Dwaine E. Dunning: Non-Instrumental Position Must Be Destroyed

An AXE at the root of the MUSIC tree -- by Dwaine E. Dunning killing off those who, like Daniel, do not bow to instrumental music.

The Lord called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit:
        with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it,
        and the branches of it are broken
. Jer 11:16


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For the Lord of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee,
        for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah,
        which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger
        in offering incense unto Baal
. Jer 11:17

Jer 11:18 And the Lord hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou showedst me their doings.
Jer 11:19 But I was  like a lamb [
Eccl. Lat., of Christ:] or an ox that is brought to the slaugher;
        and I knew not that they had devised devices
against me,
        saying, Let us destroy
the tree with the fruit thereof,
        and let us cut
him off from the land of the living,
        that his name may be no more remembered.

--mansŭesco ,
I. Act., to tame, to make tame B. Trop., to render mild, gentle, or peaceable: gentes mild, soft, gentle, quiet
nam me jam ab orationibus dijungo fere,
 referoque ad mansuetiores Musas,
Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 23: “ira,Ov. Tr. 3, 6, 23.—
Mūsa , ae, f., = Mousa, I.a  muse, one of the goddesses of poetry, music,
Musarum delubra,Cic. Arch. 11, 27: “hic Musarum parens domusque Pieria, Mela, 2, 3, 2: crassiore Musā,
A. A song, a poem: “musa procax,Hor. C. 2, 1, 37


Dēlūbrum , i, n. de-luo, the place of expiation, I.a temple, shrine, sanctuar
Jer. 23:25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name,
        saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
Jer. 23:26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies?
        yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;

Sēductĭo
  A A leading or drawing aside: “seductiones testium,
B. A misleading, seduction (eccl. Lat.): “Adam confessus est seductionem, non occultavit seductricem,
2Th. 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed,
        whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth,
        and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
2Th. 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

2 Thessalonians 2.10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost,
because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2 Thess 2:[11] Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;
ŏpĕrātĭo  A religious performance, service, or solemnity, a bringing of offerings: operationes denicales, offerings,
Jer. 23:27 Which think to cause my people to
        forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour,
        as their fathers have
forgotten my name for Baal.
Prŏphēta and prŏphētes , ae, m., = prophētēs, foreteller, soothsayer, prophet
Sacerdotes Aegyptiorum, quos prophetas vocant,” “Aegyptius, propheta primarius
Defines the prophesying of Miriam and the Instrumental Prophesying of the Levites: Parasites.
prīmārĭus   primarius parasitus,”the first speaker, he who has a right to be heard,  
părăsītus one who eats with another; hence, a guest (pure Lat. conviva): parasiti Jovis, [Diotrephes]
Hence, parasitus Phoebi [Apollon, Abaddon], a player, actor, Mart. 9, 29, 9.—
one who, by flattery and buffoonery, manages to live at another's expense, a sponger, toad-eater, parasite (syn. scurra):
Dumb means the inability to MEDITATE on what is going on. 

cōgĭto
The command is to SPEAK the Word and MEDITATE in the heart: not to make music.
Cogitation in a rational sense can be stopped by (d). With de: “cogitavit etiam de Homeri carminibus abolendis,”  
H2986 yâbal yaw-bal' A primitive root; properly to flow; causatively to bring (especially with pomp):—bring (forth), carry, lead (forth).

H4284machăshâbâh machăshebeth makh-ash-aw-baw', makh-ash-eh'-beth From H2803 ; a contrivance, that is, (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice):—cunning (work), curious work, device (-sed), imagination, invented, means, purpose, thought.

H2803 châshab khaw-shab' A primitive root; properly to plait or interpenetrate, that is, (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute:—(make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon (-ing be made), regard, think.
Jer 11:20 But, O Lord of hosts, that judgest righteously,
         that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them:
         for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

Jer 11:21 Therefore thus saith the Lord of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying,
        Prophesy not in the name of the Lord, that thou die not by our hand:

Jer 11:22 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will punish them:
        the young men shall die by the sword;
        their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:

Jer 11:23 And there shall be no remnant of them:
        for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.


4.30.11
John T. Willis
2. "Sing" is vocal; "make melody" is instrumental. Psalms 33:2-3; 144:9; 149:1, 3 make this crystal clear. Amos 5:23 further verifies this reality.  People forget that God turned Israel over to worship the starry host because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. The Levites were under the KING and the COMMANDERS of the army: they made war and not worship. We will examine these passages in context.

As Dunning wastes few words advocating a violent (tongue in cheque?) assault against any one who will not bow to Baal in using musical instruments, real churches lie, cheat and steal to take away "the church houses of widows." The new WEAPON is called "infiltrate and divert." By the time they catch on the new THEATER FOR HOLY ENTERTAINMENT will be financed and we can "hope the old folk die soon."

Therefore, the end-time attack is about as literally violent as possible and remain out of prison.

The word PSALLO is not a musical word but a WARFARE WORD. Those who IMPOSE instruments being ignorant of the meaning of the word, and by INSISTING over and over that we TAKE AN AXE to the ANTI-instrumental position knows full well that it means to take an AXE to those who continue to defend the truth and the "oppressed, paying audience."

Two of the major "praise" words used in connection with instruments in the Psalms are more related to tribal hatred required to stir up the warriors prior to the attack.. One word iis translated as to "take one's inheritance, prune one's vines, play the flute, pollute and prostitute." The two silver trumpets were given as signal instruments to panic the enemy or celebrate victory as taunt songs. This is why the ALARM which included playing instruments and making a joyful noise before the Lord was outlawed for the ASSEMBLY or Qahal or synagogue in the wilderness. This was because the common people were never assembled except for instructions.

On the other hand, WORSHIP carries the meaning of falling on your face in total humility. This is totally opposite to PRAISE SINGING as one of the oldest superstitions. This taunt the enemy works with bagpipes, the Rebel Yell or Chinese in Korea blowing many trumpets.

MUSIC is universally the language of VIOLENCE and perverted sexuality so don't be surprised that those who are RESISTED by the truth would do violence if they could get by with it.

Murdering the WORD of God will be resisted.

See how to destroy them by EATING THEIR LUNCH and the church houses of widows:

Victor Knowles 2003 Pepperdine DANCING AT ARM'S LENGTH----wrong! A partial review of continuing effort to take captive "a cappella" churches.

Together for Greater Ministry Impact '04: The latest gasp at a UNITY FORUM under the auspices of COMMERCIALISM. Pro-Instrumental preachers called in to speak for "a cappella" churches of Christ. Goal to build 5500 instrumental churches.

Read what Thomas Aquinas and most early church writers said about singing versus teaching.

Non-Instrumental Position Must Be Destroyed: Introduction: Dwaine E Dunning submitted by Ray Downen

Instrumental Music Will Untie the Gordian Knot #2

1ST-CENTURY INFLUENCES on Instrumental Music? #3

See Was Instrumental Music Only For Israel #4

Making Melody in the Heart #5

Ray Downen challenging the WORSHIP word. #6 Paul's word for the ONE ANOTHER assembling themselves is a form of the word SYNAGOGUE. The synagogue was a school of the Bible and never had a praise service. Paul's unique "in the spirit" worship word is to GIVE HEED to God in Christ by reading and giving heed to His words which are Spirit and Life.

Ray Downen Joplin MO 64802-1065 wrote: << I've decided to "reprint" studies by Dwaine E. Dunning in the format now handiest for my use. The 44-page booklet, The Fruitless Music Tree, will be priced at $4 (mailed to U.S. addresses for $5). Here's the first of six studies in the booklet. Long, but of interest to some of us. http://www.sofnet.com/~outreach-- Ray Downen <outreach@sofnet.com>

If you get nothing else please grasp that not among the Jews nor in the most vile pagan temples did the musicians enter into the Holy Places. Among the Jews, the Holy Place is a carnal type of the spiritual body of Christ. No Levitical musician could enter into this type of the church of Christ even to clean out the garbage.

The temple musicians in a "religious sense" (grouped with prostitutes in pagan religions) were in the court making a loud mocking noise during the sacrifice and burning of animals.

In fulfilment of the prophetic type, it was prophesied in Psalm 41 and fulfilled in the Dead Sea Scroll translation that Judas and the military musicians would attempt to turn Jesus into a coward. Click for some examples.

This would continue the Zeus- Dionysus which was the musical, Sodomite Abomination of Desolation in the Jerusalem Temple. The Jews HOPED that their Messiah would be Dionysus. Therefore, they piped hoping to "initiate" Jesus by singing and dancing the female or homosexual song and dance.

Dwaine Dunning in the red box, my review in black and other quotations in blue. Not proofread.

An AXE at the root of the MUSIC tree -- by Dwaine E. Dunning

Dwaine E. Dunning: There are at least three ways to kill a tree.

You can poison it, or burn it. It might not survive if all the limbs were lopped off.
But men usually choose to kill a tree by
cutting down its trunk.
We take an axe or saw to it not far above the roots and "fell" that tree.

Likewise a system of doctrine may be destroyed in various ways. It might be poisoned (or sweetened in this case) by injecting a different spirit into those who hold the doctrine.

Or its various contentions may be individually or specifically refuted,
like
lopping off a tree's branches one by one.

BUILDING THE FOUNDATION: People Quarantined from Sacrificial System added as part of the worship of the starry host to which God had abandoned the nation.

Isreal fell fatally from Grace because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.
God turned them over to worship the starry host (Acts 7 and a dozen more passages)
God burdened them with The Book of The Law and the Levites to "bear the burdens of sin."
The Abrahamic Covenant was lost and the First Born sons replaced.
No one not of that tribe not specificially ordained could COME NEAR the Tabernacle without sinning.

No Levite, used as Warrior Noise makers and later under the king and commanders of the army could come near the holy places of the sactury or they would be executed. The patternism is that if a musician enter into the body of Christ as fulfilment of the Holy Place is worthy of death.

Num 18:2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister BEFORE the tabernacle of witness.

H8334 shârath shaw-rath' A primitive root; to attend as a menial or worshipper; figuratively to contribute to:--minister (unto), (do) serve (-ant, -ice, -itor), wait on.

Num 18:3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle:
        only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar,
        that neither they, nor ye also, die.

All of the non-Levites were called STRANGERS: therefore, if you were not of the tribe of Levi and had the assignment to serve. Therefore, no member of the "church" could come near the Tabernacle.

"A stranger," that is, one, neither a priest nor a Levite, who should intrude into any departments of the sacred office, should incur the penalty of death. ROBERT JAMIESON

Num 18:4 And they shall be joined unto thee,
        and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation,
        for all the service of the tabernacle:
        and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.

Num 18:5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar:
        that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.

Contrary to being a spiritual worship service, the sacrificial system had been imposed and if it were not performed it would bring down God wrath as punishment due for NOT performing what they had been abandoned to.

Num 18:6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel:
         to you they are given as a gift for the LORD,
         to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Num 18:7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s office for every thing of the altar,
        and within the veil; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest’s office unto you as a service of gift:
        and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

"And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. Numbers 18:21

H5656‛ăbôdâh ‛ăbôdâh ab-o-daw', ab-o-daw' From H5647 ; work of any kind:--act, bondage, + bondservant, effect, labour, ministering (-try), 

H5647‛âbad aw-bad' keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute
"Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die. Numbers 18:22

The sacrificial system was imposed on the Levites as a curse:
Num 18:23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation,
        and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations,
        that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
That this was a curse

Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. Jeremiah 7:20

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel;
       Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. Jeremiah 7:21

For I spake NOT unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: Jeremiah 7:22

But this thing commanded I them, saying,
       Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people:
       and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you,
       that it may be well unto you. Jeremiah 7:23 

But they HEARKENED NOT, nor inclined their ear,
       but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart,
       and went backward, and not forward. Jeremiah 7:24

Furthermore, all of the performing arts are identified as the Hypocritic arts and because they produced nothing good and caused lots of destruction of morals they were called PARASITES.

Why are people so anxious to impose the CURSE  of hypocrites and parasites. Jesus called the Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites by point to Isaiah 29 and Ezekiel 33. There, the "mouth worshipers" are identified as performance speakers, singers and instrument players.

As always God MARKS false accusers so they cannot SLIP UP and chop you down. The oppressors were the ONLY ones who made a grand use of music. This included warriors, prostitutes, sodomites and the ENEMY trying to defeat you either with a LITERAL BOW or LANCE or by TWANGING you with "music." Jesus is the TRUE Branch and the seven "spirits" which rested on Him all relate to knowledge and the POWER to hear His words which ARE Spirit and Life. Dionysus was one such BRANCH. 100% of threskia forms of worship meaning RITUALS or CEREMONIES always with music and usually with sexuality was invented originally by Orpheus and also the SINGERS OF LESBOS.

"Nor are these Thracian orgies, from which the word Worship (threskia) is said to be derived; nor rites and mysteries of Orpheus, whom the Greeks admired so much for his wisdom that they devised for him a lyre which draws all things by its music. Nor the tortures of Mithras

The word in the Bible is:

Threskos (g2357) thrace'-kos; prob. from the base of 2360; ceremonious in worship (as demonstrative), i.e. pious: - religious.

12.12 The Fertility Consort of the Ancient Goddess

Briffault (3 121-157) takes his origins right back to the earliest fertility rites of Greece which were exclusively the province of womens religion.

He notes that Mainads originally were three women carrying shamanic tympana with spears and a double axe to kill sacrificial victims.

Dionysus thus stands as the archetype of the dying sacred king, the frenzy of the Mainads thus representing anceint rites of male sacrifice rather than the violent disposition of the god himself.

No men were allowed into the birth chapel of Dionysus at Thebes up to the time of Pansanias. Later male Dionysian priests had to wear female attire. Dionysus himself was effeminate and called "lord of the vulva" and sham-man.

"It would in fact appear that the whole cult associated with Dionysus was originally a women's religion from the rites of which men were excluded" (Briffault v3 128). This would explain that Pentheus was originally torn apart for spying on women's secret rites.

12.23 Orpheus and Dionysus

Orpheus was a Thracian musician whose magical skill on the lyre enabled him to charm the trees, rivers, and stones, as well as wild beasts. He was the son of Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, and a Thracian river-god (some versions say Apollo). Orpheus married the nymph Eurydice, but she soon died, bitten on the heel by a snake.

Her grieving husband followed her to the underworld and, by playing on his lyre, charmed the deities into releasing her. The one condition was that he should escort her back to the upper world without looking at her. He did look, however, and Eurydice disappeared.

Just like the vengeful Dyonisian priest swung his axe at the fleeing priestesses, the Inquisition and Witch Hunts then turned the blood back upon itself, resulting in millions of deaths across Europe. The Pangs of the Messiah have long outlived the rending of Dionysus.

He supposedly invented wine making and was considered the patron of poetry, song, and drama. He is often pictured as an 'effeminate' or ridiculous youth, or as a bearded man.

Lycurgus is driven mad by Rhea, cutting his son down with an axe thinking he is a vine causing all Thrace to become barren. He is struck blind and his own Edonians tear him apart with horses on Mount Pangaeum (Grave 1958, Willis, Otto).

The god punishes by revealing the absolute terror of his reality. And this terror attacks innocent victims, too - in fact, it constantly threatens to make a victim of the god himself. According to Nonnus, Aura, too, the beloved of Dionysus, killed one of her new-born children and devoured it. Like the mothers, so the foster-mothers. It is already said of the daughters of Lamos, the first foster-mothers of the new-born Dionysus, that they would have torn the child into pieces in their madness had he not been snatched away in time by Hermes and given over to Ino. Ino, herself, Dionysus' mother's sister, and another daughter of Cadmus who had reared the divine child, is said to have killed her own infant son, Melikertes, in a fit of madness. This son of Ino's was worshipped on the island of Tenedos as Palaimon, and since children were sacrificed to him, he was called the "child-killer"

Satan is the FALSE BRANCH who was CAST AS PROFANE out of heaven meaning to "play the flute, cut your vines, pollute or prostitute." In Isaiah this SATANIC BRANCH Has been cut down but he/she still wants to use music to CUT DOWN the true Branch by cutting down His Word.

I WILL REPEAT THIS BUT BE WARNED ABOUT MUSICAL WORSHIP.

Zamiyr (h2158) from 2167; a song to be accompanied with instrumental music: - psalm (-ist), singing, song

From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous.

But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. Isa 24:16

Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. Isa 25:5

Zamar (h2167) zaw-mar'; through the idea of striking with the fingers]; prop. to touch the strings or parts of a musical instrument, i. e. play upon it; to make music, accompanied by the voice..

That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor [driver of animals] ceased! the golden [gold or money making] city ceased! [taken a sabbath, REST] Isa 14:4

The oppressor is the Hebrew:

Nagas (h5065) naw-gas'; a prim. root; to drive (an animal, a workman, a debtor, an army); by impl. to tax, harass, tyrannize: - distress, driver, exact (-or), oppress (-or), * raiser of taxes, taskmaster.

Naga (h5060) naw-gah'; a prim. root; prop. to touch, i. e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphem., to lie with a woman); by impl. to reach (fig. to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.): - beat, (* be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.

Nagan (h5059) naw-gan'; a prim. root; prop. to thrum, i. e. beat a tune with the fingers; espec. to play on a stringed instrument; hence (gen.) to make music: - player on instruments, sing to the stringed instruments, melody, ministrel, play (-er, -ing..

The burden lading oppressors [doctors of the Law] Jesus died to FIRE did the same thing;

Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Mt.11:28

Being LADEN with ceremony is to be OPPRESSED with music by those intending to take you CAPTIVE (the meaning of heresy) for their own fun and profit.

Phortizio (h5412) for-tid'-zo; from 5414; to load up (prop. as a vessel or animal), i.e. (fig.) to overburden with ceremony (or spiritual anxiety): - lade, be heavy laden.

The REST is a highly dedicated word in Greek and includes:

Pauô, includes to: bring to an end, stop or silence by death, take one's rest, cease, have done, of one singing or speaking.
Pauo means: Stop the: Panos orgai panic fears (i. e. terrors sent by Pan), Eur.:--but, orgê tinos anger against a person or at a thing, hierôn orgas wrath at or because of the rites
Pauo means stop the polemos
or battle, fight, war: stop levying war against anothe
Pauo means: STOP the: melôid-ia
, hê, singing, chanting,
Pauo means: Stop the pain of: aoidê [aeidô]
Pauo means: Stop the Thamyris, a Thracian aoidê
Pauo means: Stop worshipping the MUSES
Pauo means: Stop the charismatic music which is with clanging cymbals:
Pauo means: Stop the Dancing they tried to force on Jesus
Pauo means: Stop the Sorcery.
The sOPHISts are the OPHIS serpents which, as in Genesis is a Musical Enchanter.

The Pauo Jesus died to give us means: To Take Thy Rest:
Klisia
a place for lying down, hence a hut, cot, cabin, such as besiegers lived in during long sieges.

Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. Isa 26:20

That is why we don't NEED to be nice when people are bragging about what has universally been branded as heresy.

Speaking of Lucifer indwelling the king of Babylon who in the end-time is the QUEEN, Isaiah spoke to the Anti-Antis:

The Lord hath broken the staff [BRANCH] of the wicked, and
........ the sceptre [Branch off] of the rulers. Isaiah 14:5

The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet:
........ they break forth into singing. [shouting] Isaiah 14:7

Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee,
........ and the cedars of Lebanon, saying,

Since thou art laid down,
........ no feller is come up against us. Isaiah 14:8

The FIR rejoices because the warriors made fine houses, LANCES and musical instruments. Thus, the cedars of Lebanon and other forests were given no rest:

Berowsh (h1265) ber-osh'; of uncert. der.; a cypress tree; hence a lance or a musical instrument (as made of that wood): - fir (tree).

The fellers were:

Karath (h3772) kaw-rath'; a prim. root; to cut (off, down or asunder); by impl. to destroy or consume; spec. to covenant (i. e. make an alliance or bargain, orig. by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces): - be chewed, be con- [feder-] ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league ([covenant]), * lose, perish, * utterly, * want.

The TREE FELLERS, their musicians and HARPS would go back into Hell with them to rot on a bed of maggots. This is symbolic of HELL itself. Then end-time Babbling Prostitute will be released but finally CHOPPED DOWN.

Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms [maggots] cover thee. Isa 14:11

The viol is similar to and has the same meaning of the Witch of Endor's FAMILIAR SPIRIT and Paul's SOUNDING bronze. These MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS were used by Satan or Lucifer to BLEED OFF worship due only to God. While God gave them REST, the musical bandits destroyed the forests to ENSLAVE the people. That is why the musical enchanter in the garden of Eden was a serpent and not a snake. That meant that he/she was a sorceress. And, therefore, in the Greek world that meant parasites. That is why they CHEW UP your literal flesh by eating up the widow's living.

Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship [ministry] of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Eze.28:13

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

HERE IS DUNNINGS WORSHIP DEFINED IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS AS THESE WERE RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS.

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 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. Isa 23:15

Take an harp, go about the city,
........ thou harlot that hast been forgotten;
make sweet melody, sing many songs,
........ that thou mayest be remembered. Isa 23:16

Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs;
........ for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. Am.5:23

That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves
........ instruments of musick, like David; Am.6:5

NO WORD MEANING TO SING AND PLAY AT THE SAME TIME!

Nabel (h5034) naw-bale'; a prim. root; to wilt; gen. to fall away, fail, faint; fig. to be foolish or (mor.) wicked; causat. to despise, disgrace: - disgrace, dishonour, lightly esteem, fade (away, - ing), fall (down, -ling, off), do foolishly, come to nought, * surely, make vile, wither..

Nabal (h5036) naw-bawl'; from 5034; stupid; wicked (espec. impious): - fool (-ish, -ish man, -ish woman), vile person.

If the 100% association by Christ the Spirit between MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS and warfare, oppression and prostitutes cannot prevent people from false accusations and the deliberate sowing of discord, what would a dozen DIRECT COMMANDS do to help?

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. Am.8:2

Long with the battle axe and saw went the BOW and the LYRE as "carnal weapons" or "lifeless instruments."

The "prize" word PSALLO discovered to cover their divisive tracks as late as 1878 for the first time in history, does not mean SING with INSTRUMENTAL ACCOMPANIMENT. The base word means TO PLUCK, no more and no less. You can pluck Apollyon's BOW to make it twang to send forth singing literal arrows or, in most of the literature, love arrows. You can pluck the strings of a lyre or pluck out the hair of a male prostitute or you can pluck out the hair of an enemy to make a "bowstring-like" twang.

