Dwaine E. Dunning: Non-Instrumental
Position Must Be Destroyed
The Lord called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit:
with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it,
and the branches of it are broken. Jer 11:16
For the Lord of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee,
for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah,
which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger
in offering incense unto Baal. Jer 11:17
Jer 11:18 And the Lord hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou showedst me their doings.
Jer 11:19 But I was like a lamb [Eccl. Lat., of Christ:] or an ox that is brought to the slaugher;
and I knew not that they had devised devices against me,
saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof,
and let us cut him off from the land of the living,
that his name may be no more remembered.
--mansŭesco ,
I. Act., to tame, to make tame B. Trop., to render mild, gentle, or peaceable: gentes mild, soft, gentle, quiet
“nam me jam ab orationibus dijungo fere,
referoque ad mansuetiores Musas,” Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 23: “ira,” Ov. Tr. 3, 6, 23.—
Mūsa , ae, f., = Mousa, I.a muse, one of the goddesses of poetry, music,Jer. 23:25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name,
“Musarum delubra,” Cic. Arch. 11, 27: “hic Musarum parens domusque Pieria, Mela, 2, 3, 2: crassiore Musā,
A. A song, a poem: “musa procax,” Hor. C. 2, 1, 37
Dēlūbrum , i, n. de-luo, the place of expiation, I.a temple, shrine, sanctuar
saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
Jer. 23:26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies?
yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
Jer. 23:27 Which think to cause my people to
Sēductĭo A A leading or drawing aside: “seductiones testium,”
B. A misleading, seduction (eccl. Lat.): “Adam confessus est seductionem, non occultavit seductricem,”
2Th. 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed,
whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth,
and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
2Th. 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2 Thessalonians 2.10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost,
because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2 Thess 2:[11] Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;
ŏpĕrātĭo A religious performance, service, or solemnity, a bringing of offerings: operationes denicales, offerings,
forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour,
as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
Prŏphēta and prŏphētes , ae, m., = prophētēs, foreteller, soothsayer, prophetDumb means the inability to MEDITATE on what is going on.
Sacerdotes Aegyptiorum, quos prophetas vocant,” “Aegyptius, propheta primarius
Defines the prophesying of Miriam and the Instrumental Prophesying of the Levites: Parasites.
prīmārĭus primarius parasitus,”the first speaker, he who has a right to be heard,
părăsītus one who eats with another; hence, a guest (pure Lat. conviva): parasiti Jovis, [Diotrephes]
Hence, parasitus Phoebi [Apollon, Abaddon], a player, actor, Mart. 9, 29, 9.—
one who, by flattery and buffoonery, manages to live at another's expense, a sponger, toad-eater, parasite (syn. scurra):
cōgĭto The command is to SPEAK the Word and MEDITATE in the heart: not to make music.
Cogitation in a rational sense can be stopped by (d). With de: “cogitavit etiam de Homeri carminibus abolendis,”
H2986 yâbal yaw-bal' A primitive root; properly to flow; causatively to bring (especially with pomp):—bring (forth), carry, lead (forth).Jer 11:20 But, O Lord of hosts, that judgest righteously,
H4284machăshâbâh machăshebeth makh-ash-aw-baw', makh-ash-eh'-beth From H2803 ; a contrivance, that is, (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice):—cunning (work), curious work, device (-sed), imagination, invented, means, purpose, thought.
H2803 châshab khaw-shab' A primitive root; properly to plait or interpenetrate, that is, (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute:—(make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon (-ing be made), regard, think.
that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them:
for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
Jer 11:21 Therefore thus saith the Lord of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying,
Prophesy not in the name of the Lord, that thou die not by our hand:
Jer 11:22 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will punish them:
the young men shall die by the sword;
their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:
Jer 11:23 And there shall be no remnant of them:
for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
4.30.11 John T. Willis 2. "Sing" is vocal; "make melody" is instrumental. Psalms 33:2-3; 144:9; 149:1, 3 make this crystal clear. Amos 5:23 further verifies this reality. People forget that God turned Israel over to worship the starry host because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. The Levites were under the KING and the COMMANDERS of the army: they made war and not worship. We will examine these passages in context.
As Dunning wastes few words advocating a violent (tongue in cheque?) assault against any one who will not bow to Baal in using musical instruments, real churches lie, cheat and steal to take away "the church houses of widows." The new WEAPON is called "infiltrate and divert." By the time they catch on the new THEATER FOR HOLY ENTERTAINMENT will be financed and we can "hope the old folk die soon."
Therefore, the end-time attack is about as literally violent as possible and remain out of prison.
The word PSALLO is not a musical word but a WARFARE WORD. Those who IMPOSE instruments being ignorant of the meaning of the word, and by INSISTING over and over that we TAKE AN AXE to the ANTI-instrumental position knows full well that it means to take an AXE to those who continue to defend the truth and the "oppressed, paying audience."
Two of the major "praise" words used in connection with instruments in the Psalms are more related to tribal hatred required to stir up the warriors prior to the attack.. One word iis translated as to "take one's inheritance, prune one's vines, play the flute, pollute and prostitute." The two silver trumpets were given as signal instruments to panic the enemy or celebrate victory as taunt songs. This is why the ALARM which included playing instruments and making a joyful noise before the Lord was outlawed for the ASSEMBLY or Qahal or synagogue in the wilderness. This was because the common people were never assembled except for instructions.
On the other hand, WORSHIP carries the meaning of falling on your face in total humility. This is totally opposite to PRAISE SINGING as one of the oldest superstitions. This taunt the enemy works with bagpipes, the Rebel Yell or Chinese in Korea blowing many trumpets.
MUSIC is universally the language of VIOLENCE and perverted sexuality so don't be surprised that those who are RESISTED by the truth would do violence if they could get by with it.
Murdering the WORD of God will be resisted.
See how to destroy them by EATING THEIR LUNCH and the church houses of widows:
Victor Knowles 2003 Pepperdine DANCING AT ARM'S LENGTH----wrong! A partial review of continuing effort to take captive "a cappella" churches.
Together for Greater Ministry Impact '04: The latest gasp at a UNITY FORUM under the auspices of COMMERCIALISM. Pro-Instrumental preachers called in to speak for "a cappella" churches of Christ. Goal to build 5500 instrumental churches.
Read what Thomas Aquinas and most early church writers said about singing versus teaching.
Non-Instrumental Position Must Be Destroyed: Introduction: Dwaine E Dunning submitted by Ray Downen
Instrumental Music Will Untie the Gordian Knot #2
1ST-CENTURY INFLUENCES on Instrumental Music? #3
See Was Instrumental Music Only For Israel #4
Ray Downen challenging the WORSHIP word. #6 Paul's word for the ONE ANOTHER assembling themselves is a form of the word SYNAGOGUE. The synagogue was a school of the Bible and never had a praise service. Paul's unique "in the spirit" worship word is to GIVE HEED to God in Christ by reading and giving heed to His words which are Spirit and Life.
Ray Downen Joplin MO 64802-1065 wrote: << I've decided to "reprint" studies by Dwaine E. Dunning in the format now handiest for my use. The 44-page booklet, The Fruitless Music Tree, will be priced at $4 (mailed to U.S. addresses for $5). Here's the first of six studies in the booklet. Long, but of interest to some of us. http://www.sofnet.com/~outreach-- Ray Downen <outreach@sofnet.com>
If you get nothing else please grasp that not among the Jews nor in the most vile pagan temples did the musicians enter into the Holy Places. Among the Jews, the Holy Place is a carnal type of the spiritual body of Christ. No Levitical musician could enter into this type of the church of Christ even to clean out the garbage.
The temple musicians in a "religious sense" (grouped with prostitutes in pagan religions) were in the court making a loud mocking noise during the sacrifice and burning of animals.
In fulfilment of the prophetic type, it was prophesied in Psalm 41 and fulfilled in the Dead Sea Scroll translation that Judas and the military musicians would attempt to turn Jesus into a coward. Click for some examples.
