Throughout
history, human beings have reversed values in life.
It is easy for all of us to major in minors and to minor
in majors, to put the cart before the horse, to make
mountains out of mole hills.
Oh! that is
one of those magical Change Affective Images: you are
supposed to think that
if you have refused to make church into a Spectacle or
Theater for holy enterment as they
claim and have never in recorded history from the wilderness onward
never hallucinated that music and theater had anything to do with the
School of the Word, they you are a
sectarian, legalistic, red-necked, RACAite. You
are supposed
to hate your church and your godly
ancestors who did not attend ACU as
being "traditionalists."
John
T. Willis and the ACUites love to
try to spook you by claiming that
ANTI-instrumental churches of Christ
IMPOSED the non-use of
musical instruments.
Seems that they were just evil
legalists. They become
legalist by NOT forcing you
to do endure not too
talented Musical Worship
Ministers now the
laughing stock of the
prototypical
emasculated male.
However, All recorded
history denied that
there was any role for
instrumental
MACHINES for doing
LEGALISTIC
HARD WORK.
We betcah that
most of the ENERGY
and time will
be sucked up
by people
working REALLY
HARD to put on
a Broadway
Show to
prevent you
from giving
heed to Jesus
and HIS WORDS.
The
direct command from the wilderness
onward for the School of the
Word was to PREACH the Word
(only) by READING it for
Comfort and Doctrine. The
LOGOS is God's Regulative
Principle. Jesus of Nazareth
SPOKE what God Breathed
(spirit) into Him. Therefore, to mock
God's REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE
denies that God is God and
doctors of the Law are
NOT: The meaning is
ANTI-Christ.
John.T.Willis:
Here are only a few obvious examples.
1. God's
people regularly slip into the mistaken
concept that external acts of religion are more
important than the heart and honest godly
daily living.
No, it is the Professional
Religionists CLAIM that worship is in
EXTERNAL ACTS. John T. Willis wants boylings and girlings to
ACT UP right up on the state, singing, prancing, playing,
lifting unholy ARMS as a Religious Observation. The ACU mother leader boasted that
they would manufacture so
many FEMALE
MINISTERS that churches of Christ would be Forced to give them a
job doing EXTERNAL ACTS.
While he is
shooting
at faithful
Churches of Christ who will not bow when he pipes, he is
implying that those who DO NOT violate direct
commands have
no heart and are not interested in godly living.
Well, it is a fact that no one was so primitave that
they did not grasp that mechanical
sounds could discord the very structure
of humanity. They also knew
that people who USED "machines for
doing hard work" were bent on
fleecing the lambs. Only
people who would IMPOSE and take
away the church house of widows
could be charge with thievry.
A godly person who needed to
hear musical sounds rather
than the Word of Christ
would just leave and go buy
his OWN place to make a
theater.
The
Kingdom of God does not come with OBSERVATIONS. So Willis
wants to
spread massive
discord and hatred for quiet, local
congregations meeting to be DISCIPLES
of Christ which means of the Word
Only.
The
religioous observations
MANUFACTURE the Spiritual anxiety
created by religious rituals.
Laded Burdens are those arousal
songs KNOWN to damage the
emotional health and PREVENT
people from hearing
the Word of Christ
from a godly elder as the only
Christ-ordained Pastor
Teacher.
Observātiō ōnis, observo, a watching,
observance, investigation: observationes animadvertebant, your
searches for evidence: siderum.— Circumspection,
care, exactness: summa in bello movendo.
Religious observations are carefully crafted to take control
of
all of one's attention. That is the worship concept with is to
be
directed only to God.
Tendo: In the pagan
religions they gave lots of attention to tuning
or playing their musical instruments: cornu,” “barbiton,” to
tune, “tympana tenta tonant palmis, stretching out their bow
strings. To shoot, to hurl.
Here is a picture of what Amos warned about: a man
tending his Barbiton while lying on a bed
(b). To exert
one's self, to strive, endeavor
(mostly poet.
b. n partic., to exert one's
self in opposition, to strive, try,
endeavor, contend “adversus, etc.,” id. 34, 34, 1: “contra,
Lucr. 6, 1195: “tormento citharāque tensior,” [Tendo]
2. In partic.: “nervum tendere, in mal. part.,” Hence, tentus, a
lecherous man,
ēlŏquĭum , ii, n. id..
I. In Aug. poets,
and their imitators among prose writers, for eloquentia,
eloquence,
*
Hor. A. P. 217;
*
Verg. A. 11, 383;
Ov. Tr. 1, 9, 46;
id. M. 13, 63;
322 al.;
Vell. 2, 68, 1;
Plin. 11, 17, 18, § 55.—
Lucr.
