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Holy entertainment and pagan parallels is defined by Lynn Anderson, Jubilee 99, NAVIGATING the Winds of Change or BLOWING the winds of change? Change Agentry from neo- paganism and the secular world WEARS OUT the people of God. Jb.15:2 asks: Would a wise man answer with empty notions or fill his belly with the hot east wind? While we do not question the motives of Lynn Anderson, our aim is to show that it is all too easy to pick up good-sounding methods from the commercial world which might be destructive if used to attempt to make spiritual changes.
7.04.11 Some People will never get it:
THIS IS THE DIRECT COMMAND
2Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season,
out of season; reprove, rebuke,
exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
2Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine;
but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers,
having itching ears; [eager for combat, pleasure, to be wanton]
HERE IS PROOF THAT YOU WILL NOT ENDURE SOUND DOCTRINE:
2Timothy 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth,
and shall be turned unto fables.
FABLES TO FOOL: Fābŭla , ae, f. fari,
1. Most freq., a dramatic poem, drama, play (syn.: “ludus, cantus, actio, etc.): in full, fabula scaenica,” Amm. 28, 1, 4; “or, theatralis,” id. 14, 6, 20: “fabula ad actum scenarum composita,”fabulam, quae versatur in tragoediis atque carminibus non a veritate modo
FABLES TO FOOL: Cantus , ūs, m. id., I. the production of melodious sound, a musical utterance or expression, either with voice or instrument; hence, song, singing, playing,
1. With the voice, a singing, song; in full, cantus vocum, Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 134: cantibus
2. With instruments, a playing, music: “citharae,” “horribili stridebat tibia cantu,” Cat. 64, 264: “querulae tibiae, “lyrae,” Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 72: “tibicine
FABLES TO FOOL: Scaenĭcus (scen- ), skēnikos, I. of or belonging to the stage, scenic, dramatic, theatrical
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,” Quint. 11, 3, 57:
1. scaē-nĭcus , i, m., a player, actor, Cic. Off. 1, 31, 114: ---“orator plurimum aberit a scaenico 2. scaenĭca , ae, f., a female player, an actress,THE MOST POWERFUL WEAPON TO FOOL:Orgănum , i, n., = organon, Of musical instruments, a pipe, Quint. 11, 3, 20; 9, 4, 10; Juv. 6, 3, 80; Vulg. Gen. 4, 21; id. 2 Par. 34, 12 et saep. an organ, water-organ: “organa hydraulica,” Suet. Ner. 41: aquatica, Mythogr. Lat. 3, 12.—Of a church-organ, Cass. Expos. in Psa. 150; Aug. Enarr. in Psa. 150, n. 7.— B. Transf.: organum oris, the tongue of a man, Prud. steph
Jubal "Handled" musical instruments "without authority."
5.01.11 Well prophesied in Revelation 17-18
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.
Church is Ekklesia or Synagogue: both for instruction only: both exclusive of any performing arts: you don't do music when God's Word is taught. I submit that you cannot be a Christian if you do not understand the meaning of "teach them what I have commanded to be taught."Lynn Anderson Psallo Justifies Instrumental Music and Sowing of Discord3.11.11 Logos versus Mythos: Word versus Music Logos (modern) is rational of the word and STRAIGHT: Mythos and Sophia (postmodern) are irrational and Gender-Confused. Mythos Nomoi (traditional law)
(a) Eros is approved, and its excesses condoned, when directed towards superior youths approaching manhood.Those who willingly infiltrate and impose musical instruments into a peaceable church justify the deliberate sowing of discord based on false teachings of all of the "instrument" passages also preach that GRACE will cover them.
(b) It appears to be condemned, in so far as parents forbid their boys to hold converse with “erastae.” The explanation of this ambiguous attitude must be sought in the principle laid down above, that the moral quality of an act depends upon the conditions of its performance.
GRACE is Kharizo 2. gratify or indulge a humour or passion, 3. in erotic sense, grant favours to a man,
give up as a favour by dropping a law aimed at him,
Grace Centered Magazine: 3.06.11. This forum has a Church of Christ thread dedicated to abusing those who do not deliberately reject the clear teaching of the Word and recorded history. A common lie is that the Church Fathers had nothing bad to say about the use of instruments based on Scripture. We have refuted that to prove that NO ONE used instruments in the churches but refute the Jews who did because they had been abandoned to Canaanite Baalism or the worship of the starry host.
