I. a foreteller, soothsayer,
prophet (post-class.; cf. “vates): prophetas in Adrasto Julius nominat antistites fanorum oraculorumque interpretes,” Fest. p. 229 Müll. (Trag. Rel.
p. 194 Rib.): “prophetae quidam, deorum majestate completi, effantur ceteris, quae divino beneficio soli vident, App. de Mundo, p. 56, 29: sacerdotes Aegyptiorum, quos prophetas vocant,” Macr. S. 7, 13, 9: “Aegyptius, propheta primarius,” App. M. 2, p. 127, 3.—Of the
Jewish prophets, Lact. 1, 4, 1;
4, 11, 1; 7, 24, 9; Vulg. Luc. 1, 70.
Jay Guin Instrumental Music Old Testament
Instrumental Music in the Old Testament: Part 2 (Worship)
See early Review of Instrumental Music in the Old Testament: Part 3
Posted on February 17, 2011 by Jay Guin
David sang, played, danced and went naked with the loose women: the clothing and style of dance is clearly defined as "in the style of women." David was a unique person! The picture represents the women in Egypt whose styles were brought to Mount Sinai where they rose up to play in musical idolatry and Aaron made them naked. The golden calf, Apis, represented the Egyptian trinity: many of the rituals performed by the Civil-Military-Priestly class are defined as the worship of Isis. Why doubt it if the Bible and scholarship understands that when God "turned them over to worship the starry host" then the WORSHIP was that of the starry host. Because the "mother goddess" is featured throughout the Old and New Testament--Amos "the lusted after fruits" and in Revelation 17 who in Revelation 18 uses the same "lusted after fruits" as rhetoricians, singers and instrument players John called sorcerers, there is no doubt that most religionism or christianism is both the mark and cause of the effeminate. Christ in Isaiah 3 warned us.Ben Sirach and all recorded evidence denies that.
Life is sweet for the self-reliant and the worker,
but he who finds treasure is better off than both. Ecclesiasticus 40:18.Children and the building of a city establish a man's name,
but a blameless wife is accounted better than both. Ecclesiasticus 40: 19.Wine and music gladden the heart,
The flute and the harp make pleasant melody,
but the love of wisdom is better than both. Ecclesiasticus 40: 20.
but a pleasant voice is better than both. Ecclesiasticus 40: 21.
[Aristot. Pol. 8.1338a [1] But leisure seems itself to contain pleasure and happiness and felicity of life. And this is not possessed by the busy but by the leisured; for the busy man busies himself for the sake of some end as not being in his possession, but happiness is an end achieved, which all men think is accompanied by pleasure and not by pain
WHY MUSIC AUTOMATICALLY AND OFTEN DELIBERATELY SOWS DISCORD WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF THE OWNERS.
Sound Doxology: The Effeminate Worship Leader
Metrosexual is a neologism derived from metropolitan and heterosexual coined in 1994 describing a man (especially one living in a post-industrial, capitalist culture) who displays behavior stereotypically associated with homosexual men (such as a strong concern for his appearance), although he is not homosexual. Debate surrounds the term's use as a theoretical signifier of sex deconstruction and its associations with consumerism.
Plato warned that men performing women's roles (all religious performing acts) will lead to gender-bleed.
ACappella Worship Leaders
Isa 3:12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
5953. ALAL, aw-lal´to effect thoroughly; specifically, to glean (also figuratively); by implication (in a bad sense) to overdo, i.e. maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose (also literal): abuse, affect, x child, defile, do, glean, mock, practise, thoroughly, work (wonderfully).
5954 THRUSTING youself, 5955 Grape Gleaning.
chALAL wound, profane, play flute, take inheritance, gather the grapes, playe on an instruments, pollute PROSTITUTE.
Women oppressors
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.
Nagash (h5066) naw-gash'; a prim. root; to be or come (causat. bring) near (for any purpose); euphem. to lie with a woman; as an enemy,
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 book of Psalms contain new doctrine after the Law of Moses. And after the writing of Moses, it is the second book of doctrine... (David) first gave to the Hebrews a new style of psalmody, why which he abrogates the ordinances established by Moses with respect to sacrifices,
and introduces the new hymn and a new style of jubilant praise in the worship of God;
and throughout his whole ministry he teaches very many other things that went beyond the law of Moses." (Fragment of Commentary by Hippolytus, bishop of Rome, Ante-Nicene, V, p. 170)
"The trained musicians which eventually appear around the time of David and Solomon mark a distinctive change in the history of Jewish music. Before this time much of the music was made by women." (Zondervan Pict., Music p. 313).
Women's singing was a vital part of all pagan worship. In very early times women became priestly singers of the gods in the temple.
"Women and girls from the different ranks of society were proud to enter the service of the gods as singers and musicians. The understanding of this service was universal: these singers constituted the 'harem of the gods'." (Quasten)
Ancient literature from Babylonian tablets and beyond agree with Johannes Quasten. In Music and Worship in Pagan and Christian Antiquity, beginning on page 41 He uses many of the church Fathers and Classical resources we also rely upon:
"Philodemus considered it paradoxical that music should be regarded as veneration of the gods while musicians were paid for performing this so-called veneration. Again, Philodemus held as self deceptive the view that music mediated religious ecstasy. He saw the entire condition induced by the noise of cymbals and tambourines as a disturbance of the spirit.
He found it significant that, on the whole, only women and effeminate men fell into this folly.
Accordingly, nothing of value could be attributed to music; it was no more than a slave of the sensation of pleasure, which satisfied much in the same way that food and drink did.
Therefore, before we get to Mount Zion we need to get Out of Egypt. God rescued the Israelites from Egypt by pure grace: He gave them The Book of The Covenant but the people refused to hear God and demanded Moses as mediator. Moses went up on Sinai to get The Book of The Covenant in written form. This Covenant insisted that the keep the sabbath which means rest and not worship. Operating without instruction (silence) they restored the ancient worship of the triad under Apis the golden calf. When Moses came down he heard the "singing" in the camp and knew that they had fallen back into musical idolatry.
See Mount Sinai for the fall from Grace because of musical idolatry.
Christ repudiated the later Monarchy and spoke through the Prophets (only). He defined the meaning of the Mount Sinai fall.
Exodus 32 defines the fall from grace because of musical idolatry and their conditional sentence "beyond Babylon" for captivity and death.
God gave them The Book of the Law but there was no provision for any kind of "musical" instruments: the two silver trumpets were reserved for sending "certain" signals.
The Tabernacle was declared off limits to all but the tribe of Levi: any Levite who went near any holy thing or place was to be executed.
Christ ordained the Qahal, synagogue or Church of Christ in the wilderness.
It was INCLUSIVE of Rest, Reading and Rehearsing the Word of God (only)
It was EXCLUSIVE of vocal or instrumental rejoicing.
The synagogue never changed and was exampled by Jesus and commanded by the word "ekklesia."
Paul uses synagogue for all of the assemblying or gatherings for instruction only.
Therefore, you would need a direct command to ADD instrumental noise when Christ comes to be our only Teacher
when the elders "teach that which has been taught.
The godly people KEPT the Sabbath or REST day and were never permitted in the city gates during the horrors of not-commanded animal sacrifices.
WHY ALL HISTORIC SCHOLARS BUT ALMOST NO RESTORATION PREACHERS GRASP ABOUT THE MONARCHY.
I don't know of a historic Church Father who did not understand simply by reading the Bible that, as Christ made clear, God did not command king, kingdom, temple, animal sacrifices or the instrumental noise associated with the sacrifices.
Here are the only two I know about.
Coffman's Commentary Speaks for the total Bible view that Israel's rejection of God as King, Judge and Priest set the stage for their later repudiation of Jesus Christ in order to keep the evil Temple-System like all other nations. Remember that the clergy was still seeking a king "like the nations" and had not a hint of looking for a Spiritual King, Prince and Mediator:
The great Cambridge scholar, Henry McKeating, has the following comment on this passage from Hosea:
"Hosea is not only antagonistic to the northern kings but to the monarchy as such. The monarchy is powerless to save the nation. Israel was wrong to ask for a king. Her punishment was that she got what she asked." 7: Henry McKeating, Amos, Hosea, and Micah (Cambridge: University Press, 1971), p. 148.
Coffman: "We are aware that it is popular among many able commentators today to make apologies for Israel's monarchy and to apply what the Scriptures plainly say about it to some specific monarch, Saul, for example, as did Dummelow, or to the kings of Northern Israel as did Hailey;
but it is the conviction of this writer that
Israel was totally and completely wrong in asking a king and that this rejection of God
(that is what the text calls it) contained embryonically all of the later sorrows of the Chosen People.Throughout the whole history of Israel, there were very few monarchs who even tried to serve the Lord. Solomon was to be blamed for the division of the kingdom under his son, because the people simply rejected the excesses of Solomon; and yet, even after God took the monarchy away from them, the nation wanted nothing in heaven or on earth as much as they wanted the restoration of that scandalous Solomonic empire.