This would continue the Zeus- Dionysus which was the musical, Sodomite Abomination of Desolation in the Jerusalem Temple. The Jews HOPED that their Messiah would be Dionysus. Therefore, they piped hoping to "initiate" Jesus by singing and dancing the female or homosexual song and dance.
Dwaine Dunning in the red box, my review in black and other quotations in blue. Not proofread.
An AXE at the root of the MUSIC tree -- by Dwaine E. Dunning
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Dwaine E. Dunning: There are at least
three ways to kill a tree.
Likewise a system of doctrine may be destroyed in various ways. It might be poisoned (or sweetened in this case) by injecting a different spirit into those who hold the doctrine.
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BUILDING THE FOUNDATION: People Quarantined from Sacrificial System added as part of the worship of the starry host to which God had abandoned the nation.
Isreal fell fatally from Grace because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.
God turned them over to worship the starry host (Acts 7 and a dozen more passages)
God burdened them with The Book of The Law and the Levites to "bear the burdens of sin."
The Abrahamic Covenant was lost and the First Born sons replaced.
No one not of that tribe not specificially ordained could COME NEAR the Tabernacle without sinning.
No Levite, used as Warrior Noise makers and later under the king and commanders of the army could come near the holy places of the sactury or they would be executed. The patternism is that if a musician enter into the body of Christ as fulfilment of the Holy Place is worthy of death.
Num 18:2 And thy brethren also of the
tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou
with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister
unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister
BEFORE the tabernacle of witness.
H8334 shârath shaw-rath' A primitive root; to attend as a menial or worshipper; figuratively to contribute to:--minister (unto), (do) serve (-ant, -ice, -itor), wait on.
Num 18:3 And they shall keep thy
charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle:
only they shall
not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary
and the altar,
that neither they,
nor ye also, die.
All of the non-Levites
were called STRANGERS: therefore, if you were
not of the tribe of Levi and had the assignment to
serve. Therefore, no member of the "church" could come
near the Tabernacle.
"A stranger," that is, one, neither a priest nor a Levite, who should intrude into any departments of the sacred office, should incur the penalty of death. ROBERT JAMIESON
Num 18:4 And they shall be joined
unto thee,
and keep the
charge of the tabernacle of the congregation,
for all the service
of the tabernacle:
and a stranger
shall not come nigh unto you.
Num 18:5 And ye shall keep the charge
of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar:
that there be no wrath any more upon
the children of Israel.
Contrary to
being a spiritual worship service, the sacrificial
system had been imposed and if it were not performed it
would bring down God wrath as punishment due for NOT
performing what they had been abandoned to.
Num 18:6 And I, behold, I have taken
your brethren the Levites from among the children
of Israel:
to you they
are given as a gift for the LORD,
to do the service
of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Num 18:7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s office for every thing of the altar,
and within the veil; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest’s office unto you as a service of gift:
and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
"And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. Numbers 18:21
H5656‛ăbôdâh ‛ăbôdâh ab-o-daw', ab-o-daw' From H5647 ; work of any kind:--act, bondage, + bondservant, effect, labour, ministering (-try),"Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die. Numbers 18:22
H5647‛âbad aw-bad' keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute
The sacrificial system was imposed on the Levites as a curse:
Num 18:23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation,That this was a curse
and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations,
that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. Jeremiah 7:20
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel;
Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. Jeremiah 7:21
For I spake NOT unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: Jeremiah 7:22
But this thing commanded I them, saying,
Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people:
and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you,
that it may be well unto you. Jeremiah 7:23But they HEARKENED NOT, nor inclined their ear,
but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart,
and went backward, and not forward. Jeremiah 7:24
Furthermore, all of the performing
arts are identified as the Hypocritic arts
and because they produced nothing good and caused lots of
destruction of morals they were called PARASITES.
Why are people so anxious to impose
the CURSE of hypocrites and parasites.
Jesus called the Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites by
point to Isaiah 29 and Ezekiel 33. There, the "mouth
worshipers" are identified as performance speakers,
singers and instrument players.
"Nor are these Thracian orgies, from which the word Worship (threskia) is said to be derived; nor rites and mysteries of Orpheus, whom the Greeks admired so much for his wisdom that they devised for him a lyre which draws all things by its music. Nor the tortures of Mithras
The word in the Bible is:
Threskos (g2357) thrace'-kos; prob. from the base of 2360; ceremonious in worship (as demonstrative), i.e. pious: - religious.
12.12 The Fertility Consort of the Ancient Goddess
Briffault (3 121-157) takes his origins right back to the earliest fertility rites of Greece which were exclusively the province of womens religion.
He notes that Mainads originally were three women carrying shamanic tympana with spears and a double axe to kill sacrificial victims.
Dionysus thus stands as the archetype of the dying sacred king, the frenzy of the Mainads thus representing anceint rites of male sacrifice rather than the violent disposition of the god himself.
No men were allowed into the birth chapel of Dionysus at Thebes up to the time of Pansanias. Later male Dionysian priests had to wear female attire. Dionysus himself was effeminate and called "lord of the vulva" and sham-man.
"It would in fact appear that the whole cult associated with Dionysus was originally a women's religion from the rites of which men were excluded" (Briffault v3 128). This would explain that Pentheus was originally torn apart for spying on women's secret rites.
12.23 Orpheus and Dionysus
Orpheus was a Thracian musician whose magical skill on the lyre enabled him to charm the trees, rivers, and stones, as well as wild beasts. He was the son of Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, and a Thracian river-god (some versions say Apollo). Orpheus married the nymph Eurydice, but she soon died, bitten on the heel by a snake.
Her grieving husband followed her to the underworld and, by playing on his lyre, charmed the deities into releasing her. The one condition was that he should escort her back to the upper world without looking at her. He did look, however, and Eurydice disappeared.
Just like the vengeful Dyonisian priest swung his axe at the fleeing priestesses, the Inquisition and Witch Hunts then turned the blood back upon itself, resulting in millions of deaths across Europe. The Pangs of the Messiah have long outlived the rending of Dionysus.
He supposedly invented wine making and was considered the patron of poetry, song, and drama. He is often pictured as an 'effeminate' or ridiculous youth, or as a bearded man.
Lycurgus is driven mad by Rhea, cutting his son down with an axe thinking he is a vine causing all Thrace to become barren. He is struck blind and his own Edonians tear him apart with horses on Mount Pangaeum (Grave 1958, Willis, Otto).
The god punishes by revealing the absolute terror of his reality. And this terror attacks innocent victims, too - in fact, it constantly threatens to make a victim of the god himself. According to Nonnus, Aura, too, the beloved of Dionysus, killed one of her new-born children and devoured it. Like the mothers, so the foster-mothers. It is already said of the daughters of Lamos, the first foster-mothers of the new-born Dionysus, that they would have torn the child into pieces in their madness had he not been snatched away in time by Hermes and given over to Ino. Ino, herself, Dionysus' mother's sister, and another daughter of Cadmus who had reared the divine child, is said to have killed her own infant son, Melikertes, in a fit of madness. This son of Ino's was worshipped on the island of Tenedos as Palaimon, and since children were sacrificed to him, he was called the "child-killer"
Satan is the FALSE BRANCH who was CAST AS PROFANE out of heaven meaning to "play the flute, cut your vines, pollute or prostitute." In Isaiah this SATANIC BRANCH Has been cut down but he/she still wants to use music to CUT DOWN the true Branch by cutting down His Word.
I WILL REPEAT THIS BUT BE WARNED ABOUT MUSICAL WORSHIP.
Zamiyr (h2158) 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. Isa 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. Isa 25:5
Zamar (h2167) zaw-mar'; 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..
That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor [driver of animals] ceased! the golden [gold or money making] city ceased! [taken a sabbath, REST] Isa 14:4
The oppressor is the Hebrew:
Nagas (h5065) naw-gas'; a prim. root; to drive (an animal, a workman, a debtor, an army); by impl. to tax, harass, tyrannize: - distress, driver, exact (-or), oppress (-or), * raiser of taxes, taskmaster.