See Jay Guin Review for the list of New Wineskins papers.
Because all music and instrument terms are ROOTED in evil begining with making war, this paper will present some of the clear words making the case. Even if modern preachers do not understand, the early church scholars did and universally rejected the idea of "music" in the church as vile and destructive of its teaching role. We will next look at the word PALLO which Paul could have used if he wanted to even hint at the authority for playing "machines for doing hard work."
See the CHARISMATIC connections throughout history--there is no exception.Holy Entertainment Pagan Parallels: Lynn Anderson.
Neo- Pagan Parallels: Lynn Anderson
Lynn Anderson Shepherding
Dancing on the Rim
Change Agents: Lynn Anderson Navigating the Winds of Change.
The Jesus Proposal Rubel Shelly and John YorkMy sister, Carolyn, believes that each generation and each person has to undergo their own Armaggedon. This is a decisive crisis in the life of a movement or the life of an individual. If this is correct, we find it interesting that Jubilee 99 will feature the eleventh horn who will dominate the new world order.
Before looking at part of Lynn Anderson Change Agent Scheme, it is important to see that toward the end of the Millenium there has been a flood of revival movements claiming that Christ is about to bring the kingdom to earth. This "water" or new wine will attempt to drown out or wash away the simple gospel which provided no room for priests, pastors or prophets of a second incarnation in a new wineskin.
Nothing has been more destructive than the Baby Boomers (Infantile Drummers) who threaten non-support unless the culture is brought in and Christ is chased out.
Christianity Today notes that the new Sectarians are musical sects. And it is certain that within Restoration Movement churches, the proponents of music were the divisive sectarians.
You may want to take a look at the word "praise" and recognize that there is no such thing as a spiritual Praise Service. This is ancient Babylonian paganism.
Before God always takes control over revolutionaries, the last Horn of the Armageddon (Means: "Polemic battle with self-exalters."). Jubilee 99 at which he may (if we understand the parable) the eleventh horn displace the previous three little horns from the role of king of the change agent movement) Revelation 17 and Daniel 7 are universal patterns for the little Armageddons all of us have to battle:
And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. Daniel 7:24
And he shall speak (poetically) great (as the embodiment of the adversary) words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. (3 1/2 years) Daniel 7:25
Bela (h1080) bel-aw'; corresp. to 1086 (but used only in a mental sense); to afflict: - wear out
Bala (h1086) baw-law'; a prim. root; to fail; by impl. to wear out, decay (caus. consume, spend): - consume, enjoy long, become (make, wax) old, spend, waste.
Because scholarship knows that the "serpent" in the garden was a musical enchanter(ess) and caused Eve (Zoe) to bow while perforning as the king/queen of Lyre--the singing and harp playing prostitute,-- and ancient Babylonian tablets and Gnosticism connect music as the weapon of Satan, we know that music afflicts and is the signal (mark) for the lost to "bow to Baal." In Babylon 6 instruments are named three times--666---and the sign of idolatry would be the sound of musical instruments.
Only Satan makes you into singing, clapping, playing and dancing demons to utterly wear you out so that you CANNOT give attention (worship) to God. Messiah as God's ARM would come to intercede and put down the clergy parasites:
Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Mt.11:28
Phortizo (g5412) for-tid'-zo; from 5414; to load up (prop. as aa vessel or animal), i.e. (fig.) to overburden with ceremony (or spiritual anxiety): - lade, be heavy laden.
Jesus EJECTED the musical mourning team "more or less violently" as one casts out Dung. In their place He gives us rest:
Anappauo (g373) an-up-ow'-o; from 303 and 3973; (reflex.) to repose (lit. or fig. [be exempt], remain); by impl. to refresh: - take ease, refresh, (give, take) rest.
As the eleventh horn of the Jubilee 99 polemic battle between self-exalters, Anderson is the high priest of change agentry who actually proposes that to make the changes, he wants to make over the objection of the congregation, he must push them to the brink of disaster or break-down and then, at the last moment, grab them and pull them back into their comfort or peace zone. That is, he proposes and Jubilee 99 will implement a process to wear out (consume the old) the saints of the most High and think to change times (Jewish festivals such as Jubilee) and laws:
Because Anderson has sold the ancient scheme of Nimrod who attempted to "make spiritual changes through external means" even when the Holy Spirit did not supply the methodology he has learned from the secular (and neo-pagan) world, does he literally speak great (to siddle off) words against the most high?
