Isa
28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
Or: Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues God will
speak to this people, Isaiah 28:11NIV
Or: Nay, but by men of strange lips and with
an alien
tongue the
LORD will speak to this people, Isaiah 28:11RSV
Or: But they won't listen; the only language
they can understand is punishment! So God will punish them by sending
against them foreigners who speak strange gibberish! Only then will they listen
to him! Isaiah 28:11LIV
The tongues warned about in Deuteronomy 18 are quite
identical to nachash and therefore their speaking in tongues was a
form of divination or whispering a magical
spell pretending that they
were speaking for God. Their tongues were:
Lashown (h3956) law-shone'; from
3960 (to slander); the tongue (of man or
anmals), used lit. (as the instrument of licking, eating, of speech), and
fig. (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove or water): - / babbler, bay, / evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge
Lashan (h3960) law-shan'; a prim.
root; prop. to lick; but used only as a denom. from 3956;
to wag the tongue, i. e. to calumniate: - accuse, slander.
Lachash (h3907) law-khash'; a prim.
root; to whisper; by impl. to mumble a spell (as a magician): - charmer, whisper (together).
The serpent in the
garden of Eden is not a snake: the the whole reigon he was
known a a Musical Enchanter as one who can charm a serpent
and assuredly wholly seduce Eve.
Nachash (h5175) naw-khawsh'; from
5172; a snake (from its hiss): - serpent.
Nachash (h5173) nakh'-ash; from
5172; an incantation or augury: - enchantment.
Nachash
(h5172) naw-khash'; a prim. root; prop. to hiss, i. e. whisper a (magic) spell; gen. to prognosticate: - *
certainly, divine, enchanter, (use) * enchantment, learn
by experience, * indeed, diligently observe.
Nechash (h5174) nekh-awsh';
corresp. to 5154; copper: - brass.
Nchuwshah (h5154) nekh-oo-shaw';
or nÿchushah nekh-oo-shaw'; fem. of 5153; copper: -
brass, steel. Comp. 5175
Nachuwsh (h5153) naw-khoosh';
appar. pass. part. of 5172 (perh. in the sense of ringing, i. e. bell-metal; or from the red color
of the throat of a serpent [5175, as denom.] when hissing); coppery, i. e.
(fig.) hard: - of brass.
Nechiylah (h5155) nekh-ee-law';
prob. denom. from 2485; a flute: - [plur.] Nehiloth.
Chaliyl (h2485) khaw-leel';
from 2490; a flute (as
perforated): - pipe.
Chalal (h2490) khaw-lal'; a
prim. root [comp. 2470]; prop. to bore, i. e. (by
impl.) to wound, to dissolve; fig. to profane (a person, place or
thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an
"opening wedge"); denom. (from 2485) to play (the
flute):
-
begin (* men began), defile, * break, defile, *
eat (as common things), * first, * gather the grape
thereof, * take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane
(self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow,
stain, wound.
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.
Heylel (h1966) hay-lale'; from
1984 (in the sense of
brightness); the morning-star: - lucifer.
Nashshown (h5177) nakh-shone'; from
5172; enchanter; Nachshon, an Isr.: -
Naashon, Nahshon.
The serpent in the garden was Lucifer or
ZOE. He/she was a MUSICAL ENCHANTER. As mother-daughter who
seem interchangeably at times SOPHIA is the SERPENT and Zoe
is the BEAST meaning "female instructing principle." See
the meaning of MUSIC as always the MARK of the BEAST. ALL musical
terms and names of musical instruments point to SATAN, to
prostitutes or sodomites in a religious sense.
Satan's change agent, Judas, was
still at it but he would not triumph over Jesus with his
musical instruments as a sign of his divination with pipes
as Satan's agent. Psalm 41 also notes
and the Dead Sea Scroll
version interprets that:
All that hate me whisper together against me: against
me do they devise
my hurt.
Psalm 41:7
Lachash (h3907) law-khash'; a
prim. root; to whisper; by impl. to mumble a spell (as a magician): -
charmer, whisper (together).
Laeg (h3934) law-ayg'; from 3932;
a buffoon; also a foreigner: - mocker, stammering.