It was this, more than anything else, that motivated their rejection of God Himself,
finally and irrevocably,
in their rejection of God's Son, Jesus Christ the Holy One.Go down the list of Israel's kings, David, the very best of all of them, was an adulterer and a murderer; and he also corrupted the worship of God by two sinful things:
(1) his initiating the events that led to the building of the temple (the den of thieves and robbers in Jesus' times); and
(2) his introduction of instruments of music into the worship of God. We do not have the space here to outline all of the misdeeds of Israel's shameful monarchy,
but it is clear enough that God's disapproval of the monarchy was no late thing, applicable only to the phantom kings of Ephraim's final years, but it rested upon the monarchy from the very beginning of it as outlined in this chapter.
When the elders "fired" God and demanded a king like the nations God knew that they wanted to worship like the nations. This was the end of probation and God turned the people over to a national king: He knew that they wanted to worship like the nations but this would be only long enough for the "kings given in His anger" drove them into slavery and then to Assyrian and Babylonian captivity.
2 Samuel 8 and the demand for a national (goyim) king: God knew that they wanted to worship like the nations but it would be for a very short time.
When David took a census the evidence seems to be that he intended to keep a standing army on the payroll after all of the enemies had been defeated. This sin brought on a plague and David let the punishment fall on the people. When he finally accepted his guilt the plague stopped at the threshing floor in Jerusalem.
Acts 7:38 This is he, that was in the church in the wildernessNow, if God turned them over to worship the starry host, what were the gods they worshipped in Canaan on their way to Babylon captivity and mostly death?
with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina,
and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
Acts 7:39 To whom our fathers would not obey,
but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
Acts 7:40 Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses,
which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Acts 7:41 And they made a calf in those days,
and offered sacrifice unto the idol,
and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Acts 7:42 Then God turned,
and gave them up to worship the host of heaven;
as it is written in the book of the prophets,
O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices
by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
Acts 7:43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan,
figures which ye made to worship them:
and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
You will notice that God bestowed grace on David rather than letting him be killed: however, God gave him Mount Zion (Not Moriah) as a place to make alternative sacrifices. Remembering that God had not commanded sacrifices.The Ghebers of Hebron 2 Hoaea, xii. 4 derives the name Inracl from Sarah to contend, to fight, and El = God of Fire.name of the War god {Exodus, xiii. 21, 22, xiv. 25), Saturn and the Sun. The Fire-god Azar was the God of war, and M'irs was the Sun. — Macrob. I. xvii. OS
But these fire-worshippers carried with them the arks of Moloch and Khiun (Life-god), their Adon, and they had, like the other peoples of the Delta, their Mysteries, which the priests instituted. They took with them from Phoenicia, probably, a certain knowledge of fixed vocal signs; and it would not be safe to deny to Syria the possession of some sort of (Syrian) hieroglyphs— Gen. xxxii. '28. Asarians, Asriel, Israel, a
Acts 7:44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness,
as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses,
that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
Acts 7:45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles,
whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
Acts 7:46 Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.Now, if God did not command the temple and god does not dwell in temples made with hands, why would anyone believe that David had God in the Ark of the Covenant or in the Temple?
Acts 7:47 But Solomon built him an house.
Acts 7:48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
Acts 7:49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool:If we use the Monarchy and Temple as our pattern, why is it that we are not resisting the Holy Spirit.
what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?
Acts 7:50 Hath not my hand made all these things?
Acts 7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears,
ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Acts 7:52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted?The resources for the ekklesia/synagogue is the Prophets (by Christ) and the prophecies made perfect by Jesus of Nazareth: Jesus commanded that we teach what HE commanded to be taught. Why would we hide the prophets from people when trying to restore the worship of the starry host?
and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One;
of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
Acts 7:53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
Ecclesiasticus 48:
1. Then the prophet Elijah arose like a fire, and his word burned like a torch.
2. He brought a famine upon them, and by his zeal he made them few in number.
3. By the word of the Lord he shut up the heavens, and also three times brought down fire.
4. How glorious you were, O Elijah, in your wondrous deeds! And who has the right to boast which you have?
5. You who raised a corpse from death and from Hades, by the word of the Most High;
6. who brought kings down to destruction, and famous men from their beds;
7. who heard rebuke at Sinai and judgments of vengeance at Horeb;8. who anointed kings to inflict retribution,
........and prophets to succeed you.
Hosea confirms this of Israel and Judah was not much different:
O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help. Hosea 13:9
I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? Hosea 13:10
I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath. Hosea 13:11
David's change: there was no music (noise) in the Tabernacle, Synagogue or Law of Moses
"The book of Psalms contain new doctrine after the Law of Moses. And after the writing of Moses, it is the second book of doctrine...
(David) first gave to the Hebrews a new style of psalmody, why which he abrogates the ordinances established by Moses with respect to sacrifices, and introduces the new hymn and a new style of jubilant praise in the worship of God; and throughout his whole ministry he teaches very many othe things that went beyond the law of Moses."On: The book of Psalms contains new doctrine after the law of Moses.
And after the writing of Moses, it is the second book of doctrine.
Now, after the death of Moses and Joshua, and after the judges, arose David,
who was deemed worthy of bearing the name of father of the Saviour himself;and he first gave to the Hebrews a new style of psalmody, by which he abrogates the ordinances established by Moses with respect to sacrifices, and introduces the new hymn and a new style of jubilant praise in the worship of God; and throughout his whole ministry he teaches very many other things that went beyond the law of Moses. (Fragment of Commentary by Hippolytus, bishop of Rome, Ante-Nicene, V, p. 170)David was too afraid of God to ever return to Gibeon and this is why God gave Him an old Jebusite High place which was already the site of the Worship of the Starry host. This was Sabazianism as the Jewish Encyclopedia acknowledges. During the first ark removal David tried to get ALL of the nation to witness this spectacle. It is obvious that David knew little of The Law of Moses: not to worry because the Monarchy did NOT follow the Law of Moses which had no musical rituals.
CONCLUSIONS: ANY EXAMPLE OF PEOPLE USING INSTRUMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE MONARCHY IS THE PATTERNISM OF PEOPLE GOD HAD ABANDONED TO WORSHIP THE STARRY HOST ON THEIR WAY BACK TO ASSURIA AND BABYLON FROM WHICH THEY CAME.
CHRIST SPEAKS THROUGH THE PROPHETS TO DEFINE THE ASSEMBLY INCLUSIVELY AND EXCLUSIVELY.
Isaiah 50 the message of being Smitten or Plucked as the meaning of Psallo
Isaiah 55 for the identity of SPIRIT and WORD and ALL free of charge.
Isaiah 58 The command NOT to speak your own words because you have nothing to offer as a mortal.
THE FIRST ARK MOVING SACRIFICE
The first attempt seems to have implicated most of the leading men of Israel. However, this was an act of the NOBILITY of Civil-Military-Clergy complex to which God had already abandoned to carry out the rituals of the worship of the starry host.
1 Chr 15:1 And David made him houses in the city of David,
and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.1 Chr 15:2 Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites:
for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever.1 Chr 15:3 And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem,
to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it.2 Sam 6:1 AGAIN, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel,
thirty thousand.2 Sam 6:2 And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him
from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, w
whose name is called by the name of the Lord of hosts
that dwelleth between the cherubims.2 Sam 6:3 And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart.
2 Sam 6:4 And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark.
Jay Guin: When the ark was being brought to Jerusalem, David and the people celebrated and worshiped with instrumental music — as spontaneous worship and not as part of the formal liturgy of the Tabernacle.
In fact, there is no melntion of worshiping Jehovah God: David believed that his god was inside of the box. David "rose up to play" in the same sense that Israel rose up to PLAY in naked worship of the golden calf representing the Egyptian trinity.(2Sa 6:5 ESV) 5 And David and all the house of Israel were making merry before the LORD, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.
2 Sam 6:5 And David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord
on all manner of instruments made of fir wood
even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels,
and on cornets, and on cymbals.Quasten notes that the tambourine , like in Augustine,
"had already occupied an important position in the cult of the Egyptians, for its sound, which was deep and hollow, expelled the demons. The rhythmic musical character of the tambourine was highly suited to induce psychic stimulation."( p. 37)
The toph or tambourine or Tabret gave its name to Topheth which had once been king Solomon's Music Grove. This word came to stand for HELL just outside of Jerusalem also called SODOM.
Ver. 3. Timbrel. The toph was employed by David in all the festivities of religion (2Sa 6:5). The occasions on which it was used were mostly joyful,and those who played upon it were generally females (Ps 68:25), as was the case among most ancient nations, and is so at the present day in the East.
The usages of the modern East might adequately illustrate all the scriptural allusions to this instrument, but happily we have more ancient and very valuable illustration from the monuments of Egypt. In these we find that the tambourine was a favourite instrument, both on sacred and festive occasions. There were three kinds, differing, no doubt, in sound as well as in form; one was circular, another square or oblong, and the third consisted of two squares separated by a bar. They were all beaten by the land, and often used as an accompaniment to the harp and other instruments. The tambourine was usually played by females, who are represented as dancing to its sound without the accompaniment of any other instrument. --John Kitto.
