John.Mark.Hicks.Searching.for.the.Pattern

Jesus: Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne. g3544 nomikos legal-ceremonial

MATT DABBS: Hicks illustrates this reconstructing the temple hermeneutic by bringing the reader into the “non-institutional controversy.” This controversy, that bloodied the Churches of Christ, was birthed by this approach to Scripture. That is the hermeneutic created this controversy.
        At the same time Churches of Christ believed that the controversy
        could be solved by the same approach to Scripture.

Highland Church of Christ weaponized the Herald of Truth by insisting that everyone must jump in and support them.  The non-institutional group never IMPOSED anything new.  All innovations were intentionally an effort to move people OFF Scripture. Matt Dabbs carries on the hostile attack.  The CORE of the APPLE is a blinding rage against those who have never and will never confuse rhetoric, singing or playing instruments as WORSHIP.

Claiming the right to be hired to do what God nor Jesus nor Paul were apparently capable of doing.  That is to do what previous Bible Scholars or Theologians were ever able to do.  That is to FINALLY by the help of A spirit to explain what God or Jesus would have said clearly IF they had the talent and POSTBiblical training of Modern Theologians.  The THORN which caused Theologians to create a Cottage Industry of Classes. Lecture and selling books to, in turn, be used to train future Clergy to Crucify Again Jesus Who died to become the ONLY prophesied Prophet, Priest, King and Master Teacher to exclusion of any personal opinions.

Acts 17:48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
Acts 17:49 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 17:50 Hath not my hand made all these things?

Sorry you INVESTED in that new Edifice which was well designed to accomodate a Musical Worship Team always leading to what they SELL as Musical Worship.  However, "worship" means to submit on your face always INFERIORIOR nad REVERENT.  The way you CANNOT worship the One True God nor even claim to be a Christian or Student-only

Acts 17:25 Neither is WORSHIPPED with MEN'S HANDS hands,
        as though he NEEDED any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

g2323. THERAPEUO, ther-ap-yoo´-o; from the same as 2324; to wait upon menially, i.e. (figuratively) to adore (God), or (specially) to relieve (of disease): — cure, heal, worship.

-therap-ōn  henchman, attendant Mousaōn therapontes music, song stu^ger-os , Muses (Rev 18) as Apollon's Worshiip Team were known as hated prostitutes, 2. gen. hadou [ein' Aidao domoisi in the nether world, with nouns in adjectival sense, devilish, “thuousan ha. mēter'”  Erōs Aphroditēs th

thera^p-euō   to be an attendant, do service Dionuson, Mousas, E.Ba.82     daimona , etc.; “daimonaPi.P.3.109, IT1105(lyr.); th. Phoibou naous serve them, Id.Ion111 (anap.): abs., worship,

Eur. Ba. 82 Chorus     Blessed is he who, being fortunate and knowing the rites of the gods, keeps his life pure and [75] has his soul initiated into the Bacchic revels, dancing in inspired frenzy over the mountains with holy purifications, and who, revering the mysteries of great mother Kybele, [80] brandishing the thyrsos, garlanded with ivy, serves Dionysus.

Go, Bacchae, go, Bacchae, escorting the god Bromius, child of a god, [85] from the Phrygian mountains to the broad streets of Hellas—Bromius,

Mousa  II. mousa, as Appellat., music, song, “m. stugeraA.Eu.308 (anap.); “euphamosId.Supp.695 (lyr.); “kanakhan . . theias antiluron mousas
Dios aigiokhoio thugateres  [Daughters of Zeus whatever the sex]

Pind. P. 3 was stricken by the golden [10] arrows of Artemis in her bedroom and descended to the house of Hades, by the skills of Apollo. The anger of the children of Zeus is not in vain. But she made light of Apollo, in the error of her mind, and consented to another marriage without her father's knowledge, although she had before lain with Phoebus of the unshorn hair
[110] But if a god were to give me luxurious wealth, I hope that I would find lofty fame in the future. We know of Nestor and Lycian Sarpedon, whom men speak of, from melodious words which skilled craftsmen join together. Through renowned songs excellence [115] gains a long life. But few find that easy to accomplish.
thera^p-eia   I. of persons, th. tōn theōn service paid to the gods  worship of Apollo Agyieus, E.Ion187;
2. service done to gain favour, paying court,   worshipper, “ApollōnosPi.O. 3.16, cf. Pl.Phd.85a 
Mousaōn kanakhan [clanging brass, gnashing of teeth, . . theias antiluron mousas  aulōn sound of flutes, of the lyre,
theias  etheiazon obtained inspiration through ritual A.to be inspired, frenzied

Apollō, Apollon was the god of MELODY: he carried the LYRE to seduce male or female. He carried the Bow to make the strings TWANG to send a SINGING arrow into male or female who did not submit.  He is the only personified SPIRITUS and He was, from Egypt onward, the Leader of the Muses.  His musical worship team were known as LOCUSTS and dirty adulteresses.


GREEK
Acts 17:25 Neither is WORSHIPPED with MEN'S HANDS hands,
        as though he NEEDED any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

cŏlo    to cultivate, till, tend, take care of a field, garden, a COMPOSITION.

Most freq. of the reverence and worship of the gods, and the respect paid to objects pertaining thereto, to honor, respect, revere, reverence, worship: Phoebe  [APOLLON] silvarumque potens Diana... o colendi Semper et culti,Mercurium,Caes. B. G. 6, 17: “Apollinem nimiā religione,Curt. 4, 3, 21: “Cererem secubitu, 2.  Of the honor bestowed upon men

THE ANTETHESIS OF CHRIST'S ELDERS WHO FEED WITH "THAT WHICH HAS BEEN TAUGHT" THE WORSHIP GOD DETESTS:

boukol-os , ho,  goat herd, gadfly, II. worshipper of Dionysos in bull-form, 2. b. tou Osorapi devotee of Sarapis,

Apollod. 2.1

2 Apollodorus identifies the Argive Apis with the Egyptian bull Apis, who was in turn identified with Serapis (Sarapis). As to the Egyptian Apis, see Hdt. 2.153 (with Wiedemann's note), iii.27, 28. As to Apia as a name for Peloponnese or Argos, see Aesch. Supp. 260ff.; Paus. 2.5.7; Scholiast on Hom. Il. i.22; Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 177; Stephanus Byzantius, s.v. Apia.

Hdt. 2.153  Psammetichus having made himself master of all Egypt, he made the southern outer court of Hephaestus' temple at Memphis, and built facing this a court for Apis, where Apis is kept and fed whenever he appears; this court has an inner colonnade all around it and many cut figures; the roof is held up by great statues twenty feet high for pillars. Apis in Greek is Epaphus

Hdt. 2.59 The Egyptians hold solemn assemblies not once a year, but often. The principal one of these and the most enthusiastically celebrated is that in honor of Artemis at the town of Bubastis1 , and the next is that in honor of Isis at Busiris. [2] This town is in the middle of the Egyptian Delta, and there is in it a very great temple of Isis, who is Demeter in the Greek language. [3] The third greatest festival is at Saïs in honor of Athena; the fourth is the festival of the sun at Heliopolis, the fifth of Leto at Buto, and the sixth of Ares at Papremis.
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Amos 5:26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images,
        the STAR of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

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
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The practice in the wilderness, tyre and Jerusalem

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?
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Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into
        captivity beyond Damascus,
        saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
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.

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Trumpet, drums, flute, cymbals and castinets with buffoons
Psallo permits ONLY smiting a string with your FINGERS: not a plectrum
Psallo and SOP have the same root meaning.

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Revelation 18F: they are all called Sorcerers who HAD once deceived the whole world.
They WILL BE CAST ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.

I'm not certain that the Campbells true Scholars and Latin Literature ever used the hermeneutic word. They would understand that to mean TRANSLATE so that you could understand the statements of fact: of Cause and effect.  Being aware of the PATTERN for the Church in the Wilderness and that understood by PATTERNS to all of the churches.   A Holy Convocation was a READING ASSEMBLE on the day of REST from literal and spiritual Field Bosses.

The Campbells dismissed clergy until new apostasy had set in and church became show and tell and buy and sell.

Church: The ekklesia is a School of Christ. (in the Prophets and Apostles only)
Worship: Reading and Musing the Word (Regulative Principle) of Christ.

h4744.Miqra.gifSynagogue1.html Deut. 31:12 Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates,
         that they may hear, a
         and that they may learn,
         and fear the LORD your God,
         and observe to do all the words of this law:

Deut. 31:13 And that their children,
        which have not known any thing,
        may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God,
       as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it

Till I come, give attendance to (the public) reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 1Ti.4:13

But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm. Num 10:7

EXCLUDED from the QAHAL

EXCLUDED from the episunagoge

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.
Psallo (g5567) psal'-lo; SOP prob. strengthened from psao, (to rub or touch the surface; comp. 5597); to twitch or twang, i.e. to play on a stringed instrument (celebrate the divine worship with music and accompanying odes): - make melody, sing (psalms)
Ruwph (h7322) roof; a prim. root; prop. to triturate (in a mortar), i. e. (fig.) to agitate (by concussion): - tremble.
Psocho (g5597) pso'-kho; prol. from the same base as 5567; to triturate, i.e. (by anal.) to rub out (kernels from husks with the fingers or hand): - rub.

The Greek LOGOS outlaws everything John Mark Hicks has actively promoted. All of Scripture and Historical Scholars were and are APOSTOLIC meaning EDUCATION is based on the Prophets and Apostles.  They left their PART for our MEMORY until we arrived at the PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY.

God's Word, Logos or Regulative Principle OUTLAWS Rhetoric, singing or playing instruments.  Those who do not speak that WORD are  defined by Jesus as the sons of the Devil.  Why would anyone want to invent a hermeneutic which PERMITS that which is clearly the MARKS of the World, Kosmos, Ecumenical or the Kingdom of the Devil?

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John 12:48 He that rejecteth ME,
        and receiveth not my WORDS,   [Excludes Rhetoric, Singing, playing instruments]
        hath one that judgeth him:
        the WORD that I have SPOKEN,
        the same shall judge him in the last day.

Why would HIRELING THEOLOGIANS have trouble accepting the WORD which is God's Regulative Principle which Jjesus made Audivle and Visible.
John 8:24 I SAID therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins:
        for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

John 8:25
Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus SAITH unto them,
         Even the same that I SAID unto you from the beginning. [Not Genesis 1:1]

Jesus obeyed the CENI: you don't need to!

John 8:26 I have many things to SAY and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true;
        and I SPEAK to the world those things which I have HEARD of him.

SPIRIT means "God put His WORDS into the MOUTH of Jesus."

John 8:28 Then SAID Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man,
........... then shall ye know that I am he,
........... And that I do nothing of myself;
........... but as my Father hath taught me,
........... I SPEAK these things.

