| The Prototype
of Babylon-Tyre Israel.
Sodom
not spiritual Israel. |
Jesus referenced
Isaiah and Ezekiel to define the national
Worship of the Starry Host--Abaddon |
The
End-Time Fulfillment |
For thus saith the Lord God;
Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people. Ezek 26:7
They will plunder your wealth and
loot your merchandise;
they will break down your walls
and demolish your fine houses
and throw your stones, TIMBER and
rubble into the sea. Ezek 26:12
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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. Eze
33:30
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Rev
17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into
the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet
coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven
heads and ten horns.
Rev
17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and
scarlet colour, and decked with gold and
precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup
in her hand full of abominations and filthiness
of her fornication:
Rev
17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written,
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF
HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Rev
17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood
of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs
of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with
great admiration.
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I will put an end to
your noisy songs, and the music [sound]
of your harps will be heard no more.
Ezek 26:13
The LXX is more forceful in
showing that both the music and the musicians
would be silenced---
"And he shall destroy
the multitude of thy musicians, and the sound
of thy psalteries shall be heard no
more." Ezek. 26:13 LXX
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My
people come to you, as they usually do, and sit
before you to listen to your words,
but
they do not put them into practice.
With
their mouths they express devotion (Lord, Lord as
amorousness - inordinate love),
but
their hearts are greedy for unjust gain (commerce
or trade or attendance). Eze 33:31
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Rev 18:1 And
after these things I saw another angel come down
from heaven, having great power; and the earth was
lightened with his glory. 2 And he
cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
And the voice
of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters,
shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no
craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be
found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all
in thee; Rev 18:22 |
then I will bring you down
with those who go down to the pit,
to the people of long ago
I
will make you dwell in the earth below,
as in
ancient ruins, with those who go down to the PIT,and you will
not return or take your place in the land of the
living. Ezek 26:20
Isaiah
14:11 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.
Amos 5:23 Take thou away from me the noise [tŭmultus]
of
thy songs [carmen] for
I will not hear
the melody [cantĭcum] of
thy viols
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Indeed, to them you are
NOTHING MORE
than
one who sings love songs with a beautiful
voice
and [NOTHING MORE than one who]
plays
(make melody on) an instrument well,
for they hear your words
but
do not put them into practice. Eze
33
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Rev 18:23 And the light of a candle shall
shine no more at all in thee;
and the voice of the bridegroom
and of the bride shall be heard no more at all
in thee:
for thy merchants were the great men of the
earth; for
by thy sorceries WERE
all nations deceived.
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I
will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be
no more:
though
thou be sought for,
yet
shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord
God. Ezek 26:2
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When
all of this this comes true--
and it
surely will--
then they
will know that a prophet has been among them."
Eze 33:33
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Revelation
19:19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of
the earth, and their armies, gathered together to
make war against him that sat on the horse, and
against his army.
Revelation 19:20 And the beast was
taken, and with him the false prophet that
wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived
them that had received the mark of the beast, and
them that worshipped his image. These both were
cast alive into a lake of fire burning with
brimstone. |
1. The "serpent" in the
Garden of Eden was a musical enchanter(ess): The Spirit
identified the Eve-Zoe-Venus of the pagan feminists as "a
singing and harp playing prostitute."
Isa 57:4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves?
against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the
tongue? are ye not children of transgression,
a seed of falsehood,
Lūdo , ” Verg. E. 6, 1.—Esp.,
to play on an instrument of music, to make or compose
music or song: “ludere
quae
vellem
calamo
permisit
agresti,”
Verg. E. 1, 10:
Delude or Deceive.quod tenerae cantent,
lusit tua musa, puellae,” id.
Am. 3, 1, 27: “coloni Versibus
incomptis ludunt,” Verg. G. 2,
386: “carmina pastorum
2. Jacob curses the Levites
and commands that the godly people not attend their synagogue or
enter into covenant with them. Rather, they should wait and upon
Shiloh
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Isaiah 4: 6
And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow
in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and
for a covert from storm and from rain.
