORD of God is
perverted:
Airo
(h142) ah'ee-ro; a prim. verb; to lift; by impl. to take up or away;
fig. to raise (the voice), keep
in
suspense (the mind);
spec. to sail away (i.e. weigh anchor); by Heb. [comp. 5375] to
expiate sin: - away with, bear (up), carry, lift up, loose, make to
doubt, put away,
remove, take (away,
up).
Therefore, Paul insisted that:
For we preach not
ourselves, but Christ Jesus the
Lord; and ourselves
your servants for Jesus sake. 2 Cor 4:5
Paul NEVER called himself
the LEADERSHIP or Senior Preacher or Executive Minister: how
arrogant!
For God, who commanded the light to
shine out of darkness,
hath shined in
our hearts,
to give the light
of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus
Christ. 2 Cor 4:6
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. 2 Cor 4:7
An earthen vessel is the word OSTRAKINOS
which is the source of ostracon. These were the old broken pottery
upon which some of Scripture was recorded.
If it COMES OUT OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT,
ACCORDING TO PAUL, IT IS JUST SPEAKING INTO THE AIR.
Aarrgh! It just doesn't
matter!
Chris Seidman
and Farmer's Branch Church of Christ: Consequently, the presence
(or absence) of a musical instrument is not
primary, but the
expression of a Spirit-activated heart is.
Paul took the preaching out of the hands of the
professional and made it a "one another" activity. By obeying the
direct commands of Jesus we can TEACH that which is written. But,
assume that the preacher is delivering his little fill in the blanks
thingy. Suddenly, the Bible Lovers jump up, strike up the band and
ENTUSE or go charismatic all over the "theater for holy
entertainment." The PRAISE LEADERS would say (will soon say), your
preaching IS NOT PRIMARY. Surely you can preach while we ENTHUSE or
EXHILARATE the crowd.
What if Jesus Christ is the ONLY TEACHER
teaching through His Words? Are they primary or can a Rock Band do
their voodoo while HE is teaching. Absolutely the preacher would say
that it is just a matter of "mental attitude."
Paul's direct command was to TEACH OR PREACH:
that eleminates instruments.
The SPIRIT was "that which was written" or "the
words of Christ" because the prophetic writers were moved by THE
SPIRIT OF CHRIST (1 Pet. 1:11_
Instruments among the classics always said: male or female
prostitute.
"Singer" or "player" always said "prostitute" right there in the
temple.
See that the Temple in Jerusalem was "like the
nations" leading people into Babylonian captivity. See also the
universal connection between singers, players and
prostitutes.
The beginning time and the end time Babylon
Harlot religion will look like this:
"Each of the important
deities had, in one or
more of the Babylonian cities, a large temple
in which he or she was worshiped.
Temple services
were generally conducted in open courts
containing fountains for
ablution and altars for sacrifices.
Only the high priest and other privileged members of the clergy and court
were permitted to enter the cella,
or inner part of the
temple,
which held the special
statue
of the deity. The needs
of the deity were
provided for in accordance with impressive ceremonies carried out by
a vast institutionalized clergy that included
priests, musicians, magicians, soothsayers, dream interpreters, astrologers, and hierodules (temple slaves or prostitutes).
Sacrifices of food, drink, or incense
were offered daily. Numerous festivals were held, the most
important of which was the celebration
of
the new year at
the spring equinox. Encarta Encyclopedia
But why is the end time Babylon Harlot
worship
worse than the vilest of pagan temples by allowing the musicians and
singers into the Holy Place or Chrurch. I'd pack my bags.
Instruments were so connected with warefare or
perverted pagan religion that the word PSALLO was discontinued as an
expression of internal melody.
Instruments in the Holy Place as the carnal
type of the church of Christ would have gotten a Levitical sounders
whos "service" is related to the word ABADDON killed.
Instruments among the Babylon Harlot worship in
Revelation get RETURNED would go back into hell and were associated
with the SORCERIES by which the NATIONS were deceived.
Instruments were called by Luther the MARK of
Baal. Saturn as Lord has the number 666.
Well, that is what has always SOWED
DISCORD AMONG BRETHEREN and offended thousands of these little ones,
isn't it. Seems like the debate is OVER.
The WORDS of Christ according to John 6:63 and
Paul three places is the SOURCE of the Spirit.
MUSIC is considered EVIL throughout the Bible
because it is the INSTRUMENT used by the false Doctors of the Law to
'TAKE AWAY THE KEY TO KNOWLEDGE.' The preachers must know that you
CANNOT give heed to the WORDS OF CHRIST and the PERFORMERS at the
same time.
Therefore the appeal for
instrumental noise is to take away the key to knowledge so that the
FLOCK can be fed to the lions.
The only WORSHIP
WORD Paul saw as important was to GIVE HEED
to Christ by GIVING HEED to His Words. If an instrument is present it
is attached to a talented performer. This makes instrumental
performance the MOST WORKS INTENSIVE ACTIVITY you could do in trying
to earn God's approval.
Therefore, the only ACTIVATOR is
the musical performer and he/she is being USED to attract NUMBERS and
there is no call to claim that it is an "expression of a
Spirit-activated heart." It is not, it cannot be.
Satan (Lucifer, ZOE) who was a musical
enchanter who WHOLLY seduced Eve asked
the fatal question: "Hath God said"? Yes, God has said over and over
that MUSIC tells God to get lost, or we will not listen to YOUR Words
as SPIRIT and LIFE. Of the king of Tyre as a model of Lucifer:
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.
