Mark Henderson Instrumental Music in New Testament

Zamar never MEANS to play on an instrument: the touching with the FINGERS is used in a sentence connected with singing.

The word for PRUNING- HOOK and is NEVER used of spiritual worship.

Mazmerah (h4211) maz-may-raw'; from 2167; a pruning-knife: - pruning-hook.

 

Zamar (h2167) zaw-mar'; a prim. root [perh. ident. with 2168 through the idea of striking with the fingers]; prop. to touch the strings or parts of a musical instrument, i. e. play upon it; to make music, accompanied by the voice

Zamiyr (h2158) zaw-meer'; or zamir zaw-meer'; and (fem.) zÿmirah zem-ee-raw'; from 2167; a song to be accompanied with instrumental music: - psalm (-ist), singing, song

From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. Is.24:16

Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. Is.25:5

And it identifies the king of Tyre as the singing and harp playing prostitute:

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 [1] sing as an harlot. Isaiah 23:15
    Take an [2] harp, go about the city, thou prostitute that hast been forgotten;
    make sweet [3] melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. Isaiah 23:16

Take thou away from me the
        noise of thy
        [1] songs; for I will not hear the [
        2] melody of thy
        [3] viols. Amos 5:23

John Calvin wrote:

For why is a woe pronounced upon the rich who have received their consolation? (Luke 6: 24,) who are full, who laugh now, who "lie upon beds of ivory and stretch themselves upon their couches;" "join house to house," and "lay field to field;" "and the harp and the viol, the tabret and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts," (Amos 6: 6; Isa. 5: 8, 10.)

Certainly ivory and gold, and riches, are the good creatures of God, permitted, nay destined, by divine providence for the use of man; nor was it ever forbidden to laugh, or to be full, or to add new to old and hereditary possessions, or to be delighted with music, or to drink wine.

This is true, but when the means are supplied to roll and wallow in luxury, to intoxicate the mind and soul with present and be always hunting after new pleasures,
........ is very far from a legitimate use of the gifts of God.

JFB notes: 23. Take . . . away from me--literally, "Take away, from upon Me"; the idea being that of a burden pressing upon the bearer. So Isa 1:14, "They are a trouble unto Me (literally, 'a burden upon Me'): I am weary to bear them.

"the noise of thy songs--The hymns and instrumental music on sacred occasions are to Me nothing but a disagreeable noise.

I will not hear--Isaiah substitutes "prayers" (Isa 1:15) for the "songs" and "melody" here; but, like Amos, closes with "I will not hear.Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Isaiah 1: 13

Isa 1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

Isa 1:20 But if ye refuse and rebel,
.......... ye shall be devoured with the sword:
.......... for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Isa 1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot
.......... it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

"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. 

NEBUCHADNEZZAR the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits (60), and the breadth thereof six (6) cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura (circle), in the province of Babylon. Dan 3:1

That at what time ye hear the sound of the (1) cornet, (2) flute, (3) harp, (4) sackbut, (5) psaltery, (6) dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up: Dan 3:5

Psal-têrion , to, A.stringed instrument, psaltery, harp, LXX Ge.4.21 [Jubal HANDLED the psaltery meaning WITHOUT AUTHORITY]

Commentary on Horace, Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Saeculare

Hezekiah lolled around the temple singing and plunking while littel Manassah was being trained to burn babies. After his cure he blabbed about all of HIS wealth to the Assyrians.

For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. Isa 38:18
        The living, the living,
        he shall praise thee, as I do this day:
        the father to the children shall make known thy truth. Isa 38:19
The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord. Isa 38:20 [The harp set the pitch for the note: this was not music]

That is why we have to wonder about HARPS in heaven when the angel to the LIVING commanded: "Preach the gospel."

IS THIS SOMETHING YOU WANT TO DO IN CHURCH:
A. psalmoi toxôn E.Ion173 (lyr.);

I forbid you to approach the walls and the golden house. I will reach you with my bow, herald of Zeus, though you conquer [160] with your beak the strength of all other birds. Here comes another, a swan, to the rim of the temple. Move your crimson foot elsewhere! Phoebus' lyre, that sings with you, [165] would not protect you from my bow. Alter your wings' course; go to the Delian lake; if you do not obey, you will steep your lovely melody in blood. [170] Ah, ah! what is this new bird that approaches; you will not place under the cornice a straw-built nest for your children, will you? My singing bow will keep you off.

Toxon  Bow implicates  galliambus , i, m. [3. Gallus, II. A.] , I.a song of the priests of Cybele, [Castrated Catamites Paul warned about as DOGS outside so we had better worship IN THE SPIRIT. This is the MARK of elders who were always WOLVES.]

B. toxêrei psalmôi [toxeusas] Id.HF1064 (lyr.).

Toxeuo A.shoot with the bow ,tinosat a mark
2. metaph., Erôs e toxeus'  E.Tr.255 ; hê turannis from all sices toxeuetai is aimed at, Id.Fr.850 .