Simple Aaron in Synagogue school would understand the REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE in a NUT SHELL.  MARK of all Anti Theo-Logos who make an INDUSTRY out of teaching young people to look to THEM for salvation.
Logos  computation, reckoning 2. statement of a theory, argument, ouk emeu alla tou l. akousantas prob. in Heraclit.50; logon ēde noēma amphis alētheiēs discourse and reflection on reality,
IV. inward debate of the soul, reflection, deliberation
Regulative and formative forces, derived from the intelligible and operative in the sensible universe,

Opposite to epithumia
 A. desire, yearning, longing after a thing, desire of or for it, Theaomai :--gaze at, behold, mostly with a sense of wonder3. view as spectators
Opposite Pathos  A. that which happens to a person or thing, incident, accident,  Moralizing Rhetoric
Opposite Poiein to excite passion, Arist.Rh.1418a12; V. Rhet., emotional style or treatment,
Opposite Enthousi-astikos , ē, on, A. inspired,phusisPl.Ti.71e; esp. by music,
Prose OPPOSITE -poiêsis, Id.R.390a;
OPPOSITE -poiêtikê, D.H.Comp.6; OPPOSITE poiêmata, onomatopoeic word
OPPOSITE  emmetra Modus   2. The measure of tones, measure, rhythm, melody, harmony, time; in poetry, measure, metre, mode: Mūsĭcus a, um, adj., = mousikos.
X. the Word or Wisdom of God, personified as his agent in creation and world-government,

Theologians are doomed to call God a liar or INCOMPETENT.  If God had wanted any kind of music in the tuneful sense He was INTELLIGIBLE But denied by C. Leonard Allen.

mousikos kai melōn poētēs2. generally, votary of the Muses,  The Muses were the LOCUSTS unleashed with Apollon their "musical worship leaders." The Greek and Latin literature identifies them as dirty adulteresses

John 14:10 Believest thou not that I am IN the Father,
        and the Father in me?
        the
WORDS that I SPEAK unto you
        I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

God didn't command the TEMPLE made with human hands. Hiram, king of Tyre and the agent of Lucifer used Jewish slave labor to build Solomon a temple much like his own.  Hiram's temple still stands: there is nothing to prove that Solomon ever build His Temple

THE PATTERN WHICH THEOLOGIANS CANNOT FIND

Rom. 15:4 For whatsoever things were
        written aforetime were written for our learning,
        that we through patience and comfort of the SCRIPTURES might have hope.
Rom. 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation
        grant you to be likeminded one toward another  [NO INTERPRETERS OR CLERGY]
        according to Christ Jesus:
Rom. 15:6 That ye may with ONE MIND and one MOUTH
        glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

THE MARK OF THE SONS OF THE DEVIL.

John 7:16 Jesus answered them, and said,
        My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
John 7:17 If any man will do his will,
        he shall know of the doctrine,
        whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
John 7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory:
        but he that seeketh his glory that sent him,
        the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.


THE PATTERN COMMANDED AND EXAMPLED BY JESUS AND PAUL
Rubel Shelly Behold the Pattern
For I spake NOT unto your fathers, nor  commanded them
        in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
         concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: Jeremiah 7:22
But this thing commanded I them, saying,
         Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: (CENI)
         and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, (CENI)
         that it may be well unto you. Jeremiah 7:23

Jer 23:17 They say still unto them that despise me,
        The Lord hath said, Ye shall have peace;
        and they say unto every one that walketh
        after the imagination of his own heart,
        No evil shall come upon you.  "You can SOW discord and steal from the owners"

    Despise tthe Word of God of God and using your own words is:
Blasphēm-eō , pf.
A. beblasphēmēkaD.18.10:—speak profanely of sacred things, “eis theousPl.R.381e; offer rash prayers, Id.Alc.2.149c; b. kata tinosutter imprecations against, Aeschin.1.180.
2. speak ill or to the prejudice of one, slander,peri tēs emēs diatribēsIsoc.15.2, cf. D.l.c., ib.82; “b. kata tinosIsoc.12.65, cf. Arist.Fr.44; “hosa eis hēmas eblasphēmēsanD.51.3; “b. tinaBabr.71.6, Ev.Luc.23.39, etc.: abs., Phld.Lib.p.8 O.:—Pass., to have evil spoken of one, “beblasphēmēmenousId.Vit.p.12 J., cf. 1 Ep.Cor.10.30.
3. speak impiously or irreverently of God, blaspheme, “eis ton KurionLXX Da.3.29(96); “eis to pneuma to hagionEv.Marc.3.29; eis ta theia Vett. Val.58.12; “tous theousId.67.20: abs., LXX 2 Ma.10.34, al., Ev.Matt.9.3.

THE REST OF CHRIST IS DEFINED INCLUSIVELY AND EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROPHETS.

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Is. 52:15 So shall he sprinkle many nations;
        the kings shall shut their mouths at him:
        for that which had not been told them shall they see;
        and that which they had not heard shall they consider.

In Romans 15 Paul confirms the Prophets for the assembly pattern

Rom. 15:20 Yea, so have I strived to preach THE GOSPEL
        not where Christ was named,
        lest I should build upon another man’s foundation:


The PLAN is that Jesus was sent and sent others to:

Rom. 15:21 But as it is written,
        To whom he was not spoken of,
                they shall see:
        and they that have not heard
                shall understand.


 

1Cor. 3:9 For we are labourers together with God:
        ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
1Cor. 3:10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me,
        as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation,
        and another buildeth thereon.
        But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
1Cor. 3:11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid,
         which is Jesus Christ.
1Cor. 3:12 Now if any man build upon this foundation
            gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
1Cor. 3:13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest:
        for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire;
        and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.

Eph. 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners,
        but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
Eph. 2:20 And are built upon [Educated by]
        the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
        Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Eph. 2:21 In whom all the building
        fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
Eph. 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together
        for an habitation of God through the Spirit.


What was needed was fine tuning our architectural prowess.
        So we learn of such technical matters as exclusive pattern, specific authority, generic authority, coordinates. John Mark then walks us through the transformation of an occasional (and not universally commanded) collection from 1 Corinthians 16 into a required pattern requirement and the money can be used only for saints.

“This is how I learned to read the Bible. It was comfortable, and it made sense to me” (p. 58). But it was (and is) exceedingly complex.

Hicks, Wineskins etal begin by spreading hatred for those who understood that:
1.  There is no Command, Example or Remote inference for any FUNDING even for the destitute.
2.  ALL division is BUILT by trying to IMPOSE something based on human authority.
3.  When apostasy was blooming My father stopped by the Gin-Store of the Tucker clan to borrow one dollar to put in the plate when many were pinching a nickle or quuarter.
4.  No one had or has the right to fleece the widow to feed another PROGRAM. The ACU kingdom at Highland has taken the MARK of music led by "scholars" whom Jesus will not permit to SELL their own opinion.
4.  The New Hermeneutic was ACU manufactured

THE ONE-PIECE PATTERN FOR THE CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS

John 6:45 It is written in the prophets,
        And they shall be all taught of God.
        Every man therefore that hath heard,
        and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
Rom. 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime
        were written for our learning,
        that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
1Cor. 4:6 And these things, brethren,
        I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes;
        That ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written,
        that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

THE PUFFER BILLY ANTI-SCRIPTURE PATTERN
Carroll D. Osburn ACU  Speaks for most Universities where Scripture is corrected to fit the present world age.  Historical Theology, the new Curriculum, means that Scripture is defined by church councils and Historic Scholars.  Because that is the PATTERN, contemporary Text Books follow a stream of text books written by the Professor who teaches the class.

Eph. 2:20 And are built upon  [Edified-Educated in the Ecclesia]
        the foundation of the APOSTLES and PROPHETS,
        Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

Even Gentiles were "wise unto salvation" because the Synagogue was favored over the pagan rituals.
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time
        hath in every city   [sabbath day's journey prevented travel]
        them that PREACH him,
        being READ in the synagogues every sabbath day.

Acts 13:27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their RULERS,
        because they knew him not,
        nor yet the voices of the prophets
        which are
READ every sabbath day,
        they have fulfilled them in condemning him

Luke 18:7 And shall not God avenge his own elect,
        which cry day and night unto him,
        though he bear long with them?

Luke 18:8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.
        Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh,
        shall he find faith on the earth?
Carroll D. Osburn "American scholar recognized as one of North America's leading New Testament textual critics and a prominent Christian egalitarian,

Galatians 3:28 is the key for egalitarians.  However, we kinda think that females are not boys with long hair. Being ONE in Christ as the HOUSE of God as FAMILY Priests or Levites are Excluded.

Gal. 3:28 There is NEITHER Jew nor Greek,
        there is
NEITHER bond nor free,
        there is
NEITHER male nor female:
        for ye are all ONE in Christ Jesus.

The Assemblies involve SPEAKING that which is written for our LEARNING.  Egalitarians want both male and female to have CLERGY offices and lots of money to operate a purely secular institution.  Osborn and all Institutions (Institutional or none institutional) wants Galatians 3:28 to say BOTH.

Osburn: On pages 14-15: "With so many questions
flying around and so much UNCERTAINTY
        being expressed in various quarters,
        what an opportunity for the various
faculties of our Christian colleges and universities
        
to help shape the future!
        These are the best of times to be involved in
Christian education!

"If WE are to have a truly significant IMPACT upon the national and INTERNATIONAL scene,
faculties of religion must play
leading PROPHETIC roles in CHANNELLING and FACILITATING whatever changes loom ahead.

"Trainers use PROPHETIC roles to Channel and Facilitate the method of
        SUBVERTING the 'hierarchial " views of JESUS and PAUL.
       "
Feminist HERMENEUTICS stands over AGAINST patriarchal HERMENEUTICS"
        its
goal achieved "by small, often unnoticed acts of SUBVERSION.
        Numerous such
incremental changes, like EROSION,
        will eventually bring DOWN the FORTRESS
"

"The Bible is not so much a 'heaven-sent answer book'
        as a
historical book PRODUCED within and for a historical COMMUNITY--
        yet it SERVES
as Scripture today
        BECAUSE
people find themselves accountable to it.
        THAT is what make its SCRIPTURE" (p. 46).

"A major task facing our churches
        is the reintegration of the Old Testament into the regular teaching,
        thinking and practice of the church" (p. 49).

"There is major disagreement on whether one should use the Bible to UNDERGIRD doctrines
         in a "proof-texting way,  [The Written Scriptures]
         or whether one should ALLOW
doctrine to EMERGE from understanding texts
         in their LITERARY
and HISTORICAL contexts.

Certainly these differing views of Scripture lie behind differing views of women in the church" (p. 90).
"Paul's arguments carried weight in HIS DAY even though they may not necessarily be CONVINCING by today's standards" (p. 135).N

MARK: BOTH MALE AND FEMALE STANDING IN THEIR HOLY PLACES CLAIMING TO BE GOD.

NO ONE WHO CORRUPTS THE WORD OR SELL THEIR LEARNING AT RETAIL (ADULDTERY in civilzed Greek society) can ever grasp that Paul silenced both male and female trying to teach over.  Both male or female agents (parasites) in religionism believed that they spoke for the gods.