6.1195 Signs of death from lack
of water:
The heralds of old death. And in those months
Was given many another sign of death:
The intellect of mind by sorrow and dread
Deranged, the sad brow, the countenance
Fierce and delirious, the tormented ears
Beset with ringings, the breath quick and short
Chorda
II. Catgut, a string (of a musical
instrument),
B. A rope, cord, for binding a slave : “tunc tibi actutum chorda tenditur,”
Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 55
TRANIO
I will inform you. My master has arrived from abroad.
SIMO
In that case, the cord will be stretched
for you; thence to the place where iron fetters clink; after
that, straight to the cross.
Ringing: Cĭthăra , ae, f., = kithara, I. the
cithara, cithern, guitar, or lute.
II. Meton., the music of the cithara,
or, in gen., of a stringed instrument, the
art of playing on the cithara
Ringing (guitar) I the ear would be equivalent to melody IN the
heart.
THE CHRISTIAN ANTITHESIS:
1Timothy 4:13 Till I come, give attendance
[adtende] to reading,
to exhortation, to doctrine.
1Timothy 4:14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee,
which was given thee by
prophecy, [teaching]
with the laying on of
the hands of the presbytery.
1Timothy 4:15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself
wholly to them;
that thy profiting
may appear to all.
3191. meletao,
mel-et-ah´-o; from a presumed derivative of 3199; to take
care of, i.e. (by implication) revolve in the mind:
— imagine, (pre-)meditate.
Because never in recorded history did PSALLO relate in any sense
to MUSICAL MELODY Paul intends that we SPEAK the Word of God and
sing and meditate on the Word of God.
Melet-aō , “tauta meleta” 1 Ep.Ti.4.15;
esp. practise speaking, con over a speech in
one's mind, “logaria dustēna meletēsas” D.19.255; “apologian” Id.46.1; also, deliver,
declaim (cf. 11.5 b), “logous”
Logos
2. generally, account, reckoning, mē phunai ton hapanta nika l. excel
Opposite. ek tēs epagōgēs
Opposite. muthos, as history to
legend, Ti.26e;
“poiein muthous all' ou logous”
Opposite. epilogos,
Opposite. prooimion,
Opposite. phōnē, Arist.Pol.1253a14;
prose, Opposite. poiēsis,
Opposite. emmetra, ib.1450b15 (
l. pezoi, Opposite.
poiētikē, D.H.Comp.6;
Opposite. poiēmata, ib.15; “koina kai poiēmatōn kai logōn”
1Timothy 4:16 Take heed unto thyself, and
unto the doctrine; continue
in them:
for in doing this thou
shalt both save thyself, and them that
hear thee.
lectĭo , ōnis, f. lego.
I. A gathering, collecting.
II. A reading, perusal; a reading
out, reading aloud.
B. Transf. (abstr. pro contr.), that which
is read, reading, text (post-class.)
“juris lectiones,” passages of the
laws,
John.T.Willis:
This was a major concern for the prophets in
the Hebrew Bible. Amos 5:21-24; Hosea 6;4-6; Isaiah 1:10-17;
Micah 6:1-8. Just one good example is Jeremiah 7:9-10: "Will
you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make
offerings to Baal and go after other gods that you have not
known, and then come and stand before me [God] in this house
[the temple=for us, the church building], which is called by
my name, and say, 'We are safe'--only to go on doing all these
abominations?"
John.T.Willis: 2. Many
have focused on the "correct" acts of worship
instead of the
attitude and feelings of the heart.
One great example of this is the demand that one must
worship God ONLY in vocal singing
and not use instrumental music.
The
Theologians invented the ACTS of worship when the godly
people who can read
understand that the ONLY spiritual worship concept in
the synagogue and church is to GIVE ATTENDANCE
to the Word of Christ. This is also the only way to
glorify or praise God. If you want to speak the
truth:
- There is a law AGAINST the act of the
theatrical performers mocking Jesus: Isaiah 50
- There is no ACT of "laying by in store" only to be DIVERTED
when the ungodly decide to
confiscate your property. Christ outlaws this
in Isaiah 55
- There is a LAW of Silence
commanded
by Paul and Christ in Isaiah 57.
- There is no ACT of Preaching out of your own
head: this is outlawed by Christ in Isaiah 58
- Preachers
or Kerusso are HERALDS: Jesus sent them OUT with the
command to teach what HE commanded to be taught.
- There is no
ACT of singing: Jesus
commanded and example and Paul commanded that we SPEAK
to EDUCATE.
- There is no
ACT of singing out of your own spirit to PREVENT
the songs and sermons of Christ and the
Apostles.
- There is no
LAW allowing
mercinary men to MULTIPLY
MINISTRIES all of which detract
from the School of Christ.