The MUSICAL connection, however, which is overwhelmingly documented is that one also SHOT OUT hymns or songs. We still hear, "She blasted the theater with song." Or she shot out a song.

The two major MELODY words in the Old Testament will be discussed in part five of this series. For now, Zamar is associated with PLUCKING or pruning your vines and often to "steal your inheritance." Zamar DOES NOT DEFINE the process but rather shows how the word is USED in the Hebrew. That use includes playing a musical instrument. However, PLAYING and SINGING are two different things: you cannot have one word to define both. Both Zamar and Nagan are translated MELODY or to PLAY but they are ALWAYS accompanied with another word for SING. You SING songs and make melody with a HARP. Melody is never included unless you name the instrument.

How can people grow so insensitive to the truth that they can blame people who lived after 1860s for what always created division and sowed discord and deliberately offended the church? The Bible and many other writings such as the Book of Enoch, Jubilees, etc. show that when your brain makes the physical connection between SECULAR MUSIC FEELINGS and SPIRITUAL WORSHIP, you have fallen and you are not going to get up.

Dunning notes: Or its various contentions may be individually or specifically refuted, like lopping off a tree's branches one by one.

I find it amazingly amazing that false teaching always includes MARKS or "a way of escape." In Ezekiel 31, the Assyrian is defined as the TALLEST TREE IN EDEN. The serpent was a Musical Enchanter. Be sure that you cut down the COUNTERFEIT tree and branch and not the ONE TRUE BRANCH who does not judge by sight or sound.

For instance, in speaking of Lucifer, the "singing and harp playing prostitute" as the king of Tyre or more probable SHE was the counterfeit BRANCH using music to bleed off worship from God:

But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. Is.14:19

By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Eze.28:16

Cast out is the Hebrew:

Chalal (h2490) khaw-lal'; to wound, to dissolve; fig. to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an "opening wedge"); denom. (from 2485) to play (the flute)... gather the grape thereof, * take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.

In Isaiah 24

From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous.
But I said, My
leanness, my leanness,
woe unto me the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously;
yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very
treacherously. Isa 24:16

Zamiyr (h2158) from 2167; a song to be accompanied with instrumental music: - psalm (-ist), singing, song

Click for the whole abomination of desolation which actually took sex and music into the holy precincts in Jerusalem

Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. Isa 25:5

Zamar (h2167) zaw-mar'; through the idea of striking with the fingers]; prop. to touch the strings or parts of a musical instrument, i. e. play upon it; to make music, accompanied by the voice..

We have pictures and we have made the NOSE FLUTE out of a BRANCH by using the BARK or of a hollow plant like the Firefly bush which is about as tough as bamboo.

No instruments were added for eight centuries and until A.D. 1250 for general use but excluded from the worship of the Pope as late as the 1911 Catholic Encyclopedia. Division was created in a Synagogue as late as 1815. Hislop notes:

"So certain is it that the instrumental music of Judaism was identified with the Temple service, that the Jews themselves have, ever since the destruction of the Temple, till very recently,

held it utterly unlawful to introduce such music into their synagogues; and when, about the beginning of the present century, an organ was, for the first time, introduced,

nothing but the influential position of the individual concerned in its introduction, saved him from being summarily excommunicated. Alexander Hislop speaking of instrumental music and denying the High Church position the Christian church uses for authority.

"With such a history, with such facts and considerations before us,

does it not sound strange to hear men say that no principle is involved in the use of instrumental music in Christian worship?

"Such persons can not surely have examined the subject.
They
can not have given the subject that consideration which its importance demands.
Nor can it be said, with its nature, tendency, and effects before us, that it is a subject of no importance.

It is not now a question of mere expediency, one in which no intrinsic character inheres.

"A tree with such fruit, an instrument with such a history, has a positive character for good or evil. It has passed the stage of experiment; it has passed into history and now possesses a character, and what this character is its history discovers.

"But is there no principle involved in a measure with such a history? No principle involved in the use of

such a thing with such a nature, tendency, and effects, which has secularized the church, which has destroyed and will ever destroy congregational worship, which engenders pride, vanity, ambition, and worldly- mindedness?

"No principle involved in a matter, the bare proposal of which excites alarm for the spiritual welfare of the church, that wounds the feelings of a great brotherhood, that mantles the cheek of many great and good among us with shame and mortification, that makes the heart of many bleed for a cause wounded by its friends! Strange, passing strange, that so many whose intelligence and piety can not be questioned, should so vehemently oppose a measure so innocent and beneficent! [Volume IV: October, 1867]

There is another way: deprive it of the "water of the Word" and it will rot and threaten your life. In the second edition of this review we will look at the ROOT of the problem. The same radical attempt to create a dominant "pope" among the Methodists led James O'Kelly to leave and found the Christian Church. He rejected the notion that the "king" could eject self-motivated preachers from their posts without their having any right to appeal. This "hostile take over" was recognized as more radical than regular denominations and quite identical to the Catholic system using the "High Church" system of Biblical interpretation.

The same ugly root sprouted in the Restoration Movement when J. H. Garrison attempted to establish such a group which was recognized for what it was: A preacher's Labor Union, job assignment, money collecting with children buying "life memberships" and a retirement plan. This plan was pushed in 1905 before the census split the groups in 1906.

True evangelists found themselves, like Paul before them, being shoved out of the nest by a continuing conspiracy of a "located evangelists" to "evangelize" by trading pulpits with another "located evangelist." This Labor Union makes it totally impossible for an aspiring minister to find a "berth on the Good Ship Lollypop."

"This is why churches of Christ are a sect": they depend upon the Bible as it has been delivered. However, Alfred T. Degroot defines the Disciples as a "church" because they are "high church" with authority to change the rules Jesus and the Apostles established. This seems to be the principle of Dwaine Dunning. And while bragging about not knowing or caring about the historical steps to apostasy, it is the universal chant among those who replaced Jesus with theatrical performers to claim that "ignorant, Southern, rednecked" mentality invented the idea of the Bible as authority. This "New" invention of yesterday's "thought leaders" is perpetuated by churches of Christ:

R. Christopher Heard Southern Methodist University in:

Narrative Criticism and Restorationist Biblicism Restoration Quarterly 38/1

"Biblicism, understood non-pejoratively as "the claim to appeal to the Bible as the only standard for Christian faith and practice,"

was a hallmark of the early Stone-Campbell movement and
remains such for us as present-day heirs of that movement in Churches of Christ.

Over the last several years, an increasing number of thought leaders in Churches of Christ have been suggesting that our biblicistic praxis has been incomplete at best and irresponsible at worst.

Being a "doctor of the Law" repudiated by Jesus doesn't guarantee that the writer can tell the truth. For instance, the Bible and most of church theologians accept the notion that ONLY God's Word is authority for faith and practice.

However, all of the new Antism against non-instrumentalists utterly tells untruth because we can quote you proof that honoring the Word of God was not an evil invention of non-instrumentalists. Click for a document with lots of paintings of historical scholars who GIVE THE LIE to the new Anti movement.

[Shelly's terms: "Decadent and Deliterious." To the non-scholars that means: Rotten and Destructive.]

However, the HIGH CHURCH of just making up a new bible was first repudiated by a pope but he was vetoed by the emperor. Again, the church of England repudiated the right to make rules which would AUTOMATICALLY repudiate musical instruments. However, Queen Elizabeth vetoed. In fact none of the churches ever VOTED to accept the right to add instruments defended ONLY in Israel by the secular king and in more modern times by emperors and queens. See Hislop.

Not surprisingly, it is only in the past few years that a new destructive movement seems to exist solely to denounce "biblicism" of churches of Christ and introduce a totally-new and unique system which is about 150 years old. This allows these new prophets to reject the Bible's own claims, 1800 years of scholarly understanding and the basis for all denominations.

This new "restoration" came at the same time as Mormonism and restoraton preachers and churches became the target of a Mormon takeover. The "high church" pattern can just as easily justify Mormonism as instrumental music.

It might not be so embarassing if there weren't a few readers left to check the facts. For instance, Rubel Shelly ridicules the idea of using the Bible for the way we understand the church. However, there are lots of Biblical statements of the very understanding of the RM leaders and all theologians of note prior to the liberal 19th century filled with "latter day prophets."

Not surprisingly, the Thought Leaders in Churches of Christ include Rubel Shelly and C. Leonard Allen.

We suggest that rather than THOUGHT there is a fulfillment of God's warning to the "prophets" who hold meetings and "steal prophecies from one another." R. Christopher Heard hasn't read history. Instead, there is scholarly intellectual incest so that Rubel Shelly, "an Evangelist by the Sovereign Grace of God" and by His training is now a THOUGHT LEADER in churches of Christ.

Until the Disciple's saw the Restoration Movement as a vehicle to ride to an organization encompassing all CHRISTENDOM with children as "life members" and primarily in the 20th century, the view of the Bible as normative for faith and practice was the universal, well-documented view even among Catholics: Catholics simply gave themselves authority to ignore the Bible.

This is the ultimate end of "Christian Colleges" which would inevitably be taken over.

John Locke would define the Catholics who are "high church" with authority to add or subtract, and Protestants who depend upon the Bible for faith and practice as DIFFERENT RELIGIONS. And so they are. There are gods many and lords many and Christs many so the use of the buzz words does not mean that people are speaking of the Biblical Christ but of the "high church" or Narrative Theology Christ remade in their own image.

Therefore, we need to grasp that however closely people's "roots" sprouted in the same "soil" the Disciples High Church and the churches of Christ using the Scriptures as basis for faith and practices are NOT THE SAME RELIGION. Indeed, Rubel Shelly's use of Narrative Theology indicates that "Christian Liberty" gives us the right to make our own rules. That may mean a "church" which is more successful as a Seeker-Sucker With Sister Singers but it does not qualify as a church of Christ just as it doesn't qualify as a Mormon church. See a level of Narrative Theology which R. Christopher Heard holds up as the fruit of the Thought Leaders.

This is why one can call for conformity to Christ and hate those who don't love and be totally unaware of the Old Testament types involving instruments, the Judas-clergy triumph over in Psalm 41, the Dead Sea Translation which sees the musical terms in Psalm 41, the "musical" events where Jesus rejected and the Spirit guidance of Paul who defined away the Legalistic, animal sacrifice or paganistic instruments and defined the "instruments of God"--the fruit of the lips and of the heart. That was also the spiritual principle under the Law and the Monarchy period: the worship of the clergy and civil leaders "carried the burden" of animal sacrifices. However, the people honored God in their hearts by learning His Word and then practicing righteousness and justice. They were, in fact, protected by God from a direct contact with animal sacrifices of the state when a great instrumental noise was made to hide the horrors of animal slaughter making them painfully aware of a life without a Redeemer.

And this is why there is such violent hostility to any appeal to the Word of God and the legalistic demand that "God hath not said Thou shalt not." The spirit reads while Jesus still speak in parables.

I get worried around axe swingers: I remember that my father (1903-1997) warned his little sister and whack, there goes my big toe. So, let's be careful about trying to destroy old brethren by cutting them down at their roots. My father also hit himself in the back of the head with a pick axe in a deep well: that can happen to you if you are in deep water or in the dark:

Dunning: But men usually choose to kill a tree by cutting down its trunk.

We take an axe or saw to it not far above the roots and "fell" that tree.

ALL of the Biblical information about BRANCHES implicate Dunning and his band of woodmen as THAT WHICH AGREES PERFECTLY WITH being guided by the Devil. As Jesus defined them, "They speak on their own" and knoweth not what they say or they are deliberately trying to silence those who can still worship God IN THEIR SPIRIT and will not tolerant PANS on their payroll.

Sometimes the axe slips off the killer's hands:
As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree,

and the
head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live: De.19:5

There is rarely forgiveness for deliberate, "first degree" axe-swinging.

God sent Saul to the high place of the Philistine to get his musical "change" which means "perversion" as they played instruments while God was being replaced. And if you are going to take an axe to those who won't play in your sand pile you might notice that:

But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. 1 Sam 13:20

God sent Saul to meet the musical prophesiers from the PhilistineHigh Place as a MARK that the nation was beyond redemption. That is the only place people get their musical instruments fitted with hammered-silver strings and their AXES sharpened: both are defined by the same Hebrew word: an instrument is a weapon.

So, we should also give attention to where we are getting our instruments and who we pick to sharpen our axe.

I would love it if some pro-instrumentalist axe slayer would use the "sword of the Spirit." However,

Dwaine E. Dunning Took an Axe
Gave Teaching Psalms Forty Whacks
When He Saw What He had Done
Gave the Teacher Forty One.

That was the musical message when Israel's elders demanded "set a king over us." We will not have you speak any more to us. That also happened just before the rejection of the Covenant and the musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.

After Israel was beyond redemption for repeating the same musical idolatry as that of Mount Sinai and imposed by God for the wilderness wandering, in Amos chapter 8 the songs in the temple have turned to laments and the people are dying for hunger and thirst for the Word and cannot find it. In chapter 9:

I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. Am.9:1

God would send the serpents (Satan) to bite them and they would go into captivity and most would die or go into "fellowship" with the enemy.

Dwaine E. Dunning: The happiest way to kill wrong teaching is by instilling a different attitude into the minds of those who teach and practice wrongly.

This is at least consistent: if Psallo INCLUDES an instrument then Dunning is correct that NOT playing instruments is to have a bad attitude and who teach and practice ERROR. However, the word PSALLO'S base meaning is to twang a bow string to send a "singing" arrow into the HEART of those Apollo (Apollyon) could not seduce by shooting "love arrows" with his bow.

Without a change in attitude, convincing arguments may simply be ignored as the

Pharisees turned aside the miracles and teaching of Jesus when they should have been convinced. When they could no longer deny that Jesus could perform feats no human could perform, they then cried,

"Didn't we say you were a Samaritan and had a demon?"


A truly bad attitude is to add instruments without any authority and contrary to all of the collected information from the Bible and church history. A better attitude would be to quit using mechanical devices when you know that no literate non-instrumentalist will ever be able to worship with you. There just isn't time to do our non-mechanical teaching task with time left over to validate what we believe is wrong, divisive and truly sinful if any added practice can be sinful.

The Pharisees were Pharisaical and that is a fact. However, it was the priestly class who conspired to murder Jesus fulfilling the prophecy that Judas would not MUSICALLY triumph over Jesus. This triumph over was always musical.

The Pharisees rejected Jesus for the same reason Israel rejected Him as the Spirit in Israel: they wanted to have fellowship with the Canaanites who were expert musicians. They replaced His Word with their word because His teachings would never have allowed them to take the home of a widow or a widow's mite.

The Pharisees denounced the written Word of God and fabricated new RITUALS specificially so that they did not have to obey the Old Testament.

Musical instruments are most often seen in paganism in "driving out demons" or calling the good demons (gift givers) into their presence.

You know, to the old and new superstitious, the demons lived inside instruments and when you told your "lyre to awaken and teach" then whatever you twanged was interpreted as the message from the gods. Paul's equating speaking in tongues to unsure musical instruments is based upon the pagan practice of the prophetess getting a message over the "vapor" from a crack in the ground or drinking wine or chewing laurel leaves which make my deer foam at the moth and "prophesy."

All nations believed that musical instruments were the homes of the gods or the speaking instrument of demons or devils. Africans baptized their drums made out of "lifeless animals offered in sacrifice" and the Catholics baptized and named their bells and pipe organs.

David tried to AWAKEN his lyre so that it could AWAKEN the Dawn.

The priest interpreted the gibberish and the musician put it into the form of an ambiguous poem or song. This is the meaning of Apollo who is Abbadon or Apollyon. He had his Seeker-Center at the oracle of Delphi. The LOCUSTS were once Apollo's muses or musical performers. They did the Mother Goddes wrong and were sent underground as locusts or grasshoppers which had Scorpion stings in their tail. They MARK and punish those who are addicted to music and scatter those who cannot tolerate paganism in the church.

Dwaine E. Dunning: Because they chose to not be convinced, they were not convinced. Are some no less unwilling today to be convinced by truth?
The sadly-divided Restoration Movement tries to be united even with some who have no desire for unity unless by everyone accepting their unscriptural law and agreeing to their preferred practice.

Some work for unity by trying to find ways to work around a law which some claim is from God although they admit they can't find their law expressed in God's Word.

This writer can find the prophecies, examples throughout the Bible, direct commands, universal historical agreement and the agreement of all of the founders of denominations. The direct command to SPEAK in order to TEACH and ADMONISH by using the inspired text with one MIND and one MOUTH is as direct as you can get. The direct command is with melody which is parallel to grace in Paul's writings in the MIND.

Some appeal for a different spirit to replace what is clearly recognized as Pharisee intolerance. Many deal with specific divisive doctrines in a search for unity without compromise of truth.

The UNIVERSAL understanding was that the DEMON SPIRITS lived in musical instruments. Even David AWAKENED his lyre in order to AWAKEN God. A noted liberal writer notes that "There is NO OTHER TRADITION."


The instrumental position claims to be "High Church" ala Catholic-Church of England-Anglican-Episcopalian-Methodist with the authority to change the meaning of the text to meet the demands of the time. For instance, huge growth is their supernatural sign to prove them correct. However, John Locke defined the Catholics as "high church" with change authority and Protestants as sola scripture as TWO DIFFERENT RELIGIONS. And so they are and trying to take an axe to the non-instrumentalists will never create union or unity between two different "species" of religions.

The so-called Stone Campbell Movement is a new SECTARIAN group which intends to suck non-instrumental groups into fellowship knowing that MUSIC will wear down opposition very soon because most people would ENJOY being pleasured if their nevers will tolerate it. However, there is not now nor has there ever been much agreement between the Cane Ridge Stonites and the Reformers who, as a group, did not respond to the charismatic antics of music and the Shouting Methodists. The Stone Campbell Movement enlists a few "non-instrumental" preachers who already agree with them and have been active in "stealing the church houses of widows." No Stoneite would give up music for unity. Therefore, Dunning's method of TAKING AN AXE to the ANTI-instrumental position is pure mind control.

I confess it: I don't have any desire to try to worship in spirit when the instruments are abrading my poor brain in order to make it feel "spiritual." You see, an engineer or even a reader understands that those musical instruments are intended to give you a "drug high" and I just don't need any more anxiety being peddled as worship.

If every musical church burned their instruments today I would not be at your church on Sunday: I have all I can do without being so God-like that I can validate every group in the universe.

There is no Law about singing: it is simply a command to teach using the "song" or metrical material of the Bible which makes it easier to memorize. It is possible to do that without adding a law. And common sense would say that you cannot teach a group while the band is playing! So, if there is no law how about minimal common sense and respect of the Words of Christ. To prove it let the preacher who wants the instruments making noise when JESUS is speaking through His word to allow the BAND TO PLAY ONE when he, the preacher, is sermonizing or further expounding or "private interpreting" the revealed word in direct violation of Peter's command.

The Law is needed only if you decide that the clear command to teach with no 'musical' terms used of God Who DOES NOT SAY "thou shalt not use an instrument." And because there is a negative law, this law speaks so powerfully that it even gives us permission to "sow discord" by adding "the works of men's hands" to make our "worship ritual" more exciting based on "the law of economics." I can guarantee that if instruments drove the contributors away, the instrumentalists could find a law before sundown.

There is no law which says: "Thou shalt not use mechanical instruments." A spiritual person does not need such a law. Recognizing the vast gulf between the Infinite, Spiritual God and a dirty speck called man, it behooves man to not try to improve on God's Word: the "hole in the donut" was not the baker's oversight: it makes the donut cook properly. God makes no divine oversights.

There we go again: there simply is no Biblical way to authorize instruments which is powerful enough to overcome the huge "library" of anti-instrumental warnings. So, whatta we do? We just call them Pharisees who are intolerant of those wanting to add instruments into our church.

Dwaine E. Dunning: We rejoice each time another step is taken, no matter how small, that will replace

hatred with love,
bigotry with compassion,
intransigence with tolerance, and
ignorance with an ability to understand a differing viewpoint.

This study is intended to help make it possible for differing brethren in Churches of Christ to find ways to share in Christian service even while disagreeing on some practices and traditions. Since most systems of doctrine rest essentially on one key or central argument,
 
the entire system can sometimes be put to rest by dealing with one key argument. That's what I hope to accomplish in this new look at an old subject.
That means: AXE trumpts Bigotry or:
The "law of silence" trumps clear outlawing of music AS worship, or
"Necessary inference" trumps DIRECT COMMANDMENTS where SPEAK does not mean MUSICATE

N
ot using instruments, he claims, is based on "hatred, bigotry, intransigence, ignorance but those who use instruments do so because the are loving, compassionate, tolerant, and learned."

If turning the truth upside down doesn't burn you then false humility may get the job done.

Isn't it easy to see that while these diatribes may sound good to instrumentalists who truly hate those who will not endorse them, it is an argument based on "self" or opinion. You can worship with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and pipe organ without my presence.

Why such hostility? I believe that it is the old Jubal story that once you have fallen for music as spiritual rather than a "drug high" there is a sense of desperation needing people to affirm you and your practices. You don't need churches of Christ to make your worship acceptable. You don't' need to convert everyone to the use of instruments in order to make your worship with instruments valid for you. You NEED non-instrumentalists to give you aid in comfort in your utter fall defined in many ancient documents like The Book of Enoch. Why? In these documents you know that you have fallen from the presence of the Lifing God and you will never get up: misery loves and demands company.

But what possesses people to turn almost animalistic when confronted with those who take the liberty to worship the way they wish including not using instruments?

During a "hostile takeover" in Seattle blacks were told that those who resisted instrumental music were racists! There has to be a special place for these people.

The end-time, according to Revelation 18, might see the overwhelming majority engaged in a trumpet quartet when the last trump sounds. The believers will have gone to Jesus "outside the camp" which was away from the temple sacrifices and its music. It will be a tiny group trying to keep away from the axe swingers long enough for Jesus to come:

"Jingling, banging, and rattling accompanied heathen cults, and the frenzying shawms of a dozen ecstatic cries intoxicated the masses. Amid this euphoric farewell feast of a dying civilization, the voices of nonconformists were emerging from places of Jewish and early Christian worship ..." (Encyclopaedia Judaica, 1971 ed., s.v. "Music")

There is never any hope for conformists.

Dwaine E. Dunning: However, the cure for part of the problem will no doubt at first sound extreme to most of us.
There is a serious misunderstanding which seems to form an impassable barrier between two large groups of Christians. This misunderstanding must be recognized by us all.