When the dominant clergy who have usurped the role of the people and even of God totally wander away (and even change their name), the "one another" ministry of the Christian system will be restored:
But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy (wander away and lose oneself) and it unto the end. Daniel 7:26
And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. Daniel 7:27
If that could be paralleled to our time it might offer hope that the clergy whom Jesus fired "laded" the people down like pack animals. The burden is defined by the Greek as "spiritual anxiety created by religious ritual." Hopefully, the clergy can be fired again and the people will take dominion.
The horn which "rises above the plain" in his little Armageddon as he does pollemic battle to afflict and wear out the people, is:
Qeren (h7162)keh'-ren; corresp. to 7161; a horn (lit. or for sound): - horn, cornet.
Qeren (h7161) keh'-ren; from 7160; a horn (as projecting); by impl. a flask, cornet; by resembl. an elephant's tooth (i. e. ivory), a corner (of the altar), a peak (of a mountain), a ray (of light); fig. power: - * hill, horn.
Bela (h1080) bel-aw'; corresp. to 1086 (but used only in a mental sense); to afflict: - wear out. (Literally, to make old)
And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. Rev 17:9
And there are seven (7) kings: five are fallen, and one is (+1), and the other is not yet come (+1 makes nine); and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. Rev 17:10
In Revelation, the horns are:
That is why the PSALLO word as authority to deliberately sow discord has as its first meaning making war from Apollo or Apollyon of Revelation. The second major use of the word identifies the red rope which marks as polluted those who dally around the singers, players and merchants in the market place and forced to attend the ekklesia which was for verbal instruction
- Keras means
- 2. of musical instruments, a horn for blowing, Xen.: a flute, Luc.
- 3. a drinking-horn, Xen.
- Keras
- 1. bow, toxon enôma . . peirômenos . . mê kera ipes edoien Od. 21.395 , cf. Theoc.25.206, Call.Epigr.38, AP6.75 (Paul.Sil.); for Il.11.385 v. infr. v.l.
- 2. of musical instruments, horn for blowing, sêmênai tôi kerati
Semenai is the MARK or SEAL of the Beast which is MUSIC to help those musical agents take captive the churches.
When Israel ROSE UP TO PLAY with musical festivals they repudiated God who had built them like a vineyard with fences to WALL OUT the beast or evil people. He built watchtowers from which people could blow the WARNING TRUMPET in case of invasion. However, the musical religious festivals caused God to BREAK DOWN THE WALLS to let the beast people come end and eat up their inheritance. Satan's helpers do that peacable churches. Here is the meaning of the FRUITS which the end time religion LUSTS AFTER:
And since he was the inferior in wealth and property, by means of which Cimon would win over the poor,--furnishing a dinner every day to any Athenian who wanted it, bestowing raiment on the elderly men, and removing the fences from his estates that whosoever wished might pluck the fruit,--
Pericles, outdone in popular arts of this sort,
had recourse to the distribution of the people's own wealth. This was on the advice of Damonides, of the deme Oa, as Aristotle has stated.[3] And soon, what with festival-grants and jurors' wages and other fees and largesses, he bribed the multitude by the wholesale, and used them in opposition to the Council of the Areiopagus. Of this body he himself was not a member, since the lot had not made him either First Archon, or Archon Thesmothete, or King Archon, or Archon Polemarch. These offices were in ancient times filled by lot, and through them those who properly acquitted themselves were promoted into the Areiopagus. [4] For this reason all the more did Pericles, strong in the affections of the people, lead a successful party against the Council of the Areiopagus.
Not only was the Council robbed of most of its jurisdiction by Ephialtes, but Cimon also, on the charge of being a lover of Sparta and a hater of the people, was ostracized, --a man who yielded to none in wealth and lineage, who had won most glorious victories over the Barbarians, and had filled the city full of money and spoils, as is written in his Life. Such was the power of Pericles among the people.
Jesus cast out the musical minstrels like dung and consigned the pipers, singers and dancers to the Agora or marketplace. He did the same with those taking up collections to be diverted:
And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Fathers house an house of merchandise. Jn.2:16
Emporion (g1712) em-por'-ee-on; neut. from 1713; a mart ("emporium"): - merchandise.