Naga (h5060) naw-gah'; a prim. root; prop. to touch, i. e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphem., to lie with a woman); by impl. to reach (fig. to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.): - beat, (* be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.
Nagan (h5059) naw-gan'; a prim. root; prop. to thrum, i. e. beat a tune with the fingers; espec. to play on a stringed instrument; hence (gen.) to make music: - player on instruments, sing to the stringed instruments, melody, ministrel, play (-er, -ing..
The burden lading oppressors [doctors of the Law] Jesus died to FIRE did the same thing;
Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Mt.11:28
Being LADEN with ceremony is to be OPPRESSED with music by those intending to take you CAPTIVE (the meaning of heresy) for their own fun and profit.
Phortizio (h5412) for-tid'-zo; from 5414; to load up (prop. as a vessel or animal), i.e. (fig.) to overburden with ceremony (or spiritual anxiety): - lade, be heavy laden.
The REST is a highly dedicated word in Greek and includes:
Pauô, includes to: bring to an end, stop or silence by death, take one's rest, cease, have done, of one singing or speaking.
Pauo means: Stop the: Panos orgai panic fears (i. e. terrors sent by Pan), Eur.:--but, orgê tinos anger against a person or at a thing, hierôn orgas wrath at or because of the rites
Pauo means stop the polemos or battle, fight, war: stop levying war against anothe
Pauo means: STOP the: melôid-ia , hê, singing, chanting,
Pauo means: Stop the pain of: aoidê [aeidô]
Pauo means: Stop the Thamyris, a Thracian aoidê
Pauo means: Stop worshipping the MUSES
Pauo means: Stop the charismatic music which is with clanging cymbals:
Pauo means: Stop the Dancing they tried to force on Jesus
Pauo means: Stop the Sorcery. The sOPHISts are the OPHIS serpents which, as in Genesis is a Musical Enchanter.The Pauo Jesus died to give us means: To Take Thy Rest:
Klisia a place for lying down, hence a hut, cot, cabin, such as besiegers lived in during long sieges.Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. Isa 26:20
That is why we don't NEED to be nice when people are bragging about what has universally been branded as heresy.
Speaking of Lucifer indwelling the king
of Babylon who in the end-time is the QUEEN, Isaiah spoke
to the Anti-Antis:
The Lord hath broken the staff [BRANCH] of the wicked, and
........ the sceptre [Branch off] of the rulers. Isaiah 14:5The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet:
........ they break forth into singing. [shouting] Isaiah 14:7Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee,
........ and the cedars of Lebanon, saying,Since thou art laid down,
........ no feller is come up against us. Isaiah 14:8
The FIR rejoices because the warriors made fine houses, LANCES and musical instruments. Thus, the cedars of Lebanon and other forests were given no rest:
Berowsh (h1265) ber-osh'; of uncert. der.; a cypress tree; hence a lance or a musical instrument (as made of that wood): - fir (tree).
The fellers were:
Karath (h3772) kaw-rath'; a prim. root; to cut (off, down or asunder); by impl. to destroy or consume; spec. to covenant (i. e. make an alliance or bargain, orig. by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces): - be chewed, be con- [feder-] ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league ([covenant]), * lose, perish, * utterly, * want.
The TREE FELLERS, their musicians and HARPS would go back into Hell with them to rot on a bed of maggots. This is symbolic of HELL itself. Then end-time Babbling Prostitute will be released but finally CHOPPED DOWN.
Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms [maggots] cover thee. Isa 14:11
The viol is similar to and has the same meaning of the Witch of Endor's FAMILIAR SPIRIT and Paul's SOUNDING bronze. These MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS were used by Satan or Lucifer to BLEED OFF worship due only to God. While God gave them REST, the musical bandits destroyed the forests to ENSLAVE the people. That is why the musical enchanter in the garden of Eden was a serpent and not a snake. That meant that he/she was a sorceress. And, therefore, in the Greek world that meant parasites. That is why they CHEW UP your literal flesh by eating up the widow's living.
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship [ministry] of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Eze.28:13
Nebel (h5035) neh'-bel; or nebel nay'-bel; from 5034; a skin- bag for liquids (from collapsing when empty); hence a vase (as similar in shape when full); also a lyre (as having a body of like form): - bottle, pitcher, psaltery, vessel, viol
HERE IS DUNNINGS
WORSHIP DEFINED IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS AS THESE WERE
RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS.
And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts:
........but they regard not the work of the Lord,
........neither consider the operation of his hands. Is.5:12And it shall come to pass in that day,
........ that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years,
........ according to the days of one king:
after the end of seventy years shall
........ Tyre sing as an harlot. Isa 23:15Take an harp, go about the city,
........ thou harlot that hast been forgotten;
make sweet melody, sing many songs,
........ that thou mayest be remembered. Isa 23:16Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs;
........ for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. Am.5:23That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves
........ instruments of musick, like David; Am.6:5NO WORD MEANING TO SING AND PLAY AT THE SAME TIME!
Nabel (h5034) naw-bale'; a prim. root; to wilt; gen. to fall away, fail, faint; fig. to be foolish or (mor.) wicked; causat. to despise, disgrace: - disgrace, dishonour, lightly esteem, fade (away, - ing), fall (down, -ling, off), do foolishly, come to nought, * surely, make vile, wither..
Nabal (h5036) naw-bawl'; from 5034; stupid; wicked (espec. impious): - fool (-ish, -ish man, -ish woman), vile person.
If the 100% association by Christ the Spirit between MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS and warfare, oppression and prostitutes cannot prevent people from false accusations and the deliberate sowing of discord, what would a dozen DIRECT COMMANDS do to help?
And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me,
The end is come upon my people of Israel;
I will not again pass by them any more. Am.8:2
Long with the battle axe and saw went the BOW and the LYRE as "carnal weapons" or "lifeless instruments."
The "prize" word PSALLO discovered to cover their divisive tracks as late as 1878 for the first time in history, does not mean SING with INSTRUMENTAL ACCOMPANIMENT. The base word means TO PLUCK, no more and no less. You can pluck Apollyon's BOW to make it twang to send forth singing literal arrows or, in most of the literature, love arrows. You can pluck the strings of a lyre or pluck out the hair of a male prostitute or you can pluck out the hair of an enemy to make a "bowstring-like" twang.
The MUSICAL connection, however, which is overwhelmingly documented is that one also SHOT OUT hymns or songs. We still hear, "She blasted the theater with song." Or she shot out a song.
The two major MELODY words in the Old Testament will be discussed in part five of this series. For now, Zamar is associated with PLUCKING or pruning your vines and often to "steal your inheritance." Zamar DOES NOT DEFINE the process but rather shows how the word is USED in the Hebrew. That use includes playing a musical instrument. However, PLAYING and SINGING are two different things: you cannot have one word to define both. Both Zamar and Nagan are translated MELODY or to PLAY but they are ALWAYS accompanied with another word for SING. You SING songs and make melody with a HARP. Melody is never included unless you name the instrument.
How can people grow so insensitive to the truth that they can blame people who lived after 1860s for what always created division and sowed discord and deliberately offended the church? The Bible and many other writings such as the Book of Enoch, Jubilees, etc. show that when your brain makes the physical connection between SECULAR MUSIC FEELINGS and SPIRITUAL WORSHIP, you have fallen and you are not going to get up.
Dunning notes: Or its various contentions may be individually or specifically refuted, like lopping off a tree's branches one by one.
I find it amazingly amazing that false teaching always includes MARKS or "a way of escape." In Ezekiel 31, the Assyrian is defined as the TALLEST TREE IN EDEN. The serpent was a Musical Enchanter. Be sure that you cut down the COUNTERFEIT tree and branch and not the ONE TRUE BRANCH who does not judge by sight or sound.