It must be cut out if we're to have any hope of unity together. There is a "trunk" of argument which forms the basis for the entire system of doctrine which has caused untold sorrow in the Christian world.

This trunk through which all the tree is nourished is a misunderstanding of what worship is in the Christian age.

I think we can see the extremism when the instrumental group finds a dupe in churches of Christ who LUSTS to add instruments to debate someone who USES instruments (tools, weapons, produce works).   Then, boast that the non-instrumentalists are falling in line with those always understood to be sectarian sowers of discord IN SPITE of all known testimony against instruments.

No. That is not the problem. Everyone knows that there is not a jot or tittle or information in the Bible or church history which would suggest that you can worship a Spirit God through the works of human hands. Music has ONE originating source according to the Bible: Lucifer who caused the fall of all of those angels and as a MUSICAL ENCHANTER wholly seduced Eve.

Music is only related to secular parties or the end-time Babylonian Harlot religon. Music is not a Biblical, Worship word.

No instrumentalists ever added instruments thinking that there was Biblical authority. At best, instruments helped boost up human compositions sung in the style injected by the Black community during the "awakenings" and this style demanded a culture steeped in the drum beat of Voodoo. Whites just didn't have it. This causes many to ask: "Are hymns idols?"

The "evil" root is simply not using mechanical instruments in an attempt to worship a Spirit God in our own spirit in utter silence. We have a direct statement from Jesus that God will not be seeking people engaged in tickling the nerves (all of them) of the body and selling that as worship. He will be looking for men like John who was "in the spirit on the Lord's Day." John was not charismatic nor inside the "person" of the Holy Spirit. Rather, John was inside of himself allowing his innermost being or eternal spirit to commune with God who is eternal Spirit. This is the only place God speaks to us.

The roots of division again and again were adding instruments to an otherwise peaceful religious world. It happened to Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians and churches of Christ at about the same time.

How can the human mind believe that if you punch someone in the nose and they bleed, they are responsible for soiling my hand. One who dared bleeds on my worship service is evil and needs to be destroyed--at the roots! Amazing. Amazing!

Paraphrasing Rubel Shelly in an Aztec paradigm: "Those being invaded become hostile and mount an attack upon the invaders."

Those who add non-essentials are always the sectarians.

Dwaine E. Dunning: Men must and will worship. Those who don't find God and worship Him will certainly not fail to pay their respects to some other object of worship. Some worship power. Some worship the human senses.

Others worship the human body.

Some even make forgetfulness or "nirvana" their god. Jesus encourages worship. From the beginning of time, godly men have worshipped. No doubt worship will continue so long as time endures, and we see that the chief occupation of many in glory will be worship.

Even old Nimrod and his musical worship team at the towers of Babylon knew that MUSIC was body worship. That is why there is no exception to the rule that musical religionism was tied to sexuality and to homosexuality.


In Bible 101 we learned that "there was no praise service in the Synagogue." In fact, the assembly as Qahal or "church in the wilderness" loud instruments and "making a joyful noise before the Lord" was outlawed as the ALARM (Num 10:17). No school kid misunderstood that at the time of Christ.

Paul outlawed SELF-pleasing in Romans 15 where he defines the assembly in the same way as the NOT-musical passages in Ephesians 5 and Colossians 3.

Rom 15:1 WE then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Aresko (g700) ar-es'-ko; prob. from 142 (through the idea of exciting emotion); to be agreeable (or by impl. to seek to be so): - please.

Airo (h142) ah'ee-ro; a prim. verb; to lift; by impl. to take up or away; fig. to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the mind); spec. to sail away (i.e. weigh anchor); by Heb. [comp. 5375] to expiate sin: - away with, bear (up), carry, lift up, loose, make to doubt, put away, remove, take (away, up).

This had the same meaning of EXTERNAL SINGING:

Aoidê 1. art of song, autar aoidên thespesiên, spell, incantation, thing sung, song, whether of joy or sorrow,

Areskos A. pleasing, mostly in bad sense, obsequious, cringing, II. areskos, ho, the staff borne by pornoboskoi [brothel keeper] on the stage, Poll.4.120.

Hairetikos (g141) hahee-ret-ee-kos'; from the same as 140; a schismatic: - heretic [the Gr. word itself].

A man that is an heretick, after the first and second admonition reject; Tit.3:10

Matt. 11:8 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings houses.

Soft is:

Malakos (g3120) mal-ak-os'; of uncert. affin.; soft, i.e. fine (clothing); fig. a catamite: - effeminate, soft.Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 1 Corinthians 6:9

Abusers are:
Arsenokoites (g733) ar-sen-ok-oy'-tace; from 730 and 2845; a sodomite: - abuser of (that defile) self with mankind.
 
Arren (g730) ar'-hrane; or arsen +tx ar'-sane; prob. from 142; male (as stronger for lifting): - male, man
 
Airo (g142) ah'ee-ro; a prim. verb; to lift; by impl. to take up or away; fig. to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the mind); spec. to sail away (i.e. weigh anchor); by Heb. [comp. 5375] to expiate sin: - away with, bear (up), carry, lift up, loose, make to doubt, put away, remove, take (away, up).
IN LATIN the Keeping in Suspense EXCLUDES actors, singers, poets of musicians.

XV. debemus autem nos firmiores inbecillitates infirmorum sustinere et non nobis placere

Rom 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit

Placeo to please, to be pleasing or agreeable, to be welcome, acceptable, to satisfy (class.).
1. In
scenic lang., of players or pieces presented, to please, find favor, give satisfaction: scenico placenti

Scaenicus
I. of or belonging to the stage, scenic, dramatic, theatrical
I. Lit.: poëtae, dramatic poets, ludi, stage-plays, theatrical representations, : fabula, a drama, organa, Suet. Ner. 44 : coronae, id. ib. 53 : habitus, id. ib. 38 : gestus, Cic. de Or. 3, 59, 220 : modulatio Comedy. Orator

Poi-êtês II. composer of a poem, author, p. kômôidias Pl.Lg.935e; p. kainôn dramatôn, b. composer of music, 2. author of a speech

Organum Vitr. 10, 1.--Of musical instruments, a pipe,. Gen. 4, 21; id. 2 Par. 34, 12 et saep.--Of hydraulic engines, an organ, water-organ: organa hydraulica,

Gen 4:21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.

H8610
manipulate, figuratively to use unwarrantably:--catch, handle, (lay, take) hold (on, over), stop, X surely, surprise, take.
H8608 taphaph to
drum, that is, play (as) on the tambourine:taber, play with timbrels. H8611 tôpheth to'-feth From the base of H8608 ; a smiting, that is, (figuratively) contempt:--tabret
. MEANING HELL
Organon , to, ( [ergon, erdô] ) I. an implement, instrument, engine of any kind (mostly post-Aug.), Col. 3, 13, 12.--Of military or architectonic engines (whereas machina denotes one of a larger size and more complicated construction)
Ergon  [Ergô] I.work, 1. in Il. mostly of deeds of war, polemêïa erga, 3.a hard piece of work, a hard task, Il.: also, a shocking deed or act,
A. instrument, implement, tool, for making or doing a thing
3.musical instrument, Simon.31, f.l. in A.Fr.57.1 ; homen di'  organôn ekêlei anthrôpous, of Marsyas, Pl.Smp.215c ; aneuorganônpsiloislogois ibid., cf. Plt.268b ; o. poluchordaId.R.399c , al.; met'ôidês kai tinôn organôn Phld.Mus.p.98K. ; of the pipe, Melanipp.2, Telest.1.2

Modulatio. In partic., a rhythmical measure, modulation; hence, singing and playing, melody, in poetry and music, Quint. 9, 4, 139: modulatione produci aut corripi (verba), id. 9, 4, 89 : modulatio pedum, id. 1, 6, 2 : scenica, id. 11, 3, 57 : vocis, melody, id. 11, 3, 59 : musica, Aus. Ep. 25, 13 .

Clement of Alexandria: "After having paid reverence to the discourse about God, they leave within [at church] what they have heard. And outside they foolishly amuse themselves with impious playing, and amatory quavering (feminine vibrato), occupied with flute-playing, and dancing, and intoxication, and all kinds of trash.

ON THE VERY LARGE OTHER HAND:

Pleas for Edification or Education:
A.To take a thing by hearing, i. e., 1.To hear, to perceive, to observe, to learn (cf. opp. do = I give in words, i. e. I say): hoc simul accipe dictum, 2.To comprehend or understand any thing communicated 3. With the accessory idea of judging, to take a thing thus or thus, to interpret or explain

This had the same meaning of EXTERNAL SINGING:

Aoidê 1. art of song, autar aoidên thespesiên, spell, incantation, thing sung, song, whether of joy or sorrow

One of the clear historical and medical fact is that, as Albert Barnes notes, music is the LUST of the EARS. And certainly Sister Singers are lust of the eyes. Music appeals to the emotional side of the brain and this is why Paul used musical instruments to define instrumental music. Music actually tickles the sexual parts: the response to music is "fight, flight or sex."

Paul's warning about the sisters not taking authority is based on the fact that "authority" in the Greek world ment sexual authority where instrumental music was a primary "carnal weapon" or "lifeless instrument."

All of the classical writers who informed Paul and supplied many of the pagan, musical terms, understood that the pagan priestesses and prostitutes used instrumental music. It has the powerful effect of making people forget their old principles and be seduced into whatever the musician wants you to believe at the moment. The Oracle of Delphi was manned by Apollo deceiving sailors and seducing them with instrumental music. When they got there they had a seeker center second to none. Music was the power over all of the transients who needed to have their pockets cleansed before they left. Apollo is Apollyon or Abbadon.

Hermes was the Satan type as the father of musical instruments and of thieves and liars. He is seem much like the Jubal or Genun character in parallel accounts. He is also the fallen angels of the Book of Enoch quoted by Jesus, Peter and Jude about 128 times. God's coming with ten thousand of His host to execute is based on Satan's luring people into rejecting the Word and refusing to teach it by replacing it with mixed-sex choirs and instrumental music: the same sexual authority Paul warned about.

God equated not listening to the Word to the lust of a musical performance which, in this passage, was related to a sexual encounter at the pagan temples. This love is amorous love and is the meaning of the "organ" handled (without authority) in Genesis 4.

Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses,
........ and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying,
........Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the Lord. Ezekiel 33:30

And they come unto thee as the people cometh,
........ and they sit before thee as my people,
........ and they hear thy words,
........ ........ but they will not do them:

........ for with their mouth they shew much love,
........ ........ but their heart goeth after their covetousness. Ezekiel 33:31

........ And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song (amorous, sexual)
........ ........ of one that hath a pleasant voice,
........ ........ and can play well on an instrument:

........ for they hear thy words,
........ ........ but they do them not. Ezekiel 33:32

The king of Babylon and of Tyre were king/queens and agents or images of Lucifer (the Zoe-Beast character). Tyre was a commercial-religious prostitute and literally used female musicians to "take away the key" to property. See the Wen Amun Story. That is they used lust as a weapon or instrument just like Judah:

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. Isaiah 23:15

This is the song of the prostitute: "Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. Isaiah 23:16

When instruments were intended they are named: "sing" and "make melody" with "a harp" or other instrument. No naming of instrument none can be assumed.

The king as Lucifer was bisexual and wanted to be "remembered" as a male.

Dwaine E. Dunning: When Jesus in Matthew 4 and in John 4 used the word we translate as worship, He made us aware of the importance which is implicit in the idea of human worship of God -- of the relationship between God and every man and woman. We are each to worship God. However, some of us have redefined worship to mean to participate in a religious "service" at a particular time and place.
This is a sharing in rituals of a religious nature, normally directed by a "worship leader." The results of our misunderstanding of what true worship is have done and are doing great harm to the body of Christ.

Jesus said that worship was only in the PLACE of the human spirit using the Spirit OF TRUTH. Paul said that the converted Jews NOW worshipped IN the spirit as opposed to IN the flesh.  Paul warned that "worship" which breaks out will be plagued by the dogs and concision: these were the Cynics who attracted mates by their form of "singing" or howling which sounds like "praise singing."

This was
not "worship" as defined by men like Thomas Campbell. This definition is a product of the "located evangelist" (as in "located traveling salesman") who had turf to protect even from the dwindling number of true evangelists who obeyed the Great Commission to go preach the gospel with no demand to "establish worship rituals."

Thomas Campbell saw worship much like the Synagogue where reading the Word was a primary act. You cannot worship God by singing your own songs: you tell God that your words are more important than His and He cannot be instructed and needs no ritualistic praise.

Because this is the source of the "boil" the only way to cure the patient is to '"lance it" and sent the "evangelists" into the field or to the local employment agency.

Nothing could hinder this more than adding a talented organist who, in the 1860-70 could earn up to $5,000.00 a year--a huge fortune in those days. The motive was to seduce people through the "lust of the eyes and ears" and steal sheep from the Methodists.

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Dwaine E. Dunning: Some assume that Christian worship is when people get together to share in listening to a sermon, listening to a public prayer, listening to a "song service," partaking of a communion "meal," and putting money into a collection plate or box. Deviation from traditional practice which includes these, and only these, five acts which are said to be "items of worship" is by these folks denounced as being "false worship" or "will worship." Naturally, they think those whose practice differs from what they think is right are doomed by their ignorance and "disobedience" to eternal death.

That is fine with me; here is what you have:

Universal agreement that PAID PROFESSIONALS are not part of a faithful assembly. Without the need to turn the assembly into RELIGIONISM no one would have wildly imagined that an organ can AID worship which is "holding the thougts of God in YOUR mind or spirit." Even those claiming to be apostles were fed for two or three days in which he could "preach the core gospel" then the found him a job or the soonest ass out of town.

Paul denied that laying by in store is an Act of worship. By removing that burden the Dunnings will have to sell cars or something.

There is no act of worship called SINGING. Paul used the word TEACH and the resources to be read are the inspired text.


One might suppose that where Dwaine E. Dunning meets they do not do these five acts of worship and have gone further: added vocal and instrumental or theatrical performance. Until that is removed the 'axe' is not sharp enough to get the job done.

Lay by him in store. Giving to the needy is honoring God. We give to evangelist or other person against whom there is no law to prevent our sharing

However, the early church recognized the need to have surplus money for certain reasons. Love permits collecting money without a law. However, instrumental music is something which defeats the absolute demand to teach one another and it is not permitted in the name of Paul's definition and common sense.

I have noticed that the preacher or elder will accept a check in the mail or on Saturday morning. So, we don't see giving as a ritual but as an outward expression of our seven-day love.

True: singing is not an act of worship but the result: the direct command is to teach or preach. Now, no preacher will allow the organ to play while he is preaching but it is perfectly acceptable for the 200 horsepower pipe organ to blow the "flutes, meaning to pollute or prostitute" while Christ is trying to speak to us and through others. The clearly commanded resource is the Word of Christ or Spirit of Christ just as the Synagogue used only the Inspired Word. The result is singing and melody in the heart. Why? Why, because external melody means to 'grind into a fine powder' as you panic the enemy with the "twang" of a directed arrow. It is related to the SOP Jesus fed Judas and the Judas Bag was "for carrying the mouthpieces of wind instruments."

Singing is still a way to teach among Jewish and Muslim children. However, they don't sing idle songs but they memorize great portions of their Scriptures in the process. Singing creates a sense of unity but the "idolatry of talent" separates us from them. When the Greeks read or recited a poem or song they are said to have "sung" as with prose you read it.

However, during the Law, the Synagogue and the church there was a demand to meet together for edification and the Lord's Supper. And Paul in the "singing" passages shows a method for teaching the Psalms without external music. This would allow participation by everyone. The "Sunday" service was understood to be based on the command of the early church. That worked until our scholars decided that they didn't.

The Lord's Supper is associated with the First day of the Week and we have no reason to try to ignore the Biblical examples just because we have liberty. Legalism or Phariseeism is "taking liberties with the revealed Word of God, in order to substitute their own and for the purposes of earning money."

Where two or three are gathered they can take the Lord's Supper and speak the truth with the singing and melody in the heart. This is not an optional practice.

Preaching proof-text or "improve the spiritual health of the audience" is not an act of worship. Indeed, Jesus said that these professionals "took away the key to knowledge."

None of this: absolutely none of this has anything to do with the addition of instruments in an attempt to 'worship in spirit.' Instruments have only prostitution, social gatherings, pagan worship and the like the nations animal sacrificial system of Israel which was "added because of transgression."

Know what the transgression was? Well, it was "rising up to play" at Mount Sinai. This was the worship of Osiris whose agent was Apis the bull and whose image was the golden calf. This was instrumental music along with other events.

Dwaine E. Dunning: I do not intend to say that whatever any person decides to do in worship and service of God is automatically right and pleasing to God.

Paul urges that whatever we do together is to be done decently and in order.
If it's worship, we'll not forget that Jesus says it's to be done
in spirit and truth.
That is, we are to be honest, genuine, and with every
intention of honoring the God who made this world and who calls us to worship and serve Him.


IN SPIRIT is the place of the human spirit or heart, as in SPEAK (externally) to ONE ANOTHER while at the same time SINGING and MAKING MELODY in the HEART (internally).

Jesus defined worship as IN SPIRIT.
Paul said that the converted Jews now worshipped IN SPIRIT
Jesus give REST which means STOP the singing and stop the RHETORIC.
Jesus said "Come learn of ME." This was not a command but an invitation to the ONLY Place God seeks you.

Paul OUTLAWED pleasuring one another because it was anti-Christian (Rom 15)
Paul said that the way to GLORIFY God was to:
........ Speak "that which is written" and this was by the Spirit of Christ (1 Pe 1:11)
........ By using ONE MOUTH and ONE MIND.
........ He does not used the word SING or MELODY because in Ephesians and Colossians he puts both into the heart or spirit.

In Ephesians he outlawed being FILLED with wine which always involved being 'fluted down with wine.'
........ He commanded that we use the SPIRIT which is the Word of Christ (John 6:63)
........ That means "psalms, hymns and spiritual songs" which are ALL in the inspired text.
........ The task was SPEAK to one another: you cannot SPEAK and SING at the same time.

He put both singing and melody IN THE HEART as opposed to SINGING as the PLEASURING WORD in Romans 15 and Melody which was a warrior's term and NOT musical.

External "melody" excludes EVERYTHING but plucking with the FINGERS and excludes a PLECTRUM. This confirms that it was a warfare word and not a worship word.

That which "is written" and "the Spirit" becomes the "Word of Christ" in Colossians. Some things you cannot do decently and in order. Some things done decently and in order are not acceptable to Christ who insisted that God only looks for those competent to worship in the PLACE of the human spirit or in the mind:

Let the word (spirit) of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom;
........ teaching and admonishing one another
........ in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
........ singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord Col 3:16

Singing with grace IN YOUR HEARTS is parallel to MAKING MELODY in your hearts.

And whatsoever ye do in word or deed,
........ do all in the name (authority) of the Lord Jesus,
........ giving thanks to God and the Father by him. Col 3:17

This is Paul's meaning of the collective assembly: Giving heed to "that which is written, psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, the Spirit and the Word of Christ" RESTRICT the DISCIPLING to the inspired text. That EXCLUDES that which is NOT written by the finger of God.

He says as clearly as possible that this EXCLUDES literaly MUSIC because you cannot worship IN THE SPIRIT using things which create PLEASURING.

Therefore, Dunning is wrong: Paul defines the church or ekklesia or most often a form of the SYNAGOGUE which was a school of the Bible and HAD NO PRAISE SERVICE.

Dunning has LATCHED ONTO the only things which are specificially prohibited by the Bible and common sense.

He knows that this deliberately SOWS discord and shows contempt for the Word of Christ which IS SPIRIT AND LIFE.

Consistent with the ancient stories of Satan's fall, he tries to SHIFT BLAME on those who were PERVERTED and SUBVERTED away from The Living Word.

Paul described the cultural background of two major groups in Rome: the Dionysians and Orphics. Both of these saw musical PLEASURING as indispensible for worship. However, if the kingdom does not consist of eating and drinking it assuredly does not consist with what Paul defined with the word METHUO. It almost always meant "to get fluted or piped down with wine." Wine and music were always twins and you cannot peddle wine without music.

In Romans 15 Paul said that Jesus Christ did not PLEASURE Himself and the church should not either. Defining the SYNAGOGUE, Paul said that they should use ONE MIND and ONE MOUTH to speak "that which is written." Jesus defined two mountains as PLACES where people went to worship in a NATIONAL SENSE: only DRAFT AGE males were required to go three times a year. That is why they could sell their lambs and "LAY BY IN STORE" the proceeds on THEIR OWN ARM and go to the MUSTER rituals and spend it on food and WINE. THIS WAS NOT worship in the PLACE of the human spirit. Dunning-Downen want to worship ENSPIRITED but Jesus said IN the human spirit.

Cycle One

Cycle Two

WE then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Romans 15:1
And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people. Romans 15:10
Romans 15:2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me. Romans 15:3

And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people. Romans 15:11
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning (teaching), that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. Romans 15:4
And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust. Romans 15:12
Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: Romans 15:5
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. Romans 15:13
That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify (tell of His works) God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 15:6

Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us, to the glory of God. Rom 15:7

And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge,

able also to admonish one another. Romans 15:14

Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister (deacon) of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers: Romans 15:8
Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God. Romans 15:15
And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will
(2) that the offering (bloodless sacrifice) up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost. Romans 15:16
(1) confess to thee among the Gentiles, and
(1) That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God,
(2) sing unto thy name. Romans 15:9
ministering the gospel of God,

Human intention does not qualify above and beyond what we know about a Spirit God who can only be worshiped in our spirit. Any noise closes down the rational or spiritual nature of mankind and prevents worship "in spirit" or in the thinking part of mankind.

Dwaine E. Dunning: But the entire teaching of a Christian "worship service," however pleasing to our ears and egos, is not based on God's revelation of truth.

It rather is based on human tradition and misunderstanding. Not once in His Word has God described any one of these particular acts as worship. As we have come to use them, such terms as "worship service" or "the worship" or even "corporate worship" in the name of Christ in some "sanctuary" is totally unheard of in Holy Writ.

Then how do you explain why the MUSICALS define instruments as AIDS TO WORSHIP? If his church accepted Dunninngs truth they would fire him, stop all of the programs, find a Biblical literate evangelist and SEND HIM OUT.

Dunning makes his point to say: Therefore, WE are free to make up our own WORSHIP OR RELIGIONISM OR CHRISTIANISM and we gonna add the MARKS of prostitue--male and female--'spite of hell.'