Umbrācŭlum
, I. any thing that furnishes
shade). I Lit., a shady
place, bower, arbor, Verg. E. 9, 42.—
B. Transf., a school: “in
solem
et
pulverem,
ut
e
Theophrasti
doctissimi hominis umbraculis,” Cic. Brut. 9, 37:
“ex
umbraculis
eruditorum in solem atque
in
pulverem,”
dŏmus b.
In philos lang., a philosophical school,
sect, Cic.
Ac. 1, 4; Sen. Ep. 29 fin.;
id. Ben. 5, 15.
audĭo, to hear,
to perceive or understand by hearing,
to learn, the person from whom one hears
or learns any thing, |
WE don't get to VOTE on what Jesus Christ as the only MASTER or
Authoritative Teacher has PROPHESIED by the Spirit OF Christ,
fulfilled by Jesus Whom God made to be both LORD and Christ, the
Apostles were eye-- and ear--witnesses of that truth by signs
and wonders, and the MEMORY the Apostles left for us: Those
documents: The Prophets and Apostles are NOT subject to vote.
The Elders have NO authority other than to TEACH that which as
been taught and rebuke those who DENY IT.
However, WE make sure as the Purpose Driven Cult that WE collect
YOUR money and get our finances in order. THEN WE can begin to
tell you that WE gonna DIVERT your monies for our HIDDEN agenda
planned from the beginning. Isn't that so
SERPENT-like?
Instrumental
Music in Worship IS the BEAST: once MARKED you
cannot quit being strongly delusional producing lying wonders
which is any performance to keep JESUS silent.
- The Church of Christ (the Rock) outlawed "vocal or
instrumental rejoicing" including self-speak: pretty simple
if the Purpose Driven Church of Christ is commanded to be A
School of the Word of God. In Exodus 18 it was the Abrahamic
Covenant. After the instrumental fall from Grace (Exodus 32)
the assembly was to quarantine the godlly classes from the
Jacob-cursed and God-abandoned Levites. They were not
"musical worship ministers" but they stood in ranks to
EXECUTE any godly person who came near or into any of the
HOLOCAUST of the sacrificial system.
- Jesus died to shut down the Civil-Military-Clergy who
(then and now) had a Covenant with Death and Hell.
- Jesus called the Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites.
In the Ezekiel 33 version Christ names speakers, singers and
instrument players: they claimed special power and are
therefore A Generation of Vipers.
- In Matthew 13 Jesus told the Apostles that truth had been
hidden in parables from the foundation of the world
from the Jewish Clergy: they had a Covenant with Death and
Hell.
- He said that God HIDES from the Wise or Sophists:
speakers, singers and instrument players.
- He paid it all, taught it all in Prophetic Types and Jesus
made them more certain.
- Peter said that the mark of a false teacher is that he
"private interprets" or further expounds.
- Christ in Isaiah 55 and and Paul identified "corrupting
the Word" as selling learning at wholesale.
- This was to prevent the Qahal, synagogue, ekklesia or
Church of Christ (the Rock) from ever growing back into a
Jewish-like Babylonish kingdom with "kings set over us"
senior pastors USING people as Serfs in his little kingdom.
- This will certainly alert those OF TRUTH or OF FAITH from
ever getting captured in a human institution with loads of
staff to eat up your health-care money and make certain that
you cannot enjoy the REST Jesus died to give us all
After Israel fell into singing and playing and acting on
rest day as the musical idolatry of the Egyptian triad, God
sentenced them to beyond Babylon for captivity and death.
Moses then wrote an INVERTED version of the national or
Babylonish account. This was to teach the doomed
people that God serves His people wherease the Jewish
Civil-Military-Clergy complex forces the people to serve the
GODS: Of course, the clergy is the god's agents and he gets
your lands, tithes and bodies for his OWN use and that of
his STAFF. To be expected the MARK of those who would
rule over you happens especially in the last days.
See
1 Samuel 8 to know what institution builders are not
allowed to read.