Eze.28:13
She is ZOE among the
professional musician's effort to DEFEAT the church.
But, Paul wasn't even
speaking about CHURCH.
The old Christian church
argument is that "you don't have a command for assembly" and "we
don't have a command for instruments" so we are both equally
ok.
However, to argue that Paul is
not defining the collective assembly in the three primary "singing"
passages is to risk one's credibility.
Chris Seidman
and Farmer's Branch Church of Christ: As a further observation, the setting
(i. e., an assembly or 'worship service') is not a factor governing the means by which music
is
rendered. With respect
to the broader context of this section
of Ephesians, Paul is clearly discussing our Christian walk and our
relationships with one another. An assembly is irrelevant.
These matters
including music are appropriate
in
all settings.
Contextually, there is no differentiation in the unassembled
and assembled church-
Jesus
said to make DISCIPLES and teach them what HE commanded to be taught.
Christians are disciples and attend Bible Class. Paul's ONLY worship
concepts meant to give attention to Reading the Word of God.
There is no such thing as an unassembled
church. "Churching" or "synagoguing" does not speak of a building
with a resident rabbi or doctor of the law. Paul clearly speaks of
the ASSEMBLED church for TEACHING one another. If you TEACH a Bible
class in a local restaurant there still is no rule of SANITY which
would allow you to play the guitar while Jesus Christ is teaching
through His Word.
Therefore, the preacher is using
his assumptions as proof text. However, it would be inappropriate to
play instruments when two or three are gathered together because the
SYNAGOGUE function is to GIVE HEED to the Words of Christ.
Therefore, there is no authority for the
teens
to "worship" in a separate wing of the church with instruments just
because their little brains have been PERMANENTLY DAMAGED by music
all week long.
With no authority to play music in any
TEACHING
assembly, there assuredly is no authority to USE music and musicians
to stimulate sexual ecstasy on the official meeting on Sunday
Morning.
The Old Testament is absolute: if you use
music
you are telling God to go away, we will NOT listen to your words.
That needs no proving in the modern pseudo-church struggling to be a
Tower of Babylon.
What the preachers don't know is that the word
ecclesia speaks of an assembly. However, sunago or another form of
the word for synagogue speaks of the people WHO GATHER or ASSEMBLE as
the church.
When you are assembled in the name
of our Lord Jesus and I
am with you in spirit, and the power of our
Lord Jesus is present, 1 Cor 5:4
Sunago
(g4863) soon-ag'-o;
from 4862 and 71; to lead together, i.e. collect or convene; spec. to
entertain (hospitably): - / accompany, assemble
(selves, together), bestow, come together, gather
(selves together, up, together), lead into, resort, take in.
So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the
epistle:
Ac.15:30
God outlawed the
"instruments and making a joyful noise before the Lord" when the
people GATHERED or assembled. The only occasion for the entire
"congregation" to assemble was for INSTRUCTIONS. Therefore, Numbers
10:7 says "don't do it."
And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them,
ready to
depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
Ac.20:7
Sunerchomai (g4905) soon-er'-khom-ahee; from 4862
and 2064; to
convene, depart in company with, associate with, or (spec.) cohabit
(conjugally): - accompany, assemble (with), come (together), come
(company, go) with, resort.
Now in this that I
declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
1Co.11:17
When people assemble Paul uses a form of the
word SYNAGOGUE. The only place people engaged in corporate teaching of
one another was primarily in the church
assembly as a SCHOOL OF THE
BIBLE.
However, there are numerous
parallels
to Ephesians 5 where, for
instance, Paul spoke of discord in Romans 14
and told them how everyone could meet together peaceably if the
"spoke with one voice that which is written."
It was unthinkable that CHRISTIANS would engage
in the singing and playing instruments of the theater or "out of
church" meetings. Therefore, he could never approve both which were
JOBS for the male and female prostitutes "in church." See Clement of
Alexandria speaking for ALL literate scholars.
Only the LATTER DAY 13th APOSTLES HAVE DECIDED
"IT JUST DON'T MATTER." This gives THEM the authority to use
ABSOLUTELY ZERO AUTHORITY to overpower the 100% authority associating
singers and instrument players in a religious sense as pagan,
idolatrous prostitutes.
What's ok OUTSIDE is ok
INSIDE
Chris Seidman
and Farmer's Branch Church of Christ: what is musically appropriate for the disciple unassembled is appropriate for the disciples assembled.
Sexuality and music were toni twins in all
pagan worship rituals. Sexuality is appropriate at home but not
assembled.
Music was appropriate OUTSIDE
the type of the church during animal sacrifices;
music was inappropriate
in the Holy Place or type of church.
Music was appropriate when creating panic
in
the enemy seen as Beliar;
music was inappropriate when the
same LEVITICAL MUSICIANS turned their instruments upon
Jesus.
Music is ok for those not already brain
damaged during the day.
Music is not ok when I am trying
to sleep.
If the purpose of unassembled music is to
entertain one another it doesn't matter.
However, Paul instructed the churches to synagogue or
assemble to TEACH ONE ANOTHER. Music in the home is appropriate but
music while Jesus is our ONE AND ONLY Teacher is not
appropriate.
See How Clement of Alexandria limits music even
OUTSIDE church:
They who sing thus, and sing
in response, are those
who before hymned
immortality, -- found at last wicked and wickedly singing this most
pernicious palinode, 'Let
us eat and drink, for
tommorrow we die.' But not tommorrow in truth,
but already, are these dead to God; burrying their dead, that is,
sinking themselves down to death.