H4517 mena‛na‛men-ah-ah' From H5128 ; a sistrum (so called from its rattling sound):--cornet.
H5128 nûa noo'-ah A primitive root; to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined):—continually, fugitive, X make to [go] up and down, be gone away, (be) move (-able, -d), be promoted, reel, remove, scatter, set, shake, sift, stagger, to and fro, be vagabond, wag, (make) wander (up and down).THE PSALTERY
"The name of psaltery entered Christian literature in the 3rd century B.C. translation of the Old Testament called the Septuagint where, in the Psalms, nebel was translated psalterion. Thus, Nebuchadnezzar's idolatrous ensemble included the Aramic psantria. Notice, also, that the book of Psalms has also become known as the Psalter (or psalterium), from the hymns sung with this harp. Source
And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. Exodus 32:6
To play is the Hebrew:
Cachaq (h6711) tsaw-khak'; a prim. root; to laugh outright (in merriment or scorn); by impl. to sport: - laugh, mock, play, make sport.
"The triumphal hymn of Moses had unquestionably a religious character about it; but the employment of
music in religious services, though idolatrous,
is more distinctly marked in the festivities which attended the erection of the golden calf." (Smith's Bible Dictionary, Music, p. 589).Of Samson:
But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house. Judges 16:21
Now, when Samson "played" he did play a child's game and when he ground in the prison house he didn't make flour. Grind is:
Tachan (h2912) taw-khan'; a prim. root; to grind meal; hence to be a concubine (that being their employment): - grind (-er).
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. Is.47:2
This "play" is also the Hebrew:
Sachaq (h7832) saw-khak'; a prim. root; to laugh (in pleasure or detraction); by impl. to play: - deride, have in derision, laugh, make merry, mock (-er), play, rejoice, (laugh to) scorn, be in (make) sport.
As Samson was ready to be sacrificed the pagans wanted him to PLAY in the same way the Jewish clergy would try to get Jesus to sing and dance the perverted Dionysus choral. The word for "play" in Exodus and David's musical dance are interchangeable:
And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport (7832) . And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport (6711) : and they set him between the pillars. Judges 16:25
The word "played" is used of David to show that this word means that they played the instruments:
And David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals. 2 Sam 6:5
Played is:
Sachaq (h7832) saw-khak'; a prim. root;
to laugh (in pleasure or detraction);
by impl. to play: - deride, have in derision, laugh, make merry, mock (-er), play, rejoice, (laugh to) scorn, be in (make) sport.
Exodus 32 Wilderness Judges Samsos 2 Samuel David h6711 h6711
h7832 h7832 Playing or laughing before the Lord was what caused Him to TURN THEM over to worship the pagan gods. Therefore, the common people now quarantined from the temple, were to SYNAGOGUE or EKKLESIA for instruction at which time the TRIUMPH was outlawed:
Ruwa (h7321) roo-ah'; a prim. root; to mar (espec. by breaking); fig. to split the ears (with sound), i. e. shout (for alarm or joy): - blow an alarm, cry (alarm, aloud, out), destroy, make a joyful noise, smart, shout (for joy), sound an alarm, triumph.
The antics of the Civil-Military-Clergy complex had no relationship to the religious life of the Israelites who attended Qahal, synagogue or Church of Christ in the wilderness. David was king and the Levites were under the Commanders of the Army.
David was king and it is clear that none of the people knew the laws for moving the Ark of the Covenant.
2 Sam 6:6 And when they came to Nachons threshingfloor,
Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God,
and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.2 Sam 6:7 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah,
and God smote him there for his error;
and there he died by the ark of God.2 Sam 6:8 And David was displeased,
because the Lord had made a breach upon Uzzah:
and he called the name of the place Perez-uzzah to this day.Charah (h2734) khaw-raw'; a prim. root [comp. 2787]; to glow or grow warm; fig. (usually) to blaze up, of anger, zeal, jealousy: - be angry, burn, be displeased, * earnestly, fret self, grieve, be (wax) hot, be incensed, kindle, * very, be wroth. See 8474.
2 Sam 6:9 And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and said,
How shall the ark of the Lord come to me?Jay Guin: The first celebration was ended when God struck Uzzah dead. Afterwards, David and the priests consulted the Law as to the proper means of carrying the ark and renewed their celebration. And this time the music was especially loud!
(1Ch 15:16 ESV) 16 David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers as the singers who should play loudly on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.
THE SECOND REMOVAL
2 Sam 6:10 So David would not remove the ark of the Lord unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.
2 Sam 6:11 And the ark of the Lord continued in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite three months: and the Lord blessed Obed-Edom, and all his household.
2 Sam 6:12 And it was told king David, saying, The Lord hath blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom into the city of David with gladness.
No one was permitted any part of the National system of Civil-Military-Clergy but the tribe of Levi to which God burdened the worship of the starry host and the sacrificial system which he did not command. No Levite speaker, singer or instrument player could enter into any holy place on the penalty of death. None but the Levites were permitted to use instruments to make noise or signals in a religious sense. Therefore, the Second Removal proves that the godly tribes were not involved in the worship of the starry host.
1 Chr 15:2 Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites:
for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever.1 Chr 15:3 And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem,
to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it.1 Chr 15:4 And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites:
Jesus was not king and priest after the Aaronic Priesthood. Therefore, there is nothing in the abandoned Monarchy which has any role in the SCHOOL of Christ where DISCIPLES to to study and not do ceremonial legalism.
Many of the Classical and Church Fathers writers define similar events in all pagan nations. Tertullian notes But if you argue that the racecourse is mentioned in Scripture, I grant it at once.
Tertullian notes But you will not refuse to admit that the things which are done there are not for you to look upon: the blows, and kicks, and cuffs, and all the recklessness of hand, and everything like that disfiguration of the human countenance, which is nothing less than the disfiguration of God's own image.
You will never give your approval to those foolish racing and throwing feats, and yet more foolish leapings; you will never find pleasure in injurious or useless exhibitions of strength;
certainly you will not regard with approval those efforts after an artificial body
which aim at surpassing the Creator's workFor ALL churches which use any kind of "music" to control people long enough to pick the pockets of widows and honest workers, DAVID is the saviour chosen over the Spiritual David. Therefore, you should eat, drink and make Mary because you have been taken captive and God is DRUMMING you into the place of buring with music (Isaiah 30LXX)
You must REMEMBER that David was chosen to help carry out the captivity and death penalty imposed because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai and which became "beyond redemption" when the elders demanded a SLICK PREACHER just like all of the other nations. God gave David a Jebusite High Place which is identified with Hagar, Egypt, Mount Sinai and Sodom.
2 Sam 6:13 And it was so,
.that when they that bare the ark of the Lord had gone six paces,
.he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.
2 Samuel 6:[20] reversusque est et David ut benediceret domui suae et egressa Michol filia Saul in occursum David ait quamgloriosus fuit hodie rex Israhel discoperiens se ante ancillas servorum suorum et nudatus est quasi si nudetur unus de scurrisNu-do I. to make naked or bare; to strip, bare, lay bare, expose to view, uncover (syn.: exuo, detego, revelo).
1. In milit. lang., to leave uncovered, leave exposed or defenceless, to expose a place to the enemy
A.To lay bare, expose
B.To lay bare, make visible, expose, betray, discloseScurra , an elegant, town-bred man; a fine gentleman, gallant, dandy. 1. A city buffoon, droll, jester (usually in the suite of wealthy persons, and accordingly a kind of parasite; syn.: -Of the clown in a pantomime, Juv. 13, sannio, parasitus) Same as Auloedus one who sings to the flute.
Many of the Classical and Church Fathers writers define similar events in all pagan nations. Tertullian notes But if you Salax , a-cis, adj. [salio; cf. sagax, from sagio] .
I. Fond of leaping, esp. of male animals, lustful, lecherous, salacious: galli, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 5 : aries, Ov. F. 4, 771 : salaciora animalia, Lact. Opif. Dei, 14: salacissimi mares, Col. 7, 9, 1 ; 8, 2, 9: cauda, Hor. S. 1, 2, 45 .--Vulgarly applied to Priapus: deus, Auct. Priap. 14, 1; 34, 1; and sarcastically: salacissimus Juppiter, Sen. ap. Lact. 1, 16, 10.--II. Poet. transf., that provokes lust, provocative: erucae, Ov. R. Am. 799 : bulbi, Mart. 3, 75, 3 : herba, i.e. eruca, Ov. A. A. 2, 422 ; Mart. 10, 48, 10.
Ov. A. A. 2, 422 Ovid's Art of Love: Book II
and you will have the very opposite of complacency in the athletes Greece, in the inactivity of peace, feeds up. And the wrestler's art is a devil's thing. The devil wrestled with, and crushed to death, the first human beings. Its very attitude has power in it of the serpent kind, firm to hold-tortures to clasp-slippery to glide away. You have no need of crowns; why do you strive to get pleasures from crowns?Jay Guin: When the ark arrived at Jerusalem, David appointed men to play instruments in worship of God.