Emporos (g1713) em'-por-os; from 1722 and the base of 4198; a (wholesale) tradesman: - merchant.Emporos ê kapêlos: wholesale or retail dealer. This comparison often appears in Plato (cf. Soph. 223 d, 224 d, 231 d) and in later writers. On the terms, see Rep. ii. 371 d ê ou kapêlous kaloumen tous pros ônên te kai prasin diakonountas hidrumenous en agorai (those engaged in buying and selling, sitting in the market-place), tous de planêtas epi tas poleis emporous; Soph. 223 d, Polit. 289 e. Becker Charicles (Göll) ii. 183 ff. -
Hawking pôl-eô sell oneself across the counter, sold at a high price for exportation,
b. sell or farm out offices, priesthoods, etc., [tas archas] Arist.Ath.62.1; epi toisde pôloumen tên hierôsunên tou Dionusou SIG 1003.2 (Priene, ii B.C.).Of those who see preaching or music as a religious trade Peter warned:
2 Cor 2:17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
2 Cor 2:17NKJ For we are not, as so many, peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ
1 Tim 6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
Porismos (g4200) por-is-mos'; from a der. of poros, (a way, i.e. means); furnishing (procuring), i.e. (by impl.) money-getting (acquisition): por-ismos earning a living,Kapêl-euô ,A. to be a retail-dealer, drive a petty trade, mathêmata sell learning by retail, hawk it about, of prostitute.
Adulterantes verbum, Vulg. 2 Cor. 2, 1
Adultero ri, fraudare, II. Fig., to falsify, adulterate, or give a foreign nature to a thing, to counterfeit,Malachi 2:11 Judah hath dealt treacherously,
............ and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem;
............ for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved,
............ and hath married the daughter of a strange god.Profaned: h2490. chalal, khaw-lal´; to profane (a person, place or thing).. denom. (from 2485) to play (the flute): take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
Now see how this MODEL is used by Satan in the end-times "religion"
It is clear that these methods of change agentry are borrowed from Babylon where Nimord promised "spiritual revival through external means." In the book of Revelation, the Babylonian system, which was an unholy marriage of religion with commercialism, will come to an end:
And the fruits (Catamites) that thy soul lusted (breathed hard) after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all. Revelation 18:14
And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; Revelation 18:22
THUS hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. Amos 8:1
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. Amos 8:2
A basket:
Keluwb (h3619) kel-oob'; from the same as 3611; a bird-trap (as furnished with a clap-stick or treadle to spring it); hence a basket (as resembling a wicker cage): - basket, cage.
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. Je.5:27
Keleb (h3611) keh'leb; from an unused root mean. to yelp, or else to attack; a dog; hence (by euphemism) a male prostitute: - dog.
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly [multitude, swarm] of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. Ps.22:16
Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. Is.56:11
And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the Lord: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy. Je.15:3
The Latin translates the taking of fruit as:
- Similar Latin:
revello, velli, vulsum or volsum, 3, v. a., to pluck or pull away, to pull or tear out, to tear off or away (freq. and class.).
I. Lit. be torn away, remove,
II. Trop., to tear away, send away injurias honorificis verbis,
Signum: A sign, signal; a watchword, password, given by a wind-instrument.As little mountains of Armageddon they can be identified by the word:
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). (honorable men, magnify, marriage utterly wear out from g5375) (Ancient Jubilees were to take away sins)
Remember that the mountain of armageddon are people who rise up, lift up and exhalt themselves above the plain. This final battle is not the war of the worlds. Rather, it is the war of the words. The battle is from the Greek-
Polemeo (g4170) pol-em-eh'-o; from 4171; to be (engaged) in warfare, i.e. to battle (lit. or fig.): - fight, (make) war.
Polemic is from the Greek "polemikos" and means a war: "to shake, cause to tremble, dispute, controversial, argumentative. A polimicist is one "skilled in making war." (Webster) (I.e. a skilled change agent)
And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs (toads) come out of the mouth (edge of a weapon) of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. Re 16:13
The task of the false triad are "spirits of demons." The task is to "work miracles" to gather the "kings" of the earth where they will be defeated.