1Tim. 2:5 For there is ONE GOD,
         and one mediator between God and men,
         the MAN Christ Jesus;

Lying wonders are "religious operations" claiming to AID the gods: this is the meaning of ANATHEMA. It or they cannot be REDEEMED and MUST BE BURNED.


WHY YOU NEED HICKS OR DABBS OR OSBURN TO MAKE GOD INTELLIGIBLE (Leonard Allen]

"The science of INTERPRETATION in general is difficult
        because it requires much learning, judgment, and diligence

AND "Not unfrequently, a FELICITY of TALENT  [Meaning:The Bible becomes SCRIPTURE BY ONE with "the ability to find appropriate expression for one's thoughts."speech that pleased by its accuracy, felicity, and fluency"

"or a more than usual degree of UNDERSTANDING
        is REQUISITE to manage an EXEGETICAL inquiry with success.

"But INTERPRETATION of the sacred books is, from various causes
        a) still more difficult,
                as the general consent of THE LEARNED
                and the wonderful paucity
        (b) of good INTERPRETERS fully evince .

Biblical theologians are THE ONES who attempt to LOCATE these questions
        through identifying the central ISSUES of the biblical FAITH.

PETER CALLS PRIVATE INTERPRETATION OR FURTHER EXPOUNDING DESPISING THE SPIRIT

http://www.piney.com/Keith.Stanglin.Private.Interpretation.Rejects.The.Holy.Spirit.html



The Prophets define the WAY that is called a SECT which is a ROAD or PATTERN.  Jesus defined Holy Scripture as the PROPHETS and other prophecies CONCERNING ME.  The Prophet spoke when God put His WORD into their MOUTH.  The Prophets in perfectly clear statements defined what was SHILOH or Rest for the Godly to define Disciples to READ and UNDERSTAND.  Figurative language is easily understood by similar effects.  Theologians, based on published material, quote a verse or comment and the make up the rest.

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Eph. 3:4 Whereby, when ye read,
        ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
Eph. 3:5 Which in other ages
        was not made known unto the sons of men,
        as it is now REVEALED unto his holy APOSTLES and PROPHETS by the SPIRIT

SPIRIT produces WORDS.  SPIRIT is figurative or a PARABLE to HID truth from the WISE or SOPHISTS: Rhetoricians, singers, Instruments.  God REVEALS to BABES.  Babes are Those who have received a NEW or REgenerated spirit without which one cannot read BLACK text on BROWN paper.;  2 Corinthians 3

Neh. 8:3 And he READ therein before the street
        that was before the water gate from the morning until midday,
        before the men and the women, and those that could understand;
        and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.

Reading was always from the original or exact copy of the ORIGINAL.  He TRANSLATED so that people could understand. There was no preaching or Inspired Theologian.

READING or PREACHING the Word by READING it once each week in the assembly is the ONE-PIECE PATTERN.  The Lord's Supper is a REteaching that it was Jesus who died to become the ONLY Rabbi.

Neh. 8:8 So they READ in the book in the law of God distinctly,
        and gave the sense,
        and caused them to understand the READING

No one went beyond EXPLAINING or TRANSLATING that Specific Passage.

Hermeneutics--

False Teachers Fore Ordained Jude: The same as EXEGESIS, a term technically used of the interpretation of a text from the study of critical materials such as manuscripts, editions, and quotations. The word is from the Greek hermêneuô, "to interpret." See Textual Criticism.

--hermaêneuô [hermêneus]--

interpret foreign tongues, X.An.5.4.4; translate, D.H.Th.49, etc.; “apo HpōmaikōnPRyl.62.30 (iii A. D.):—Pass., “HellēnistiD.H.2.12, cf. LXXJb.42.17, etc.
III  abs., speak clearly, articulate, Hp.Epid.5.74.

The Voice or Text is translated and explained but NOT add your own opinions

I. an interpreter, esp. of FOREIGN TONGUE, a dragoman, Hdt., Xen.
II. an interpreter, expounder, Aesch.

The "god" of the HermeNeuts: Beyond reading, translating and expaining THE TEXT:

--Hermês Hermes, the Lat. Mercurius, son of Maia and Zeus; messenger of the gods (diaktoros); giver of good luck (eriounios, akakêta ); god of all secret dealings, cunning, and stratagem (dolios); bearing a golden rod (chrusorrapis ); conductor of defunct spirits (psuchopompos, pompaios ); tutelary god of all arts, of traffic, markets, roads (agoraios, empolaios, hodios, enodios ), and of heralds. His bust, mounted on a four-cornered pillar, was used to mark boundaries. --Proverb., koinos Hermês shares in your luck! Theophr.: cf. hermaion.

John Mark Hicks and the New total SCRIPTURES because A spirit speaks to them
-hupo-kri^tēs 
I.  interpreter or expounder,tēs di' ainigmōn phēmēsPl.Ti. 72b; “oneirōnLuc.Somn.17, etc.
II  iin Att., one who plays a part on the stage, actor,  

2.  of an orator, poikilos hu. kai perittos (of Dem.) Phld.Rh.1.197 S.; one who delivers, recites, declaimer,epōn
metaph., pretender, dissembler, hypocrite, LXX Jb.34.30, 36.13, Ev.Matt.23.13, al..
poikilo   2. of Art, p. humnos a song of changeful strain or full of diverse art, Pi.O.6.87; “poikilon kitharizōnId.N.4.14; “dedaidalmenoi pseudesi poikilois mutho    NOT ONE VERSE IN SCRIPTURE

CONSISTENT WITH THE SORCERY OR WITCHCRAFT AT JOHN MARK HICKS INSTITUTION

3.
intricate, complex, heiligmoi -ōtatoi, of a labyrinth, Hdt.2.148; of an oracle, speaking in double sense,

Hdt. 7.111 [2] It is they who possess the place of divination sacred to Dionysus. This place is in their highest mountains; the Bessi, a clan of the Satrae, are the prophets of the shrine; there is a priestess who utters the oracle, as at Delphi; it is no more complicated here than there.

THE ABSOLUTE LAW OF GOD
1Pet. 4:11 If ANY man SPEAK,
        let him speak as the ORACLES of God;
Everyone you pay too much lies about that and claims to be GOD standing in their holy places.
g3051. logion, log´-ee-on; neuter of 3052; an utterance (of God): — oracle.
Theos Logy is God's WORD, LOGOS, Regulative Principle which outlaws rhetoric, singing, playing instruments.

if any man minister,
        let him do it as of the ability which God giveth:
that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ,
        to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
TO MARK AND AVOID JOHN MARK HICKS AND ALL END-TIME PROFESSORS.
John 7:16 Jesus answered them, and said,
        My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
John 7:17 If any man will do his will,
        he shall know of the doctrine,
        whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
John 7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory:
        but he that seeketh his glory that sent him,
        the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him
It is true that Scripture uses a lot of figurative language.  Parables, for Instance, said Jesus was to HIDE from those OF this world.  Other forms which Alexander Campbell wrote about can be understood by reading the CONTEXT which is never done when people SPEAK of themselves to GLORIFY themselves and Sell Christ  at retail.

Eph. 3:4 Whereby, when ye READ,
        ye may understand MY knowledge in the mystery of Christ)

The writers left a "memory" of their PART of the PERFECT.  When the PERFECT came the purpose was to repudiate people who had contrary opinions.

James 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty,
        and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer,
        but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
James 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious,
        and bridleth not his tongue,
        but deceiveth his own heart,
        this man’s religion is vain.
James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this,
        To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction,
        and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

THAT LEAVES THE SCHOOL OF THE WORD AS PATTERN FROM THE WILDERNESS ONWARD.
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John 7:15 And the Jews marvelled, saying,
        How knoweth this man letters, having never
LEARNED?
Acts 7:22 And Moses was LEARNED in all the wisdom of the Egyptians,
        ad was mighty in  and in deeds.
Acts 26:24 And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much
LEARNING doth make thee mad.
Rom. 15:4 For whatsoever things were WRITTEN AFORETIME
        were written for our
LEARNING,
        that we through patience and comfort of the SCRIPTURES might have hope.
Rom. 16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren,
        mark them which cause divisions and offences
        contrary to the doctrine which ye have
LEARNED; and avoid them.
1Cor. 4:6 And these things, brethren,
        I have in a FIGURE transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes;
        that ye might
LEARN in us not to think of men above that which is written,
        that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.
1Cor. 14:31 For ye may all prophesy [teach WORD by inspiration] one by one,
         that all may
LEARN, and all may be comforted.
Romans 15 written comfort
1Cor. 14:35 And if they will LEARN any thing,
        let them ask their husbands at home:
        for it is a shame for women to SPEAK in the church.

The only periodic assembly of the godly Jews was to hold a holy convocation. This was normally on the First and Last days when mature males were gathered together.

Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time
        hath in every city
        them that PREACH him,
         being READ in the synagogues every sabbath day.




2Cor. 3:14 But their minds were blinded:
        for until this day remaineth the same VAIL untaken away
        in the READING of the old testament;
        which vail is done away in Christ.
2Cor. 3:15 But even unto this day,
        when Moses is READ, the vail is upon their heart.
2Cor. 3:16 Nevertheless when it shall TURN [Convert-be baptized]
        to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. [by receiving A holy REgenerated spirit]

NOW or after Jesus received the Promise or Evangelistic as Holy Spirit.

2Cor. 3:17 Now the Lord IS that SPIRIT:
        and where the
SPIRIT OF the Lord is, there is liberty.
John 6:62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man
        ascend up where he was before?
John 6:63 It is the
SPIRIT that quickeneth;
        the flesh profiteth nothing:
        the WORDS that I speak unto you,
        they are
SPIRIT, and they are life.
In SPIRIT STATE (never a person) Jesus guided the Apostles into all TRUTH. He Appeared to and Spoke to Paul to qualify Him.  When the Holy Spirit prevented Paul from going into Bithynia, it was the Spirit OF JESUS.

Only women enhanced their "worship" by singing AND playing an instrument.
Only rarely would a MALE sing and PLAY and INSTRUMENT at the same time. They were universally willing to entertain in female garments and offer their bodies either visually or sexually.


SPEAKING or TEACHING OVER applies to male and female. That would permit either to Speak His own Words (Marking him as a son of the devil and violating the Holy Spirit or God putting His WORDS into the MOUTH of the PROPHETS.

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SPEAKING is a word which defines speaking on your own, speaking in tongues, or performing any kind of music when Jesus visits to teach.

1Cor. 14:9 So likewise ye,
        except ye UTTER by the tongue
WORDS
        easy to be UNDERSTOOD,
        how shall it be known what is
SPOKEN? for ye shall speak into the air.

1Cor. 14:19 Yet in the church I had rather SPEAK five WORDS with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand WORDS in an unknown tongue.