The serpent is not a snake but a musical enchanter(ess)
or in the Words of Christ "the singing and harp-playing
prostitute in the garden of Eden: Moses is writing in terms
of the Babylonianism to which Israel was abandoned later at
Mount Sinai.
IF TRUTH IS HIDDEN IN PARABLES FROM THE BEGINNING TO
HIDE FROM THE WISE A DISCIPLE OF CHRIST WILL AT LEAST TAKE
THE TEXT TO SEE WHETHER THEY ARE WISE GUYS (speakers,
singers, players, actors for God) OR NOT.
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than
any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said
unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of
every tree of the garden?
Genesis
3.1 sed et serpens erat callidior cunctis animantibus terrae quae fecerat Dominus Deus qui dixit ad mulierem cur praecepit vobis Deus ut non comederetis de omni ligno paradisi
5175 nâchâsh naw-khawsh' From H5172 ; a snake (from its
hiss):—serpent.
H5172 nâchash naw-khash' A primitive root; properly to hiss,
that is, whisper a (magic) spell; generally to prognosticate:—
X certainly, divine, enchanter, (use) X enchantment,
learn by experience, X indeed, diligently observe.
Serpo
, of things, to move slowly or imperceptibly,
to creep along, proceed gradually,
Of disease, etc.: “si
ulcus
latius
atque
altius
serpit,”
gradually spreads, “serpentes
quasdam
(bestias),
quasdam
esse
gradientes,”
“chamaeleon,
Fire: “exsistit
sacer
ignis
et
urit
corpore
serpens,”
slowly spreading, canam,
qui
leniter
(cf.: “sermones
Repentes
per
humum,”
A creeping LOUSE
lēnis
, I. soft, smooth, mild, gentle, easy, calm. sensus
judicat
dulce,
dulcis
II. Trop.,
agreeable,
delightful,
pleasant,
charming,
soft,
flattering.
“
orator,”
Cic. Off. 1, 1, 3;
cf. “
of
orators
or
writers,”
“
carmen,”
id. 12, 10, 33:
“poëmata,”
Hor. A. P. 99
carmen
, a tune, song, air, lay, strain,
note, sound, both vocal and instrumental
“per
me
(sc.
Apollinem)
concordant
carmina
nervis
Christ marked the king of Tyre as "lucifer" which
He identified as a "singing and harp-playing prostitute in
the garden of Eden." So the anti-God morning star is
prophetically identified as the enemy of the LOGOS or true
Day Star. LOGOS is identified as the REGULATIVE
PRINCIPLE.
Quint.
Inst. 12 10.33 Consequently
the Greek language is so much more agreeable in sound than
the Latin, that our poets, whenever they wish their verse to
be especially harmonious, adorn it with Greek words.
pŏēma
, a composition in verse, a poem. Poësis est
perpetuum argumentum e rhythmis, “scribere,
HE IS WISE BUT GOD HIDES FROM THE WISE OR SOPHISTS: SPEAKERS,
SINGERS, INSTRUMENT PLAYERS, DANCERS, ACTORS
Callĭdus
, a, um, adj. calleo, I.that is taught wisdom by experience
and practice, shrewd, expert, experienced,
adroit, skilful: “in
disputando,”
Quint. 12, 2, 14
In reference to art, excelling in art, skilful,
Hor. S. 2, 3, 23
Heind.; 2, 7, 101; id. Ep. 1, 10, 26.
— rĕ-sŏno
dis-pŭto ,
“isti
in
eo
disputant,
Contaminari
non
decere
fabulas,”
Contamino
[Chalal or polluting the Rest
means play the flute, steal other people's property,
pollute or prostitute]
fābŭla
, “poëticae
1. Most freq., a dramatic poem,
drama, play (syn.: “ludus,
cantus,
actio,
etc.):
in
full,
fabula
scaenica,”
Amm. 28, 1, 4; “or,
theatralis,
atque carminibus non a veritate modo,
Prov.: Lupus in fabula (like the Engl., talk of
the devil, and he will appear), of a person
who comes just as we are talking about him
1. To discuss, preach: “in
synagoga,”
Vulg. Act. 17, 17;
18, 4; 20,
9.—
Acts 17:17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue
with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in
the market daily with them that met with him.