(1Ch 16:42 ESV) 42 Heman and Jeduthun had trumpets and cymbals for the music and instruments for sacred song. The sons of Jeduthun were appointed to the gate.
See David's Ark Movement which has nothing to do with the synagogue outside of the gates.
David purchased the threshing floor from Ornan:
And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the Lord; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering. 1 Chron 21:26
And the Lord commanded the angel;
and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof. 1 Chron 21:27
At that time when David saw that the Lord had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. 1 Chron 21:28
For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon. 1 Chron 21:29
But David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the Lord. 1 Chron 21:30
"David succeeded in transferring the traditions of the Confederacy to Jerusalem: the Ark, the Tabernacle, the priesthod.
"But in this change something happened to the character of 'Israel,' to the structure of the community.
"No longer was Israel, the people of God, bound together on the basis of covenant allegiance to Yahweh at the central sanctuary;
"Israel was now bound together politically, on the basis of a contract between king and people (II Sam. 5:3).
"As citizens of the state, the people of Israel owed allegiance to a king who could take a census, exact forced labor, and require submission to his power... As Israel became a state modeled after other oriental monarchies, more and more she lost her distinctive character and faced the danger of being swallowed up in the power struggle and cultural stream of the Near East." (Bernard Anderson, p. 188).
"The king thereby produced two main centers of worship--Jerusalem, the city of God (Ps. 46:5; 48:3), with reference especially to Mount Zion, which was Yahweh's 'holy hill' (9:11; 3:5), and Gibeon, the significance of which was centrated in its high place, where the old Tabernacle was by this time located (I Chron. 16:39) (Theology of the OT, p. 365)
After the processional with music in which the ark was brought to Jerusalem it is said:
"The ancient Tabernacle was now divided; the ark was brought into Zion, whereas the brazen altar at least, and probably the vessels of the holy place (ex. 25:23-40; 37:10-28; 40:22-27), were established in the high place at Gibeon.
Asaph and the singers (1 Chron. 6:31-47; 15:16-19; 16:5; 25:6) were left before the ark,
while the priests ministered in Gibeon before the Tabernacle (16:39)." (Schofield Bible, p. 478-479).
"The original altar of Burnt-offering continued at Gibeon with the Tabernacle (2 Chr. 1:3, 5). David must have erected a new altar for sacrifice at Jerusalem.
> The sacrifices commanded by the Law were, it appears, offered at the former place (Gibeon);
> at the latter were offered voluntary additional sacrifices." (Albert Barnes, 1 Chron, p. 347).
David further organized the daily worship at the Tabernacle –
Christ in the Prophets (Isaiah 1; Jeremiah 7) says that God DID NOT COMMAND burt offerings. Why would a modern church need Levites to assist the priests in purifying things? 2 Chronicles--and Christ warned about the lying pen of the Scribes and Jesus calls them hypocrites by naming speakers, singers and instrument players in Ezekiel 33--defines the work all of which related to the Temple which was not commanded and not a house of worship.(1Ch 23:4-5 ESV) 4 “Twenty-four thousand of these,” David said, “shall have charge of the work in the house of the LORD, 6,000 shall be officers and judges, 5 4,000 gatekeepers, and 4,000 shall offer praises to the LORD with the instruments that I have made for praise.”
1 Chronicles 23:28 Because their office was
to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD,
in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things,
and the work of the service of the house of God;
1 Chronicles 23:31 And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the new moons,
and on the set feasts, by number,
according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD:
This is the thing that ye shall do;
A third part of you entering on the sabbath,
of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the doors; 2 Chron 23:4And a third part shall be at the kings house;
and a third part at the gate of the foundation
and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the Lord. 2 Chron 23:5But let none come into the house of the Lord,
save the priests,
and they that minister of the Levites;
they shall go in, for they are holy:
but all the people shall keep the watch of the Lord. 2 Chron 23:6The "people" are the tribe of Levi. Keep watch is to be circumspect, watch, safegard.
And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges,
to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required:
the porters also by their courses at every gate:
for so had David the man of God commanded. 2Chr.8:14And the Levites shall compass the king round about,
every man with his weapons in his hand;
and whosoever else cometh into the house,
he shall be put to death:
but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out. 2 Chron 23:7Jay Guin: God then gave the Spirit to musicians to allow them to prophesy to instrumental music.
David was the king of a nation sentenced to "worship the starry host" until they were carried "beyond Babylon" because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. The Levites--an old infant burning cult--were under the KING and COMMANDERS OF THE ARMY. We normally do not look to kings as our pattern for worship.(1Ch 25:1-6 ESV) David and the chiefs of the service also set apart for the service the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who prophesied with lyres, with harps, and with cymbals. … 3 Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the direction of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with the lyre in thanksgiving and praise to the LORD. … 6 They were all under the direction of their father in the music in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the order of the king.
These sons of Mahol belonged to a Canaanite-like guild of musical prophesiers or "wise men."
1 Chron 25:1 MOREOVER David and the Commanders of the Army separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:As one example, Asaph's name is from:
Acaph (h622) aw-saf'; a prim. root; to gather for any purpose; hence to receive, take away, i. e. remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.): - assemble, bring, consume, destroy, fetch, gather (in, together, up again), * generally, get (him), lose, put all together, receive, recover [another from leprosy], (be) rearward, * surely, take (away, into, up), * utterly, withdraw.
"Such terms as 'Asaph,' 'Heman' and 'Ethan' or 'Jeduthun' are evidently used by the Chronicler to designate musical guilds, and in the case of 'Heman' and 'Ethan' are closely paralleled by scores of abbreviated names found at Ugarit and elsewhere, and are characteristically Canaanite and early, not appearing in later Hebrew lists of contemporary names." (Unger, Merrill, Archaeology and the Old Testament, Zondervan, P. 217)
"David introduced innovations in the age and service of the Levites (I Chron. 23-26). Certain Levites, particularly Asaph, became musicians and probably wrote some of the Psalms." (Living Bible Ency., p. 1143)
"Radical reconstructions, that seek to discover an opposition between David's Levites and the 'image worshiping' Aaronic priests, have been advocated by writers such as Theophile Meek:
'Thus were the Levites ensconced in a position of supreme priestly authority in the religion and there came a temporary eclipse of the bull cult and its Aaronite priesthood. This did not mean the suppression of the bull cult nor of any other; it simply meant that Yahwehism was now the state religion and Yahweh the national god.
In their local sanctuaries the people could and did worship what gods they would.'
"But though no evangelical would take Meek's theories seriously, it is true that the Levites were given the leadership in the new musical service which was created by David and which constituted a matter of his particular concern." (Anderson, B. Theology of the OT, p. 376)
Service is: H5656 ăbôdâh ‛ăbôdâh ab-o-daw', ab-o-daw' From H5647 ; work of any kind:—act, bondage, + bondservant, effect, labour, ministering (-try), office, service (-ile, -itude), tillage, use, work, X wrought.
H5647 ‛âbad aw-bad' A primitive root; to work (in any sense); by implication to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.:— X be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel
Worship is:
H10 ’ăbaddôh ab-ad-do' The same as H9 , miswritten for H11 ; a perishing:—destruction.
Because the kings carried out the captivity and death sentence imposed BECAUSE of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai, this is a MOTIF or PATTERNISM which is being repeated right now with the Mother of Harlots
H6 ’âbad aw-bad' A primitive root; properly to wander away, that is lose oneself; by implication to perish (causatively, destroy)
H11 ’ăbaddôn ab-ad-done' Intensively from H6 ; abstractly a perishing; concretely Hades:--destruction.
This is the Apollo John used as the PATTERNISM for the Mother of Harlots where Abaddon or Apollyon unleashed the locusts with deadly scorpion stingers who were the MUSES known to any literte Greek. That is why the singers and musicians are call SORCERERS who TAKE PEOPLE CAPTIVE.
1 Chron 25:2 Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph, which prophesied according to the order of the king.
H623 ’âsâph aw-sawf' From H622 ; collector; Asaph, the name of three Israelites, and of the family of the first:--Asaph.YOU WILL NOTICE THAT THEY PROPHESIED ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF THE KING.
H622 ’âsaph aw-saf' A primitive root; to gather for any purpose; hence to receive, take away, that is, remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.):--assemble, bring, consume, destroy, fetch, gather (in, together, up again), X generally, get (him), lose, put all together, receive, recover [another from leprosy], (be) rereward, X surely, take (away, into, up), X utterly, withdraw.
"The Hithpa'el of nb', in the ancient texts, refers to ecstasy and delirium rather than to the emission of a 'prophecy'." (de Vaux, Roland, The Bible and the Ancient Near East, p. 243 Doubleday
"Maniac inspirations, the violent possession which threw sibyls and priestesses into contortions--the foaming lip and streaming hair and glazed or glaring eyes-- have no place in the self-controlling dignity of Christian inspiration. Even Jewish prophets, in the paroxysm of emotion, might lie naked on the ground and rave (1 Sam. xix. 24); but the genuine inspiration in Christian ages never obliterates the self-consciousness or overpowers the reason. It abhors the hysteria and stimulation and frenzy which have sometimes disgraced revivalism and filled lunatic asylums." (Pulpit Commentary, 1 Cor., p. 460).