There is no tuneful singing in all of Scripture.  Modern Theologians impose sermons out of their own head SINGING and PLAYING instruments both as LEGALISTIC acts of worship in order to SILENCE the UTTERING of the WORD.


la^l-eō   
zōgraphia lalousa (of poetry) pantomime,
II. chatter, OPPOSITE ARTICULATE speech, as of LOCUSTS, chirp, Theoc.5.34; mesēmbrias lalein tettix (sc. eimi), a very grasshopper to chirp at midday, Aristopho 10.6; “anthrōpinōs l.Strato Com.1.46.
III. of musical sounds, aulō laleōTheoc.20.29; of trees, v.supr.1.2; “di'aulou ē salpiggos l.Arist. Aud.801a29; of Echo, D.C.74.14: also c.acc. cogn., magadin lalein sound the magadis, Anaxandr.35.

kainos   innovations new. The BEAST is A New Style of Music.

sophis-tēs ,
A.master of one's craft, adept, expert, of diviners, Hdt.2.49; of poets, “meletan sophistais prosbalonPi.I.5(4).28, cf. Cratin.2; of musicians, “sophistēs . . parapaiōn khelun
with modal words added, “hoi s. tōn hierōn melōn   [Melody in a holy place]

sophos  mantis”  mostly of poets and musicians, en kithara sglōssē
   kainē kōmōdōn, tragōdōn, “k. tines sophistai

mantis  Sibulla:— diviner, seer, prophet Pi.I.6(5).51; of Apollo, A.Ag.1202, Ch.559, Eu. 169 ho mantis mantin ekpraxas eme, of Apollo and Cassandra, Id.Ag.1275; of the Pythian priestess, Id.Eu.29;

1Cor. 14:23 If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

In 1 Corinthians 12 only ONE would have the supernatural power to TRANSLATE tongues or minor Dialectss.

Gal. 3:2 This only would I LEARN of you,
        Received ye the SPIRIT by the works of the law,
        or by the HEARING of faith?
Eph. 4:20 But ye have not so
LEARNED Christ;
Phil. 4:9 Those things,
        which ye have both
LEARNED,
        and received, and HEARD, and seen in me,
        do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
Phil. 4:11 Not that I speak in respect of want:
         for I have
LEARNED, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
Col. 1:7 As ye also
LEARNED of Epaphras our dear fellowservant,
        who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;
1Tim. 1:20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander;
        whom I have delivered unto Satan,
        that they may
LEARN not to blaspheme.
1Tim. 2:11 Let the woman
LEARN in silence with all subjection.

1Tim. 5:4 But if any widow have children or nephews,
        let them
LEARN first to shew piety at home,
        and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
1Tim. 5:13 And withal they
LEARN to be idle,
        wandering about from house to house;
        and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies,
        speaking things which they ought not.
2Tim. 3:7 Ever
LEARNING, and never able
        to come to the knowledge of THE TRUTH [The Word, Logos, Regulative Principle].
2Tim. 3:14 But continue thou in the things
        which thou hast
LEARNED and hast been assured of,
        knowing of whom thou hast
LEARNED them;
Titus 3:14 And let ours also
LEARN to maintain good works for necessary uses,
        that they be not unfruitful.
Heb. 5:8 Though he were a Son,
        yet
LEARNED he obedience by the things which he suffered;
Rev. 14:3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne,
        and before the four beasts, and the elders:
        and no man could
LEARN that song
        but the hundred and forty and four thousand,
        which were redeemed FROM the earth.


John 12:48 He that rejecteth ME,
        and receiveth not my
WORDS,
        hath one that judgeth him:
        the
WORD that I have SPOKEN,
        the same shall judge him in the last day.
John 14:10 Believest thou not that I am IN the Father,
        and the Father in me?
        the
WORDS that I SPEAK unto you
        I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

Acts 4:29 And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants,
        that with all boldness they may
SPEAK thy WORD,
Acts 5:20 Go, stand and
SPEAK in the temple
        to the people all the
WORDS of this life.
Acts 6:11 Then they suborned men, which 
,
        We have heard him
SPEAK blasphemous WORDS
         against Moses, and against God.

1Cor. 14:9 So likewise ye,
        except ye UTTER by the tongue
WORDS
        easy to be UNDERSTOOD,
        how shall it be known what is
SPOKEN? for ye shall speak into the air.
1Cor. 14:19 Yet in the church I had rather
SPEAK five WORDS with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand WORDS in an unknown tongue.
2Cor. 2:17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the
WORD of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God SPEAK we in Christ.


2Pet. 1:3 According as his divine power
        hath given unto us all things that pertain unto LIFE and GODLINESS,
        through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Pet. 1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things,
        though ye KNOW them, and be ESTABLISHED in the present truth.
2Pet. 1:19 We have also a more sure WORD of prophecy;
         whereunto ye do well that ye take heed,
        as unto a light that shineth in a dark place,
        until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
2Pet. 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any PRIVATE INTERPRETATI
ON

Theologians always end up contradicting Scripture and focus on sowing discord.  Don't further expound the preserved WORD because that would be blasphemy.

2Pet. 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man:
        but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy SPIRIT.

Those who sell books denouncing DISCIPLES or STUDENTS-only, don't need to Quote the Scriptures which have been understood--if usually violated--by God and historic Scholarship who understood The Word or Logos delivered as APOSTOLIC are God's Regulative Principle.  Students of Christ--still the only TEACHER--cannot possibly accuse God Who always preserves His Word against change--of being SUPERSEDED by Theologians who impose themselves as ADDITIONS to the Scriptures.

Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done,
        but according to his mercy he saved us,
        by the washing [Baptism] of regeneration, and REnewing of the Holy Ghost; [OURS]
Titus 3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions,
        and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Titus 3:10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
Titus 3:11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

The PATTERN for the Church in the Wilderness was to PREACH the Word by READING the Word.  Jesus left us an EXAMPLE of His Pattern to READ.  Theologians write for other theologians but do not grasp that that "Theology IS the Commanded and Exampled" pattern REFUTED  by those "selling learning at wholesale." Here is a "circle drawn close or a noose for professional sowers of discord" and self speakers

John 7:17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine,
        whether it be OF GOD, or whether I speak of MYSELF.

INFERENCE is always proper when people are blind.
There is no example of group singing with or without instruments in Scripture or until after the Reformation.
God provided nothing to lyrical or for the Lyre.
Paul commanded that we SPEAK Psalms, Hymns, Spiritual Songs for TEACHING.
          In Romans the direct command is to "use one mind and one mouth" to "teach that which was written or SCRIPTURE.
ODE (sorcery) and PSALLO (Smiting, Shooting arrows, one string with the fingers) is IN the heart or SILENCE.
We can INFER that anyone who can find any "musical" or "tuneful" faith or practice in Scripture or before the Reformation is either BLIND by God's Will or Deceitful.

We want to say that anything beyond the WORD is just ignorance.  Jesus had Paul say that "Rhetoric, singing, playing instruments" are MARKS of those LYING IN WAIT TO DECEIVE.

WHOSE SPIRIT guides men to Purpose Drive imposing any kind of Clergy Singers or Instrument players knowing that it would sow MASSIVE DISCORD and offend tens of thousands of believers?  The Worship Teams are truly pitiful and painful for the offended to watch.

A Basket of Sumer Fruit Amos 8
Amos 8:1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
Amos 8:2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit.
        Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel;
        I will not again pass by them any more.
Amos 8:3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD:
        there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence

Zech. 11:3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.

John 7:18 He that speaketh of himself SEEKETH his own glory:
        but he that seeketh his glory that sent him,
        the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.


1Pet. 4:11 If ANY man SPEAK, let him speak as the ORACLES of God;
        if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth:
        that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ,
        to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

G3051.  logion, log´-ee-on; neuter of 3052; an utterance (of God): — oracle.

John 12:48 He that rejecteth ME,
        and receiveth not my
WORDS,
        hath one that judgeth him:
        the
WORD that I have SPOKEN,
        the same shall judge him in the last day.
Simple Aaron in Synagogue school would understand the REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE in a NUT SHELL.  MARK of all Anti Theo-Logos who make an INDUSTRY out of teaching young people to look to THEM for salvation.
Logos  computation, reckoning 2. statement of a theory, argument, ouk emeu alla tou l. akousantas prob. in Heraclit.50; logon ēde noēma amphis alētheiēs discourse and reflection on reality,
IV. inward debate of the soul, reflection, deliberation
Regulative and formative forces, derived from the intelligible and operative in the sensible universe,

Opposite to epithumia
 A. desire, yearning, longing after a thing, desire of or for it, Theaomai :--gaze at, behold, mostly with a sense of wonder3. view as spectators
Opposite Pathos  A. that which happens to a person or thing, incident, accident,  Moralizing Rhetoric
Opposite Poiein to excite passion, Arist.Rh.1418a12; V. Rhet., emotional style or treatment,
Opposite Enthousi-astikos , ē, on, A. inspired,phusisPl.Ti.71e; esp. by music,
Prose OPPOSITE -poiêsis, Id.R.390a;
OPPOSITE -poiêtikê, D.H.Comp.6; OPPOSITE poiêmata, onomatopoeic word
OPPOSITE  emmetra Modus   2. The measure of tones, measure, rhythm, melody, harmony, time; in poetry, measure, metre, mode: Mūsĭcus a, um, adj., = mousikos.
X. the Word or Wisdom of God, personified as his agent in creation and world-government,

Theologians are doomed to call God a liar or INCOMPETENT.  If God had wanted any kind of music in the tuneful sense He was INTELLIGIBLE But denied by C. Leonard Allen.

mousikos kai melōn poētēs2. generally, votary of the Muses,  The Muses were the LOCUSTS unleashed with Apollon their "musical worship leaders." The Greek and Latin literature identifies them as dirty adulteresses


John 14:10 Believest thou not that I am IN the Father,
        and the Father in me?
        the
WORDS that I SPEAK unto you
        I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
Luke 11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

Modern Doctors of the Law know that they cannot get rich and famous by speaking and writing about Scripture rather than pointing to a passage now FIT to be stated in fool.
Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us,                 [denied by Calvinist and Stone]
        that he might redeem [g3084 Lutroo
        us from all iniquity, [Not possible say Calvinists]
        and purify unto himself a PECULIAR people,
         zealous of good works.


Periousi-os
especial, peculiar, “laos
LXX Ex.19.5,
laos the common men, Opposite their leaders, 2.365, 13.108;
akouete leō hear O people!—the usual way of beginning proclamations at Athens, like our Oyez!
4. in LXX, of the people, as Opposite priests and Levites, 1 Es.5.46;

Moses Lard STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS.

The world knows not Christ, nor does it know his followers. The character and conduct of the martyrs were a perfect mystery to the mass who looked on their sufferings.

The Platonist who made of necessity a virtue, and tried philosophy to prepare himself to bear anything,
        was completely at a loss when he saw the Christian conqueror meet death in its most aggravated forms with joy.