For thus saith the
Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in
confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not. Isaiah
30:15
With hypocritical (polluted) mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with
their teeth Psa 35:16
Psalm 58 defined these people as:
The wicked are
estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be
born, speaking lies. Psalms 58:3
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Psalms
58:4
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Psalms 58:5
The poison of the serpent was heat, anger, being
furious, indignation, rage, wrath.
Chavah (h2331)
khaw-vah'; a prim. root; [comp. 2324, 2421]; prop. to live;
by impl. (intens.) to declare or show: - show.
Chawah (h2332) khav-vaw';
causat. from 2331; life-giver; Chavvah (or Eve),
the first woman: - Eve.
Ge.3:20 And Adam called
his wifes name Eve; because she was the mother of
all living
Ge.4:1 AND Adam knew Eve
his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have
gotten a man from the Lord.
Gen 4:2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a
keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth. Psa 58:2
Even from birth the wicked go astray (adulterers, profane); from the womb they are wayward and speak lies. Psa 58:3
Their venom is like the venom of a
snake, like
that of a cobra that has stopped its ears Psa 58:4
(Venom in the second instance is
the plural of Chauwah, life-giver or Eve, the first woman. She is ZOE, the
female instructing principle.)
Chauwowth yaiyr (h2334) khav-vothe'
yaw-eer'; from the plur. of 2332 and a modification of
3265; hamlets of Jair, a region of Pal.: - [Bashan-] Havoth-jair.
Bashan In Ugaritic, the place name "Bashan" is spelled
(left to right): B-th-n (Bathan). Ugaritic often
interchanges the "sh" sound of Hebrew words with "th" in
its own semitic dialect Interestingly--and significantly--"Bathan" in the Ugaritic
language is the word for "serpent".
Bashan was the place of the serpent, or seed of the serpent, the nephilim offspring, just as the
Old Testament describes.
Arabic
Dictonary:
Bathan : cobra [Sem b-th-n, Akk bashmu, Heb peten
(viper), Syr patna, Uga bthn, Ebl bashanu]
Nachash
"snake, serpent" with nshk "bite" provides a link
between two verses in Amos speaking of the impossibility
of escape 5:19 and 9:3 - nachash often either
carries overtones of the serpent in Eden (Gen 3) or of
the mythology of Canaanite cultures (Is 27:1).
HEAR this word, ye kine of Bashan, that
are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor,
which crush the needy, which say to their masters,
Bring, and let us drink. Am.4:1
Ashaq (h6231) aw-shak'; a prim.
root (comp. 6229); to press upon, i. e. oppress,
defraud, violate, overflow: - get deceitfully, deceive,
defraud, drink up, (use) oppress ([-ion], -or), to
violence (wrong).
James
Charlesworth notes: I. First, the study of
ancient serpent symbolism and Semitic philology
discloses that Bashan has two meanings. What is the most
corrupt or problematic verse in Psalm 68? It is verse
22[23].
When most biblical scholars studied
Hebrew philology they were told that "Bashan" denoted a
mountain east of the Kinnereth (the Sea of Galilee).
Now, the contributors to the most recent Hebrew lexicons
rightly point out that "Bashan" in the second millennium
BCE denoted both a mountain and a mythological creature
that was a ser pent, the "dragon-snake." 41 The most
help in comprehending !vb as having a second meaning,
"dragon-snake," comes from cognate languages.
The Ugaritic bthn 42 and the Akkadian bamu are cognate
to the Hebrew bn and the Aramaic ptn. These terms are
equal to the Arabic bathan. 43 All these nouns denote
some type of "dragon" or "snake." The compilers of the
new and expanded Koehler-Baumgartner indicate correctly
that the Hebrew !vb can denote a type of serpent similar
to !tp , "cobra." 44 40 The Syriac is an idiomatic
expression; John Mard, apud Bibliotheca Orientalis
Clementino-Vaticana 2.227, uses the same phrase but with
the Syriac word for lion, which qualifies and explains
the whole phrase: "from the house of the teeth of a
lion"
Dahood, who wisely employs Ugaritic to shine light upon
dark passages in the Psalter, perceives that Bashan in
Ps 68:23[22] refers to a dragon-snake or serpent: The
Lord said:
"I stifled the Serpent, muzzled the Deep
Sea."