The appostle firmly
assails them: 'Be not deceived; neither adulterers,nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
nor
thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers... shall inherit
the kingdom of God." (Clement, Instructor III.Xi.80,4, The
Ante-Nicene Fathers, p. 290)
Look at all of the evidence: the only
support you will find is that of the perverted pagans.
Paul clearly speaks of teaching one another
with the TRUTH OF CHRIST whether it is two or two thousand. Paul lays
the foundation. Remember that Ephesians 5:19 has a CONTEXT:
If so be that ye have heard
him, and have been taught by
him, as the truth is in Jesus: Eph 4:21
And we have the TRUTH taught by CHRIST that
SPIRIT in these contexts is not a little man but the WORDS of Christ
the Son which He heard from the FATHER;
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth
nothing: the words
that I speak unto you, they
are
spirit, and they are life.
John 6:63
The context of Ephesus is the
Dionysic worship also considered in Romans 15 where wine and music
went together:
That ye put off
concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according
to the
deceitful lusts;
Eph 4:22
Lust is the CARNAL lust for "that which is
forbidden." One seems
superior like the musician Satan if they can prove to the watching
world that THEIR songs and sermons are supperior to Christ's songs
and sermons.
The old LUSTS of pagan
worship
in Ephesus was wine, women, song and musical instruments. The
instruments brought on "prophesying" which the performers SOLD as the
gods speaking through their tongues.
And be renewed in the spirit
of your mind;
Eph 4:23
And that ye put on the new man,
which after God is created in righteousness and
true holiness. Eph 4:24
Jesus said that "worship" is
only in the spirit or human mind devoted to the Word as the Spirit of
Truth. You cannot RENEW your mind or spirit while playing music which
ONLY produces the impulses of "fight, flight or sexuality" and the
preachers KNOW it.
Paul is speaking of the
church
as members one of another and not a church Hee Haw! The charismatic
oracle spoke gibberish, the interpreter wrote a hymn and the priest
answered questions. Therefore, all of the Ephesian pagans used music
to dissociate the minds from their money. Their musical prophesying
was LYING just as Jesus defined the Devil
as
a liar because "he speaks on his own." Just makes up songs and
sermons.
Wherefore putting away
lying, speak every man truth
with his neighbour: for we
are
members one of another.
Ep.4:25
Jesus added baptized
believers
to the kingdom or body of Christ. The church consists of members of
that one body. Therefore, Paul is speaking of the assembly. He
outlaws machines for this assembly. Therefore, the LEADERSHIP is flat
wrong and IT DOES MATTER or Jesus would not have "tossed out 'more or
less violently' the musical worship or mourning team."
It DOES matter or Psalm 41
would not have prophesied that the clergy would ATTACH Jesus and
silence His Word musically.
Fool the Fools with
SCHOLARSHIP.
David Lipscomb said that
prior to AD 1878 NO ONE had used the word PSALLO to defend the use of
instruments as the works of human hands.
Not even Greeks who could have
and might have known John ever thought of Paul as authorizing
instrumental or any kind of music as spiritual worship. In fact,
music was always associated with training men for warfare after which
only the effeminate occupied themselves with playing
instruments.
Farmer's Branch
Church of Christ: Greek And
Hebrew Word Meanings
Chris Seidman and The second area of
interest centers on the meaning and usage of the Greek words for make
music and psalms.
In order to avoid a lengthy discussion with considerable linguistic
jargon and technical
terminology only a few summary statements are offered.
> The word "make music" is exclusively
applied to the secular parties with wine, dancing, singing and
playing instruments.
And "musician" is exclusively
applied to the MUSES or the 9 Sister Singers wo worked for Apollo who
is Abaddon or Apollyon or Lucifer or Zoe or Satan. Apollo had his
SEEKER CENTER at Delphi and he is the father of "musical harmony,
twanging bowstrings to send a singing arrow into your heart, thieves
and liars.
> If you are going to repudiate the Bible
and 2,000 years of scholarship you had better be prepared with some
proof. If you are willing to DELIBERATELY SOW DISCORD AMONG BRETHEREN
AND OFFEND MANY then you had better be able to flash credentials from
someone beyond a "christian" college:
Chris Seidman and The Greek words
translated make
music and psalms,
"psallo" and "psalmos", respectively, had in secular Greek the meanings to pluck, pull, twitch;
then to play a stringed instrument (psallo); and twitching or
twanging, the sound of a harp (psalmos).
Lexicons do not DEFINE words: they
show how the word is used. "Plucking the lyre"
examples--collected by Tom Burgess--speak of men plucking the harp to
seduce a young male.
The literature ALWAYS uses compound word to define playing a harp.
Psaō [a_, but always contracted], II. crumble away, vanish, disappear, S.Tr.678 (s. v. l.). (psaō, psaiō, psauō, psairō, psēkhō, psōkhō,
Psaiō , A.
= psaō (q. v.), rub away, grind down
Psal-ma , atos, to, A.
tune played on a stringed instrument,
Paul commanded that we SPEAK psalms: if he wanted us to SING psalms he was pretty literate:
Psal-mizō , A.
sing psalms, and psal-mistēs , ou, ho, psalmist
Psalmokha^rēs , es, A.
delighting in harp-playing, of Apollo,
Psalmōd-ia , A.
singing to the harp,
Psalmōd-os , ho, A.
psalmist, LXX Si.47.9 cod.Sin., 50.18.