One, when thrown on the flames, said: “This is a bed of roses.” Another, over­whelmed with joy, forgot his sufferings, cried out:
        “None but Jesus! none but Jesus!” These things were, indeed, wonders to the gazing world.

The followers of Christ were like beings from another world; so it will be with us if we are Christians. We will be pilgrims, and, of course, strangers here.

The world will not under­stand us. Our motives to action, our joys and hopes, our supports, are all strange to them. For example: that we should have so much pleasure in contem­plating the crucifixion and death of our Master—a thing supposed to give us pain—is a mystery.

That we should be so careful in performing some duties, which the world regards of so little use—that we should rejoice in the darkest hours of trial and in death, make us strange to our nearest worldly friends.

We are bound for another land, and feel strange here. If strangers, let us live so. If a traveler in a foreign land is going homeward, if he has an unpleasant journey, he finds relief in the fact it will soon be over. If, as he halts for the night, he has a disagreeable landlord and uncomfortable accom­modations, he remembers it is only for the night. As soon as morning comes he will leave all these behind him, and be nearing his home. So should we, in our pilgrimage, look on our homes, our lands, merely as they aid us on our journey heaven­ward. If we have trouble and bereavement and sorrow, remember these are soon to end, and we shall find sorrow turned to joy. [110][Volume V: January, 1868]

Selling Theology in the name of Jesus Christ allows one to IMPOSE musical "worship" when the Greeks called that IMPURE RELIGION.

Matt. 11:25 At that time Jesus answered and said,
        I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
        because thou hast HID these things from the WISE and prudent, [Rhetoricians, singers, instrument players]
        [Wise are Sophists: rhetoricians, singers, instrument players for sale]
        and hast revealed them unto BABES. [New DISCIPLES of Christ-only]
Matt. 11:26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Matt. 11:27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father:
        and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father;
        neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son,
        and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.

Contrary to the LIPSCOMB scholars, Jesus was born IN THE FLESH 30 years before God made him to be both Lord and Christ. To fulfill the PATTERN, Jesus could not be a priest of God until He was washed in the "Laver."  Jesus was sanctified and sent when He was baptized to fulfill the Righteousness He had based on His Faith.
Matt. 28:17 And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.
Rhetoric, singing, playing instruments is worship OF THE WORLD PATTERN. It is without doubt that those who listen to a singer sing his own songs and beat on drums is intending NOT to submit in any sense to the ONLY Teacher

 However, worship as SCHOOL is giving heed to the WORD which Jesus commanded to be taught.

4352.  proskuneo, pros-koo-neh´-o; from 4314 and a probable derivative of 2965 (meaning to kiss, like a dog licking his master’s hand); to fawn or crouch to, i.e. (literally or figuratively) prostrate oneself in homage (do reverence to, adore): — worship.

Matt. 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,
        All power is GIVEN unto me in heaven and in earth.
Matt. 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
         baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Peter and everyone understood to baptize in the NAME-singular of Jesus Christ.

Matt. 28:20 Teaching them to OBSERVE all things whatsoever I HAVE COMMANDED YOU you:
        and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

The NECESSARY INFERENCE is that self-authored songs and sermons MARK those WITH WHOM Jesus is NOT WITH.

Jesus affirms that the Word which God put into His MOUTH (the meaning of SPIRIT) was that of the Prophets CONCERNING ME.  Jesus did not create Pluto or anything physical.  He is the creator or PURCHASER of his very tiny flock.

g165.  aion, ahee-ohn´; from the same as 104; properly, an age; by extension, perpetuity (also past); by implication, the world; specially (Jewish) a Messianic period (present or future): — age, course, eternal, (for) ever(-more), (n-)ever, (beginning of the , while the) world (began, without end). Compare 5550 or Chronos a space of time..
You don't need to INTERPRET anything that God has delivered.  If you are wise or a SOPHISTS--rhetorician, singer, instrument player--God HIDES the truth for ever and ever.  Thomas Olbricht as the FOUNDER of the New Hermeneutic claims to be an expert of Aristotle.  However, before Olbricht's "proof text" Aristotle says that rhetoric is not to be used where a Lawgiver Has expressed Himself clearly.  By "inference" we can assume that Theologians claim that neither God nor Jesus were competent to speak for OUR culture.

BAPTISM SAVES because it REQUESTS or BEGS Jesus for A good conscience, consciousness or a CO-perception of the WORD. The Word or Logos is GOD made audible as the Regulative Principle.  It outlaws everything John Mark Hicks proposes and imposes such as Instrumental Idolatry.
Eph. 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

BY is really En or Eis meaning INTO the Word.

Eph. 5:26WEB That he might sanctify [give A holy spirit]  and cleanse it
        with the washing [baptism] of water

        [INTO WORD] the ,   (In Verbo, En, Eis)
       
        Into Converto , Epistles of a writer, to be occupied in,  Into

        Philo-sophos Love of educatioon, an academy Philo-mathes or Philo-Logos
              OPPOSIITE of A. master of one's craft, adept, expert, of diviners, musicians
                                  Parapaion Khelon (play the harp, Hieron Melon (Melody in a religious shrine).
                                  A quibbler, cheate, one who gave lessons FOR MONEY.
                                  Fides (not faithful to the community) but Fides (faithful to Apollon)
                                 
anu thaumaston legeis s.
                                  one who gave lessons in grammar, rhetoric, politics, mathematics, for money
       IN VERBUM  Discourse, conversation, Oral by word of mouth urnio plura verbo quam
                scripturā mandata dedimus,   In eccl. Lat. as a translation of LOGOS,
Matt. 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

You are UNABLE to read BLACK text on BROWN paper (2 Corinthians 3) when your life's effort is to sow discord and heap Laded Burdens on those individual STUDENTS Jesus set free and provided all of the information.
                
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Matt. 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and LEARN of ME;     [Why would a pattern say "Learn of John Mark Hicks?"
        for I am meek and lowly in heart:
        and ye shall find REST unto your souls.
Matt. 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. [both easy and LIGHT or the Word]

Eph. 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins,
        hath quickened us together with Christ,  [Given A holy spirit)
        (by grace ye are saved;)
Eph. 2:6 And hath raised us up together,
       
and made us sit together in HEAVENLY places in Christ Jesus:
Col. 1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father,
        which hath made us meet to be partakers
        of the inheritance of the saints in LIGHT:
Col. 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of DARKNESS
         and hath TRANSLATED us into the KINGDOM of his dear Son:

This kingdom DOES NOT come with LEGALISTIC act claiming that it is for God.  Paul calls all performances silencing those who love the WORD as Lying Wonders.

Col. 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood,
        even the forgiveness of sins:
Col. 1:15 Who is the IMAGE of the invisible God,
        the firstborn of every creature:

Col. 1:18 And he is the HEAD of the BODY, the CHURCH:
        who is the beginning [of the Church], the firstborn from the dead;
        that in all things HE might have the preeminence.

Theologians and Apostate "Angels of Light" are identified by DENYING that.  All religious "music" is called SORCERY and the actors will be or ARE BEING CAST ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.
Rom. 14:9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived,
        that he might be LORD  both of the dead and living.

Heb. 12:23 To the general assembly
        and church of the firstborn [Church of Christ]
        which are written in heaven,  [The don't worship in houses built or stolen by human hands]
        and to God the Judge of all,
        and to the SPIRITS OF just men made PERFECT,
Eph. 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners,
        but fellowcitizens with the saints,
        and of the household of God; [Excludes Priests or Levites]
Eph. 2:20 And are built upon  [Educated Only]
        the foundation of the APOSTLES and PROPHETS,
        Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Eph. 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together
        groweth unto an holy temple IN the Lord:

John 15:15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth:
        but I have called you friends;
        for all things that I have HEARD of my Father I have made known unto you.

Scripture contains nothing we can honestly label "Music."  There is no command, example or inference of God calling HIS children into assembly to engage in group singing with or without instruments.  Making unnatural vocal or instrumental sounds disturb the human spirit and is the MARK of these Demonic practices.

        Abomination, Witchcraft, the BEASTS, Sorcery, Charming, Soothsaying,  enchantment, harlots, beguile, serpents, vipers, Serpo, Herpo, inducing wine-drinking, Cunning Craftsmen or Sophists, Rhetoricians, Dogs or Catamites, magic, Voodoo in primitive America, Melodies to deceive, Deceiver, Cunning Crafts, Techne. religious craftsmen, Lucifer,  Locusts, Apollyon, Levi-Leviathan

The REST day for the Little Flock of Lost Spirit was always and is the ANTITHESIS of all RELIGIONS or Worship RitualsAny performed FACTO of self-composed songs, sermons or actions is
Plautus.Ass-Dealer. The word "Parasite" properly denotes "one person who dines with another." The name was originally given to persons who were assistants to the priests and high magistrates, and, consequently, had a respectable signification. The hangers-on, who are called "Parasites" by the Comic writers of Greece and Rome, first received that name from Alexis, the Greek Comedian. It has been well remarked, that their chief characteristics were "importunity, love of sensual pleasures," and "the desire of getting a good dinner without paying for it." They may be subdivided into the jesting, the officious, and the flattering Parasite (assentator), of which latter kind Artotrogus is an admirable specimen. From ancient writers we find that it was the
The Pattern in Ephesians 4 is that Jesus in His STATE of Holy Spirit ordered the Elders as vocational Pastor-Teacher.  The Shepherd does not manufacture the "food" nor does he force the sheep to pay him.  They are commanded to TEACH that which has been taught.  This is the frequent one-piece pattern which no literate reader can miss.

WHY NOT ASK THE WATCHING AND FLEEING WORLD?

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Catullus - Poem 63

9 Use a drum: The priests of Cybele, who were either eunuchs, or persons of effeminate and worthless character, walked in their processions beating a "tympanum." a "drum" or "tambourine." The Captain, by his question, contemptuously implies that Agorastocles is such a character. See the Truer lentus, l. 608, and the Note. 
        a timbrel, etc., as a figure of something effeminate, enervating: tympana eloquentiae,Quint. 5, 12, 21:in manu tympanum est,Sen. Vit. Beat. 13, 3.—a timbrel, etc., 

Clement of Alexandrian notes why emasculated men could not be priests:

"One of these charges the Egyptians thus: "If you believe them to be gods, do not mourn or bewail them; and if you mourn and bewail them, do not any more regard them as gods." And another, taking an image of Hercules made of wood (for he happened most likely to be cooking something at home), said,

"Come now, Hercules; now is the time to undergo for us this thirteenth labour, as you did the twelve for Eurystheus, and make this ready for Diagoras," and so cast it into the fire as a log of wood. For the extremes of ignorance are atheism and superstition, from which we must endeavour to keep.

And do you not see Moses, the hierophant of the truth, enjoining that no eunuch, or emasculated man, or son of a harlot, should enter the congregation?
By the two
first he alludes to the impious custom by which men were deprived both of divine energy and of their virility;

and by the third, to him who, in place of the only real God, assumes many gods falsely so called,-as the son of a harlot, in ignorance of his true father, may claim many putative fathers.