Prŏphēta and prŏphētes , ae, m., = prophētēs,1 Samuel 10.[5] After that you shall come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall happen, when you are come there to the city, that you shall meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tambourine, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they will be prophesying: [6] and the Spirit of Yahweh will come mightily on you, and you shall prophesy with them, and shall be turned into another man.2 Chroicles 18.[5] Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, Shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? They said, Go up; for God will deliver it into the hand of the king. [6] But Jehoshaphat said, Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh besides, that we may inquire of him?-Exodus 15:[20] sumpsit ergo Maria prophetis soror Aaron tympanum in manu egressaeque sunt omnes mulieres post eam cum tympanis et chorisPROPHESYING IN THE GREEK
God will afflict Miriam with leprosy when she claims to speak for God. The first meaning of prophet in the PAGAN sense meant a charismatic, musical performer. All dramatic performance is INTERPRETATION which is, according to Paul, just speaking in tongues.
-Prophe-ta prŏphēta and prŏphētes , ae, m., = prophētēs,I. a foreteller, soothsayer, prophet (post-class.; cf. “vates): prophetas in Adrasto Julius nominat antistites fanorum oraculorumque interpretes,” Fest. p. 229 Müll. (Trag. Rel. p. 194 Rib.): “prophetae quidam, deorum majestate completi, effantur ceteris, quae divino beneficio soli vident, App. de Mundo, p. 56, 29: sacerdotes Aegyptiorum, quos prophetas vocant,” Macr. S. 7, 13, 9: “Aegyptius, propheta primarius,” App. M. 2, p. 127, 3.—Of the Jewish prophets, Lact. 1, 4, 1; 4, 11, 1; 7, 24, 9; Vulg. Luc. 1, 70.
PHRASE: Aegyptius, propheta primarius 1. Aegyptius,
2. Prophetai
3. Primarius I. one of the first, of the first rank, chief, principal, excellent, remarkable,
primarius parasitus,
Părăsītus , i, m., = parasitos, lit. one who eats with another; hence, I. In gen., a guest (pure Lat. conviva): parasiti Jovis, the gods, Hence, parasitus Phoebi, a PLAYER. actor, II. In partic., in a bad sense, one who, by flattery and buffoonery, manages to live at another's expense, a sponger, toad-eater, parasite
-Comically, of a whip: ne ulmos parasitos faciat, that he will make his elm-twigs stick to me like parasites, i. e. give me a sound flogging, he tutelar deity of parasites was Hercules, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 79.
Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 79.CURCULIO
Be silent a while. He threw a most losing cast I took up the dice, and invoked Hercules as my genial patron I threw a first-rate cast, and pledged him in a bumping cup; in return he drank it off, reclined his head, and fell fast asleep. I slily took away from him the ring, and took my legs quietly from off the couch, so that the Captain mightn't perceive it. The servants enquired whither I was going; I said that I was going whither persons when full are wont to go. When I beheld the door, at once on the instant I betook myself away from the place.
Teiresias Euripides, Bacchae
But this god is a prophet--for Bacchic revelry and madness have in them much prophetic skill. [300] For whenever the god enters a body in full force, he makes the frantic to foretell the future.
Maniôdês
A. like madness, noseumata Hp. Aër.7, cf. Coac.475.
2. like a madman, crazy, Kunas,
II. causing madness, Dsc. 1.68, 4.68; himasthlê Panos Nonn.D.10.4 .Pan is horn footed
Kunas: Kuôn II. as a word of reproach, freq. in Hom. of women, to denote shamelessness or audacity; applied by Helen to herself rhapsôidos of the Bakchai, Lussas k. E.Ba.977 Lussao rave, be mad, erotic. also of offensive persons, compared to yapping dogs
[977] To the hills! to the hills! fleet hounds of madness, where the daughters of Cadmus hold their revels,
goad them into wild furyRhapsoidos stitching songs together. Reciter of poems, of Aoide
against the man disguised in woman's dress, a frenzied spy upon the Maenads.
Used with "hypokrites" 5. = eppsdê, spell, incantation3. of the Cynics, areskei toutois kunôn metamphiennusthai bion. Catamites.
Epôidos
2. Pass., sung to music, phônai Plu.2.622d ; fit for singing, poiêtikên e. parechein S.E.M.6.16 .
A. singing to or over, using songs or charms to heal wounds, epôidoi muthoi
b. Subst., enchanter, e. kai goês E.Hipp. 1038 (but goês e. Ba.234): c. gen., a charm for or against,
c. c. dat., assisting, profitable,
2. epôidos, ho, verse or passage returning at intervals, in Alcaics and Sapphics, D.H.Comp.19 ; chorus, burden,He also possesses a share of Ares' nature. For terror sometimes flutters an army under arms and in its ranks before it even touches a spear;
Pallô poise, sway a missile before it is thrown, II. Pass., swing, dash oneself, vibrate, of strings, Pl.Phd.94c psalloito,
III. intr., leap, bound, E.El.435, Ar.Lys.1304 (lyr.); [p. 1294]quiver, quake Oediphus Rex: O sweetly-speaking message of Zeus, in what spirit have you come to glorious Thebes from golden Pytho? I am on the rack, terror shakes my soul, O Delian healer to whom wild cries riseProserpina
I. Proserpine, daughter of Ceres and Jupiter, and wife of Pluto, who seized her as she was gathering flowers in Sicily, and carried her away to the infernal regions: “Cereris Proserpina puer,” Naev. 2, 18; cf. Cic. N. D. 3, 21, 53; 3, 34, 83; Ov. M. 5, 391; Hyg. Fab. 146.—II. Poet., for the Lower World: “sed me Imperiosa trahit Proserpina: vive, valeque,” Hor. S. 2, 5, 109.
Hor. S. 2.5.109 What, art thou in a [prophetic] raving; or dust thou play upon me designedly, by uttering obscurities? 0 son of Laertes, whatever I shall say will come to pass, or it will not: for the great Apollo gives me the power to divine. Then, if it is proper, relate what that tale means.Jay Guin: When Solomon built and then dedicated the Temple, God accepted the Temple and the instrumental music Solomon provided there.
(2Ch 5:13-14 ESV) 3 and it was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the LORD), and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the LORD, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever,” the house, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud, 14 so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.
Scholars are agreed that God promised David a FAMILY but not a literal HOUSE. We have noted:
Acts 7:44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.Nothing done by the Civil-Military-Clergy complex can be used as a pattern fo the Qahal, synagogue or Church of Christ in the wilderness. Christ defined the synagogue both inclusively and exclusively and that changed when Jesus became the Head of the Body or church.
Acts 7:45 Which also our fathers that came after brought
in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles,
whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
Who found favour before God, Acts 7:46
A. and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
B. But Solomon built him an house Acts 7:47
C. Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet. Acts 7:48
Acts 7:49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool:
what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?
Acts 7:50 Hath not my hand made all these things?
Acts 7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears,
ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
the Spirit of Christ spoke through the prophets who always repudiated the sacrificial system because it had been IMPOSED as part of the "worship of the starry hosts. That is what Stephen was trying to tell them by referring to the musical idolatry at Mount Sinai and recorded by Amos:
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 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Amos 5:21 in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: Jeremiah 7:22Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. Amos 5:22
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs;
for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. Amos 5:23BUT 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 let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream Amos 5:24
Amos 5:25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?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 7:24Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day,
I have even sent unto you all MY servants the PROPHETS, daily rising up early and sending them: Jeremiah 7:25Yet they HEARKENED NOT unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. Jeremiah 7:26
Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them;
but they will not hearken to thee:
thou shalt also call unto them;
but they will not answer thee. Jeremiah 7:27Amos 5:26 BUT ye have borne the tabernacle of your and Moloch and Chiun [#666] your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
They burned infants to the beat of instruments in 2 Chron 28 just before the PURGE and EXORCISM and in chapter 30 just AFTER Hezekiah's ceremony SOLELY to get the priests to return to Jerusalem to help defend it.
Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity
beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
This was the sentence conditionally imposed because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. Canaan as the promised land became the Killing Fields as God let the kings lead them into captivity and death.
2Chr. 5:2 Then Solomon
assembled the elders of Israel,
and all the heads of the tribes,
the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem,
2Chr. 5:6 Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel
that were assembled unto him before the ark,
sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
WHERE DID SOLOMON GET ALL OF THOSE ANIMALS SINCE HE WAS NOT A FARMER
Now, Solomon was not a farmer and the tithe was intended for the civil services of the Levites: this amounted to 3/7 of the tithe of food only from those given free farms. The priests and levites got a daily dole of food when on duty and when they went home they made their own living. I am quite certain that those "resisting the Holy Spirit" in the words of Stephen have never read WHY there were kings in the first place.