But Jesus died to remove the burdens and the professional burden laders and to give REST which word defines stop the music, stop the preaching, just sit down and shut up as I HAVE GIVEN YOU AN APPROVED EXAMPLE.

To gather or assembly in Paul's writings is a form of the Greek SYNAGOGUE. "There was no praise service in the synagogue any more than they would permit it in the ekklesia or "county court." Paul's UNIQUE worship word is to GIVE HEED to the Words of Christ. Therefore, PAUL defined the same worship as the synagogue with the addition of the Lord's Supper. This is why there was NO PRAISE SERVICE in the Biblical or early history churches of Christ.


But, Jesus said that worship is IN THE PLACE OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT. Could anything be any clearer. To SEAL it he said don't STAND and make prayers (sermons) so you can CHARGE for them and even have "musical" groups STEAL THE CHURCH HOUSES of "a cappella" widows. Jesus PAID the temple tax and the TITHE. The act of WORSHIP was that ALMS (not a retirement plan for the idle rich) went very secretely from what I LAID BY IN STORE by MYSELF into the hands of the DESTITUTE. The act of worship was to READ the Word (as Paul commanded Timothy) and have the UNcommon decency to sit down and dialog. The act of worship was prayer in your own innermost food pantry: quiet and dark like the most holy place. The act of worship was to GO preach: a shepherd goes out.

Paul identified the ASSEMBLY or GATHERING of the people using a word for SYNAGOGUE (Ekklesia). In the SINGING passages which are SPEAKING or PREACHING to one another passages, and to Timothy worship was "giving attendance to the public reading of the Word." To the elders it was to "teach that which HAS BEEN taught."

But we would further say that this is not based on human tradition. Like the musical king/queen of Tyre and Babylon and Judas who is directly implicated in music (Psalm 41), every false effort to minimize the Word of God and to deny God's authority to speak in "the tiny voice of a whispered silence" (with Elijah) has a "control agent" and his name is Lucifer (Zoe). See how the "musicians" who were WARRIOR panic sounders would MOCK Jesus to death to the beat of WARRIOR music.

This afflicts all sides of the Restoration Movement. However, most of it flows from the organizational efforts of the Disciples where J. H. Garrison intended to sign up children as "life members" and build an organization which would encompass "Christendom."

Dwaine E. Dunning: As Jesus used the word, worship can be employed to show respect to God or to superior men (see Matthew 2:2; Acts 10:25). As used in reference to man worshiping God, most Bible uses occur in John's Revelation. There it refers to heavenly adoration. John explicitly warns us against worshiping other people or things, or even angels. We are to worship God and Jesus, and them alone.

Worship means to GIVE HEED TO or to pay attention to. Dunning is absolutely certain that when he mounts the BEMA [high place] and the Sister Singers begin to PERFORM all eyes and all minds are GIVING HEED to them in a sexual way. You CANNOT watch someone PERFORM and think about God at the same time. The reason Jesus didn't define RITUALS OF WORSHIP is that he defined the ekklesia or synagogue or school of the Bible where the twos and threes could COME LEARN OF ME.

Common sense or minimal grace would not PERMIT you to make music while Jesus is teaching us.


The WORSHIP word in Matthew 2:2 is;

Proskuneo (g4352) pros-koo-neh'-o; from 4314 and a prob. der. of 2965 (mean. to kiss, like a dog licking his master's hand); to fawn or crouch to, i.e. (lit. or fig.) prostrate oneself in homage (do reverence to, adore): - worship.

Now, you simply CANNOT do that and 'make music' which at this time would have been SCREECHING and SCREAMING and waving your hands and GIVING HEED to the music and musician. That is outrageous.

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. Jn.4:24

What heart rending Grace: YOU worship with machines and SPEAKING ON YOUR OWN which, to Jesus, defined sons of the Devil. You NEVER worshipped with instrumental music: YOU were outside of the gates and YOU fell on your face and even if a Levite musician entered into the place where God dwells--the Most Holy Place--you would be run through with a sword.

But, NOW, you are free: YOU can fall on your face but now in YOUR human spirit as you GIVE HEED to the TRUTH.

And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him Acts 10:25
........ But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man. Acts 10:26

Musical and performance worship team are increasingly identifying themselves as priests and "mediators between man and God." That simply does not happen in a true church which has no performance. Theatrical performance including musicians was always implicated in the Classics in nakedness and perversion somewhat like theatrical performance in Hollywood.

Dwaine E. Dunning: The Ethiopian and Paul are reported to have worshipped in the Jewish temple (Acts 8:27; 24:11). This was referring to Jewish worship practices rather than any Christian practice of worship. In an earlier time Jacob "worshipped, leaning on his staff" (Hebrews 11:21). And one more specific act of worship is noted in 1 Corinthians 14:24, which is falling on one's face.

The Ethiopian was a JEW: remember?
Paul never entered the holy precincts because he didn't want to get killed. Paul remained a national Jew. However, keep on reading and you will discover that Paul worshipped in the NEW PLACE of his own spirit.

If you want to fall on your face ONE AT A TIME but without an assembly or school of the Bible, that is okay. However, if Paul fell on his ace how in the name of sanity does that give US the right to deliberately SOW DISCORD by "making music" which outside of the court meant that singers and musicians were prostitutes and sodomites? Both Paul and the Ethiopian worshipped IN THE COURT: neither could be in the presence of the musical SOUNDERS outside of the holy places. Much less could they "come boldly before the throne." God only accepted the LIKE THE NATION'S TEMPLE as a place TOWARD WHICH people could pray:

I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for
........thy truth
: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. Ps.138:2

The temples at Mount Gerezim were LITERAL PLACES. Jesus told the Samaritan woman that since Christian worship is IN SPIRIT worship rather than IN FLESH, the PLACE of worship must be changed:

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit (A PLACE) and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. John 4:23

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit (A PLACE) and in truth. John 4:24

The Samaritan was wiser and more ethical than the Anti-singing churches:

The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come,

he will tell us all things. John 4:25
Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he. John 4:26

Therefore, the ONLY worship is in the place of the human spirit. Only baptized believers can come boldly before the throne of grace or the Most Holy Place--one at a time--where Christ who IS the Spirit will TELL US ALL THINGS. If you replace the preacher who cannot tell the truth about Satanic music or give heed to the musicians you CANNOT be worshiping in the spirit where ONLY Christ speaks to the Christian.

The Ethiopian's worship would be to fall on his faith and he was not permitted to engage in a musical performance. Paul knew his "abcs" and grasped that the PLACE for worship is in the human spirit:

For we are the circumcision, which
........ worship God in the spirit,
........ and rejoice in Christ Jesus,
..... ........... and have no confidence in the flesh. Phil 3:3

"Music" is 100% devoted to the FLESH and you can have no confidence: Hitler could use Wagner to lead the good church worshipers to BURN UP millions of those who would not BOW to either their "trinity" or their "performance worship." It appeals to the LUST OF THE EARS and flesh.

Though I might also have confidence in the flesh.
........ If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: Phil 3:4

But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly;

and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit,
........ and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. Ro.2:29
I had no rest
in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother;
........ but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia. 2 Co .2:13

Paul understood that Jesus demanded that God DOES NOT EVEN SEEK your worship OUTSIDE of the Spirit He made into A holy spirit at baptism. Therefore, he is never seen SINGING or MAKING MUSIC in any church assembly.

Paul worshipped in the SAME PLACE where he had NO REST. He did not REST by being enthused or made charismatic by music; he had no rest IN THE PLACE of his human spirit.

All music puts the confidence in the flesh and not in the spirit which is immobalized by musical sounds.

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son [truth],
........ that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers; Rom 1:9
I thank God, whom I
serve from my forefathers with pure conscience,
........ that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; 2 Tim 1:3

The gift of A holy spirit at the time and place of baptism in Acts 2:38 is A good conscience or consiousness in 1 Peter 3:21.

Paul was not a priest nor a Levite. Therefore, he could not worship in the Temple. In the case of Jesus, the meetings were usually in Solomon's Porch which was a public place for everyone to gather and hear the wrangling of public speakers. If Paul had been in the area when instruments were sounded during animal sacrifices He would have fallen on his face or been killed.

Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship. Acts 24:11

And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man,
........ neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city: Acts 24:12

Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me. Acts 24:13

But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy,
so worship I the God of my fathers,
believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets: Acts 24:14

Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple,
........ neither with multitude, [a large group which defines a rabble and not a synagogue]
........ nor with tumult. Acts 24:18 [not with wailing, or clamoring which produces fright and RAISES UP]

The "naos" is the holy precincts but Paul was not there:

Hieron (g2411) hee-er-on'; neut of 2413; a sacred place, i.e. the entire precincts (whereas 3485 denotes the central sanctuary itself) of the Temple (at Jerus. or elsewhere): - temple.

Worship means to "prostrate oneself." Now, try holding bowls of incense and harps of God and falling on your face at the same time. This can happen only if the incense is prayer and the instruments are those given us by God: the lips and their fruit.

Dwaine E. Dunning: But not once do the traditional five "items" or "acts" which some say are acts of worship appear in sacred writings of the church of God. They are never referred to by use of any of the several Greek words which are translated in English as worship. And these five acts are in any case what occupied all the days of those early Christians. They were not saved for Sunday use only. In the same breath as Luke reports that the early Christians continued steadfastly in these four things, he mentions that they ate together from house to house. He was not reporting on their Sunday "worship."

Undoubtedly true and one suspects that this is the "
root" which does not make a fruit-bearing but a temple-building, priest controlling, Levitical musicians noise makers and the souls of the "audience" offered up on the sacrifice of self-seeking men who wittingly, unwittingly or half-wittingly are agents of Satan. Jesus called them the Sons of Satan and a Den of Vipers.

However, you can destroy the church; root, trunk, branches and fruit and you will not have come an inch closer to authorizing instrumental music which has its total roots embedded in paganism (yes, even in the temple."

Dwaine E. Dunning: What exactly does Jesus speak of when he mentions to the Samaritan woman that men in a future time would not "worship" either in Samaria OR Jerusalem. The word particularly means, "to kiss the hand toward." This is a specific action rather than denoting just general activities. In that day worship was often accompanied by another very specific act. The worshipper fell down before the one being worshipped. His posture indicated his humility, his subjection to the superior being.

Whatever it means Jesus put it TOTALLY inside of the HUMAN SPIRIT as it is devoted to the TRUTH. Jesus invited the twos and threes to COME LEARN OF ME. That is the meaning of WORSHIP almost totally used by Paul. This meant to GIVE HEED to the reading and discussion of the Word. Jesus built an ekklesia, synagogue or school of the Bible. The German word was SKUL. Thomas Campbell called it A School of Christ. Dunning and those seeing godliness as a means of financial gain have just INVENTED things like complex harmony which has no connection to Biblical melody. Because the professional rhetoricians, sOPHISts [serpents], singers and musicians WILL NOT give up their professions, Dunning is just whistling through the cemetary hoping that no one catches on. Nevertheless, he is wrong: Jesus, Paul and early history clearly defines WORSHIP but preaching and the musical presenter was "
one of the first heresies largely pervading the church."

The Gerizim temple worshiped like the "rising up to play" in the wilderness and condemned by Amos as identical to the star worship to which God abandoned Israel in the wilderness. The Jerusalem temple was permitted by God but it was also the place of animal sacrifices which supplied the Jews with the only rationale for instrumental noise. See how Amos condemned the CAPTIVITY AND DEATH sentence imposed because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.

Because these are "places" the worship in "spirit" is a place in the heart. As the Temple NAOS is the Holy Places and specifically The Most Holy Place, the Mind as the temple of Christ the Spirit is the NOUS.

When Israel committed musical idolatry at Mount Sinai, the people became "strangers" and the Levites kept them away from God's symbolic presence in the Synagogue and Temple. That is why the people's congregation never, never worship with "singing and instrumental accompaniment" in the temple.

After putting down the temples as places and therefore outlawing instrumental music which was "locked at the hip" to animal sacrifices, Paul says that "we can come boldly before the throne of Grace." In the type any musician or anyone else who tried to "go with the high priest" into the most holy places deserved death.

Dwaine E. Dunning: Especially in light of this actual meaning of the word Jesus used, it is hard to accept a claim that the only ways to acceptably worship God are the four "Acts of worship" in which early Jerusalem saints daily continued, plus the congregational singing we also want to call worship, which needs other "proof texts."

So true:
Jesus fired the doctors of the law because they 'take away the key to knowledge.' He fired the Pharisees because they TOOK LIBERTIES with the inspired Word so they could PEDDLE it. The Hypocrites were SECTARIAN performers: rhetoricians, sOPHISts (serpents in the book of Revelation), singers and musicians pretended to be sorcerers. In fact, the Greek resources all identify all PERFORMING RELIGIONISTS as PARASITES.

Paul recognized that a temple servant deserved his DAILY DOLE OF FOOD but only when he was on duty. However, because the MANY flooding the young church were trained speakers who wanted a WAGE, Paul identified even voluntary help as ROBBERY. You simply cannot PEDDLE the gospel which is GOOD NEWS in that it peels the burdens and burden laders off the back.

Jesus identified PRAYER as a personal thing: done at home. Oh, if you pray your PERSONAL prayer out loud Paul said that you should pray in the language of the area and not in your home dialect but people prayed FOR THEMSELVES.

Paul absolutely said to those who preach THE LAW OF GIVING that they are liars because you cannot do something free will and make it into a law.

Paul made it so clear that people have to WANT to misunderstand when he said in three places that the ACT is not SINGING or MAKING MELODY externally. Paul knew that worship was IN THE SPIRIT and therefore he used words like SPEAK, TEACH, ADMONISH. You simply cannot both SPEAK and SING externally at the same time. Both melody or psallo and singing had very destructive meanings: they PLEASURED you and LIFTED YOU UP. Both the odeing and lifting up or excitement are rooted in the word HERESY. The Levitical warrior musicians served (hard bondage) the priests and their PARASITE ritual meant to LIFT YOU UP TO CUT YOUR THROAT.

THIS LEAVES READING AND DIALOGING THE WORD. EVEN THE LORD'S SUPPER IS A SHOWING FORTH OR PREACHING ACTIVITY. THAT DEFINES THE SYNAGOGUE AND DUNNING IS CORRECT: THERE ARE NO OTHER ACTS OF WORSHIP. BUT THAT DOES NOT GIVE HIM THE RIGHT TO SOW DISCORD BY ADDING INSTRUMENTS WHICH WERE IDOLS OR THE HOMES OF IDOLS. Sure, the Catholics baptized pipe organs and "christians" dedicate them.

It is certain that singing modern songs violates direct commands but it does not DELIBERATELY SOW DISCORD.

Dwaine Dunning could prove that ALL of the acts were 100% wrong this would not change the Bible's universal condemnation of MUSIC in the attempt to worship a Spirit God. Nor could it relieve the fact that MUSIC was attached to prostitutes, Sodomites, telling God "we will not listen to your Word" and EVERY failure among the Jewis. It could not change the fact that the so called "Christian" church was the first in church history to use the Bible to try to find authority for what they needed no authority. This happened about 1878 as the war-enriched northern churches tried to CAPTIVATE "all of christendom" in an institution which was a Babylonian form of religious organization which demands music.

Now, here is where we do the "daring to dance with God in the holy place." If Christ made it totally clear that worship is in the 'holy place' or Mind and not in five acts (used by Dunning one suspects), Dwaine E. Dunning interprets that to mean that "because we have gone so far afield we are not restricted from going all the way and adding instrumental music."

Wouldn't one rationally say that if worship is "in our spirit in contact with God's Spirit through His Truth," we cannot put a musical band on wheels in "move them into the presence of God" along with us?

Remember that under the Law, a Levite could not go into the holy places. Musical adders make it clear that their teams are "Levitical Teams" after the Catholic Encyclopedia. A harp-playing Levite who tried to stroll into the dark, quiet place of His symbolic presence in the Word in the Ark under the Mercy Seat would have been immediately destroyed without God's protection.

Dwaine E. Dunning: The barrier to unity brought about by
our elevating tradition and opinion to the place of law needs correction so clear as to be not misunderstood.

Equating 100% of knowledge acknowledged by 100% of historical scholars to JUST OUR TRADITION is one of those BRANCHES of the terrible one. It falsely equates common Biblical knowledge-for those with eyes and ears-to human tradition and that blasphemes the Spirit. Dunning should take Paul's advice and TURN TO THE LORD and he would be amazed at what Scripture says so clearly that you need evil help to miss it.

Jesus is our King. His Word is law. Our ideas must never be imposed upon brethren as if they were His ideas or His commands. Though the use of worship as it is used to prohibit instrumental music "in worship" might conceivably be supported by our English definition of the word,

no such justification is found in the actual teaching of the Word.

Much of our teaching about "the worship" is founded on doubtful exegesis. Our theories may turn out to be a vain attempt to show proper respect and adoration to our Lord.

I have to repeat it for the slow ones: Jesus defined worship as in the NEW PLACE of the human spirit. IN TRUTH means according to Paul to GIVE HEED to the Words of Christ or "that which is written." That defines WORSHIP so that everyone can speak the same things by speaking and "teaching that which has been taught." If you cannot SEE that then you have missed the boat. To the practices of the JEWISH synagogue which outlawed music (Num 10 and all of Jewish history) Jesus added the Lord's Supper to the Christian Synagogue. ADDING something which is not absolutely necessary to carry out that worship is the meaning of SECTARIANISM. You do not NEED and cannot TOLERATE performance sermonizing and versifying silly, erotic praise songs without KNOWING AND WITH A HIGH HAND SOWING DISCORD.


NO ONE ever used the idea of WORSHIP to repudiate the deliberate sowing of discord by adding instruments. The clearly KNOWN FACT is that when you command SPEAKING you eleminate SINGING in an external sense. When you COMMAND "that which is written, the Spirit or the Word of Christ" you exclude--by common, minimal sanity--singing your OWN "inspired" text. When you put the MELODY (a warfare word) IN THE HEART or SPIRIT you put it exactly where Jesus put it. A priest might go into the Most Holy Place where the WORD as TRUTH was under the Mercy Seat. He might even "sing" the song of Moses but it would be IN THE SPIRIT.

MUSIC in all of its forms speaks of sexuality and sexual perversion of the pagan temples. "There is no exception" to the rule that all evidence and traditions give SATAN or LUCIFER credit for using instruments and singing to WHOLLY SEDUCE Eve and the rest. Lucifer was CAST OUT of heaven using the same word Jesus acted when He CAST OUT the musical minstrels who, by definition, would be prostitutes after the PRAISE or MOURING services were over.

What do we gain, If we can decide that 100% of the church of Christ system is totally flawed? This will not change the Biblical and historical facts about music. Therefore, it is true that they only way to get Bible believers off the back of people leading others or forcing others into musical worship is to kill us: strip the leaves, cut off the branches, cut off the trunk, grind up the stump and totally hack, hack, hack at the roots.

But, Biblical roots are hard to kills.

Even you you could wipe non conformist churches off the map the Bible would still be there shouting warnings to anyone with ears. But you cannot reject much of God's Word before He plugs your ears and blinds your eyes so that you cannot see. I know people who have allowed themselves to get so bitter because everyone one dance while they pipe that they truly may be beyond redemption. The fact that they cannot read the "musical" warning is pretty good proof.

Jesus cast out the Musical Mourning Team which was a carry over from Babylon in the Bible as one 'ejects dung' so that Jesus could perform physical healing. There are many places where Jesus repudiates the use of Music such as the Feast of Tabernacles water drawing and others. However, not even the PAGAN Jews were so VILE as to play the flute and other instruments on the Sabbath or OTHER holy days. Not even Jezebel would have permitted that. See how Al Maxey uses the "law of silence" to justify the use of MACHINES to worship a SPIRIT God.

Dwaine E. Dunning: The very "root" (which nourishes the tree through its trunk) of the impressive and ancient "tree" of anti-instrument doctrine is seen to be non-Scriptural.

Non instrumental churches DO NOT ADD anything to the view held for 2,000 years. NOTHING has been added and nothing subtracted. There is NO DEMAND that you have to do something HISTORY has held to be sinful in order to fellowship in a church of Christ.

The "worship" pattern so vigorously defended is not from God but rather is of human devising. At best, then, our teaching of "acceptable worship" reflects human ideas rather than any teaching or revelation from God. We claim to speak "where the Scriptures speak."

Yet in this matter, we do NOT say what the Word of God reveals is true.
Our doctrine comes instead from men.

Sorry, but I don't know how one eats and defecates--much less claiming to be THE AUTHORITY--and believe what the Bible and ALL of church history identifies as a lie. There simply can be no tolerance of such psychological violence expressed in the AXE MURDER PLOT.


The great leap by Dwaine E. Dunning is that because there is no "law" against instrumental music it can be added. Now, if there is no law against located evangelists then we can added them. There is no law for the "collection plate for the non-poor" so we can make up our own law. You have to have been sent STRONG DELUSIONS not to see that Lucifer or Satan as the Holy Whore used music to seduce people away from the Living Word and the Written Word. It needs no proving: Paul's unique WORSHIP word was to GIVE HEED to the Words of Christ. During preaching, singing, playing instruments and singing Fanny Crosby you are GIVING HEED to the preacher, the musicians (Sectarian Hypocrites) and the composer.

Paul said SING or rather SPEAK. Therefore, this comes from GOD and not man.

Downing says SING rather THAN speak. God did not say that. Therefore, Dunning uses the LAW OF SILENCE or he INFERS that music is so important that it is worth deliberately sowing discord.

Only to blinded people is there a total lack of anti-music in the Bible and church history. However, the Bible in many places sees MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS as the MARK which says: We WILL NOT listen to the Words of God. Music was one of the oldest, most ignorant superstitions that you could FORCE the gods to give you FERTILITY.

A PATTERN OF MUSICAL WORSHIP OF THE FERTILITY GOD........

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Job 21:7
........ Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Job 21: 8
........ Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. Job 21: 9
........ Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. Job 21: 10

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. Job 21: 11
........ They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. Job 21: 12
........ ........ They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Job 21: 13

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. Job 21: 14
........ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
........ and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? Job 21: 15

Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. Job 21: 16

Does Dunning imagine that they CAN worship in the ancient Babylonian fertility system IF they had a good mental attitude? No. Job defines this procedure as FALSE worship which tells God to GET LOST.