46 In his notes, Dahood points out that "ba - a - n is
another name for Leviathan, as appears from UT,
67:I:12É" 47 The translators of the NEB also opted to
bring out a reference to a snake in Ps 68:23[22]: "from
the Dragon." It is clear that in antiquity Bashan meant
not only a mountain but also a mythological
dragon-snake. The meaning "dragon-snake" is what was
intended in Psalm 68:23[22].
God brings into judgment all who have died and are still
living --; including all in heaven and on the earth (or
in its waters). Recall how similar Psalm 68 is to Amos
9:2--;3: Though they dig into Sheol, From there my hand
shall take them; Though they ascend (into) heaven,
Charmers are:
Chabar (h2266) khaw-bar'; a prim.
root; to join (lit. or fig.); spec. (by means of spells) to fascinate: - charm (-er), be compact,
couple (together), have fellowship with, heap up, join
(self, together), league.
This also defines the "Serpent" in the
New Testament: any effort to facinate through the sense of
feel, sight and sound is the work of the serpent who is
Satan.
Nachash (h5175) naw-khawsh'; from 5172; a snake (from its hiss): -
serpent. The "serpent" who spoke to Eve used human language and was
once upright or spiritual. The serpent is
defined by the hissing or incantation of the soothsayer or
enchanter.
Nachash (h5173) nakh'-ash; from 5172; an incantation or
augury: - enchantment.
"ENCHANTER - a male psychic who specializes in the skill of influencing people for good or evil by creating a thought
atmosphere around his subject by a technique using songs, chants or rhythmic sounds. [cf. ENCHANT, THOUGHT
ATMOSPHERE].
Nachash (h5172) naw-khash'; a prim.
root; prop. to hiss, i. e. whisper a (magic) spell; gen. to prognosticate: - * certainly, divine, enchanter, (use) * enchantment, learn by experience, *
indeed, diligently observe.
Which will not hearken to the voice of
charmers, charming never so wisely. Psalm
58: 5
Our resource notes that:
"Three Greek roots can
be used to describe the phenomenon: "mantia" (manteia) which is the most
commonly used for describing glossolalia
Paul understood this when he warned
Corinth against speaking in tongues. Notice that if any had
the gift of tongues not ALL would. You would need only one
interpreter of these foreign dialects.
If therefore the whole
church be come together into one place, and all speak with
tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or
unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad? 1 Corinthians 14:23
Mainomai (mainomai) (g3105)
mah'ee-nom-ahee; (to long for; through the idea of
insensate craving); to rave as a "maniac": - be beside
self (mad)
Look again at the warning of Moses:
There shall not be found
among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to
pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or
an enchanter, or a witch, Deuteronomy 18:10
Paul called speaking in tongues a sign and
understood that.
Before we get lost let's take a look at
Paul's use of this prophetic event. Remember that in Isaiah,
when you hear people speaking unknown tongues it means that
the enemy is at your city gate. If you will not believe the
revealed Word then God will let you hear unknown tongues:
In the law it is
written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak
unto this people;
......and yet for all that they will not hear me, saith the Lord. 1
Corinthians 14:21
Wherefore tongues are
for a sign, not to them that believe,
but
...... to them that believe not:
Even him, whose coming
is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 2 Thessalonians 2:9
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them
that perish; because they received not the love of the
truth,
that they might be saved. 2 Thessalonians 2:10
And for this cause
God shall send them strong delusion (itenerant deceiver,
lying tramp), that they should believe a
lie: 2 Thessalonians 2:11
Plane (g4106) plan'-ay; fem. of
4108 (as abstr.); obj. fraudulence; subj. a straying from
orthodoxy or piety: - deceit, to deceive, delusion, error.
Woe unto them for they
have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after
the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the
gainsaying of Core. Ju. 11
Planos (g4108) plan'-os; of uncert.
affin.; roving (as a tramp), i.e. (by impl.) an impostor
or misleader: - deceiver, seducing.