A. Psalmoi toxôn does not mean "sing and play a harp"
WITH a bow. Psalmoi just means pluck or twang a bow.
-Toxon
Bow implicates galliambus , i, m. [3.
Gallus, II. A.] , I.a song of the
priests of Cybele,
III. metaph., toxa hēliou
its rays, E.HF 1090; ampelinois toxois damentes,
of the effects of wine, Pi.Fr.218;
“toxon merimnēs”
kottabos . . hon skopon es latagōn toxa kathistametha
for shooting of liquor from the cup
B.
toxêrei
psalmôi
[toxeusas]
Id.HF1064 (lyr.).
Toxeuo
A.shoot with the
bow,t inosat
a mark
[Furnished with the Bow] + [Twitching with the fingers] +
[Shoot with the bow or metaphor Send forth a hymn]
2. Metaphor, “Erōs etoxeus' auton” E.Tr.255; “hē turannis pantothen toxeuetai”
is aimed at,, [255]
The dart of love has pierced his heart, love for
the frenzied maid. .3. c. acc. rei, shoot from a
bow, metaph., discharge, send forth, “t. humnous”
Pi.I.2.3;
-Erôs
mostly sexual passion, goddess of love, Aphrodites,
II. as pr.n., Eros, the god of love, Hes.Th.120, Alcm. 36, Sapph.74,
Theoc.29.22.
All Greek was SECULAR GREEK. God revealed His word to the COMMON PEOPLE who heard
him gladly and thereby enforced the blindness and deafness of the
"doctors of the Law" who took away the key to knowledge. The ATTIC
Greek included plucking a harp string but the KOINE for the common
people had eleminated it because it was UNIVERSALLY associated with
driving the enemy into panic or the musical male and female
prostitutes.
The word PSALLO is not a musical term. One "plucks" a bowstring and makes a
"singing noise." Or one yanks out a hair from an enemy's head and it
"twangs." Or, most often in the Hebrew, one TOUCHES or mishandles
someone in a sexual way. Now, when one twangs a harp he TOUCHES it or
GRINDS the sounding board into bits. But, Paul NEVER used a musical
word.
The PROOF TEXTS for using PSALLO are all
derived from texts where older males PLUCKED the harp string to PLUCK
a "youth minister of the gods" in pederasty. The boy's pubic hair
would have been PLUCKED: there is no other evidence.
"Make music" is a deliberate
distortion of
the NIV
because the Greek has ANOTHER word for MAKING MUSIC. The NIV does not
translate "make music" in the other 4 passages because it may know
that these passages were CLEARLY speaking of EXTERNAL melody. The
word MUSIC among the Greeks almost always included singing, dancing,
clapping, playing instruments and getting drunk on wine:
Now his elder son
was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.
Lu.15:25
The MUSICAL word which the Holy Spirit
could
have uses is:
Sumphonia (g4858) soom-fo-nee'-ah; from 4859;
unison of sound
("symphony"), i.e. a concert of instruments
(harmonious note): - music.
There you have your PROOF for instrumental
music as a symphony or concert.
The MUSICIANS in the book
of
Revelation speaks of the 9 MUSES. The muses were the
goddesses who served at Apollo's Oracle of Delphi which was SATAN'S
Seeker Center. Apollo as evil could turn himself into an "angel of
light" and innocence such as a dolphin to seduce sailors into being
MINISTERS.
A Homeric hymn to Apollo perhaps used by
Rubel
Shelly who bills his TEAM as able to "lead you into the presence of
God."
(ll. 182-206)
Leto's all-glorious son
goes to rocky Pytho, playing
upon
his hollow lyre,
clad in divine, perfumed garments;
and at the touch of the golden key his lyre
sings
sweet.
Thence, swift as
thought, he speeds
from earth to Olympus, to the house of Zeus, to join the gathering of the other
gods:
then straightway the
undying gods think
only of the lyre and
song, and all the Muses together, voice sweetly answering
voice,
hymn the unending gifts
the
gods enjoy
and the sufferings of
men,
all that they
endure at the hands of
the deathless gods,
and how they live witless
and helpless and
cannot find
healing for death or
defence against old age.
Psallo means to "abrade the enemy into a
fine
powder" just as Jesus did for Judas. Musical harmony HURTS. Jesus
FIRED those who "create spiritual anxiety with religious ritual." The
musicians are hurting your flesh and soul just to get you to, as
always boasted about in the ancient world and by Carol Wimber, go
orgasmatic.
The universal meaning of music devoted to the
"gods" is that the gods who were almost totally if not totally
HOMOSEXUAL and as with Jezebel taught that sodomy bound the spirit
and flesh together.
If Jesus or Jehovah- Saved
is ANY DIFFERENT then WHY would He approve music as Christian
worship? Total, absolute insanity!
Alexander the Oracle Monger illustrates the Oracle of Delphi who worshiped Apollo
(Abaddon or Apollyon) with music in order to COLLECT MONEY for
pretend songs and sermons just FABRICATED out of the charismatic
gibberish by the woman sitting over the gas fissure which even made
goats "speak in tongues."
Alexander, on the other hand, preferred his native
place,
urging very truly that an enterprise like theirs required congenial
soil to give it a
start,
in the shape of 'fat-heads' and simpletons;
that was a fair description, he said, of the
Paphlagonians beyond Abonutichus;
they were mostly superstitious and well-to-do;
one had only to go there with someone to play the
flute, the tambourine, or the cymbals,
set the proverbial mantic sieve
a-spinning, and there they would all be
gaping as if he were a god
from
heaven.