About 1255 London "The depiction of the great red dragon and the leopard like beast is based on details provided in the text. The artist represents the false prophet, whose physical appearance is not described, with a beaked nose, simian body, cloven hooves, and diabolical-looking red talons. With splay-legged frogs flying from their mouths, these three creatures confront Saint John, who stands to the left.He raises his left arm in defense while with his right hand he pulls on his forehead, as if he must force his eyes open to witness the terrors that have come to the earth as part of the Last Judgment. This gesture draws attention to the saint's large open eyes, emphasizing the role of sight in visionary experience." Getty Edu.
When you see Satan or Lucifer unveiled you see something which dazzles the eyes. He/she is at the same time so utterly disgusging and so "fascinating" that you cannot take your eyes of him her:
"You might hear many poor wretches of sophists, shouting and abusing each other, and their disciples, as they call them, squabbling; and many writers of books reading their stupid compositions, and many poets singing their poems, and many jugglers (buffoons) exhibiting their marvels, and many soothsayers giving the meaning of prodigies, and then a thousand rhetoricians twisting lawsuits, and no small number of traders driving their several trades. (William Barclay)
Paul called the SUPER APOSTLES. It is not surprizing that many see themselves as APOSTLES or even Christs:
Huperlian , Adv. beyond measure, exceedingly, sophos Eust.1396.42; to hu. Id.1184.18 ; hoi hu. apostoloi the 'super-Apostles', 2 Ep.Cor. 11.5, 12.11.
Sophos
I. properly, skilled in any handicraft or art, cunning in his craft, Theogn., etc; of a charioteer, Pind.; of poets and musicians, id=Pind.; of a soothsayer, Soph., etc.
2. clever in matters of common life, wise, prudent, shrewd... better than all craft, Soph.; sophon [esti] c. inf., Eur.
This is the same OPHIS or Musical Enchanter in the garden of Eden.
Ophis-teia, sophistry, mantikê, of Balaam, mantikê means divination, soothsayer
The Greek PSALLO has the primary meanint of to TWANG a bow string to send a SINGING arrow into your heart. Apollo who is Abaddon or Apollyon working for the end-time prostitute religion was the father of "twanging bow strings, singing arrows, musical harmony, thieves and liars. He specialized in the SEEKER SYSTEM at the Oracle of Delphi:
1 The arrow sped from Apollo's gold-wrought string is called a "winged glistening snake" because it stings like a serpent's bite. There is also a latent word-play: ophis "snake" suggests ios "snake's poison" which also means "arrow."
sOPHISts cunning speakers are the real ophis a serpent, snake, Il., Hdt., Trag.:--metaph., ptênon ophin, of an arrow, opphis, ocheô
ptênos I. feathered, winged,
2. ta ptêna winged CREATURES, fowls, birds, id=Aesch., Trag.; ptênon ornithôn genos Ar.; ptanai thêrai chase of winged game, Soph.The sOPHISts or rhetoricians and especially the MUSICIANS are the sorcerers or poisoners who used MUSIC pharmakos, poisoner, sorcerer, magician
pharmak-eus , eôs, ho, poisoner, sorcerer, S.Tr.1140, Pl.Smp.203d, etc.; gnêsioi sophistai
sophis-tês , ou, ho, master of one's craft, adept, expert, of diviners, Hdt.2.49; of poets, meletan sophistais prosbalon Pi.I.5(4).28 , cf. Cratin.2; of musicians, sophistês. A sophist (in bad sense), a quibbler, cheat
See Adam Clarks "simian" role for the Nachash or "whispering spirit" or "musical facilitator) in the garden of Eden. And the Hephaestus and baboon or connection. Hespaestus is Vulcan or "Tubal-Cain" the descendant of Cain and half brother of Jubal.
The frogs created by the miracle workers in Egypt were called "marsh-leapers." It comes from a word meaning to "skip about." They will come hopping into your house, bedchamber, thy bed, thy people and they ovens. In short, they are uninvited and detestable but they take over. An Egyptian goddess, Heqa, was represented as having a frog head.
These kings for an hour are really frogs and they are not what they are quacked up to be. They are-
"Quacks were represented as frogs and were associated metaphorically with serpents." (Vine) (Marsh-leapers in Hebrew)
Lord Jesus Christ came to take the keys to knowledge away from those who had taken the Word away from the people of the Kingdom. He denounced the clergy and said that we should call no man "Doctor of the Law" or Rabbi. Instead, He came to relieve His people of the burdens of the clergy and the burdens they laid on the congregation as prayerful brinkmanship. He said:
Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Matthew11:28
The Burden He removed is the burden Lynn Anderson and the musical worshipers try to lay on the congregation even if it takes a long time and a lot of dangerous plotting:
Phortizo (g5412) for-tid'-zo; from 5414; to load up (prop. as aa vessel or animal), i.e. figurative (of Lynn's Change Agentry) to overburden with ceremony (or spiritual anxiety): - lade, be heavy laden.