2. To dispute, contend
in words: “quis
eorum
major
esset,”
Vulg. Marc. 9, 33:
“cum
diabolo,”
id. Jud. 9.
Mark 9:33 And he came to Capernaum: and being in
the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among
yourselves by the way?
Mark 9:34 But they held their peace: for by the way they had
disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.
Mark 9:35 And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith
unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be
last of all, and servant of all.
Jude 9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the
devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring
against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke
thee.
No one promoting instrumental music fails to prove
that tolerance trumps truth by using T.B.Larrimore. As a
roving preacher Larrimore did not want to offend either side of
a church already split by the instrumental sectarians.
This was the beginning of freezing out the evangelists by
practicing located evangelism by exchanging pulpits.
Published
Monthly by T. R. Burnett
"The city churches know very
well how to settle the pastor question, and stop the
division over that issue. Just send the hired preacher
out to preach the gospel, which is his scriptural
duty, and restore the elders to their Bible
functions. But will they do it? Prof. T. B. Larimore once
held a meeting that continued five months.
At the last sermon there were five confessions, and
he said the meeting closed "too soon." He wants
to hold a meeting (before he dies) that shall continue
one year. He is only seventy-two. Burnett's Budget
"The bishops to feed the flock, the deacons to serve in
secular affairs, and the evangelists to carry the good news
to the world. That is God's system. You can not beat it,
unless you are wiser than God.
The "law of silence" about the use of that which was always
denounced is building upon the false foundation of preachers
which have no office and no funding. If the preachers had not
bee prowling like wolves the instrument sect would never have
reared its ugly head. A better way to solve ALL fellowship
division would be to organize a true ekklesia or synagogue
commanded, exampled, inferenced by Christ and practiced for
almost 400 years. That was about the time preachers swarmed in
from paganism to get paid and singing as an ACT was added in the
year 373.
PAUL OUTLAWED DOUBTFUL DISPUTATIONS OR
DIVERSE OPINIONS
To not judge people on the basis of where they bought their food
is used by the instrumentalists to insist on the RIGHT to impose
instruments on YOU and you have no right to object.
“Disputing”
implies a questioning mind and suggests an arrogant
attitude by those who assume they’re always right.
Arguing with others in the body of Christ is disruptive.
That’s why Paul spent the first part of chapter 2 on
humility.
To
dwell above, with saints we love, that will be grace
and glory
But to live below with saints we know, now that’s a
different story!
Dialogismos is used
14 times in the NAS (Matthew; Mark; Luke 6x; Romans 2x; 1 Corinthians; Philippians; 1 Timothy; James) and is translated as:
argument, 1; disputing, 1; dissension, 1; doubts, 1;
motives, 1; opinions, 1; reasonings, 2; speculations, 1;
thoughts, 3; what...were thinking, 2
NIDNTT notes that...
In the NT dialogizomai
(related verb) and dialogismos are always used
with a slightly depreciatory connotation. The thoughts
of the human heart do not necessarily lead, as the
Greeks thought, to a knowledge of the truth (cf. 1 Cor.
1:21-25), but are evil (Mk. 7:21; Matt. 15:19), full of
doubt and suspicion (Mk. 2:6, 8; Lk. 5:22; 6:8), moved
by the passing moment (Lk. 3:15), full of greed (Lk.
12:17; 20:14), always concerned with the superficial
(Mk. 8:16f.; Matt. 16:7f.) and full of sly calculation
(Matt. 11:25; Mk. 11:31).
That is to enable what Paul called
"synagogue" in Romans 15. Paul outlawed SELF pleasure
which points to the "creating of mental excitement" always
attributed to the hypocritic arts of rhetoric, singing or
playing instruments. The command was to use one mouth to tead
"that which is written" or Scribture.