Again, music in the Holy
Place trying to lead the worshipers into the presence of God with the
same insanity as the Oracle drunk on gas, wine or music GOES WILDLY
BEYOND THE WORST PAGAN TEMPLE KNOWN TO MANKIND.
A drop of black ink in a glass
of white milk requires lots of effort to remove. Therefore, we have
broken this review of FARMER'S BRANCH JUSTIFICATION for instrumental
music into two parts.
NOT ONE PART of the PROOF TEXT
fails to repudiate the Word of God which 100% of the time condemns
instrumental music because it is a mind control device reserved for
the warrior Levitical Musicians.
The Temple NOISE MAKERS were
hiding the horrors of animal sacrifice and the burning of animals. In
order to transition to a pagan temple to a spiritual temple the same
LEVITICAL MOCKERS tried to defeat Jesus Christ whose sacrifice
replaced that of bulls and goats.
All of the musical terms and
names of instruments relate to the work of Satan, to pruning your
vines to take your inheritance: the same word defines "play the
flute, pollute and prostitute." MUSIC was the arena of children or
male and female prostitutes: that is why the end time Babylon Whore
has musicians and instruments to go back into hell with her.
Farmer's Branch
favorable use of MUSICAL TERMS is in
a separate article. All of the MUSICAL and MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS were
associated with the perverted worship of homosexual
gods.
We have added some good
stuff in part two.
You may Click Here
for Part Two. Here are
some of the FALSE ASSUMPTIONS
which can easily be REFUTED.
Chris Seidman
and Farmer's Branch Church of Christ: The words "psallo"
and "psalmos" as used in secular Greek
literature from the 5th century B.C. to the 2nd century A.D.
apparently never referred to
singing but only to the playing
or
the sound of an instrument.
The word psallo NEVER at any time or place in history meant to "play an instrument" unless the instrument is named. The
word means to smite or strike with the fingers and NEVER with a
plectrum; you cannot psallo with a guitar pick, a piano or flute.
Delitzsch,
Psalms: The word "psalm", which is
derived from the Greek word psalmos, is
a translation of the Hebrew term mizmor, which is
the title standing
at the head of fifty-seven
of the psalms. Thus it is evident that not every
psalm has the superscription "psalm". But it is this word which
has come to be the designation of the whole book.
"The
name of psaltery entered
Christian literature in the 3rd century B.C.
translation of the Old Testament called the Septuagint where,
in the Psalms, nebel
was translated psalterion. Thus, Nebuchadnezzar's
idolatrous ensemble included the Aramic psantria. Notice,
also, that the book of Psalms has also
become known as the Psalter (or psalterium), from
the hymns sung with
this harp. Source
The translators used these words because they had meaning when plucking
a bow to send forth a literal arrow or to pluck a lyre to send forth a
love arrow.
Psalmos
also appears
in the LXX as equivalent to the Hebrew word neginah [5058]. This Hebrew
term is used to describe a wide variety of songs. Neginah is translated
by psalmos in Lam 3:14 (song), in Lam 5:14 (music) and in
Ps 69:12
(song). It is striking to observe that in the LXX translation of
Lam
3:14 and Ps 69:12, psalmos, or its verbal form, is used for songs
that are not only uninspired but are in fact the product of the
wicked, even drunkards, who mocked God and His word. The Hebrew
term neginah is used elsewhere in the Hebrew Scriptures of: the songs
of the wicked, Job 30:9 (song); the inspired praise of God, Psalm
61 title (Neginah-a song performed on a stringed instrument); and the uninspired
praisd of the Lord composed by King Hezekiah, Is 38:20 (my songs).
Negiynah (h5058) neg-ee-naw'; or nÿgynath neg- ee-
nath'; from
5059; prop. instrumental music; by impl. a stringed instrument; by extens. a
poem set
to music; spec. an epigram: - stringed instrument, musick, Neginoth
[plur.], song
H5060 nâga‛ naw-gah' A primitive root; properly
to touch, that is, lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphemistically,
to lie with a woman); by implication to reach (figuratively to arrive,
acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy,
Farmer's Branch Church of
Christ: In the New
Testament "psallo"
means to make
music in praise or to sing
praise to God and is
translated make music.
The word "psalmos" means song and is translated
psalm referring almost certainly to the Old Testament Psalms. These
words may imply singing with instrumental accompaniment but do not
demand it.
NO! Psallo never meant make music: the Ephesians and Colossians were
afflicted with the meetings where men got "fluted down with wine" Paul
always contrast that with "meditation IN the heart" because God only
seeks our worship IN OUR SPIRIT.
Because in all of the parallel passages which commands that we speak
that which is written for our learning, and only Corinth and Colosse
had pagan problems, Paul as he often did uses antithetical parallelism
to make sure that they did NOT pluck harp strings.
EPHESIANS 5
Paul used antithetical parallelism to denounce outward singing or instrumental noise.
II. Antithetical Parallelism--The thought of the
first line is expressed by an antithesis in the second;
or is
counterbalanced by a contrast in the second. This parallelism is very common in the Book of Proverbs:
(a) The tongue of the wise adorneth knowledge,
{but} The mouth of the fool blurteth out folly.
Prov., xv, 2.