2Chr. 5:11 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place:
(for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:
2Chr. 5:12 Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun,
with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen,
having cymbals and psalteries and harps,
stood at the east end of the altar,
and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
2Chr. 5:13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one,
to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD;
and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick,
and praised the LORD, saying,
"For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: "
that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;
Sound is never music in the Bible:H6051 Anan aw-nawn' From H6049 ; a cloud (as covering the sky), that is, the nimbus or thunder cloud: cloud (-y).
H6049 Anan aw-nan' A primitive root; to cover; used only as denominative from H6051 , to cloud over; figuratively to act covertly, that is, practise magic: bring, enchanter, Meonemin, observe (-r of) times, soothsayer, sorcerer.
6963. qowl, kole; or lOq qol, kole; from an unused root meaning to call aloud; a voice or sound: aloud, bleating, crackling, cry (+ out), fame, lightness, lowing, noise, + hold peace, (pro-)claim, proclamation, + sing, sound, + spark, thunder(-ing), voice, + yell.
2Chr. 5:14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud:
for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.
The darkness was so thick that light would not shine. Whether it is glory in a good way or an evil way, the message is that YOU cannot minister or serve in the presence of God. This cut off the symbolic presence of God, the Word of God in the Ark and Grace under the mercy seat.
3519. kabowd, kaw-bode´; rarely -glorious(-ly), glory, honour(-able).
Exodus 24:17The Kabod or glory of God means that "You are not able to come into my presence." When Israel rose up in musical idoaltry the people became STRANGERS. Thereafter only the High Priest could come close to God once a year. God is not getting sexually aroused as all pagan musical idolaters believed.
2 Chronicles 7:2
1. Kabad (h3513) A primitive root; to be heavy, that is, in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) abounding with, more grievously afflict, boast, be chargeable, be grievous, harden,2. "At the calf of Beth-aven the inhabitants of Samaria tremble, for its people will mourn over it and wail over it, over its kabôd which has gone into exile. The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria, as tribute to the great king. Ephraim shall be put to shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of its idol." - Hosea 10:5-6
Ge 18:20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
Isaiah 47:5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans (astrologer, etc.): for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
Isaiah 47:6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand:
thou didst shew them no mercy;
upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
Isa 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
H3514 kôbed ko'-bed From H3513 ; weight, multitude, vehemence:--grievousness, heavy, great number Vehemence of fire, Isa 30:27, multitude, Nah 3:3, Heaviness, grievousness of war, Isaiah 21:15Polluted is:
Chalal [h2490] to wound, to dissolve; fig. to profane (a person, place or thing), denom. (from 2485) to play (the flute): defile, gather the grape thereof, take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute,
The True House of Israel which existed at the Tabernacle until the mortal sin of David.
"I will be for them a sanctuary in small measure in the lands where they have gone." - Ezekiel 11:14-16
"From now on, Ezekiel affirms, it will be among the exiles that Yhwh's presence is manifested at all, albeit in small measure. Yhwh will henceforth be found in the midst of the true house of Israel, which now consists of the community in exile (11:15). Far from abandoning the exiles, Yhwh has abandoned Jerusalem."
Jay Guin: Hezekiah, on his deathbed, prayed to God for extended life, promising to praise God with stringed instruments. God granted his prayer.
(Isa 38:18-20 ESV) 18 For Sheol does not thank you; death does not praise you; those who go down to the pit do not hope for your faithfulness. 19 The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness. 20 The LORD will save me, and we will play my music on stringed instruments all the days of our lives, at the house of the LORD.
What about Hezekiah as a PATTERN for the School of Christ?
AT that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah:
for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered. Isa 39:1
The Temple was the King's Shrine for the Monarchy. God had abandoned them to "worship the starry host" because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. When the elders "fired" God and demanded a human king God knew that they wanted to worship like the nations. This would include putting the people into slavery. The money of the nation was stored at the "temple" but not in the Holy or Most Holy Place.
And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not. Isa 39:2
Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men?
and from whence came they unto thee?
And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me,
even from Babylon. Isa 39:3
Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered,
All that is in mine house have they seen:
there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them. Isa 39:4
Hear judgment on your children!
Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord of hosts: Isa 39:5
Behold, the days come,
that all that is in thine house,
and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day,
shall be carried to Babylon:
nothing shall be left, saith the Lord. Isa 39:6
And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away;
and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. Isa 39:7
Not to worry, says Hezekiah who thought that God commanded musical instruments to slaughter TYPES of God Himself:Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah,
Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken.
He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days. Isa 39:8Jay Guin: When Hezekiah restored the worship of God, he renewed the instrumental music of the Temple –
Again, this is a plague-stopping animal sacrifice like that of David who had sinned about beyond redemption.(2Ch 29:26-28 ESV) 26 The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets. 27 Then Hezekiah commanded that the burnt offering be offered on the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song to the LORD began also, and the trumpets, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel. 28 The whole assembly worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded. All this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
2 Samuel.Eight is probably not covered in once-Christian colleges.THIRDLY, THE LEVITES WERE BROUGHT TO THE INNER COURT
The Goat or Azazel was an offering for the DEVIL after the Nadab and Abihu incident. Therefore, notice that all of the atoning sacrifices are made with NO warrior's instruments.
2Chr. 29:20 Then Hezekiah the KING rose early,
and gathered the RULERS of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.
2Chr. 29:21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats,
for a sin offering for
the kingdom,
and for the sanctuary,
and for Judah.
And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
2Chr. 29:22 So they killed the bullocks,
and the priests received the blood,
and sprinkled it on the altar:
likewise, when they had killed the rams,
they sprinkled the blood upon the altar:
they killed also the lambs,
and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.
SECONDLY IT WAS HEZEKIAH'S IDEA TO TRY TO MAKE PEACE WITH APOSTATE ISRAEL.
The Scape Goat began after Nadab and Abihu to APPEASE Azazel or Satan.
2Chr. 29:23 And they brought forth the HE GOATS
for the sin offering before the king and the congregation;
and they laid their hands upon them:
2Chr. 29:24 And the priests killed them,
and they made RECONCILLIATION with their blood upon the altar,
to make an atonement for all ISRAEL:
for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering
should be made for ALL ISRAEL
The Levites were an old infant burning cult in Egypt and Jacob in Isaiah 49 warned us NOT to attend their assemblies much LESS impose their assemblies into a church and sow massive discord including breaking up families and David Faust was the agent at the time.
2Chr. 29:25 And he SET the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps,
A. according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer,
B. and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.
Don't let a comma lead you into a fatal sin!
God never COMMANDED "set a king over us." So, watch for the split between the MILITARY and PRIESTLY. They were SET and STOOD in ranks as WARRIORS:
Constituo I. to cause to stand, A. Military 1. To station or post troops somewhere, to draw up, set in order
This is ALL that God commanded but OUTLAWING it for the Church in the wilderness.
Num. 10:8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests,
B. shall blow with the trumpets;
and they shall be to you for an ordinance
for ever throughout your generations.
And this was outlawed for the Qahal, synagogue or Church in the wilderness.The next verse makes it clear that the Levites were always under the king and commanders of the army but the trumpets were blown by the priests. This is a combination of the military and religious. The Temple was not commanded (Acts 7) whatever the Scribes write. The temple like all national temples was the king's shrine and capital. However, not in the vilest pagan temple could instrument players enter into or come near any holy thing or holy place without being executed.
NOTE THAT ALL OF THE ATONING AND RECONCILLIATION OFFERINGS ARE COMPLETE.
Finally we are having the HOLOCAUST: TO TOTALLY CONSUME IT.
2Chr. 29:26 A. And the Levites stood with the instruments of David,
B. and the priests with the trumpets.
2Chr. 29:27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar.
And when the burnt offering began,
B. the song of the LORD began also with the trumpets,
A. and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.
Christ in the prophets warns about the Lying Pen of the Scribes. However, they made it perfectly clear that the Army Band only made noise for an optional NOT-COMMANDED burnt offering.
Jer. 7:21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
Remember that the tribes west of the JordaN were ready to go to war because they thought those on the east side were going to offer burnt offerings so they could eat the 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:
I don't know what to say about people who say that A spirit told them to do what Christ said was NOT commanded.
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.
There is no room for human imagination hearing FROM SILENCE.
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.
Jer. 7:25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day
I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets,
daily rising up early and sending them:
Jer. 7:26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck:
they did worse than their fathers.
Jer. 7:27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them;
but they will not hearken to thee:
thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT
Neh 12:24 And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel,
with their brethren over against them, to praise and to give thanks,
according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward.Neh 12:27 And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.
When Josiah again renewed obedience to the Law, his obedience was marked by the restoration of instrumental music –
(2Ch 34:12-13 ESV) 12 And the men did the work faithfully. Over them were set Jahath and Obadiah the Levites, of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to have oversight. The Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music, 13 were over the burden-bearers and directed all who did work in every kind of service, and some of the Levites were scribes and officials and gatekeepers.
