BUILDING THE FOUNDATION:
Chrysostom
is used to DEFEND the use of instrumental music contrary to
all of his writings. For
instance.
In
the Treatise adv.
Judaeos,
iv. §6.
tom. i. 624. C. St. Chrysostom gives this account of the legal
sacrifices: "To what purpose unto Me is the multitude of your
sacrifices? etc. (Isaiah i., 11, ff.)
Do ye hear how it is most
plainly declared, that God
did not
from the
first require
these at your hands? Had He required them, He would have obliged those
famous saints who were before
the Law to observe this practice.
Then
wherefore
has
He
permitted
it now? In condescension to your infirmity.
As a physician in his
treatment of a delirious patient, etc.: thus did
God likewise. For
seeing them so
frantic in
their lust
for
sacrifices,
that
they
were ready, unless they got them,
to desert
to
idols:
nay
not
only ready,
but
that they had
already deserted, thereupon
He permitted
sacrifices. And
that this is the reason, is clear from the order of events.
After the feast which they made to
the demons, then it was
that He permitted sacrifices: all but saying: `Ye are mad, and will needs
sacrifice: well then, at any
rate sacrifice to Me. 0'"-(What follows may serve to illustrate the
brief remark a little further on, Kai h aixmalwsia kathgoria thj
kakiaj.)
"But
even this, He did not
permit to continue to the end, but by a most wise method, withdrew
them
from it ...
For He did not permit it to be
done in any place of the whole world,
but
in Jerusalem only.
Anon, when for a short time
they had sacrificed,
he destroyed the city.
Had He openly said, Desist, they, such was
their insane passion for sacrificing,
would not readily have
complied. But now perforce, the place
being taken away, He
secretly
withdrew them from their frenzy."
So here:
"Even the captivity impeaches the wickedness (which was the
cause of the permission of
sacrifice.")
IN 2 CHRONICLES 28 Ahaz
violated
this QUARANTINE from all but the Civil-Military-Clergy Cult
2Chr. 28:22 And in the time of his
distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king
Ahaz.
2Chr. 28:23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which
smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria
help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me.
But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
2Chr. 28:24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God,
and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the
doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner
of Jerusalem.
2Chr. 28:25 And in every several city of Judah he made high places to
burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his
fathers.
Molech
. . .
Chiun--"Molech"
means "king" answering to Mars
[BENGEL]; the Sun [JABLONSKI]; Saturn, the
same as "Chiun" [MAURER]. The Septuagint
translates "Chiun"
into Remphan, as
Stephen quotes it (Ac 7:42,43). The same god often had different
names.
Molech is the Ammonite name; Chiun,
the Arabic and Persian name, written also Chevan. In an Arabic lexicon Chiun
means "austere"; so astrologers represented Saturn as a planet baleful in his influence. Hence the
Phoenicians offered
human sacrifices to
him, children especially; so idolatrous Israel also. Rimmon was the Syrian name (2Ki 5:18);
pronounced as Remvan, or "Remphan,"
just as Chiun
was also Chevan.
Molech had the form of a king; Chevan,
or Chiun, of a star
[GROTIUS]. Remphan was
the Egyptian name for Saturn: hence
the Septuagint translator of Amos gave the Egyptian name for the Hebrew,
being an Egyptian. [HODIUS II, De Bibliorum Textibus Originalibus. 4.115].
2Kings 5:18 In this
thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the
house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow
myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of
Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
The
same as the Nile, of which the Egyptians made the star Saturn
the representative [HARENBERG]. BENGEL considers Remphan or Rephan
akin to Teraphim and Remphis, the
name of a king of Egypt.
The Hebrews became
infected with Sabeanism, the oldest form of idolatry, the
worship of the Saba or starry hosts, in their stay in the Arabian desert,
where Job notices its prevalence (Job 31:26); in opposition, in Am 5:27, Jehovah declares Himself "the God of hosts."
the star of your
god--R. ISAAC CARO says
all the astrologers represented Saturn
as the star of Israel. Probably there was a figure of a star on the head of the image of the idol, to represent
the planet Saturn;
hence "images"
correspond to "star" in the parallel clause. A star in hieroglyphics
represents God (Nu
24:17). "Images" are either a Hebraism for "image," or refer to the
many images made to represent Chiun.
27.
beyond
Damascus--In Ac 7:43 it
is "beyond Babylon,"
which includes beyond
Damascus. In Amos time,
Damascus was the object of Israel's fear because of the Syrian wars.
Babylon was not yet named as the place of their captivity.
Stephen
supplies this name.
Their place of exile was
in fact, as he states,
"beyond
Babylon," in Halah and
Habor by the river Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes (2Ki 17:6;
compare here Am 1:5 4:3 6:14). The road to Assyria lay through
"Damascus." It is therefore specified, that not merely shall they be
carried captives to Damascus, as they had been by Syrian kings
(2Ki
10:32,33 13:7),
but, beyond
that, to a region whence a
return was not so
possible as from
Damascus.
They were led captive by
Satan into idolatry,
therefore God caused them to go captive among idolaters.
Compare 2Ki 15:29
16:9 Isa 8:4,
whence it appears Tiglath-pileser attacked Israel and Damascus at the
same time at Ahaz' request (Am 3:1).
IN 2 CHRONICLES 29 a
plague has broken out and Hezekiah proposes to purge the city and
temple of the previous pagan worship. This was not an approved
PATTERNISM for instrumental worship in the church: the animal slaughter
including the burnt offering of goats as a "unity" gesture to Israel
was the occasion for the returned Military Levites to make a great
noise with their instruments. Christ in the prophets correct the
false preachers:
After the people rose up to play in musical idolatry, the Law of Moses
was given to govern a nation turned over to worship the starry host.
Therefore, Jeremiah by the Spirit of Christ
Jer. 7:21 Thus
saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel;
Put your burnt
offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
Jer. 7:22 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:
Jer. 7:23 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.
Jer. 7:24 But 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.
Is.
1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom;
give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Rev.
11:8 And their dead bodies shall
lie in the street of the great city,
which
spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also
our Lord was crucified.
Is. 1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me?
saith the LORD:
I am full of the burnt
offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts;
and I delight not
in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Is. 1:12 When ye come to appear before me,
who hath
required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
Is.
1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an
abomination unto me;
the new moons and sabbaths, the
calling of assemblies, I cannot away
with;
it is iniquity, even the
solemn meeting.
Is. 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth:
they
are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
The people not of Levi were
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.
Because the false teachers REST on the curse of the Law and the
Monarchy, the elders, preachers and artistic performers would be
executed.
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.
[never IN]
H8334
sharath
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‛abodah
‛abodoh
ab-o-daw',
ab-o-daw'
From H5647 ; work of any kind:--act, bondage, +
bondservant, effect, labour, ministering (-try),
H5647‛abad aw-bad' keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel,
do, dress, ear, execute
"Neither must the children
of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of
the congregation,
lest they bearsin, and die. Numbers 18:22
The sacrificial system was
imposed on the Levites as a curse or burden.
Num
18:23
But
the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the
congregation,
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.
That this was a curse
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
7:23
But 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.
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