The peace and load-lifting Jesus died to give the least of us was:
Anapauo (g373) an-up-ow'-o; from 303 and 3973; (reflex.) to repose (lit. or fig. [be exempt], remain); by impl. to refresh: - take ease, refresh, (give, take) rest.
But How does this Fit the Change Agents
First, understand that Jubilee 98, Jubilee 99, Look to the Hills sponsored by the Zoe Group, Willow Creek and other schemes need men as Change Agents who have been trained in the disciplines of music, drama and mind-change facilitation.
For instance, Lyle Schaller and other business builders for the church propose that to meet the 21st Century you need a leader to whom people stick:
Team leader (Pastor):
Full-time, paid. A magnetic personality, networker, entrepreneur, who attracts a diversity of people.
Worship leader: Full-time, paid. Recruiter of various types of indigenous music. The primary responsibility is to recruit unchurched people who just happen to like singing, playing an instrument, being involved with drama, running the sound system, or generating computer graphics. From.
Indigigenous means "produced naturally." That, too, fits the ancient pattern.
The Change Agent Team at Woodmont Hills
Position Title: Worship Facilitation Minister
"Work with the worship planning committee, the preaching minister and worship presentation groups (music, drama and technical) to facilitate group worship experiences which will help bring worshipers into the presence of God.
Facilitation meaning 2. Psychologically increased ease of performance of any action resulting from the lessening of nerve resistance by the continued successive application of the necessary stimulation." (Webster).
Experience and Training:
Minimum of Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in performing arts (music, drama, directing, theatrical programming).
Affinity for wide range of musical a capella styles (classical to contemporary).
Well developed personal theology of worship.
Experience in planning and presenting worship activities.
Program planning and coordination experience.
Adept in committee work and cooperative work experiences.
Program: "The acts, speeches, musical pieces, etc. that make up an holy entertainment or ceremony." WebsterWhile we don't doubt their sincerity and perhaps they subconsciously adopt naturally-appealing methods, Lynn Anderson or Rubel Shelly's "upset the equilibrium" and "prayerful brinkmanship" could have been copied from the following neo-pagan resource. This attempt to facilitate and cleanse ancient witchcraft recommends the following agents of holy entertainment:
"Liturgist, Seer and Priest are the clergy specialties eligible for ordination. They will have a foundation in the same basic skills. In addition to those skills, the Liturgist will specialize in scholarship.
"He will draw his magical inspiration from uncovering what the ancients did in their rituals and adapting them to our own.
He will also have a strong base in drama, so he understands how dramatic principles apply to the making of effective ritual.
"The Seer, by contrast, will draw his magical inspiration more directly from his contact with the Otherworld. He will concentrate more on divination (music is important ks) and trancework, to allow him
"to better guide the congregation in making personal contact with the three kindreds.
"The Seer will also have a fair amount of counseling training, both to help monitor people during ritual, and to perform in that role if need be when his divination skills are requested outside the context of ritual.
"The Priest is trained to lead a congregation. Rather than the concentrations of the liturgist and seer, he has a basic knowledge of all the clerical skills, plus other skills needed to run a church like fundraising, group process, etc.
"The Magical specialty is for all those who wish to be trained in magic whose primary interest is not in becoming clergy,
but in learning the wider applications of magic, whether it applies to themselves and performing their own rituals, or in enhancing their contributions to public rites, or as it applies to others in dealing with more personal issues.
"The Bardic specialty is for all those who wish to perform the bardic function in ritual. This function is to enhance the magical efficacy of each step in our rites through the use of bardic magic.
The meaning of holy entertainment:
A bard is "A Celtic poet and singer of epic poems, who accompanied himself on the harp" (Webster)
"The main function of music in the early times of biblical history were social merrymaking, marital noisemaking, magic incantation, and worship. Merry-making in particular was the main function of music during the age of patriarchs and judges (e.G. Gen. 31:27; Exod. 32:17-18; Judg. 11:34-35), sometimes even licentiously practiced (e.G., Isa. 23:16). (The Int. Std. Bible Dict., p. 457).