Turannis: despotic riule, obtained by force or fraud, tyrany,

Erôs mostly sexual passion, goddess of love, Aphrodites, [Zoe]

E.Tr.255 ; hê Hecuba What! Phoebus' [Apollyon] virgin-priestess, to whom the god with golden locks granted the gift of maidenhood?
Talthybius[255]  The dart of love has pierced his heart, love for the frenzied maid.

2.  Metaphor Shoot out or send forth a hymn.  Notice that the song does NOT include the LYRE unless noted.

Pindar, Isthmian 2.[1] The men of old, Thrasybulus, who mounted the chariot of the Muses with their golden headbands, joining the glorious lyre, lightly shot forth their honey-voiced songs for young men, if one was handsome and had [5] the sweetest ripeness that brings to mind Aphrodite on her lovely throne. [6] For in those days the Muse was not yet a lover of gain, nor did she work for hire. And sweet gentle-voiced odes did not go for sale, with silvered faces, from honey-voiced Terpsichore. But as things are now, she bids us heed [10] the saying of the Argive man, which comes closest to actual truth: [11] “Money, money makes the man,” he said, when he lost his wealth and his friends at the same time

Humnos A. hymn, ode, in praise of gods or heroes. Daueid psalms of David. If you wanted to use an INSTRUMENT you had to DEFINE one.  The word Aoide never includes an instrument. Therefore, you cannot ODE and PLAY.

You cannot SING or HYMN and use instruments. That is why Paul places the MELODY which he defines as GRACE in the place of the heart or spirit.

The HYMNS commanded for the believer consists os the HALLEL PSALMS and does NOT include singing them for entertainment and excludes that which is NOT "that which is written" (Rom 15)

3.  The PLAY or musical idolatry at Mount Sinai included shooting out semen

lu-do B. To play, sport, frisk, frolic, Esp., to play on an instrument of music, to make or compose music or song
B. To sport, dally, wanton (cf. "amorous play, C. Ludere aliquem or aliquid, to play, mock, imitate, mimic a person or thing,
F. To make sport or game of a person, to ridicule, rally, banter: 

Rashi on 21:16 AT A DISTANCE. Hebrew: mineged.

SOME BOWSHOTS [AWAY]. Hebrew: kimtachavei keshet. As far as two bowshots, and it is an expression of shooting an arrow. [It is used so] in the language of the Mishnah (Yevamot 90b, Sanhedrin 46a): "who cohabited (hetich) with his wife," because the semen shoots like an arrow.... Yeshayahu 19:17): "And the land of Yehudah will be to Egypt for a breach (lechaga)," and from the [same] root as (Tehillim 107:27): "They reeled (yachogu) and staggered like a drunkard." Similarly (ibid. 65:6): "the ends of (katzvei) the earth," being derived from katzeh (end). 

Psalm 107 showing how Musical Play or idolatry REQUESTED God to remove His grace

Canto I. Neutr., to produce melodious sounds (by the voice or an instrument), to sound, sing, play (class. in prose and poetry; rare in Cic.)

2. Of the singing pronunciation of an orator, to declaim in a singing tone, to sing, drawl: si cantas, male cantas, si legis, cantas
C. Hence, because the oracles were of old uttered in verse, of any mysterious, prophetic, or warning utterance, to predict, warn, point out, indicate, make known, sayIII. In the lang. of religion, as v. n. or a., to use enchantments, charms, incantations, to enchant, to charm,

Mark Henderson: I want to take just a moment to address the “sing means sing” argument. According to the Law of Exclusion, sing is a specific word, so it excludes everything else.

If you doctor writes you a prescription for Tylenol 3 with codeine, you don’t have to stand there are at the pharmacy window all day telling them what you don’t want. The prescription is specific, and it excludes everything except Tylenol 3 with codeine.

In the same way, God has told us to sing, and that includes things that are necessary to sing, like songbooks, pitch pipes, and so on, but it excludes additions like instruments.

Now, the problems with this approach to interpret the Bible are too many to mention, but the most obvious one is that the word “sing” doesn’t function like that in Koine Greek any more than it does in modern English.

The word sing is ADO which never includes instruments and further defines PSALMOS as "in the form of Hebrew cantillation." Because melody as tunefulness belongs to the 19th century (Britannica) we know that sing was SAY and not make harmony.  Those who HELD harps in Revelation sang or ADO which never allows instruments. That it is EXCLUSIVE is based on the fact that there are forms of ado which INCLUDES instruments.  If we can argue that a word meaning to EXCLUDE does not exclude INCLUDING  singing without playing or playing without singing then words have no meaning.  

If Paul wanted to say sing to the harp he would use the word PsalmODIA.  This meant PLAY TO the same note the harp made. No one can hallucinate HARMONY out of either singing or melody.