For instance, in speaking of Lucifer, the "singing and harp playing prostitute" as the king of Tyre or more probable SHE was the counterfeit BRANCH using music to bleed off worship from God:
But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. Is.14:19
By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Eze.28:16
Cast out is the Hebrew:
Chalal (h2490) khaw-lal'; 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)... gather the grape thereof, * take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
In Isaiah 24
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. Isa 24:16Zamiyr (h2158) from 2167; a song to be accompanied with instrumental music: - psalm (-ist), singing, song
Click for the whole abomination of desolation which actually took sex and music into the holy precincts in Jerusalem
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. Isa 25:5
Zamar (h2167) zaw-mar'; 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..
We have pictures and we have made the NOSE FLUTE out of a BRANCH by using the BARK or of a hollow plant like the Firefly bush which is about as tough as bamboo.
No instruments were
added for eight centuries and until A.D. 1250 for general
use but excluded from the worship of the Pope as late as
the 1911 Catholic Encyclopedia. Division was created in a Synagogue as
late as 1815. Hislop notes:
"So certain is it that the instrumental music of Judaism was identified with the Temple service, that the Jews themselves have, ever since the destruction of the Temple, till very recently,
held it utterly unlawful to introduce such music into their synagogues; and when, about the beginning of the present century, an organ was, for the first time, introduced,
nothing but the influential position of the individual concerned in its introduction, saved him from being summarily excommunicated. Alexander Hislop speaking of instrumental music and denying the High Church position the Christian church uses for authority.
"With such a history, with such facts and considerations before us,
does it not sound strange to hear men say that no principle is involved in the use of instrumental music in Christian worship?
"Such persons can not surely have examined the subject.
They can not have given the subject that consideration which its importance demands.
Nor can it be said, with its nature, tendency, and effects before us, that it is a subject of no importance.It is not now a question of mere expediency, one in which no intrinsic character inheres.
"A tree with such fruit, an instrument with such a history, has a positive character for good or evil. It has passed the stage of experiment; it has passed into history and now possesses a character, and what this character is its history discovers.
"But is there no principle involved in a measure with such a history? No principle involved in the use of
such a thing with such a nature, tendency, and effects, which has secularized the church, which has destroyed and will ever destroy congregational worship, which engenders pride, vanity, ambition, and worldly- mindedness?
"No principle involved in a matter, the bare proposal of which excites alarm for the spiritual welfare of the church, that wounds the feelings of a great brotherhood, that mantles the cheek of many great and good among us with shame and mortification, that makes the heart of many bleed for a cause wounded by its friends! Strange, passing strange, that so many whose intelligence and piety can not be questioned, should so vehemently oppose a measure so innocent and beneficent! [Volume IV: October, 1867]
There is another way: deprive it of the "water of the Word" and it will rot and threaten your life. In the second edition of this review we will look at the ROOT of the problem. The same radical attempt to create a dominant "pope" among the Methodists led James O'Kelly to leave and found the Christian Church. He rejected the notion that the "king" could eject self-motivated preachers from their posts without their having any right to appeal. This "hostile take over" was recognized as more radical than regular denominations and quite identical to the Catholic system using the "High Church" system of Biblical interpretation.
The same ugly root sprouted in the Restoration Movement when J. H. Garrison attempted to establish such a group which was recognized for what it was: A preacher's Labor Union, job assignment, money collecting with children buying "life memberships" and a retirement plan. This plan was pushed in 1905 before the census split the groups in 1906.
True evangelists found themselves, like Paul before them, being shoved out of the nest by a continuing conspiracy of a "located evangelists" to "evangelize" by trading pulpits with another "located evangelist." This Labor Union makes it totally impossible for an aspiring minister to find a "berth on the Good Ship Lollypop."
"This is why churches of Christ are a sect": they depend upon the Bible as it has been delivered. However, Alfred T. Degroot defines the Disciples as a "church" because they are "high church" with authority to change the rules Jesus and the Apostles established. This seems to be the principle of Dwaine Dunning. And while bragging about not knowing or caring about the historical steps to apostasy, it is the universal chant among those who replaced Jesus with theatrical performers to claim that "ignorant, Southern, rednecked" mentality invented the idea of the Bible as authority. This "New" invention of yesterday's "thought leaders" is perpetuated by churches of Christ:
R. Christopher Heard Southern Methodist University in:
Narrative Criticism and Restorationist Biblicism Restoration Quarterly 38/1
"Biblicism, understood non-pejoratively as "the claim to appeal to the Bible as the only standard for Christian faith and practice,"
was a hallmark of the early Stone-Campbell movement and
remains such for us as present-day heirs of that movement in Churches of Christ.Over the last several years, an increasing number of thought leaders in Churches of Christ have been suggesting that our biblicistic praxis has been incomplete at best and irresponsible at worst.
Being a "doctor of the Law" repudiated by Jesus doesn't guarantee that the writer can tell the truth. For instance, the Bible and most of church theologians accept the notion that ONLY God's Word is authority for faith and practice.
However, all of the new Antism against non-instrumentalists utterly tells untruth because we can quote you proof that honoring the Word of God was not an evil invention of non-instrumentalists. Click for a document with lots of paintings of historical scholars who GIVE THE LIE to the new Anti movement.
[Shelly's terms: "Decadent and Deliterious." To the non-scholars that means: Rotten and Destructive.]
However, the HIGH CHURCH of just making up a new bible was first repudiated by a pope but he was vetoed by the emperor. Again, the church of England repudiated the right to make rules which would AUTOMATICALLY repudiate musical instruments. However, Queen Elizabeth vetoed. In fact none of the churches ever VOTED to accept the right to add instruments defended ONLY in Israel by the secular king and in more modern times by emperors and queens. See Hislop.
Not surprisingly, it is only in the past few years that a new destructive movement seems to exist solely to denounce "biblicism" of churches of Christ and introduce a totally-new and unique system which is about 150 years old. This allows these new prophets to reject the Bible's own claims, 1800 years of scholarly understanding and the basis for all denominations.
This new "restoration" came at the same time as Mormonism and restoraton preachers and churches became the target of a Mormon takeover. The "high church" pattern can just as easily justify Mormonism as instrumental music.
It might not be so embarassing if there weren't a few readers left to check the facts. For instance, Rubel Shelly ridicules the idea of using the Bible for the way we understand the church. However, there are lots of Biblical statements of the very understanding of the RM leaders and all theologians of note prior to the liberal 19th century filled with "latter day prophets."
Not surprisingly, the Thought Leaders in Churches of Christ include Rubel Shelly and C. Leonard Allen.
We suggest that rather than THOUGHT there is a fulfillment of God's warning to the "prophets" who hold meetings and "steal prophecies from one another." R. Christopher Heard hasn't read history. Instead, there is scholarly intellectual incest so that Rubel Shelly, "an Evangelist by the Sovereign Grace of God" and by His training is now a THOUGHT LEADER in churches of Christ.
Until the Disciple's saw the Restoration Movement as a vehicle to ride to an organization encompassing all CHRISTENDOM with children as "life members" and primarily in the 20th century, the view of the Bible as normative for faith and practice was the universal, well-documented view even among Catholics: Catholics simply gave themselves authority to ignore the Bible.
This is the ultimate end of "Christian Colleges" which would inevitably be taken over.
John Locke would define the Catholics who are "high church" with authority to add or subtract, and Protestants who depend upon the Bible for faith and practice as DIFFERENT RELIGIONS. And so they are. There are gods many and lords many and Christs many so the use of the buzz words does not mean that people are speaking of the Biblical Christ but of the "high church" or Narrative Theology Christ remade in their own image.
Therefore, we need to grasp that however closely people's "roots" sprouted in the same "soil" the Disciples High Church and the churches of Christ using the Scriptures as basis for faith and practices are NOT THE SAME RELIGION. Indeed, Rubel Shelly's use of Narrative Theology indicates that "Christian Liberty" gives us the right to make our own rules. That may mean a "church" which is more successful as a Seeker-Sucker With Sister Singers but it does not qualify as a church of Christ just as it doesn't qualify as a Mormon church. See a level of Narrative Theology which R. Christopher Heard holds up as the fruit of the Thought Leaders.