THE PERSONA OF RELIGIOUS MUSICIANS OR ACTORS ENDS THE SEARCH FOR ALL OF THOSE FLEEING THEIR CHURCHES.

Galatians 5 I.Wish.They.Would.Go.the.Whole.Way.and.Emasculate.Themselves

Brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished. Galatians 5:11

As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves! Galatians 5:12

Chrysostom's Commentary on Galatians:
Galatians 5:1.-"With freedom did Christ set us free; stand fast therefore.115 ."
Ver. 12. "I would that they which unsettle you would even cut themselves off." And he says well "that unsettle you."A man that is heretical after the first and second admonition refuse." (Tit. iii: 10) If they will,  let them not only be circumcised, but mutilated. Where then are those who dare to mutilate themselves; seeing that they draw down the Apostolic curse, and accuse the workmanship of God, and take part with the Manichees?

Chrysostom understood that the pagans used vocal or instrumental noise to stir up or create anxiety so that they could steal your food money. Christ outlawed this in Isaiah 55.  Christ outlawed BLASPHEMY in the modern context of saying that God commanded instrumental distractions when  He DID NOT.

But if you will not allow this,  why do you not mutilate the tongue for blasphemy, the hands for rapine, the feet for their evil courses, in short, the whole body?
For the ear enchanted by the sound of a flute hath often enervated the soul;
and the perception of a sweet perfume by the nostrils hath bewitched the mind, and made it frantic for pleasure .


David's PRAISE word threatened the same sexual proof of superiority:

Ululo
Ulŭlo  I. Neutr., to howl, yell, shriek, utter a mournful cry. B.Transf., of places, to ring, resound, re-echo with howling: penitusque cavae plangoribus aedes Femineis ululant,Verg. A. 2, 488 : resonae ripae, Sil. 6, 285 : Dindyma sanguineis Gallis, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 269 .--

The Goddess Cybele (The Sophia - Zoe Usurpation)

"Here, devote to me thy manhood and become one of my faithful dogs! (emasculated priests) I shall be quick, and the cut will be clean!!!" Catullus: "Oh, Great Goddess, Goddess Cybele, Goddess and Lady of Dindymus! May all your fury be far from my house! Incite others, go! DRIVE OTHER MEN MAD!!!"


Holy Spirit
: NO prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
John Mark Hicks Refutes: "MY Journey in Interpreting the Bible."  2.Peter.1.Prophecy.No.Private.Interpretation
Mike Cope finds Cracts:  But for Hicks, and for many of US, there were CRACKS in the wall of certainty.
Rom. 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
God therefore says:  I am so sorry that I was STUPID and needed "A" holy spirit god to make me INTELLIGIBLE THROUGH Theologians.

SUMMARY OF RECORDED FACTS NOT AVAILABLE TO ANY "DOCTOR OF THE LAW" WHOM JESUS SAID "TAKES AWAY THE KEY TO KNOWLEDGE."

1. Israel fell from grace beyond redemption because of Instrumental-Trinitarian-Perverted Idolatry at Mount Sinai.
2. The NOBILITY turned the REST of God into a day of the Worship as the ABOMINATION they brought from Egypt.
3. The REST of God is Sabbath or the Greek PAUO and demands STOPPING anything beyond Rest, Reading and Rehearsing the Word delivered by Moses.
4. The Civil-Military-Clergy were abandoned behind closed gates to engage in the Lust of Blood and Flesh and the HOLOCAUST of INFANTS and GOATS.
5. The Godly Jews were never gathered to engage in group singing with or without instruments: this was outlawed for the SYNAGOGUE as A School--only of the Word-only.
6. Any kind of musical or theatrical performance would MARK the Effeminate and their refusal to HEAR the Word of God.
7. Even worse any kind of self-exhibition especially SINGING is that which MARKS and produces ALL of the data defining:
 

A CRACKED POT will not Ring True:

A further peculiarity of Dodona was the "bronze," a large gong set vibrating at every breeze by a scourge held in the hand of a figure standing over it;

the persistent ringing passed into a Greek proverbial phrase--Khalkos Dodones ("Brass of Dodona")-- for a continuous TALKERS who has nothing to say. Britannica Members

"A famous oracle in Epi'ros, and the most ancient of Greece. It was dedicated to Zeus (Jupiter), and situate in the village of Dodona.

The tale is, that Jupiter presented his daughter Theb with two black pigeons [Doves, Rock Pigeons] which had the gift of human speech. Lemprière tells us that the Greek word peleiai (pigeons) means, in the dialect of the Eprots, old women; so that the two black doves with human voice were two black or African women. One went to Libya, in Africa, and founded the oracle of Jupiter Ammon; the other went to Eprus and founded the oracle of Dodna. We are also told that plates of brass were suspended on the oak trees of Dodona, which being struck by thongs when the wind blew, gave various sounds from which the responses were concocted. It appears that this suggested to the Greeks the phrase Kalkos Dod ns (brass of Dodona), meaning a babbler, or one who talks an infinite deal of nothing. Bartleby

God's Word, Logos or Regulative Principle MARKS the enemies as rhetoricians, singers, instrument players, actors or fleecers of widows.

GOD GAVE US THE WORD OR REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE AS THE WAY TO MARK "THE SONS OF THE DEVIL WHO SPEAK ON THEIR OWN" AND MAKE YOU PA

Logos  computation, reckoning 2. statement of a theory, argument, ouk emeu alla tou l. akousantas prob. in Heraclit.50; logon ēde noēma amphis alētheiēs discourse and reflection on reality,
IV. inward debate of the soul, reflection, deliberation
Regulative and formative forces, derived from the intelligible and operative in the sensible universe,

Opposite to epithumia
 A. desire, yearning, longing after a thing, desire of or for it, Theaomai :--gaze at, behold, mostly with a sense of wonder3. view as spectators
Opposite Pathos  A. that which happens to a person or thing, incident, accident,  Moralizing Rhetoric
Opposite Poiein to excite passion, Arist.Rh.1418a12; V. Rhet., emotional style or treatment,
Opposite Enthousi-astikos , ē, on, A. inspired,phusisPl.Ti.71e; esp. by music,
Prose OPPOSITE -poiêsis, Id.R.390a;
OPPOSITE -poiêtikê, D.H.Comp.6; OPPOSITE poiêmata, onomatopoeic word
OPPOSITE  emmetra Modus   2. The measure of tones, measure, rhythm, melody, harmony, time; in poetry, measure, metre, mode: Mūsĭcus a, um, adj., = mousikos.
X. the Word or Wisdom of God, personified as his agent in creation and world-government,

Theologians are doomed to call God a liar or INCOMPETENT.  If God had wanted any kind of music in the tuneful sense He was INTELLIGIBLE But denied by C. Leonard Allen.

mousikos kai melōn poētēs2. generally, votary of the Muses,  The Muses were the LOCUSTS unleashed with Apollon their "musical worship leaders." The Greek and Latin literature identifies them as dirty adulteresses

The Muses are the LOCUSTS Apollyon unleashed in a church near you. He is the only personified SPIRITUS over his prostitute WorshipTeam

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[25] the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis: “Shepherds of the wilderness,
        wretched things of shame, mere bellies,
        we know how to speak many false things as though they were true;
        but we know, when we will, to utter true things.”
            ...and they bade me sing of the race of the blessed gods that are eternally,
                but ever to sing of themselves both first and last.

pharma^kon
3.
enchanted potion, philtre: hence, charm, spell, Od.4.220 sq., Ar.Pl.302, [Circe, Church, Corinth mother of harlots]  Theoc.2.15

Leonard.Allen.POURED.OUT.The.Spirit.of.God.Empowering.the.Mission.of.God

The WORD or LOGOS is God's only Regulative and Governing principle.  God names and Defames personal opinions, personal experiences, rhetoric, singing, playing instruments, acting or "seeing godliness as a means of financial gain. Among the Greeks and others RATIONAL (Logos) are marked by SPEAK or READ identifies Disciples.  Disciples are STUDENTS of what Jesus commanded to be taught

Anything beyond being A School of Christ or those OF the World, Kosmos, Ecumenical or the kingdom of the Devil MAKING war against the Kingdom of Christ.  All Rhetoric, singing, speaking or acting is the universal marks of the effeminate or worse.


Here is a short list of PERFORMANCE and PERFORMING Enabled by rhetoric, singing or any kind of instruments which CLAIMS that God is ignorant.
An Abomination, Witchcraft, the BEASTS, Sorcery, Charming, Soothsaying,  enchantment, harlots, beguile, serpents, vipers, Serpo, Herpo, inducing wine-dranking, Cunning Craftsmen or Sophists, Rhetoricians, Dogs or Catamites, magic, Voodoo in primitive America, Melodies to deceive, Deceiver, Cunning Crafts, Techne, religious craftsmen, Lucifer,  Locusts, Apollyon, Levi-Leviathan
If any kind of metrical or recurring sounds are PROOFS of Sorcery (Revelation) why would it become a MAJOR COMMERCIAL INTEREST in imposing any kind of rhetoric, singing, playing (Anti-Logos) instruments and 'passing the plate' to fund it?  Jude says that they are FOREORDAINED.

The Greek and Latin overflows with identifying anyone who tried to control another's mind with anything but FACTS


THE PATTERN IN SCRIPTURE AND ALL RELIGIOUS GROUPS. IN THE CLASSICS
        STRAIGHT OR RATIONAL was identified by the LOGOS which Jesus SPOKE and did not sing or play.
        CROOKED OR GAY by SING, PLAY, DANCE ETAL.

John Mark Hicks: I understand that the positive argument for acapella music in the assembly of worshiping saints involves other considerations. For example, it includes the contrast with Israel's worship, the limited and situated use of instruments in the Levitical worship authorized for the tabernacle and the temple, the value of human voice as God's created instrument for worship, and the history of the church in the first few centuries after the apostles.

A capella is a PLACE: the Sistine Chapel where the male singers were replaced by the Pope's castrated opera singers. They CHANTED the same note and the melody could consist of one or two notes.  Everyone singing in UNISON means that they are in HARMONY.


The godly Jews were quarantined "to quarters" on the evil Babylon Sabbath to prevent them from going to Jerusalem or any other pagan "worship centers."  Not even a Jacob-Cursed and God-Abandoned Levite could go NEAR the Holy Space without being executed. The Holy Place was the PAGAN PATTERN replaced by the Church PATTER which contained the Lampstand representing the 7 spirits OF god all devoted to knowledge.

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Music.  Cantillation signs guide the READER in applying a chant to Biblical READING. This chant is technically regarded as a ritualized form of SPEECH intonation rather than as a musical exercise like the singing of metrical hymns: for this reason Jews always speak of SAYING or READING a passage rather than of singing it. (In Yiddish the word is leynen 'read', derived from Latin legere, giving rise to the Jewish English verb "to leyn".)