And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the Lord shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it. Isa 30:32

"Its (pipe = to love passionately) was apparently a secular instrument and is never listed in the temple orchestra;

only in Ps. 150:4 it is mentioned in a religious (but not ritual) function.

Its ethos (ethical character) was not blameless at all, ase we see from Genesis Rabbah 50: 'The angels said to Lot: 'There are players of the pipe (organ) in the country, hence it ought to be destroyed.'" Its rabbinical identification with the aboda, the flute of the notorious Syrian bayaderes (temple dancers), emphasizes the erotic element which already the Hebrew name suggests." (Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible, p. 460, Abingdon).

The FIRST sectarian, massive sowers of discord in the Restoraton Movement fully confessed that THERE IS PROFIT in musical instruments. One of the first Black Methodist groups to add instruments had bought a huge SANCTUARY but so many people left they could not pay for it. So, they decided to hold musical recitals with professionals to RAISE UP THE MONEY. People found it so pleasing and so profitable that they made instrumental music an ACT OF WORSHIP. Barton W. Stone probably found out the same about the practices of the Shouting Methodists where shouting was made into an act of worship.

Not intil 1878 did anyone in history MISuse psallo to justify the massive discord they had already sown by using the ORGAN and Life Members of the Missionary Society. This has a foundation beginning in heaven where Lucifer began to TRAFFICK in some spiritual world we do not understand. Being CAST AS PROFANE (a musical term) out of heaven he or most often showed up in the garden of Eden as the serpent meaning a MUSICAL ENCHANTER.

Here is a record of the earliest ferlity worship as the Babylon Harlot. It is the worship of the NATIONS or Goyim which Israel's elders demanded as they fired God. It is the ONLY authority and has the same AXE CHOPPING purpose promoting by Dunning and the unholy trinity of big agents:

Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee
........ by the walls and in the doors of the houses,

and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying,
........ Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the Lord. Ezek 33:30

And they come unto thee as the people cometh,
........ and they sit before thee as my people,
........ and they hear thy words,
........ ........ but they will not do them:

........ for with their mouth they shew much love,
........ ........ but their heart goeth after their covetousness. Ezek 33: 31

And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song [erotic praise song from Jubal's ORGAN]
........ of one that hath a pleasant voice,
........ and can play well on an instrument: [Nagan]
........ ........ for they hear thy words,
........ ........ but they do them not. Ezek 33: 32

And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,)
........ then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them. Ezek 33: 33

When you don't add instruments you do not take the liberty brother Dunning is demanding. You impose no Law of Silence replaced with a Law of Noise and say: "Take it or leave it and us."

Therefore, imposing Instruments defended by Bro. Dunning's Law of Silence, we impose a legal obligation which violates the informed conscience of any Bible student.

Again, we believe that this issue is fought out by all unauthorized "Scribes and Pharisees" who have no right to partake of the collection plate unless they are evangelists. Therefore, it is almost universally true that the book writers have never read the Old Testament's musical idolatry connection. Nor, do they have any intention of allowing the peace and quiet during "worship service" so that we can worship "in spirit" or our mind as the holy place where God's Spirit lives.

Dwaine E. Dunning: Any subject or idea can be non-Scriptural and still not be wrong, of course. But a use of the Lord's word which twists (perverts, changes) His meaning can be seen to be both non-Scriptural and also anti- Scriptural. It is possible that the ones who most sincerely desire to serve God "in spirit and truth" may be found actually
to be opposing Him no less than Saul of Tarsus was before the Lord spoke to him and he was made blind so that he later could see.

So now, NOT playing an instrument might actually be FIGHTING AGAINST Jesus Christ? The Holy One who cast out the minstrels like dung? or like Lucifer was cast as profane out of heaven along with his wine, string and percussion instruments?

The oldest and ONLY stories of how Satan seduced Jubal, Jabal, Tubal-Cain and Naamah to use music and weapons [handle without authority] shows that people are SEDUCED from the Word to music and they have fallen and there is NO RECORD of anyone ever recovering their sight and seeing LUCIFER as their female worship leader.


That is a fact. However, The
Spirit of Christ informed the prophets (1 Peter 1:11) and in that record and the actual encounter with instrumental music in the life of Jesus totally informs anyone looking for the "spirit" of Christ to see Him denouncing instrumental music. And why not, it was instrumental music the Jews used to try to defeat Jesus using the same musicians and instruments they used in warfare or battling "Beliar."

The TRIUMPH OVER or sexual pollution of Jesus attempted by the Jewish, Dionysus-worshiping, clergy implicates the JUDAS BAG which is pictured dozens of times in the Classical pottery.

To say MUSICAL WORSHIP in the world was to identify female prostitutes and Sodomites. There is no positive, spiritual value to something which stimulates "Fight, Flight or Sexuality." Be sure to look at passages at the top of Heredotus to see the universal association of music with sexuality in paganism.

Herodotus Histories

[1.23.1] Periander, who disclosed the oracle's answer to Thrasybulus, was the son of Cypselus, and sovereign of Corinth.

The Corinthians say (and the Lesbians agree) that the most marvellous thing that happened to him in his life was the landing on Taenarus of Arion of Methymna, brought there by a dolphin.

This Arion was a lyre-player second to none in that age; he was the first man whom we know to compose and name the dithyramb (dance music associated with cult of Dionysus) which he afterwards taught at Corinth.

When, say, Homer wrote a poem the ONLY way to honor Homer was to read or recite exactly what Homer wrote.

The unique contribution of the LESBIANS was that they set Homer to a tune and added instrumental music. In that, their music was just as perverted as the women performers who gave their name to homosexuality

The Greeks use the same name "Curetes" for the ministers of the goddess, not taking the name, however, from the same mythical story (Cretan Curetes), but regarding them as a different set of "Curetes," helpers as it were, analogous to the Satyri; and the same they also call Corybantes.

Strabo agreed:

[10.3.13] The poets bear witness to such views as I have suggested. For instance,

when Pindar, in the dithyramb which begins with these words, In earlier times there marched (drawled) the lay of the dithyrambs long drawn out,

mentions the hymns sung in honor of Dionysus, both the ancient and the later ones, and then, passing on from these, says,

To perform the prelude in thy honor, great Mother,

the whirling of cymbals is at hand, and among them,
also, the
clanging of castanets,
and the torch that blazeth beneath the tawny pine-trees,

(The booms and clangs of 1 Cor. 13-14 related to speaking in tongues)

he bears witness to the common relationship between the rites exhibited in the worship of Dionysus
among the Greeks and those in the worship of the Mother of the gods among the Phrygians, f
or he makes these rites closely akin to one another.

Dwaine E. Dunning: A misleading and inaccurate use of the term "worship" has been used for a century and more by good men who have argued against Christian use of musical instruments "in worship." They have based their arguments and doctrines on this foundation of sand. The teaching is not from God.

The system of doctrine built around an anti-instrument law was developed by men specifically to provide worship rules never set up by the Lord.

How is it that Dunning ignores all of history and blames NOT using instruments to SPEAK or TEACH "that which is written" with one MIND and one MOUTH as a new doctrine to, as Pharisees, GET AROUND the rules set up by the Lord. Let us see Dunning get a HARP into the MIND of a person. Isn't it the INNOVATION where "melody as tunefulness" was discovered at the same time Dunning etal ADDED instruments to FILL THE COFFERS?


Again, disrespect for the Revealed Word and not just the New Testament and the stated confession by some of having no interest in the history which reaches from Paul to them, allows one to hallucinate and believe that the churches of Christ suddenly invented an anti-instrumental and anti-scriptural bunch of Pharisees, Sectarians, Hypocrites and Legalists.

This total ignorance among the "unauthorized clergy" is so mind-shattering that we cannot fully grasp how people can claim, against Christ's demand, to be teachers over the flock. The only ethical thing for Dunning to do would be to STOP what we all agree had little or nothing to the ekklesia or Synagogue Christ built as a "school of the Bible" where burden laden people could come in twos and threes to "learn of me."

It is as if God and his ten thousand member army was standing invisibly on the threshold coming for, according to the Book of Enoch and its companion writings, those fallen angels who ignored God's Word, replaced it with music and for abortionists.

The concept of "worship" is no less the rotten root of the pro-instrumentalists. They just claim to be "High Church" according to Alfred T. Degroote which gives them the authority to change the "old" Bible in order, like the Pharisees, to meet the demands of the "modern mind."

Dwaine E. Dunning: As should be expected, its fruit has been an ever- growing number of "true church" groups, each of which assumes IT is the original Church of Christ to which men must belong in order to please God and go to Heaven. Each of these sub-sects refuses fellowship to the other sects which also accept their anti-instrument law but which differ on other unscriptural human laws. It can be seen that the "Music" (anti-musical-instrument) tree produces bitter fruit.

Shall it not be cut down so that a good tree might grow in its place?

Dunning also refuses fellowship EXCEPT on his terms of attempting to worship to the Mark of Baal (Luther). HE will not allow YOU to participate in HIS group other than to attend and put something into the UNLAWFUL collection plate.


Unity movements such as led by Victor Knowles, "knowles" from the very beginning that UNITY is not the goal: the goal is that those who believe that attempting to worship a SPIRIT God with "body worship" are being INFILTRATED and DIVERTED into becomming "Christian" churches. Dunning, Downen and Knowles know absolutely that UNITY means that you have to CAPITULATE to my false and truly idolatrous view of worship.

This sounds like James Madison: "You can settle a dispute by logic or you can kill your enemy." Machiavelli said that you can "change them by prayer or force but prayer rarely works."

J. W. McGarvey noting the universal fruit of bitterness introduced every time instruments were forced (including among Jews and Catholics):

Were I of those who think that the propriety of using instrumental music in the church is a question of expediency, I would have much to say in proof that it is inexpedient.

I would point to the bitter fruits that it has borne throughout its whole history; and thus, after the Savior's precept,

I would judge the tree by its fruit; but as I have placed the issue on higher ground, I will not enter into this part of the discussion.

So, just how does Dwaine Dunning propose to "cut down" the congregational singing groups so a GOOD instrumental church can grow in its place?

The usual method is called the Guilt Clause. They used it on J. W. McGarvey when they forced him to leave or submit.

Clement of Alexandria: Now their assertion is reduced to absurdity,

if they shall say that the cause of the wound is not the dart,
but the
shield, which did not prevent the dart from passing through;
let them know, that that which does not prevent what we assert to
have taken place in the theft, is not a cause at all;

but that what prevents is involved in the accusation of being a cause. Joe Beam etal "those who resisted forced introduction of instruments are the sectarians."

Blaming those who refused to submit to the forced introduction of instruments into THEIR churches usually by outsiders for being sectarian, dividers, hypocrites, Pharisees, legalists is about as close to literal violence as one can get without going to prison: but be sure that God will find you out.

Non-instrumental groups always existed and many died. However, the Catholic Encyclopedia agrees with the churches of Christ. However, as High Churches like the Disciples, they had the authority to make the changes but confessed that it was for financial reasons.

How could continuing to do what your spiritual ancestors had refused to do for two thousand years make one guilty of division because they refused to be forced.

From preachers who claim to be fathers or authoritative teachers we simply cannot accept this as just blind ignorance: we have no choice but to see it as a violent attack upon those who will not do what was historically identified as a Satanic attack.

Dwaine E. Dunning: Look at the stresses on just one of the "approved acts of worship," which is the observance of the Lord's Supper.

Psallo along with ALL musical terms and names of instruments point directly to the Devil. NONE speak of music as a SPIRITUAL force but of STRESS. Modern science and Nimrod know that music produces STRESS like hearing the TWANG of a bow string sending a SINGING arrow or Apollo's BOW sending you a love arrow. This STRESS damages the body which produces endorphins which creates the impulses of FIGHT, FLIGHT or SEXUALITY.

Some who are anti-instrument demand that only one cup be used for the fruit of the vine. Some one-cuppers demand that the "cup" must have a handle so it won't be confused with a glass. Some demand only one loaf for the Lord's table. Some specify that the presider must publicly break up the one loaf so it can afterward be distributed to the various ones partaking. Some feel that the bread must be of local manufacture, and entirely unleavened. Division is promoted and demanded over use of fermented or unfermented fruit of the vine. Some contend that the Supper must only be served in the Sunday morning service,and never on Sunday night or any other day of the week.

SOME beat their wives and LUST to have the Sister Singers up front but don't dare. Some even fall for the notion that NOT trying to worship a Spirit God with the instruments which appeal to the LUST OF THE EARS is JUST YOUR EVIL TRADITION.


Why is Dwaine Dunning using guilt by association to DAMN everyone who will not BOW when the clergy Piped? Jesus didn't and neither will any one who grasps the meaning of worship IN THE PLACE of the human spirit. If Dunning is correct--as he implies--that
NOT using instruments somehow causes you to interpret CUP as container rather than CONTENT, then can we say that worshipping the music and musician (giving heed to) CAUSES one to interpret IN THE SPIRIT as ENTHUS O MANIA or madness in the SENSES? Does listening to the clanks and twangs and the 'chist of whistles' cause Dunning to look at SPEAK but sees SING? Does it cause him to look at IN THE HEART or SPIRTI and see WITH THE MOUTH?

Some "instrumentalists" are obsessed with trying to FORCE everyone to AFFIRM that their sin of adding music and their sin of DELIBERATELY SOWING DISCORD but that does not make everyone who listens to instruments evil.

Rubel Shelly equates the non-instrumentalists to fire bombers and Joe Beam identifies them as Zealots who were the assassins as in "Judas Sicarri." They understood the guilt clause. They loved to join the mass meetings which Jesus never called.

They slipped up on the enemy they had a "contract on" and stabbed him in the back.

They, they pointed somewhere else and shouted: "Murder, foul murder, catch the murderer."

Again, Judas carried the thief's bag as part of the flute case worn by the perverted agents of Dionysus who are implicated in the "piping" to try to force Jesus to sing and dance.

What possible connection is there between cuppers and the instrumental music issue? The cuppers were a natural product of the clergy crawling on the backs of widows and orphans.

However, none of these people invented the non-use of instruments in worship. Instruments were not in the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian or Congregational churches. Instruments had never been in churches not controlled by or under the influence of Catholicism.

Therefore, it is pure trickery to equate the non use of instruments to other "traditions" the writer may not agree with but has no authority to destroy.

Dwaine E. Dunning: Each of these particulars is made a test of fellowship by particular congregations and individuals within the fellowship of the Anti- instrumental-music Church of Christ. I observe that the root of all these problems is our misunderstanding of Christian worship. It would seem that each of the two dozen or more splits within the "Church of Christ" (anti-instrument) branch of the Restoration Movement is the result of extending "worship" arguments to what is considered by each segment to be logical conclusions.

When Paul told the Romans: "Don't pleasure yourselves, which points to anything which creates mental excitement or STRESS. The speak with ONE MIND and ONE MOUTH 'that which is written' you don't need no Phd in the Ministry [doctor of slavery] to be able to hear SPEAK as SPEAK and not SING. One mouth can be heard as UNISON and not HARMONY without a "workshop of evil." "That which is written" can be equated to the Words of Christ because HE said "My words are Spirit and they are life."

You EXTEND this only if you tell Jesus: "We WILL pleasure ourselves" which has a musical and sexual connotation. YOU gave us an approved example by CASTING OUT the musical minstrels as one casts out DUNG or as Lucifer was CAST AS PROFANE out of heaven BUT we WE GONNA bring the MUSICAL MINSTRELS in off the streets and make YOU listen while they LEAD you into the presence of God.


It seems fair to conclude that Dwaine Dunning IS NOT going to fellowship those who insist that the CUP must have a handle. If he would not, then how is Dunning any different from those who don't care if you use a GLASS?

The false implication is that there have been no splits in the Pro-instrumental faction. One might say that the Disciples have purged the musical group so that most of the divisiveness has been consumed by the denominational world.

What is more divisive by the instrumentalists is a very venomous attack against the persons of non-instrumental churches. This, too, is understandable based on all of the evidence we have about music and the Enoch connection: when the people fell for instrumental music they knew that they had a problem.

However, because misery loves company, the instrumentalists used every ploy in the world to try to force everyone else to become instrumental. A later translation is here. It is the same story told in the Book of Jubilees.

Speaking of the instrumental music in worship condemned by Amos and others:

"The marzeah had an extremely long history extending at least from the 14th century B.C. through the Roman period. In the 14th century B.C., it was prominently associated with the ancient Canaanite city of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra), on the coast of Syria... The marzeah was a pagan ritual that took the form of a social and religious association... Some scholars regard the funerary marzeah as a feast for--and with--deceased ancestors (or Rephaim, a proper name in the Bible for the inhabitants of Sheol)." (King, Biblical Archaeological Review, Aug, 1988, p. 35, 35)

THE FIVE ACTS OF PAGAN WORSHIPING.

"These five elements are: (1) reclining or relaxing, (2) eating a meat meal, (3) singing with harp or other musical accompaniment, (4) drinking wine and (5) anointing oneself with oil." (King, p. 37).

"With the wine-drinking (which is the literal meaning of the Hebrew for feasting), went music and dancing." (Heaton, E. W., Everyday Life in Old Testament times, Scribners, p. 93)

"Worship was form more than substance; consequently, conduct in the marketplace was totally unaffected by worship in the holy place. Amos spoke from the conviction that social justice is an integral part of the Mosaic covenant, which regulates relations not only between God and people, but also among people." (King, p. 44).

"In pagan traditions, musical instruments are invented by gods or demi-gods, such as titans. In the Bible, credit is assigned to antediluvian patriarchs, for example, the descendants of Cain in Genesis 4:21. There is no other biblical tradition about the invention of musical instruments." (Freedman, David Noel, Bible Review, Summer 1985, p. 51)

The word HANDLE associated with Jubal means "without authority." Therefore, Jubal and his soothsaying family introduced instruments WITHOUT GOD'S AUTHORITY. In the ancient stories such as THE BOOK OF ENOCH it is Satan who has intruduced music into the child Genun who is Jubal or Yukon.

Dwaine E. Dunning: The root which nourishes the trunk which supplies life to the tree is their misunderstanding of worship.
It's past time we took appropriate action to restore ourselves to the church as the Lord wants it.
The basic error must be corrected.

John Calvin defines HIS reformation as a Restoration Movement. He CAST OUT the musical instruments as one CASTS OUT DUNG. Zwingli was the more forceful. Dunning etal want to RESTORE the music of the Catholic church. But, they should be aware that the CATHOLIC churches never went as far as the Christian church. Rather, the organ played preludes, interludes and introduced psalms [like a pitch pipe, you know] but they DID NOT sing and play at the same time. When the organ was permitted in churches the CONGREGATION WAS SILENCED. That was the patternism of the Sacrificial System. When you heard the loud NOISE you fell on your face OUTSIDE the gates and didn't open your trap.

Dunning and team have RESTORED something which never existed even in the vilest pagan temples. So, we don't say RESTORED but PROFANED.

In Matthew 3:10 and in Luke 3:9, John the Baptist is quoted as speaking of an axe being laid at the root of every tree which does not bring forth good fruit.

The bad trees must go. If the fruit is bad, the tree is bad, and
there comes a time when that tree should not be left alive.

Tell, us Mr. Dunning, just WHAT FRUIT has becoming a musical sectarian produced except the ALWAYS PREDICTED massive sowing of discord so the ill-attended "worship" service could become a MONEY TREE?

The Bible states and all of church history agrees that LUCIFER taught men how to use musical instruments to STEAL the property of others, to kill them, to CHARM them out of their "pants" and "panties" with music as enchantment. The DEVIL created instruments to overpower mankind's EMOTIONAL NATURE.

On the other hand, God provided the SEVEN SPIRITS of supernatural knowledge (Isaiah 11:1f)

Therefore, Paul said that OUR SACRIFICES are the FRUIT OF THE LIPS.

I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off,
........ and to him that is near, saith the Lord;
........ and I will heal him. Is.57:19

Remember that Jesus CAST OUT the musical team before He could do His SPIRITUAL healing. Like dung He did. This is because the singers and musicians were up to their eyeballs in blood and dung as the did service (hard bondage or Abad or Abadown) to the priests killing tens of thousands of innocent animals as their PAGAN PATTERNISM of crucifying Chris as they did when they FIRED GOD and demanded a human king so they could WORSHIP LIKE THE NATIONS. In Athens, the same city officials regulated the flute-girls [prostitutes], the dung heap and the cemetary.

The dung was CAST OUT of the temple and burned and this is where they CAST OUT Jesus and murdered Him with the prophesied MUSICAL MOCKING. Therefore,

HERE IS HOW BELIEVERS FILLED WITH A HOLY SPIRIT WORSHIP GOD NOT IN FABRICATED PLACES WITH A PRIESTLY CAST.

Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp,
........ bearing his reproach. Heb 13:13

For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. Heb 13:14

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, }
........ that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name. Heb.13:15

But to do good and to communicate forget not: f
........or with such sacrifices God is well pleased. Heb 13:16

Of all earthly AGENTS indwelled by the "spirit" of Lucifer, the FALSE BRANCH meaning "singing with musical instruments" Isaiah prophesied that they would go out to this same PLACE OF BURNING which was the "king's music grove" and then became the type of hell itself:

Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms [maggots]cover thee. Is.14:11

That great Babylon Whore, the facilitator of musical worship, sexuality, homosexuality and the GATES OF HELL is about to be CAST OUT AS PROFANE.

And a mighty angel took up a stone [lithos stumbling] like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon [Chaldee=sounding brass, tyranny from wormwood, bitterness] be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. Rev 18:21

Whoa! CAST is:

Ballo (g906) bal'-lo; a prim. verb; to throw (in various applications, more or less violent or intense): - arise, cast (out), * dung, lay, lie, pour, put (up), send, strike, throw (down), thrust. Comp. 4496.

And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Mt.3:10

Christ the Holy Spirit uses the AXE to cast out like dung the MUSICAL TRIBE and that is why you MUST believe that the AXE SWINGERS do not have the Spirit of Christ which is A holy spirit. Christ will come with a rod of iron and it is not going to be pretty. Violence is:

Hormema (g3731) hor'-may-mah; from 3730; an attack, i.e. (abstr.) precipitancy: - violence.

And the voice of harpers, and musicians [the MUSES served Apollo, Abaddon or Apollyon], 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

Craftsmen are the KORESH in Genesis or the fabricators, theater builders and stage managers. The GRINDERS of the millstones were PROSTITUTES who had their legs spread SEEKING cusomers. The millstone was perforated and therefore called polluted or a pipe. The sound of the millstone was a MUSICAL sound by which the musicl prostitutes could be found.

