Acts 14 Paul gets violent with those practicing the Abomination of Desolation.
These false teachers missed the Abomination of Desolation which makes the universal association between religious music and perverted males or prostitutes. Reading Acts 7 should have warned them about musical idolatry at Mount Sinai and Amos and reading Acts 14 might help.
When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have come down to us in human form!" Acts 14:11
Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes (Mercury) because he was the chief speaker. Acts 14:12
The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates because he and the crowd wanted to offer sacrifices to them. Acts 14:13
Zeus and Dionysus were worshipped as "the Abomination of Desolation" in the Jerusalem temple.
2 Maccabees 6:2 - and also to pollute the temple
> in Jerusalem and call it the temple of Olympian Zeus,
> and to call the one in Gerizim the temple of Zeus the Friend of Strangers, as did the people who dwelt in that place.Clement Contra Heresies.
It is not, then, without reason that the poets call him a cruel wretch and a nefarious scoundrel. It were tedious to recount his adulteries of all sorts,
Hercules, the son of Zeus-a true son of Zeus-was the offspring of that long night, who with hard toil accomplished the twelve labours in a long time, but in one night deflowered the fifty daughters of Thestius, and thus was at once the debaucher and the bridegroom of so many virgins.
and debauching of boys. For your gods did not even abstain from boys, homosexuals
one having loved Hylas, another Hyacinthus, another Pelops, another Chrysippus, and another Ganymede.Let such gods as these be worshipped by your wives, and let them pray that their husbands be such as these-so temperate; that, emulating them in the same practices, they may be like the gods.
Such gods let your boys be trained to worship, that they may grow up to be men with the accursed likeness of fornication on them received from the gods. But it is only the male deities, perhaps, that are impetuous in sexual indulgenceIt is a historical fact that the Jews anticipated that the Messiah would be Bacchus of Dionysus--the perverted new wineskin god. See the resources in 2 Maccabees and the SYMBOLISM of building gymnasiums.
Heracles is the model for Lucifer "the singing and harp playing prostitute" in the garden of Eden: using music to steal your tithes and unlawful offerings. Heracles introduced sodomy which appeared in the Jerusalem Temple. God abandoned Israel to this worship because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. He conditionally sentenced them to captivity and death but the never repented.In his article 'Homosexuality and the Maccabean Revolt,' Catholic scholar Patrick G. D. Riley also identifies homosexuality as the focal point of conflict between the Jews and the Greeks. The Greek King, Antiochus, had ordered that all the nations of his empire be 'welded... into a single people' (Riley:14). This created a crisis for the Jews, forcing them to choose between faithfulness to Biblical commandments (at the risk of martyrdom) and participation in a range of desecrations from'the sacrificing of pigs and the worshipping of idols, to 'leaving their sons uncircumsized, and prostituting themselves to all kinds of impurity and abomination' (1 Macc. 1:49-51)' (ibid.:14). The Greeks also built one of their gymnasia (these were notorious throughout the ancient world for their association with homosexual practices) in Jerusalem, which 'attracted the noblest young men of Israel...subduing them under the petaso' (emphasis ours -- 2 Macc. 4:12). In the traditional Latin translation the above phrase is rendered'to put in brothels' (Riley:15).
The tensions which led to the Jewish revolt were exacerbated when the Jewish high priest, a Hellenist himself, offered a sacrifice to Heracles (Hercules) who was a Greek symbol of homosexuality. Riley adds,'The Jewish temple itself became the scene of pagan sacrificial meals and sexual orgies [including homosexuality].' The final insult (for which Antiochus is identified in the Bible as the archtype of the antichrist)'was the installation in the temple of a pagan symbol, possibly a representation of Zeus [Baal], called by a sardonic pun 'the abomination of desolation'' (ibid.:16).
Euripides Ion I am ashamed before the god of many hymns, if he, the sleepless night watcher, shall see the torch procession on the twentieth day, beside the springs with lovely dances, when the starry sky of Zeus also joins in the dance, and the moon dances, and the fifty daughters of Nereus, in the sea and the swirls of ever-flowing rivers, celebrating in their dance the maiden with golden crown and her revered mother;
In every Greek city the god Dionysus was worshipped by fraternities and sororities and also by mixed communities. Dionysus was a god of fruitfulness and vegetation but especially of wine. The Dionysiac festivals provided an opportunity for stepping outside of the daily routine. The festivals included not only drinking wine and engaging in sexual activity but also participating in such significant features of Greek civilization as choral singing and mimes. In many cases, only the initiated could participate in the ceremonies. As almost every Greek did join in, initiation into the Dionysiac cult might be compared to tribal initiations. It seems that initiation into the Dionysiac Mysteries was accompanied by initiation into sexual life. The act of producing offspring, however, could never be wholly separated from the thought of death, so that the worshippers of Dionysus were aware of a mystic communion among the ancestors, the living generation, and the future members of the community. Britannica Members
The dance was induced by music and the body could not stay still. As with all music, the effect is produced by FEAR IN THE HEART which the hucksters sold as the "gods" just as with modern "worship teams."