(b) Soundness of heart is the life of the flesh,
{but} Envy is the rot of the bones.
--Proverbs 14:30.
The thoughts of the righteous are right,
But the counsels of the wicked are deceitful. Proverbs 12:5 (NKJV)
Notice Pauls use of parallelism: The word SPEAK is the opposite of POETRY or MUSIC. Therefore,
Eph. 5:17 Wherefore be ye not unwise,
BUT understanding what the will of the Lord is.
Eph. 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess;
BUT [instead] be filled with the Spirit;
Eph. 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
{BUT} singing and making melody IN your HEART to the Lord;
SPEAKING that which is written for our learning is the thesis: aeido
and psallo is the antithes as the root definition would be clear to the
Ephesians. Psallo has has the same root meaning as SOP which was fed to Judas to cause SATAN to enter into him.
Singing speaks of making noise or sounds with the voice or any inanimate thing
Aeidō, hence of all kinds of vocal SOUNDS, crow as cocks, Pl.Smp..223c; HOOT as owls,
hoi tettiges [LOCUSTS] khamothen asontai —of other sounds, TWANG, of the bow-string, Od.21.411; whistle, of the WIND through a tree, Mosch.Fr.1.8; ring, of a stone when struck, Theoc.7.26:—prov., prin nenikēkenai adein 'to CROW too soon', Pl.Tht.164c.—Constr.:—a. tini sing to ONE, Od.22.346; also,
vie with one in singing, sing of, chant,
Aoid-ē a 5.
= eppsdē, spell, INCANTATION,
PSALLO is never used for musical melody.
Psallō , fut. In a primary sense:
Pluck, pull, twitch, ps. etheiran pluck the hair, A.Pers.1062: esp. of the bow-string, toxōn kheri psallousi neuras twang them, E.Ba.784; “kenon kroton” Lyc.1453; ek keraos ps. belos send a shaft twanging from the bow, APl.4.211 (Stat. Flacc.); so miltokharēs skhoinos psallomenē a carpenter's red line, which is twitched and then suddenly let go, so as to leave a mark, AP6.103 (Phil.): metaph., “gunaikas ex andrōn psogos psallei, kenon toxeuma”
The word inserted in Ephesias 5 can best be understood by the universal
command to SPEAK the word of God and then MEDITATE in the heart:
SPEAKING THE WORD BY READING THE WORD
1Tim. 4:13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
1Tim. 4:14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee,
which was given thee by prophecy, [teaching]
with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
MAKING MELETAO IN THE HEART.
1Tim. 4:15 Meditate upon these things;
give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
G3191 meletaō
mel-et-ah'-o From a presumed derivative of G3199 ; to take care of,
that is, (by implication) revolve in the mind:—imagine, (pre-) meditate. attend to study esp. practise speaking, con over a speech in one's mind, practice, exercise,
2.
attend to, study, ou dunamai akousai, touto meletōn (sc. to akousai) Hdt.3.115; “plēthous doxas memeletēkōs” Pl. Phdr.260c.
5.
abs., study, train oneself, Ar.Ec.164, Th.1.80, X.HG 3.4.16; ēn to hippikon memeletēkos6.4.10: c. dat. modi, “toxō m. kai akontiō” Id.Cyr.2.1.21; en tō mē meletōnti by want of practice, Th.1.142.
ib.
Psallo never means "melody" in any Greek literature. Disciples hear the
WORD and then MEDITATE on it as the only way to learn or put the
Biblical text in the long term memory.
The word is commonly used in the Greek text meaning to "make the heart
strings sing" or in the perverted sense "to shoot forth hymns or love
arrows." The mark of the GODDESSES or muses (adulterers) was that they
could hurt you and condemn you by shooting you with an arrow.
Farmer's Branch Church of
Christ: The conclusion
resulting from this study of word meanings is that musical
instruments are not
denied or demanded in singing praise to the Lord.
There is no direct command to sing anywhere in the Bible: the command
is to SPEAK which is defined as the opposite of poetry or music because
everyone knew that rhetoricians, singers and musicians lied and were
not permitted to write the truth or perform in decent society.
Farmer's Branch Church of
Christ: The facts of this study inevitably beg the
question: if the Holy
Spirit, speaking
through Paul, intended
to prohibit musical
instruments in praise to the Lord, why did He use words which were so
commonly associated with them?
In Ephesians 4 Paul says that godly, gifted leaders (no singers) were to GUARD you against cunninng craftsmen or sophists.
You may want to read Ephesians 4 and define words.
Sophis-tês , ou, ho, master of one's craft, adept, expert, of diviners,
Hdt.2.49; of poets, meletan
sophistais prosbalon Pi.I.5(4).28
,
cf.
Cratin.2; of musicians, sophistês . . parapaiôn chelun
A.Fr.314, cf. Eup.447, Pl.Com. 140; sophistêi Thrêiki (sc.
Thamyris) E.Rh.924, cf. Ath.14.632c: with mod
II. from late v B.C., a Sophist, i.e. one
who gave lessons in grammar, rhetoric, politics, mathematics, for
money, such as Prodicus, Gorgias, Protagoras, a quibbler, cheat,
a
RHETORICIAN as the primary meaning of a HYPOCRITE.
hoi s. tōn hierōn melōn” A sophist, serpent, makes MUSICAL
MELODY with a congregation AS a harp and cannot grasp that IN THE HEART
is a place.