PAUL COMMANDED THE WORD SPEAK WHICH IS
THE OPPOSITE OF POETRY OR MUSIC
Rom 14:19 Let us therefore
follow after the things
which make for peace, and
things wherewith one
may edify
another. [educate]
Psallo is DEFACTO a WARFARE WORD.
Other than the pagan singers SHOOTING OUT HYMNS or even "Love
Arrows" the word had NO musical content. They
DO call it the WORSHIP WARS because warriors decided to make
war on God and His people.
Tertullian,understood the destructive
effect of spectacle on the human body. For instance we
discuss the creation of endorphins in the body by music or any
visual-audible perfORMANCE
"and not to vex
Him with rage, ill-nature, anger, or grief. Well,
how shall this be made to accord with the shows?
- For the show always leads to spiritual agitation,
- since where there is
pleasure,
- there is keenness of feeling giving pleasure its zest;
- and where there is
keenness of feeling,
- there is rivalry
giving in turn its zest to that.
- Then, too, where you
have rivalry,
- you have rage,
bitterness, wrath and grief."
- (Tertullian, de Spectaculis, Ante-Nicene, III, p.
8
Romans 15 defines the EDIFICATION or
EDUCATION ASSEMBLY. The synagogue or ekklesia "had no praise
service." For the synagogue or church in the wilderness it
was OUTLAWED.
Psallo speaks
of Cantus and Psallere as jucunde. Canto, III. In the
lang. of religion, to use enchantments,
charms, incantations, to
enchant, to charm: John
used the word SORCERY.
Jucunde pointing to the self-pleasure and the word HEDONE
or vŏluptŭōsus which includes charizô 3. in erotic
sense, grant favours to a man, which is what Paul outlawed.
Rom 15:1 WE then that are strong ought
to bear
the infirmities of the weak, and not to please
ourselves.
Music HURTS or causes PANIC which the vipers sell as the
SPIRIT inside. That is why you don't ABUSE or mollest people
who do not hear "churchy" (voodoo derived) singing as pleasant
but as ABRADING which is the very rood meaning of PSALLO "to
grind into a fine powder."
"Please self" is a concept which includes the "laded
burden" Jesus died to remove meaning "creation of
spiritual anxiety through religious rituals." It inclu
In Romans 15:1
G700 aresky ar-es'-ko Probably
from G142
(through the idea of exciting emotion); to be agreeable (or by
implication to seek to be so):please.
G142 airo ah'ee-ro A
primary verb; to lift; by implication to take up or
away;
figuratively to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the
mind);
specifically to sail away (that is, weigh anchor); by
Hebraism (compare [ H5375 ]) to expiate sin: away with,
bear (up), carry, lift up, loose, make to doubt, put away,
remove, take (away, up).
Aedificatio, III. Figurative, building up, instructing, edification. Absolute: loquitur ad Aedificationem Ecclesiae, Vulg. 1 Cor. 14, 12 ; ib. Eph. 4, 12.
Rom. 15:4 For whatsoever
things were written aforetime were written for our
learning,
that we through patience and comfort of the
scriptures might have hope.
Rom. 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to
be likeminded one toward another according to Christ
Jesus:
Rom. 15:6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth
glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The phrase loquitur ad Aedificationem Ecclesiae defines THE meaning of the ekklesia or
church and the same METHOD excludes music of any kind.
Singing would be the ODE which defines "Hebrew cantillation"
which means SPEAK as in the word SPEAK.
Loquor a. [Sanscr. lap-, to talk, whisper; Gr. lak-,
elakon, laskô], to speak, talk, say (in the language
of common life, in the tone of
conversation;
B. Act. 1. To
speak out, to say, tell, talk about, mention, utter,
name, declare, show, indicate or
express clearly
logik-os , ê, on, ( [logos] )
A. of or for speaking or
speech, merê l. the organs of speech, Plu.Cor.38: logikê,
hê, speech, opposite to mousikê,
D.H. Comp. 11; l. phantasia expressed in speech,
Stoic.2.61 .