This is why one can call for conformity to Christ and hate those who don't love and be totally unaware of the Old Testament types involving instruments, the Judas-clergy triumph over in Psalm 41, the Dead Sea Translation which sees the musical terms in Psalm 41, the "musical" events where Jesus rejected and the Spirit guidance of Paul who defined away the Legalistic, animal sacrifice or paganistic instruments and defined the "instruments of God"--the fruit of the lips and of the heart. That was also the spiritual principle under the Law and the Monarchy period: the worship of the clergy and civil leaders "carried the burden" of animal sacrifices. However, the people honored God in their hearts by learning His Word and then practicing righteousness and justice. They were, in fact, protected by God from a direct contact with animal sacrifices of the state when a great instrumental noise was made to hide the horrors of animal slaughter making them painfully aware of a life without a Redeemer.
And this is why there is such violent hostility to any appeal to the Word of God and the legalistic demand that "God hath not said Thou shalt not." The spirit reads while Jesus still speak in parables.
I get worried around axe swingers: I remember that my father (1903-1997) warned his little sister and whack, there goes my big toe. So, let's be careful about trying to destroy old brethren by cutting them down at their roots. My father also hit himself in the back of the head with a pick axe in a deep well: that can happen to you if you are in deep water or in the dark:
Sometimes the axe slips off the killer's hands:Dunning: But men usually choose to kill a tree by cutting down its trunk.
We take an axe or saw to it not far above the roots and "fell" that tree.
ALL of the Biblical information about BRANCHES implicate Dunning and his band of woodmen as THAT WHICH AGREES PERFECTLY WITH being guided by the Devil. As Jesus defined them, "They speak on their own" and knoweth not what they say or they are deliberately trying to silence those who can still worship God IN THEIR SPIRIT and will not tolerant PANS on their payroll.
As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree,
and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live: De.19:5
There is rarely forgiveness for deliberate, "first degree" axe-swinging.
God sent Saul to the high place of the Philistine to get his musical "change" which means "perversion" as they played instruments while God was being replaced. And if you are going to take an axe to those who won't play in your sand pile you might notice that:
But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. 1 Sam 13:20
God sent Saul to meet the musical prophesiers from the PhilistineHigh Place as a MARK that the nation was beyond redemption. That is the only place people get their musical instruments fitted with hammered-silver strings and their AXES sharpened: both are defined by the same Hebrew word: an instrument is a weapon.
So, we should also give attention to where we are getting our instruments and who we pick to sharpen our axe.
I would love it if some pro-instrumentalist axe slayer would use the "sword of the Spirit." However,
- Dwaine E. Dunning Took an Axe
- Gave Teaching Psalms Forty Whacks
- When He Saw What He had Done
- Gave the Teacher Forty One.
That was the musical message when Israel's elders demanded "set a king over us." We will not have you speak any more to us. That also happened just before the rejection of the Covenant and the musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.
After Israel was beyond redemption for repeating the same musical idolatry as that of Mount Sinai and imposed by God for the wilderness wandering, in Amos chapter 8 the songs in the temple have turned to laments and the people are dying for hunger and thirst for the Word and cannot find it. In chapter 9:
I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. Am.9:1
God would send the serpents (Satan) to bite them and they would go into captivity and most would die or go into "fellowship" with the enemy.
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Dwaine E. Dunning: The happiest way
to kill wrong teaching is by instilling a
different attitude into the minds of those who
teach and practice wrongly.
This is at
least consistent: if Psallo INCLUDES an
instrument then Dunning is correct that NOT
playing instruments is to have a bad attitude
and who teach and practice ERROR. However, the
word PSALLO'S base meaning is to twang a bow
string to send a "singing" arrow into the
HEART of those Apollo (Apollyon) could not
seduce by shooting "love arrows" with his bow. Without a change in attitude, convincing arguments may simply be ignored as the
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A truly bad attitude is to add instruments without any authority and contrary to all of the collected information from the Bible and church history. A better attitude would be to quit using mechanical devices when you know that no literate non-instrumentalist will ever be able to worship with you. There just isn't time to do our non-mechanical teaching task with time left over to validate what we believe is wrong, divisive and truly sinful if any added practice can be sinful.
The Pharisees were Pharisaical and that is a fact. However, it was the priestly class who conspired to murder Jesus fulfilling the prophecy that Judas would not MUSICALLY triumph over Jesus. This triumph over was always musical.
The Pharisees rejected Jesus for the same reason Israel rejected Him as the Spirit in Israel: they wanted to have fellowship with the Canaanites who were expert musicians. They replaced His Word with their word because His teachings would never have allowed them to take the home of a widow or a widow's mite.
The Pharisees denounced the written Word of God and fabricated new RITUALS specificially so that they did not have to obey the Old Testament.
Musical instruments are most often seen in paganism in "driving out demons" or calling the good demons (gift givers) into their presence.
You know, to the old and new superstitious, the demons lived inside instruments and when you told your "lyre to awaken and teach" then whatever you twanged was interpreted as the message from the gods. Paul's equating speaking in tongues to unsure musical instruments is based upon the pagan practice of the prophetess getting a message over the "vapor" from a crack in the ground or drinking wine or chewing laurel leaves which make my deer foam at the moth and "prophesy."
All nations believed that musical instruments were the homes of the gods or the speaking instrument of demons or devils. Africans baptized their drums made out of "lifeless animals offered in sacrifice" and the Catholics baptized and named their bells and pipe organs.
David tried to AWAKEN his lyre so that it could AWAKEN the Dawn.
The priest interpreted the gibberish and the musician put it into the form of an ambiguous poem or song. This is the meaning of Apollo who is Abbadon or Apollyon. He had his Seeker-Center at the oracle of Delphi. The LOCUSTS were once Apollo's muses or musical performers. They did the Mother Goddes wrong and were sent underground as locusts or grasshoppers which had Scorpion stings in their tail. They MARK and punish those who are addicted to music and scatter those who cannot tolerate paganism in the church.
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Dwaine E. Dunning: Because they chose to not be
convinced, they were not convinced. Are
some no less unwilling today to be convinced
by truth?
Some work for unity by trying to find ways to work around a law which some claim is from God although they admit they can't find their law expressed in God's Word. This writer can find the prophecies, examples throughout the Bible, direct commands, universal historical agreement and the agreement of all of the founders of denominations. The direct command to SPEAK in order to TEACH and ADMONISH by using the inspired text with one MIND and one MOUTH is as direct as you can get. The direct command is with melody which is parallel to grace in Paul's writings in the MIND. Some appeal for a different spirit to replace what is clearly recognized as Pharisee intolerance. Many deal with specific divisive doctrines in a search for unity without compromise of truth. The UNIVERSAL understanding was that the DEMON SPIRITS lived in musical instruments. Even David AWAKENED his lyre in order to AWAKEN God. A noted liberal writer notes that "There is NO OTHER TRADITION." |
The instrumental position claims to be "High Church" ala Catholic-Church of England-Anglican-Episcopalian-Methodist with the authority to change the meaning of the text to meet the demands of the time. For instance, huge growth is their supernatural sign to prove them correct. However, John Locke defined the Catholics as "high church" with change authority and Protestants as sola scripture as TWO DIFFERENT RELIGIONS. And so they are and trying to take an axe to the non-instrumentalists will never create union or unity between two different "species" of religions.
The so-called Stone Campbell Movement is a new SECTARIAN group which intends to suck non-instrumental groups into fellowship knowing that MUSIC will wear down opposition very soon because most people would ENJOY being pleasured if their nevers will tolerate it. However, there is not now nor has there ever been much agreement between the Cane Ridge Stonites and the Reformers who, as a group, did not respond to the charismatic antics of music and the Shouting Methodists. The Stone Campbell Movement enlists a few "non-instrumental" preachers who already agree with them and have been active in "stealing the church houses of widows." No Stoneite would give up music for unity. Therefore, Dunning's method of TAKING AN AXE to the ANTI-instrumental position is pure mind control.