Ep.5:19 SPEAKING to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

Speak..........psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.....  ....to yourselves
SinING and makING melody .........in your HEART..........to God 

Now, a few false preachers want the Spirit to command:

Sing to the audience psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.  But, he didn't. These are ALL the inspired text so Mark has no intention of even obeying the simple direct command to SPEAK or TEACH or ADMONISH with "that which is written."  You simply CANNOT turn the Text as it has been taught into MUSIC.

Laleo (g2980) lal-eh'-o; a prol. form of an otherwise obsol. verb; to talk, i.e. utter words: - preach, say, speak (after), talk, tell, utter. Comp. 3004.

Logik-os, ( [logos] )
A. of or for speaking or speech, merê l. the organs of speech, Plu.Cor.38: logikê, hê, speech, OPPOSITE to mousikê, 

I suppose that if logikos excludes both poetry and music you could argue that BUT no one who used the word "logikos" also said I AM NOT USING POETRY or music. But, the INCLUSIVE concept is legalism.

Lego (g3004) leg'-o; a prim. verb; prop. to "lay" forth, i.e. (fig.) relate (in words [usually of systematic or set discourse

Eph 5: [19] WEB loquentes vobismet ipsis in psalmis et hymnis et canticis spiritalibus cantantes et psallentes in cordibus vestris Domino

Loquor: 1. [Sanscr. lap-, to talk, WHISPER to speak, talk, say (in the lang. of common life, in the tone of conversation; A. To speak, declare, show, indicate or express clearly

Sermo
I.a speaking or talking with any one; talk, conversation, discourse. B. In part: 1. Literary conversation, discourse, disputation, discussion
b. Concr., a talk, speech, discourse more informal and unpretending than oratio):  [Oratio is defined as feminine and as THE primary definition of HYPOCRITE]
2.Ordinary speech, speaking, talking, the language of conversation (opposite contentio) Of prose as opposed to poetry:
3. With reference to some particular object, common talk respecting any thing, report, 

So, the SERMON is inclusive of normal, human conversation and is the oppisite of CONTENTIO or arguing. The sermon is PROSE and opposite to POETRY. Therefore, it would be legalism for the sermon to do prose and then call in musicians to do that which is EXCLUDED.

Mark Henderson: In his book The Cultural Church, F. LaGard Smith includes a chapter entitled “The

10 Deafening Roar of Biblical Silence.” He writes,

“In contrast to the many Old Testament passages referring to musical instruments in temple worship, in the New Testament text not one sound of a musical instrument is heard--not a trumpet, not a harp, not the quietest jingle of a tambourine! Singing, yes. Musical instruments, no. Relative to musical instruments, there is only an ominous, haunting silence.” (p. 199)

I think that Mark takes the testimony that there is no reference to INSTRUMENTAL WORSHIP in the New Testament as saying JESUS CHRIST was neutral and just had no opinion.  I think LaGard is saying that there is a DEAFENING SILENCE which means that you have to HALLUCINATE any authority by making the Old Testament TRUMP Jesus Christ and history. Because he is speaking of the assembly, you cannot twist him to mean that there is no condemnation of instruments.

Mark Henderson: According to this point of view, God is no longer pleased with instrumental worship, or he would have specifically told us so. The fact that he said nothing about it in the New Testament means he doesn’t want us to use it.  

The "worship" is defined in terms of SABAZIANISM which was the DIONYSUS worship of wine, women and song always pointing to the PLAY word meaning perversion.

The common people even in the wilderness were commanded to hold Holy Convocation meaning to REST, read and rehearse the Word of God. The loud instruments and rejoicing was OUTLAWED because all instruments spoke of warfare and never worship. As a matter of fact, because the Spirit of Christ spoke through the PROPHETS we know that this musical triumph was prophesied of Judas in Psalm 41. The version in the Dead Sea Scrolls make the musical warfare against messiah absolute.

When the musical minstrels tried to HELP Jesus cast them out LIKE DUNG. That is because to say flute-girl you said prostitute.  He considnged the pipers, singers and dancers to the marketplace where all pagan religionism took place.  He used the PSALLO rope to drive the money changers out of the temple court: there was no place for them except in the marketplace or Agora.

• It would NOT have occurred to any literate Jewish boy to hallucinate music in the ekklesia or synagogue: the definition of "singing' the TEXT ONLY is defined "as a school boy READS the hallel" or hymns.  They would know that music was OUTLAWED and no one dared add it until the year 1815.
• All MORAL people would see instruments as PROOF that the church was another pagan temple intending to seduce you out of your money and pants before you left town.
• There was no CULTURE to make anyone made enough to think about a musical band while the Teacher was reading the Word and explaining it as required.  Why would anyone want a LAW preventing the sexual antics of the pagan temples AND the earlier history of the Jerusalem Temple and the Abomination of Desolation.  This was the singing, dancing and sexuality of those initiated into Dionysus and Zeus worship. They would have heard the prophets read ALLWAYS condeming instruments and the Maccabees which connected it to perverted males.
• First Maccabees   Second Macabbes to see YOUR new style worship.
  