Mousikos II. of persons, skilled in
music, musical, III.
of things, elegant, delicate, brômata Diox.1 ; professional musicians, mousikos kai melôn poêtês, hêdion ouden, oude -ôteron Philem.23
; harmonious
[in tune], fitting, trophê
DOGMATICS NEED "AIDS" WHEN THEY REJECT THE READING AND
DISCUSSION OF THE WORD.
Presuming to add AIDS to assist God and His Word is called DOGMA.
Those who use dogma are called dogmatic.
Dogma
is the Greek Autonomia or Self made
laws: 3.
dogmatism it includes POETRY poi-êtikos or
poetic license. Dogma would be "sermons" as opposed to
"teaching" or "songs" which are SELF composed and
imposed on the church as LAW.
Dogma is: Poi-êtikos A.capable
of
making, creative, productive Opposite to praktikos or useful. Strong,
vigorous. with mousikoi II.
of persons, skilled in music, musical,
melody, used to speak before a mob, elegant, delicate,
effeminate. Hedone
Dogma
is: Hedone A.
enjoyment, pleasure, first in Simon.71, S.l.c., Hdt.1.24,
al.; prop. of sensual pleasures, desires after
pleasure, pleasant lusts, X.Mem.1.2.23,
Ep.Tit.3.3,
al.
Dogma
is: Charizo: In erotic sense,
grant favors, to a man, comedy, gratify or indulge a humar
of passion. Give up as a favor by dropping a law
aimed at him,
Dogmatic
is Theorematikos or interpreted
as SEEN or the Greek Oneiros as seen in a
dreem, similes or metaphors or anything unreal or
fleeting
Oneiros you are
telling me what I know already, oneiron hupokrinesthai
2. as pr. n. dream personified, 3.
in similes or metaphors, of anything unreal or
fleeting, skia,
hupokrinô 2.expound,
interpret, explain, II. Att., speak
in
dialogue, hence play a part on the stage,
the part played, an actor, tragoidias, komoidian, play,
drama, 2.deliver a speech, declaim, of
orators and rhetoricians, represent dramatically,
ape, mimic histrionic arts, play a part, feign, pretend.
Latin Canto I.Neutr.,
to produce melodious sounds (by the voice or an
instrument), to sound, sing, play, sing
and play while the actor accompanies the song with
gestures or dancing, C.Transf.,
of instruments, to sound, resound
3. in similes or metaphors, of anything unreal or
fleeting, dreams of wealth,
Skia A shadow, 3.shade
of one dead, phantom, proverbs of man's
mortal estate, Evil spirit, uninvited guest
[941a] Athenian 12.
If anyone, while acting as ambassador or herald,
conveys false messages from his State to another State,
or fails to deliver the actual message he was sent to
deliver, or is proved to have brought back, as
ambassador or herald, either from a friendly or hostile
nation, their reply in a false form,--against all such
there shall be laid an indictment for breaking the law
by sinning against the sacred messages and injunctions
of Hermes and Zeus, and an assessment shall be made of
the penalty they shall suffer or pay,
Son, and herald, of Zeus, and a master of speech (and of
lies).
Preaching was added because people rejected the direct commands
of Christ in Spirit in Isaiah 58 which outlawed seeking your own
pleasure or even speaking your own words. The alternative to
keep from burning was to spend that money on the poor.
WHAT IS A CHURCH
For honorable people you can settle the Law of Silence claimed
to be invented to impose musical instruments by understanding:
WHAT IS THE CHURCH.
Jesus' promise uses the word ekklesia which defined a
roughly-weekly assembly of mature citizens. This was held up on
the Pnyx in Athens quite removed from the Agora or marketplace.
As Jesus consigned the pipers, singers and dancers to the
marketplace, the decent citizens consigned them to the Agora
where they sold songs, sermons, various foods for all diets,
bodies of boys and the place of many pagan temples.
The Levi tribe had been turned over to worship the starry host
because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. There was still no
rationale for instrumental noise until "God gave them kings in
His anger and took them away in His anger." They kings were
selected to carry out the captivity and death sentence for most
of the nations.
- The church #1577 ekklesia
- assembly, called out ones, set apart ones,
congregation; in Hebrew this word is #6951 qahal
(kahal) - a "synagogue" (E. W.