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The Philipedium: In most western European languages, the word for “read” starts with the letter “L”. These languages can be divided into two main groups — those of Latin origin and those of Germanic origin. In each of the Latin languages (Italian, Spanish, French, etc.), the modern word is derived from legere, the Latin word for “read”. The Italian word is still leggere, essentially unchanged from the Latin. In the other Romance languages, the “g” sound was lost, and so we have leer in Spanish, ler in Portuguese, and lire in French.

(Note: The Old Testament understands that instrumental music--called NOISE--was authorized only in certain dedicatory or purification rituals associated with the temple and with Jerusalem. Without both there was never any rationale for instrument to make a great crashing sound during animal sacrifices.)

"At the dedication of the later edifice, the priests blew the trumpets at the same time that the Levites sang and played upon instruments of music,

so as 'to make one sound;' but it is evident that on that great occasion of rejoicing, what was aimed at was not musical harmony, but a powerful crash of jubilant sound. We are shut up to the conclusion that

there was nothing in the tabernacle-worship, as ordered by Moses, which could be justly characterized as instrumental music." (George Girardeau, Instrumental Music, p. 29 - a Presbyterian)

Because of Instrumental-Trinitarian-Perverted Idolatry at Mount Sinai, that generation has Sinned BEYOND REDEMPTION.  God turned them over to worship the STARRY HOST including Apollon or Abaddon in Egypt before the Exodus.

Amos 5:26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images,
        the STAR of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

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
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The practice in the wilderness, tyre and Jerusalem

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?
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Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into
        captivity beyond Damascus,
        saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
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.

Mark.10.They.Shall.Mock.Him.With.Music

Trumpet, drums, flute, cymbals and castinets with buffoons
Psallo permits ONLY smiting a string with your FINGERS: not a plectrum
Psallo and SOP have the same root meaning.

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Revelation 18F: they are all called Sorcerers who HAD once deceived the whole world.
They WILL BE CAST ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.

John Mark Hicks: At the same time, when it comes to specific authorization and the required exclusion of instruments, that is rooted in the above pattern argument. Otherwise, the argument against instruments in the worship of God is more like a theological argument than it is a blueprint argument. (I will explain what a theological hermeneutie is in coming pages.) There is nothing inappropriate about that, of course. Eastern Orthodox churches have done that for centuries.

THE EPHESUS PATTERN AT ANY PROGRESSIVE CHURCH
And in truth against these Heraclitus the EPHESIAN PROPHESIES as
"the night-walkers, the
magi, the bacchanals, the Lenaean revellers, the initiated."

Ephesos , , Ephesus, Hdt.1.142, etc.:—Adj. Ephesios , a, on, grammata [Scribes MAN'S writing,  notes in music] A. magic formula, Plu.2.706e, Eust.1864.16 (also Ephesēia , “gr.Anaxil.18.7 (anap.)): Ephesia , , = aristolokheia stroggulē, Ps.-Dsc. 3.4; = artemisia, [
wormwoodp. hodos tōn theōn BROAD WAY”]: Ephesia , ta, festival of Artemis at Ephesus, Th.3.104 (also Epheseia, ta, OGI10.10): Ephesēo
nikēs
  [Nike the GODDESS OF VICTORY] victor in these games, Ephes.2.72 (iii A.D.): Ephesis , idos, , in pl., title of poem by Aeschrio, Sch.Lyc.688.
aristolokheia
  
lokhios , epith. of Artemis
Eur. IT 1097    [1100] and the well-grown laurel and the holy shoot of gray-green olive, Leto's dear child, and the lake that rolls about its ripples, where the melodious swan [1105] serves the Muses.
metaph. of words and expressions, wellrounded, compact, terse, “s. rhēmata
 
Krēt-ikos   Cretan
Ar.Ra.849 2. Krētikos (sc. pous), ho, a metrical foot [_ ^ _], = amphimakros, Heph.3.2, cf. A.D. Pron.50.16; so egeire . . , Mousa, K. “melosCratin.222; to K. (sc. metron) Heph.13.1; K. rhuthmos, rhuthmoi, D.H.Comp.25, Str.10.4.16.
Aristoph. Cl. 595 Chorus
Hear me again, King Phoebus, Delian Apollon, who inhabitest the high-peaked Cynthian rock! And thou, blessed goddess, who inhabitest the all-golden house of Ephesus, in which Lydian damsels greatly reverence thee; and thou, our national goddess, swayer of the aegis, Minerva, guardian of the city! And thou, reveler Bacchus, who, inhabiting the Parnassian rock, sparklest with torches, conspicuous among the Delphic Bacchanals
!
One can make a good theological case for acapella music, but it is a different sort of animal than the blueprint argument. One may seek to justify acapella music as an apostolic practice based upon a prescribed pattern, or one may seek to justify it by a theological argument, or both. Though both may be true, the two approaches are quite different. Sometimes they arrive at similar conclusions; sometimes they do not. Sometimes they arrive at opposite conclusions. What do we do when the theological argument runs contrary' to the blueprint argument? More on that a bit later.

THE ONLY PASSAGE WHICH RECOMMENDS "SINGING"

James 5:13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. or SING PSALLO.

This is AT HOME and he would not call the ELDERS if he was sick meaning Spiritually Down.

Audible:    The command is ALWAYS to SPEAK the Word and never to Sing the Word for our LEARNING.
Inaudible:  Ode (opposite of Speak) as an enchantment or Sorcery and
                   Psallo means PLUCK something with your FINGERS but never with a PLEKTRON or PICK.
                   Psallo in the Latin Literature and used as AUTHORITY by the Instrumental Sect Almost
                                always speaks of Girls or pseudo-girls who, with Alexander The Great, had his
                                pubic hairs PLUCKED and seduced by Alexander's Harp Plucking which embarrased
                                his father, Philip.


Acts 13:15 And after the READing of the law and the prophets
        the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren,
        if ye have any word of exhortation [COMFORT] for the people, say on.
Acts 13:27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their RULERS, because they knew him not,
        nor yet the voices of the prophets
        which are READ every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city
        them that PREACH him, being READ in the synagogues every sabbath day.
Acts 15:31 Which when they had READ, they rejoiced for the consolation.
Acts 23:34 And when the governor had READ the letter, he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia;
2Cor. 1:13 For we write none other things unto you,
        than what ye READ or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;
2Cor. 3:2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and READ of all men:
2Cor. 3:14 But their minds were blinded:
        for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away
        in the READing of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
2Cor. 3:15 But even unto this day, when Moses is READ, the vail is upon their heart.
Eph. 3:4 Whereby, when ye READ, ye may UNDERSTAND my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
Col. 4:16 And when this epistle is READ among you,
        cause that it be READ also in the church of the Laodiceans;
        and that ye likewise READ the epistle from Laodicea.
1Th. 5:27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be READ unto all the holy brethren.
1Tim. 4:13 Till I come, give attendance to READing, to exhortation, to doctrine.
Rev. 5:4 And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to READ the book,
        neither to look thereon. also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye

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PAUL WRITING THE WORDS GOD PUT INTO HIS MOUTH (the meaning of Spirit)  Commanded SPEAKING or READING in the assembly which met ONLY to (learn the WORD)
Both ODE and PSALLO are in the heart meaning SILENT so that WE can mark those who are FOREORDAINED

JUDE WARNED AGAINST THE RETURN OF THE MOUNT SINAI INSTRUMENTAL-TRINITARIAN-PERVERTED DEMON WORSHIP.
Jude 1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James,
        to them that are sanctified [Given A holy spirit at baptism]
         by God the Father, and PRESERVED in Jesus Christ, and CALLED:
2822.   kletos, klay-tos´; from the same as 2821; invited, i.e. appointed, or (specially), a saint: — called.
Heb. 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn,  [Church of Christ]
        which are written in heaven,
        and to God the Judge of all, and to the SPIRITS of just men made PERFECT
,

Jude 2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
Jude 3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation,
        it was needful for me to write unto you,
        and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend
        for THE FAITH which was ONCE delivered unto the saints.
g530. hapax, hap´-ax; probably from 537; one (or a single) time (numerically or conclusively): — once.

Jude 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares,
        who were before of old ORDAINED to this condemnation,
        ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness,
        and denying the
        only Lord God [Theos]         |
        AND our                                These are trinitarians (Jesus-Blasphemers, John-Antichrists)
        Lord [Kurios] Jesus Christ.  |

Jude 5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this,
        how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt,
        afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Jude 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation,
        he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Jude 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner,
        giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh,
        are set forth for an EXAMPLE, suffering the vengeance of eternal FIRE.

EVIL-PERVERSION MARKS OF PSALLO  psallere saltare   ēlĕgans   I. In the ante-class. period in a bad sense, luxurious, effeminate, fastidious, nice: elegans homo non dicebatur cum laude “mulier (Phrynewith formo

Elegans .  Luxurious, effeminate, fastidious, B. Of things: “nec magis compositum quicquam, nec magis elegansoratorium
The Orator rejects Scripture:
ōrātōrĭus
  He
ornamenta, gestus, compositio,
  He.
ingĕnĭum  have acted outinhumanum,one's natural bent, to one's old courses, vanum dictatoris
  
ingenii celeritas, with cleverness b. Of things, an invention, a clever thought: “exquisita ingenia

Tac. Hist. 2.71 The nearer the Emperor approached to Rome, the greater was the license of his march, accompanied as it was by players and herds of eunuchs, in fact by all that had characterised the court of Nero. Indeed, Vitellius used to make a display of his admiration for Nero,
        and had constantly followed him when he sang,
        not from the compulsion to which the noblest had to yield,
        but because he was the slave and chattel of profligacy and gluttony. [Religious Musicians are Parasites]


Vitellius admiratione celebrabat. sectari cantantem solitus,
Mercurio Sais fertur Virgineum conposuisse latus,

Mercury is Hermes or KAIROS as the messenger of the gods who knows when and where to ATTACK.
Mercury, the son of Jupiter and Maia, the messenger of the gods; as a herald, the god of dexterity; in speaking, of eloquence; the bestower of prosperity; the god of traders and thieves; the presider over roads, and conductor of departed souls to the Lower World:

virgĭnĕus   Helicon, as the seat of the Muses   Ov. M. 2, 219:   The Locusts unleashed were the MUSES or Apollon's musical worship.  They were known as filthy adulteresses and became the SHEPHERDESSES

conposuisse 1. To bring together in hostility, to oppose
a. To compose, write, construct. Oationibus compositus,   carmina, epistulas 
saltātor , ōris, m. salto,
I.a dancer (generally among the Romans with an accessory contemptuous signif.), Cic. Off. 1, 42, 150; id. Mur. 6, 13; id. Deiot. 10, 28; id. Fin. 3, 7, 24; Quint. 1, 12, 14; 11, 3, 89; Suet. Calig. 54; id. Ner. 6; Macr. S. 2, 10 al.
--saltātĭo , ōnis, f. id.,
I. a dancing; concr., a dance, Quint. 1, 11, 18 sq.; 2, 18, 1; Scipio Afric. ap. Macr. S. 2, 10: “multarum deliciarum comes est extrema saltatio,Cic. Mur. 6, 13; id. Brut. 62, 225; id. Fin. 3, 7, 24; Quint. 11, 3, 128; Suet. Tit. 7 al.Plur., Plaut. Stich. 5, 2, 11.