Mark Henderson: I believe this argument is evidence not only of poor Scripture interpretation but also bad theology. Those who advance this argument are asking us to believe that the Christians in Ephesus and Colosse could have read exhortations to sing psalms and that they would have known to reject the favorable treatment of instrumental worship in the psalms, without any direct teaching in that regard.

"Melody as tunefulness belongs to the 19th century." Harmony only slowly developed after about 1250 so "music" consisted mostly of rhythm with a TUNED PERCUSSION instrument.

ALL of the instrumental Psalms speak of HARSH JUDGMENT against the writer's personal enemies. They were NEVER sung in the synagogue and were primarily parade chants or warrior panic songs because David was the KING and the musicians were directed by the COMMANDERS OF THE ARMY.

Mark Henderson: They are asking us to believe that while God commanded and blessed instrumental music for worship in the Old Testament

No, readers of the Old Testament understood the radical separation between the assembly or synagogue even in the wilderness and the sacrificial system added as a curse because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai and finally demanding a human king so they could worship like the nations.  Animal sacrifices fed the blood and meat lust of the false leaders and in all nations had become a substitute for first KING sacrifice and then human sacrifice when the king found a substitute.

They would understood that no singer is said to have worshipped: no, just like in revelation he could not PLAY a harp and fall on his face which is the meaning of WORSHIP.  The entire sacrificial system is a huge visual aid of what NOT to do so who having read the story line would believe that God commanded instruments to worship Him when THEY were slaughtering innocent animals and the "music" was known in all systems as EXORCISM.  It may still be the delusion God promsied.

Mark Henderson: and that he used it to communicate an image of worship in heaven, that he had a radical change in musical taste for the New Testament era. What he once commanded and received and blessed, he now rejects and may even find disgusting, and the way he communicated that important change to us was by saying nothing about it--the “deafening roar of silence.” If you tried

Mark Henderson: 11 to punish your kids for something using that same approach, we would tell you that you are a bad parent, and we would be right. Worse than being an example of bad hermeneutics, I believe this argument is offensive to the character of God.

No parent of the time of Christ would permit their child to be wholly ignorant of how music was always the MARK of people having abandoning God and being abandoned.  Knowing "brain damage 101a" no parent would permit a child to endure the so called "new style music" which Nimrod and modern science proves is a drug high doing permanent damage to your children.  The "laded burden" and the "self-pleasure" of Paul proves that everyone knew that music created panic or mortal fear in people especially when someone promised to "bring you into the presence of the gods."

Ro.15:1 WE then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to PLEASE ourselves.Aresko (g700) ar-es'-ko; prob. from 142 (through the idea of exciting emotion); to be agreeable

Lucretius (98 - c. 55 BC): The Worship of Cybele

Escort of Phrygian bands, since first, they say,

From out those regions 'twas that grain began

Through all the world. To her do they assign

The Galli, the emasculate, since thus

They wish to show that men who violate

The majesty of the Mother and have proved

Ingrate to parents are to be adjudged

Unfit to give unto the shores of light

A living progeny. The Galli come:

And hollow cymbals, tight-skinned tambourines
Resound around to bangings of their hands;
The fierce horns threaten with a raucous bray;
The tubed pipe excites their maddened minds

In Phrygian measures; they bear before them knives,

Wild emblems of their frenzy, which have power

The rabble's ingrate heads and impious hearts

To panic with terror of the goddess' might.

And so, when through the mighty cities borne,

She blesses man with salutations mute,

They strew the highway of her journeyings

With coin of brass and silver, gifting her

With alms and largesse, and shower her and shade

With flowers of roses falling like the snow

Upon the Mother and her companion-bands.

It would be offensive is there was a shred of truth in the statements above.  God will judge parents and preachers who are DEAF as Jesus warned or who just deliberately to TURN OVER a peaceable church to the enemy.  The Bible is VOCAL and Mark has been "manufactured" as a preacher and hired as an attractant: there is no reason to know the facts which I believe Mark lies about 100% of the time to PASS JUDGMENT on others to claim being not judgmental.

Mark Henderson: Very quickly now, let’s draw three Conclusions: based on our survey of instrumental music in the Bible.

First, 1. The Bible does not support the anti-instrument position. I do not believe that any person just honestly reading what the Bible has to say about worship could ever come to the anti-instrument position without one of our people sitting there to teach it to him.

Paul came to that conclusion. The historic church came to that position and did not even SING for almost 400 years. All Bible scholars reach that conclusion. All church fathers reached that conclusion. All founders of denominations reached that conclusion. We have listed the huge number of scholars and churches which STILL reach that conclusion. Click Here.