David wrote several Psalms urging that God be worshiped with instruments, including –
Psalm 81 is one of the best example of the always-effeminate priesthood.(Psa 81:1-3 ESV) Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob! 2 Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp. 3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
(Psa 149:2-4 ESV) 2 Let Israel be glad in his Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King! 3 Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre! 4 For the LORD takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation.
(Psa 150:1-6 ESV) Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! 2 Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! 3 Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! 4 Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! 5 Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals! 6 Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!
Not once is instrumental music in the worship of God condemned. Indeed, it’s prompted by the Spirit! And instrumental music in worship is not limited to the Temple. Prophets worshiped with instruments long before the ark was in Jerusalem, and God was worshiped with instruments in spontaneous, informal worship.
THERE IS NO RECORDED HISTORY (I contend) WHICH DOES NOT SAY THAT GOD CONDEMNED ISRAEL FOR USING THE WARRIOR INSTRUMENTS FOR SONGS IN THE TEMPLE.
2 Kings 3 Elisha and the Harpist
Psalm 78
See Isaiah 5
Isaiah 30 says hell is prepared for all seduced by wind, string and percussion instruments
See Amos 5
. Plato notes that:"I say, to produce this effect, chants appear to have been invented, which really enchant, and are designed to implant that harmony of which we speak.
........And, because the mind of the child is incapable of enduring serious training,
........ ........ they are called plays and songs, and are performed in play;just as when men are sick and ailing in their bodies,
........ their attendants give them wholesome diet in pleasant meats and drinks,
........ but unwholesome diet in disagreeable things,
........ ........ in order that they may learn, as they ought, to like the one, and to dislike the other.And similarly the true legislator will persuade, and, if he cannot persuade,
........ will compel the poet to express, as he ought, by fair and noble words, in his rhythms..Cleinias But do you really imagine, Stranger, that this is the way in which poets generally compose in States at the present day?
As far as I can observe, except among us and among the Lacedaemonians, there are no regulations like those of which you speak;
........ in other places novelties are always being introduced in dancing and in music,
........ ........ generally not under the authority of any law,
........ ........ but at the instigation of lawless pleasures;and these pleasures are so far from being the same, as you describe the Egyptian to be, or having the same principles, that they are never the same.
For why is a woe pronounced upon the rich who have received their consolation? (Luke 6: 24,) who are full, who laugh now, who "lie upon beds of ivory and stretch themselves upon their couches;" "join house to house," and "lay field to field;" "and the harp and the viol, the tabret and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts," (Amos 6: 6; Isa. 5: 8, 10.)
Certainly ivory and gold, and riches, are the good creatures of God, permitted, nay destined, by divine providence for the use of man; nor was it ever forbidden to laugh, or to be full, or to add new to old and hereditary possessions, or to be delighted with music, or to drink wine.
This is true, but when the means are supplied to roll and wallow in luxury, to intoxicate the mind and soul with present and be always hunting after new pleasures,
........ is very far from a legitimate use of the gifts of God.JFB notes: 23. Take . . . away from me--literally, "Take away, from upon Me"; the idea being that of a burden pressing upon the bearer. So Isa 1:14, "They are a trouble unto Me (literally, 'a burden upon Me'): I am weary to bear them.
"the noise of thy songs--The hymns and instrumental music on sacred occasions are to Me nothing but a disagreeable noise.
I will not hear--Isaiah substitutes "prayers" (Isa 1:15) for the "songs" and "melody" here; but, like Amos, closes with "I will not hear.Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Isaiah 1: 13
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. Isaiah 1: 14
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. Isaiah 1: 15
In 6:5 they CHANT:
Chant is: Parat (h6527) paw-rat'; a prim. root; to scatter words, i. e. prate (or hum): - chant.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. Ge.11:9
1. The NOISE which always defines singing is the Hebrew::
Hamown (h1995) haw-mone'; or hamon (Ezek. 5:7), haw-mone'; from 1993; a noise, tumult, crowd; also disquietude, wealth: - abundance, company, many, multitude, multiply, noise, riches, rumbling, sounding, store, tumult
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you; Ezek 5:7
"Surely these inspired statements are sufficient to show that David made, invented, and commanded the use of instruments of music in divine worship. Where does revelation explain that God made, invented, appointed, or commanded the use of instrumental music in ordained worship of that age? On the basis of plain declarations, the contention that David introduced the idea is founded; in the absence of such testimony that God is the author, we reject the opinion that God authorized the practice." (L.O. Sanderson, p. 350).
"From the beginning, then, it was not so. Neither is it a part of or aid to Christian worship. Since there is no record of God ordaining the practice, he must have simply tolerated or indulged it, just as he did regarding some ignorance, kings, divorces, and polygamy" (Sanderson, p. 351).
"It was by the hand or commandment of the Lord and his prophets that the Levites should praise the Lord; for so the Hebrew text may be understood:
"and it was by the order of David that so many instruments of music should be introduced into the Divine service." (Adam Clark, Commentary on 2 Chron. 29:25).
Then Clark says:
"But were it evident, which it is not, either from this (2 Chron. 29:25) or any other place in the sacred writings, that instruments of music were prescribed by Divine authority under the law, could this be adduced with any semblance of reason that they ought to be used in Christian Worship? No..." (Adam Clark, Commentary, Vol. II, PP. 690-691).
"I believe that David was not authorized by the Lord to introduce that multitude of musical instruments into the divine worship of which we read; and I am satisfied that his conduct in this respect is most solemnly reprehended by this prophet; and I further believe that the use of such instruments of music in the Christian church is without the sanction and against the will of God; that they are subversive of the spirit of true devotion...if there was a woe to them who invented instruments of music, as did David under the law, is there no woe...to those who introduce them?" (Adam Clark, Commenting on Amos 6:5).
"It is foreign also to the piety of Clement that the (song) instituted for drinking companies, to be sung in the convivial feasts of the Gentiles... As if he [Clement] did not know that Psalms, not 'wine songs,'... were recited at the close of the Supper... I say that so great a profanation of the Psalms is most severely condemned by God in the third [commandment] of the Decalogue and Amos 5:23; 6:5" (Joseph Bingham, Antiq. of the Christian Church, Vol. 2, p. 485 quoting Clement).
"...Scriptures do condemn the use that David made of the instruments in worship--Amos 6:5: 'Woe to them... that chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of music, like David;' and Amos 5:23: 'Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.' The condemnation of the instruments of music in this passage turns on the phrase like David--it does not say like David's, which could refer only to the instruments, but like David is the use that David made of the instruments. David did not invent the musical instrument--Jubal invented the instruments (Gen. 4:21)--but David invented them for worship--they were David's innovation." (Wallace, p. 177).
"Amos, we are told, is the sharpest critic of musical instruments in pre-Christian times. through him God expresses a preference for justice and honesty over bloody sacrifice and its attendant music of song and instruments. This sentiment, we are told, was revolutionary, making part of a similar change felt over the civilized world... And overall view of the evidence, McKinnon thinks, reveals a relationship between the three elements: a higher conception of God, a rejection of sacrifice, and a rejection of musical instruments." (Green, William M, Pepperdine College, in Restoration Quarterly, v. 19, 1966).
"To hear a man's or woman's voice sing Handel's solo... beats through one's chest with some sort of a throb depending on how well he or she is singing, and how much you respond to this kind of music. But no matter how much you may 'enjoy' Handel's solo, the words are not meant to be entertainment." (Schaeffer, Edith, Christianity is Jewish, p. 1)
"Amos stressed "that violations of the moral law could not be remedied by means of festive rites, offerings, or liturgical indulgence on the part of the sinner. In point of fact, God was already standing beside the altar (Am. 9:1ff), poised and ready to shatter it. No ritual, however, elaborate and symbolic in nature, could possibly substitute for the sincere worship of the human spirit, grounded in high moral and ethical principles." (Harrison, p. 895).
"Not surprisingly, most Israelites declined the prophet's invitation to enter into a dialog with Yahweh. They preferred a less demanding religion of cultic observance either in the Jerusalem Temple or in the old fertility cults of Canaan. This continues to be the case: the religion of compassion is followed only by a minority; most religious people are content with decorous worship in synagogue, church, temple and mosque. The ancient Canaanite religions were still flourishing in Israel... the Israelites were still taking part in fertility rites and sacred sex there, as we see in the oracles of the prophet Hosea, Amos' contemporary." (Armstrong, Karen, A History of God, p. 47).
F. B. Bruce is one of the best known modern writer and one might expect that he would defend the denominational practice. However, he like most who rest on their scholarship tell the truth. He wrote--
"...these same people were punctilious in their religious observances. Never did such abundant sacrifices smoke to Yahweh from the altars at Dan and Bethel and other sanctuaries in Israel; and the note of praise rose regularly and loudly from tongue and harp. Was not this the worship in which Yahweh delighted? So they thought, but the voice of Yahweh through His prophet told a different story." (F.F. Bruce, Israel, p. 58).
Bruce shows, along with the LXX, that (1) music was used as worship, (2) they thought that God would delight in it, but (3) God condemned it. This refutes those who deny that Amos said anything about music and it supports the clear statement and context of the book of Amos.