Jesus identified THAT generation as children which is the PLAY concept: He consigned the pipers, singers and dancers to the agora or marketplace where all of the singing, dancing, playing music along with homosexual customers were contacted. He refused to DANCE and they decided that He was not their anticipated Dionysus messiah. That crooked generation specificially identified the musical rituals whose dance, skolion singing and homosexual practices MARKED the majority RACE in the Earth. That is why Peter said SAVE yourselves FROM this generation. The Music Masters intend to bring the WORLD into the church.Chor-euô
Orcheomai,
II. metaph., leap, bound, orcheitai de kardia phobôi A.Ch.166 , cf. Anaxandr.59 ; Thessaliê ôrchêsato Thessaly shook, trembled, Call.Del.139.
The Levites who served (hard bondage) as musicians along with the animal sacrificers. was God's way of QUARANTINING the pagan worship mostly among the elite at Mount Sinai. Their PLAY was p;erverted, musical idolatry. By establishing the Qahal, synagogue or church in the wilderness, God prevented them from participating in the clearly-pagan sacrificial system limited to the civil and priestly leadership.
Plutarch noted: When all the company requested and earnestly begged it of him; first of all (says he), the time and manner of the greatest and most holy solemnity of the Jews is exactly agreeable to the holy rites of Bacchus; for that which they call the Fast they celebrate in the midst of the vintage, furnishing their tables with all sorts of fruits while they sit under tabernacles made of vines and ivy; and the day which immediately goes before this they call the day of Tabernacles.Home PageWithin a few days after they celebrate another feast, not darkly but openly, dedicated to Bacchus, for they have a feast amongst them called Kradephoria, from carrying palm-trees, and Thyrsophoria, when they enter into the temple carrying thyrsi.
What they do within I know not; but it is very probable that they perform the rites of Bacchus. First they have little trumpets, such as the Grecians used to have at their Bacchanalia to call upon their gods withal.
Others go before them playing upon harps, which they call Levites, whether so named from Lusius or Evius,--either word agrees with Bacchus.
And I suppose that their Sabbaths have some relation to Bacchus; for even now many call the Bacchi by the name of Sabbi, and they make use of that word at the celebration of Bacchus's orgies. [both the sabbath as "worship" and the tithe derive from Babylon]
And this may be discovered out of Demosthenes and Menander. Nor would it be out of place, were any one to say that the name Sabbath was given to this feast from the agitation and excitement [Greek omitted] which the priests of Bacchus display.
The Greek word is:This is the "laded burden" Jesus died to remove as "spiritual anxiety created by religious rituals" which are defined as using music to induce FEAR to produce a "drug high" which they can peddle as the "spirit." Paul outlawed "self pleasure" which is the same "creation of mental excitement. As Apollo is the Abaddon or Apollyon in Revelation, the Locusts are defined as the Muses (dirty prostitutes) as hims musical worship team. Sons also fell into this state but history notes that when males fall into singing and playing instruments they are "drunk, perverts or just mocking or having fun." These "ministers" are the Corybantes sons of Apollo
Enthousi-astikos
A. inspired, phusis Pl.Ti.71e ; esp. by music, Arist.Pol.1340a11; hê e. sophia divination, Plu.Sol.12 ; e. ekstasis Iamb.Myst.3.8 ; to e. excitement, Pl.Phdr. 263d : Sup. -ôtatos Sch.Iamb.Protr.p.129 P. Adv. -kôs, diatithenai tina Plu.2.433c : Comp. -ôteron Marin.Procl.6 .II. Act., inspiring, exciting, of certain kinds of music, Arist.Pol.1341b34; nosêmata manika kai e. Id.Pr.954a36 : Comp. -ôtera, akousmata Pl.Ep. 314a .
The mysteries into which males were initiated while "bowing to ball" was homosexuality and therefore Jesus refused to sing (lament) and dance when they piped.[10.3.15] They invented names appropriate to the flute, and to the noises made by castanets, cymbals, and drums, and to their acclamations and shouts of "ev-ah," and stampings of the feet; (Eve or Sophia-Zoe) (See The Eve-Zoe connection)
and they also invented some of the names by which to designate the ministers,
choral dancers, and attendants upon the sacred rites,
I mean "Cabeiri" and "Corybantes" and "Pans" (gender-bent) and "Satyri" and "Tityri,"and they called the god "Bacchus," and Rhea "Cybele" or "Cybebe" or "Dindymene" according to the places where she was worshipped. Sabazius also belongs to the Phrygian group and in a way
(Priests of Cybele were effeminate and emasculated themselves. Paul said in Galatians 5:12, "As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!" The agitators "drove people out of their homes (churches?)) All pagan gods or goddesses and therefore their priests were homosexual.
is the child of the Mother, since he too transmitted the rites of Dionysus.
[10.3.19] Further, one might also find, in addition to these facts concerning these genii and their various names, that they were called,
- not only ministers of gods,
- but also gods themselves.