"Certain members of a tribe, marked out either by unusual skills or by some (sexual or) emotional abnormality,
ususally became particularly adept at these operations, and gradually assumed specialized functions.
Released from the duty of hunting (evangelizing), and concentrating on the practice of magic, the shaman, sorcerer, or medicine man was the world's first professional." (H. B. Parkes, Men and Gods, p. 29).The worship facilitator is to "help lead the worshiper into the presence of God." However, Arnobius warned that:
"May it not happen, may it not come to pass, although you craftily conceal it, that the one should take the other's place, deluding, mocking, deceiving, and presenting the appearance of the deity invoked."
"If the magi, who are so much akin to soothsayers, relate, in their incantations, pretended gods steal in frequently instead of those invoked; that some of these, moreover, are spirits of grosser substance, who pretend that they are gods, and delude the ignorant by their lies and deceit." (Arnobius Against the Heathen, Ante-Nicene, VI, p. 479).
The state festivals, funerals, "marrying and giving in marriage," the theater and the temple, therefore, used many of the same rituals and--
"They resemble each other also in their pomp, having the same processional to the scene of their display from temples and altars, and that mournful profusion of incense and blood, with music of pipes and trumpets,
all under the direction of the soothsayer and the undertaker, those two foul masters of funeral rites and sacrifices." (Tertullian, de Spectaculis, Ante-Nicene, III, p. 84).
We suggest (letting our consciousness stream) that "lifting holy hands as a ritual with song and dance" is a real substitute for the incense and blood which, apparently, the sacrifice of Christ did not end.
Arnobius warns that these magical rites (Jesus warned against the fertility rites of wedding and funeral played by the musical children called clergy) have their second incarnation and get a new wineskin because their old schemes don't work as they have never worked. In order to increase the attendance and contribution, they mark out certain professionals to become Musical Worship Teams. The result is that the old "patterns" which they destroyed are replaced with new, destructive "paradigmns" but the fools cannot tell the difference.
23. But the true gods, and those who are worthy to have and to wear the dignity of this name, neither conceive anger nor indulge a grudge, nor do they contrive by insidious devices what may be hurtful to another party.
For verily it is profane, and surpasses all acts of sacrilege, to believe that that wise and most blessed nature is uplifted in mind
if one prostrates himself before it in humble adoration;
and if this adoration be not paid,
that it deems itself despised, and regards itself
as fallen from the pinnacle of its glory.It is childish, weak, and petty, and scarcely becoming for those whom the experience of learned men has for a long time called demigods and heroes, 37 not to be versed in heavenly things, and, divesting themselves of their own proper state, to be busied with the coarser matter of earth.
Note 37: So Ursinus, followed by Heraldus, LB., and Orelli, for the ms. errores, which Stewechius would change into errones -" vagrants "-referring to the spirits wandering over the earth: most other edd., following Gelenius, read, "called demigods, that these indeed"- daemonas appellat, et hos, etc.
"Nay, rather, to speak out more truly, the augurs, the dream interpreters, the soothsayers, the prophets, and the priestlings, ever vain, have devised these fables; for they,
fearing that their own arts be brought to nought, and that they may extort but scanty contributions from the devotees,
now few and infrequent, whenever they have found you to be willing that their craft should come into disrepute, cry aloud,the Gods are neglected, and in the temples there is now a very thin attendance.
"For ceremonies are exposed to derision, and the time-honoured rites of institutions once sacred have sunk before the superstitions of new religions. And men--a senseless race--being unable, from their inborn blindness, to see even that which is placed in open light,
dare to assert in their frenzy what you in your sane mind do not blush to believes." (Arnobius, Against the Heathen, Ante-Nicene Fathers, VI, p. 418).
That is what I thought when I watched Jubilee 98 on my computer screen. Without blushing, Rubel Shelly told the old blasphemous joke about how Father and Spirit "aced out" Son who got tricked into comming to earth to do the work. I still shudder and blush at what happens when the frenzy -- possible only in large crowds -- takes control. Holy Entertainment!
When Isaiah's prophecy comes true that "women and children rule over you" this does not just mean women in the pulpit or preaching over the congregation with a tune and male swingers and swayers and hand lifters giving her authority. Rather, it means that effeminate pagan forces take control.