All people accuse God with being ignorant.  Even a simple person would would understood that Music would include

rhythm of voice AND body.  Paul guided by Jesus Christ in the STATE of Holy Spirit would have said.

"Ode AND Mŏdus  Out Loud and to the Paying but rarely admiring Audience.:

Mŏdus 2. The measure of tones, measure, rhythm, melody, harmony, time; in poetry, measure, metre, mode: “vocum,Cic. Div. 2, 3, 9: musici,Quint. 1, 10, 14: “lyrici,Ov. H. 15, 6: “fidibus Latinis Thebanos aptare modos,Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 12: Bacchico exsultas (i. e. exsultans) modo, Enn. ap. Charis [grace]. : “flebilibus modis concinere,Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 106: saltare [dance] ad tibicinis modos, to the music or sound of the flute, Liv. 7, 2: “nectere canoris Eloquium vocale modis,Juv. 7, 19.—Fig.: “verae

--dēlĭcĭae. dēlĭcĭa , ae, f.; [delicio; that which allures, flatters the senses], delight, pleasure, charm, allurement; deliciousness, luxuriousness, voluptuousness, curiosities of art; sport, frolics, etc. (freq. and class.; for syn. cf.: voluptas, libido, delectatio, oblectatio, delectamentum, oblectamentum).

E-lēgoI.to convey away (from the family) by bequest, to bequeath away, Petr. 43, 5; Gai. Inst. 2, 215.

"carried away by pride and arrogance, would they believe themselves to be deities of the first rank, and fellows of the highest in his exaltation, because they had devised the arts of grammar, music, oratory, and geometry. For we do not see what is so wonderful in these arts, that because of their discovery the soul should be believed to be above the sun as well as all the stars, to surpass both in grandeur and essence the whole universe, of which these are parts. "

"For what else do these assert that they can either declare or teach, than that we may learn to know the rules and differences of nouns, the intervals in the sounds of different tones, that we may speak persualsively in lawsuits, that we may measure the confines of the earth? Now if the soul had brought these arts with it from the celestial regions, and it were impossible not to know them, all men would long before this be busied with them all over the earth... But see now how few musicians, logicians, and geometricians are there in the world! How few orators, poets, critics!..." (Arnibious, Ante-Nicene, VI, p. 441)                   

I am SO sorry but I don't think that history knows any exception:
CTESIAS.OF.CNIDUS Why did you do this, you lowlife?" Parsondes now spoke without flattery,
        "I thought I was more worthy to have this prize
        since I am manlier and more useful to the king than you,
                a man who keeps his face clean-shaven, wears eye-liner,
                and anoints his skin with white make- up."
Then he answered, "Aren't you ashamed that such a great man as yourself, defeated by your belly and genetalia, has been conquered by the lesser one? I, however," he continued, "will soon make your skin softer and whiter than a woman's." He then swore an oath to Belos and Molis (this is how the Babylonians call Aphrodite).

Nanaros then summoned the eunuch in charge of the songstresses and said to him,

        "take this man and shave his entire body except for his head,
        rub it with pumice stone, wash him twice a day and rinse him with egg-yolk,
        and then put eye-liner on him and braid his hair like a woman's.
               Teach him to sing, play the cithara, and pluck the lyre
                so he can perform like a woman for me with the music-girls,
                with whom he will share a lifestyle by having a soft body,
                wearing the same clothes, and practicing the same skills."

After he spoke, the eunuch took Parsondes, shaved his entire body except for the head, taught him what he was asked, keeping him out of the sunlight, washing him twice per day, softening him up,

        and keeping him in the same quarters with the women as his master had ordered.
        Soon after, Parsondes was a white, smooth, and woman-like man,
        who sang and played the cithara more beautifully than the music-girls with
        whom he had performed and surpassed them in beauty as well
        and no one who saw him perform at one of Nanaros' dinner-parties
would realize that he was not a woman.

After this, he invited the angaros to join him for a drink and dinner and when the meal was served, the music-girls entered, 150 women in with Parsondes among them. Some women played the cithara or aule while others plucked the lyre; Parsondes was the most prominent of them in beauty and talent as he appeared to be a woman too. When they had their fill of dinner, Nanaros asked the angaros which of the girls he thought was the most attractive and talented and without much thought he replied, "that one" while pointing to Parsondes. Nanaros clapped his hands and laughed for a long time before saying, "How would you like spending the night with her?" to which the angaros readily assented. Nanaros then said, "However, I won't let you have her.", and the angaros relied, "Then why did you ask me?" Nanaros paused for a while and said, "That is Parsondes, the man for whom you have come."

Athenaeus Deipnosophist 4.5.5

So piped he the drunken bagatelles of the Muses sung by Glauce,
        or the tune of the Stutterer
        who delights in the drinking of unmixed wine,
         or of Cotalus or Pacalus.77 Nay, then, of Theon the reed-piper say, Farewell, Theon!'

OF EDUCATED PEOPLE:

Plat. Prot. 347c But if he does not mind, let us talk no more of poems and verses, but consider the points on which I questioned you at first, Protagoras, and on which I should be glad to reach, with your help, a conclusion.
        For it seems to me that arguing about poetry is comparable to the wine-parties of common market-folk.
        These people, owing to their inability to carry on a familiar conversation o
        ver their wine by means of their own voices and discussions—

[347d] such is their lack of education—put a premium on flute-girls by hiring the extraneous voice of the flute at a high price, and carry on their intercourse by means of its utterance. But where the party consists of thorough gentlemen who have had a proper education,

        you will see neither flute-girls nor dancing-girls nor harp-girls,
        but only the company contenting themselves with their own conversation,
        and none of these
fooleries and frolics—each speaking and listening decently in his turn,

-lēros (A), ho, A. trash, trumpery, of what is showy but useless, useless, futile, “poiētōn l.

lēroi kai paidiai, of flute-playing at banquets, Pl.Prt.347d

paidiē 1 paizō   p. paizein pros tina to play a game with him, paizō 4. play on a musical instrument, h.Ap.206: c. acc., “Pan ho kalamophthogga paizōnAr.Ra.230; dance and sing, Pi. O.1.16.

5. play amorously, “pros allēlous

ADDED NOTES MUSIC IS SORCERY

Plato, Euthydemus
[289e]
For not only do these speech-writers themselves, when I am in their company, impress me as prodigiously clever, Cleinias, but their art itself seems so exalted as to be almost inspired. However, this is not surprising; for it is a part of the sorcerer's art, epōdōn tekhnēs
Latin 289e:

kai mentoi ouden thaumaston: esti gar tēs tōn epōdōn tekhnēs morion mikrō te ekeinēs hupodeestera.

Thaumaston Is a Lying wonder which claims that your rituals are ordained by God.

-epōdē
, Ion. and poet. epa^oidē , , A.song sung to or over: hence, enchantment, spell, LADEN BURDEN
ou pros iatrou sophou thrēnein epōdas pros tomōnti pēmati
of the Magi, Hdt.1.132
  oute pharmaka..oud' au epōdaiPl.R. 426b ; thusiai kai e. ib.364b ;
CHARM for or against..,toutōn epōdas ouk epoiēsen patērA.Eu.649.
Hdt. 1.132 And this is their method of sacrifice to the aforesaid gods: when about to sacrifice, they do not build altars or kindle fire, employ libations, or music, or fillets, or barley meal: when a man wishes to sacrifice to one of the gods, he leads a beast to an open space and then, wearing a wreath on his tiara, of myrtle usually, calls on the god. [2] To pray for blessings for himself alone is not lawful for the sacrificer; rather, he prays that the king and all the Persians be well; for he reckons himself among them. He then cuts the victim limb from limb into portions, and, after boiling the flesh, spreads the softest grass, trefoil usually, and places all of it on this. [3] When he has so arranged it, a Magus comes near and chants over it the song of the birth of the gods, as the Persian tradition relates it; for no sacrifice can be offered without a Magus. Then after a little while the sacrificer carries away the flesh and uses it as he pleases.
Magos [a^, ou, ho, Magian, one of a Median tribe,
3.  enchanter, wizard, esp. in bad sense, impostor, charlatan, Heraclit.14, S.OT387, E.Or.1498 (lyr.), Pl.R.572e, Act.Ap.13.6, Vett. Val.74.17:
II   magos, on, as Adj., magical, “magps tekhnē prattein tiPhilostr.VA1.2; “kestou phōneusa magōtera
phōn-eō , (phōnē)
A.produce a sound or tone: cry aloud, as in joy, S.Tr.202; of a singer, “aoidos . . aiola phōneōnTheoc.16.44: 4. of a musical instrument, sound, E.Or.146 (lyr.); of sounds, hēdu phōnein sound sweetly, Plu.2.1021b; but brontē ph. it has a voice, is significant, X.Ap.12.

epōd-os , on, (epadō
A.singing to or over, using songs or charms to heal wounds, “epōdoi muthoi

Pl.Lg.903b
.
b. Subst., ENCHANTER,e. kai goēsE.Hipp. 1038 (but “goēs e.Ba.234): c. gen., a charm for or against,ethusen hautou paida epōdon Thrēkiōn aēmatōnA.Ag.1418 ; e. tōn toioutōn one to charm away such fears, Pl.Phd.78a.
c. c. dat., assisting, profitable, 2. Pass., sung to music,phōnaiPlu.2.622d ; fit for singing,poiētikēn e. parekhein
2. epōdos, ho, verse or passage returning at intervals, in Alcaics and Sapphics, D.H.Comp.19 ; chorus, burden, refrain,
Plat. Euthyd. 290a and only slightly inferior to that. The sorcerer's art is the charming of snakes and tarantulas and scorpions and other beasts and diseases, while the other is just the charming [kēlēsis] and soothing of juries, assemblies [Ekklesia or church], crowds, and so forth. Or does it strike you differently? I asked.

No, it appears to me, he replied, to be as you say.

kēl-ēsis , eōs, , *A.  bewitching, charming, ekheōn, nosōn, Pl.Euthd. 290a: enchantment by eloquence, dikastōn k. te kai paramuthia ibid.; by music and sweet sounds, Id.R.601b, Stoic.3.97.

Goes  A.sorcerer, wizard, Phoronis 2, Hdt.2.33,4.105, Pl.R. 380d, Phld.Ir.p.29 W.; “g. epōdos Ludias apo khthonos

The Jews had a Covenant with Death and Hell: music while sacrificing was to dispel the DEMON spirits.

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