For many deceivers are
entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus
Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an
antichrist. 2Jn.1:7
Planetes (g4107) plan-ay'-tace; from
4108; a rover ("planet"), i.e. (fig.) an erratic teacher:
- wandering.
Raging waves of the
sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to
whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. Ju.
13
Tacitus, The Annals, BOOK II: A.D.
I6-I9
XXVII. About the same
time Libo Drusus, of the family of Scribonii, was accused
of revolutionary schemes. I will explain, somewhat
minutely, the beginning, progress, and end of this affair,
since then first were originated those practices which for
so many years have eaten into the heart of the State.
Firmius Catus, a senator, an intimate friend of Libo's,
prompted the young man, who was thoughtless and an
easy prey to delusions, to resort to astrologers'
promises, magical rites, and interpreters
of dreams, dwelling ostentatiously on his
great-grandfather Pompeius, his aunt Scribonia, who had
formerly been wife of Augustus, his imperial cousins, his
[p. 68] house crowded with ancestral busts, and urging him
to extravagance and debt, himself the companion of his
profligacy and desperate embarrassments, thereby to
entangle him in all the more proofs of guilt.
This stammering
lips
was proof that the
foreigners had taken control of the people in Jerusalem.
This same pattern is repeated in Second Chronicles:
And the Lord God of
their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion
on his people, and on his dwelling place: 2 Chronicles
36:15
But they mocked (imitating a foreigner.
i.e., speaking
unknown tongues) the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets,
until the wrath (hot displeasure) of the Lord arose against
his people, till there was no remedy. 2 Chronicles 36:16
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young
men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary,
and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old
man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all
into his hand. 2 Chronicles 36:17 (A Chaldoean
as if so descended; also an astrologer as if proverbial of that people.)
Diodorus
Historical
Library 15.50.3
During their term of
office, after the Lacedaemonians had held the supremacy
in Greece for almost five hundred years, a divine
portent foretold the loss of their empire; for there was
seen in the heavens during the course of many nights a
great blazing torch which was named from its shape a
"flaming beam," and a little later, to the surprise of
all, the Spartans were defeated in a great battle and
irretrievably lost their supremacy
Some of the students
of nature ascribed the origin of the torch to natural
causes, voicing the opinion that such apparitions occur of necessity at
appointed times, and that in these matters the Chaldeans in Babylon and the other astrologers succeed in making accurate
prophecies. These men, they say, are not surprised when
such a phenomenon occurs, but rather if it does not,
since each particular constellation has its own peculiar
cycle and they complete these cycles through age-long
movements in appointed courses. At any rate this torch
had such brilliancy, they report, and its light such
strength that it cast shadows on the earth similar to
those cast by the moon.
Isa 28:12 To
whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to
rest; and
this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
See how music is
included in the LADED BURDEN which is spiritual
anxiety created by religious ritual.
See how Jesus gives us REST.
In victory over the
Musical Levitical Warriors, it is said of Messiah:
- I will groan with the
zither of lamentation
-
in
all grief-stricken mourning and bitter complaint
- until iniquity and
wickedness are consumed
-
and the disease-bringing scourge is no more.
An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast
unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no
more.
Ps.41:8
- Then will I play on
the zither
of deliverance
-
and harp of joy,
- on the tabors of prayer and the pipe of praise
-
without end.
Jesus DID die for
congregational singing or speaking! The laden burden was
SPIRITUAL ANXIETY created by religious rituals. The primary
ANXIETY CREATOR in the Greek Resources were RHETORICAL
SPEAKERS and INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC. The REST Jesus died to give
us consentrates on STOP THE SPEAKING, STOP THE MUSIC: JUST
STOP the Ceremonial Legalism.
I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I
called, none
did answer;
when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before
mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not. Isaiah 66:4
The delusion
which God sends on people is a form out outlawed "praise" which
is like "whistling in a cemetary" and is exciting because it
is destructive:
'Alal (h5953) aw-lal'; a prim.
root; to effect thoroughly; spec. to glean, (also fig.);
by impl. (in a bad sense) to overdo, i. e. maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose (also lit.): - abuse, affect, child, defile, do, glean, mock, practise, throughly, work
(wonderfully).