- There is
no ACT which women can
perform: the AUTHORITY visible-audible
women exercise (even the
ugly ones) is Authentia which is
defined as EROTIC and
MURDEROUS.
- There is no ACT
of performing
rhetoricians, singers
or instrument players:
Jesus calls them
WISE or SOPHISTS
which means
speakers, singers
and instrument
players especially
those intending
to pick a bit of
fleece to keep
from a productive
work. Religious
musicians were
called PARASITES.
It is a Biblical fact that there is no command,
example or remote inference of any godly people assemblying
to do congregational singing WITH or WITHOUT
instruments. The Bible is filled with singing involved with
idolatry with or without instruments. There
is NO metrical Bible and "melody as tunefulness
belongs to the 19th century. All of the New
Testament passages command SPEAKING the Word of
God for EDUCATION. And even that noisy
singing of the near east was IMPOSED in the year 373
after Constantine permitted unwashed clergy to
get paid for their work. The Christian
Churches invented the psallo word for the
first time in 1878 to try to force everyone
to bow when they piped. Therefore, one
cannot even hallucinate instrumental noise
when scholars know that the assembly is A
School of Christ where worship, according
to Christ and the Campbells was READING
and MUSING the Word. That is
SPEAKING and MEDITATING as the only way
to edify or educate.
- If God
abandoned the Levites to worship the
starry host because of musical
idolatry; and the Levites performed
as SORCERERS with instrumental NOISE
and God did not command King,
Kingdom, Temple, Clergy,
Sacrifices or Levites who were
EXECUTIONERS making instrumental
noise.
- And
John T. Willis and the ACU
Purpose Driven goal is to use
that as a PATTERN.
- Then, why should
anyone obey their LAW OF
GIVING to turn YOUR
property into an IDOL
temple with living,
breathing, acting IDOLS getting
their kicks on route
666?
John.T.Willis: No
one really knows where this idea came from. But for many
people, this has become "gospel" and necessary for
salvation.
That's when Doctors of the Law read
previous books of theology
rather than being Disciples of Christ in th Prophets and
Apostles.
But when one actually reads the Bible,
this is not an issue at all. Here are ONLY two biblical
examples.
We
laity actually see WHAT words mean in the Bible and
only the FEW are chosen
2Pet. 1:4 Whereby are
given unto us exceeding great and precious promises:
that by
these ye might be partakers of the divine nature,
having
escaped the corruption [connects to musical sounds]
that is in the world through lust.
2 Pet
1:15 Moreover
I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease
to have these things alway
in remembrance.
2Pet.
1:16 For we have not followed cunningly
[sophizo] devised fables,
Fables
are myths from MUO [to shut the mouth: music forces
the
lambs to be silent before the slaughter]
Muthos 2. fiction (Opposite.
logos, historic
truth)
Pind. 0. 1 From there glorious song enfolds
the wisdom of poets, so that they loudly sing [10]
the son of Cronus, when they arrive at the rich and
blessed hearth of Hieron,
who wields the scepter of law in Sicily
of many flocks, reaping every excellence at its peak, and
is glorified
[15] by the choicest music, which we men often
play around his
hospitable table. Come, take the Dorian lyre down from
its peg, if the
splendor of Pisa
and of Pherenicus placed your mind under the influence of
sweetest thoughts,
Yes, there are many marvels,
and yet I suppose
the speech of mortals
beyond the true
account can be deceptive,
stories adorned with
embroidered lies;
[30] and Grace, who fashions all gentle things for
men, confers esteem and often contrives to make
believable the
unbelievable. But the days to come are the wisest
witnesses.
embroidered lies Poikilos
2. of Art, p.
humnos
a song of changeful strain or full of diverse
art, Pi.O.6.87;
“poikilon
kitharizōn”
Id.N.4.14;
“dedaidalmenoi
pseudesi
poikilois
muthoi”
Id.O.1.29;
of style, “lexis
poiētikōtera
kai
p.”
Isoc.15.47
(Comp.); “skhēmatismoi”
D.H.Is.3.
Fables
are myths from MUO [to shut the mouth: music forces
the
lambs to be silent before the slaughter]
Sophis-tês ,A. master of
one's craft, adept, expert, of diviners, Hdt.2.49;
of poets, “meletan
sophistais
prosbalon”
Pi.I.5(4).28,
cf. Cratin.2; of musicians,
“sophistēs
. . parapaiōn
khelun”
A.Fr.314, cf. Eup.447, Pl.Com.