The 1911 Catholic Encyclopedia reached that conclusion. The historic Catholic church NEVER "sang congregationally with instrumental accompaniment." Why is it that EVERYONE but Mark--being coached by church stealers--cannot read that the serpent in the garden was a Musical Enchanter and wholly seduced Eve in a sexual sense if you ask Paul.

I have heard that same claim from David Faust: none of the PRO instrumental nonesense would have come to an honest preacher without careful HANDLING as a dupe. ALL of the historic churches and church fathers and founders of denominations came EXACTLY to that point. Was everyone pre-Mark just ignorant ANTI-instrumentalists.  I say that no one could read beyond sermon outlines and MISSED the universal connection between MUSIC and telling God to SHUT YOUR FACE.

Did we miss the ORGAN that Jubal HANDLED meaning WITHOUT AUTHORITY?

Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth Job 21:5 .
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. Job 21:6

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Job 21:7
Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Job 21:8
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. Job 21:9
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. Job 21:10
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. Job 21:11
They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. Job 21:12They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Job 21:13

Note the THEREFORE:

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. Job 21:14
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him ? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? Job 21:15

Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. Job 21:16
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. Job 21:17

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. Job 21:18

"It (the pipe meaning to love passionately) was apparently a secular instrument and is never listed in the temple orchestra; only in Ps. 150:4 it is mentioned in a religious (but not ritual) function. Its ethos was not blameless at all, as we see from Genesis Rabbah 50:

"The angels said to Lot: There are players of the pipe (organ) in the country, hence it ought to be destroyed. Its rabbinical identification with the aboda, the flute of the notorious Syrian bayaderes, emphasizes the erotic element which already the Hebrew name suggests. (Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, p. 460, Abingdon).

Mark Henderson:  In our fellowship, the anti-instrument position wasn’t developed through the careful reading of Scripture. Like everyone else on the American frontier, our practice was a cappella, and when people started using instruments, we went in search of arguments to defend the practice we already had and to prove that it was the only acceptable way to worship. What we ended up with was a man-made legalism.

That issue had been worked out as soon as people were freed from the Catholic church and "cast out" the organs and organists as Jesus cast out the musical minstrels. 

The PRO singing of Psalms was always the practice: the Catholics never "sang congregationally with instrumental accompaniment." All known history defines THAT WHICH IS COMMANDED and for those tempted by pagans RADICALLY outlawed instruments for the church.  The ANTI-instrumental people had nothing to develop because no Methodist, Baptist or Presbyterian even hallucinated the use of machines.  ALL literate scholars repudiated instruments and Mark cannot find a single endorsement even from Calvin or Luther or Spurgeon etal. Click to see the list and why it is dishonest to claim tht the Church of Christ INVENTED the non-instrumental position

The Church of Christ could not envision anyone bringing instruments into the church any more than dirty dancers.  However, the Presbyterians provided most of the BIBLICAL KNOWLEDGE.  You can find them all listed at the above link.

False, the arguments had been made in the Reformation which CAST OUT the instruments and instrumentalists. They returned to SPEAKING the Psalms as commanded. The Psalms were not METRICAL so no one could have hallucianted either SINGING or PLAYING: you could never play a PSALM or chant with an instrument. The Catholics NEVER sang congregationally with instrumental accompaniment. When people wanted a smoother way to SPEAK the Psalms they had to CONVERT them to a metrical form and thus RETRANSLATE them. All of the denominations knew the LIBERTY they had won by getting out of the Anglican or Church of God. Even the church of England TRIED to remove the organs but Queen Elizabeth vetoed it.

When people ADDED instruments because they were rich carpet baggers and got into a competiton to pay for the GRAND church buildings they NEEDED no authority and offered none. Only when caught SECTARIANIZING and deliberately sowing discord did they invent the PSALLO argument which did not stand up with the scholars.

Mark Henderson: The reason we haven’t tried to advance those arguments for a generation at this church is that there was
        something inside us that told us those arguments just couldn’t be right.
        Our instincts were correct.

The move on churches of Christ in the Restoration unity forums began 25 years ago and ceased this year having done little but sow massive discord.  WE does not mean ME because I have been collecting most of the important documents for about the same 25 years.  People CEASED speaking against instruments when people infiltrated colleges and "cast out the old conservatives." I heard a Lipscom professor claim that about 27 years ago.

Max Lucado got a VISION which I also found on Farmer's Branch White paper filled with all lies. Rick Atchley and the elders heard the SPIRIT tell them. What WAS that something inside. Scholars note that when you use MUSIC the "pretend SPIRIT steal in and they are LYING SPIRITS." Based on all of Marks false statements I have to solemnly warn him that NO ONE hears God but the SON.

No, I think that "evil companions corrupt good manners" and the lust for approval by "saving everyone" opens you up to seduction by a group whose stable of writers also lie 100% of the time about the Bible. Even the president of colleges are Old Testament Illiterate.