Thus saith the Lord of
hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a
grapegatherer into the baskets. Jeremiah
6:9
Bacar (h1219) baw-tsar'; a
prim. root; to clip off; spec. (as denom. from
1210) to gather grapes; also to be isolated (i.
e. inaccessible by height or fortification): - cut off, (de-) fenced, fortify,
grape
gatherer, mighty things, restrain, strong,
wall (up), withhwww.
When David ignored the Word and could not
find God and feared for his life, he fell into charismatic
prophesying defined by the word halal. An almost-identical word carries the same
message of a delusion sent from God for rejecting His word:
Chalal (h2490)
khaw-lal'; a prim. root [comp. 2470]; prop. to bore, i. e.
(by impl.) to wound, to dissolve; fig. to profane (a person, place or thing), to break
(one's word), to begin (as if by an "opening wedge");
denom. (from 2485) to play (the flute): - begin (* men began),
defile, * break, defile, * eat (as common things), * first, * gather the grape thereof, * take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow,
stain, wound.
When you hear the noise of singing with
instruments coming from the modern "temples" you can take it
as a sign that God is pouring out His wrath upon
unbelievers. The noise is actually God's voice bringing on
delusions. The singers and pipe players are polluting you
and pruning your vines to take your inheritance. It is not
the deluded preacher or jubilator, however. God is using the
manipulator or Musical Worship
Facilitator to take away your inheritance which you already owned through obedience to
God's Word.
Isa 28:13 But
the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon
precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon
line; here a little, and there a little; that they might
go, and fall
backward,
and be broken, and snared, and taken.
To the law and to the
testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
Is.8:20
Ye are of your father
the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was
a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth,
because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie,
he speaketh of
his own:
for he is a liar, and the father of it. Jn.8:44
The Thanksgiving Hymns (1QH) from the
Dead Sea Scrolls interprets Psalm 41:
- They come to inquire of Thee
-
from the mouth
of lying
prophets
deceived by error
- Who speak with strange lips to Thy people,
-
and an alien tongue,
- That they may cunningly turn
-
all their work
to folly.
-
- For Thou, O God, hast
sheltered me
-
from the
children of men
- And hast hidden Thy
Law within me
-
against the time
when Thou shoudst
-
reveal Thy
salvation to me.
-
- All who have eaten my bread
-
have lifted their heel against
me (cf
John 13:18)
- And all those joined to my Council
-
have mocked me with wicked lips.
-
- Thy members of my
Covenant have rebelled
-
and have
murmured round about me;
- They have gone as talebearers
-
before the
children of mischief
-
concerning the
mystery which Thou hast hidden in me...
-
- They have overtaken
me in a narrow
pass
without escape
-
And there is no
rest for me in my trial.
- They sound my censure upon a
harp
-
and their
murmuring and storming upon a zither."
-
- Anguish seizes me
-
like the pangs
of a woman in travail,
- and my heart is
troubled within me.
-
I am clothed in
blackness
- and my tongue cleaves
to the roof of my mouth. (Vermes, 165f)
A legalists is a
preacher: he parcels out the law in little tidbits. A
little proof text here and a little one over there because
God has sent STRONG DELUSIONS to those who do not love HIS
words.
Isa 28:14
Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in
Jerusalem.
Luwc (h3887) to make mouths at,
i. e. to scoff; hence (from the effort to pronounce a
foreign language) to interpret
And now, brethren, I
commend you to God, and
to the word of his grace, which is able to build you
up,
and to give you an inheritance
among all them which are
sanctified. Ac.20:32
Hagizo (g37) hag-ee-ad'-zo; from
40; to make holy, i.e. (cer.) purify or consecrate;
(mentally) to venerate: - hallow, be holy, sanctify.
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the
word,
Ep.5:26
Hagios (g40) hag'-ee-os; from hagos
, (an awful thing) [comp. 53, 2282]; sacred (phys. pure,
mor. blameless or religious, cer. consecrated): - (most)
holy (one, thing), saint
Then Peter said unto
them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the
name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye
shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Ac.2:38
This means A holy spirit or A good conscience.