140; sophistē
Thrēki
(sc. Thamyris) E.Rh.924,
cf. Ath.14.632c: with modal
words added, “hoi
s.
tōn
hierōn
melōn”
II. from late v B.C., a Sophist, i.e. one
who gave lessons in grammar, rhetoric, politics,
mathematics, for money,
goēs A. sorcerer,
wizard, Phoronis 2, Hdt.2.33,4.105, Pl.R. 380d,
Phld.Ir.p.29 W.; “g.
epōdos
Ludias
apo
khthonos”
E.Ba.234,
cf. Hipp.1038;
prob. f.l. for boēsi
Hdt.7.191.
2. juggler, cheat, “deinos
g.
kai
pharmakeus
kai
sophistēs”
Pl.Smp.203d;
“magos
kai
g.”
Aeschin.3.137:
Rev.
18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians,
and of pipers, and trumpeters,
shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman,
of
whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee;
and the sound
of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
Rev. 18:23
And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in
thee; and the
voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no
more at all
in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the
earth;
for by thy sorceries [Pharmakeia,
Pharmakeus], Veneficium Cantio] were
all nations deceived. [Planao ,
Rev. 18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and
of saints,
and of all that were slain upon the earth.
Euripides, Bacchae
Eur. Ba. 215As many of them as I have caught, servants
keep in the public
strongholds with their hands bound, and as many as are
absent I will
hunt from the mountains, [I mean Ino and Agave, who bore
me to Echion,
and [230]
Autonoe, the mother of Actaeon.]
And having bound them in iron fetters, I will soon stop
them from this
ill-working revelry. And they say that some stranger has
come, a
sorcerer [Goes], a
conjuror [Epoidos] from
the Lydian land, [235]
fragrant in hair with golden curls, having in his eyes the
wine-dark
graces of Aphrodite. He is with the young girls day and
night, alluring
them with joyful mysteries. If I catch him within this
house, [240] I
will stop him from making a noise with the thyrsos and
shaking his
hair, by cutting his head off.
"the
condition is
that of Ecstasy, the utterances are
words or sounds of prayer or praise
but are not clear in meaning, and give the impression to
the hearer
of being MYSTERIES or insane expressions."... This phenomenon
seems to include sighs, groanings, shoutings, cries, and utterances
either of disconnected words
(such as Abba, hosanna, hallelujah, maranatha) or
connected speech of a jubilating
sort which
impresses the
observer as
ecstatic prayer or psalmodic
praise."
(Schaff-Herzog,
Speaking in Tongues, p. 36)
when we
made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ,
but
were eyewitnesses of
his majesty.
The prophet Amos assumes that everyone who
serves God in worship uses vocal songs and melody of the
harp.
Amos 5:23.
Amos denounces these people not for singing vocally or
orally or for using harps in worship, but for
oppressing the poor and needy in daily living.
Earlier in the
Book Amos shows that the evil nature of the people whom God abandoned before chapter
5 was the REASON that they sang and played instruments
in the Gerezim Temple when God commanded that anyone who did that was to
be executed.
John T.
Willis: 2. "Sing" is vocal; "make melody" is
instrumental. Psalms 33:2-3;
144:9; 149:1, 3 make this crystal clear. Amos 5:23 further
verifies
this reality.
Amos 5:23 Take
thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for
I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
[23]
aufer a me tumultum carminum tuorum et cantica lyrae tuae non audiam
Tŭmultus, ūs tumalas,
tumulas, disturbing; cf. tumeo, an uproar,
bustle, violent commotion, disturbance
,
B. In partic. 1.
In milit. lang., a sudden or impending
war, civil war, insurrection,
tumult, sedition, rebellion:
A. Disturbance,
disquietude, agitation, tumult
of the mind or feelings: “tumultus Mentis,” Hor. C. 2, 16, 10;
Luc. 7, 183:
“pulsata tumultu pectora, Petr. poët. 123: sceleris tumultus,” Hor. S. 2, 3, 208.
Does Willis and Briley think
that if you have a good mental attitude that you can turn the
teaching assembly into an
uproar. That's what Brandon Scott Thomas is explaining: He missed out on
New York Theater so
John T. Willis is providing him a venue in Abilene which has a
PROPHETIC ancestor.
canto
, I. Neutr., to produce melodious sounds
(by the voice or an instrument), to sound, sing,
play
Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 53:
“saltare
et
cantare,”
Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 23
ad manum histrioni, in comedy, to sing and play while the
actor accompanies the song with gestures or dancing,
Liv. 7, 2, 10;
cf. Val. Max. 2, 4, 4.
C. Transf., of instruments, to sound, resound:
“pastoris
bucina
cantat,”
Prop. 4 (5), 10, 30.