I confess it: I don't have any desire to try to worship in spirit when the instruments are abrading my poor brain in order to make it feel "spiritual." You see, an engineer or even a reader understands that those musical instruments are intended to give you a "drug high" and I just don't need any more anxiety being peddled as worship.
If every musical church burned their instruments today I would not be at your church on Sunday: I have all I can do without being so God-like that I can validate every group in the universe.
There is no Law about singing: it is simply a command to teach using the "song" or metrical material of the Bible which makes it easier to memorize. It is possible to do that without adding a law. And common sense would say that you cannot teach a group while the band is playing! So, if there is no law how about minimal common sense and respect of the Words of Christ. To prove it let the preacher who wants the instruments making noise when JESUS is speaking through His word to allow the BAND TO PLAY ONE when he, the preacher, is sermonizing or further expounding or "private interpreting" the revealed word in direct violation of Peter's command.
The Law is needed only if you decide that the clear command to teach with no 'musical' terms used of God Who DOES NOT SAY "thou shalt not use an instrument." And because there is a negative law, this law speaks so powerfully that it even gives us permission to "sow discord" by adding "the works of men's hands" to make our "worship ritual" more exciting based on "the law of economics." I can guarantee that if instruments drove the contributors away, the instrumentalists could find a law before sundown.
There is no law which says: "Thou shalt not use mechanical instruments." A spiritual person does not need such a law. Recognizing the vast gulf between the Infinite, Spiritual God and a dirty speck called man, it behooves man to not try to improve on God's Word: the "hole in the donut" was not the baker's oversight: it makes the donut cook properly. God makes no divine oversights.
There we go again: there simply is no Biblical way to authorize instruments which is powerful enough to overcome the huge "library" of anti-instrumental warnings. So, whatta we do? We just call them Pharisees who are intolerant of those wanting to add instruments into our church.
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Dwaine E. Dunning: We rejoice each time
another step is taken, no matter how small,
that will replace
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Not using instruments, he claims, is based on "hatred, bigotry, intransigence, ignorance but those who use instruments do so because the are loving, compassionate, tolerant, and learned."
If turning the truth upside down doesn't burn you then false humility may get the job done.
Isn't it easy to see that while these diatribes may sound good to instrumentalists who truly hate those who will not endorse them, it is an argument based on "self" or opinion. You can worship with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and pipe organ without my presence.
Why such hostility? I believe that it is the old Jubal story that once you have fallen for music as spiritual rather than a "drug high" there is a sense of desperation needing people to affirm you and your practices. You don't need churches of Christ to make your worship acceptable. You don't' need to convert everyone to the use of instruments in order to make your worship with instruments valid for you. You NEED non-instrumentalists to give you aid in comfort in your utter fall defined in many ancient documents like The Book of Enoch. Why? In these documents you know that you have fallen from the presence of the Lifing God and you will never get up: misery loves and demands company.
But what possesses people to turn almost animalistic when confronted with those who take the liberty to worship the way they wish including not using instruments?
During a "hostile takeover" in Seattle blacks were told that those who resisted instrumental music were racists! There has to be a special place for these people.
The end-time, according to Revelation 18, might see the overwhelming majority engaged in a trumpet quartet when the last trump sounds. The believers will have gone to Jesus "outside the camp" which was away from the temple sacrifices and its music. It will be a tiny group trying to keep away from the axe swingers long enough for Jesus to come:
"Jingling, banging, and rattling accompanied heathen cults, and the frenzying shawms of a dozen ecstatic cries intoxicated the masses. Amid this euphoric farewell feast of a dying civilization, the voices of nonconformists were emerging from places of Jewish and early Christian worship ..." (Encyclopaedia Judaica, 1971 ed., s.v. "Music")
There is never any hope for conformists.
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Dwaine E. Dunning: However, the
cure for part of the
problem will no doubt at first sound
extreme to most of us.
It must be cut out if we're to have any hope of unity together. There is a "trunk" of argument which forms the basis for the entire system of doctrine which has caused untold sorrow in the Christian world.
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I think we can see the extremism when the instrumental group finds a dupe in churches of Christ who LUSTS to add instruments to debate someone who USES instruments (tools, weapons, produce works). Then, boast that the non-instrumentalists are falling in line with those always understood to be sectarian sowers of discord IN SPITE of all known testimony against instruments.
No. That is not the problem. Everyone knows that there is not a jot or tittle or information in the Bible or church history which would suggest that you can worship a Spirit God through the works of human hands. Music has ONE originating source according to the Bible: Lucifer who caused the fall of all of those angels and as a MUSICAL ENCHANTER wholly seduced Eve.
Music is only related to secular parties or the end-time Babylonian Harlot religon. Music is not a Biblical, Worship word.
No instrumentalists ever added instruments thinking that there was Biblical authority. At best, instruments helped boost up human compositions sung in the style injected by the Black community during the "awakenings" and this style demanded a culture steeped in the drum beat of Voodoo. Whites just didn't have it. This causes many to ask: "Are hymns idols?"
The "evil" root is simply not using mechanical instruments in an attempt to worship a Spirit God in our own spirit in utter silence. We have a direct statement from Jesus that God will not be seeking people engaged in tickling the nerves (all of them) of the body and selling that as worship. He will be looking for men like John who was "in the spirit on the Lord's Day." John was not charismatic nor inside the "person" of the Holy Spirit. Rather, John was inside of himself allowing his innermost being or eternal spirit to commune with God who is eternal Spirit. This is the only place God speaks to us.
The roots of division again and again were adding instruments to an otherwise peaceful religious world. It happened to Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians and churches of Christ at about the same time.
How can the human mind believe that if you punch someone in the nose and they bleed, they are responsible for soiling my hand. One who dared bleeds on my worship service is evil and needs to be destroyed--at the roots! Amazing. Amazing!
Paraphrasing Rubel Shelly in an Aztec paradigm: "Those being invaded become hostile and mount an attack upon the invaders."
Those who add non-essentials are always the sectarians.
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Dwaine E. Dunning: Men must
and will worship. Those who don't
find God and worship Him will
certainly not fail to pay their respects
to some other object of worship. Some
worship power. Some
worship the human senses.
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In Bible 101 we learned that "there was no praise service in the Synagogue." In fact, the assembly as Qahal or "church in the wilderness" loud instruments and "making a joyful noise before the Lord" was outlawed as the ALARM (Num 10:17). No school kid misunderstood that at the time of Christ.
Paul outlawed SELF-pleasing in Romans 15 where he defines the assembly in the same way as the NOT-musical passages in Ephesians 5 and Colossians 3.
Rom 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 (or by impl. to seek to be so): - please.
Airo (h142) ah'ee-ro; a prim. verb; to lift; by impl. to take up or away; fig. to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the mind); spec. to sail away (i.e. weigh anchor); by Heb. [comp. 5375] to expiate sin: - away with, bear (up), carry, lift up, loose, make to doubt, put away, remove, take (away, up).
This had the same meaning of EXTERNAL SINGING:
Aoidê 1. art of song, autar aoidên thespesiên, spell, incantation, thing sung, song, whether of joy or sorrow,
Areskos A. pleasing, mostly in bad sense, obsequious, cringing, II. areskos, ho, the staff borne by pornoboskoi [brothel keeper] on the stage, Poll.4.120.Hairetikos (g141) hahee-ret-ee-kos'; from the same as 140; a schismatic: - heretic [the Gr. word itself].
A man that is an heretick, after the first and second admonition reject; Tit.3:10
Matt. 11:8 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings houses.
Soft is:
IN LATIN the Keeping in Suspense EXCLUDES actors, singers, poets of musicians.
- Malakos (g3120) mal-ak-os'; of uncert. affin.; soft, i.e. fine (clothing); fig. a catamite: - effeminate, soft.Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 1 Corinthians 6:9
- Abusers are:
- Arsenokoites (g733) ar-sen-ok-oy'-tace; from 730 and 2845; a sodomite: - abuser of (that defile) self with mankind.