Mark Henderson:There is nothing wrong with a cappella worship, and anyone who tells you that we have some big master plan to become an “instruments only” church is getting his information from a bad source. We don’t have any reason to be interested in doing away with a cappella worship, but we are very explicitly saying that we do not believe and will not be bound by anti-instrument arguments that violate the clear teachings of Scripture and good, biblical theology.

The reason is that Mark has been an active agent of the ecumenical movement but no Baptist or Christian Church would accept him in their fellowship unless he renounced the historical views about baptism.  Too bad that Mark did not learn the Bible basics, church history or the Restoration history which never envisioned a PREACHER but a school of the Bible.

The reason is that the gopher wood argument did not stand up and the theologians did not know those beginning in the Garden of Eden and ending in the prophecy of the Mother of Harlots (Rev 17) using slick speakers, singers and instrument players as SORCERERS (Rev 18). They were ignorant of the church fathers which Rick Atchley etal now lie about.  There is a massive library of ANTI music even outside of church because of the ANXIETY-PRODUCING effect which all literates knew about.  You quit preaching in order to bond with a few other misleaders and get on the LECTURE CIRCUIT with the instrumentalist churches.

Mark Henderson: A second conclusion is that 2. We should never have built our identity on such an issue. As I have read and studied and worked on this issue over the past year or so, it has been very disturbing to take a close look at the anti-instrument arguments that dominated and often defined our fellowship. At the Oklahoma Christian Men’s Retreat last August, one of the speakers was trying to rally those present to do a better job preaching and teaching against instrumental worship. Explaining his passion for the subject, he said, “I believe our fellowship stands or falls based on our position on this issue.”

Churches named The Church of Christ have existed in every age under that name. Almost all of them including the Catholics rejected the kind of performance Mark is promoting.  When the organ was added and used by the Monks and professionals it only gradually was used for preludes, intercessions and recessionals. The historic Catholic and therefore all groups under their domination NEVER did congregational singing with instrumental accompaniment.

Other than the Church of England or Anglicans who gave birth to the Disciples out of the Methodists, none of the groups used instruments in their assemblies.  The Presbyterians before and after the Campbells defined the almost universal non-instrumental practices.  The first Methodist church was a free black and they had division and ran short of cash. They decided to have a musical recital. It brought in so much money that they decided to add instruments for the first time in the US.

No Presbyterian, Methodist or Baptist imposed instruments until primarily after the Civil war. The northern churches had full carpet bag and began a building and worship war to finance their houses in which God will not be worshipped.

Therefore, the Church of Christ continued to NOT use instruments just as it had NEVER used instruments in its 2,000 year history except for the non-worship with instruments in Catholic Cathedrals where the only organs existed.  The Lutherans went through the same worship wars.

Therefore, it is rank ignorance to say that the ANTI-instrumental churches of Christ built their identity on "such an issue."

Is Mark Henderson gloating about OUR fellowship falling?  Let Mark and the small band of deliberate discorders COUNT UP the number of churches which have gone instrumental. Based on the meetings like Jubilee and the Tulsa effort to steal churches, lots of money has been spent and I would suggest that the only CHANGES have been among those who THOUGHT that they would totally restructure churches of Christ. 

The Restoration Forum seeking to seduce churches such as Quail Springs shut down after 25 years of sowing discord with very little success.

Adding instruments would be an EASY SELL if 99.999% if the preachers and members did not know the Biblical facts.  If Mark and band who have strained with all of their money and might to CONVERT churches they why is there half a dozen or so out of 13,500.  I can count up as many preachers who have ABANDONED the instrumental position.  I can probably count thousands who have been driven out of churches and never returned to any church.

I have collected a massive library and in one table I have listed known scholars and churches which DO NOT use instruments. MOST of the world's religionists DO NOT use instruments. Americans are afflicted with what musicologists know to be VOODOO derived "sanging and clanging."  Click here for the list of churches and individuals so you are not TAKEN IN.  The first table are versions of The Book of Enoch which proves that Satan used the YOUTH and MUSIC to create the FALL.

And click here for the proven VOODOO connection which is affirmed by John as SORCERY.

Origen Book VI, Chapter XLI.

In the next place, as if he had forgotten that it was his object to write against the Christians, he says that,
"having become acquainted with one Dionysius, an Egyptian musician,

Alawys denounced: the latter told him, with respect to magic arts,
that it was only over the uneducated and men of corrupt morals that they had any power,

Alawys approved: while on philosophers they were unable to produce any effect,
because they were careful to observe a healthy manner of life."

We noted that the CROOKED GENERATION in Acts 2 were the perverted male symposium.  However, when they wanted to DISCUSS they chased out the flute girl which speaks to Paul's "don't get drunk on wine."

This is EXACTLY what Paul said:
Don't du SELF PLEASURE but
Speak with ONE MIND and ONE MOUTH that which is written to GLORIFY GOD, educate and KEEP THE PEACE.