“cantabat
fanis,
cantabat
tibia
ludis,”
Ov. F. 6, 659 sq.—
III. In the lang. of religion, as v. n. or a.,
to use enchantments, charms, incantations,
to enchant, to charm,
B. To call forth, produce by charms:
“et
chelydris
cantare
soporem,”
Sil. 8, 498: “cantata
umbra,”
Luc. 6, 767.
All of the musical and instrumental terms point to
incantantations or SORCERY including Miriam, the Levites and the
"fruits" in Revelation 18.
John.T.Willis: In
Ephesians 5:19, Paul assumes that Christians gather to
worship to "sing and make melody to the Lord in their
hearts."
Singing is vocal singing, and making melody is using
instruments of music.
But, that ignores the Pre-Postmodern TEXT.
Paul uses synagogue word for gathering,
assemblying or coming together. Vocal or
instrumental rejoicing was outlawed for the
synagogue which was for READING the Word and
explaining any problems. Jesus also EXAMPLED
that by standing up to READ the text and then
decently SITTING
down to allow dialog.
Speaking to yourselves in Psalms, hymns and spiritual
songs becomes
Singing to the congregation with self-composed ditties and
making melody WITH a musical instruments.
And
ODE is spoken unless it is set to music:
Mouso-ō ,
A. furnish
with
power of song,
hosa phusis memousōke,
2. to be set to music, “
ta di' ōdēs . . mousōthenta kroumata”
;
to
be filled with melody, “
memousōtai ta peri tēn thalattan hup' ōdēs tōn petrōn”
Philostr.Her.10.7.
“
kitharizein pros tēn ōde.”
Therefore, and ODE cannot include music as cannot a Psalm
unless you define it.
Plat. Laws 722d yet it
is only recently that we have
begun, as it seems, to utter laws, and what went
before was all simply preludes to laws. What is my
object in saying this?
It is to explain
that all utterances and vocal expressions
have preludes and tunings-up
(as
one might call them),
which provide a kind
of artistic preparation
which assists towards
the further
development of the subject. Indeed,
we have examples before us of preludes,
admirably elaborated,
The command is to
SPEAK the ODES
-lexis ,
eōs, h(, (
legō B)
A. speech,
OPPOSITE.
ōdē,
Pl.Lg.816d;
l. ē praxis speech or
action, Id.R.396c;
ho tropos tēs l. ib.
400d;
ta lexei dēloumena orders given
by
word of mouth,
lĕgo (a). To
read out, read aloud, recite (esp. freq. in
post-Aug. authors): “
convocatis auditoribus volumen legere, etc.
Saying is
legō3 5. l. ti to say something, i.
e.
to speak to the point or
purpose,
to
explain more fully,
9. to boast of, tell of,
Xen.:
to recite
what is
written,
labe to biblion
ōdē
is the opposite
of -lexisJohn.T.Willis: Many
texts in the Hebrew Bible clearly connect vocal singing with
instrumental music. Just one example is Psalm 33:2-3,
which connects "making melody to Yahweh with the harp of ten
strings" and "singing." The very "make melody" means
instrumental music.
Apparently the people who translated ALL of the credible
versions didn't think that making melody (grinding to bits)
was something decent people engaged in. Besides, there is no
melody or meter in the entire Bible. The command is to SPEAK
what is written for our learning. Therefore, John T. Willis
and ACU have just INVENTED something from being Doctors of the
Law.
Isaiah 23:15 And it shall come to pass
in that day,
that Tyre shall be
forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king:
after the end of
seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
How does a harlot SING?
Isaiah 23:16 Take an [1] harp, go about the
city,
thou harlot that
hast been forgotten;
make sweet
[2] melody,
[3] sing many songs, that thou
mayest be remembered.
Isaiah 23:17 And it shall come to pass after the end of
seventy years,
that the LORD will
visit Tyre,
and she shall turn to
her hire,
and shall commit
fornication with all the kingdoms of the world
upon the face of the
earth.
EPHESIANS 5 Somewhere back in grade six we learned the
difference between sing and speak. Paul said, perhaps to
let people wrestle unto death:
Ephesians 5:19
Speaking to
yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
BUT: singing and
making melody IN your heart to the Lord;
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 wonder, 3.
view
as spectators
Opposite Pathos A. that
which happens to a person or thing, incident,
accident,
Opposite Poiein to excite passion,
Arist.Rh.1418a12;
V. Rhet., emotional style or treatment,
Opposite Enthousi-astikos , ē, on, A. inspired, “phusis” Pl.Ti.71e;
esp. by music,
VI.
verbal
expression or utterance, lego, lexis
-Lexis
A.speech, OPPOSITE ôidê |
|
-ôidê,
1.art of song 5.