They are identified as Scribes, Pharisees and the SECT of the Hypocrites. In the Greek literature, rhetoricians, sOPHISts (serpents), singers and musicians performed the useless task of SORCERY. That is why they were ALL identified as parasites: eating up the homes of widows.


The king of Tyre as the 'singing and harp playing prostitute' or Lucifer is actually recorded to have tried to force
MUSIC on Wen Amun. When that didn't work, LUCIFER'S last resort would be MURDER.

Ray is trying to make this apply to a "denomination" or to a non-Biblical belief. However, this had to do with the marks of repentance which must apply to John's baptism:

Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Luke 3:7

Remember the PAGAN WORSHIP condemned in Job [above]

And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like? Luke 7:31

They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept. Luke 7:32

Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. Luke 3:8

And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Luke 3:9

God's Axe means: to break asunder [discord] to disrupt, lacerate; by impl. to convulse (with spasms); figurative to give vent to joyful emotions: - break (forth), burst, rend, tear

Did you notice that God would destroy Egypt, Assyria and Israel to the BEAT of joyful musical instruments?

Who is it lord that you are going to TAKE AN AXE to and CAST into the fires of HELL?

Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. Isaiah 14:9

All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? Isaiah 14:10

Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms [maggots] cover thee. Isaiah 14:11

God never condemns people for just SPEAKING His words in songs and sermons! He assuredly often says that those who use pomp to sow discord will go back into hell to burn and rot on a bed of maggots along with their harps and harpists.

The VIPERS imitated or may have been actual descendants of Cain. The word Cain speaks of a MUSICAL NOTE. His descendants spoiled the world and brought on the flood. Immediately after the flood the SEED OF SATAN were not drowned because they are not of the same species.

It is an impossiblity to love Christ and HIS WORDS by substituting sermonizing, versifying and musical performance to REPLACE His earned role to LEAD YOU INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD. You cannot LOVE theatrical performers PRETENDING TO sell you WORSHIP and love God at the same time. It cannot be done and THAT is the motive for music whose FATHER is Satan in "worship."

Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. John 8:42

Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. John 8:43

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. John 8:44

The devil was WORSE than an AXE MURDERER: he/she could cut down and destroy your spirit to rest on a bed of maggots along with his or your VIOLES as the image of hell itself.

And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. John 8:45
........Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? John 8:46
........ ........ He that is of God heareth Gods words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. John 8:47

ALL so-called MUSICAL WORSHIP was of the threskia kind. This was invented by Orpheus and the other musical- sexual "gods." Their WORSHIP was to PLEASURE THEMSELVES with the CHARISMATIC or musical arts which automatically included homosexual activity. See the meaning of musical-charismatic.

Epithumêtês , oi, ho, one who longs for or desires, neôterôn ergôn Hdt.7.6 ; [dogmatôn] And.4.6; ergôn Lys.12.90 ; timês, sophias, Pl.R.475b, etc.; phusei polemou [Real or verbal war] e. Arist.Pol.1253a6; kakôn 1 Ep.Cor.10.6 ; allotriôn BGU531 ii 22 (ii A.D.).

2. . abs., lover, follower, X.Mem.1.2.60.
b. . one who
lusts, LXX Nu.11.34.

Sophia cleverness or skill in handicraft and art, as in carpentry [The techne working along with the musicians for the holy prostitute in Revelation 18:11 were craftsmen: stage managers and house builders]

of Hephaestus (Zoe who forced the "minor, ignorant jehovah" to form a musical worship band to worship HER)-- and Athena. In music and singing, in divination, cunning, shrewdness, craft. Click to see the Sophia-Zoe as the anti-Jehovah feminist introducer of music: Zoe is Lucifer.

4. among the Jews, archê sophias phobos (Lord Apollo, Abaddon, Apollyon, fear] Kuriou LXX Pr.1.7 , cf. Jb.28.28, al.; Sophia, recognized first as an attribute of God, was later identified with the Spirit of God, cf. LXX Pr.8 with Si.24sq.

"See how they sang! 'That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of music, like David.' Musical sounds gratified their AURICULAR SENSIBILITIES, and they chanted to the 'viol.' Here is the LUST OF THE EAR What a description this of a people that lived and wrought entirely for the SENSES! They were practical MATERIALISTS (and idolaters). They had NO SPIRITUAL VISION, sensibilities, or experience. Their imperishable souls were submerged in the deep flowing sea of mere ANIMAL PLEASURE There is, indeed, a reference to intellectual effort, for it is said, 'they invented to themselves instruments of music.' Carnal INDULGENCIES has ever been and is now as much, if not more than ever, the great employer of man's inventive faculties." (Pulpit Commentary, The Book of Amos, p. 131).

"An artificial, EFFEMINATE music which should relax the soul, frittering the melody, and displacing the power and majesty of divine harmony by tricks of ART, and giddy, thoughtless, heartless, souless VERSIFYING would be meet company." (Barnes, Albert, Amos, p. 303).

Hêdonê hêdonais charizesthai, to give way to pleasure,

2. concrete, a pleasure, S.El. 873 (pl.), Ar.Nu.1072 (pl.); hêdonai tragêmatôn sweetmeats, Sopat. 17.
3. Pl., desires after pleasure, pleasant lusts, X.Mem.1.2.23, Ep.Tit.3.3, al.

Hêdonikos , ê, on,
A. of or for hêdonê, pleasurable, Chrysipp. Tyan. ap. Ath. 14.647d; bios hê. Arist. ap. D.L.5.31.
II. hoi hê. the voluptuaries, of the Cyrenaic school of philosophers, Ceb.13, Ath.13.588a; hê hê. hairesis Gal.Libr.Propr.16 ; epi sôphrosunês ouchi hê. legetai ho huperballôn all' akolastos Asp.in EN53.19 . Adv. -kôs Procl. in Prm. p.521S.

Hairesis ,

Immediately after the flood Clement nots the universal story of music:

"But when all these things were done, men turned again to impiety; [There is a similar chapter in Homily IX. 7, but in a discourse: on the following day.-R.] and on this account a law was given by God to instruct them in the manner of living.

But in process of time, the worship of God and righteousness were corrupted by the unbelieving and the wicked, as we shall show more fully by and by.

Moreover, perverse and erratic religions were introduced, to which the greater part of men gave themselves up,
by occasion of holidays and solemnities, instituting drinkings and banquets,

following pipes, and flutes, and harps, and diverse kinds of musical instruments, and indulging themselves in all kinds of drunkenness and luxury.

Hence every kind of error took rise; hence they invented groves and altars, fillets and victims, and after drunkenness they were agitated as if with mad emotions.

By this means power was given to the demons to enter into minds of this sort, so that they seemed to lead insane dances and to rave like Bacchanalians; hence were invented the gnashing of teeth, and bellowing from the depth of their bowels; hence a terrible countenance and a fierce aspect in men, so that he whom drunkenness had subverted and a demon had instigated, was believed by the deceived and the erring to be filled with the Deity.

Chapter VII.-Sacrificial Orgies.

"But they did not cease to worship images, by reason of the evil intelligence of the magicians, who found excuses for them, which had power to constrain them to the foolish worship For, establishing this things by magical ceremonies, they assigned them feasts from sacrifices, libations, flutes, and shoutings,

by means ofj which senseless men, being deceived, and their kingdom being taken from them, yet did not desist from the worship that they had taken up with.

To such an extent did they prefer error, on account of its pleasantness, before truth.

They also howl after their sacrificial surfeit, their soul from the depth, as it were by dreams, forewarning them of the punishment that is to befall such deeds of theirs.

Next, of course Dwaine E. Dunning is not the Incarnate of the Universe. God has not given his unfruitful tree the authority to hack down my unfruitful tree.

This makes a doctrinal teaching depend totally upon whether it creates spiritual beings who measure up to my standard: truth is truth and is beyond judging by feel mankind who turns truth upside down.

Furthermore, one doubts that not using instruments and teaching against the practice makes one a member in a generation of vipers. The viper or snake, in fact, was the symbol of Babylon and the "whispering, ringing" serpent in the garden of Eden. The terms are associated to the "ringing of bell metal" used in cymbals and trumpets.

The loud noise was not something a common Jew could participate in: sacrifices with the added "noise" to mitigate the horrors of sin was for the clergy which must CARRY THE BURDEN for the people's sin at Sinai.

You remember that when Daniel would not bow when the instrumental music sounded in Babylon, they tried to literally put him to death.

The name calling and personal attack against those who refuse to either practice or condone the "phallic worship of Babylon" is just short of physical violence: one who would practice psychological violence must surely be watched closely.

As prophesied in Psalm 41 Jesus was not be "triumphed over." This word means "to blow wind instruments and to make a great rejoicing sound before the Lord." This was suitable for signaling or panicking the enemy. However, it was outlawed for the assembly (Numbers 10:7)

It was suitable for the prostitute religion of the literal or end time Babylon (Rev 18) but a Daniel will not bow as Jesus would not dance.

Now, let's see if the "spirit of Jesus" gives authority for a Law of Silence to add instruments:

> The Judas Bag was for carrying parts of wind instruments. He was a thief and agent of Satan.

> The Jew were accused of being children in the "marketplace" piping and trying to get Jesus to do the Dionysus choral dance and sing the lamenting songs. Jesus would not dance. With musical instruments they were mocking Him.

> The Jewish clergy were children of Satan and the offspring of vipers.

> In the Dead Sea Scroll translation of Psalm 41, the musical (triumph over) is spelled out clearly. In victory over the military music Jesus would praise God with the "instruments" of God which were his mouth and heart. Remember, too, that the musical Levites were under the king and "commander of the army" for civil-religious animal sacrifices and to "triumph" over the people by making even Jews slaves.

> Jesus hymned a Psalm but did not participate with instruments. And could not even as none of the non-clergy Jews could "sing congregationally" while the animals were screaming and the Levites made a "great crashing sound" to drown out the evil noises which God never commanded until Israel fell into musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.

> Jesus put the musical mourning team out "more or less violently" before healing the girl.

> The Spirit of Christ led Paul into all truth to define away external "music" which was a pagan word and speak or preach the Word of God to one another.

> Paul used the word psalmos so as to include the "first instrument of choice" as the fruit of the lips and thereby excluded all other instruments. If God had told you to "make melody with a Harp" then the Law of Silence would say: "But, He didn't say, 'Don't make melody upon a Zither.'" However, love for God would not permit you to use His Silence as authority to add a vocal band.

> When Jesus or the Spirit speaks to John in the book of Revelation the image of "harps" is the common symbolic language: musical instruments are for the dead who enjoy peace and have no more earthly responsibility. However, the message was for the living was "preach the gospel."

The living approaching the tombstones with instruments as gifts "for the dead" are never seen playing them.

Revelation 18 repeats the end-time form of Babylonian worship with what "the heart lusted after" including instrumental music. As the harps of the Lucifer version of the king of Babylon went into sheol and rotted on a bed of maggots, the end-time Babylon Prostitute religion would have her instruments silenced.

The "spirit of Christ" informed the early churches and they didn't dare introduce instruments for over 1250 years in a liturgical sense. As late as 1911 the instruments could still not be played in the Sistine Chapel. This is where, in the 1700s A cappella was invented to form an "organic" pipe organ out of castrated boys who like all priestly musicians were USED in more than musical ways.

It is just too bad that people who claim to be the authorities who will listen to no evidence have leapfrogged the Bible and all of church history to heap the blame game on people who will simply not practice instrumental "worship" nor participate where instruments are used with the claim of authority.

Dwaine E. Dunning: If I am right that the worship

arguments designed to resist the use of instrumental music in public services of the church
are directly and specifically responsible for
virtually
all the other divisions within our battered, tattered and scattered unity movement,

then the needed cure might be seen to be to straighten up and measure our restoration against what the Lord actually says about worship.



But the premise is a LIE.
Dunning is wrong about the whole MUSIC issue: it is symptomatic of DELUSION to hallucinate that the OWNERS of a house are DIVISIVE because they refuse to live in it any longer when someone brings a skunk to live in the "jointly-held property" so that NO ONE can bow to Baal and remain. Simply by LEAVING Dunning etal pretends that people are divisive. This is not within the realm of SPEAKING RANGE to Jesus who hides the truth from those who DO NOT love the truth.

You have to wonder why NOT playing instruments creates all of the DIVISION in the world when the Bible clearly says that it is the instrumentalists as agents of Satan who will return to HELL along with their musical instruments. How would Dunning prove that SPEAKING the revealed Words of Christ as they have been taught causes division. Every one can grasp that it is IMPOSING instruments from Satan which sowed the discord, deliberately and with a high hand.

I watched a commun service just tonight where they ALL drank out of one chalice. The MARK or symbol of the Disciples is the WINE CHALICE. ALL people were ONE CUPPERS and ANTI-instrumental forever. Whether they are correct or not, the MULTIPLE CUPS were added by a COMMERCIAL INTEREST and the preachers probably GOT A CUT. Right or wrong, it is always ADDING something not absolutely necessar for cummunion which sows discord.

How can resisting a pagan ritual which has been UNIVERSALLY resisted for many reasons create DIVISION? ONLY the addition of heretical, non-required ACTS OF WORSHIP is responsible for virtually all the other divisions. To say otherwise is to prove that God has poked out eyes and ears.

The very meaning of HERESY implicates instrumental music! The notion of MUSICAL WORSHIP is pagan and includes SHOOTING HYMNS as one SHOOTS ARROWS: the intention whether Dunning grasps it or not INTENDS to hurt people so that they CANNOT hear the quiet whispr of the voice of God.

Haireo and related words show that it means to choose to take over stolen property by lifting it up and carrying it away. Heresy, therefore, identifies the kleptomaniac. It means that they will lie, cheat and steal: only the law keeps them from killing you. The word aireô further defines heresy in the sense of LIFTING up for your own purposes.

The word aeidô which is parallel to Aeirô shows that the weapon or "instrument" of creating panic in order to steal as a heretic is:

to sing, then of any sound, to twang, of the bowstring, to whistle, of the wind, to ring, of a stone struck.

Aeido is frequently used with tettix which is the LOCUST in the book of Revelation as "musical performers."

The Greek word Heresy from Liddell and Scott:

Haireô means "to take with the hand, grasp, hair. To take by force, to take a city, Il., etc.; to overpower, kill, often of passions, to take, catch, as in hunting, hairein tina kleptonta to convict of theft. To take for oneself. Another form means: take with the hand, grasp, seize as in the Komo or naked dance. Having taken up [the song].

Remember that God's Axe means: to break asunder [discord] to disrupt, lacerate; by impl. to convulse (with spasms); figurative to give vent to joyful emotions: - break (forth), burst, rend, tear

The Muses were taught by Apollo. Homer quotes: "So he spoke, and the minstrel, moved by the god, began, and let his song be heard, taking up the tale. This is specificially related to ZOE who replaces Jesus today. Hesiod shows how the heresy meant to CHOOSE to take up some one's property using music and Apollo's shooting arrows.

Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity: Psa 64:2

Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows
to
shoot their arrows,
even
bitter words: Psa 64:3

I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. Isaiah 50:6
6] corpus meum dedi percutientibus et genas meas vellentibus faciem meam non averti ab increpantibus et conspuentibus

Marat (h4803) maw-rat'; a prim. root; to polish; by impl. to make bald (the head), to gall (the shoulder); also, to sharpen: - bright, furbish, (have his) hair (be) fallen off, peeled, pluck off (hair).

Vello , vulsi, vulsum A. Of animals, to pluck or pull, i. e. to deprive of the hair, feathers, B. Of things.
1. In gen., to pluck, pull, or tear out, away, or up; in simple const
Especially: c. To pull, twitch, etc.: aurem, Verg. E. 6, 4 

To pull, twitch, etc.: aurem, Verg. E. 6, 4
Vergil Ecologues 6 to Varus
first my Thalia stooped in sportive mood
to Syracusan strains, nor blushed within
the woods to house her. When I sought to tell
of battles and of kings, the Cynthian god
plucked at mine ear and warned me: “Tityrus,
beseems a shepherd-wight to feed fat sheep,
but sing a slender song.” Now, Varus, I--
for lack there will not who would laud thy deeds,
and treat of dolorous wars--will rather tune
to the slim oaten reed my silvan lay.
I sing but as vouchsafed me; yet even this
if, if but one with ravished eyes should read,
of thee, O Varus, shall our tamarisks
and all the woodland ring; nor can there be
a page more dear to Phoebus, than the page
where, foremost writ, the name of Varus stands.
Vello continued: II. Trop., to tear, torment: 
A. Lit., shorn, plucked, smooth, beardless, hairless: istum gallum [emasculated priests] Glabriorem reddes mihi quam volsus ludiust, [a stage-player, pantomimist] Plaut. Aul. 2, 9, 6 : vulsi levatique et inustas comas acu comentes, Quint. 2, 5, 12 : corpus vulsum, id. 5, 9, 14 : eadem (corpora) si quis vulsa atque fucata muliebriter comat, id. 8 , prooem. 19: nepos, Prop. 4 (5), 8, 23.--

Galli or Click Here

singular GALLUS, priests, often temple attendants or wandering mendicants, of the ancient Asiatic deity, the Great Mother of the Gods, known as Cybele, or Agdistis, in Greek and Latin literature. The galli were eunuchs attired in female garb, with long hair fragrant with ointment.

Together with priestesses, they celebrated the Great Mother's rites with wild music and dancing until their frenzied excitement found its culmination in self-scourging, self-laceration, or exhaustion. Self-emasculation by candidates for the priesthood sometimes accompanied this delirium of worship.

The name galli may be Phrygian, from the two streams called Gallus, both tributaries of the Sangarius (now Sakarya) River, the waters of which were said to inspire religious frenzy.

Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him, 1 Co.11:14

but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering. 1 Cor 11:15

2. Trop., effeminate: mens, Mart. 2, 36, 6

Sam 6:21 And David said unto Michal,
............ It was before the Lord, which chose me before thy father,
............ and before all his house,
............ to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord, over Israel:
............ therefore will I play before the Lord.

Latin Play: ludiust, [a stage-player, pantomimist]

lu-do B. To play, sport, frisk, frolic an ad pugnandum,

pugno , a-vi, a-tum, 1, v. n. and very rarely

I. a. [root pug-, to thrust, strike, whence pugil, pungo, etc.], to fight, either singly or in armies, to combat, give battle, engage, contend (very freq. and class.).

A. To sport, play with any thing, to practise as a pastime, amuse one's self with any thing: illa ipsa ludens conjeci in communes locos, Cic. Par. prooem.: Prima Syracosio dignata est ludere versu Nostra ... Thalia, Verg. E. 6, 1 .--Esp., to play on an instrument of music, to make or compose music or song:

B. To sport, dally, wanton (cf. "amorous play," Milton, P. L. 9, 1045): scis solere illam aetatem tali ludo ludere, Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 36 : affatim edi, bibi, lusi, Liv. Andron. ap. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. affatim, p. 11 Müll.; cf.: lusisti satis, edisti satis, atque bibisti, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 214 ; Ov. A. A. 2, 389; Cat. 61, 207; Suet. Tib. 44; Mart. 11, 104, 5.-

Homer To the Pythian Apollo (Abaddon, Apollon who USES the MUSES of Revelation 18:22) about the destruction of Charismatic music

182-206 - Leto"s (mother of Apollo) - all-glorious son goes to rocky Pytho, playing upon his hollow lyre, clad in divine, perfumed garments; and at the touch of the golden key his lyre sings sweet.

Thence, swift as thought, he speeds from earth to Olympus, to the house of Zeus, to join the gathering of the other gods:

then straightway the undying gods think only of the lyre and song,
and
all the Muses together, voice sweetly answering voice,

hymn the unending gifts the gods enjoy and the sufferings of men, all that they endure at the hands of the deathless gods, and how they live witless and helpless and cannot find healing for death or defence against old age.

The Puthôn (cf. Puthô) the serpent Python, slain by Apollo, Ephor.31(b)J., Apollod.1.4.1, Plu.2.293c.

II. paidiskê echousa pneuma Puthôna a spirit of divination, Act.Ap.16.16.

paidiskê 1 [Dim. of pais] [h]
I. a young girl, maiden, Xen.
II. a young slave,
courtesan, Hdt., Plut.

Jesus accused the Jewish clergy of being children in the Agora, piping hoping to get someone to sing and dance the Dionysus choral. This was sexual perversion and they tried it on Jesus. The children were usually the CHORUS LEADERS who were used in pederasty which is rampant where ancient MUSICAL WORSHIP is seen.

2. pl. Puthônes, ventriloquists, Plu.2.414e, cf. Hsch.

Engastri-muthos , on, ventriloquist, mostly of women who delivered oracles by this means: hence, = engastrimantis, Hp.Epid.5.63, Philoch.192, LXX Le.19.31, Ph.1.654, Plu.2.414e, Luc.Lex.20; also, the familiar spirit of such a person, LXX 1 Ki.28.8.

Anaireô, like Haireô (v. haireô): --take up, anelontes apo chthonos having raised the victim from the ground, so as to cut its throat (cf. aueruô), take up and carry off, bear away, esp. prizes. of oracle's answer to inquiry

II. make away with, destroy, of men, kill, Hdt.4.66; pollous anairôn A.Ch.990 ; se men hêmetera psphos a. E.Andr.517; thanatois a. Pl.Lg. 870d ; ek politeias toiauta thêria a. Din.3.19 , etc.

The Thêria are are the beasts of the book of Revelation and is used with words related to ZOE or EVE or RHEA. thêrion, drakôn, ophis. This is related to daimôn or the genius or Genun as a composite of Jubal, Jabal, Tubal-Cain and Naamah. Jubal "handled" musical instruments meaning "without authority" and to commit HERESY which meant to use music to steal the houses of others.

take up and carry off, snatch, take up money at interest,

4. take up bodies for burial. See Isaiah 8 below about chirping and muttering.

A word with similar definition of Anaireô connects RHETORIC and MUSIC. In pagan worship the rhetoricians, sOPHISts, singers and musicians performed the role of PARASITE which resulted when all of the animal sacrifice centers fell into disrepute.

Exairô -lift up, lift off the earth 2. raise in dignity, exalt, magnify, exaggerate it. Rhetoric, treat in elevated style, of music

3. arouse, stir up excites thy wish to die, pervert, make away with, get rid of, to be excited, agitated

Includes: Choreia [choreuô] a dance, esp. the choral or round dance with its music

The word HAEIRO has the same meaning as aeiro. Heresy is invading and making war to LIFT YOU UP with musical excitement. The method is to lade the burden Jesus died to remove: "spiritual anxiety created by religious ritual." The word REST which Jesus alone can give is the Greek PAUO. It is closely connected to "silencing the musicians" and "silencing the rhetorician" or preachers.