Plutarch Symposiacs BOOK VII used by Tom Burgess as proof text for PSALLO among the perverted males.

DIOGENIANUS, A SOPHIST, PHILIP.
At Chaeronea, Diogenianus the Pertamenian being present, we had a long discourse once at an entertainment about music;

and we had a great deal of trouble to hold out against a great bearded sophister of the Stoic sect,
who quoted Plato
        as blaming a company that admitted flute-girls
        and were not able to entertain one another with discourse.

And Philip the Prusian, of the same sect, said: Those guests of Agatho,
        whose discourse was more sweet than the sound of any pipe in the world,
                were no good authority in this case;
        for it was no wonder that in their company the flute-girl was not regarded;

These men, having such a pleasant way of discoursing,
        used these arts and insinuating methods,
        and graced their entertainment's by such facetious raillery.

But shall we, being mixed with tradesmen and merchants, and some (as it now and then happens) ignorants and rustics,

banish out of our entertainments this ravishing delight, or fly the musicians, as if they were Sirens, as soon as we see them coming?

Clitomachus the wrestler, rising and getting away when any one talked of love, was much wondered at;
        and should not a philosopher that banisheth music from a feast,

Mark Henderson: Not at this congregation. We should never have built our identity on this issue, and we should never have allowed it to produce division between believers. At this congregation, we will stand or fall based on our commitment to the person, the gospel, and the mission of Jesus Christ, and we will let that be our identity.

Division is caused by people like Mark IMPOSING or strong-arming in musical instruments.  By adding instruments most Christian churches will hold him in contempt for betraying his trust and he destroys fellowship with the non-instrumental group. Sounds like a PLOY to use psychological violence

Good: because Jesus CAST OUT the musical minstrels LIKE DUNG: he consigned the pipers, singers and dancers to the marketplace where the rest of the pagan religion, selling of prostitutes, young boys and radishes took place. 

PLATO the Symposium where the crooked males sang crooked songs.
[176e] It was agreed that drinking was not to be the order of the day, but that they were all to drink only so much as they pleased.

Then, said Eryximachus, as you are all agreed that drinking is to be voluntary, and that there is to be no compulsion,

Romans 14 Alawys denounced: I move, in the next place, that the flute-girl, who has just made her appearance,
be told to go away and play to herself, or, if she likes, to the women who are within.

tên...aulêtrida. It was the fashion at convivia to provide pipers, dancers, jesters, jugglers et hoc genus omne to amuse the guests.
aul-êtris A.flute- , 

Romans 15 Alawys approved: To-day let us have conversation instead; and, if you will allow me, I will tell you what sort of conversation. 

 
Mark has already confessed that the blasphemy of adding a "musical worship team" caused massive discord. Who produced the division between believers?  Mark Henderson ADDED and that defines a SECTARIAN.  He knows that adding instruments will sow massive discord with a high hand but he INSISTS that His adding instruments will NOT sow discord.  John Calvin says in effect that "there is no statute of limitations on heresy." Just because Mark sowed massive discord and RECOVERED does not consider those stamped on and driven out of their property.  The evil sin will not go away even if you "save" all of the people in Oklahoma.  Now, ready for the next massive sowing of discord from which you WILL recover in time.  If I steal a furniture factory I may create displacement but in time I begin to reap profits. The mortal sin will not make me an honest man.

Beyond redemption, those who created the legalistic sectarian divison ALWAYS blame others for their high crime. That is the guilt clause: I know that I shot you in the heart but YOU sowed discord for jumping out of your pew and spilling blood all over the new carpet.  God cannot be appeased or fooled.

The only way division could possibly occur is for Mark to deliberately plan to introduce musical instruments.  Now, Mark has produced discord. Mark is self condemned. Why did Mark deliberately do what he rejects when the church could exist for a hundred years without instruments. Not only so, but this is stealing the church house of widows--much worse than the pharisees.

Mark Henderson: And finally, a fair reading of Scripture teaches us that

3. We are free to worship with or without instruments. We are not limited by the tortured treatment of a Greek verb. We don’t have to live in fear that we will be condemned by God because we misinterpreted his temporary silence.

No you are NOT.  You may be free to IMPOSE instruments alwlays a mark of the limp-wristed but you LOOSE the freedom to determine your eternal destiny.  In fact, Isaiah 30 says that Hell was specificially prepared for Lucifer using "wind, string and percussion instruments" as the "harp playing prostitute in the garden of Eden" and all she / he / it can seduce. God beats His mortal enemies into the PIT to the same sound of wind, string and percussion instruments. 

Jesus exampled the synagogue of reading and discussing the Word of God. Paul's unique worship words meant ot "give heed to the Word." That was the only way to glorify or praise God in Rome or in modern churches.  The worship Mark is promoting is called Threskia: it is named after Orpheus "that Thracian." He and the Lesbian singers added TUNES and the HARP to make Homer's poems into MUSIC.  James counter that the only PURE threskia was to live right and practice social justice.  Mark has just unleashed the pagan worship defined by John in Revelation of the Mother of Harlots (ch 17) who used lusted-after fruits as slick speakers, singers and musicians. John called Mark's musicians SORCERERS: and witchcraft IS a burnable offense.