= eppsdê, spell, incantation
4. text of an
author, OPPOSITE exegesis
[Peter's private
interpretation outlaws exegesis]
Arist.En1142a26 |
Prose, OPPOSITE -poiêsis, Id.R.390a;
OPPOSITE -poiêtikê, D.H.Comp.6;
opp.
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,
Psallo has never and can never
speak of musical melody. If someone said:
SPEAK to the students about the rules of grammar
SING and WHISTLE in the bathroom.
In 1 Corinthians 14 when people wanted to sing out of their
OWN SPIRIT but were not inspired or educated, Paul told them
to speak to God because they were just speaking into the
air. This is Paul's ironic way of saying, "Please be
silent" and he told the women who disturbed everyong "being
saved and coming to a knowledge of the truth.
John.T.Willis: Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. Psalm 33:2
Psalm
32.2 confitemini Domino in cithara in psalterio decem cordarum psallite illi
This is confessing with
twangs between the words. Ranan means to creak,
shout for joy, triumph over: this was outlawed for the
Church of Christ in the wilderness. The psalmist is
praise and not commanding.
Praise is holding out
the hands physically to throw a stone, to revere, to
bemoan.
Zamar h2167 is like ALL
words: you have to know how it is being used.
- A
primitive root (perhaps identical with H2168
through the idea of striking with the fingers);
- properly
to touch the strings or parts of a musical
instrument, that is, play upon it;
- to
make music, accompanied by the voice;
- hence
to celebrate in song and music:—
- give
praise, sing forth praises, psalms.
It is to accuse Paul and the Spirit of
Christ with being stupid for NOT having
ACU-wisdom because even simple simons would have INCLUDED
what is to be PLUCKED. Paul clearly did not follow
the Willis PATTERN and name the instrument.
You
will also note that Zamar means to strike a string with
the fingers: Psallo means strike a string with a finger
but NEVER with a plectrum. John T. Willis is
leading the simple minded into violating the DIRECT
COMMAND that PSALLO would OUTLAW a guitar pick, a flute,
drum, piano or organ. You are in mortal danger for
lying that psallo has ANY musical
content.
The Kings had been
turned over to worship the starry host BECAUSE of
instrumental idolatry at Mount Sinai. For that they
were sentenced "beyond Damscus" which mean no redemption.
What kind of scholarship would try
to IMPOSE that into A School of Christ? Well,
anyone who missed reading 101
and defines the assembly as
a Worship Service which
would be defined as IMPURE RELIGION.
Nebel
(h5035) neh'-bel; or nebel nay'-bel; from 5034; a skin- bag
for
liquids (from collapsing when empty); hence a vase (as
similar in
shape when full); also a lyre (as having a body of like
form): -
bottle, pitcher, psaltery, vessel, viol
And
the harp, and the viol,
the tabret,
and pipe, and wine,
are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the
Lord,
neither consider the operation of his hands. Is.5:12
And
the fruits that
thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all
things which
were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou
shalt find
them no more at all. Rev 18:14
And
the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers,
and trumpeters, shall be heard no more
at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he
be, shall be found any more
in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no
more at all
in thee; Rev 18:22
John Calvin: I have
no doubt that playing upon cymbals, touching the harp and the viol, and all that kind of
music,
which is so frequently mentioned in the Psalms,
was a part of the
education; that is to say,
the puerile
instruction of
the
law: I
speak of the
stated service
of the
temple.
For even now, if believers
[privately, please,
like
David] choose to
cheer themselves
with
musical
instruments,
they
should, I
think, make
it their object not to dissever their cheerfulness from the
praises
of God.
But when they frequent their sacred
assemblies,
musical instruments in celebrating the
praises of God would be no more suitable than the burning of incense, the lighting of lamps, and the restoration of the
other shadows
of the law.
The Papists, therefore, have foolishly
borrowed this, as well as
many other things, from the Jews. Men who are fond of outward pomp may delight in
that
noise; but
the
simplicity which God recommends to us by the apostle is
far more
pleasing to him
The Catholics CONCUR with Calvin: to their
credit NO ONE ever thought of SINGING while playing the
ORGAN in the
public assembly:
Candles
[Catholic Encyclopedia]: We need not shrink from
admitting that
candles, like incense
and lustral
water, were
commonly
employed in pagan worship and in the rites paid to the dead.
But the Church from a very
early period took them into her service, just as she adopted
many
other things indifferent in themselves, which seemed proper
to
enhance the
splendour of
religious ceremonial.
We must not forget that most of these adjuncts to worship,
like
music, lights, perfumes, ablutions,
floral
decorations, canopies, fans, screens, bells, vestments, etc.
were not identified
with any idolatrous
cult
in particular;
they were common to
almost all cults.
John.T.Willis: 3.
We human beings are constantly attracted to "new gadgets."