For instance, Hesiod says that five daughters were born to Hecaterus and the daughter of Phoroneus, from whom sprang the mountain-ranging nymphs (like har-meggido little hills striving to be mountains), goddesses, and the breed of Satyrs,
- creatures worthless and unfit for work,
- and also the Curetes, sportive gods, dancers.
And the author of Phoronis speaks of the
Some call the Corybantes, and not the Curetes, "Phrygians," but the Curetes "Cretes," and say that the Cretes were the first people to don brazen armour in Euboea, and that on this account they were also called "Chalcidians"; (chalc, brazen) still others say that the Corybantes, who came from Bactriana (some say from among the Colchians. Also a note: "they occupied Bactriana, and acquired possession of the best land in Armenia"), were given as armed ministers to Rhea [ZOE] by the Titans.
- Curetes as "flute-players" and "Phrygians"; and
- others as "earth-born" and "wearing brazen shields."
Mustês, ou, ho, ( [mueô] )
A. one initiated, Heraclit.14, AP9.147 (Antag. or Simon.), Arist.Ath.56.4, etc.; tois mustêsin kai tois epoptêisin IG12.6.49 ; ho tôn m. kêrux X.HG2.4.20 ; ta mustôn orgia E.HF613 : c.gen., Dios Idaiou mustês Id.Fr.472.10 (anap.), cf. IG3.700; luchnon mustên sôn theto pannuchidôn AP6.162 (Mel.); m. apokruphôn Vett.Val. 7.30 , al.: as Adj., m. choroi Ar.Ra.370 ; m. luchnos AP7.219 (Pomp. Jun.).
2. a name of Dionysus, Paus.8.54.5; of Apollo, Artem. 2.70.
- Orgi-a , iôn, ta,
- A. secret rites, secret worship, practised by the initiated, a post-Hom. word ; used of the worship of Demeter at Eleusis, h.Cer.273,476. Ar.Ra.386, Th.948 ; of the rites of the Cabeiri and Demeter Achaia, Hdt.2.51,5.61; of Orpheus, Id.2.81; of Eumolpus, App.Anth.1.318 ; of Cybele, E.Ba.78 (lyr.): most freq. of the rites of Dionysus, Hdt.2.81, E.Ba.34, al., Theoc.26.13.
From the earliest times, the Pelasgi are said to have sacrificed a tenth of their produce to the Cabeiri in order to be preserved from famine.
There were two classes of votaries-- the mustai and the mustai eusebeis, mystae pii--the [p. 238] latter being apparently those initiated for the first time. In the Samothracian mysteries, sacra accipere (paralambanein ta mustêria), which is the regular phrase for primary initiation, seems to be applied to the higher grades. But the whole matter is quite obscure and unsettled. See Hirschfeld in Conze, Untersuchungen auf Samothrake, pp. 37-39.
- II. generally, rites, sacrifices, SIG57.4 (Milet., v B. C.), A.Th.179 (lyr.), S.Tr.765, Ant.1013 ; orgia Mousôn Ar.Ra.356 .
Aristophanes, Frogs
- Chorus
Let him be mute and stand aside from our sacred dances
who has no experience of mystical language, or has not cleansed his mind
Who never has seen and never has danced in the rites of the noble Muses
Nor ever has been inducted into the Bacchic mysteries of beef-eating Cratinus
Or who takes delight in foolish words when doing this is ill-timed,
Whoever does not eliminate hateful factionalism, and is disagreeable to the citizens,
but kindles and fans civil strife, in his thirst for private advantage:
Whoever takes bribes when guiding the state through the midst of a storm
Or betrays our forts or our ships, smuggles contraband from Aegina
As Thorycion did, that wretched collector of taxes
Sending pads and sails and pitch to Epidauros,
Or persuades anyone to send supplies to the enemies' ships,
Or defiles Hecate's shrine, while singing dithyrambs,
Or any politician who bites off the pay of the poets
For being ridiculed in the ancestral rites of Dionysus.
All these I warn, and twice I warn, and thrice I warn again,
stand aside from our mystical dances; but as for you: arouse the song
and the night-long dances, that belong to our festival here.
- 2. metaph., mysteries, without reference to religion, epistêmês Hp.Lex5 ; tois tês Aphroditês o. eilêmmenon Ar.Lys.832 , cf. Ach.Tat.4.1; ta Epikourou theophanta o. Metrod.38 .--The sg. orgion is rare, Jahresh.13Beibl.29 No.3 (Erythrae, iv B. C.), Luc.Syr.D.16, Orph.H.52.5. (Prob. cogn. with erdô, rhezô, cf. ergon, orgeôn.)
1Ti 2:8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without WRATH and DOUBTING
Orge I. natural impulse or propension: one's temper, temperament, disposition, orgê , hê, II. passion, anger, wrath, 3. Panos orgai panic fears (i. e. terrors sent by Pan), Eur.:--but, orgê tinos anger against a person or at a thing, Soph.; hierôn orgas wrath at or because of the rites, Aesch.
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