Jesus answered, My
kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this
world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be
delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from
hence. John 18:36
Pilate therefore said
unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou
sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for
this cause came I into the world,
that I should bear
witness unto the truth.
Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. John
18:37
Pilate saith unto him,
What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out
again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no
fault at all. John 18:38
For the kingdom of God
is not meat
and drink;
but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Rom 14:17
For he that in these things
serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.
Rom 14:18
Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may
edify another. Rom 14:19
Because ye have
said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at
agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass
through, it
shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid
ourselves:
Is.28:15
A vital focus of
questioning was the world of the dead. The recently deceased might exert influence on the
living for good or for bad. Offerings to the dead, which
were required by custom, were intended, among other
purposes, to make them well disposed. People occasionally
deposited with their offerings a letter telling the
deceased of their problems and asking for assistance. A
few of these letters are complaints to the deceased
person, alleging that he or she is afflicting the writer. This written communication
with the dead was confined to the very few literate
members of the population, but it was probably part of a
more widespread oral practice. Some tombs of prominent people acquired
minor cults that may have originated in frequent
successful recourse to them for assistance. Britannica Online
See The Feast of Tabernacles in
Jerusalem
The Marzeah in Amos 5
"The marzeah had an extremely long
history extending at least from the 14th century B.C.
through the Roman period. In the 14th century B.C., it
was prominently associated with the ancient Canaanite
city of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra), on the coast of
Syria...
The marzeah was a pagan
ritual that took the form of a social and religious
association... Some scholars regard the funerary marzeah as a feast for--and with--deceased
ancestors (or Rephaim, a
proper name in the Bible for the inhabitants of Sheol)."
(King, Biblical Archaeological Review, Aug, 1988, p. 35,
35)
"These five elements are: (1)
reclining or relaxing, (2) eating a meat meal, (3)
singing with harp or other musical accompaniment, (4)
drinking wine and (5) anointing oneself with oil."
(King, p. 37).
"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)
"The normal order of events was a
meal, followed by a drinking party. Entertainment might
include anything from a rhetorcian or philosopher
discoursing on some topic, to musical entertainment, to
sexual dalliance."
"Plutarch implicitly contrasts a
serious dinner featuring a sage as the after-dinner
speaker with the other sorts of dinners--where sexual
play with the girl flute-players or hetairae was
common." (Witherington, Ben, Why Not Idol Meat, Bible
Review, June 1994, p. 41-42).
The Battle of Baal and Yahm
Aloud they [summon the assembly of the
gods/ do cry to those near]. They invite
the distant ones/ those far away, to the assembly of `El
they summon/do cry: "`El remains seated
[in his marzeah/banqueting hall/among his cult-guests
(dM)] . . .
The shame of the Eternal One/The
shameful conduct of the usurper . . .
O gods, (to) the house of your lord . . .
[Who surely travels (S)/lest he go (D/G) quickly/the
Runner will not walk (dM)] through the land, . .
who goes in the dust
(of) destruction/a mess of
mud on the ground . . .
Comments: Smith believes lines 7-8 should be
interpreted "Either literally, as `El
walking through the underworld,
or an allusion to `El being "dead drunk," or both metaphorical,
and ironic, as the marzeah serves as the setting
for feasts for the dead and for the living mourning the dead
(p. 145).
The Agape was a funerary
feast with and for the dead much like the marzeah condemned in Amos 5 and 6.
That lie upon beds of
ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and
eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of
the midst of the stall; Am.6:4
That chant to the sound of
the viol, and invent to themselves instruments
of musick, like David; Amos 6:5
This is why Jesus
cast out the mourning minstrels.
When Jesus entered the
ruler's house and saw the flute players and the noisy
crowd, Matthew 9:23NIV
He said unto them,
Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And
they laughed him to scorn. Matthew 9:24
But when the people
were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand,
and the maid arose. Matthew 9:25
Amos and Jeremiah also
criticize those who partake in the marzeah, or ritual mourning feast. Apparently, "these feasts
lasted several days and were accompanied by excessive
drinking. Wealth and affluence apparently were
prerequisites for participation."(21) Their behavior draws
them away from the important things in life, like
worshipping God. Archeology supports the existence of
these feasts. Ivory bowls and couches have been recovered
from ancient Samaritan archeology sites, many of which
contain pagan images or inscriptions. This evidence
indicates a return to idolatry, "which may have outraged
Amos as much as the luxury and affluence that the ivories
reflected."(22)
21:
1 Philip J. King, "The Marzeah Amos Denounces,"
Biblical Archeology Review 14 (1988): 36.