- Arren (g730) ar'-hrane; or arsen +tx ar'-sane; prob. from 142; male (as stronger for lifting): - male, man
- Airo (g142) ah'ee-ro; a prim. verb; to lift; by impl. to take up or away; fig. to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the mind); spec. to sail away (i.e. weigh anchor); by Heb. [comp. 5375] to expiate sin: - away with, bear (up), carry, lift up, loose, make to doubt, put away, remove, take (away, up).
XV. debemus autem nos firmiores inbecillitates infirmorum sustinere et non nobis placere
Placeo to please, to be pleasing or agreeable, to be welcome, acceptable, to satisfy (class.).Rom 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit
1. In scenic lang., of players or pieces presented, to please, find favor, give satisfaction: scenico placenti
Scaenicus I. of or belonging to the stage, scenic, dramatic, theatrical
I. Lit.: poëtae, dramatic poets, ludi, stage-plays, theatrical representations, : fabula, a drama, organa, Suet. Ner. 44 : coronae, id. ib. 53 : habitus, id. ib. 38 : gestus, Cic. de Or. 3, 59, 220 : modulatio Comedy. OratorPoi-êtês II. composer of a poem, author, p. kômôidias Pl.Lg.935e; p. kainôn dramatôn, b. composer of music, 2. author of a speech
Organum Vitr. 10, 1.--Of musical instruments, a pipe,. Gen. 4, 21; id. 2 Par. 34, 12 et saep.--Of hydraulic engines, an organ, water-organ: organa hydraulica,
Gen 4:21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
H8610 manipulate, figuratively to use unwarrantably:--catch, handle, (lay, take) hold (on, over), stop, X surely, surprise, take.
H8608 taphaph to drum, that is, play (as) on the tambourine:taber, play with timbrels. H8611 tôpheth to'-feth From the base of H8608 ; a smiting, that is, (figuratively) contempt:--tabret. MEANING HELLOrganon , to, ( [ergon, erdô] ) I. an implement, instrument, engine of any kind (mostly post-Aug.), Col. 3, 13, 12.--Of military or architectonic engines (whereas machina denotes one of a larger size and more complicated construction)A. instrument, implement, tool, for making or doing a thing
Ergon [Ergô] I.work, 1. in Il. mostly of deeds of war, polemêïa erga, 3.a hard piece of work, a hard task, Il.: also, a shocking deed or act,
3.musical instrument, Simon.31, f.l. in A.Fr.57.1 ; homen di' organôn ekêlei anthrôpous, of Marsyas, Pl.Smp.215c ; aneuorganônpsiloislogois ibid., cf. Plt.268b ; o. poluchordaId.R.399c , al.; met'ôidês kai tinôn organôn Phld.Mus.p.98K. ; of the pipe, Melanipp.2, Telest.1.2
Modulatio. In partic., a rhythmical measure, modulation; hence, singing and playing, melody, in poetry and music, Quint. 9, 4, 139: modulatione produci aut corripi (verba), id. 9, 4, 89 : modulatio pedum, id. 1, 6, 2 : scenica, id. 11, 3, 57 : vocis, melody, id. 11, 3, 59 : musica, Aus. Ep. 25, 13 .
ON THE VERY LARGE OTHER HAND:Clement of Alexandria: "After having paid reverence to the discourse about God, they leave within [at church] what they have heard. And outside they foolishly amuse themselves with impious playing, and amatory quavering (feminine vibrato), occupied with flute-playing, and dancing, and intoxication, and all kinds of trash.
Pleas for Edification or Education:
A.To take a thing by hearing, i. e., 1.To hear, to perceive, to observe, to learn (cf. opp. do = I give in words, i. e. I say): hoc simul accipe dictum, 2.To comprehend or understand any thing communicated 3. With the accessory idea of judging, to take a thing thus or thus, to interpret or explain
This had the same meaning of EXTERNAL SINGING:
Aoidê 1. art of song, autar aoidên thespesiên, spell, incantation, thing sung, song, whether of joy or sorrow
One of the clear historical and medical fact is that, as Albert Barnes notes, music is the LUST of the EARS. And certainly Sister Singers are lust of the eyes. Music appeals to the emotional side of the brain and this is why Paul used musical instruments to define instrumental music. Music actually tickles the sexual parts: the response to music is "fight, flight or sex."Paul's warning about the sisters not taking authority is based on the fact that "authority" in the Greek world ment sexual authority where instrumental music was a primary "carnal weapon" or "lifeless instrument."
All of the classical writers who informed Paul and supplied many of the pagan, musical terms, understood that the pagan priestesses and prostitutes used instrumental music. It has the powerful effect of making people forget their old principles and be seduced into whatever the musician wants you to believe at the moment. The Oracle of Delphi was manned by Apollo deceiving sailors and seducing them with instrumental music. When they got there they had a seeker center second to none. Music was the power over all of the transients who needed to have their pockets cleansed before they left. Apollo is Apollyon or Abbadon.
Hermes was the Satan type as the father of musical instruments and of thieves and liars. He is seem much like the Jubal or Genun character in parallel accounts. He is also the fallen angels of the Book of Enoch quoted by Jesus, Peter and Jude about 128 times. God's coming with ten thousand of His host to execute is based on Satan's luring people into rejecting the Word and refusing to teach it by replacing it with mixed-sex choirs and instrumental music: the same sexual authority Paul warned about.
God equated not listening to the Word to the lust of a musical performance which, in this passage, was related to a sexual encounter at the pagan temples. This love is amorous love and is the meaning of the "organ" handled (without authority) in Genesis 4.
Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses,
........ and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying,
........Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the Lord. Ezekiel 33:30And they come unto thee as the people cometh,
........ and they sit before thee as my people,
........ and they hear thy words,
........ ........ but they will not do them:........ for with their mouth they shew much love,
........ ........ but their heart goeth after their covetousness. Ezekiel 33:31........ And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song (amorous, sexual)
........ ........ of one that hath a pleasant voice,
........ ........ and can play well on an instrument:........ for they hear thy words,
........ ........ but they do them not. Ezekiel 33:32
The king of Babylon and of Tyre were king/queens and agents or images of Lucifer (the Zoe-Beast character). Tyre was a commercial-religious prostitute and literally used female musicians to "take away the key" to property. See the Wen Amun Story. That is they used lust as a weapon or instrument just like Judah:
And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot. Isaiah 23:15
This is the song of the prostitute: "Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. Isaiah 23:16
When instruments were intended they are named: "sing" and "make melody" with "a harp" or other instrument. No naming of instrument none can be assumed.
The king as Lucifer was bisexual and wanted to be "remembered" as a male.
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Dwaine E. Dunning: When
Jesus in Matthew 4 and in John 4 used
the word we translate as worship, He
made us aware of the importance which
is implicit in the idea of human
worship of God -- of the relationship
between God and every man and woman.
We are each to worship God. However,
some of us have
redefined worship
to mean to participate
in a religious "service" at a
particular time and place.
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Jesus said that worship was only in the PLACE of the human spirit using the Spirit OF TRUTH. Paul said that the converted Jews NOW worshipped IN the spirit as opposed to IN the flesh. Paul warned that "worship" which breaks out will be plagued by the dogs and concision: these were the Cynics who attracted mates by their form of "singing" or howling which sounds like "praise singing."
This was not "worship" as defined by men like Thomas Campbell. This definition is a product of the "located evangelist" (as in "located traveling salesman") who had turf to protect even from the dwindling number of true evangelists who obeyed the Great Commission to go preach the gospel with no demand to "establish worship rituals."
Thomas Campbell saw worship much like the Synagogue where reading the Word was a primary act. You cannot worship God by singing your own songs: you tell God that your words are more important than His and He cannot be instructed and needs no ritualistic praise.
Because this is the source of the "boil" the only way to cure the patient is to '"lance it" and sent the "evangelists" into the field or to the local employment agency.
Nothing
could hinder this more than adding a talented
organist who, in the 1860-70 could earn up to
$5,000.00 a year--a huge fortune in those
days. The motive was to seduce people through
the "lust of the eyes and ears" and steal
sheep from the Methodists.
checkit
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Dwaine
E.