Most ancient scholars not only condemn music as worship but show that it had its origin in pagan superstition and was the product of the poets (songs as magical incantations)--
- "It was only permitted to the Jews as sacrifice was, for the heaviness and grossness of their souls. God condescended to their weakness, because they were lately drawn off from idols; but now, instead of organs, we may use our own bodies to praise him withal." (Chrysostom on Psa. 149, Vol. iii, p. 634).
"I say that so great a profanation of the Psalms is most severely condemned by God in the third [commandment] of the Decalogue and Amos 5:23; 6:5, 5" (Joseph Bingham, Antiq. of the Christian Church, Vol. 2, p. 485 quoting Clement)
"It is foreign also to the piety of Clement that the (song) instituted for drinking companies, to be sung in the convivial feasts of the Gentiles... As if he [Clement] did not know that Psalms, not 'wine songs,'... were recited at the close of the Supper... I say that so great a profanation of the Psalms is most severely condemned by God in the third [commandment] of the Decalogue and Amos 5:23; 6:5" (Joseph Bingham, Antiq. of the Christian Church, Vol. 2, p. 485 quoting Clement).
Hosea 2:10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
Hosea 2:11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.4Q166 (4QpHosa) Dead Sea Scrolls, (Plus, pg. 276-7 Vermes) (13)AND I SHALL PUT AN END TO ALL HER JOY, [HER] PIL[GRIMAGE,] HER [NEW] MOON, AND HER SABBATH, AND ALL HER FEASTS.
The interpretation of it is that they make [the fe]asts go according to the appointed times of the nation. And [all] [joy] has been turned for them into mourning.
"I will put an end to her rejoicing, her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her festivals (Hosea ii,11).
"Interpreted, this means that they have rejected the ruling of the law,
and have followed the festivals of the nations.But their rejoicing shall come to an end and shall be changed into mourning.
I will ravage her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, 'They are my wage which my lovers have given me'. I wall make them a thicked and the will beasts shall eat them...ii, 12
But they, like Adam, have broken the Covenant (vi, 7)
Its interpretation... they have forsaken God and walked according to the decrees of the Gentiles....
Hosea 2:12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,
Hosea 2:13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim,
whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me:
and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels,
and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the Lord.Jay Guin: The old argument that New Testament worship rejects the worship of the Temple, such as sacrifices, incense, and instruments, would have to be greatly expanded to include the elements of private and spontaneous worship as well, because instrumental praise of God was hardly limited to the Temple.
There are 168 hours in the week: anyone can sing and play 24/7 if they wish. No one has ever said anything against it. However, Jesus asks: "Could you not tarry with me for one hour." Church is where the FLOW OF INFORMATION is from God to the Disciples. All we can do is "make the lambs dumb before the slaughter."
The prophetic pattern is well established in the Prophets all of which condemn the sacrificial system and monarchy as parasitic and robbers--that's what God promised when they demanded a king like the nations.
On the other hand, the Qahal, synagogue or Church of Christ in the wilderness was A School of the Word of God: it excluded vocal or instrumental rejoicing. Jesus commanded that disciples be made by baptizing and teaching "what He had commanded to be taught." Most of the epistles preclude all of the performance in order that the word of Christ can be taught. It would be acceptable to sing 24/7 if you wish: However, when the church assembles it is time for JESUS to teach US. Therefore, it is irrational to think of making music when Jesus comes to teach when the word is taught as it has been taught.
What about Hezekiah as a PATTERN for the School of Christ?
AT that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah:
for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered. Isa 39:1
The Temple was the King's Shrine for the Monarchy. God had abandoned them to "worship the starry host" because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. When the elders "fired" God and demanded a human king God knew that they wanted to worship like the nations. This would include putting the people into slavery. The money of the nation was stored at the "temple" but not in the Holy or Most Holy Place.
And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not. Isa 39:2
Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men?
and from whence came they unto thee?
And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me,
even from Babylon. Isa 39:3
Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered,
All that is in mine house have they seen:
there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them. Isa 39:4
Hear judgment on your children!
Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord of hosts: Isa 39:5
Behold, the days come,
that all that is in thine house,
and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day,
shall be carried to Babylon:
nothing shall be left, saith the Lord. Isa 39:6
And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away;
and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. Isa 39:7
Not to worry, says Hezekiah who thought that God commanded musical instruments to slaughter TYPES of God Himself:Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah,
Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken.
He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days. Isa 39:8Jay Guin: If Miriam could worship with tambourines, before there was a Tabernacle or Temple, and if prophets worshipped with instruments away from the Tabernacle, and if David worshipped with instruments apart from the Tabernacle, then instruments as an element of worship were not a mark unique to Temple worship. It’s therefore not as simple as arguing that God rejected the Temple and therefore rejected instrumental worship.
Since Christ the Rock excluded "vocal or instrumental rejoicing" when His Word is being taught in the synagogue beginning in the wilderness, there probably was no one out of millions who did not know not to make noise when the Word of God was PREACHED by being READ on each rest day.
God did not COMMAND the temple in the first place. Christ in the prophets denied that God commanded the king, kingdom, temple or animal sacrifices. Stephen told the Jews that it was not commanded: David changed God's ordained pattern for the Tabernacle as a visible witness.
Worship literally meant falling on your face in reverence and Godly fear. There is not a single example of congregational singing with David accompanying it on his harp: He could not because none of the Bible is metrical even in the original language.
Miriam didn't worship: she caused all of the women to "escape" and go out beating on metal and repeating just the punch line that Moses SPAKE to the men and women whom Miriam didn't seduce.
See Al Maxey: Miriam as Musical Worship Leader
"In the first place, it will be noticed from the account of the triumphant rejoicing on the shore of the Red Sea that the men sang only: 'Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and SPAKE saying.'" (Girardeau, George, p. 33)
Masculine is SPEAK or SAY (as in Speak one to another). Feminine or effeminate is to SANG and CLANG: no recorded exception to the rule, Al.
Of course a tabret or sistrum is NOT a musical instrument and it gave its name for TOPHETH or HELL."In the second place, it was Miriam and the women who used instruments of music on the occasion: 'And Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went after her with timbrels and with dances." (Girardeau, p. 33).
Thirdly, the sistrum was a RATTLE and not a musical instrument. It did not even make a SINGLE note. It was to establish a BEAT. Therefore, Al Maxey is obligated to go out and DANCE with the women and do the RESPONSIVE chanting which is defined as BROW BEATING.
Ex 15:20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand;
and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
Here is what Miriam really did:
Yaca (h3318) yaw-tsaw'; a prim. root; to go (causat. bring) out, in a great variety of applications, lit. and fig... break out, ..be condemned, departure), draw forth, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away.. lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out,And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.Ge.4:16
And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf. Ex.32:24
There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the Lord, a wicked counsellor. Na.1:11
Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. Zec.14:3Here is what God thought of her "revelations."
Here is what Miriam did which was common to what the Israelites did in Egypt and never ceased to do.
Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do. Deut 24:8
Remember what the Lord thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt. Deut 24:9
Sistrum, a metallic rattle which was used by the Egyptians in celebrating the rites of Isis, and in other lascivious festivals,.Ov. Am. 2, 13, 11 By the Jews, Vulg. 1 Reg. [Samuel] 18, 6 .--Hence sarcastically, as if used for a war - trumpet by the wanton Cleopatra Verg. A.8.696 Luc. 10.63
the sacred rattles were there, and Osiris, known
the constant object of his worshipers' desire,
and there the Egyptian serpent whose quick sting
gives long-enduring sleep. She seemed to see
them all, and even to hear the goddess say
to her, "O Telethusa, one of my
remembered worshipers, forget your grief;
your husband's orders need not be obeyed;
and when Lucina has delivered you,
save and bring up your child, if either boy
or girl. I am the goddess who brings help
to all who call upon me; and you shall
never complain of me--that you adored
a thankless deity." So she advised
by vision the sad mother, and left her.
"Thus they made a golden bull, the image of an animal that was held to be the most sacred in that land; they offered unholy sacrifices, performed impious dances and sang hymns which differed in no way from the pagan mourning songs. Philo, De specialibus legibus
"This reference probably indicates the use of songs from the cult of Osiris... it can hardly be denied that Egyptian influence on Jewish musical practices was quite significant. This would stand to reason because of the high quality of Egyptian cultic music. The tambourine or timbrel, a hoop of bells over which a white skin was stretched, came from Egypt. Miriam used this instrument to accompany the singing and dancing on the shores of the Red Sea (Ex. 15).
"The trumpet... was the signaling instrument of the Egyptian army. The name of the Sistrum (2 Sam 6:5) was mena'ane'im. It was the Egyptian kemken used in the cult of Isis.
"The music during the transferring the Ark to Sion (David rose up to play)
and the dances of the women at the Shiloh (Judges 21:21), were similar to the Egyptian liturgy and parades. "As Herodotus reports, women sang the praises of Osiris while liknesses of the gods were born about and, during the festival of Diana at Bubastis.
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