Aeirô [attic airô] to lift for the purpose of carrying, to bear away, to lift up for oneself, i. e. bear off, to raise or stir up, aeirasthai polemon to undertake a long war, to be lifted up, excite. achthos aeirein, of ships of burden, Od.; mê moi oinon aeire offer me not wine

See that Jesus uses the word REST or PAUO which says JUST STOP IT ALL.

If a Jew resisted eating SWINE in the synagogue for the totality of the synagogue's history. And if some nitwit comes in and IMPOSES swine for the Passover because he has LIED, CHEATED AND STOLE title to the property. And if the faithful Jews decide to leave and continue teaching AGAINST SWINE FLESH one would have to be totally INSANE for blaming the faithful Jews for dividing the synagogue.

This actually happened in 1815 in a German synagogue, but the NEW ACT of worship was changing vocal teaching of the Word into MUSIC WITH A GENTILE ORGANISTS because playing instruments on the Sabbath was NEVER permitted. The faithful Jews left but they DID NOT create the division.

Anyone with such a perverted mind would say that to RESIST the thief would make ME guilty of murder.

Oh, but we can quiz every scholar who wrote on instruments from the time of Paul down to Alexander Campbell (who may be burning in hell). And you know what? Well, we cannot find a single apologist for instrumental worship down through 1800 years of church history. Instrumentalists might be guilty of not following the Bible (they had authority to ignore it) but not a single one of them would risk their soul up until about 1878 by adducing a Biblical argument. In fact, those who stole the non-instrumental church at New Bern, Tennessee confessed that IF instruments were PART of worship then it would be sinful. They argued the "aid" thing but the Judge told them that they couldn't make that case.

Therefore, if you interpret instrumental music as worship then your RM forefathers condemn you for sinning.

I keep trying but if the Enoch story is correct, once you have fallen into the musical trap you will never get out and you will have to turn the truth upside down to keep on (almost hysterically) justifying instruments by assigning non-instrumentalists to hell.

If I love the peace and quiet of my own personal house. And you intrude and force a boom box into my thinking spaces and get the deed to my house. Then, if I leave and teach against house stealers and boom boxes Dwaine E. Dunning makes me guilty for all eternity for "sowing discord" and dividing the house.

It may be possible for pro-instrumentalists to teach that but if they believe it then the prophetic message of Enoch and all ancient stories about Satan and Music is proven absolutely true: once you have fallen you cannot get up and you blame others.

Based on all evidence, Satan or the demons (the fallen angels) planted the pro-instrumental tree and Jesus came to cut it down. How? By eliminating animal sacrifices as punishment for the sin of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai, He eliminated instrumental NOISE which was the "plant" attached to the roots of paganism which Israel never ceased after leaving Egypt.

Dwaine E. Dunning again: Those who planted the anti-musical- instrument tree

have gone on to their reward or punishment.
We
cannot now quiz them as to their intentions.

However, if we will only look at the obvious fruits which have come from this tree, we surely will realize that
 
these pioneers could hardly have better succeeded if they had INTENDED to introduce a system to produce division rather than unity. However, if we will only look at the obvious fruits which have come from this tree, we surely will realize that
 
these pioneers could hardly have better succeeded if they had INTENDED to introduce a system to produce division rather than unity.

Again, for the TRUTH SEEKERS: no one in the history of the church INTRODUCED a system of NOT playing instruments while CLAIMING to worship a SPIRIT God in the place of the human spirit. It would have been outrageous to even suggest MAKING MUSIC as a way to MANUFACTURE better worship.

Therefore, the churches of Christ just KEPT ON NOT DOING what they had NEVER DONE nor even contemplated any more that adding music's PARTNER of sexuality which was the historical facts known by all readers.

What happened is that people who CARED LESS about the Bible or unity simply IMPOSED instruments because they needed INCOME to fund a NEW STYLE religionism which is DISTINCTLY AMERICAN and has no connection to historic Christianity.

Those who resisted were told to SHUT UP or GET OUT. They had no RIGHTS in the congregations they had bought and paid for. J.W.McGarvey was unable to preach against instruments in his own congregation: those who had TAKEN CAPTIVE the congregation said [and still do] that to preach against instruments would be to SOW DISCORD.


We know from the Bible that the "Assyrians" were the "tallest trees" in the garden of Eden. We also know that Lucifer infecting the King of Tyre was called "the singing and harp playing prostitute" and that the sins involved Fornication and Sodomy. EATING from the MIDST of the tallest tree agrees with The Book of Enoch and other documents which affirm that it was SATAN who planted the INSTRUMENTAL TREE to seduce people away from the Living Word of God.

No one of the groups which fed the Churches of Christ (as opposed to the Stoneites) had practiced instrumental music since the Reformation.
Even the Catholics never FELL into congregational singing with instrumental accompaniment: the organ did preludes, interludes, recessionals and SET THE PITCH for the Chanter which is called "the oldest heresy largely pervading the church."

The God I worship is a holy or WHOLLY Spirit God. It is a fact that LUCIFER planted the PRO-MUSIC SEED and then planted CAIN in the belly of Eve. Cain means A MUSICAL NOTE. The Mark of Cain and his offspring, Jubal, was MUSIC which he handled meaning "without authority."

God started the anti-musica-instrument tree and HE will get you by and by for lying and maligning a good people.

Music has always said to God: "We will not listen to Your words." Dwaine Dunning has just told God that HE introduced a system of division. The fact is that Lucifer used music to BLEED OFF worship for himself even in some realm above the garden of Eden on the earth. God cast him out along with a host of Satan-worshiping angels. Isaiah and Ezekiel JUDGING the king/queen of Tyre has Lucifer along with wind, string and percussion instruments in the garden of Eden. In the serpent He was not a snake but a MUSICAL ENCHANTER.

In seducing people away from God and their property she is called the "harp playing prostitute." Musicians in a religious sense were always prostitutes or Sodomites who plagued the temple in Jerusalem.

If you are ABSOLUTELY blind to the anti-music theme from Genesis to Revelation then BASIC, BARE BONES ethics of the Maffia should prevent you from accusing the Restoration Movement of introducing the ANTI- instrument spiritual (in the mind) worship of a spirit God.

Click for evidence from beginning to ending against music. Faithful churches under the name "the church of Christ" had always repudiated MECHANICAL efforts to appease or threaten God. None of the denominations who fled to follow the Bible and get from under a cult organization EVER USED instruments.

The "churches of Christ" or "Disciples" are UNIQUE IN HISTORY in claiming that those who refused to change after faithful centuries INTRODUCED A SYSTEM TO PRODUCE DIVISION. Anyone who can say that is terminally ignorant or terminally evil. Because of the eternal effort to use force to destroy non-musicl churches we can suggest the latter. This was the universal MARK of all those who followed Lucifer in music.

The non-instrumentalists introduced absolutely nothing.

The pro-instrumentalists introduced instruments

> Claiming that they were not a part of worship
> And claiming if they BECAME part of the worship it would be SINNING.
>
And clearly claiming the need to compete for crowds and money as the motive
> And claiming no Biblical authority
>
And knowing that they were sowing discord and offending thousands

Instruments were not in the culture of most churches until the affluence gained in Northern churches from profiteering during the civil war. As the "loose ends" wound up in the cities there was a need to establish the best collection plates in town. Instruments were the "weapons" and were not called worship.

No division existed prior to the forced introduction of instruments and a denominational (secular) organization to encompass "Christendom."

Instruments were introduced and objectors were told to submit or get out. I know people who are just now going through such a Satanic false-accuser attack. "I cannot let you sow discord in my group by explaining why the church had never used instruments and why the musical group should not use a lawyer, lying and false use of the Bible and history" to steal the property.

When they got out, the instrumental sectarians claimed that refusing to surrender to the Axe Wielders was what caused the division.

In other words, if you bleed when a bully punches you in the nose he will blame you for bleeding on his white shirt. This is truly a dangerous even if sincere view.

Dwaine E. Dunning: The evil nature of both root and trunk is indicated by the nature of this tree's fruit.

It is long past time to lay the axe to the root of this man-made tree of doctrine.

Only as we see the reasons for our divergent groups are we apt to be able to become the undivided body of Christ He wants us to be. Our divisions can only be healed by Christians learning to love and trust Jesus enough

to quit setting up tests of fellowship which are of human origin.

Dunning is looking in a glass brightly! Thou art the man. HE, by endorsing the sowers of discord, takes on the GUILT of INTRODUCING instruments where none had existed before


The evil nature of instrumental music, which is worshiped more than fellowship, is what produced the
Law of Moses as fruit and lost the Book of the Covenant until Jesus came.

God turned Israel over to this idolatry in the wilderness and finally drove them into captivity and death. The CAUSE was MUSICAL IDOLATRY.

Musical worship at Mount Sinai and in Israel and Judah was a DEATH SENTENCE. God turned them over to worship the starry host. One was Chiun or Satan whose Chaldee number is 666.

Satan or Lucifer caused the angels to be CAST OUT with her. She/he was the "singing and harp-playing prostitute" in the garden of Eden.

It was instrumental music which was a fertility or star worship ritual in Job 21 which said "I don't really want to hear from God anymore."

It was instrumental music God used as a sign to Saul that he had been picked as "king" and that God had been fired as Theocratic king.

It was instrumental music which David added to hide the horrors of animal sacrifices for certain dedicatory or purification ceremonies. God saw to it that the people were not subjected to this "like the nation's" worship.

It was instrumental music as the cause and sign of Israel's lostness because of "religious festivals" which caused the people to hunger and thirst for the Word of God in Isaiah 5.

It was instrumental music as part of the bull or demon worship in Israel which Amos and Stephen (Acts 7) equate to the "rising up to play" at Mount Sinai.

It was instrumental music and love songs God used to show that mouth religion means that people will not honor God and His word (Ezek 33).

It was the "harp" as the weapon of force which would go with the king of Babylon into Sheol and rot on a bed of maggots.

It was the "harp" as the weapon of the Tyrian prostitute to collect more money and slaves through deceit.

It was instrumental music prophesied as a way to triumph over Jesus in Psalm 41.

Therefore, instrumental music is of human (or Satanic) origin which has produced a test of fellowship.

Dwaine E. Dunning: Early Restoration pioneers by the use of a simple five-finger exercise mapping sinner's journey into salvation helped many find their way out of denominational darkness. Perhaps it was inevitable then that some later felt a need for a similar "map" for what they felt was "acceptable worship." So they created five "acts of worship" they thought were essential and acceptable.

That is a WHOOPER! It was the MUSICIANS who introduced a SIXTH act of worship. They told the judge in Newbern, TN with tongue in checque that IF instruments were used AS worship then it would be SINFUL. The Judge saw that lie.

Neither the Baptists, Methodists or Presbyterians ADDED an act of worship by resisting the use of MACHINES for 2,000 years. Churches of Christ continued NOT USING machines as faithful churches had NEVER used instruments. Indeed, not in the entire Bible is the MUSIC word used of spiritual worship. It's only authority is paganism, prostitution and sodomy in a religious sense.

Let's not fall over the edge by adding a sixth (choirs or worship teams as mediators) and a seventh as instrumental music--always considered "the homes of the demons" and "weapons" to appease or even threaten the gods.

It was the "Law of Silence" which said and says: "If God hasn't said 'Thou Shalt Not Use Instruments' then I can legally use instruments." "Even if it sows discord."

Dunning is perfectly free to do whatever he wishes as worship. However, God doesn't free him to continue to sow discord, threaten and blame those who never changed for 1850 years for the division caused by ignoring the Bible and 1850 years of church history.

It is truly an irrational mind which can see people as divisive who have not added to the practices which existed for both before the introduction was made.

If someone created 20 acts of worship that would not find a shred of evidence to DISPROVE the clear Bible teaching which ALWAYS associates MUSIC as a MARK of people who WILL NOT obey God's simple invitation to "come learn of me." The MARK is totally proven when you read and grasp what John wrote. Fruits have always been FRUITS as the "fruit baskets of summer fruits" are identified as SODOMITES in Amos.  John identifies the Mother of Harlots in Revelation 17 and then identifies the rhetoricians, singers and musicians as SORCERERS who HAD deceived the whole world.

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

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Mt.5:28

Paul silenced and "made sedentary" women in the assembly and used the word AUTHENTIA for AUTHORITY. You cannot USE women in a public display of "worship" without KNOWING that you are causing many men (and some women) to look on her to lust!

The RISING UP TO PLAY is used by Paul: this was musical idolatry.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil (noisome) things, as they also lusted 1Co.10:6

Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 1 Cor 10:7

To what can I compare this generation? They are like children (PLAYING) sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others: Matt 11:16

And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. Matt 11:17

And the voice of harpers, and musicians (Muses=Locusts), 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

Grinders were concubines or prostitutes: the millstone also defines a FLUTE because it is POLLUTED by having a hole in it. The LOCUSTS or "musical performs" are released by Apollo or Abaddon or Apollyon the founder of the Seeker-Center to Seduce people out of their money:

Tertullian wrote of Apollo (Abaddon, Apollyon) to accomplished the WASHINGS by devious means.

But Venus (Lucifer, ZOE) and Bacchus (Dionysus) are close allies. These two evil spirits are in sworn confederacy with each other, as the patrons of drunkenness and LUST. So the theatre of Venus is as well the house of Bacchus: for they properly gave the name of Liberalia also to other theatrical amusements-which besides being consecrated to Bacchus (as were the Dionysia of the Greeks), were instituted by him; and, without doubt,

the performances of the theatre have the common patronage of these two deities.
That immodesty of
gesture and attire which so specially and peculiarly characterizes the stage are consecrated to them-the one deity wanton by her sex, the other by his drapery;

while its services of voice, and song, and lute, and pipe, belong to Apollos, and Muses, and Minervas, and Mercuries. [Sodomite gods and goddesses served by sodomite, musical priests]

In a passage of Pindar, Apollo is called the dancer; (and there is a Greek line extant which represents Jupiter himself in the very act of dancing).

The Gymnopedite was instituted by Lycurgus, and washar invented (Lacedemon) by the Spartans as an early excitation to the courage of their children,

and in order to lead them on insensibly to the exercise of an armed dance (Pyrrhic).
The
choir of the children regulated their motions by those of the men, and all danced at the same time,singing hymns in praise of Apollo. The festival was sacred to Apollo for the poetry, and to Bacchus for the dance.

This was the Abomination of Desolation in the Jerusalem Temple.

Dwaine E. Dunning: But these two "maps" differ dramatically and drastically. The plan for salvation of a sinner puts together scriptural passages which do indeed deal with sinners finding salvation. The "worship" plan is totally lacking in any scriptural link between the acts and any scriptural teaching making those acts part of any plan from God for Christian worship.

The UNIVERSAL, 100% message is that of PREVENTING people from finding salvation. Salvation meant REST where Jesus freed us from CLERGY and from "spiritual anxiety created by religious rituals." That is the EXCITEMENT or PLEASURING outlawed by Pain when we GLORIFY GOD by ONE MOUTH and ONE MIND speaking "That which is written."

The ONLY worship Paul used meant to GIVE HEED to Christ by GIVING HEED to HIS Words, the Spirit which is the Word of Christ (John 6:63) or "that which is written" in Romans 15. The ONLY way to glorify God is by using HIS words to teach and admonish one another.

Well, just what does that have to do with instrumental music? If "singing" is not commanded then assuredly "instrumental accompaniment" cannot be commanded. If adding singing is a problem then isn't adding instruments just a complication? Yes. Everyone who ever added instruments clearly understood that they were dividing the church but it was a price they were willing to pay and a guilt they were willing to take upon their backs which may not be covered by the blood of Christ.

John Locke whom the Instrumentalists love to hate noted that:

"This being settled, it follows,

first, that heresy is a separation made in ecclesiastical communion between men of the same religion
for
some opinions no way contained in the rule itself; and,

[Those who cause division over untaught questions are, according to Locke, heretics. The Christian church had to wait 1850 years to REPUDIATE the totality of church history. Too late to NOT be something added but NOT CONTAINED in Scripture and indeed, to those with eyes and ears and spirit, CONTRARY to the total Bible]. The only thing going for the MUSICAL CHURCHES is their false claim of SILENCE and using NECESSARY INFERENCE that God didn't mean it when He warned that SOWING DISCORD and offending these tens of thousands of 'little ones' is no longer valid.

secondly, that amongst those who acknowledge nothing but the Holy Scriptures to be their rule of faith,
heresy is a separation made in their Christian communion
for opinions not contained in the express words of Scripture.

Words like SPEAK are specificially defined to EXCLUDE either metrical poetry OR music.  The word PLEASE which Paul outlawed in Romand 15 is defined as the LADED BURDEN Jesus died to remove: singing or any kind of artificial arousal which is defined as Sorcery.  The Latin excludes singing, dancing or scenic performance because that SUCKS the attention away from Christ and HIS Word.

Separation was caused by ADDING instrumental music with no authority from Scripture. Because instruments did not exist in Restoration Movement history, churches of Christ DID NOT ADD ANYTHING over which discord could develop.

"But if they say that the articles which they require to be professed are consequences deduced from the Scripture,

it is undoubtedly well done of them who believe and profess such things as seem unto them so agreeable to the rule of faith.
But it would be very
ill done
to
obtrude those things upon others unto whom they do not seem to be the indubitable doctrines of the Scripture;
and to make a separation
for such things as these, which neither are nor can be fundamental,
is to become heretics;

Those who used the Law of Silence or inferences "obtruded" instruments upon others when there is not clear doctrinal statement makes one a heretic.

"When the greater part, or by the magistrate's patronage the stronger part, of the Church separates itself from others

by excluding them out of her communion because they will not profess their belief of certain opinions which are not the express words of the Scripture.

[Exclusion can be by restricting the activity of those who oppose the sectarian additions]
For it is not the
paucity of those that are separated, nor the authority of the magistrate,
that can make any man guilty of heresy,

but he only is a heretic who divides the Church into parts,

introduces names and marks of distinction,
and voluntarily makes a separation because of such opinions.

The principle or even law of silence is clearly noted by God in Scripture. However, the instrumentalists love to hate those who depend on God's statement for proof. Depending on the Word makes one a hated legalist.

Division was created by introducing instrumental music as a mark or distinction. Only later was the law of silence used by congregational singers.

Dwaine E. Dunning: Where are Bible passages stating that singing, listening to preaching, giving money into a church treasury, and partaking of the "Lord's Supper" are to be part of a "worship service" for Christians? The Bible surely does not say that these five, and only these five, acts are "acceptable worship." Much of the division in our churches has sprung from this "worship" root which is non-scriptural rather than taught BY the Bible.

And the "worship" laws seem to have found their origin
in a desire to
create opposition to use of musical instruments by Christians in their assemblies.

That doesn't meet the SANITY test: especially at this time just about everyone was hungry to hear music. And most homes had small melodions or organs, guitars and banjos. Social gatherings abounded to make and listen to music.

Dwaine Dunning will not be able to find any person in history who RESISTED the instrument just to cause division. And where instruments were IMPOSED the resistance broke down rapidly as sin always find a way to fit.

Many of those who taught the FACTS about music as worship were themselves accomplished musicians and song writers.

So, Dunning is trying to traffick on tell you that people outlawed ICECREAM just to sow discord.


Anyone with an IQ as long as their shoe lace KNEW perfectly well that MUSIC was invented by Satan--and there is no other tradition. Why would Moses in Genesis define the "serpent" with the word which meant and still means nothing more than a MUSICAL ENCHANTER. The word OPHIS includes the sOPHISts or preachers for pay: they are the musical enchanters whether with instruments or trained speech patterns. Victor Knowles defines his popularity by using such terms.

It was WORLDLY people with too much ILL GOTTEN GAINS through the uncivil war which led people to try to COLLECT the people by making THEATERS and hiring professional singers and organists. There was NO BIBLICAL argument used prior to 1878 when the SOWERS OF DISCORD began to feel the heat when the Southern churches--suffering from spiritual carpetbaggers--refused on Biblical and historical basis to NOT GET RUN OVER in the middle of the street.

Tell EVERY church Father that big whopper. Tell John Calvin that big whopper. Tell Martin Luther that big whopper. Tell EVERYONE but a few liberals who wanted to use music to LIFT THEMSELVES UP. If music won't send you to hell where the holy whore and her team will return, the LYING will surely damn you real good. Click to see the UNIVERSAL repudiation of all BODY rituals including instrumental music.

If "singing" or teaching through song is agreed to as an act of worship then, as an engineer with acoustics background, I can say that adding instruments makes the "song" something entirely different. The argument is that "a drop of acid" does not make it into something different. However, that is a lie: it now becomes dilute acid and it may kill you.

When the harmonic overtones are added to the dissonant overtones of singing you produce something like a "water drip" or a "dog bark" and you are driven into spiritual anxiety. However, the body comes to the rescue, produces endorphins or morphine-within and makes you feel spiritual.

Lucifer, Nimrod and modern science knows that music is the most powerful INJECTOR of endorphins or "morphin- within" which produces NOT SPIRITUALITY but the impluse of FIGHT, FLIGHT AND SEXUALITY."

Adding instruments certainly conditions the brain so that rational learning cannot take place.

Dwaine E. Dunning: This entire "worship system" should be recognized as an attempt
to make the church as much as possible like the Jewish temple and tabernacle worship, which was indeed, under a law from God, spelled out in no uncertain terms as to acceptability. But there are NO worship laws for the Christian worship Jesus said was to come and be located apart from "holy places."

On the contrary
, the Warrior Musicians were under the KING of a secular state and the COMMANDERS OF THE ARMY. Catholics and the Christian church uses David and the Levitical noise makers as the ONLY "authority" they can find. MUSIC was connected to the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent animals as they tried to SANCTIFY a secular system of body worship.

The people's "congregation" was excluded from the Tabernacle as a DIRECT RESULT of rising up to PLAY. This was the musical idolatry of Egypt. For that "transgression" of musical worship God took away the covenant of Grace and put them under the Law. The Levites bore the burden of the tabernacle and that of the priests. They did not use instruments in the Tabernacle.

The people worshiped God in their synagogues (qahal) or "the church in the wilderness" by being DISCIPLES of the word of God. Their lives were worship in living right and practicing social justice. They DID NOT WORSHIP IN THE TEMPLE.