Jer 23:16 Thus saith the Lord of hosts,
Hearken not unto the
words
of the prophets that prophesy unto you;
they make you vain:
they speak a vision of
their own heart,
and not out of the
mouth of
the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord, After this
manner will I mar
the pride of
Judah,
and the great
pride
of
Jerusalem. Jer 13:9
This evil
people, which refuse to hear my words,
........which
walk
in
the
imagination of their heart,
[twisted]
........and
walk
after
other
gods,
to serve them,
........and
to
worship
them,
shall
even be as this girdle, which is good for
nothing. Jer 13:10
Jer 23:17 They say still unto them
that despise
me,
The Lord hath said, Ye shall
have peace;
and they say unto every one
that walketh
after the imagination of
his own heart,
No evil shall come upon you.
Despise tthe Word of God:
Blasphēmo , āre, ak profanely of
sacred things, “eis theous” Pl.R.381e; offer
rash
prayer I.
v.a., = blasphēmeōto revile, reproach,
Vulg. 1 Par. 20, 7; God and
divine things, to blaspheme: “Christum,” Prud. Apoth.
415: “nomen Domini,” Tert. adv.
Jud. 13 fin.; Vulg. Lev. 24, 11; id. Matt. 9. 3; 26, 65.
2. speak ill or to the prejudice of one, slander,
“peri tēs emēs diatribēs”
Farmer's
Branch: The mention
of these words would
undoubtedly conjure
up thoughts of musical instruments in the recipients of Paul's first
century letter to the Ephesians.
Therefore, the first century
Christians
(writers and readers alike)
would
almost certainly have had no
problem with singing to instrumental accompaniment based on Biblical
words and their usage.
But, they all did: By simply understanding the MEANING OF WORDS there is no historic scholar who did not radically condem any kind of music in the assembly. In
fact since the commanded resources are the Prophets and Apostles, and
the people were faithful to speak the Bible-only and because NO BIBLE
is metrical and you could not sing it if your life depended on it.
Click for this index for the 100% condemnation of music in the assembly.
The Catholics never used the organ to accompany singing.
The Reformers could not perform "congregational singing" until they
radically rewrote some psalms (only) to be sung in unison (only).
Farmer's Branch Church of
Christ: Old And New
Testament Continuity
The third area of interest is Old and New Testament continuity. As was mentioned earlier,
singing
with instrumental accompaniment is frequently observed in the Old Testament, particularly in
the Psalms.
There is not a single instance of the godly people gathering for
congregational singing with instrumental backup. When they sang TO the
harp they plucked a string and matched their voice to the sound: they
did not sing and pick a tune because melody was not known
Farmer's Branch Church of
Christ: In the New
Testament, the Book of
Revelation, 5:8-9;
14:2-3; 15:2-3, unabashedly describes singing with musical instruments (harps).
Since the Old
Testament was the "Bible"
of the first
century Christians,
they saw no
conflict between the Old
Testament and the New
Testament writings as
they became available, and certainly would have
had
no inclination to understand music differently.
Christ defined the future REST in great detail: He told us not to spend
our money on the free Word and in Isaiah 58 commanded us NOT to seek
our own pleasure or SPEAK OUR OWN WORDS. Paul commanded the same thing
in Romans 15.
Decent people didn't make instrumental noise when they were "singing"
(yelling, screeching) or reciting a poets work. There is no
congregational singing in the New Testament and it was OUTLAWED for the
synagogue or Church of Christ in the wilderness. The common
people attended synagogue and were not permitted in the innercourt
where the Levites made exorcism noises while the priests slaughtered
innocent animals which God did not command.
Farmer's Branch Church of
Christ: They could
vocally praise
the Lord in Psalm 148 (Hallelujah, Praise Jehovah) and Psalm
150 (Praise Jehovah
with trumpet, harp, lyre, ---) with all their heart, soul and spirit
and feel no conflict in the two.
In Mount Sinai 101a we learned that God turned the people or
Civil-Military-Priestly class over to worship the starry host while He
protected His Godly children by restricting them to their local
synagogue to READ the Word and REST from the worship promoters.
#148 is NOT a psalm but a halal meaning to "boast, make a fool of
yourself, pretend that you are mad" this certainly intimidated the
warriors.
Psalms 148:1 halal ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights.
Psalms 148:2 Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
Psalms 148:3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
Psalms 148:4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.
Psalms 148:5 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.
Psalms 148:6 He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.
Psalms 148:7 Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:
This could have been sung in Babylon and is similar to clay tablets.
Chris Seidman: The presence of
musical
instruments in the worship
of God throughout the Old Testament
The only people who "worshipped" fell on their face. And the praise word is a military practice because the Levites we
Chris Seidman: In the New
Testament, the Book of
Revelation, 5:8-9;
14:2-3; 15:2-3, unabashedly describes singing with musical instruments (harps).
Since the Old
Testament was the "Bible"
of the first
century Christians,
Chris Seidman: as well as throughout Revelation in the New Testament
begs the question.
If you grasp that ekklesia or synagogue is a SCHOOL OF THE WORD OF
CHRIST in the Prophets and Apostles you wouldn't DARE make instrumental
noises when Jesus comes to teach when the elders "teach that which has
been taught."
REVELATION: John defines the end time revival of the Babylon Mother of Harlots.
She uses lusted after "fruits" (same as Amos) as slick speakers,
singers and instrument players: John called them sorcerers and grouped
them with "dogs" or catamites and said that they will or have beeen
cast alive into the lake of fire.