We think that by doing this we improve our lives. Many
people are now putting the cart before the horse by using
iPads, iPhones, computers of all kind and spending so much
time with these new gadgets that they neglect PEOPLE.
I notice that John T. Willis is
using the "law of giving" to collect money from the
widows and honest working people. Now, he plans to
REMODEL the church to make it into a Theater for Holy
Entertainment. My gues that with all of the
gadgets and "machines for doing hard instrumental wor"
he will spend
$100,000.00 of the "lord's money" so that he can MAKE
A SPECTACLE (Theatron) of Jesus.
A flute or a
guitar pick or a drum violates the LAW OF PSALLO
making all of the pretense just plain hypocricy: you
know Jesus
defined the Scribes and Pharisees as hypocrites
meaning speakers, singers, instrument players and
ACTORS.
God is
concerned deeply with PEOPLE, NOT with NEW GADGETS.
Yes, it is very helpful to find a better car or a better
airplane or a better computer, but none of these comes close
to spending time with another person.
Amos
emphasized this point in Amos 2:6 and 8:6 by condemning
wealthy people for buying and selling the poor
and the needy for a pair of sandals.
The tithe
was derived from
Babylon and it was used to feed the Jacob-cursed and
God-abandoned Levites. Their command was to perform as
Instrumental Sorcerers to spook the evil spirits and attract the
good spirits.
As well it warned that any godly person OR any
Levite who came NEAR or into any presumed "holy" place
was to be executed. This was because God had
abonded the elite or nobility to Worship the
Starry host and were sentenced to
"beyond Babylon" which meant "no return or
redemption." For heaven's sake: the
scholars aree not allowed to read
Acts Seven where Stephen
debunked the whole MONARCHY.
Amos 4:1
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain
of Samaria,
which oppress the
poor,
which crush the needy,
which say to their masters, Bring,
and let us drink.
Amos 4:2 The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness,
that, lo, the days shall come
upon you,
that he will take you away with
hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
Amos 4:3 And ye shall go out at the breaches,
every cow at that which is
before her;
and ye shall cast them into the
palace, saith the LORD.
Amos 4:4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply
transgression;
and bring your sacrifices
every morning, and your tithes after three years:
Amos 4:5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven,
and proclaim and publish the
free offerings: for this liketh you,
O ye children of Israel, saith
the Lord GOD.
BEFORE
AMOS SPEAKS ABOUT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Christ through
Amos warns:
Amos
4:11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom
and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out
of the burning:
yet have ye not returned unto
me, saith the LORD.
Amos
4:12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel:
and because I will do this unto
thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
THE OLD BUT MODERN WORSHIP CENTERS TURNED TO
INSTRUMENTAL IDOLATRY they had been Turned OVER to worship the
starry host identical to the Instrumental Idolatry at Mount
Sinai.
John.T.Willis: Which
is more important: a pair of sandals or a person? Which is
more important: To spend time with another person or to play
games on a new gadget?
Share YOUR concepts and reversions and desires and
feelings and aspirations with others. Let me hear from
YOU.
John Willis
The Israelites worshiped as their Egyptian
captors worshiped because they needed some legalistic
sign from their
"gods." Abandoning
Jehovah, they asked Aaron,
their priest, to
permit them to repeat the Apis or the golden calf
worship which is defined as play. Even though there
was no law, Moses recognized two roles for music: warfare
and
idolatry.
Exodus
32:18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that
shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them
that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them
that sing do I hear.
This involved singing, dancing,
instrumental music and
more. Aaron made them a golden calf as visible image
and
claimed that the image just "jumped out of the fire."
Exodus
32:[18] qui respondit non est clamor adhortantium ad pugnam neque vociferatio conpellentium ad fugam sed vocem cantantium ego audio
canto
, I. Neutr., to produce melodious sounds
(by the voice or an instrument), to sound, sing,
play
Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 53:
“saltare
et
cantare,”
Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 23
ad manum histrioni, in comedy, to sing and play while
the actor accompanies the song with gestures or dancing,
Liv. 7, 2, 10;
cf. Val. Max. 2, 4, 4.
C. Transf., of instruments, to sound,
resound: “pastoris
bucina
cantat,”
Prop. 4 (5), 10, 30.
“cantabat
fanis,
cantabat
tibia
ludis,”
Ov. F. 6, 659 sq.—
III. In the lang. of religion, as v. n. or a.,
to use enchantments, charms, incantations,
to enchant, to charm,
B. To call forth, produce by charms:
“et
chelydris
cantare
soporem,”
Sil. 8, 498: “cantata
umbra,”
Luc. 6, 767.