Bullinger, Commentary on Revelation, p.
165-166), an assemblage, congregation, company from the
root #6950 qahal meaning
specifically a coming together, an assembling, a convocation,
congregation; this word is used mostly for religious
purposes (see William Wilson's Old Testament Word
Studies, p. 92)
The
LXX uses the word
ekklesia to translate the Hebrew qahal. Qahal means
to call, to assemble, and the noun form means a
congregation or assembly. Solomon is called koheleth
the Preacher, translated by the LXX ekklesiastes.
The earliest known occurrence of the word is found in Job
30:28, ‘I cried in the congregation’. In the books
of the law, qahal
is rendered by the Greek word sunagoge,
showing that the synagogue is the beginning of the New
Testament church. Stephen in his speech which ended
in his martyrdom referred to the history of Israel, and
dwells for considerable length upon the one great leader
Moses, saying in Acts 7:38:
‘This is he, that was in the CHURCH
in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the
mount Sinai’. The people of Israel, looked upon as ‘a
called-out assembly’ were ‘the Church’ of that period.
The people's assembly was only called to hear the reading and
rehearsing of the Word of God. The day was REST or sabbath which
never meant saturday or worship but REST. The rest would be FROM
the pagan idolaters who worshipped on the Sabbath.
The Holy Convocation was INCLUSIVE of Rest, Reading and
Rehearsing the Word of God.
It was EXCLUSIVE of vocal or instrumental rejoicing:
aweful Aaron was too bright to make noises when the Words of God
were being taught. The Holy Convocation is h 4744 Miqra.
ALL of the prophets defined the teaching assembly and
repudiated the Civil-Military-Clergy class as robbers and
parasites: that is what was prophed by God through Samuel.
Christ defined the Spiritual people only through the writing
prophets.
Neh.
8:5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the
people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened
it, all the people stood up:
Neh. 8:6 And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the
people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and
they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their
faces to the ground.
Neh. 8:7 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub,
Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad,
Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to
understand the law: and the people stood in their place.
Neh. 8:8 So they read in the book in the law of God
distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand
the reading.
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that PREACH
him, being READ in the synagogues every sabbath day.
Because it was ordained by Christ in Spirit, the Church of
Christ began as it continued and quarantined the people from the
curse of the sacrificial system, and because those direct
commands were never changed, Christ continued to attend the
synagogue and therefore did not need to OUTLAW that which He had
outlawed from the beginning.
THOSE WHO THINK THAT EKKLESIA OR SYNAGOGUE IS A WORSHIP
CENTER WHERE YOU CAN SOW DISCORD SHOULD RESIGN.
See the history of
the Synagogue to see that "there was never a praise
service in the synagogue" by direct command and minimal common
sense.
See John
Calvin's comments on Numbers 10.
The Church of Christ in the Wilderness outlaws specificiall the
musical mocking Judas would use to try to panic Jesus.
Would that Russ Adcox followe Larimore rather than contribute to
the deliberate sowing of discord over instruments.
Others had their opinion of T.B.Larimore so we won't use him to
trump the Words of Christ.
B. LARIMORE: THE MAN WHO WOULD NOT
FIGHT Bro. T. B. Larimore was one of the great
evangelists of the church from 1870-1925. He was loved and
respected by all who knew him for his pleasant temperament
and peaceable spirit. All change agents cite the example of
Bro. T. B. Larimore as they seek to persuade conservative
brethren to sit silently while they work to change the
church and capture congregations, church buildings and
schools.
When a similar change movement swept
through our brotherhood, following the Civil War, Bro. Larimore
chose to devote himself to evangelism rather than
taking a strong stand against those who were abandoning
the restoration plea and corrupting the faith. He
steadfastly refused to condemn their innovations or to break
fellowship with those who were introducing instrumental
music and missionary societies into the churches.