See how the Music in Egypt and the
Golden Calf describe Israel's MUSICAL COVENANT WITH
DEATH. See
also how this is connected to the Musical Mocking of Jesus
prophesied in Psalms 22 and 41.
Paul's reference to the
LAW about women in public worship rituals has several
basis. One, which began in Egypt led to the usurpation of
Miriam who was
rebuked by God.
The son of Het-Hert and
Heru is Ihy, the Name of Netjer which personifies musical joy. His conception and birth
were celebrated in the "birth houses" of Her temples,
where there are many beautiful hymns to Her inscribed on the walls. Though the priestesses, the hemut-Netjer in Her
temples, were primarily noblewomen of high social status, and often the wives of the local priests at the
temple, women from all walks of life took part in the musical performances during Her celebrations.
Women in the New
Kingdom who functioned as musicians in the temples were known
as shemayet. This word would normally
be followed by the name of the deity to whose worship
the woman was attached. Unlike the female Hemut-Netjer
of the Old and Middle Kingdoms, these musicians could
serve both male and female Names of Netjer.[1] Under the
direction of the Weret-khener [2], "Great One of the Musical
Troupe," an esteemed position held by the woman
in charge, performances with the lyre, angular harp,
lute, double oboe and round tambourine were combined
with singing, dancing, and the rattling of the sistra. Hymns to Het-Hert found
at Dendera and in Her temple at Philae mention the
music, rhythmic dancing, and intoxication of Her
festivities, all of them ways of experiencing Her
Presence. Resource
We know that Israel
continued their pagan worship immediately upon leaving
Egypt. Click
to
see that Miriam is identified as a
prophetess of Hathor. Part two proves that this
musical prophesying was the ancient
Dionysus--new wineskins-worship which plagued Israel
even trying to "initiate" Jesus.
Apart from this
interaction between deities and individual people or
groups, festivals
were times of communal celebration, and often of the public reenactment of myths such as the death and
vindication of Osiris at Abydos or the
defeat of Seth by Horus at Idfu. They had both a personal
and a general social role in the spectrum of religious
practice.
Nonetheless, the main audience for the most important
festivals of the principal gods of state held in
capital cities may have been the ruling elite rather than the people as
a whole. In the New Kingdom these cities were remodeled
as vast cosmic stages for the enactment of royal-divine
relations and rituals.
Therefore thus
saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a
stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure
foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. Isa 28:16
Judgment also will I lay to the line,
and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail
shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall
overflow the hiding place. Isaiah 28:17
Believeth is:
Aman (h539) aw-man'; a prim.
root; prop. to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; fig. to
render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be
permanent or
quiet;
mor. to be
true or certain; once (Isa. 30:21; by interch. for 539) to go to the right hand: - hence assurance, believe,
bring up, establish, / fail, be faithful (of long
continuance, stedfast, sure, surely, trusty, verified),
nurse, (-ing father), (put), trust, turn to the right.
And thine ears shall
hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right
hand, and when ye turn to the left. Is.30:21
Shaqat (h8252) shaw-kat'; a prim.
root; to repose (usually fig.): - appease, idleness, (at, be at, be in, give) quiet (-ness), (be at, be in, give, have,
take) rest, settle, be still.
And thou shalt say, I
will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go
to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them
dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, Eze.38:11
And they answered the
angel of the Lord that stood among the myrtle trees, and
said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and,
behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest. Zec.1:11
And that ye study to
be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with
your own hands, as we commanded you; 1Th.4:11
Esuchazo (g2270) hay-soo-khad'-zo;
from the same as 2272; to keep still (intrans.), i.e.
refrain from labor, meddlesomeness or speech: - cease,
hold peace, be quiet, rest.