Christ in Isaiah 30 prophesied this: the marks in sight and sound of God casting His enemies into "hell" will be wind, string and percussion instruments.
Farmer's Branch: Can one, in light of
the totality of the
Scriptures, say that
God is displeased with the incorporation of musical
instruments in the
worship of Him if they are mentioned throughout the Old Testament and
are present in John's description of heaven throughout Revelation?
From the garden of Eden
which Christ says was attacked by "Lucifer the singing and harp playing
prostitute" to the Babylon Mother of harlots in Revelation 17 the Bible
is FILLED with the Prophetic associating instrumental music with Satan
and the mark of a fall beyond redemption. The fall from Grace at Mount
Sinai was caused by the musical idolatry of the Egyptian (etal) trinity
under the golden calf.
Isaiah 23:15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre
shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king:
after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
Isaiah 23:16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
1. H3658 kinnôr kin-nore' From an unused root meaning to twang; a harp:—harp.
2. H5059 nâgan naw-gan' A primitive root; prop to thrum,
that is, beat a tune with the fingers; especially to play on a stringed
instrument; hence (generally) to make music:—player on instruments,
sing to the stringed instruments, melody, ministrel, play (-er. -ing).
3 H7892 shı̂yr shı̂yrâh sheer, shee-raw' The second form being feminine; from H7891 ; a song; abstractly singing:—musical (-ick), X sing (-er, -ing), song.
If you read Acts 7 you will hear
Stephen repudiating the whole sacrificial system and agreeing with Amos
that the fatal fall from grace at Mount Sinai was musical idolatry.
Perhaps this is the religious and secular rulers giving up their
thrones and rules. For certain you cannot play the harps while falling
down. The spiritual concept of HOLDING your harps is to APPREHEND the
Word of God: Every
mention of praising God with instruments follows up in the rest of the
chapter presenting the ANTITHESIS which is to teach the WORD (only) as
it is WRITTEN (only). In Revelation 5 the word BEAST is Theiron
which is a two-legged beast: It includes "A new style of singing or
drama" so we know the MARK of the Beast which implicates the well
recognized persona of "praise singers."
CLASS NUMBER ONE:
Revelation 5:8 And when he had taken the book,
the FOUR BEASTS and four and twenty ELDERS
fell down before the Lamb,
having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours,
which are the prayers of saints.
When Jesus and the apostles HYMNED a hymn both hymn and the Latin
"dico"means to SPEAK or recite: none of the Bible is metrical so you
cannot sing it in four part Seidman.
Scripture DEFINES the hymn:
Revelation 5:9-10 And they sung a new song,
SAYING,
"Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof:
for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood
out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests:
and we shall reign on the earth. "
CLASS NUMBER TWO
Revelation 5:11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of MANY ANGELS
round about the throne and the beasts and the elders:
and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand,
and thousands of thousands;
Revelation 5:12 SAYING with a loud voice,
"Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches,
and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing."
CLASS NUMBER THREE for the living
Revelation 5:13 And EVERY CREATURE which is in heaven, and on the earth,
and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them,
heard I SAYING,
"Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power,
be unto him that sitteth upon the throne,
and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. "
REVELATION 14 the same warning of judgment:
AND
I looked, and, lo, a Lamb
stood on the mount
Sion,
and with him an
hundred forty and four thousand, having his Fathers name written in their foreheads. Rev 14:1
What
they heard was from
heaven--in the atmosphere over Zion.
And
I heard a voice from heaven
..........like
the sound of many waters and
..........like
the sound
of loud
thunder; the voice I
heard was
..........like
the sound
of harpers playing on their harps
Revelation 14:2RSV
Keladeo sound as flowing water 2.
of persons, shout aloud, atar keladēsan Akhaioi, in applause. keladeonti amphi Kinuran phamai” Pi.P.2.15: c. acc. cogn., “k. humnous” lSound of the grasshopper, ring bells, of the flute, sing of, celebrate loudly.
However, the LITERAL sounds in Revelation 18 John calls "sorcerers."
The "heaven" are terms used in paganism and the role of Christ is
to replace them:
Ouranos vault or firmament of heaven, sky
Hesperos, hos kallistos en ouranō histatai astēr” 22.318; “ouranos asteroeis” 6.108,al.
2.
heaven, as the seat of the gods, outside or above this skyey vault, the portion of Zeus (v. Olumpos), 15.192, cf.Od.1.67,
Heaven-gate, i. e. a thick cloud, which the Hōrai lifted and put down like a trap-door, 5.749, 8.393; so, later, hoi ex ouranou the gods of heaven,
Opora III.
metaph., life's summer, the time of youthful ripeness, Pi.I.2.5 ; tereinan mater' oinanthas opōran (v. oinanthē) Id.N.5.6 ; ripe virginity, A.Supp.998, 1015 ; “o. Kupridos”
Therefore, rather than worship the creature and the heavens, we are commanded worship God Who MADE all of these things:
Rev. 14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven,
having the everlasting gospel to preach unto
them that dwell on the earth,
and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
Rev. 14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him;
for the hour of his judgment is come:
and worship him that MADE heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
Rev. 14:8 And there followed another angel,
saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city,
because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
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Chris Seidman, Farmers Branch Church of Christ
repudiates all of the Biblical and historical facts in order to
pervert Scripture in order to USE musical worship teams an
instrumental music. That is identical to the SACRIFICIAL MUSIC as
they mocked Jesus.
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