OR
-Paig-ma , atos, to, A.play, sport,
lôtoshotan . . paigmatabremêi whene'er the pipe sounds
its sportive strains, E.Ba.161(lyr.);
Ludia p. luras
- -Empaizô A. “-xomai” LXXHb.1.10:
pf. empepaikha ib.Nu.22.29:—
mock at, mock, “tini” Hdt.4.134;
“tina” PCair.Preis.3.10
(iv A.D.): abs., S.Ant.799:—Pass.,
“psukhē hupo . . sōmatōn kai pragmatōn empaizomenē” .
-
- Jdg 19:24 Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his
concubine; them I
will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good
unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
-
- The viol or nebel is named after VILE which can be an empty bag or a
harp.
-
- Jdg 19:25 But the men would
not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine,
and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the
morning: and when the day began to spring, they let
her go
-
- illudo to play at or with any
thing, to
sport with, amuse one's self with, 2. To sport or fool away a thing, i. e. to destroy or waste
in sport; in mal. part., to violate, abuse
-
RISING UP TO PLAY AT
ACU, HIGHLAND, ETC. Peter
warned in CLEAR TEXT not available to "doctors of the
Law."
See
Enoch
Jude 14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of
these, saying,
Behold, the Lord
cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
Jude 15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that
are ungodly among them
of all their ungodly deeds
which they have ungodly committed,
and of all their hard
speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Jude 16 These are murmurers, complainers,
walking after their own lusts;
and their mouth speaketh
great swelling words,
having men’s persons in
admiration [lying wonders] because of advantage.
Jude 17 But, beloved, remember ye the words
which were spoken before
of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Jude 18 How that they told you there should be mockers
in the last time,
who should walk after
their own ungodly lusts.
G1703 empaiktēs emp-aheek-tace' From G1702 ;
a derider, that is, (by implication) a false teacher:—mocker,
scoffer.
Jude 19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual,
having not the Spirit.
THE MUSICAL GROUP FORM A SECTARIAN DIVISION.
G592
apodiorizō ap-od-ee-or-id'-zo From G575 and a compound of
G1223 and
G3724 ; to disjoin (by a boundary, figuratively a party):—separate.
This is the same mocking or
PLAY
which requested that God REMOVE His Grace and abandon them
to worship
the starry host: the HAVING FALLEN angels.
illūsor (
inl- ), ōris, m. id.,
Empaig-ma
, atos, to, A.
jest, mocking, delusion, LXX
Is.66.4; magikês empaigmata technês
-Prospaizô , 2. abs., sport, jest, 3. laugh at, make
fun or sport of, sing to the gods,
sing in
their praise or honour, 2. banter, tous rhêtoras
-Pl.Epin.980b Plato Epinomis, or Nocturnal
Council: Athenian
[980b] and honoring the gods, with high
tribute
of his hymns and affluence throughout the period of
his own
life.
Cleinias
Well spoken, indeed, good sir. Yes, may you
have this consummation of your laws, after making fine sport
in
praising the gods and having passed a purer life, to find
thereby the
best and fairest end!
Athenian
Then how, Cleinias, do we state it? Do we
honor
the gods, think you, to the utmost with our hymns, praying
that we
may be moved to speak the fairest and best things about
them? Do you
state it so, or how?
-Paig-ma , atos, to, A.play, sport,
lôtoshotan . . paigmatabremêi whene'er the pipe sounds
its sportive strains, E.Ba.161(lyr.);
Ludia p. luras
- -Empaizô A. “-xomai” LXXHb.1.10:
pf. empepaikha ib.Nu.22.29:—
mock at, mock, “tini” Hdt.4.134;
“tina” PCair.Preis.3.10
(iv A.D.): abs., S.Ant.799:—Pass.,
“psukhē hupo . . sōmatōn kai pragmatōn empaizomenē” .
-
- Jdg 19:24 Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his
concubine; them I
will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good
unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
-
- The viol or nebel is named after VILE which can be an empty bag or a
harp.
-
- Jdg 19:25 But the men would
not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine,
and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the
morning: and when the day began to spring, they let
her go
-
- illudo to play at or with any
thing, to
sport with, amuse one's self with, 2. To sport or fool away a thing, i. e. to destroy or waste
in sport; in mal. part., to violate, abuse
-
-
2. euphem. in
mal. part., LXXJd. 19.25.
3. Pass., to
be deluded, Ev.Matt.2.16,
AP10.56.2 (Pall.), Vett.Val.16.14;
to be defrauded, of the revenues, Cod.Just.1.34.2.
-
- II. sport in or on, hôs nebros
chloerais e. leimakos hêdonais E.Ba. 866 (lyr.); tois choroisin e. to sport in the
dance, Ar.Th.975;
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