To the Pythian Apollo:
182-206 - Leto"s (mother of Apollo) -
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.
Isa 28:18 And
your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and
your agreement
with hell
shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye
shall be trodden down by it.
The Jews rejected the simple words of God
through the prophets (through the Spirit of Christ 1
Peter 1:11) and substituted the charismatic language of
music used for divination. Job 21; Amos 5, 6, 8; Isaiah 5 and Ezekiel 33
show that the people were engaged in the unknown tongues of
music obscured by instruments as a way to drown out the
voice of God speaking "baby talk" to them. As a result, God
sent the Assyrians speaking "unknown
tongues" as a sign of their
unbelief and as a sign that the tongue speakers were
defeating the Words of God.
Christ through Paul connects the church
problems to the destruction of Judah by the Assyrian
(Babylonia or Chaldee systems of worship).
Because God is not the author of confusion
(14:33) speaking in tongues was not authored by Him. The
goal of this pagan intrusion was to keep the simple message
of God from being heard.
Because the message of God did not originate with the Corinthian
tongue-speakers Paul warns
of the common pagan practice of getting a message from God
by falling into madness. His language is identical to that of the
pagan priestesses who "prophesied" under the influence of a
gas from a chasm or deep place in the earth.
Isaiah 28 has the Assyrians trying to fool the few
Jews in Jerusalem by carrying on their taunts in "Judean."
It would be better, the defenders of the wall said, if they
just spoke Assyrian (unknown
tongues) and the people
would not be demorialized. However, they would not hear the warning
because they had already lost the love for the Words of God.
Therefore, God said through Isaiah:
Let's back up and look again:
For precept must be upon
precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon
line; here a little, and there a little: Isaiah 28:10
For with stammering lips and another tongue
will he speak to this people. Isaiah 28:11
To whom he said,
This is the rest wherewith ye may cause
the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not
hear. Isaiah 28:12
Stammering is:
Laeg (h3934) law-ayg'; from 3932;
a buffoon; also a foreigner: - mocker, stammering.
When people speaking unknown tongues are
trying to break down your
walls this is the final
supernatural sign that you
have rejected the Word. If
you join in with the tongue speaking Assyrians then you will
be captured, have a fish-hook put into your nose and led
away into captivity where they will force you to bow to the
giant phallic symbols or pillars or free-standing columns
when the music is played. You
cannot get away because the enemy has stolen your only
property! He has pruned your vines to make his new wine.
If someone gets up in church and stammers they
are trying to fool you and certainly have no interest in getting
up and "prophesying" by reading a chapter of the
Spirit-delivered Word.
The Psalmist, often prophetic, used
this same word:
But in mine adversity
they rejoiced, and gathered themselves
together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: Psalm
35:15
With hypocritical (soiled actors) mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. Psalm 35:16
Lord, how long wilt
thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions,
my darling from the lions. Psalm 35:17
Laeg (g3934) law-ayg'; from
3932; a buffoon; also a foreigner: - mocker, stammering.
Moreover all the chief
of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much
after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted
the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
2 Chron 36:14
And the Lord God of
their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up
betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his
people, and on his dwelling place: 2 Chron 36:15
But they mocked the
messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused
his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose
against his people, till there was no remedy. 2 Chron
36:16
Again, the word from which this "speaking in tongues" is derived is:
Leag (h3932) law-ag'; a prim.
root; to deride; by impl. (as if imitating a foreigner) to speak unintelligibly: - have in derision, laugh (to scorn), mock on, stammering.
When the Israelites
rose up in musical idolatry or play the word was:
Cachaq (h6711) tsaw-khak'; a
prim. root; to laugh outright (in merriment or scorn);
by impl. to sport: - laugh, mock, play, make sport.
When David rose up to
play the word is:
Sachaq (h7832) saw-khak'; a prim.
root; to laugh (in pleasure or detraction); by impl. to
play: - deride, have in derision, laugh, make merry,
mock (-er), play, rejoice, (laugh to) scorn, be in
(make) sport.
This chart shows that
the play of David was identical to the PLAY at Mount
Sinai.