From a Neo-pagan resource, the ritual facilitator notes that:
"Throughout this essay and the ones that follow, I'll refer to the "performance" of a ritual, and make numerous other references to the theatrical and musical aspects of ceremonies.
"I've learned over the last twenty years, mostly from the priestesses and bards with whom I've worked, that the artistic elements of a ritual, and most especially the musical and dramatic ones,
"can be the critical determiners of just how much psychic, magical and/or spiritual energy gets raised by the participants, and of how well that energy is maintained, focussed and discharged.
"We've been raised in a culture that believes that "theatrical" equals "phony", and that being an actor means being a fraud. We've forgotten that
what we now call theater was originally part of the Ancient Greek religion (translate: Pagan):
(essentially, a way to handle thousands of people in a single ceremony),"and that all great performers act as mediums, channeling energy between themselves, the audience and the collective unconscious.
Oops! There goes my stream of consciousness again. Did you know that Jubal (rhymes with ---) the name of the ancient trumpet and Jubilee festival taught people how to handle instruments and people. The Hebrew is:
Taphas (h8610) taw-fas'; a prim. root; to manipulate, i. e. seize; chiefly to capture, wield; spec. to overlay; fig. to use unwarrantably: - catch, handle,
By Roberta Walther Dancer-Mediatrix
We are called to be kings and priests (I Peter 2:9). In this study I would like to focus especially on the priesthood and some of the functions which they were responsible for, as well as how these functions relate to dance particularly in regards to intercession Webster's defines a priest as,
"One authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion;
especially as a mediatory agent between man and God."
- This is what most theatrical performers claim: the power to move you into the presence of God. Therefore, consistent with the Zoe Group Concept, they are the feminine or effeminate goddesses on a level higher than Jesus Christ. Eve or Sophia or Zoe were the mediatrix, the Mother of the gods:
- However, Paul said:
- Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. 1 Tim 2:4
- For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;1 Tim 2:5
- Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. 1 Tim 2:6
- "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6
"As dancers we have a calling to be signs and symbols to the people of God and to the world. We are to manifest His character (i.e. we are idols) in every step that we dance and every gesture that we make.
In our priestly duties as dancers we have an incredible resposibility.
We not only bring the offerings of the people to God, but as we dance we alsoprovide a platform for God to step down upon in order to touch His people with His presence....
I see us as a bridge between God and man, and bridges do get walked upon! So if we are to be anointed vessels of honor used for His glory, then we must not shy away from the fiery trials of purification that will surely come our way. As our lives are, so will our dance be!
However:
"Shamanism often exists alongside and even in cooperation with the religious or healing practices of the community....Knowledge of other realms of being and consciousness and the cosmology of those regions is the basis of the shamanic perspective and power. With this knowledge,
- the shaman is able to serve as a bridge between the mundane and the higher and lower states.
- The shaman lives at the edge of reality as most people would recognize it and most commonly at the edge of society itself." - Dean Edwards, "Shamanism-General Overview"
And in Witchcraft:
"The circle above represents a circle of spirits, joined in prayer, standing around a healing light. Half are in body; half are in Spirit. They have joined hands,
- forming a bridge between the two worlds. Our faith tells us that once you entered this page, a link with Spirit has, indeed, been established. Please Click Here Before You Endanger Your Soul.
"It's difficult for those of us who are white, middleclass intellectuals (and that's most Neopagans) to relax and be dramatic in our rituals. So we tend to be inhibited both in our scripts and our performances,and to not bother to learn the dramatic skills we need -- including the scripting, directing, and acting skills necessary to make sure that everyone feels involved at every step of the ritual (so that no "performer vs. audience" distinction develops).
Yet if we can manage to overcome our inhibitions, our prejudices, and our laziness, our ceremonies will improve a thousandfold in power, beauty, and glory.
A Working Model of Change Agentry Wearing Out the Saints of God
Modern facilitators consciously or subconsciously (unconsciously?) land in downtown Babylon. This, indeed, is the prediction of the book of Revelation. To see how this fits ancient and end-time Babylonian religion Click Here.
As an example of forced change agentry, Lynn Anderson, Navigating the Winds of Change, p. 104 puts the audience through three forms of "worship." The first was the Old Path led by the Song Leader as he admits that he is trying to force something against the will of the majority of the congregation (This is god-like presumption):