Modern promoters of change usually fail
to mention that he did have sufficient conviction to
pitch his tent with the conservative brethren of the
churches of Christ rather than with the progressives of the
Disciples of Christ. Bro. Larimore faced questions such as,
"How should we worship in order to please God? Or are we
allowed to tamper with the structure of Christ's sacred
church?"
Douglas Foster comments, "To
Larimore those issues were not worth dividing the body
of Christ" (Will the Cycle Be Unbroken? p. 157). This of
course is what Bro. Foster wants his readers to conclude
about the innovations of the change movement. He does
not consider the possibility that Bro. Larimore was naive
about what was actually happening to the church of
his day...just as many are naive today. Perhaps
Larimore's personality was such that he could not bring
himself to confront those who were walking away from
the ancient gospel standard. It is reasonable to
ask if Bro. Larimore's actions reflected a proper spirit
for a Christian soldier in the face of hostile enemies
(I Tim.6:12)?
God does command us to "Contend
earnestly for the faith" (Jude 3). Like Paul we are to be
set for the defense of gospel (Phil.1:16). We must ask, if
every member of the conservative churches had responded as
did Larimore, what would have been the result? Would we even
exist today? Would all have been swept into apostasy? Do our
modern change agents think such would have been the
preferable course? Is that what they want for today?
Bro. Foster naively asserts, "if
everyone had had T. B. Larimore's attitude, the problems
would never have been blown up into divisive issues in the
first place" (Ibid. p. 158). Either he doesn't know or
chooses not to mention that the progressive brethren did not
have that sweet, passive spirit. They were determined to
have instruments in our churches and involve all in
their missionary societies. They pushed their agenda and
even resorted to stealth to gain control of congregations.
If all had passively stood by, all would have been swept
away. The same is true today.
During the controversy, Bro. Larimore
held a lengthy gospel meeting for the church in Sherman,
Texas. Dr. Foster mentions
that the progressives of the church
in Sherman were meeting at separate times from the
conservatives
so they could worship with their instruments (Ibid.
p.152).
This is similar to the "alternative
services" modern change agents use to get a foot hold in
a conservative church. A year later he notes that the
"pro-instrument faction withdrew to form what they called
the First Christian Church" (Ibid.). If our change folks cannot
take the property, you can expect them to leave in
order to worship as they wish.
In time of war, every patriotic citizen
does his part to help his nation through the conflict. Some
produce food, others produce war materials. Some are
warriors, some are medics. Some drive supply trucks, others
fly bombers that rain death on the enemy. Some plan
strategies, others process the paperwork. But all who
faithfully do their part are good citizens who together
serve their nation. So it is in the church. While we do not
fault Bro. Larimore's passive stand, but neither should we
fault Tolbert Fanning, David Lipscomb, Jacob Creath, Jr.,
Benjamin Franklin or the other noble men who fought
valiantly to save a remnant from the apostasy that
confronted them. We are much indebted to them for the
survival of the church and our existence today. JHW
Another false charge by Hughes:
Yet where instrumental music was
introduced, those who opposed it could not continue
worshiping there. Errett counseled that if a
congregation chose to use instrumental music, there might
have to be a separation. But this should not result in
hatred and excommunication of each other. They should
continue to do everything together they could without
violating their consciences. In reality, that was a very
hard proposition--yet there were a few who showed it could
be done. J. W. McGarvey opposed instruments, and when they
were added to his Lexington, Kentucky church he quietly
moved to another congregation. But he always maintained
fellowship with those who used instruments and never
condemned them as lost. T. B. Larimore opposed both the
missionary society and instrumental music. But he expressed
his attitude toward the issues as matters of fellowship in
no uncertain terms.
See that J.W.McGarvey blames those who
sow discord and we know that God HATES those who sow
discord.
SEE
RUSS ADCOX ON GALATIANS and the MARKS (sights and
sounds) of ANOTHER GOSPEL
People want Paul
to preach something differently than the obedience gospel
of the other apostles. This then permits "salvation
by faith only" without emphasizing baptism. However,
Paul preached the same gospel and demanded that only after
obedience in baptism were they "then free from sin." This
series has as its objective more tolerance for
instrumental music.
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