Mark's instrumental friends first introduced the word PSALLO in 1878: then the scholars they consulted repudiated their distortion. Psallo never had a music sense other than "shooting forth hyms" or shooting love arrows which is the UNIVERSAL connection between musical religionism and sexual diversion. The first major use is of WARFARE: the same Apollo or Apollyon who unleashed the Locusts or muses as sorcerers in Revelation 18. The second major use points out doesens of cases where the slaves stretched a blood-red, polluted rope to drive the singers, clappers and musicians OUT of the marketplace where they would be MARKED as polluted until they attended the ekklesia and heard instruction.  Mark is bringing the marketplace of selling music and flesh into the holy places.  God is never silent but He DOES blind and make deaf those who obviously have no love for the Truth.  He sends strong delusions and nothing produces delusion better than music.

Mark Henderson: It is for freedom that Christ has set us free, so we should no longer let ourselves be bound by a yoke of slavery. Now that we understand these things, the question becomes, “

Jesus died to set US free FROM the clergy lusting to impose the burden meaning "arousal singing" and instruments.  Instruments under the law were to BIND and drive the people into religious and civil slavery especially building the not-commanded temple of doom.

All history, Greek definitions concluding with John in Revelation 18 who called the rhetoricians, singers and musicians SORCERERS because those who USE instruments intend to BIND you to themselves anddo mind-altering to make you believe a lie. A musical instrument is "a machine for doing hard work."

Mark Henderson:  What will we do in response?” It seems to me that the first thing we ought to do is to repent and seek forgiveness from God and from others who have been hurt because our legalism drove us to wound them with a condemning, judgmental spirit.

A musical instrument is defined as a "machine for doing hard work." The work is making war and creating the shock and awe of religious spectacles intended to subvert and fleece the ignorant.  Therefore, there is nothing more works-intensive and therefore legalistic than musical performance.  Music and "praise singing" is the oldest most legalistic profession thinking that musicians could use singing, dancing, playing instruments and having sex to seduce the gods into a good harvest.  Mark has confessed that they are failing and therefore the addition of MUSIC is consistent with all music: a pagan fertility ritual seeking to appease or seduce or threaten the gods into giving them more sheep or betting "tithes and offerings."

The Disciples of the "organ and society party" declared that they would "take Tennessee within five years."  The Christian church WAS the Disciples when churches of Christ simply announced that they were NOT part of the "society and organ party." The Christian church did not begin to come out of the Disciples until 1927 and not fully until 1968. So, pray tell how can you accuse the OFFENDED of judging and wounding those who stole the church houses of others?

I believe that this false accusation is a sin beyond redemption when Mark is trying to restore LEGALISM which was imposed on Israel BECAUSE of musical idolatry.  I believe that Mark and his team is setting the universal persona of feminine or effeminate theatrical performers which Jesus identified as hypocrites. No doubt, that will attract that type of crowd called a crooked generration.

The second thing the elders have decided is that we will join Richland Hills and others in becoming a both/and church.

You cannot be a YES / NO church.  You have corssed the river of no return because yes/no is clearly dishonest.

No one ever had any doubt because of the long, hidden agenda. There are plenty of instrumental churches around so we think this is an effort, as we noted in the beginning, to prop up a failing system probably caused by the anti-church of Christ patter and the "musical worship team" which is blasphemy.

Those who love a cappella worship will be free to do so here, with joy and with excellence, and those who love instrumental worship will be free to do so here, with joy and with excellence.

As others have conceived to deceive, it will only take a little more "gradualism" until the church is fully instrumental and LEGALISTIC and patternistic of the world's oldest, most vile approach to God.

And the only thing that determines whether God will be pleased or displeased with those forms of worship will be the kind of heart we bring to him when we approach him with our voices and our music. May our worship always spring from fully devoted hearts and lives so that we may know and experience the pleasure of the God who made us.

God will HATE you for deliberately sowing discord and offending tens of thousands of groups which you have pronoucned unspeakable judgment against without knowing whereof you speak.

Mark and his friends have done they "slowly slipping away" under the domination of the NACC agents all of who lie about every Bible passage and known history.  If they are delusional it is logical that they would blame the sane for being wacko.

Jesus said that worship was NOT in places and it had never been in Samaria where Amos repudiates music nor Zion where the TABERNACLE once existed, but in the PLACE of the SPIRIT as it is devoted to the spirit OF Truth.

Paul said that they now worshipped IN the spirit as opposted to IN THE FLESH. The reason was that OUTSIDE were the concision and DOGS or Cynics identified by their "old style praise singing" used to attract mates for the night.

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