MUSIC added would have only ONE motive: to make a great crashing sound while the Levites served the Priests in a ritual just like the EXORCISM of all pagan temples after which God permitted the Jerusalem temple and the worship of the "starry host" (Acts 7). The MUSIC WAS assisting the priests as they SACRIFICED thousands of types of Lord Jesus Christ. Their SERVICE was HARD BONDAGE using a word similar to Abaddon.

Jesus never said "I will build my CHURCH." He really said "I will build my ekklesia" which throughout the Greek version is translated as SYNAGOGUE. The "church in the wilderness" was the synagogue or Qahal during which service Numbers 10:7 outlaws the loud sounds and singing (the word triumph).

We have noted that there are TWO LAWS or ACTS for worship defined by Jesus as the ONLY place God will even look for "worship." That is the PLACE of the human SPIRIT and giving heed to the Words of Christ or the Spirit of truth. "There was no praise service" in the Holy Place, the Synagogue or the church as Christian synagogue. The table of fellowship has been added to remember THE DEATH of Jesus.

The Temple is composed of the Holy Place (synagogue or church) and the Most Holy Place as the Mind of God in Christ. Worship takes place IN THE SPIRIT as it gives heed to the WORDS OF CHRIST (in song and sermon). No singer or musician could enter into the type of the church or MY MIND under the penalty of death. That is why when the ONE blood of Christ has been shed where they used to shed DUNG also, Jesus cast out the singers and instrumental TEAMS along with the DUNG.

 

 

THE HEAD
The Most Holy Place
God dwells in the Most Holy Place. Believers come boldly before the throne which is OUR SPIRIT which is not FLESH.




The Incense Altar
Our Prayers


THE BODY
The Holy Place
The body of Christ fulfills the Holy Place which symbolizes the seven spirits of TRUTH, the bread of life and fellowship and the incense which are the prayers at the ENTRANCE into the Most Holy Place.

The Holy Place
Kill Zone for All Non Aaronic Levites: even to clean out the garbage. This meant that there were NEVER any musicians in the carnal TYPE of the body or church of Christ! Never! And when they tried their Musical Mourning Team act on Jesus, He "cast them out more or less violently" using a word which means "as one casts out dung." This word is "spread" throughout the Greek literature. The death of Christ would CAST OUT both the Levitical noise makers and the DUNG which the earthly priests had to endure.

The SOUNDERS (not musicians) provided a SERVICE defined as HARD BONDAGE.

They provided the signal for ALL of the people's congregation to get out and fall on their face.

They also provided a masking NOISE to serve the priests slaughtering and burning thousands of TYPES of Lord Jesus Christ.

Psalm 41 prophesied and the "Warrior" musicians did Musically Mock Jesus. The TRIUMPH was an exorcism ritual used against mortal enemies. When you add the musical rituals you DEFACTO cast out the Words and GIVING HEED to Lord Jesus Christ. It is a terminal MARK.

After the musical idolatry at Mount Sinai, the Tabernacle was radically redefined. The Levites kept the common people, now called "strangers," away from the symbolic presence of God just as the flaming cherubim kept Adam and Eve away from the garden of Eden.

Then, Israel repudiated God's rule and he gave them musical prophesying as a sign. The temple was "like the nations" because that is what God permitted.

The clergy performed the national sacrifices at the Tabernacle or Temple but the common people did not "sing congregationally with instrumental accompaniment" anywhere in the Old Testament.

Paul said in Hebrews that there is a different "set of rules." The Tabernacle with the Most Holy Place is now in heaven and you simply cannot jack up a musical worship team or instruments into heaven--just as you could never have gotten musicians or instruments into the Holy precincts of the temple.

It is an absolute law that God only seeks those who can and will worship God in the mind or Spirit as it is devoted to truth in His Word. The church, like the Synagogue, was not worship center (pagan) but a school.

Dwaine E. Dunning: We are not under the law. God has set up no rules pertaining to our public services other than are clearly to be seen in the inspired writings of the apostles (that is, in those New Testament books which tell of how the church of God began and flourished so that it could truthfully be said that it had turned the world upside down in that day).

That is true: when the Jews lost Jerusalem and the temple,
instrumental music ceased for sorrow and also based on the Law. It was simply unlawful to play the music in a religious sense apart from animal sacrifices or outside of Jerusalem. The scattered Jews followed that "law" until AD 1815 in a liberal synagogue. When instruments were added it "sowed discord" and resulted in a law suit and division of a pro-musical synagogue and a non-musical synagogue. And they were divided and they will eternally be divided.

The "evangelists" followed the absolute law to go preach the gospel without counting baptisms or establishing some new acts of Worship. The Jews rejected instruments based on their eternal history in the Synagogue (it always existed) and the pagans rejected instruments based on its purely pagan background. Music is simply not a "God" word.

In the Hebrew a SONG is called a BURDEN. Songs were added to stimulate excitement which is sexual and not spiritual. The purpose was to LIFT people up in "spiritual anxiety" in order to carry them away meaning heresy. The Greek words used of singing carries the same meaning and the feelings were called charming or enchanting. The same concept of HERESY is involved. The COURT YARD "music" was to create such anxiety which enabled the priests to endure the sounds, sights and SMELLS of blood and dung: the excitement meant to "rais them up to cut their throat." Because music had meaning in all "like the nation's animal sacrifices" and because the musicians lived off the sacrifices, they were called PARASITES. As psallo as such a warfare word involved "guitar players" and other musicians they continued to be identified as sorcerers and therefore PARASITES. In the Apostolic Constitutions, ad 205 version of an early set of rules, these MUSICIANS were excluded from membership in the church as they were EXCLUDED from the Holy Place in the secular temple.

The early disciples followed the LAW OF THE SYNAGOGUE which was a school of the Bible: that has not changed. The christian church MADE A LAW by adding instruments: they said and say GET WITH IT OR GET OUT. Then and now opponents were CAST OUT if they persisted in teaching what the Bible says about MUSIC as the MARK of the Devil.

Dwaine E. Dunning: In spite of any local practice or prejudice, our preferences, our customs, and our traditions (apart from those reported in the sacred writings) do not have the force of a law of God. And honest observers can't miss seeing that the "worship" laws which now divide us are not found in God's Word.

When you IMPOSE instruments you MAKE A LAW. You say, IF you are going to worship with us you WILL be forced to listen to theatrical performance and we WILL tell you that it has God's blessing.

It is a historical fact--recently imposed--that YOU WILL NOT speak a word AGAINST our practices or you WILL GET OUT or GET OVER IT.

It is a big lie that they will FELLOWSHIP you if you oppose instruments: just ask for time in the pulpit or Bema or HIGH PLACE to speak Biblical truth and you will see how fact the AXE falls. Just don't ever believe that FELLOWSHIP means "we gonna let you teach a Bible class." Don't every believe that you will become a Deacon or Elder or Preacher unless you BOW when they PIPE.

Fellowship means that you CHANGE and REPENT and CONFESS for having sowed discord. Fellowship means that YOU will change and they HAVE NEVER and indeed according to The Book of Jubilees and other documents CANNOT ever again give up Satan's instruments.


That is a fact. There is no law of worship other than that explained by Paul. If outlawing PLEASURING or EXCITEMENT, speaking with ONE MIND and ONE MOUTH "that which is written" is the ONLY WAY to Glorify God then that has Him defining the collective assembly. Worship happens if you GIVE HEED to God in Christ and HIS Words. Making a worship law by ADDING instruments is what caused the division and Dunning etal are in denial.

The "law" is for Synagogue to teach or edify and the resource was Spirit or the Word of Christ. While chanting the inspired text was cantillation it was not "singing" in either the pagan sense at the time nor like the "singing" today. The ALARM which is "playing instruments and making a loud rejoicing to the lord sound" was NOT worship. As with ALL such instruments (remember Gideon?) musical sounds create PANIC and not worship. In Numbers 10:7 this was OUTLAWED for the assembly, Qahal, synagogue or "church in the wilderness." The Isralites totally understood this as a LAW because they never "had a praise service in the synagogue."

Non-instrumentalists didn't begin "Not Playing Instruments" based on prejudice, preferences, customs or traditions.

Instrumentalists obtruded mechanical devices into non-instrumental churches and based firstly on "the law of economics." Secondly, when challenged no very bright fellow would have attempted to argue based on the Bible although they did invent the psallo argument to make a law "obtruding" instruments into the word "sing." The primary proof-text was based on the Law of Silence: God hasn't made a law against instruments so we can legalistically add instruments without breaking a law.

But what about sowing discord among brethren and offending "these little ones." Well, back to the "law of economics." One recent incarnation:

"If we don't add instruments we will have to meet in a phone booth."

But what about the legal document in the deed? How about deliberately driving those who founded the church out into the streets. What about your lying by telling everyone you lost the paperwork?

Well, if they go then they are "sowing discord" and Sister Pastor "issued the first warning."

And if they stay? No. You will not be allowed to sow discord by telling them the truth about the deed or the "old" position about instruments.

The Pharisees were "traditionalists" not because of following the Laws of God but by using the "law of Silence" to change the law sometimes just to silence God's laws. And the "law of economics" further defines the Pharisee and theatrical performers defines the hypocrites.

Dwaine E. Dunning: It's good that many in our generation recognize that something has gone wrong with our Restoration. That's a first step toward correcting what's ailing us. Many are calling on their brethren for a better attitude.

This will poison the Music tree. I'm glad that many are willing to consider differing viewpoints, and by cutting off individual branches of doctrine and practice which are found to be in error, to attempt to cure our problem. But the only real cure for this tree which produces bitter fruit

is the drastic step of cutting it completely off at the root.
We need to do that.
The sooner the better.


Sounds good to me: poison the MUSIC TREE and it will wither under the curse of God in Christ who CAST OUT the musical minstrels like one EJECTS DUNG. Victor Knowles and the FORUM people are trying to do just that. Unity means that the Biblical churches of Christ MUST at least apologize for resisting the INVASION of the body snatchers. Preferably, they will INFILTRATE and DIVERT christian church preachers to PRETEND to have a UNITY MEETING. UNITY to the instrumentalists meant SOWING OF DISCORD: Victor and Dwaine etal would be happy to DISCORD and STEAL the church houses of widows. After a historic and deliberate sowing of discord there are 5 out of 1300 congregations which have added instruments in some form of alternative service.

God would send His ARM or BRANCH because there was no human able to mediate or intercede. He came in opposition to that Abominable Branch who was Satan. He or she is seen in many contemporaneous documents as the FEMALE INSTRUCTING PRINCIPLE or BEAST or ZOE (Eve as believed by the Gnostics). She is said to dominate the little, ignorant "jehovah" who nevertheless grasped how to please her and get PROMOTED upward. He formed "musical worship teams" and the purpose was to worship Sophia and Zoe.

From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous.

But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. Isa 24:16

Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers [singers were often stranger prostitues], as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. Isa 25:5

That BRANCH is the Hebrew word:

Zamiyr (h2158) from 2167; a song to be accompanied with instrumental music: - psalm (-ist), singing, song

Zamar (h2167) zaw-mar'; through the idea of striking with the fingers]; prop. to touch the strings or parts of a musical instrument, i. e. play upon it; to make music, accompanied by the voice..

Maybe Dwaine Dunning is trying to use MUSIC to cut down the BRANCH. But THAT branch is "singing with instrumental music."

Brought down is Anah which is RESPONSIVE SINGING as a way to BROW BEAT as they would Jesus Christ.

For in this mountain shall the hand of the Lord rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. Isa 25:10

And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands. Isa 25:11

And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust. Isa 25:12

Bring down is:

Naga (h5060) naw-gah'; a prim. root; prop. to touch, i. e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphem., to lie with a woman); by impl. to reach (fig. to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.): - beat, (* be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.

Nagan (h5059) naw-gan'; a prim. root; prop. to thrum, i. e. beat a tune with the fingers; espec. to play on a stringed instrument; hence (gen.) to make music: - player on instruments, sing to the stringed instruments, melody, ministrel, play (-er, -ing..

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. Isa 23:15

What is the song of the prostitute:

Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. Is.23:16

Click for the proof that the INSTRUMENTAL SECTARIANS are attacking God in Christ with music. This has many counterparts in the contemporaneous or commentary documents such as The Book of Enoch, The Book of Jubilees and the later Books of Adam and Eve as explained in three dozen documents to assign MUSIC to Satan.

All who came before Jesus were thieves and liars. Now, all who came before the Post-Modern theologians are Pharisees, Hypocrite, Legalists, Sectarian roots which "we must destroy" Hack! Hack! Hack!

The instrumentalists planted the trees which bears the "grapes of Sodom." According to the Biblical example informed by Job, Amos, Isaiah and Ezekiel no one will repent of dividing the church by adding instruments. Therefore, many or most of the instrumentalists have gone into captivity with the Disciples and then dispersed into the world of the "Assyrians and Babylonians."

If there is ever a "return" it will be based on the forced participation of musical idolatry in Babylon when the common Jew knew that it was illegal. And there will be a tiny remnant.

This is consistent with the traditional stories circulating before and after the time of Christ that when you have fallen into an attempt to worship a Spirit God with a machine you "have fallen and you will never get up."

I take the implied threats quite literally because i have been threatened for objecting to published material as uninformed as this material.

Dwaine E. Dunning: If we recognize that God does NOT oppose Christian use of musical instruments, that does not mean that we must all start using musical instruments in our assemblies. That's still a matter of choice, not need.

The Bible encourages us to sing. It neither requires nor forbids musical accompaniment, or use of musical instruments alone at particular times. Human laws may express our preferences, but they cannot speak for God. Nor have we any right to judge what our brothers do in matters where God has not spoken. Our freedom is from Him. Human laws affecting Christian service need to be given no notice at all by those who didn't make the laws.


But He did: he identified the serpent in the garden as a Musical Enchanter who wholly seduced Eve as well as Adam.  ALL of the examples of instruments in the Old Testament MARK Lucifer, Warriors (even at the temple) prostitutes and Sodomites.  It was prophesied that Judas would try to musicially TRIUMPH OVER Jesus. Jesus CAST OUT the Musical Minstrels LIKE DUNG. Paul excluded music when he excluded SELF-PLEASING. He excluded music by the word SPEAK and put the singing AND melody in the heart and NOT upon a harp. John identifies the rhetoricians, singers and musicians as SORCERERS and agents of the Mother of Harlots. No church SANG as an act of worship for about 360 years. So, Dunning is just deliberately perverting all known facts.

Jesus would have RECITED certain Psalms as an APPROVED EXAMPLE. Paul commanded SPEAKING or TEACHING and the singing (pleasuring, creating anxiety) and melody (abrading, crushing) would be in the heart. There is no command which says: "Thou shalt sing in worship."

How would you come to the revelation that: "God does not oppose Christian use of musical instruments?" Why isn't it possible to grasp that God PROPHESIED that Judas would try to defeat Jesus with music along with the priests? Why is there not ONE SINGLE case of music being used and God saying: "Hay, I truly get lustful over that?"

Christian church plants like Max Lucado and Rubel Shelly claim that the Holy Spirit is God's song writer and dance master!

This flows from a total lack of a grasp of the Old Testament and the parallel accounts of paganism which one can still read if one is a reader. You can still read the Babylonian tablets on this site where Inanna stole the gifts of instrumental music, the gift of the eldership and the gift of sexual perversion from Ea (Satan) the patron god of music.

"Music" to lead people away from God began in heaven. As Lucifer he came into the garden of Eden to wholly seduce Eve. The "serpent" word is used only in that it defines the hissing sounds of the serpent as the cobra hypnotizes you and then spirits in your eye and then bites you to teath.

The "nachash" throughout that world defined a MUSICAL ENCHANTER. Lucifer came equipped with string, wind and percussion instruments. Therefore, the negative focus on music began in heaven and in Genesis and ends with the end-time Babylon Whore and her musicians and instrumentalists (Rev 18).

If you could find one endorsement of instruments as a "tool" of worship or if you could not find the dozen or so equating instrumental music to deliberately ignoring the Word of God then you might use the Law of Silence.

However, to say that God doesn't oppose something when He has spoken in deafening terms is about as dangerous as the threat to destroy the non-instrumental view.

A denominational preacher confessed that "all musical instruments in the bible are the devil's instruments." However, "God saw how powerful they were and decided to adopt them for His people." It is a fact that every single musical word in the Bible has evil roots (often Greek).

Here are some interesting Demon or Satan and Musical Instrument Connections.
Here is a random collection to prove that all pagans believed that the demons lived in or spoke through musical instruments.

There is no positive use of instruments in worshiping a Spirit God.

So, we worry about people who can take the "whole pie chart" which is negative about music as an attack device against God with not a syllable of approved inferences that God needs or wants "the work of man's hands" how can literate people still:

Defend the instrumental position.

And be so always on the attack because others will not add instruments or give them the lusted-for validation by beginning to worship with them.

Dwaine E. Dunning: As did certain apostles, we need to take a stand that we will do what we think right

regardless of any attempts by men to force us to do otherwise.

We need to totally destroy the music tree and all its siblings. *** from Ray Downen respectfully on this day of the Lord. 417/782-08142228 PorterJoplinMission Outreach. Mail address is P O Box 1065Joplin MO 64802-1065. Internet home page addr = http://www.sofnet.com/~outreach  

Isn't it interesting that Lucifer, the singing and harp-playing prostitute is said to have been in the garden of Eden and wholly seduced Eve (Re. Paul) in the way that one seduces a bride BEFORE her husband can get to her. This is why Cain (meaning a MUSICAL NOTE) is said to be "of that wicked one." His descendants are the originators of music, weapons and stealing things.

The serpent is defined by a word meaning a Musical Enchanter. That word is directly connected to brass and ringing bell metal.

At the same time, the Assyrians are identified as THE TALLEST TREE IN EDEN. Isn't that interesting. And the FIR TREE speaks of Lances and Musical Instruments.

I hope that Dunning and Downing aren't getting the BRANCH as singing with instruments mixed up with the BRANCH Who is God in Christ. The effect of imposing musical instruments "as" worship has the same effect that Satan has as the Adversary.

Dunning and Downing cannot find ONE instance of a church of Christ tried to FORCE a musical church to quit. So, it is a big fat lie. Most people could care less what the Christian churches do. They continue to teach and to NOT teach would be to defact agree that the instrumentalists were correct to become MUSICALLY SECTARIAN. That does not remotely FORCE anyone. However, when Victor Knowles promotes his "unity meetings" he USES and associates only with church of Christ preachers who have ALREADY sold their congreations for "just buying my books."

Jesus destroyed music when he defined them in 1 Cor 13 in terms of the NEBEL, FAMILIAR SPIRIT or other "musical" ritual which brought on the PROPHESYING of uncovered women in 1 Cor 11:5. He compared speaking in tongues to the other major use of instruments: MAKING WAR. Paul outlwaed mechanical instruments by defining the HARPS OR INSTRUMENTS of God: the human voice and human HEART which is the only place the WORSHIP takes place. Paul pointed to other things like warning Corinth and Rome against RISING UP TO PLAY. This was the musical idolatry of Babylon and Egypt and Canaan. Because of this MUSICAL IDOLATRY the Israelites had THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT RIPPED AWAY and were burdened with THE BOOK OF THE LAW.

Why do I believe that hallucination is taking place when I am still looking for:

An "approved example" of one church of Christ minister who has ever weaseled himself and a "team" into an instrumental church with the intention of tossing out the instrument and stealing the property: I am waiting.

Anyone who attacks the persons of instrumentalists with the "Raca" word, rather than trying to teach what the Bible really says.

Anyone in churches of Christ who are on the offensive rather than defending the universal-historical and church of Christ position for 800 years.

I don't believe that I have written a word of review for the web which was not against the deliberate misuse of the Bible, church history and a frontal, personal attack against the church of Christ for producing, as Dwaine E. Dunning does, all of the division in the Restoration Movement.

If we believe these attack agents, all of the evils which men can think of are the product of not being "forceable" into the musical camp.

Rubel Shelly demands that non-musical churches fellowship instrumental churches to escape the horrors of being: "fratricidal, traditionalist, legalists, unchristian posture, schismatic, Satanic, sectarian, idolatrous, irrelevant, just pushing junk."

Others add "Pharisaical, Hypocrites, Legalists, Sectarians, Zealots, Racists and on and on." That all adds up to:

RACA
I can tell you that according to Joe Beam I may be paranoid or psychotic for resisting his attack but I imagine that I can hear screaming from underground every time I try to quote the "library" of Old Testament material which tells the truth about instrumental music still the most powerful mind-control device known to mankind. I truly believe the Genun (Jubal) traditions in the ancient traditions that falling under the spell of instruments puts you into a dangerous position. According to the examples I have adduced from the Bible and from traditional parallel accounts, the screams are based on the fact they you cannot ever return to the holy mountain where worship is "in Spirit and in Truth" and Christ the Word walks with us so that we don't have to scream to get Him to hear us.

As a modern, liberal scholar notes and we have quoted: There is no other tradition.

As the Jewish clergy working for Satan and led by Judas tried to "cut Jesus off the pass" and panic Him with instrumental music, when you go looking for Biblical, historical, logical or spiritual non-divisive evidence for instrumental music, God has cut you off at the pass.

That is why Dwaine E. Dunning has not looked for Biblical authority but from within self.

I expect to get cut out of this dialog. So, if you are out there you might copy me on future chapters.

See another E-Mail Response to show that the "chief musician" translates a word which means OVERSEER. He drove everyone in ministering to the priests during the burning of the sacrifice and of the huge quantity of animal carcasses. He was slave driver to force the building of the Temple. The word translated "worship" really means meniel bondage.

His "musical" role was filled in every pagan temple in the world.

Dwaine E. Dunning Number One You are There: An AXE at the root of the MUSIC tree. killing off those who, like Daniel, will not bow to instrumental music. Review of Ray Downen's E-mail. Added: R. Christopher Heard, Southern Methodist University Annoints Rubel Shelly and C. Leonard Allen as THOUGHT LEADERS in churches of Christ to defend Dunning's views of Scripture.

Dwaine E. Dunning Number Two: Using the Sword Youthful Friar and Alexander the Great will Solve Music Problem--See James O'Kelly and a similar Methodist attempt to Restore a Catholic or High Church structure.

Dwaine E. Dunning" Number Three First Century Influences on Instrumental Music

Dwaine E. Dunning" Number Four Was Instrumental Music Only for Israel.

Dwaine E. Dunning" Number five Making Melody ln the Heart

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