Dunning: Some
assume that Christian worship is
when people get together to share in
listening to a sermon,
listening to a public
prayer,
listening to a "song
service,"
partaking of a communion
"meal," and putting
money into a collection plate or
box. Deviation from
traditional practice which includes
these, and only these, five acts
which are said to be "items of
worship" is by these folks denounced
as being "false worship" or
"will worship." Naturally, they
think those whose practice differs
from what they think is right are
doomed by their ignorance and
"disobedience" to eternal death.
That is fine with me; here is what you have: Universal agreement that PAID PROFESSIONALS are not part of a faithful assembly. Without the need to turn the assembly into RELIGIONISM no one would have wildly imagined that an organ can AID worship which is "holding the thougts of God in YOUR mind or spirit." Even those claiming to be apostles were fed for two or three days in which he could "preach the core gospel" then the found him a job or the soonest ass out of town. Paul denied that laying by in store is an Act of worship. By removing that burden the Dunnings will have to sell cars or something. There is no act of worship called SINGING. Paul used the word TEACH and the resources to be read are the inspired text. |
One might suppose that where Dwaine E. Dunning meets they do not do these five acts of worship and have gone further: added vocal and instrumental or theatrical performance. Until that is removed the 'axe' is not sharp enough to get the job done.
Lay by him in store. Giving to the needy is honoring God. We give to evangelist or other person against whom there is no law to prevent our sharing
However, the early church recognized the need to have surplus money for certain reasons. Love permits collecting money without a law. However, instrumental music is something which defeats the absolute demand to teach one another and it is not permitted in the name of Paul's definition and common sense.
I have noticed that the preacher or elder will accept a check in the mail or on Saturday morning. So, we don't see giving as a ritual but as an outward expression of our seven-day love.
True: singing is not an act of worship but the result: the direct command is to teach or preach. Now, no preacher will allow the organ to play while he is preaching but it is perfectly acceptable for the 200 horsepower pipe organ to blow the "flutes, meaning to pollute or prostitute" while Christ is trying to speak to us and through others. The clearly commanded resource is the Word of Christ or Spirit of Christ just as the Synagogue used only the Inspired Word. The result is singing and melody in the heart. Why? Why, because external melody means to 'grind into a fine powder' as you panic the enemy with the "twang" of a directed arrow. It is related to the SOP Jesus fed Judas and the Judas Bag was "for carrying the mouthpieces of wind instruments."
Singing is still a way to teach among Jewish and Muslim children. However, they don't sing idle songs but they memorize great portions of their Scriptures in the process. Singing creates a sense of unity but the "idolatry of talent" separates us from them. When the Greeks read or recited a poem or song they are said to have "sung" as with prose you read it.
However, during the Law, the Synagogue and the church there was a demand to meet together for edification and the Lord's Supper. And Paul in the "singing" passages shows a method for teaching the Psalms without external music. This would allow participation by everyone. The "Sunday" service was understood to be based on the command of the early church. That worked until our scholars decided that they didn't.
The Lord's Supper is associated with the First day of the Week and we have no reason to try to ignore the Biblical examples just because we have liberty. Legalism or Phariseeism is "taking liberties with the revealed Word of God, in order to substitute their own and for the purposes of earning money."
Where two or three are gathered they can take the Lord's Supper and speak the truth with the singing and melody in the heart. This is not an optional practice.
Preaching proof-text or "improve the spiritual health of the audience" is not an act of worship. Indeed, Jesus said that these professionals "took away the key to knowledge."
None of this: absolutely none of this has anything to do with the addition of instruments in an attempt to 'worship in spirit.' Instruments have only prostitution, social gatherings, pagan worship and the like the nations animal sacrificial system of Israel which was "added because of transgression."
Know what the transgression was? Well, it was "rising up to play" at Mount Sinai. This was the worship of Osiris whose agent was Apis the bull and whose image was the golden calf. This was instrumental music along with other events.
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Dwaine
E.
Dunning: I do
not intend to say that whatever
any person decides to do in
worship and service of God is
automatically right and pleasing
to God.
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IN SPIRIT is the place of the human spirit or heart, as in SPEAK (externally) to ONE ANOTHER while at the same time SINGING and MAKING MELODY in the HEART (internally).
Jesus defined worship as IN SPIRIT.
Paul said that the converted Jews now worshipped IN SPIRIT
Jesus give REST which means STOP the singing and stop the RHETORIC.
Jesus said "Come learn of ME." This was not a command but an invitation to the ONLY Place God seeks you.Paul OUTLAWED pleasuring one another because it was anti-Christian (Rom 15)
Paul said that the way to GLORIFY God was to:
........ Speak "that which is written" and this was by the Spirit of Christ (1 Pe 1:11)
........ By using ONE MOUTH and ONE MIND.
........ He does not used the word SING or MELODY because in Ephesians and Colossians he puts both into the heart or spirit.In Ephesians he outlawed being FILLED with wine which always involved being 'fluted down with wine.'
........ He commanded that we use the SPIRIT which is the Word of Christ (John 6:63)
........ That means "psalms, hymns and spiritual songs" which are ALL in the inspired text.
........ The task was SPEAK to one another: you cannot SPEAK and SING at the same time.He put both singing and melody IN THE HEART as opposed to SINGING as the PLEASURING WORD in Romans 15 and Melody which was a warrior's term and NOT musical.
External "melody" excludes EVERYTHING but plucking with the FINGERS and excludes a PLECTRUM. This confirms that it was a warfare word and not a worship word.
That which "is written" and "the Spirit" becomes the "Word of Christ" in Colossians. Some things you cannot do decently and in order. Some things done decently and in order are not acceptable to Christ who insisted that God only looks for those competent to worship in the PLACE of the human spirit or in the mind:
Let the word (spirit) of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom;
........ teaching and admonishing one another
........ in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
........ singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord Col 3:16Singing with grace IN YOUR HEARTS is parallel to MAKING MELODY in your hearts.
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed,
........ do all in the name (authority) of the Lord Jesus,
........ giving thanks to God and the Father by him. Col 3:17This is Paul's meaning of the collective assembly: Giving heed to "that which is written, psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, the Spirit and the Word of Christ" RESTRICT the DISCIPLING to the inspired text. That EXCLUDES that which is NOT written by the finger of God.
He says as clearly as possible that this EXCLUDES literaly MUSIC because you cannot worship IN THE SPIRIT using things which create PLEASURING.
Therefore, Dunning is wrong: Paul defines the church or ekklesia or most often a form of the SYNAGOGUE which was a school of the Bible and HAD NO PRAISE SERVICE.
Dunning has LATCHED ONTO the only things which are specificially prohibited by the Bible and common sense.
He knows that this deliberately SOWS discord and shows contempt for the Word of Christ which IS SPIRIT AND LIFE.
Consistent with the ancient stories of Satan's fall, he tries to SHIFT BLAME on those who were PERVERTED and SUBVERTED away from The Living Word.
Paul described the cultural background of two major groups in Rome: the Dionysians and Orphics. Both of these saw musical PLEASURING as indispensible for worship. However, if the kingdom does not consist of eating and drinking it assuredly does not consist with what Paul defined with the word METHUO. It almost always meant "to get fluted or piped down with wine." Wine and music were always twins and you cannot peddle wine without music.
In Romans 15 Paul said that Jesus Christ did not PLEASURE Himself and the church should not either. Defining the SYNAGOGUE, Paul said that they should use ONE MIND and ONE MOUTH to speak "that which is written." Jesus defined two mountains as PLACES where people went to worship in a NATIONAL SENSE: only DRAFT AGE males were required to go three times a year. That is why they could sell their lambs and "LAY BY IN STORE" the proceeds on THEIR OWN ARM and go to the MUSTER rituals and spend it on food and WINE. THIS WAS NOT worship in the PLACE of the human spirit. Dunning-Downen want to worship ENSPIRITED but Jesus said IN the human spirit.